For some of us in the real world, it's been rather longer, as the story rolls round to the timeframe of the very first Blue Exorcist episodes, animated by A-1 Pictures in 2011. A few select scenes ...

There are a few other touches of emotion – for example, Shiro's discovery, long after the fact, that Rick perished in the Blue Night, leaving Maki a widow. But most of the episode feels like ...