"Rokuro is from a family of exorcists who remove the evil Kegare, but his real dream is to be a singer, a soccer player, or anything other than an exorcist. When another exorcist name Benio arrives, Rokura is suddenly inflamed with competitive spirit and decides to put his natural knack to good use. Their rivalry gets more complicated when they both learn they are the destined "Twin Star Exorcists," two ultimate fighters fated to marry and create the prophesied child who will eliminate all the Kegare in the world." -Manga-Updates

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Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural




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I've watched a few of the new offerings of this season, and largely they haven't overly impressed me. Thus I was positively surprised when this first episode left me thinking it looked promising. Of course the description itself immediately does offer a couple of plot elements that click for me: the MCs are apparently strong and, above all, they are a fated couple. I really like fated couples.

Other than that, shounen shows where the MCs fight monsters using superpowers are dime a dozen, so it's always good when the show tries to add some spice to it. Few manage to do it as well as Shana, for example, but this show was already much better than "Hundred", to name another new show. The monsters are positively weird and there's that alternative, overlapping dimension the exorcist, as well as the monsters, can use. The talismans and shamanistic powers also feel more natural than merely shouting the name of your power/technique aloud for no reason whatsoever.

I'll keep watching this unless it suddenly ruins itself.