We had a adventitious to allocution for a few moments with Kazue Katō, the architect of Blue Exorcist; the manga premiered in the US on April 5th from Viz Media, with an iPad adaptation accessible on April 11th. The anime alternation will be advertisement beyond assorted alive sites after this month.

ANN: Please accord us your claimed overview as to what Blue Archimage is about.

Kato: It is the adventure of the advance of a boy who was built-in amid Satan and a human.

What capacity were a lot of important to you alone as you were creating this series? What capacity and letters are you acquisitive to get across?

Kato: There isn't a “high” bulletin in it, but I approved to actualize a manga that would artifice teenagers and humans in their aboriginal twenties . They are ambition of the annual which carries this manga.

What were your arch inspirations if creating Blue Exorcist?

Kato: It originally was aggressive by a Brothers Grimm bogie tale, area brothers action monsters. Then, I approved to accomplish the adventure cast several times, and acclimatized down into a simple anatomy of demons against an exorcist.

Was it consistently your ambition for the manga to become an anime series?

Kato: No, it wasn't. I was aimlessly aggravating to not absence my deadlines. But, searching back, I should accept anticipation about the achievability of it acceptable an activated series.

Did the achievability of the alternation acceptable an anime access your autograph process?

Kato: I did appear the affairs area the Software for the activated alternation was getting discussed. I acquainted afflicted by the dynamics of abounding humans teaming up and creating something. Personally, my manga conception action is a abandoned one, abnormally if it comes to Software writing. I acquainted that I aswell capital to get some ascribe for the autograph of the Software for manga, although the constraints of the assembly action doesn't absolutely admittance that array of thing.

There are a lot of biblical references in Blue Exorcist; afterwards the altercation surrounding Neon Genesis Evangelion, were you at all afraid to cover these references?

Kato: As I commented as above, I did not apprehend that I would be so constant in befitting my deadlines for the alternation so far... I fabricated biblical references with the cerebration that “I should not run abroad from these references if I'm alive in the Archimage genre.” But, I accept that Western countries are added acute to belief with biblical references than Japan is. Right now, the “Blue Exorcist” manga is currently getting translated in France, UK, and the U.S. I was afraid to see some of translations, and thought, “Is it accept to construe that part?” or “Could the admirers in Christian countries adore account this?” I got those feelings. I still get those feelings.

Now that your manga is an anime series, how abundant has your captivation in the assembly of the anime alternation disconnected your plan on the manga?

Kato: I could get complex with blockage on the accomplished alternation structure, and on the Software for the beforehand allotment of the show, and with the appearance designs of aboriginal characters for the anime series. The arduous allotment in getting complex with an anime was artlessly the added workload. But, of course, it was a blessed thing.