VividSimon Simply Perfect

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JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

David Roggenkamp Soul Eater is an anime that I first caught wind of during its run on Toonami in 2013. It got me through many of my Saturday nights while unemployed before I had to start work again. It wasn't until about three years later that I'd get to see it in full; it almost makes me wish I'd seen it on it's first viewing – because man – this is one good anime.Quit frankly, the number one thing about Soul Eater that stands out is the art style. The characters are pretty skinny, the teenagers have absolutely no meat on them, and the adults tend to look very similar save for sexual dimorphism which at points is often exaggerated to the point of disbelief. The castle for the D.W.M.A. is completely ridiculous in design and architecture as much as is the fact that the sun and moon look more like demonic creatures that have a consistent laugh throughout the day – that is until the latter hours of their cycle where the moon begins to show blood and the sun looks like it is intoxicated. One of the main characters has a very toothy smile and another has stripes in his hair; the art style, however, is just the tip of the iceberg and probably serves to further suck the viewer in straight away.Soul Eater actually has a pretty good plot going on. It gives a quick intro about the Grim Reaper having started the D.W.M.A. (Death Weapon Meister Acadamy) and it's role to prevent the spread of evil, as well as that of the Kishin from being revived. This sounds like typical flare, but the anime revolves heavily around this very concept as opposed to 'good versus evil' in fact, the entire serious could have many of the characters as being synonymous with evil when in fact they are on the side of good. There are seven characters that this anime follows mainly, but they can be described as three groups – Maka and Soul, Death the Kid (just Kid) along with Patty and another girl's name I forget, as well as Blackstar and Tsubaki. The first group represents a girl and scythe combo, the second a human style grim reaper with two pistols, and then a ninja ala Naruto with a weapon that becomes a ninja star, ninja blade and then a samurai sword. The idea here is that people resonate their souls together in a pairing – one becomes a weapon and another person wields said weapon. This is very similar in concept to a much earlier anime that I know dubbed only as "Shaman King" that used to air on "Fox Kids".The first part of the anime has a few mini-episodes that follows the three teams of characters around and gives a build up of the character's personalities as well as their quirks and how they all deal with each other; it also explains business as usual. Has a much larger arc during the middle of the series which gives a buildup of all of the secondary characters. Both the mini-episodes (one shots really) and the middle arc all lead up to the finale which is what the main story is about. Unlike most series, this one maintains the characters personality development throughout. If you think a background character that is featured for at least any given amount of time, will not have some form of development, you are sorely mistaken. The only filler that even appears comes in the form of the sword "Excalibur"; these episodes can safely be skipped and serve no purpose in the series – there are three in total I think.I will say that the action scenes in this anime are pretty good. The characters do spend some time talking in each episode when it leads up to a fight; but when they enter a fight – it doesn't take the form of any Bleach and Dragon Ball Z type fight scenes – these fights get down and dirty and may last a grand total of an episode at most (which makes sense). During the Kishin arc, the longest fight scene lasted about an episode I think, but it really went into just how powerful these characters are. Also, if you think the Grim Reaper is going to spend most of his time just sitting around in his Death Room, you are sorely mistaken – he does get some fight time as well.Also mentioned was the art style. It isn't exactly complex, but at points it is quit intricate, which seems to be the exact opposite of what it sets out to create with such things as the laughing sun and bloody moon. However, this also fits into the demographic of stylization I would expect aimed at preteens. The character art style is heavily reminiscent of something aimed at children – it is neither complex, nor does it fall back to the budget style of a single mouth moving in a scene with no other movement. The animation was always fluid and interesting and never turned into something easily bending – despite how much it resembled American animation at points. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this is how American animation might have been influenced if children's cartoons had remained popular on network television in America.In the end the series manages to wrap itself up nicely with a few epiphanies, plot points and characters that have developed along the way. I highly recommend it to anime fans that don't mind something with pre-teens as the intended demographic, but whom also want something with some more serious elements thrown into the mix as well. To be frank, this is one of the best anime I have seen in a long time.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=11757).

emma529 The first time I watched Soul Eater I honestly liked it, however later on in the series I couldn't stand it. I will admit the critical reasons I didn't adore it are unreasonable so we'll put those aside. This anime has a very unique sense of animation, the dub is fine, and the theme song is great. The characters, though, are very quirky. Which is enjoyable honestly, you can't find too many characters like them. But like unlike other animes, this one disappointed me (will get to that later) It was very different, in many ways, for example it's comedy, it's characters, and it's storytelling. Throughout the series, however, I did not bond with any character like I do with at least one of every animes I watch. There not a lot of reasoning to why, they just didn't seem relatable. Yes, the characters are funny but it's hard to click with them. The ending is very unsatisfactory, in all honestly I wanted more but I didn't really want to read the manga. It's odd, I don't really how to explain maybe it's just me. Beside the fact, it's a good watch. The appropriate age range would be maybe 12 or for mature kids 10. It's dark but not too dark. In conclusion, I respect Soul Eater. It goes a different route than other anime and gives out a risky animation style. But besides it's dark humor, the story is pretty typical. Which is the main reason why this anime disappointed me.

Charlie Cottam Soul Eater is by far my favourite anime, everything about it is amazing! The characters, the setting, the plot, all of it is awesome! If you've not seen it yet you should watch it!From episode 1 you will be on an emotional roller coaster. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will feel what the characters are feeling all the way through! Especially when Crona makes his first appearance. Crona is a character that you will probably find really annoying to begin with, but as the series goes on you will begin to feel sympathetic to the abused swordsman. When you get to episode 45, prepare your tissues!Watch it! Or I'll take your soul! 5/5 10/10

iluvedelric Soul Eater is about a world were there are weapons and masters and they work together to get demon souls for the weapon. In the show the first characters introduced, which were Soul and Maka work together to help make Soul an Death Scythe. That's like my lame plot description. o.o xD I'm not good at that kind of stuff. xD The reason i love this anime is because i think it's very original and it has a good mix of funny moments and serious moments and it just pulls everything together and i consider it a must watch to anyone who loves a good anime. :] ^^