After reading the third chapter, I can truly say that I officially love Ao no Exorcist. Not only that, I can also officially say Rin and Yukio have become two of my most favorite manga characters in general, and what's amazing is that they managed to enter my list in just three chapters.

So chapter three begins with Rin crying his heart out while reading a JUMP SQ edition that has Tegamibachi (or Mailbachi as it's drawn in the panel) on its cover.Yukio enters and does his role as the spoilsport younger twin. He snatches the manga from Rin's hands as Rin complains about the kind of books ( "For kids") that Yukio demands him to read. He orders Yukio to stop trying to make a fool and out him, and Yukio replies by saying hat he's not making a fool out of him...though he does not deny that he (Rin) is one (a fool). Ah, Yukio and his witty comebacks.

I love him.

Moving on, Rin reasons that he won't really learn anything if all he does is read books. Yukio acknowldges his point , but still he insists that Rin reads his reference materials so he can be prepared for their next lesson. All of this they do while also in the middle of arguing who's the real owner of the JUMP SQ magazine

I really adore the interaction between the Okumura twins. Even if the story goes downhill later on (which I pray does not happen), I think I'll still be following Ao no Exorcist just to read about them and how they interact with each other. I can't really choose who's my favorite. Personally, I find Yukio the cooler twin but that doesn't necessarily mean that I think less of Rin. While Yukio is cool , I think Rin is just simply adorable.

Back to the chapter, Yukio receives a request for him to perform an exorcism rite. Upon knowng this, Rin insists to acompany him. Yukio declines at first, but eventually agrees after a mild persuasion from Rin. While Yukio goes and meets his client, who happens to be the owner of the shop where he gets his supplies, Rin goes and meets the shop owner's daughter by accident. Her name is Moriyama Shiemi.

Their first meeting isn't exactly friendly, and it's because Rin broke the gate of warding which only reacts to demons. Rin vehemently declares that he is neither a human nor a demon. It does nothing except scare Shiemi even more. I can't blame her though. With Rin looking like he's going to eat her alive, no doubt she's afraid.

So she tries to crawl away as far as possible. She only gets a few feet, however, before she stumbles to the ground. Rin approaches her and he discovers that there is something wrong with her feet. It turns out that a demon has been attaching itself to her through the garden soil and has been parasitically feeding through her heart.

About the new character. Well, I like her. She's actually pretty cute and so loli. Though I think we may have a closet!seme in Shiemi. She got Rin to do the work for her. How she got him to do that, I so want to know. And I so want them to be BFFs because I think they'll be great together as friends.




But you know, I think the real reason why I like Shiemi is because she fangirls Yukio like whoah.



I think this panel is really cute and funny, with Rin blushing like that because he's getting a compliment, only to find out that he's being upstaged by his younger twin agan. Sorry Rin. You're cool but not Yukio's level of cool. Oh and since I've mentioned panels, the panel below contains what has to be my favorite facial expression from Rin.



Oh Rin, you just can't hide your excitement, can you? XD