There’s a new shinigami in town and he runs a school?
Yes the new anime series Soul Eater is turning into one of the best anime and manga shows on my list.
The animation is really good and its very funny. Whoever doesn’t know about it needs to catch up!
Soul Eater primarily revolves around students classified as meisters (職人 shokunin) at the Shinigami Weapon Meister Vocational School (死神武器職人専門学校 Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakkō), or Shibusen (死武専) for short, located in the fictional Death City, in Nevada, United States. The school is run by Shinigami, the God of Death himself, as a training facility for weapons and the human wielders of those weapons, the meisters. Each meister has at least one demon weapon companion which has both a weapon and human form. Shinigami created the school as an organization that enforces peace in order to prevent the rebirth of the “kishin”, evil demon gods that nearly destroyed everything by plunging the world into chaos. Human souls that have become evil by straying from the path of humans have a high risk of becoming kishin, so evil humans are constantly being hunted down and killed by the students trained at Shibusen. The ultimate goal of the students with their weapons is to have their weapons defeat and eat the souls of ninety-nine evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the given weapon and thus be capable of being used by shinigami.In order to ensure this is done in a timely manner, all students and weapons attend classes regularly and are given homework or supplementary lessons to further their training. The meisters have a rating system that goes from one to three stars which usually measures soul energy. It is important that the meister and weapon can tune their “soul wavelength” to perform high level attacks and bring out the weapon’s full power.
The Weapons and Meisters
Maka Albarn is Soul Eater’s meister. She is the more level-headed of the two but when her anger gets the better of her, she will put her foot down. Where Soul Eater seems to be the brawn, Maka is the brain. She always tries to think of a way to beat their opponent by exploiting the opponent’s weaknesses. Soul Eater, or simply Soul, Maka’s Demon Scythe partner; he has a personality which mainly consists of what he considers “cool”. Being a “cool” guy, he almost always uses the direct approach which most of the time fails. He sometimes becomes too driven by the idea of eating souls, which leads him to bicker with Maka, but in the end they remain friends and partners.
Maka is friends with a meister named Black Star who is Tsubaki’s meister. He comes from a family of ninjas known as the Star Clan, and uses ninja tactics during battles. His biggest weakness is that he is a total show-off and thinks that he is some kind of star, which he happily proclaims, defeating the purpose of the ninja arts. Black Star hates it when someone gets more attention than him and is determined to show them who the real star is. He is also able to use his soul wavelength in hand-to-hand combat. Tsubaki, Black Star’s Dark Demon Blade partner, can change into multiple ninja weapons when in battle. She is most of the time disheartened by Black Star’s loud self but she still puts up with it because that is what she likes about him. She has a very forgiving personality and always tries to help everyone even when she has no idea how to help.
A third meister, Death The Kid, is Patty’s and Liz’s meister and Shinigami’s son. Otherwise known as simply Kid by his friends and family, he is completely obsessed about everything being symmetrical and takes the idea of perfection to the extreme, which seems to indicate that he has obsessive-compulsive disorder. To him, anything symmetrical is beautiful and if it is off by any measurement, he will try to correct it right away. Showing Kid anything that is too asymmetrical or mentioning his hair will send him into a state of massive depression (which normally takes encouragement from Patty and Liz to break). Patricia and Elizabeth Thompson, commonly “Patty” and “Liz”, are Death The Kid’s Double Team Demon Pistols. Patty is the younger of the two and is naïve compared to her more mature older sister Liz. She and her sister used to live on the streets of Brooklyn before being found by Kid. Both Patty and Liz admire Kid’s dignified soul, due to their being from the streets. Even without Kid around, they are able to use each other’s transformed state as a single gun, switching places to avoid attacks.
This is a great series to read and also watch!
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