One of my very favourite anime, Soul Eater is full of everything you could ever want from an anime. Action, laughs and great music.
So the premise is simple but a bit odd. There are humans with the ability to transform into Weapons (inspired, isn’t it?) and they attend a school known as the Death Weapon Meister Academy. There, they partner with a Meister who learns to weild both them and special magic Soul abilities. The jobs of the students are to collect 99 Kishin Eggs/Souls (plus one Witch’s Soul) and feed them to their weapons to turn them into a Death Scythe. Said Death Scythe is, as you may have guessed, a weapon capable of massive destruction and awesomeness.
The story starts with Maka and her Meister Soul, who turns into a scythe. The first three episodes of the anime follow an almost Monster of the Week format, where we are introduced to Maka, then Death the Kid and his twin Weapons. The thrid focuses on Black*Star. All three character sets are powerful in their own right, but due to various mistakes, accidents and mishaps they never seem to collect any Kishin Souls, meaning they’re bottom of the class despite being incredibly good fighters and students.
The story then takes a twist for the dark with a rather generic Save the World plot, but this bare-bones plot is actually great as it gives the characters plenty of room to be awesome. And boy are they awesome. Maka gets points for using an otherwise unwieldy scythe, and my only real disappointment among the cast is the Naruto-like Black*Star, whose constant “all about me” attitude really grates after the first few minutes. Death the Kid’s obsession with symmetry and balance bites him in the ass quite a few times, and whilst initially getting a laugh now and again, is kind of annoying. All the characters have their quirks but arguably the stand-out performance goes to Excalibur. Despite being a Weapon of unparalleled power, Excalibur is… well, fucking annoying. That’s one character who has to be seen to be believed. On a lesser note I found Maka to be a rather annoying protagonist.
Graphically this series is very consistent, and is very very good. Studio Bones do some genuinely top-notch animation and this is arguably one of their better works. Sound-wise… honestly I love it. I mean just listen to this opening!
Even the characters dance to it. Honestly this probably is my favourite opening song to an anime. Everything about it is awesome!
If you haven’t watched Soul Eater and are an anime fan, you owe it to yourself to give this show a watch. Best anime ever? No. One of the most awesome anime ever? Most definitely.
ing K. Rool’s other major abilities mostly involve his size. For standard attacks and moves, K Rool’s boxing abilities could make him a heavyweight imitation of Little Mac. Though maybe he doesn’t have the multi jab.
It pulls up a part of the giant enemy spacecraft from earlier in the game. The fight continues though admittedly again it’s only a bit more challenging. You have to blast that grey ball to bits. Or at least the cover of it. Then things go from more challenging to batshit bonkers.
Whilst this is presumably not set in stone, Nintendo have decided that their Mario & Luigi series is their ONLY Mario RPG series. I can see why, but at the same time, this is like apples and pears. The two are similar but certainly not the same.
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