Blue Exorcist season 2

Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (Japanese: 青の祓魔師（エクソシスト） 京都不浄王篇, Hepburn: Ao no Ekusoshisuto: Kyōto Fujō Ō-hen) is the second season of the Blue Exorcist anime television series, produced by A-1 Pictures and based on the manga series of the same name by Kazue Kato. Koichi Hatsumi replaced Tensai Okamura as series director. The season aired from January 7 to March 25, 2017, on the Animeism programming block on MBS and TBS.^[1][2][3] In April 2025, it was announced that the season's English dub would make its broadcast television premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block beginning on May 18, 2025.^[4]

Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga
Season 2
First home media volume cover for the season
No. of episodes	12
Release
Original network	MBS, TBS
Original release	January 7 (2017-01-07) – March 25, 2017 (2017-03-25)
Season chronology
List of episodes

The opening theme song is "Itteki no Eikyō" (一滴の影響, lit. 'Drop's Influence') performed by Uverworld, while the ending theme song is "Kono-te de" (コノ手デ, lit. 'With This Hand') performed by Rin Akatsuki.^[5]

Episodes

See also: List of Blue Exorcist episodes

No. overall	No. in saga	Title [6][7]	Directed by [6]	Written by [6]	Storyboarded by [6]	Original release date [8]	English air date [9]
26	1	"Small Beginnings" Transliteration: "Kōshiranshō" (Japanese: 嚆矢濫觴（こうしらんしょう）)	Koichi Hatsumi & Shigeki Kawai	Toshiya Ōno [ja]	Koichi Hatsumi	January 7, 2017 (2017-01-07)	May 18, 2025[4]
After his secret is exposed, Rin takes part in a special mission alongside Shura and Yukio to retrieve the "Left Eye of the Impure King", a demon relic that was stolen from the True Cross Academy's vault. They fail to retrieve it but discover that the culprit is Saburota Todo, one of the exorcists in charge of the vault, that was corrupted upon being possessed by a demon. After hearing that there was an attempt to steal the Left Eye's sister relic, the "Right Eye of the Impure King" in Kyoto, the Order sends a team there to investigate, including Shura, Yukio and the Esquires, who are in conflict after learning the truth about Rin. Note: Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga effectively begins after the 17th episode of the first season, right at the point where it deviates from the manga (ignoring anime original scenes from episodes 16 and 17). Thus, the events from episodes 18–25 are ignored.
27	2	"Strange Bedfellows" Transliteration: "Goetsudoushū" (Japanese: 呉越同舟（ごえつどうしゅう）)	Shigeki Kawai	Seiko Takagi	Shigeki Kawai	January 14, 2017 (2017-01-14)	May 25, 2025
The Exwires arrive at Kyoto, and Ryuji, Konekomaru and Renzo take the opportunity to reunite with their families, while Rin and the others tend to the Exorcists of the Myoda Sect, who got wounded guarding the Right Eye of the Impure King. In the occasion, Rin meets Ryuji's father, and learns that Ryuji is resentful of him, as despite being the leader of the Myoda Sect, he is not respected by the others, as he relegated his duties since the Sect (which was weakened after losing several of its members on the Blue Night) joined the True Cross Order. Meanwhile, Todo, with the Left Eye of the Impure King replacing his own, contacts his mole inside the Sect, planning another attempt to steal the Right Eye.
28	3	"Suspicion Will Raise Bogies" Transliteration: "Gishinanki" (Japanese: 疑心暗鬼（ぎしんあんき）)	Yū Aoki	Yuichiro Kido	Toshiyuki Fujisawa	January 21, 2017 (2017-01-21)	TBA
The Myoda Sect has an emergency meeting to discuss the failed attempt to steal the Right Eye of the Impure King, and discover who among them is the traitor collaborating with Todo. In the occasion, suspicions were raised towards two of the sect's exorcists, Renzo's older brother Juzo and Mamushi as they were present at the scene and were Todo's students in the past, but the head priest, who did not attend the meeting, was counted as a suspect as well, much to Ryuji's anger. Meanwhile, Rin continues with his training to control his flames while trying to reconcile with his friends, who fear how the Myoda will respond once they learn that he is the son of Satan.
29	4	"Act of Treachery" Transliteration: "Haishinkigi" (Japanese: 背信棄義（はいしんきぎ）)	Ayako Kōno	Yūsuke Watanabe [ja]	Ayako Kōno	January 28, 2017 (2017-01-28)	TBA
30	5	"Mysterious Connections" Transliteration: "Aienkien" (Japanese: 合縁奇縁（あいえんきえん）)	Matsuo Asami	Yūsuke Watanabe	Shigeki Kawai	February 4, 2017 (2017-02-04)	TBA
31	6	"A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" Transliteration: "Menrihōshin" (Japanese: 綿裏包針（めんりほうしん）)	Takeshi Yajima	Toshiya Ōno	Takeshi Yajima	February 11, 2017 (2017-02-11)	TBA
32	7	"Like a Fire Burning Bright" Transliteration: "Kienbanjō" (Japanese: 気炎万丈（きえんばんじょう）)	Ryūta Kawahara	Toshiya Ōno	Toshiyuki Fujisawa	February 18, 2017 (2017-02-18)	TBA
33	8	"From Father to Son" Transliteration: "Fushisōden" (Japanese: 父子相伝（ふしそうでん）)	Yū Aoki	Seiko Takagi	Yū Aoki	February 25, 2017 (2017-02-25)	TBA
34	9	"Through Thick and Thin" Transliteration: "Setchūshōhaku" (Japanese: 雪中松柏（せっちゅうしょうはく）)	Ayako Kōno	Toshiya Ōno	Michio Fukuda [ja]	March 4, 2017 (2017-03-04)	TBA
35	10	"Unbowed and Unbroken" Transliteration: "Futōfukutsu" (Japanese: 不撓不屈（ふとうふくつ）)	Kengo Matsumoto	Yūsuke Watanabe	Kengo Matsumoto	March 11, 2017 (2017-03-11)	TBA
36	11	"Shine Bright as the Sun" Transliteration: "Kōkisanzen" (Japanese: 光輝燦然（こうきさんぜん）)	Ken'ichi Kuhara & Shigeki Kawai	Seiko Takagi	Hisashi Saito [ja] & Shigeki Kawai	March 18, 2017 (2017-03-18)	TBA
37	12	"Candid and Open" Transliteration: "Kyoshintankai" (Japanese: 虚心坦懐（きょしんたんかい）)	Shigeki Kawai	Toshiya Ōno	Shigeki Kawai	March 25, 2017 (2017-03-25)	TBA

Home media release

Japanese

Aniplex (Japan – Region 2/A)

Vol.		Episodes	Cover character(s)	Release date	Ref.
	1	1–2	Rin Okumura and Yukio Okumura	March 8, 2017	[10]
	2	3–4	Ryuji Suguro, Konekomaru Miwa and Renzo Shima	April 12, 2017	[11]
	3	5–6	Kinzo Shima, Juzo Shima and Mamushi Hojo	May 10, 2017	[12]
	4	7–8	Izumo Kamiki and Shiemi Moriyama	June 14, 2017	[13]
	5	9–10	Ryuji Suguro and Tatsuma Suguro	July 12, 2017	[14]
	6	11–12	Rin Okumura and Yukio Okumura	August 9, 2017	[15]

English

Aniplex of America (North America – Region 1/A)

Vol.		Episodes	Release date	Ref.
	1	1–6	November 14, 2017	[16]
	2	7–12	February 13, 2018	[17]