Audience reviews
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Sopt
Oh boy, where do I even start with this one…
Soul Eater is an anime that had been on my bucket list for quite a while, and with all the buzz about a potential remake being planned after Fire Force finishes, it seemed like the right time to give this older piece of anime history a shot.
Just a short disclaimer: I have not read the source material. I only watch and rate anime based on what is actually presented in the show. For this one, however, I did hear that the general audience really enjoyed the first part but disliked the second part due to changes made compared to the source material.
So let’s start with the actual review.
Soul Eater is a fairly generic edgy shounen anime that tries to present itself as deeper and darker than it actually is, but fails at it miserably and ends up…
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Soul Eater is a show that I had heard a lot about before starting, yet I had also heard nothing about it. What I knew was that it was a show where people become weapons, and that it was apparently really good. Hearing the show get showered with praise like that, I was shocked to see that it only had a 7.8 here. After watching...I can see why.
To be fair, the show starts with a bang. The first third of the show rivals the GOATs of anime. Whenever the characters weren't cracking jokes, they were beating each other up. I loved it.
But that's also its biggest weakness. It sets itself to such a high standard that it could never keep, and then crumbles beneath its own weight not too long after. A similar thing happened with Bakemonogatari, but at least that one was short, and it collapsed as e…
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Soul Eater is a mess. I cant get how anyone can enjoy this train wreck. Believe me I tried very hard to love the SHow but it had so many issues that i cant even sum up my disappointment in words.
Story 2/10
The first 12 episodes are by far the best episodes of the series and even then they are okay at best. I was actually hoping for something that will be unique and interesting, even though it had alot of plot armour. But no it just got worse and worse to the point It was unbearable. The main issue with the stroy is that its all over the place. The mysteries could have been more intriguing not to mention the overall conclusion in the end and everything. I seriously dont get what they did there tbh.
Art 6/10
This is the best point about the series I guess but even so i would state it to…
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This show is all over the place. I wanted so damn bad to love this show, and i still love parts of it, but parts of it are so bad it can't save the rest.
Firstly, the concepts are kind of generic, and I believe they could have tried to differentiate what makes this show truly special through a great storyline, which it never ended up doing. The story kicks off alright, hooking you in. However, as soon as you get hooked, it starts to suck. bad. Episode 1-15 are the best in the show, then 16-25 are mediocre, and everything past 25 sucks the joy out of you for attempting to watch it.
4/10 baybee :)
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This truly is a unique anime, but it lacks something in all departments. I found this anime quite overrated, considering how much potential it had. The pacing is horrible, the music (especially the piano score) is annoying and some of the voices sound so unnatural (Patty, Soul, Maka), and the art varies a whole lot (the character's noses annoyed me). Still, I've never had so many mixed emotions about a show. I found myself annoyed, confused, curious. bored, excited, sleepy, refreshed, amused, intrigued and laughing. Mostly because the episodes varies so insanely much.
But the show indeed has a cool feel to it, with a unique steam punk style, with different abilities and personalities in each character, a cool concept (shinigamis, witches, samurais, shinobis, magic, demons) and a whole new…
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Ahh, Shōnen. Shōnen Shōnen Shōnen. Will everyone please give it a break and please focus on what we came here to read, a pure anime review. When I look at the reviews for this anime, only one thing can come to my mind, is this a Shōnen? Personally I couldn't care less, what I do care about is that this is a really enjoyable anime. So let me begin this journey into a story that eats the Soul by saying, Fairy Blue.
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A little too dramatic ehh?
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O.K. here is the actual review with my IADb rating system:
Story: Soul Eater centers around the relationship between a weapon meister and (at least one) weapon that can transform into a human. This relationship is formed with the ultimate goal of transforming the latt…
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In our community there exists animes which receive a large amount of hype, ones which everyone knows and most have watched. Soul Eater falls into this category. But why? This is what I am to explore in this review. (Please note, I have not read the manga, so this review will be written looking solely at the anime)
Story: 6/10
Soul Eater introduces a very interesting and unique plot. Students who fight evil sprits with their companions who transform into weapons to fight said spirits. Going into Soul Eater, I loved this idea. The students aimed to fight 99 spirits and one witch in order to transform their weapon companions into "Death Scythes", weapons used by Lord Death himself. This goal was introduced in the first episode, in stuck for awhile, and it was dropped. I sat there as the plot…
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I found this anime to be first and foremost depressing. The art style was depressing and just worse than mediocre. It wasn't particularly funny, and worse it wasn't even amusing.
The characters are absurd, typical, bland, meh. I'm struggling to understand the appeal.
The show was so boring and slow, that it should have been 11 episodes. maybe if it had been shorter i would have appreciated the only action scene worthy of descript which occured in the final few episodes.
Other than that, what was this show? a fantastical slice of life school show? nein.
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Soul Eater is a relatively famous anime based on a manga written by Okubo Atsushi. Now, it is from Bones studio. So far the only reviews I've done of their stuff have been Darker than Black, Fullmetal Alchemist and Wolf's Rain and while that doesn't necessarily mean I'm going to like this it does bode well. Let's take a look at Soul Eater and see if the trend of quality continues.
Soul Eater follows a group of students at Shibusen Academy, a school that trains living weapons and their masters. The goal of the students is to collect 99 souls from evil humans and a witches soul to advance the weapon to the level of a death scythe, but that's interrupted by a conflict with witches who are experimenting on using souls of regular humans to create a demon god called a Kishin. One big problem w…
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Soul Eater. I had always had high expectations of this anime. The animation looked amazing from the few scenes I had seen, and they were also quite scary. The AMV 'This is Halloween' on this anime is what attracted to Soul Eater most. It looked flashy, scenes were scarier and more brutal than normal shounen; I expected a lot, something different. But alas, this expectation was not met. At all.
I realise that the manga is not yet completed and the story of the anime probably took its own path and just went the wrong way. I don't know much about the manga, but nonetheless, I am reviewing the anime and nothing more.
My first impression of the first episode was different from other anime. I was really quite shocked with the events that happened being a bit cruel for a shounen. As I went thro…
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"A sound soul dwells within a sound mind, and a sound body."
What can I say about Soul Eater? Well, it's hard to review this anime since there are times where I hate it and times where I love it. The moments where I find true brilliance and moments that are just flat out annoying. Let's take the show apart piece by piece.
Story and Characters:
The story is the weakest part of the show, but it's not bad it's just it could be better. We have a conflict and that's good, but then halfway through the series we have another conflict, then comes in the MacGuffin. One thing that confuses me about the series is that in the first episode (without spoiling anything), the characters do something, fail, and redoing it again seems like that would be the plot of the show but no, that gets thrown away.…
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Soul Eater is a good series with a great sense of humor, art style, and an excellent cast of characters but lacks the strength to be an over 50 episode series. What really stops this series from being a great series is that the story is dull and you feel like that the show is moving like a snail on a freeway in the middle of the series.
Story: 6
From the beginning, Soul Eater threw you the three meisters and their weapons. These short "monster of the week" episodes were exciting with tons of action and humor which kept me laughing and admiring the direction this series was going. Once the main plot kicks in you start getting introduced to more side characters and antagonists which keep the story interesting. I would have gave this story an 8 if the other half of the series wasn't so long.…
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Av: How's it?
NK: Going pretty well. Just going through my anime list right now, making sure it's all in order. It's been a while since I've maintained it.
Av: Thanks to school, eh? Find anything interesting?
NK: Yes, actually. It's fun to see when I've watched anime. I have three or four series during the semester, then during breaks there's just series after series.
Av: Speaking of, you watched Soul Eater last summer, right?
NK: Yeah. Took a while to get through, but we did.
Av: You like it?
NK: Well, let's see. I have a wall scroll with the main characters on it, a messenger bag and an Excalibur plush, and also the DVD cover signed by Travis, Vic and Colleen. You tell me.
Av: Revising question, then. What'd you rate it?
NK: 9 out of 10.
Av: No 10?
NK: Nope. It was promising for a whil…
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:STORY: 5
Ultimately my main complaint about this series lies in this area. And I am going to be a little hard on it because of how much potential I saw that it could have had. I guess I should start by saying that what the story lacks is organization and commitment. Throughout the entire series, different conflicts would be shoved on the backburner right in the middle of their climax, the conflcts would be built way up and then fall flat within a single episode or two, and sometimes conflicts would be forgotten about all together without any resolve being made at all. It became frustrating after being promised some huge development so many times only for it to either turn out to have no relevence to the story at all or just never followed through with. This applies to characters as well.…
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Here we have Soul Eater, a shounen anime produced by Bones (Wolf's Rain, Full Metal Alchemist, Ouran High School Host Club) that came out in 2008. I've never read the manga, so this is based solely on the anime. Set in the fantastical Death City, Soul Eater focuses on the Shibusen Academy, where students both work together and compete in order to turn their partners - boys and girls that can turn into various different weapons - into world-class Death Scythes. My university pally and I blasted through all 51 episodes in about a week, if you don't count the days that we were too busy to watch any. Let me tell you, this does not make for hard watching.
The first few episodes start off as prequels for the main seven characters - three 'Meisters/Technicians' and their 'Weapons'. These episod…
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Soul Eater is by far an entertaining anime with fresh comedy packed with action.
Story: The story opens into a more comical theme with the introduction of the main characters and the important sub characters along with the purpose they carry. However, it takes a turn off the normal shounen themed animes and dives into an action rollercoaster with the plot taking a completely different direction to what is first thought. Even with the many plot twists and adventures present, it continues to keep its comedy side to an almost perfect proportion. It must be noted though that once the story diverts from the manga and into its final stages, it loses some of its fresh style and stability.
Art: Although it may not look spectacular at first compared to the many notable animes, the artwork grows…
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Soul Eater is about a group of students who attend a school for aspiring demon hunters, Shibusen. The story follows Maka, an scythe weilder and her partner, Soul, who transforms into the scythe she uses. Each hunter is paired with a partner who can turn into a weapon, and the two must fight in unison. The other main characters include Death the Kid, and his weapons Liz and Patty who become twin pistols, and Black Star, along with his partner Tsubaki, who has the unique ability to transform into several weapon types as a jack of all trades. These students as well as their teachers now fight the various demons and witches who want to destroy Shibusen in order to take over the world without consequence.
This show is incredibly stylish, literally everything has a very cool vibe about it and r…
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SOOOOUUURRRUUUUUU
Yes, that's the annoying scream you will have to endure when watching this anime, the one who screams is the main character of Soul Eater, Maka Albarn. Now before writing this review I was thinking about in which order to put the good things and the bad things that this anime contained. I decided I'd start with the bad feautures. First of all; Soul Eater is a shounen anime, hence it has shounen screenplay which is to say it exists not to be either good nor bad, it's just there so that the characters have something to say. In truth though, the screenplay/script of the very last few episodes of Soul Eater was a bit of a joke. What the hell were they talking about? No really, please can someone explain to me what they were talking about? I've never seen such meaningless non…
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Rating: 8-9
Overall:
Finished Soul eater about a week ago.
Loved the overall concept and the artwork.
Although the ending left me wanting more. I just felt that the anime could have done more with the story.
Story:
The development of the story proceeds pretty well with the exceptions of the excalibur episodes.(after the 2nd one, I got pretty sick of that guy) If you read the manga(which is pretty good right now), you notice the anime stays true for awhile and eventually darts off and does its own thing, the ending really threw me for a loop.
From the way I see it, the manga is taking soul eater to its true potential. So if you love the anime give the manga a go. I think the story starts darting off around episode 38 if you don't wanna start from the beginning start there.
But the s…
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Short and Sweet Review:
Soul Eater is one of the most unique anime’s I have ever seen in the sense of graphics and story. The graphics are ultra-high quality, along with very interesting anime cut-scenes. Soul Eater has a little taste of everything an anime should have – a first-class story, superior graphics, a modest bit of pervert, and a VERY interactive world. Camera angle and character motions are very musical, flow very well with each other, and so on - which is one of the biggest plus sides to this anime. The characters are very fun and surprising - which is a big part of the story.
10/10 ~ Epic.
This review will be updated as the series progresses.
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