Soul Eater (Japanese: ソウルイーターSōru Ītā) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. Set at the “Death Weapon Meister Academy”, the series revolves around three teams, each consisting of a weapon meister and (at least one) weapon that can transform into a humanoid. Trying to make the latter a “death scythe” and thus fit for use by the academy’s headmaster Shinigami, the personification of death, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, in that order; otherwise, they will have to start all over again.
Soul Eater is set at Death Weapon Meister Academy (死神武器職人専門学校Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakkō) — “DWMA” (死武専 Shibusen) for short — located in the fictional Death City in Nevada, United States. The school is run by Shinigami, also known as Death, as a training facility for humans with the ability to transform into weapons, as well as the wielders of those weapons, called meisters (職人 shokunin). Attending this school are Maka Albarn and her scythe partner Soul Eater; assassin Black Star and his partner Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, who can turn into various ninja weapons; and Shinigami’s son, Death the Kid, and his pistol partners Liz and Patty Thompson. The goal of the school’s meister students is to have their weapons defeat and absorb the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, which dramatically increases the power of the weapon and turns them into “death scythes” used by Death.
A weapon and Meister are two people that work together to bring down the forces of evil. Throughout the anime, many types of weapons can be seen ranging from Scythes to guns, to ninja swords and some people can even become their own weapon. Below is a video of a transformation into a weapon.
All in all, this is a wonderful anime that utilizes ideas with extensive creativity and wonder that truly make it shine above the rest. If you are a fan of demons, destruction, and weapons this show is for you.
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