SOUL EATER

SOUL EATER

Summary, from ANN:

Set in the Shinigami technical school for weapon meisters, the series revolves around 3 groups of each a weapon meister and a human weapon. Trying to make the latter a "Death Scythe" and thus fit for use by the Shinigami, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and 1 witch.*

*it's much cooler than it sounds

I love BONES. That's the only reason I'm watching this. Call me ignorant but anime after Eureka seveN was terrible, until now. Oh my God the animation on this is even better than E7.

I read this manga and it's truly an interesting series. They do tend to focus on the humor a lot, which I admit has made me chuckle, but they do not by ANY means skimp on the action sequences. Oh my god the action sequences.

Glad to see its at 51 episodes, but I'd really love to see an ongoing series out of this, since it is a pretty long running manga. (Volume 12 now, I believe?)

Oh well, funds for movie-quality animation doesn't grow on trees, I suppose.

Watch this or give up on life.

I'll fancy this up when I'm feeling like doing extra work for no reason.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The manga never has a boring spot, its fairly fast-paced (I own volue 1-9) so even if they extend the length it should be cool. So far we're through the first volume and halfway through the second. the next episode or two will through us into the third. The anime is actually moving quite fast, now that I think about it, and they haven't even cut anything out.

It's a pretty perfect manga-to-anime translation, scriptwise and everything theres not much extra.

Most amazing jew boots

Ok so episode 7 was amazing and 8 is going to be shitloads better. I know everything that happens since I've read the manga for a while now but it's great seeing it animated so magnificently.

Spoiler:

Chrona just makes everything exciting and interesting. Episode 8 with Stein/DeathScythe VS. Chrona and Stein/DeathScythe VS. Medusa is going to be one of the most satisfying experiences of this month for me.

How ya doing, buddy?

Bah, it's starting to stray a bit from the manga. Not by much though.

Spoiler:

Maka was supposed to get the Demon Hunter a little later and Kid never went to see Stein in his house. I hope this is a minor derailment and it's not where they permanently derail, because it gets pretty kickass from here in the manga.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Shenlon

well the manga was never that far ahead when the anime came out right? I'm guessing they may do a claymore and change the ending in some way. After the whole scene where the dude was released from shibusen and arachnophobia appeared is where I lost some interest in the show. Still sticking around for the end but I'm hoping Maka starts toughing up because I'm getting tired of her being punked and out shined by black star who just isn't any fun anymore :/

Well the Artifact gathering is over now, it gets a lot interesting now that Buttataki Joe has showed up (which is still fairly boring) but in another 3 or so episodes we'll get into the REALLY interesting arc where shit goes down. (but the manga is still in this arc)

I really hope they don't change the ending. Maybe do a season two instead. So much cool shit is happening in the manga right now that needs to be animated.

I was speaking idiomatically.