Aledawn Review: Soul Eater Anime

Aledawn Reviews: Soul Eater

Soul Eater. A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body. These are the first lines on which every episodes opens. The word soul is lightened in blue and glowing like a flame.

Complete review behind the break.

Maka

Soul

In the first episode of the show we meet with Maka Albarn, a weapon meister (in training) and her Demon Weapon, Soul Evans. Maka and Soul are faced with an evil human spirit. When they defeated him, showing a glowing soul. Soul Evans, eats the soul and that makes 99. Whenever a weapon eats 99 souls, he or she only needs one witch soul to become a Death Scythe (A phrase know as the weapon of the Shinigami, who is called Lord Death.) Soul and Maka hunt down a witch, named Blair, to kill her. When Soul eats her soul, he finds out that Blair is not a witch, but a cat with very strong magic. This magic enables her to turn into human form whenever she pleases. 

Maka and Soul in weapon form

In the second episode, we come to meet Black Star and his Demon Weapon, Tsubaki. Tsubaki is not a scythe, like Soul, but she can turn into multiple ninja weapons, plus a awesome katana. This is because Tsubaki is a member of the Nakatsukasa Clan, a family of weapons descending from the first Demon Weapon. Black Star and Tsubaki try killing

Tsubaki

Black Star

 Alcopone and his mafia clan that has been harvesting and eating human souls, to get their 99 souls. They fail.  Black Star and Tsubaki then learn that Alcapone plans to capture a witch named Angela and go after him once more, only to find Alcapone and his allies already defeated by Angela's powerful bodyguard, Mifune. Black Star ends up not killing either Mifune or Angela, and even gives the souls of Alcapone and his men over to Lord Death since he himself did not kill them.

Mifune and Angela

Death the Kid

In the third episode we come to meet with Meister, Death the Kid, son of Lord Death. After failing to capture Lupin the thief due to his obsession with symmetry, speaks to his father and decides to go after the mummy-controlling witch residing at the pyramid of Anubis. Worried about the symmetry of a picture hanging in his room back home, Kid leaves his weapons, sisters Patti and Liz Thompson, to fend for themselves in the mummy infested pyramid. The sisters manage to defeat the mummies only to be captured by the Pharaoh! The Pharaoh comes out in his final form to finish the job, but Kid notices it is no longer symmetrical and defeats it. Unfortunately, he also wrecks the pyramid in the process and ends up losing all his collected souls.

Patti

Liz 

Liz and Patti

Lord Death

Spirit

The episodes run along and more people are introduces. Maka’s father, Spirit, who is the current death scythe for Lord Death. When one of the teachers turns out to have become a zombie, it’s up to Black Star, Tsubaki, Maka and Soul to deal with the maniac. The man in question turns out to be Franken Stein, the first meister of Spirit. When Maka and Soul try a new move, called Witch Hunt it works perfectly for the first time. When it does not harm Stein, it all seems lost. Stein reveals that the entire events regarding Sid (The zombie) and himself were set up by Lord Death.  The next day, Stein makes his appearance as the new teacher for the class where Maka, Black Star, Soul and Tsubaki are in.

Sid and Nygus

Professor Franken Stein

Crona

Ragnarok

Soul and Maka arrive in Italy to dispose of another Kishin (very evil soul). There they meet Crona a witch/weapons meister and Ragnarok, the mysterious sword that emanates from Crona’s body. They fight and Maka figures that she can’t cut down Crona as Crona’s blood has the property of turning solid, to complicate matters, Crona’s attacks can’t be blocked as they can hurt Soul, even in his scythe form. Soul urges Maka to continue fighting, but she is afraid of hurting her partner, and in the end, he receives a severe blow while trying to protect her. After Soul is critically injured protecting Maka from Crona, Crona attempts to kill Maka. When Crona is about to deal a finishing blow, a scythe pierces right through the door, stabbing Crona. Dr. Franken Stein punches the door down and he and Spirit start fighting Crona. Stein gains the upper hand, but the battle is interrupted by Medusa, the snake witch.

Medusa

Excalibur

In the mean while, Death the Kid and Black Star learn about Excalibur, a weapon whose powers are said to be legendary. The duo decide to search for Excalibur, but when they find him, they can’t stand his unbearable personality. Spirit tries to cheer up Maka, but she is still worried about Soul. Spirit explains the origin of the Demon Weapon Ragnarok. However, he still hides the truth about Soul’s conditions to her.

Mizune

Meanwhile, Medusa is having a run-in with two other witches, Eruka Frog and Mizune, who do not like her staying at Shibusen. Medusa, after stating her plans, reveals to them that she previously had implanted magic snakes in

Eruka

their bodies and easily kills Mizune. Eruka manages to escape after Maka and her friends appear to investigate. After realizing that she must overcome her fears of having Soul hurt, Maka tells Stein that she finally discovered what she lacks. Eruka is tracked down by Medusa, who orders her to infiltrate the witches prison and release a dangerous convict from there.

Free

When Eruka has escaped with Free, the dangerous convict, Medusa orders him to kill Soul and Maka. Maka, Soul, Black Star and Tsubaki travel to London only to run into Free, who further reveals himself as a werewolf and to be capable of using ice based magic. After a desperate effort from Maka and Soul to work together again, they are able to throw him into the river. The four begin to leave when Maka coughs up some blood in her hands, only to discover that the blood is black. 

Personal Opinions:

Blair in human form

I find this show very entertaining, and only because the episodes are about twenty-two minutes, you will notice how time flies by after watching a few. I must admit that I have not read the manga’s of the show, but I am willing to do it. The entire series catches my attention as more and more people are introduced into the story. By times I wonder who is dating who, but because of the children’s age, from 13 to 16, it is left untold. I just have to assure you that it is totally worth watching it. I know I have enjoyed it very much and I guess that if you’re into these kinds of anime, you will enjoy it too. 

Love,

Aledawn