The official Twitter for the manga Blue Exorcist , by Kazue Katou , announced on Monday that the manga will go on hiatus and will not publish new chapters in the upcoming March and April issues of Shueisha 's Jump SQ .
Blue Exorcist - Manga will have a 2-month hiatus
The manga plans to resume in the May issue of the magazine, which will be released in April.
Kazue Katou launched the manga in Jump SQ in 2009. The manga went on hiatus in July 2021 and resumed in May 2022. The 28th volume of the manga was released in November 2022. Ao no Exorcist has over 25 million copies in circulation.
Synopsis
The protagonist is a boy named Okumura Rin, who has demon blood within him. Suddenly, the demon Satan appears before him, claiming to be his father and planning to take him to his world. At that moment, Rin's adoptive father, a famous exorcist, risks his life to save him and ends up dying. Blaming his own weakness, Rin decides to enroll in the Knights Templar academy and is now determined to become an exorcist.
Ao no Exorcist received a 25-episode anime adaptation in 2011, and an OVA that premiered in 2011. A second season, titled " Ao no Exorcist: Kyoto Fujouou-hen, " premiered in 2017 and aired for a total of 12 episodes.
In addition, the franchise received an announcement in December regarding a new anime season.
The work also includes several light novels and a series of theatrical plays.
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Source: ANN