Soul Eater is the type of anime where you pick it up, and before you know it, it's done, and is known to be one of the best short anime in existence, and is one of my personal faves.
Plot Summary
A weapon (a person who turns into a human) and a meister (person who wields a weapon) must kill 99 humans who have started eating human souls (or "kinshin"), and then kill a witch to become a Death Scythe and a personal weapon of Lord Death himself. The anime Maka and her weapon, Soul, Black*Star and his weapon, Tsubaki, and Death the Kid and his weapons, Liz and Patty as they... destroy a great evil that begins to destroy their school and the very world they live in.
Story
For the most part, the story is pretty sound. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, with very minimal filler episodes. It has enough content to fill its 51 episodes, but not too much that leaves you confused.
One thing is... the ending is poor, almost bad... it happened so quickly that it didn't really give you the feeling of satisfaction, and you don't really quite know what happened to the characters after the resolution.
8.7
Characters
Full of loud and colourful characters, this anime does a pretty solid job of flushing them out and making them either pretty likeable or fairly despicable. The development is done very well and you do become attached to characters. There is some pretty good development, although there are some who get left by the wayside.
9.3
Animation
The animation of this, though simple, is fairly detailed and beautiful. The two things that especially stick out to me:
The sky. There is always a beautiful pattern of clouds that make it feel like a real sky. Also the sun and moon. Those things were freakin' creepy, but very fitting of the anime.
Also, the action scenes. These are incredible, and combine hardcore battles with great strategy. Add in some crazy amazing (and, at times, breathtaking) angles and you get some of the greatest battles to exist.
9.2
Music
The music in Soul Eater is also notable, especially both the openings. Both feature amazing animation and incredible songs. The first ending is also pretty solid, if not awesome.
Some of the background songs are also pretty amazing, especially the character themes. With Crona's theme (Salve Maria) being one of the most beautiful songs I know, and with Soul's theme (So Scandalous) being catchy as all heck, the background score definitely has some solid songs to hold it up.
8.3
Overall
Soul Eater is amazing. No other way to put it. No matter who you are, I recommend you at least take a peek at it. If not stream it for two days straight.
8.88
Full Moon
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**SPOILERS** Am I the only one who thought the ratio of deaths on the protagonist and antagonist incredibly unbalanced? Protagonist: Get slashed across the chest? Okay within a week. Get stabbed by a Vector Arrow? Okay within a day. Get completely exploded, with half your torso taken out? Okay within the hour. Antagonist: Get slashed in half? DEAD. Get stabbed by a kinshin's hand? DEAD. Get hit by a courageous punch...? .....DEAD.
I seriously began just intending to give this show a peek. Before I knew it, it was done. ...CURSE YOU STREAMABILITY.
Also, I love Crona. You know, just in case you haven't figured that out.
