Fedranime reviews
Soul Eater
You might be wondering why I didn’t post a video game review
on Tuesday. Simply put, I realized that I am probably not the best person to
review video games as I only have Nintendo games and not a lot of them are that
current. On a completely different note, TOONAMI IS COMING BACK THIS
SATURDAY!!!!!! In honor of this occasion I am going to review one of my
favorite anime, Soul Eater.
Soul Eater is an anime based on a manga by Atsushi Okubo and
is animated by studio Bones, one of my favorite animation studios. The story
follows three teenagers Maka, Black*Star (seriously they spell it like that,
and one of my favorite anime characters Death the Kidd. They all are students
at the DWMA/Shibuusen headed by lord death himself, Shinigami-sama, also he’s
Kidd’s father. It is there job to protect the world from the resurrection of a
kishin, a being of pure madness. To do this they must feed their weapons 99
human souls and 1 witch soul to turn them into a Death Scythe, a weapon used by
Shinigami-sama. Did I mention that their weapons are specially gifted humans
who can turn into different weapons? Thus Maka teams up with Soul, a scythe.
Black*Star teams up with Tsubaki, a shadow (really she can transform into
different ninja weapons like chain scythes and shurikans but allows him to
control his shadow later), and Kidd teams up with Liz and Patty, dual pistols.
If you aren’t lured in by this baddasery than let me show you some more.
This series is really good. One of my favorite parts is the
soundtrack. Honestly this is what really first brought me in in the first few
minutes. The first opening theme, soul resonance by T.M revolution, was
amazing. It had really cool animation as well as nice sort of punk/gothic sound
to it. That also brings up the animation, as this is Bones it is really good.
While it is a bit cartoony compared to Bones’ other work like Brotherhood, its
still really good, especially considering the crappy quality and drawings the
manga started out as. A lot of the buildings have a gothic architecture look,
and it is really apparent in Italy and Shibuusen. I also really love how Soul’s
personal soul room looks. If you were a fan of the show twin peaks you
definitely are going to enjoy every scene with the red devil and the soul room.
This series also has one of the coolest and evilest villains in all of anime,
Medusa. Seriously this women gives friggen Father a run for his money in terms
of evilness. I hate to do this but I’m going to have to reveal a few spoilers.
There is this one character named Chrona who was a weapon that lives in its
(Chrona’s gender hasn’t been revealed yet) blood, which is black, called the
demon sword Ragnarok that slowly drains Chrona’s sanity when he’s activated.
Also Ragnarok is a bit of a jerk. Also Chrona is Medusa’s child. Lending to
this series long history of nightmare fuel, Ragnarok wasn’t originally in
Chrona’s body and Chrona has been shown to have Ragnarok inside it since about
it was 4. Think about that for a moment well I check to see if Lanipator has
updated. And he has not. Did you figure out how the two became an insanely
screaming sin against God? If you didn’t, Medusa drained Chrona of its original
blood, melted Ragnarok down in sword form, mixed him with black blood, put the
blood into the body of her own child ALL IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE. No I’m not
making this up, she is the female anime equivalent of DR. INSANEO! And on that
cheery not, the characters are really good. Maka’s father, Spirit is a death
scythe and a bit of an adulterer. Then again he did marry Maka’s mom at about
18 so what did you expect. Also a lot of the death scythes, like Marie and
Justin ARE JUST AWESOME, I mean Marie can transform into a hammer and Justin is
a freakin GUILOTEIN! Also, Shinigami is amazing! When your first introduced to
him he has this weird personality, a voice that makes Choppers Japanese seiyuu
sound bearable and this weird gag move called the reaper chop were he hits
someone over the head with his hand that always look like geometric foam fingers.
Then the kishin shows up he reveals that he only looks stupid because his
original Lovecraftian form scared his students, his voice drops down to
Alucard-level sexy and he breaks kishins face with the reaper chop. This was
honestly one of the most hilarious moments in the series and one of my personal
favorites. And on that note here’s all of the crap Soul Eater has.
I’m just going to go for the big one here, the ending. This
was a series that was in dire need of some filler but never used it. Around the
middle of the lost Island ark the anime got ahead of the manga and was forced
to draw it’s own ending, similar to H.S.O.T.D. or Fullmetal Alchemist. Some of
the changes were all right, such as more Chrona development about the struggle
with Medusa as his mom and Mifune living, but the ending was crap. Heck, the
actual manga isn’t over and it has things like a new death scythe and the book
of Eibon ark that I just love. Though there is talk about Bones redoing Soul
Eater and getting it right, after all it is the spiritual successor to
Fullmetal Alchemist, so this problem will be fixed with better animation and a
reason to not have filler. There are a few nitpicks, mostly Blair’s over
abundance of fanservice, but this is just the main one that a lot of the fans
hate.
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