Let me just put it to you this way, all themes the show was building up to this point are thrown out the window, the main villain turns into a gigantic pansy, and the logic behind the ending makes absolutely no sense in the grand scheme of the show. All of this nonsense comes together in a final episode that is so ridiculous I would sound stupid if I tried to explain it in this review. All of the characters become whiny punks who sulk all day, and Maka becomes borderline unbearable as a main character with her melancholic attitude and constant bitching about how she's not strong enough to fight the main enemy of the show.
Soul Eater ends up losing most if not all of its charm because of this drastic and unnecessary shift in tone. When your anime is about people who transform into guns and swords who fight witches, it's kind of hard to take the change in tone seriously. The story starts to take itself way too seriously, and the enjoyment of this anime greatly suffers because of this. Around the halfway point, Soul Eater changes from a lighthearted, entertaining fun action anime into a serious, melodramatic action anime. Now the bad point of the show, the entire second half of the series.
WHERE TO WATCH SOUL EATER DUBBED SERIES
I really wish I could stop the review at this point, and tell you Soul Eater is a really fun shonen series that fans of action anime should see. The first 26 episodes are great flashy entertainment for anime fans. The fights are all about style and execution though, and if you keep that in mind and don't analyze them with rational thought, they all become very entertaining and exciting. The progression is also very shonen in nature, with enemies that are way stronger than the heroes, and the heroes having to train to beat them and gain new powers, but again its so entertaining it shouldn't become a big issue. They're all ridiculous and cartoony, but they are always visceral and exciting to watch. The fights themselves are very well animated and choreographed. Even if their personalities are familiar, there is enough unique and enjoyable about them that it never becomes a problem. The characters are all likeable and unique, even if they do follow the list of shonen anime stereotypes (loud kid who wants to be the best, check quiet cool guy, check self-depricating girl who holds much potential power, double check.) The adult characters are less stereotypical than the kids, which can make them more interesting to watch in certain episodes, however. If FLCL and Bleach came together and had a love child, that child would be Soul Eater. This show is incredibly stylish, literally everything has a very cool vibe about it and really stands out from other similar animes. Now fight the various demons and witches who want to destroy Shibusen in order to take over the world without consequence.
The other main characters include Death the Kid, and his weapons Liz and Patty who become twin pistols, and Black Star, along with his partner Tsubaki, who has the unique ability to transform into several weapon types as a jack of all trades. Each hunter is paired with a partner who can turn into a weapon, and the two must fight in unison. The story follows Maka, an scythe weilder and her partner, Soul, who transforms into the scythe she uses. Soul Eater is about a group of students who attend a school for aspiring demon hunters, Shibusen. Soul Eater follows these students of Shibusen as they take on missions to collect souls and protect the city from the world's threats while working together under the snickering sun to become sounder in mind, body, and soul.
The contrasting duo work and study alongside the hot headed Black☆Star and his caring weapon Tsubaki, as well as the Shinigami's own son, Death the Kid, an obsessive-compulsive dual wielder of twin pistols Patty and Liz. Soul Eater Evans, a Demon Scythe who only seems to care about what's cool, aims to become a Death Scythe with the help of his straight-laced wielder, or meister, Maka Albarn. These Death Scythes, however, are not made from physical weapons rather, they are born from human hybrids who have the ability to transform their bodies into Demon Weapons, and only after they have consumed the souls of 99 evil beings and one witch's soul. Its mission: to raise "Death Scythes" for the Shinigami to wield against the many evils of their fantastical world. Death City is home to the famous Death Weapon Meister Academy, a technical academy headed by the Shinigami-Lord Death himself.
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