Purple Exorcist
The Tale of Reiji Shiratori
Special Character File
It came to my attention that some people seem to think the cast of this story mostly consists of OC characters. So I put together this fun little fact file in the hope of correcting that. So here are some helpful notes about the cast of Purple Exorcist.
Susumu Yunokawa
A minor character even in my story really, he's an actual Exorcist in the series. One of Rin's teachers, he has a slightly bigger role in the manga than the anime. Having meisters in both Dragoon and Doctor, he's often seen in the background of events such as the Exwire exam, Kuro's freak out and the Impure King incident.
Kashino, Nishiwaki and Omoto
A trio of one-off characters from the sixth episode of the original anime run, The Phantom Cook. They're from the same advanced class as Yukio and make him lunches in an attempt to win his affections, but his constant rebuking eventually leads to them infiltrating the boy's dorm. Upon finding the lunches that the demon chef, Ukobach made, the girls get the wrong end of the situation and throw them in the bin, drawing Ukobach's ire.
I wont lie, these three are incredibly two dimensional to the point that I've made jokes about them being a hive mind, but that is only in keeping with their origin and I fully intend to develop them into proper, more complex entities later on.
Shuri Todo
One of the starring characters from Kazue Kato's debut short story, The Rabbit and Me, which took second place in Weekly Shounen Jump's Tezuka Award.
The son of a criminal, Shuri became a hit man, killing seemingly corrupt people for money. He wields an odd staff/gun weapon in the original story, but that seemed a little out of place to fit into the Blue Exorcist world, so I swapped it to a bo staff. There has been other slight changes made to him for the sake of the story, but I plan to keep as close to his backstory/personality as I can without going too grim.
Taira Futamura
The other protagonist of The Rabbit and Me, Taira was a highschooler intent on becoming a surgeon like his father. Making friends with Shuri on their first day of highschool, Shuri later takes a job to kill Taira's dad from a parent who blames Heizo Futamura for his child's death.
Taira will likely be the character to undergo the least change in regards to his origin and persona.
Chawan
One of the key characters from Master and I, another short by Kato. Chawan is a rice bowl that comes to life to fulfil its owner's every wish. This eventually leads down the typical fable path of ruining the guy's life. I decided to combine the rather jerkish master with Heizo Futamura in order to give Taira a unique ability for the story. Funnily, you can see Chawan's master and his girlfriend give a brief cameo as the couple that walk up to Usamaro in the Blue Exorcist movie.