This manga is disguised as a romcom mostly due to its title and summary but one should not judge it solely based on that.
This review may go into spoilers to give examples however new readers can read most of the review.
Make the Exorcist Fall in Love is a beautiful manga that showcases the deconstruction of several types of abuse while developing the romance between the two main characters. It is an excellent read for those who want manga that handles severe topics in a wellmanner showing how new works attempt to show underrepresented situations with male protagonists.
Mr. Priest is a boy whom God chose as the strongest exorcist and his character development is spearheaded mainly by traumatic events primarily sexual assault from Asmodeus and religious abuse from the church from his past. Throughout the manga Mr. Priest internally struggles with mental health seeing himself and normal sexual urges as dirty and constantly sacrificing his health for the missions and tasks that the church gives him. However Mr. Priest slowly opens his emotions when he is tasked to protect Imuri a girl who is secretly a demon and is tasked to make him fall in love with her.
Imuri and Mr. Priests relationship is seen as complicated two people on completely different sides yet can connect with each other more throughout the story. Despite Imuri being a demon she starts to feel the genuine need to change Mr. Priests current view on the world and encourage him to do his hobbies like baking more as the two interact. Seeing how Mr. Priest and his ideal of supporting victims of abuse like him changes Imuris idea of what love is.
The way that the manga carefully layers and plans the series is clever once certain scenes occur. Spoilers for the current events of the manga:
Make the Exorcist Fall in Love is the perfect manga for anyone who wants a story about religious trauma abuse healing from traumatic events and learning about the concept of love.
90
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