The main characters from Soul Eater

A few good shows have been released this year, but for me Soul Eater has to take the cake. The Manga started to come out regularly in Square Enix’s Monthly Shōnen Gangan manga magazine on May 12 2004, but the anime adaption only started in April of this year. As always i’m always a little skeptical of a show when i see the style isn’t your classic look, but now for the second time i’ve been proven wrong. The first time it was One Piece, (One piece was now become my all time favorite show), and now once again with Soul Eater. 

 

The story is about the lives of 7 students at the Shinigami Weapon Meister Vocational School (Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakkō). These 7 are in 2 groups of 2, and 1 group of 3. Each of these groups contains a Meister (The weapon handler) and a weapon (Souls that can morph into weapons). The first group consists of Maka (Meister) and Soul Eater (Weapon – Demon Sythe). the second group of Black Star (Meister) and Tsubaki (Weapon – Ninja Weapons), and finally the group of 3, Death the Kid (Meister) and The Thompson sisters Paddy and Liz (Weapons – Demon Pistols).

The ultimate goal of the students with their weapons is to have their weapons defeat and eat the souls of ninety-nine evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the given weapon and thus be capable of being used by shinigami. In order to ensure this is done in a timely manner, all students and weapons attend classes regularly and are given homework or supplementary lessons to further their training. The meisters have a rating system that goes from one to three stars which usually measures soul energy. It is important that the meister and weapon can tune their “soul wavelength” to perform high level attacks and bring out the weapon’s full power.

All in all a really great show, the animation is clean and the plot is both humorous and intriguing, a great watch for anime fans of all ages…