• Title: Soul Eater
• Studio: BONES
• Genre: Shounen/Fantasy

Ratings (out of 5):

• Story: ♥½

• Animation: ♥♥♥♥
• Characters: ♥♥½
• OP/ED Themes: ♥♥♥
• Overall: ♥♥½

Thoughts:
In the opening moments of the first episode of Soul Eater I thought the music sounded familiar…could it be? So I ran off and checked: yes indeedy, Soul Eater’s music is composed by Taku Iwasaki, best known for Black Cat, Getbackers, and…Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Could it be the return of the epic soundtrack? We’ll see!

As for the story, Maka is a shinigami-in-training, working with her humanoid weapon, Soul Eater. They’re trying to level him up to a “Death Scythe” weapon level, which requires him to eat 99 human souls and then the soul of a witch. But if they screw up, they have to start all over! (Guess what happens?)

Overall I’d say that the show’s got way more style than substance– it looks like it’ll be pretty standard shounen fare in terms of the plot, although it also looks like the next episode will focus on a different shinigami-in-training, so we’ll see. In the first episode Maka, who isn’t very heavy on the personality (she’s mostly just determined to become a shinigami but has a distaste for her shinigami father, who cheats on her mother incessantly, thus winding up in a divorce), has a trust issue with Soul Eater, but they overcome it, etc.

It definitely has style in spades, though. The look is sort of D.Gray-Man meets Gurren Lagann; it’s got a gothy but vivid and colorful feel (and that moon I keep seeing in the background reminds me of D.G-M’s Millenium Earl) combined with mangaka Atsushi Okubo’s highly stylized (and very badass) look. That combined with a nice raucous soundtrack makes it a pleasure to try out, but we’ll see if the story and characters can keep interest up.

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