Soul Eater

[Buffalobiian]

Well, the beginning was good, lots of action. The only thing I'm confused about is why Maka had scythes protruding from her body. Did she inherit it from Spirit? If so, doesn't that make her a weapon, too?

Asura just said she's a weapon who chose the path of a Meister, which explains this well enough. Like Yuki said, the first 3/4 of this episode was awesome. Evil monologue, trump card doesn't work, hidden ability release!, all that sort of stuff that gets you going.

It does suck how everything just seemed to end with courage. I wouldn't have minded if they went for a different Deus Ex Mama route, coming in with an anti-madness wavelength? At least that makes more sense.

I'll just settle with their point of To Not Understand = To Fear, and having Asura lost his power due to losing certainty in the whole thing. Seriously, who else got annoyed when he cracked like some kid?

Summary: Meh ending to a solid series. I'd still recommend it, and I'll probably move onto the manga in a week or so.

(Oh, and I lolled at some guy's comment of betting on a manga-faithful remake 2-3 years later )

[Archangel]

Jesus Christ that was disappointing

And what really pisses me off is all the potential it had. Midway, while he was torturing her, i was already envisioning a black blood crazed Maka fighting back insanity with insanity and somehow becoming the new kishin after his defeat

And then it all ends with a sucker punch :/

Anyway. I'm going with she busted her anti demon wavelength through that punch just like Black Star does and the internal damage made him explode

It also explains how he seemed to "crack" from the damage

Now back to reading the manga

[Archangel]

Lets use this as an excuse to start reading up on the manga

http://forums.gotwoot.net/showthread.php?t=7810

If you liked, let's say, the first 30 episodes of this anime and parts of the following eps then you might enjoy this ( just try it since the manga thread is dying and needs help )

[Sapphire]

Wow, everyone hates the ending? I loved it. Besides the fact that he was weakened considerably after everyone had their piece of him, courage beating out the influence of fear/ambiguity makes perfect sense to me. I wouldn't call that a deus ex machina. Maka waking up to find out that she had passed out and it was all a dream would be a worser ending. The fact that the show used forces (fear, courage) that are found in everyone to influence the mental state of the world was amazing. The whole time fear and insanity were going to take over the world, and we completely forgot about the antithesis of that.

I also thought the various twists and power ups were AMAZING! I wondering when Kid would get that much needed power boost.

What, you guys expected Maka to hit him really hard with a scythe to win the battle?

<3 Soul Eater. I'd love a second season, but according to Yuki it's diverged from the manga. I guess I'll just start reading the manga then..!

[Kraco]

Asura was strong enough to defend against Shinigami's punches. One punch from Maka broke him. That's the one thing that I say makes no sense. At most Maka's courage should have made her able to face Asura but I fail to see how it makes her powerful enough to beat a dude of his calibre. A coward could be driving a tank and be mortally afraid of a mofo rifleman, but the coward is still inside a tank and the mofo outside of it, and no matter how brave the mofo is, his bullets only scrape the paint from the surface of the tank.

[Archangel]

If you go with my theory that the punch containing her "courage" allowed her to project her anti-demon wavelength and cause internal damage, much like Black Star and Stein are able to

The way how his head sort of implodes after the hit supports this

[David75]

If you go with my theory that the punch containing her "courage" allowed her to project her anti-demon wavelength and cause internal damage, much like Black Star and Stein are able to

The way how his head sort of implodes after the hit supports this

Asura was a coward and needed to check everything and details to have enough confidence.
He needs to be sure he'll win before engaging a fight.

When Maka showed courage when she's so weak, his confidence broke immediately since he's got so little of that.

When his confidence breaks, he loses control and his fears weakens him. It's as his fears consumed his powers.

[Archangel]

When his confidence breaks, he loses control and his fears weakens him. It's as his fears consumed his powers.

To be weakened enough that a "Maka punch" completely destroys him?

I find that hard to believe.

[Kraco]

That sounds somewhat plausible, but considering he used to be a dude fighting alongside Shinigami in ye olde times, he should have had some baseline power level probably far above the kids'. It's somewhat unlikely his whole sum of abilities was 100% tied to his confidence, plus his confidence 100% broken at that moment.

[David75]

That sounds somewhat plausible, but considering he used to be a dude fighting alongside Shinigami in ye olde times, he should have had some baseline power level probably far above the kids'. It's somewhat unlikely his whole sum of abilities was 100% tied to his confidence, plus his confidence 100% broken at that moment.

Of course Maka progressing during the fight is probably also another factor.

These are only speculations for a particular event that seems a little weak, but was almost obligatory to end a shonen show on a positive win.

[Sapphire]

Operating on the assumption that Shinigami is powerful as hell, there is no way that Kishin got out of that battle completely unscathed. The previous battles established the plausibility that he was weakened enough to be pushed around by the Shibusen students and actually be negatively affected -at all-. Maka's huge powerup and "mood change" was evidently enough to finish him off. Makes sense to me~

Personally, I think if you can believe the plot point that 'insanity' slash fear is spreading throughout the world and is literally destroying awesome, strong characters like Stein, then to me it's not so irrational that the demise of a completely insane and frightened character was because of a simple thing such as courage.

Anyone remember how the Chrona Maka fight ended? A hug for God's sakes. lol!!!!

[Archangel]

Soul Eater (Repeat Show)

Opening & Ending

For those who didn't know, Soul Eater is re-airing in japan with new OPs and EDs, i felt they were nice enough to share even though i can't find a decent HQ copy anywhere on youtube

[Kraco]

The old series already had jolly good OPs & EDs. I wonder why they needed to make new ones. To make people buy the series again?

I wish they had instead made the whole ending of the anime anew and then continued with new manga material for as long as it lasted...

[Buffalobiian]

These OP/ED are meant to make people watch the show more than the first one?

The first song sucks. The second song was decent/alright, but hardly felt fitting for the story.

Every single OP/ED from the first airing trumps this, even that horrible ED1 (I WANNA BE, I WANNA ARGGGGGGGGGH)

[Archangel]

Kuzo Boshi~ I liked it.

This is the best one though

[Buffalobiian]

Kuzo Boshi~ I liked it.

This is the best one though

lol, the clip was labelled ED5 (when there were only 4 EDs), and I scrambled my head for a sec trying to figure out what I'm forgetting.

Soul Eater EDs just kept getting better and better, I agree.

Until now.