
If anything, Soul Eater serves a gateway drug anime for people curious about the entertainment medium that can potentially hook them into the deeper anime titles that may never air on cable television. The action, humor, simple plot, and characters with various degrees of animated awesome form Soul Eater into a very well-rounded package that is an entertaining safe bet. The English adaptation of Japanese puns from the original dialogue is occasionally clumsy. Adoration of the English dubbed cast will vary as some match well with the Japanese counterparts while others are unintentionally grating. Since the main characters got most of the animation and character design budget, most of the other students of the DWMA tend to look like darkly shaded cardboard cutouts during scenes with the main characters. Soul Eater suffers from a few minor production glitches. The changing team dynamics that occur as members bicker amongst themselves or become better friends occasionally gets deep as they tackle the impressively designed villain trying to kill them. Since teamwork between weapon and meister is a key element for the DWMA, the interactions between characters are explored.

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The first 13 episodes do a good job of establishing the quirks of the main characters but hopefully the series will develop them beyond those quirks lest they grow stale. Even bit characters who only occasionally appear leave an impression. Each major character has traits that are consistent through the season and are quirky and memorable. So expect to see studious schoolgirls, gaudy witches, street smart cowgirls, sharp-dressed men, sultry catgirls, and ninjas – because no action anime aiming for mass appeal is complete without ninjas. As one of the few elite academies lacking a school uniform policy, each featured student wears an outfit that reflects his or her personality while appealing to various fan bases.

The characters of Soul Eater are probably the best aspects about the anime. Not even emotionally draining hospital visits are spared. Whether this is excellent directing or schizophrenic writing, it is executed well and keeps the viewer surprised. Storytelling tends to flip between intense action or emotional drama to comedy with dashes of fan service. Reinterpreting historical and fictional sociopaths into spiritually corrupt humans for meisters to kill was a nice touch. The feud between the DWMA against witches and corrupted souls allows Soul Eater to show off action packed fights filled with a variety of stylish choreography, lethal weapons, magic spells, special attacks, and plenty of monstrous fiends. The guffawing sun and drooling moon hovering over the picturesque Death City serve as constant visual reminders of the contemporary magical setting throughout Soul Eater as people transform into weapons that the show’s “meisters” wield to combat the witches wreaking havoc. The elite school setting and emphasis on only a handful of students out of that entire school body are cliché in most school anime, but Soul Eater has wonderful presentation and charm that lets it stand out above the cliché. One minor difference is that instead of training to become witches, DWMA students train to kill witches. The DWMA shares a similar curriculum with the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft where classes take a backseat as the school’s more interesting students (consisting of an overachiever, an idiot, an obsessive compulsive, and the partners of each student) befriend each other while establishing their reputations by kicking some evil folks. But from home, I can review Soul Eater without fan frenzy or getting starstruck by charismatic voice actors.ĭeath himself founds the Death Weapon Meister Academy (DWMA), a school where student weapon meisters aim to bolster Death’s armory by honing their skills and collecting corrupted souls who may potentially become the demonic Kishin.

Had their voice acting been awful, I could have jabbed my fist at Vic and thrown stones at Laura and Travis before hundreds of fans present at the panel promptly killed me for assaulting their beloved voice actors. I literally sat a fist’s length away from Vic Mignogna (Death Scythe) and a stone’s throw away from Laura Bailey (Maka) and Travis Willingham (Free).

Before this assignment, I previewed the first English dubbed episode of Soul Eater during January’s SacAnime thanks to a panel hosted by Funimation.
