"Based on Katou Kazue's Ao no Exorcist manga serialized in Jump Square.
This world consists of two dimensions joined as one, like a mirror. The first is the world in which the humans live, Assiah. The other is the world of demons, Gehenna. Ordinarily, travel between the two, and indeed any kind of contact between the two, is impossible. However the demons can pass over into this world by possessing anything that exist within it.
Satan is the god of demons; but there's one thing that he doesn't have, and that's a substance in the human world that is powerful enough to contain him! For that purpose he created Rin, his son from a human woman, but will his son agree to his plans? Or will he become something else...? An exorcist?" -AniDB
Episode 1 - gg
Links: AniDB, ANN, Official
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Contemporary Fantasy, Demons, Fantasy, Shounen
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This was one of the shows I was looking forward to this season. Although for no more glorious reason than the numerous commercials gg left in the Star Driver eps. However, the first thing I noticed was the main character, Rin, being voiced by Nobuhiko Okamoto, who also voiced Accelerator in Index. And while the S2 of Index left much to be desired, crazy Accelerator wasn't one of them. And in the Ao trailers he sounded similar. Well, there are also people like Jun Fukuyama (Lelouch) in the cast, along with the currently very popular Kana Hanazawa.
Anyway, for those not interested in VAs, this episode seemed interesting enough for me, even though Archie was trying to frighten us by suggesting it's filler right off the bat. However, this season hasn't presented that many interesting action shows, so I forgive this first episode the slow introduction feeling it conveyd (no matter if it actually is filler or not). The basic setting really isn't so complicated it would have required intros, but fortunately this did have a few good scenes. The quality overall was what one would expect from stock shounen.
I'll keep watching for now, hoping Rin will turn if not as crazy as Accelerator, then at least something close to it.