Key Takeaways
- Yukio struggles with feeling inferior and powerless compared to Rin.
- Yukio hides his true intentions and trains hard to prove himself, avoiding friends.
- Yukio betrays True Cross Order to join the Illuminati, seeking the power to overcome insecurity.
Okumura Yukio has always been Rin's reserved younger brother, always chasing after her and making sure she stays out of trouble. However, even though they are twins, Yukio has always been far from his older brother, and that distance has only increased since Rin joined the True Cross Order of Knights to become an exorcist.
Yukio always felt inferior to Rin and powerless. With his heritage unknown, Yukio struggles with his behavior throughout the series. But how much has Yukio changed since season 1 of Blue Exorcist?
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How was Yukio at the beginning of season 1?
Yukio portrays himself as a kind and reserved younger brother
At the beginning of Blue ExorcistOkumura Yukio is portrayed as the younger brother of Rin, the son of Satan. At the beginning of the series, Yukio and Father Fujimoto dedicate their lives to protecting Rin from all demons and the occult. From an early age, Yukio was always able to see Demons and knew the circumstances of their birth.
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However, Yukio keeps putting his older brother's grave, he doesn't want to give him any information because he wants to rid Rin of the Demon. As a result, this was due to Rin inheriting Satan's Blue Flames. After learning to become an Exorcist under the tutelage of Father Fujimoto, Yukio continues to keep Rin in the dark about their heritage, playing the part of the confused younger brother as Rin had always been a troublemaker before Father Fujimoto's death.
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However, this is just a way for Yukio to hide his true feelings about their heritage. There is no doubt that Yukio cares about his older brother and tries his best to protect him. However, Yukio felt inferior to Rin. When Yukio and Rin were young, Yukio was often bullied by the local children, and so Rin ran to save him. This was probably the beginning of Yukio's greatness, as he was younger and weaker at the time.
However, Yukio slowly begins to change after learning about Demons and Exorcists. He wanted to catch up with his brother then, because he always felt weak. In Season 1, Yukio revealed that he became an Exorcist to protect the others and Rin because he didn't want to live in the dark anymore.
Since Rin doesn't know her heritage, Yukio keeps interacting with her, not letting her true intentions and feelings go. Basically, Yukio becomes Rin's older brother in this case, as Rin is often in trouble. As Rin and Yukio no longer have family, Yukio often takes care of Rin and places authority over him, not as an exorcism mentor, but as a sibling. also. However, Yukio's true feelings for his older brother have not been revealed during this time.
How much has Yukio changed since season 1?
Yukio lets his insecurities get the better of him as he seeks more power
During all the activities Blue ExorcistYukio has his own intentions and feelings; However, Shiemi and Rin, being close to Yukio, could always tell something was wrong. While Yukio's character was always professional and reserved for those in the Cram School, Yukio was portrayed in a very short manner.
As mentioned, Yukio has a lower difficulty than his brother and those who are stronger than him. Therefore, Yukio feels that he should work and train more and more to prove himself. In addition to this inferiority complex, Yukio always felt that he was in competition with his older brother. Yukio was under the impression that he did not inherit the same Blue Flames as his father Satan and was under the impression that he was a normal human who had Mashou from birth, which is why he found Demons.
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Although Yukio always cared for his brother, he was also jealous of him. After Yukio became an Excorist, he was forced to check his blood every day in case he also acquired Satan's Blue Flames. In Season 2, Yukio is convinced that he is a normal human. However, during the Kyoto Impure King Arc, Yukio discovers that he has also inherited some of Satan's Blue Flames but he doesn't know how much.
Yukio then begins to distance himself from his friends and tries to keep this news to himself. However, the Illuminati and Mephisto Pheles already knew about Yukio's problem. In order to find out the truth of his heritage, Yukio undertakes dangerous experimental training to re-release the Blue Flames.
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Yukio has always doubted himself and his abilities. As season 3 ends, Yukio continues to distance himself from the Cram School students and his older brother. Yukio probably felt this because he felt that he had no one to rely on and needed to carry a heavy burden on his own, which was why he did everything in search. Yukio has kept secrets, especially from Rin, all his life. As a result, Yukio may not know how to disclose his condition to his brother.
As Yukio always pursued his older brother, in hopes of gaining more power, he soon left the True Cross Order of Knights and joined the Illuminati as a visiting researcher. Yukio may have always sought power because he felt weak. Although Yukio can sometimes be considered his older brother due to his trusting nature, this burden may have caused him to turn to the Illuminati in search of answers.
Blue Exorcist is now available to stream on Crunchyroll.
Blue Exorcist
- season
- 3
- Studio
- A-1 Pictures, Studio VOLN
- Number of sections
- 49