Aniplex has a new trailer out today to highlight the upcoming release of Blue Exorcist in theaters, which is hitting on August 17th in a limited engagement at select theaters, which you can see here. The new dubbed trailer highlights the drama and the action as well as obviously giving us a listen to the cast that will be performing for it as many are reprising their roles from the TV series that has now been dubbed and released on DVD and Blu-ray. For those that go to see it in theaters, there will be a Free Blue Exorcist Movie Poster for Ticket Holders.
Plot concept: When his adoptive father, Shiro Fujimoto was killed by his biological father, Satan, Rin Okumura swore to become an exorcist to avenge Shiro’s death declaring war on his own blood-relatives of the underworld…
The movie features Rin and his friends in the midst of preparing for a festival which is celebrated once every 11 years in True Cross Academy Town. As everyone in town is busy arranging for the festival, a “ghost train” goes berserk while the barriers protecting the city from demon intrusions were under repair. Rin and his twin brother Yukio are sent to the scene as reinforcements, and on their way meet a demon in the form of a young boy. Meanwhile, Cheng-Long Liu, a Senior Exorcist First Class from the Taiwan Branch joins them in the repair operation and the story takes an unexpected turn as their fates cross.