Soul Eater 02

“Serious match with no tricks, this is the way we assasins do it.”
–Black Star

The show begins with a sky blue-haired boy jumping down from Shibusen’s top. A taller girl can be seen clapping.

Fast-forward to Al Capone in his mansion. Alcapone and his masked goons are eating human souls as if it’s the most natural thing to do. Black Star, the blue-haired shrimp, remarks that two verus a hundred is just his style. Tsubaki, his weapon, cautions him. Black Star does otherwise and shows himself in the middle of Al Capone’s table and only manages to escape the gunshots by using Tsubaki as a smoke bomb. Near the docks, Black Star boasts of how big (famous/powerful/ego) he is. Tsubaki mentions that she hasn’t even collected a single demon soul.

Back in Shibusen, Tsubaki’s subtly dragging Black Star to get an easier misson. Maka and Soul greets and asks them about their progress. Maka and Soul doesn’t even want to discuss theirs. Anyway, Shinigami calls Black Star and Tsubaki and informs them that Al Capone’s going to eat a witch’s soul and forge a Death Scythe of his own.

Meanwhile, Al Capone is stopped by a swordsman who obviously guards the witch. Black Star, pissed by Tsubaki’s remarks, peeps at her while she’s bathing. He gets whacked in the head as a result. Anyway, they quickly go into their mission.

They arrive at Angels the witch’s castle only to see hundred os demon eggs. The swordsman, Mifune, obviously defeated them. Black Star gets pissed at Mifune since he thinks he’s so big so he tries defeating him. Even though Tsubaki is an extremely great weapon, Black Star jeopardizes everything because of his loud mouth. Black Star gets real serious this time. Mifune notices that he’s enemy’s Tsubaki quite late, earning him a very deadly blow from Black Star. Angela (a tiny witch) swoops down on her broom and tries protecting Mifune. Even though he has the chance, Black Star doesn’t kill the witch.

Shinigami comments later on that they could’ve cheated and stolen those “free” demon eggs. Black Star disagrees since he’s not that low. Anyway, he uses his assasination techniques to peep at the hot springs again. He gets whacked, again.

The episode ends with a preview of the next prologue.

****

I’m not very impressed with Black Star. I mean, sure, he can fight without the use of any weapon but he’s too loud. He loses every chance because he can’t wait to announce how BIG he is. Tsubaki’s an extremely adaptable weapon since she can transform into many ninja items. A swiss army knife at its coolest.

Soul Eater 01

“But the form or shape isn’t the problem. The only thing that matters is the soul!”
–Soul Eater

A demon slays a woman and eats its soul (blue). Another woman sees the demon and runs for her life. Fortunately for the second woman, Maka, a weapon meister, and his weapon, Soul Eater, arrives. Soul describes the demon as a human soul who goes astray from the way of humans. Soul changes into a scythe as Maka battles out the demon called Jack the Ripper. The duel ends in midair when Maka slashes through the demon. The demon’s body transforms into a red soul (a demon egg) and Soul eats it. Maka praises Soul because they’ve collected 99 souls and if Soul eats a witch’s soul, he’ll become Shinigami’s weapon, Death Scythe.

Maka calls Shinigami via breathing on a window and writng the numbers 42-42-564 (Jap translation: Die, Die, Kill). Maka reports their current situation. The current Death Scythe, Maka’s father, tells Soul to not lay a finger on Maka or he’ll die. Death Scythe contradicts this afterwards. Shinigami tells them the consequence if the last soul they eat isn’t a witch’s.

Anyway, Blair the Witch’s taking a bath in her pumpkin house when Soul breaks and enters. He get a nosebleed. Maka asks him to transform and transform he does. Blair asks Maka to give her the scythe before blasting them out ala Team Rocket.

Inside the Cabaret, the two girls entertaining Death Scythe talk about his coming divorce and pathetic relationship with his daughter. This leaves Death Scythe sad so he runs away, but comes back to pay. And he runs away again.

Maka and Soul return to the witch’s house two more times and gets their asses blasted. They manage to hold off Blair in the fourth round until Blair gives them her ultimatum that Soul can be her scythe and she’ll fogive what Soul will ever do. This leaves Maka in a neat mess since Soul doesn’t even cooperate with her after Blair told her wish. Soul tells Maka that he’d rather have big-chest Blair as a partner than tiny-tits Maka. Maka shouts that men are the worst. A flashback of Maka’s father dating with other girls appear. Soul then transforms his right hand into a scythe aimed at Blair. Maka reaches for his hands than slashes through Blair.

Soul eats Blair’s soul then remarks after a minute that he doesn’t feel any stronger. A black cat wearing Blair’s witch hat jumps in front of them. Apparently, Blair isn’t a witch but a cat with magical powers. Shinigami confiscates the all the souls Maka and Soul have collected. The episode ends with Blair chasing the duo and the preview for the next prologue story.

****

This is a very neat start for the anime and I’m glad I get to see it. The movements of the characters are very fluent, and Maka’s poses with the scythe kicks ass. Blair pwning their asses three times in a row is also a win. Shinigami looks like a weirdo but who cares? He’s THE shinigami. Death Scythe’s messed up. What kind of father flirts with other women when his kid’s around?

To change or not to change

I’m really thinking about this right now. Here’s the problem: I’d be getting real busy during college and I figured I won’t be able to update or fix the blog much if I stayed in a slow pace. Basically, I’m thinking of shortening the summaries of each anime episode in the sense that the readers will get the gist of the story (an example of this would be my Clannad episode 7 summary.)

In the end, it’s just a matter of quantity over quality. The overall ingedients of each episode will taste less, but you get to have more food on the table. My point is that if I do make shorter summaries (this’ll probably cut my work by at least 30%), I’d have the time to explore and document other series.

I hope all of you understand what I’m saying. So, let’s bring it on with the other series I’m planning!

Code Geass – Path of Regret

Just so while we’re in the topic of Code Geass, I figured I’d put this because it’s an awesome AMV for season 1. Anyone seen it yet?