Ao no Exorcist

Ao no Exorcist or Blue Exorcist is a new Japanese anime that I started watching this week and it’s one I think is worth recommending for those who are looking for a new anime to try out.

Watching this anime for me was initially meant more to kill time than because I read any good reviews about it. I was bored and went looking for something new – Bleach and Naruto manga are still good, but too much of it can be a bore too.

Fortunately for me, Ao no Exorcist has a pretty good and addictive storyline. While the story starts off slow, it picks up after the 10th episode – after which, I’ve been downloading and watching all the way till episode 24, the latest episode released this week.

The Ao no Exorcist manga was first published in 2009 and the anime only started airing since April 2011. So I’m hoping that there will be more to come and be part of my staple diet of anime and manga each week.

I’m not going to do a review of the plot here, but as the title indicates, it's about exorcists and involves a certain son of Satan. For anyone interested, I believe the information on wiki would serve as better place for details than what I would be able to write here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Exorcist).

Last but not the least, I leave you with the anime trailer so you can decide if this is one that is worth watching :)

Skyscraper

Demi Lovato - Skyscraper

Skies are crying, I am watching

Catching teardrops in my hands

Only silence, as it's ending, like we never had a chance.

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me?

You can take everything I have

You can break everything I am

Like I'm made of glass

Like I'm made of paper

Go on and try to tear me down

I will be rising from the ground

Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper

As the smoke clears

I awaken and untangle you from me

Would it make you feel better to watch me while I bleed

All my windows still are broken but I'm standing on my feet

You can take everything I have

You can break everything I am

Like I'm made of glass

Like I'm made of paper

Go on and try to tear me down

I will be rising from the ground

Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper

Go run run run I'm gonna stay right here

Watch you disappear yeah

Go run run run yeah it's a long way down

But I'm closer to the clouds up here

You can take everything I have

You can break everything I am

Like I'm made of glass

Like I'm made of paper

Ohh

Go on and try to tear me down

I will be rising from the ground

Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper

Like a skyscraper, like a skyscraper

Like a skyscraper

No Mere Mortal

The dragon looked at the tiny figure standing in front of him. Puny human, thought the dragon. It was amused by the many ways he could snuff the life out of this insignificant being - a flick of the tail perhaps, or a gout of fire to reduce flesh and bones to ashes in mere seconds. That put a smile to its face - if one could imagine how a smiling dragon looks like.

But unknown to the mighty dragon, that is no mere mortal standing a few feet away, wrapped up in a dark cloak, with its hood down, the face barely visible. Showing neither fear nor concerns, but just stood there waiting.

Then again, a dragon is no mere mortal either...

Beautiful Like You

Let's pretend that the world is waking up...everything that we see is beautiful...like you...

Everybody wants to

Look into the mirror

And feel a little better now

And everybody wants to

Know there's someone out there

Waiting for you to come around

And I wish that

You could feel it

But you don't choose

To believe it

Cause I know that

You can't see it that way

That way

If you could only just stop stop stop running

If you could only take a second to breathe it in

Everything that you know would be beautiful

Like you

You know they're never gonna stop stop stop your love

Let's pretend that the world is waking up

Everything that we see is beautiful

Like you

Like you

Everybody wants to

Tell someone their secrets

Why don't you tell me now

Well, maybe I can fix this

Then I don't want

You to miss this

And the sun is

Raining down

Yeah

If you could only just stop stop stop running

If you could only take a second to breathe it in

Everything that you know would be beautiful

Like you

You know they're never gonna stop stop stop your love

Let's pretend that the world is waking up

Everything that we see is beautiful

Like you

Sometimes is hard to be

Yourself in this crazy world

Sometimes is hard to breathe

Yeah

Everybody wants to

Know there's someone out there

Waiting for you to come around

Come around

If you could only just stop stop stop running

If you could only take a second to breathe it in

Everything that you know would be beautiful

Like you

You know they're never gonna stop stop stop your love

Let's pretend that the world is waking up

Everything that we see can be beautiful

Like you

Can be beautiful

Like you

Can be beautiful

Like you

Oh, Beautiful

Cycle That Which Is Life

"Even the idealist in me blanch at the thought that this...that this was all to prepare me for something worse to come. Why? Was this why you have made me gone through all this?" The man looked up to the sky with only despair in his eyes. There was nothing he could do, but wail at the heavens above for the cruelty of fate and the merciless cycle that which is life.