「ヴァチカンのエクソシスト」…めっちゃでかいw w wコロンコロンした体のでかいエクソシストでしたが、悪魔が取り憑いた人の容姿がやばすぎて現実にこんな事あったら(あったのかもしれないけど)希望を持ち続けるのは難しいかもしれないと思いました。私は神様いないと思ってる人間なのですぐに悪魔に殺されると思います😇
In honor of Blue Exorcist season 3, I need everyone to appreciate the
ABSOLUTE
UNMITIGATED
FURIGANA
NONSENSE
that is going on in its pv.
Like, background info: in Japanese they have both phonetic characters (kana) and characters with both a sound AND a meaning (kanji). Sometimes they put little kana above/next to the kanji to tell you how to pronounce them - these are called furigana and they're mostly used for obscure kanji that most people don't know, or in things aimed at young readers who might not know that many kanji in general yet.
But sometimes people get...creative with furigana. Especially in manga and light novels and the like.
See, at some point people figured out that you can totally create words with double meanings, or say one thing and mean another, by using furigana that don't actually match the kanji they're with. Some examples:
In Blue Exorcist, Rin's "flame" is spelled 炎(ちから)- the kanji says "flame(s)" but the furigana is the word "power." Rin's power, aka flames. Two words for the price of one!
Things with names in foreign languages will often have kanji that show the word's meaning in Japanese with furigana that spell out the pronunciation, like the "exorcist" in Blue Exorcist being spelled 祓魔師(エクソシスト). Those kanji mean exorcise-demon-professional, roughly, and they'd normally be pronounced futsumashi. But the furigana say "ekusoshisuto" - the English word "exorcist."
@29rynoah has a great post [here] (Blue Exorcist manga spoilers!) about a time when Rin said "you" but actually meant "me," and spelled it 俺(おまえ)with the kanji for "me" and furigana spelling out "you."
And then there's the EGREGIOUS FURIGANA SHENANIGANS happening up there in the season 3 pv. Where they take the kanji for darkness 闇 and tell us to pronounce it as THE WHOLE OTHER COMPLETELY OPPOSITE KANJI 光 (LIGHT) and vice versa.
闇(光)を斬り、光(闇)を祓え
Meaning something like:
Slash through the darkness light and dispel the light darkness
Presumably because the dark forces threatening the main characters this arc are actually quite bright, as we shall see.
Episode 27 seems to support even further the Demon Lord appearance theory, which is based on this extra from Volume 3.
The order of the hands would be, from the bottom:
Satan --> Mammon (hence the rings and shiny things decorating his hand) --> Beelzebub --> Asmodeus --> Belphegor (hence the sweat drop mark, since Sloth was once sadness in the past too, iirc?) and finally Lucifer.
Leviathan is skipped considering she is not a fallen angel, and only met up later with them when they fell, as seen in the Volume 2 extras. They should be the 6 falling stars.
Episode 27 and Beelzebub mentioning how he wants to eat Asmodeus’ purified wing implies our cast is going to go check up on it later (or someone will), putting her in the spotlight. If this happens it’s basically confirmed that Belphegor will come next and finally Lucifer, and this is probably headcanon but, being too proud to go first and to not be considered “Last Boss”, he will appear last.
I don’t say Satan is last because he already made his move when he sent Imuri, hence he was the start of trying to make the priest boy fall (in love).
I think it’s also great how the story is being hinted at in the volume extras. Mont Blanc is mentioned in volume 1, file #5.
Looking forward to the next episode in 2 weeks. I’ll wait for Aruma-sensei and Fukayama-sensei.