Product Description Maka is a Meister and Soul is her Weapon. As students at the Grim Reaper's Death Weapon Meister Academy, their study habits couldn't be more different. But in battle against the supernatural forces of evil, they're a freakin' lethal team. That's when Soul transforms - literally - into a razor-sharp scythe, and every defeated wicked soul he sucks down makes him more deadly. That's when Maka unleashes the merciless slayer within, wielding her partner and dropping monsters. Seriously. Monsters. Like the witches, werewolves, and zombies that lurk in the shadows and feed on the souls of the innocent. Every freakish ghoul Maka and Soul take out strengthens their bond, and fighting alongside their fellow Meister/Weapon classmates, Maka and Soul are the world's last line of defense against evil. .com Based on the manga by Atsushi Ookubo, the fantasy-adventure Soul Eater (2008) takes place at the Death Weapon Meister Academy, a school run by the Grim Reaper to create pairs of fighters, one of whom transforms into a weapon wielded by a partner called a "Meister." Soul, who always wants to look cool, turns into a scythe that the diligent Maka uses; infinitely patient Tsubaki becomes a variety of weapons for motor-mouth assassin Black Star. They're joined by the Grim Reaper's powerful but addled son Death the Kid, who has a neurotic fixation on the principle of symmetry, and his twin guns, the Thompson Sisters. Despite their many foibles, all three partnerships command impressive powers. Assigned to capture the souls of evil beings who could foster the creation of a terrible demon known as the Kishin, they battle witches, golems, and other evil creatures. Having created an appealing and engagingly nutty cast, the filmmakers can't always figure out what to do with them. At times, the tone feels too silly, then it suddenly becomes needlessly violent. The witch Medusa's abuse of her neurotic son Crona is disturbing, but her menace is undercut by Eruka, the idiotic frog-witch who serves her. The mixture of freewheeling slapstick, imaginative designs, and supernatural adventures in Soul Eater may remind viewers of Fairy Tail and Gurren Lagann, but the artists push the visuals even further. The designs of Soul and Black Star are essentially jagged collections of angles; the lumpy-looking sun and moon leer woozily from the sky, as if they just lurched back from a prolonged binge. Professor Franken Stein, who constantly adjusts the large screw in his skull, looks like he was haphazardly sewn together from spare parts, as do all his accessories, including his bento box. Soul Eater builds to a suitably flamboyant if very talky climax, as the main characters face off against the reborn Kishin. Maka discovers that, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, she has always had powers she was unaware of. It's a very entertaining series, but the viewer is left with the nagging suspicion that stronger writing could have made it even better. (Rated TV 14: violence, violence against women and children, grotesque imagery, brief nudity, risqué humor, potentially offensive religious imagery, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon (1. Resonance of the Soul Eater, Becoming a Death Scythe? 2. I'm Definitely a Star! The Extremely Big Man, Revealed Here? 3. Becoming the Perfect Boy? Death the Kid's Magnificent Mission? 4. Witch Hunting Invocation!? Heart Throbbing Graveyard Supplementary Class Lessons, 5. Soul's Form: Strongest Meister Stein's Entrance, 6. Freshman Gossip! Lots of Memories of Kid's First Attendance at Shibusen? 7. Black Blood of Terror: The Weapon Within Crona? 8. Witch Medusa: Great Evil Possessing One's Soul? 9. Holy Legendary Sword: Kid and Black Star's Big Adventure? 10. Demon Blade Masamune: Torn Dependant Soul, Singing Heart's Rain? 11. Tsubaki, the Camellia: What Lies Beyond Sadness? 12. Courage That Is Not Lost to Fear: Albarn's One Large Determination? 13. Man's Demon Eyes--Soul and Maka, the Gap of the Soul's Wavelength? 14. (Super) Written Test: Heart-Throbbing, Trembling, Nervous, Lies? 15. Black Dragon That Eats Souls: Cowardly Liz and Her Pleasant Companions? 16. Clash on the Ghost Ship! A Hell Inside My Head! 17. Legend of the Holy Sword 2: Drink, Hit, Buy, Virtue? 18. The Nightmare of Festival's Eve: And the Curtain Rises? 19. Underground Battle Begins: Bust Through Medusa's Vector Arrow? 20. The Resonance Battle of Black Blood: Facing Fear, the Small Soul's Big Struggle? 21. Reach, Soul of Mine: The Thirst of the Heart Inside Unbearable Solitude? 22. Seal's Shrine: The Trap Left by the Immortal Man? 23. Dead or Alive! The Brink Between Resurrection and Spellbound? 24. Battle of the Gods: Death City's Crisis of Destruction? 25. Death Scythes Summoned! Preventing Papa's Personnel Changes!? 26. Delightful and Shy School's Entry Experience! Shibusen's in the Midst of a New Life Fair's Aid? 27. 800 Years of Murderous Intent: A Witch's Descending Heresy? 28. Sword Saint Rises: A Sweet or a Salty Taste? 29. Medusa's Revival! Spider and Snake, Fate's Reunion? 30. Red Hot's Runaway Express! The Demon Tool Left Behind by the Great Demon Guru? 31. Drying Happiness: To Whom Do You Shed Tears in the Moonlight Shine? 32. Holy Legendary Sword 3: Shibusen's Gang Leader Tale? 33. Resonance Chain: Playing the Soul's Melodies? 34. BREW Contest! Clash, Shibusen vs. Arachnophobia? 35. Mosquito's Storm! Old Days World's Time Limit Is 10 Minutes? 36. Release, Seven People's Resonance Chain! Concert of Creation and Destruction? 37. A Great Detective's First Case: Shibusen's Secret Exposed by Kid? 38. Bloodshed Temptation: The Big Man's Uncontrollable Irritation? 39. Crona's Escape: Show Me Your Smile, Please? 40. Cut the Cards: Medusa Surrenders to Shibusen? 41. Winding and Sliding: The Dancing Doctor, A New World? 42. Charge! Baba Yaga's Castle: Why Is Everything Suddenly So Unclear? 43. The Last Demon Tool: The Weaponless Kid's Impossible Mission? 44. Coward Crona's Determination: For You, Who Are Always by My Side? 45. Demonslayer's Wavelength: Fierce Attack, Hatred of the Demon Hunter? 46. Bravery? Bloodshed? Decisive Battle, Mifune vs. Black Star? 47. The Miracle of Overturning a Table in Anger: Our Death City's Robot? 48. The Weapon (Deathscythe) Shinigami-sama Had: Towards Uncertainty, Filled with Darkness? 49. Asura's Awakening: The Arrival of the World's End? 50. Sink or Swirl?! The Man Who Exceed God? 51. The Password Is Courage!)
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I'll take your soul!
I really like being able to sit down and zip through one episode after another; after streaming a handful of the episodes of this anime online, I immediately purchased the whole series and eagerly awaited its arrival in the mail!The world is threatened by evil humans who consume human souls and the twisted creatures created from such consumption, Kishin. Lord Death himself founded the D.W.M.A (Death Weapon Meister Academy) in Death City to train young meisters (fighters) and their weapon partners (humans capable of transforming into a specific weapon) to hunt down and destroy Kishin before they cause too much destruction. The first three episodes introduce the three main meister/weapon pairs; Maka Albarn and her scythe Soul Eater Evans, Black Star and Tsubaki Nakatsukasa (who comes from a special family in which every member is a weapon; she herself can take several weapon forms), and Lord Death's own son Death the Kid and his twin pistols Patty and Liz Thompson.The storyline starts off with every student's dream and goal; to turn their weapon into a legendary Death Scythe, a weapon capable of being wielded by Lord Death himself. Maka has big shoes to fill, because her mother turned her father into Lord Death's current Death Scythe, who is a true scythe at that.Sounding too serious? Not even! While a lot of darker aspects such as who determines right versus wrong and the madness of the human mind are handled, every episode contains comic relief in one way or another. Ten minutes or so into the very first episode we get to meet Maka's rather promiscuous father (who flirts with just about every female in the series), and soon afterwards Soul accidentally dives headfirst into a bath with the busty, bubbly Blair. There is a bit of fan service sprinkled here and there as well, all tasteful and relating to the situation. I like that even in the darker episodes that keep you on the edge of your seat, there's always something sweet that comes along to make you laugh, weather it's Black Star's gigantic ego or Kid's OCD.The plot, much to the chagrin of fans of the manga (I have yet to start reading, so I don't know too much) eventually abandons the idea of Death Scythes early in and instead focuses on the hunt for the witch Arachne (interesting bit, every witch in the series has an animal theme) and the deadly and just about all powerful Kishin, Asura. The manga is still ongoing, so a lot of people seem to be disappointed with the ending of the anime. I didn't think it was too awful myself, but I would like the rumors of a reboot the likes of FMA:B being in the works to be true! There are some bits I have heard about that are in the manga (the further exploration of becoming a Death Scythe, the battle on the Moon, Kid's Lines of Sanzu, etc.) that I would like to have learned more about or actually gotten to have seen. I'll just have to keep my hopes up!And for any of you out there worrying about the voice acting, you can keep your fears at bay! Everybody's voice fits their character perfectly. There is also no worry about "Westernizing" anything in the series, as Death City is actually in Nevada and most of the characters are actually American. As for the quality of the Blu-Ray itself, it's absolutely fantastic! Apparently a lot of these recent "Complete Series" anime collections coming out aren't all the best quality-wise, but Soul Eater looks absolutely fantastic on my TV.The only problem, literally the only problem, I have with this set is that rather than standard anime subtitles, which are yellow so they stand out on the animated background, these are white, and also very small, thusly making them hard to read when I want to hear the Japanese audio.Trust me, if the first three episodes draw you in, don't even bother trying to watch more before deciding, go right out and buy this!
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Massively Entertaining at a Great Price
First of all, despite giving the show a five star rating, I'm not going to say Soul Eater doesn't have its share of problems. (The ending is pretty much a joke, as multiple reviewers have stated.) And the series is certainly not for everyone. But where it's good, it really excels. This is an anime that I imagine different people linking for different things or disliking for the same qualities that some people are really drawn to. Though the first few episodes were fun, I wasn't completely sold on the show until around episode 7. By this time, the main characters have been introduced and things take a more dramatic turn than the previous episodes.The mixture of cartoony and silly, dark and surreal can be jarring for some, but I found this to be a big part of what I personally loved about the show. For the most part, the balancing act of these different elements was handled quite well. The silly moments often acted as a breather for some of the darkest moments. This series could really have you laughing one scene and really break your heart in the next.Sometimes, the writing could seem a bit weak. Sometimes, concepts were brought up and ignored or explained and never really explored later in the series. Occasionally, I feel this is even to the story's advantage. Episode one, for example introduced the two main protagonists and the concept of hunting down 99 corrupted human souls and 1 Witch Soul in order to turn a weapon into a death scythe. This seemed to set the series up to be a "collect 'em all" formula which I personally find to be boring and I'm glad the series didn't go in that direction. In fact I often found myself questioning what would happen next in many points throughout the series.I won't call it "a masterpiece" or "BEST ANIME EVER", but I found Soul Eater to be very entertaining shonen series. When this anime succeeds, it's a captivating ride that really left me wanting more, but not in a bad way. For the differences between the anime and manga, this is one series I could imagine a FMA Brotherhood styled remake since the manga is still ongoing.The animation is a really fun ride, and it especially shines in the battle scenes. And everything especially seems to shine on Blu-Ray. As a matter of value, this 51 episode series would be a fantastic price on DVD for under $30, but on Blu-Ray, it is a must buy for fans of the series.
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