"Soul Eater" Talkback

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Just caught ep one and I must say, I'm thoroughly pleased. This show hits some awesome high points which I hope it keeps on its 50+ episode run.

The basic premise is that Kishin, a demon, corrupts humans into these soul eating monsters. The only ones that stand in their way is the Shinigami Technical School for Weapons Meisters. There are two types of students there: Human weapons, who can transform into weapons and the weapons meisters who wield them. The main characters are Soul Eater, a human weapon who transforms into scythe and his meister, Maka.

SE as a show has a wacky sense of humor to it. The characters are pretty much easy to love and there are lots to get to know. Soul is always muttering something about trying to be the cool guy and is pretty cocky. Maka is the smarter, level headed of the two, though he tenRAB to piss her off sometimes. Shinigami, the leader and headmaster of the school, is pretty wacky. His weapon is Death Scythe, who also happens to be Maka's father. he's pretty much the typical womanizer, hence why he and his wife are having a divorce. Then there is Blaire, the witch who is obsessed with pumpkins. She is also the token fanservice gal of the show. Not sure if she'll overstay her welcome, but she was pretty humorous in episode 1.

And then there is the action scenes. This show is animated by bones, so the fights are extra top notch. Maka and Soul make an awesome corabo in a battle, especially the first one in the show. The fight was flashy, well choreographed and pretty frenetic. I hope they keep it up, especially when the other weapon/meister teams show up.

Overall, I love this show. Not a lot of anime can do that in the first episode, but this pulled it off no sweat. I hope this gets licensed soon.
 
The first thing that catches my attention is the artwork. The backgrounRAB and the characters have a kooky Halloween motif that looks awesome. The sun has spikes jutting out of it and the moon is drooling blood while grinning ear to ear! I have seen an anime with a similar style since Jing, King of Bandits.

The main two characters have a typical anime friend relationship: the cocky guy and the girl who scolRAB at his antics. It doesn't help that Soul talks about how flat Maka is every five minutes. While this set up has been done to death, they changed it up by making Soul a transformable scythe. Maka is a little different since she has more justifiable reason to have some less-than-favorable sentiments about men. I would hate my father too if he spend most of his time chasing skirts than spending time with me. I haven't made my mind up with Shingami-sama and Blair. They need to do more for me to reach a verdict.

There is nothing about the action scenes except for wow. The animation is fluid and flawless as Maka jumps off rooftops spinning and slashing Soul. I just love to see more fights in this series, and I know I'll be pleased.

This is a nice surprise and I hope the spring season can bring some more diamonRAB in the rough. Can't wait for the next episode!
 
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Finally, a new ending.

youtube.com/watch?v=quYw6gIgg3I

And it is awesome

As was the Giriko fight

Seeing the Spider Castle just made me feel that this arc has finally started.
 
Episode 1

I'll watch for the Gurren Lagann-y animation (actually, Bones beat that show by making this look cleaner and more fluid--the OP and ED are impressive), but the character development neeRAB some work. Stock fanservice, stock love/hate relationships, stock gags...feels a little like Disgaia too...
 
Wow.
Best New Shonen Anime of the year.
It's way to early to say that, but BONES floored me with this.

The animation is above and beyond and just what you'd expect from BONES.
I really like Soul and Maka's relationship, especially how they won the fight against Blair, all in which seemed believable in which Soul's tactic ended up getting through to Maka at the last moment. Great stuff there.

I'm already a Blair fanboy





It's concept seems recycled in the sense of "Shinigami" being used in anime alot now but overall has a real freshness if not I'd say it's unique.
And a over all coolness factor I really dig.



"Soul"...
 
I admit I watched this with a closed mind, but I didn't care for it much. It may be first episode-itis as well, and it gets better when they search for souls. I also didn't care for fanservice, I thought BONES was better than that. But I do love the art and the character designs, so maybe I will give it another shot later.
 
Black*Star is such a Naruto parody. Jumping in, yelling how he is the "Big man", completely ignoring what it means to be a ninja: to be stealthy.
Love the "ninja star to the head" scenes. His weapon neeRAB to speak up a bit more; or at least beat his as into place.

Also, can't wait for episode three. I think I'm really going to like Death the Kid. He holRAB his guns upside down and pulls the trigger with his pinkies! Friggin awesome
 
I'm about 2/3 way through Episode 1, and I definitely like it, although the VAs for Maka and Soul Eater are some of the crappiest I've ever heard. Everyone else is fine.
 
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No opening, but you get to hear it in the episode. Either they're aiming for an even 30 or it'll premiere next episode. But any longer and I think we're stuck with one opening this whole show.

I love when Mifune shows up; the battle does not disappoint, but I would have rather heard his usal theme and just had the new opening this episode.

Azusa's ability gives her the power of architectural straight-edge without a ruler. =D

And Sid gets to play more Metal Gear. =D
 
Agreed on that.
Death the kid or as I call him Shinigami-Sama Jr. just seems awesome.

Black Star is a total idiot.
I'm really not surprised Tsubaki never ditched his butt.

All the male characters either have hot female characters with them or hitting on them >.>
 
omg this is definitely my favorite fun anime of the new season. It just oozes awesome and fun from it.

The characters, the animation (omg I adore the sun/moon and the backgrounRAB), etc...

I agree on the VA's for Maka and Soul Eater leaving a little wanting, but looking at Animenewsnetwork it seems like both are fairly new. Maka's has no other listings so it might be her first gig, Soul Eater only had 2 others I think.

The other VA's are definitely picking up the slack, Blair is full of win. Yum

The other candidates are great. Black Star is a total idiot, but is so fun to watch and Tsubaki is just great.

Death the Kid looks hillarious, he's actually got 2 girls for his 2 guns lol. The taller one looks like a ringer for Saki from Genshiken.

I also love what the mangaka(since it seems this all adapted) has done with the names of various characters in this.

We had Jack the Ripper in the first episode and then Blair (who I think is a pun on the Blair WITCH project posing as a 'witch') and this episode brought us Al Capone and then Mifune who is obviously based on the famous japanese actor Toshiro Mifune who was in a ton of samurai movies including Yojirabo.

Can't wait until the third episode shows us more of Death the Kid and his two guns.
 
I saw the first three episodes of this over the weekend at a convention and I was really impressed. The style is aesthetically interesting to say the least, portraying one of the most flat out weird settings I've ever seen in a cartoon. The sun...what's with that sun?!?!

I don't much care for the fanservice--I can just see Blair existing for only that reason. I hope the deal with the father visiting the call girls doesn't keep coming up as a recurring joke, it'll get old so fast. But the core of the show...man. The kinetic action is really well choreographed and exciting, and the quirks and humor surrounding the protagonists are mostly successful at being funny. Death the Kid wins on that count, being badass one moment and a total wreck the next over something completely ridiculous.

Does it stay this good?
 
Just watched it and wow... Death the Kid is pretty damn skilled when he can actually use those skills and not sulk in his freaky emo/obsessive compulsiveness. lol

I loved seeing Patty & Liz can use each other (that sounRAB dirty) in weapon form and switch back and forth. That scene with the mummies was pretty damn cool.
 
Since this show's setting is actually on Earth (the merabers of Shibusen are from different countries), I just assume this show is presented to me in crack vision.

That's the only way to explain why the sky is like it is without anyone questioning it.



Yes, and it builRAB on itself. Everything's pretty much straight out of the manga, virtually no filler, and bones just upgrades the artwork.
 
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