Soul Eater: New Shonen Anime

[Isteb]

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do you like "school of -insert art here-" shows? if so, then you'd probably enjoy Soul Eater.

notice that I said probably.

Soul Eater is a story about three friends, harry, ron and hermio... no, i meant Black*Star, Death the Kid and Maka.

So what do our heroes actually do in the show? They study in the Hogwarts sch... er, a shinigami school. You got it, a school for death gods. They apparently collect souls of some really bad dudes in order to turn their human weapons into something Shinigami-sama would want to use.

Death the Kid is the dual gun-wielding son of shinigami-sama who suffers from OCD, Maka is the Faux action girl with a really bad voice actress and Black*Star, as ANN puts it, is Uzumaki Naruto.

The first episode really caught my attention. fluid action scenes and a cool art style had me interested. the same was true with the preceding two episodes. turns out that those three episodes made up the prologue of the story. and sad to say, those were the best episodes so far.

Six episodes and still not much story progression. not much developments. the action dropped to less than half of what the first three had. Soul eater slowly deteriorating from being a cool anime with cool fight scenes into just another shonen anime.

what I don't like about shonen anime is their need to explain every single detail about their moves or techniques like the fate of the universe depended upon it. they try to create their own set of rules about different techniques, and often fail miserably, making the anime look ridiculous in the end.

if there's one thing gurren lagann taught me, it's that viewers won't care how the technique works or how the hell it did this or that as long as it looks cool. although there are instances where a technique with full specs can be interesting (like in YuYu Hakusho's Sensui arc) most of the time it's just plain annoying. when dudes could have been using screentime to beat each other up, they discuss techniques instead.

what, are they gonna discuss the enemy to death?

So all in all, while Soul Eater has a lot of the usual Shonen flaws, it's still better than most of the overrated crap *ubonarutobleachubo* out there. Here's hoping the next episodes will get better.

[Mabix]

episode 6 WAS the best episode.

blabbermouth black star + egoistic soul = your ribs cracking. those 2 are just hilarious

kid and those thompson sisters are freaking funny.anyways, oc kid's a freak. its amazing how Liz can pick on kid when he's feeling down and calls patty "bastard" innocently and still gets away with it. hahaha

ahhhh, the comedy. the manga's a good read.*when you've got nothing to do after work*

[teH_tHirD]

The school environment eventually drops later. You'll be having lot's of fights in the coming episodes. First three episodes are based on the prologue one-shots so they had to be impressive without much explaining (aka action!).

The weapon wielder characters are not perfect, but they represent themselves well. Their interactions with their weapons make them quite colorful and fun. For me the three combinations of wielder and weapon are very good: Tomboyish Maka with seemingly suave Soul, (add the scythe for major cool points), egoistical Black*Star (HE'S BETTER THAN NARUTO ALREADY, and no bull**** hidden powerz zomg!) with the humble Tsubaki (ninja weapons, cool...), and the perfectionist Death the Kid with the contrasting Thompson Sisters (fire gunz with teh pinkies! and if you don't look or made something not look symmetrical, you're dead XD).

More awesome characters will be appearing later. So far the anime has done justice to the manga.

[Isteb]

i want to love this show. i know bones can make a good show. but then...

the first episode promised a show with a lot off butt kicking. but all people do is talk. in between fight scenes, even. this is something I don't need to see. I've been avoiding tagalog action films all my life, only to realize that i should have been avoiding shonen anime too. I like watching guns blazing and/or people beating the living hell out of each other.

but i hate chit chat in the middle of fight scenes. what would you do if your UFC fighters talk about their life stories in the middle of the round? blech. give them a cup of tea each while they're at it.

Balderamaaa!!! Maghanda ka na ng salbabida!!! Lulunurin na kita sa sarili mong Dugoooo!!!

'Ulanghiyakah Monterooo!!! ginawa mong pulutan yung aso koooooohhh!!!

bratatatatatatatatatatatat.

the action and comedy i like. pausing for some gossip, in the middle of the fight i don't like. especially when they talk about their moves. which is supposed to be cool.

[team Pura]

omg, never thought this anime was so funny. my ribs are about to break from laughing. that black star and kid comedy duo really got me. see episode 9.

[doi]

payter!!!! taw-anan au.. hehehe

[Isteb]

wala na... dropped the whole thing. I'm starting to despise all shonen anime.

[CorrosiveBeauty]

I know what you mean by those in-between-fight-rants. It makes me want to destroy my computer screen D=

Well anyways I still downloaded the anime. I do hope it won't turn out to have 100 episodes or so DX

<----[Having a Naruto marathon and is pissed off at the fillers. And is about to throw a fit because of that new Bleach season +___+ ]

[teH_tHirD]

i think you are hating on the demographic type (shounen) rather than the anime itself. it's just how that kind of show goes...

this show is actually refreshing from the long-running shounen shows (the big three OP, BL, NA). i'm awaiting the weekly release of this and geass, and waiting for a couple of shows to complete (druaga and something else).

this anime will is scheduled to be 50 episodes, and will divert from the manga later (to have a proper ending for the anime). manga is already craking chapter 50.

[CorrosiveBeauty]

I hope it won't end up having a really hanging ending or so though DX