Studio: Bones
Episodes: 51
Aired: April 2008 – March 2009
Openings: 2 // Endings : 4
Tags: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Supernatural, Human weapons, Shinigami
“A healthy soul resides in a healthy mind and a healthy body”. This phrase was said at the beginning of every episode of Soul Eater. Before anything I have to say that Soul Eater is one of the animes that I have liked the most recently; indeed, Soul Eater is a good anime that has dragged the attention of many and that created many fans; therefore, I’m going to try to make this review even more objective than I normally do, so if I say something bad about Soul Eater that will be as a result of a comparison with other animes (that I won’t mention to maintain the objectiveness), and not only my sole opinion.
Over all the times I’ve reviewed, I’ve discovered that whenever you review, people won’t complain, if you rate something that was famous as good, but they will whenever you say something bad about it, even if you rate it high; therefore I’m going to ask you that if I say anything bad about “Soul Eater” don’t go blaming me for doing so; I’m just doing it so people that haven’t seen it yet can get the right idea of what they are about to see, and that at least read the complete review, because the review will be constructive, not destructive.
Soul Eater AMV -Bellicose- [Contains Spoilers]
Soul Eater Opening 1 -Resonance-
Soul Eater Opening 2 -Papermoon-
x [Story 3.8/5]
> 3.8?!
Yes 3.8. I couldn’t decide between 3.5 and 4; 3.5 was to low, and 4 was too high.
> Wha- what? that’s too low for Soul Eater!
Maybe the number might look a little low, but I think that that’s the grade best suited for it. Even though the plot overall was pretty good, I just can’t simply ignore that it left many floating threads, many missing spaces, many parts of the story that were told once, that seemed as important and that were either never remembered, or solved in a ridiculous way. Personally (Yes this last point will be an opinion) I think that making the anime larger would have resulted in a more interesting plot, and development of the events.
> Hey wait! That’s not fair! Soul Eater was still better than this! There were times where I almost cried!
Yes. I’m aware that there are some very emotionally intense scenes that really brought up Soul Eater to a very good anime.
> Then you admit it! Soul Eater plot was good!
I never said it wasn’t.
> I still don’t get it, your point aren’t enough, why is it rated so low?
<Spoiler Alert> If you haven’t finished Soul Eater, skip this part.
Soul Eater plot does have one big, BIG flaw. The end wasn’t good. it’s not like the end was a total fail, but it wasn’t what Soul Eater deserved. Tell me my friend that has already seen Soul Eater. Do you really think that Soul Eater used a good method to deal with the last conflicts? Don’t you think that it seemed that they forced the anime to end? Are you REALLY satisfied on how the Kishin was defeated? Weren’t you pumped up when Maka became a weapon? Why, then why was the Kishin defeated by such a simple and trivial matter??? Weren’t you disappointed by it? Didn’t you wanted it to end with an awesome fight? The end does indeed has a message, but what would you choose, a message, or a incredible battle with a message?
Think about it.
</Spoiler Alert> It’s safe to read from now on, even if you haven’t finished Soul Eater.
Ok yes, Soul Eater plot was good, and the reason I rated a but low was a bit subjective. Therefore, I’m going to re-rate Soul Eater, something I don’t do normally.
x [Story 4/5]
Creepy o.o;;
[Animation 5/5]
Not everything on Soul Eater had mistakes or was incomplete; the animation was indeed awesome. There were different kinds of illuminations for the different situations that were presented on the anime: happy,sad , suspense, etc, all suited the situation. Of course the battle animations were excellent, fluid, you don’t loose the track of what’s happening even with the smokescreens/explosion that appeared. The backgrounds varied from simple to detailed, depending on the situation/place in which the action was happening; [Personal Comment =>] one of my favorite background features, was the bleeding moon that appeared from time to time when they battled.
Summarizing: The animation in Soul Eater was awesome, since there’s lots of variety on it.
<3
[Sound 4.5/5]
Being a mid-long length, Soul Eater could make use of a lot of different situations, and had the possibility to fully make use of the sound. At times, the soundtracks were critical in the anime, they gave a good sense of what was happening and made u realize the atmosphere that was developed in that moment; even so, they never were outstanding to the point in which you pay more attention to the soundtracks than to the anime. The sound effect also involved you into the story/fight that was developed, and were always fitting to the situation.
Finally the actor-voices used in Soul Eater actually helped to understand the personality of a character, along with the animation. Just to put an example [not a big spoiler], we have the sometimes irritating voice of Black Star which helped understand that he was arrogant, but the tone of honesty that appeared most of the time made you understand that he was pretty reliable.
Summarizing: Sounds, sound effects and voice acting were used correctly on Soul Eater.
Random Fight Scene
[Character 5/5]
One of the problems that Soul Eater probably faced is the fact that there are 7 main characters on Soul Eater, each with a different personality. The Good Part is that they somehow managed to give every character enough screen time to be considered as main characters. The bad Part is that, as I have stated before, there were lots of stories that weren’t finished as they should, and that sometimes you could completely forget the existence of a secondary character.
Taking that aside, the character development was indeed pretty good. The psychology of each character evolved into something different; the design of the character, helped you understand even more the role that the character. Yes, the characters role was correctly done on Soul Eater.
Noooo~~
[Overall 4.3/5]
Overall Soul Eater IS a good anime. It has flaws no doubt about it, and those flaws are placed where they shouldn’t, but strictly talking Soul Eater is an anime with which you will laugh, be in suspense, and enjoy to the fullest. Be warned that even as a good anime, the parts where Soul Eater failed, are parts that will probably affect how you saw the anime, and parts that might make you unsatisfied about it.
Then again, it’s you the one that will see (or not) the anime, and the one that have a personal opinion about it; so it’s perfect if you see it and like it, or disliked; I’m just saying:
You are warned.
