Light’s excitement over his predicament is hampered by the fact that demons are spawning everywhere and Redarm is leaving him in order to take command of the exorcist troops… Light seems especially distressed to discover that the Paladin has gone to guard the “artificial Gehenna Gate” which is apparently being attacked by a… yeti?ĪNY-way, back to the story. He’s super happy at being treated like a criminal by Redarm and the rest of the Exorcists. We open the chapter with the arrested Lewin Light, being his usual weirdo self. While I wait for the answer, I’ll at least let you know what I think of the two widely available chapters 94 &95: So, what do you, my readers, think I should do? I’ll wait.”īut now I have potentially valuable information, too. That’s why most of my reviews on chapters like this start: “ chapter is out. A shared community of fannishness, if you will. I suspect (and again, HOPE,) that what you’re tuning into is my take on what you’re also reading. More to the point, I don’t imagine that this is the site that people go to for information they can’t get elsewhere. So, encouraging people to buy a subscription is fine, but there are a lot of English readers of these manga who don’t actually have a valid way to pay to play, as it were. I kind of feel like the average fan of Blue Exorcist / Ao no Exorcist is doing one of two things: reading chapters as they hit the pirate sites OR buying the official tankōbon as they come off the presses.Īlso, depending where you are, Weekly Shounen Jump (English) might not be available for you. In fact, it actualy behooves WSJ for me to post pictures and teasers and tell you all about the upcoming chapters, because it could (and, if I do my job right, it SHOULD) prompt you to run out and buy a subscription for yourself. In my capacity as a reviewer, I can talk about all of it. What do I review here? Obviously, the current WSJ is out. There’s an actual value to my subscription again, because I’ve now read up to chapter 97…. I can only find up to chapter 95: “Beyond the Snow: Part 4” The last chapter I reviewed here was Chapter 93! I went to my usual sources for scans because, in the past, the other problem with WSJ was that it was always AT LEAST a week behind the pirates, and I thought, “Sh*t, they must have scanned up to 98 by now!”Įxcept they haven’t. In it, I see Blue Exorcist: Chapter 97 “Beyond the Snow: Part 6.” And, I’m, like, wait. Thus resolved, I paid my money and downloaded the most recent issue. Some of my current shounen favorites are WSJ products: My Hero Academia, Haikyu!, and, of course, Blue Exorcist. Listen, the thing is, I like officially supporting my mangaka, and I’m mostly over my saltiness over how WSJ handled the ending of Bleach (notice that I did NOT say I was over my feelings about the ENDING of Bleach.) Frankly, they publish good stuff. On a whim today, I decided to renew my subscription. Well….despite the distinct lack of likes, comments, or re-tweets, WSJ might actually have been listening to me. I blasted them over and over and over and…Īnd then I promptly cancelled my subscription. I tagged them in tweet after tweet after tweet where I asked them what was the point of my subscription when pirate sites were two weeks AHEAD of their official English-language digital-only production and they wouldn’t even translate all the material, like a runner explaining the Bleach was ending in a matter of weeks. I kind of lost my mind and went to Twitter in July of 2016 and took WSJ to task. White hot burning suns may have been involved. To say that I was furious was probably an understatement. Some of my longtime readers may remember my complete freak out over Weekly Shounen Jump‘s handling of the ending of Bleach.