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So, yeah, here’s the confirmation Light was looking for: all this “pretty damn evil” stuff was done under the aegis of Holy Cross Academy. Mephisto, in particular, uses his forked, silver tongue to convince his brother that cloning is a better deal. Only problem is that expelling that much energy at once is an extinction-level event. He’s in so much pain that he thinks it’s a grand idea to just let go–become an idea again.
And, it’s horrible and painful and Lucifer is sick of it. The stronger you are, the faster you degenerate. I guess the war gets kind of resolved, but a problem remains: demons burn through bodies like fire through paper. Mephistopheles, meanwhile, is translated as “plasterer of LIES.” I think it’s also telling here, that sensei chose to draw this “knowledge” as a flame (could it look more like a falling angel, too? And who was the first of the fallen? “How you have fallen from heaven, oh, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!” ): Of course, in his guise as the snake in the garden of Eden, Lucifer is the one who gave us “the knowledge of good and evil.” Lucifer is often understood to be translated as “bringer of the dawn” or “light bearer” (or “morning star,” but that’s a whole other thing,) and there are plenty of apocryphal ideas out there in which Lucifer is a knowledgebringer, an illuminator–that it’s THAT kind of ‘light’ he bears. I’m not sure we should believe Mephisto here, this is literally a COMPLETE REVERSAL of what Lucifer’s name means. Which… let me take a moment to lay down a little cautionary tale. There was a war in heaven (as it were) about whether or not humans were useful, Lucifer being in the “nope” camp, and Mephisto being “yep.” But, as humans developed, their edges began to be noticed, and eventually they were able to become incarnate by possession. In it, we learn that demons are kind of just a concept.
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There was some other action with the containers exploding and Light doing one of his “and et cetera” spells, but, honestly, I don’t think much of what happened in that scene was terribly important–other than the general suspicion that some of these clones are people we KNOW, for certain Amamon.īack in the bath, the boys are treated to a history lesson… which I f*cking loved. Mephisto, having been spying on them this whole time, ‘natch, does one of his weird-a$$ spells that lands our boys, naked (because why not?) in the bath, back in our time and space. Not only that, but the clones were specifically ones of the eight demon kings. So, okay, when last we left our intrepid heroes–in this case Bon and Lightning, they had just discovered the cloning facility that existed in the pocket alternate universe in the basement of the Holy Cross Academy. I think I have a new-found girl-crush on Katou-sensei. Mangastream doesn’t seem to have it yet, and my other usual places are also mysteriously corrupted.īefore I get too far into my review, I have to say that Blue Exorcist currently gets my vote for some of the very best in shounen manga being written. I had to find a downloadable version because there’s something wonky with MangaPanda’s link. The latest Ao no Exorcist #86 by Katou Kazue is out… kinda.