SOUL EATER

I really can't get into the series much at this point and I'm only watching it because watching Maka go batshit nuts is awesome on a very simple level. Black Star gets annoying though because he pretty much just wants to be Hokage Shinigami and Death the Kid, while he has the cool blase attitude, has a shtick that's bound to get old really really quickly. At least the little comedic twist at the end of episode 5 was amusing and probably prevented me from dropping this series altogether at this point.

It doesn't change the fact that this is a series that falls under the turn-off-your-brain category.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

After 8 episodes, I have a hard time deciding whether or not I like this show.

Spoiler:

On one hand, the scenes that involved Medusa and Chroma were extremely good and putting her down as a schoolteacher at Shibusen means that they have an active antagonist which potentially increased the chances of a confrontation or a holy-shit-that-was-devious backstabbing.

On the other hand, the series's attempt at "humor" is very hit or miss. Most of its tries simply aren't all that amusing and even worse, it really disrupts the flow of the serious business going on. While another Bones show, FMA, threw it its bits of comedic relief, there wasn't so much that it became annoying. I rather enjoy FMA for that.

Maka's dad stands to be the most interesting character of the lot because his tendency to run off after anything with two X chromosomes is what leads to his estrangement with Maka in the first place. We know that he loves his daughter, but his clumsiness when it comes to expressing it doesn't help. In spite of his foibles, we root for him anyways because we know he has the best intentions at heart.

Episode 9:

Filler with some more of the aforementioned attempts at humor. That's about it really. I'm a bigger fan of the serious storylines in this show and I think if they had stuck to that, we'd have an awesome series in the end. But the fact that they keep making clumsy attempts at humor makes it really irritating really fast. BAH!

There's nowhere I can't reach.