Perfect cast and a good story

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Soul Eater is an anime that I first caught wind of during its run on Toonami in 2013. It got me through many of my Saturday nights while unemployed before I had to start work again. It wasn't until about three years later that I'd get to see it in full; it almost makes me wish I'd seen it on it's first viewing – because man – this is one good anime.Quit frankly, the number one thing about Soul Eater that stands out is the art style. The characters are pretty skinny, the teenagers have absolutely no meat on them, and the adults tend to look very similar save for sexual dimorphism which at points is often exaggerated to the point of disbelief. The castle for the D.W.M.A. is completely ridiculous in design and architecture as much as is the fact that the sun and moon look more like demonic creatures that have a consistent laugh throughout the day – that is until the latter hours of their cycle where the moon begins to show blood and the sun looks like it is intoxicated. One of the main characters has a very toothy smile and another has stripes in his hair; the art style, however, is just the tip of the iceberg and probably serves to further suck the viewer in straight away.Soul Eater actually has a pretty good plot going on. It gives a quick intro about the Grim Reaper having started the D.W.M.A. (Death Weapon Meister Acadamy) and it's role to prevent the spread of evil, as well as that of the Kishin from being revived. This sounds like typical flare, but the anime revolves heavily around this very concept as opposed to 'good versus evil' in fact, the entire serious could have many of the characters as being synonymous with evil when in fact they are on the side of good. There are seven characters that this anime follows mainly, but they can be described as three groups – Maka and Soul, Death the Kid (just Kid) along with Patty and another girl's name I forget, as well as Blackstar and Tsubaki. The first group represents a girl and scythe combo, the second a human style grim reaper with two pistols, and then a ninja ala Naruto with a weapon that becomes a ninja star, ninja blade and then a samurai sword. The idea here is that people resonate their souls together in a pairing – one becomes a weapon and another person wields said weapon. This is very similar in concept to a much earlier anime that I know dubbed only as "Shaman King" that used to air on "Fox Kids".The first part of the anime has a few mini-episodes that follows the three teams of characters around and gives a build up of the character's personalities as well as their quirks and how they all deal with each other; it also explains business as usual. Has a much larger arc during the middle of the series which gives a buildup of all of the secondary characters. Both the mini-episodes (one shots really) and the middle arc all lead up to the finale which is what the main story is about. Unlike most series, this one maintains the characters personality development throughout. If you think a background character that is featured for at least any given amount of time, will not have some form of development, you are sorely mistaken. The only filler that even appears comes in the form of the sword "Excalibur"; these episodes can safely be skipped and serve no purpose in the series – there are three in total I think.I will say that the action scenes in this anime are pretty good. The characters do spend some time talking in each episode when it leads up to a fight; but when they enter a fight – it doesn't take the form of any Bleach and Dragon Ball Z type fight scenes – these fights get down and dirty and may last a grand total of an episode at most (which makes sense). During the Kishin arc, the longest fight scene lasted about an episode I think, but it really went into just how powerful these characters are. Also, if you think the Grim Reaper is going to spend most of his time just sitting around in his Death Room, you are sorely mistaken – he does get some fight time as well.Also mentioned was the art style. It isn't exactly complex, but at points it is quit intricate, which seems to be the exact opposite of what it sets out to create with such things as the laughing sun and bloody moon. However, this also fits into the demographic of stylization I would expect aimed at preteens. The character art style is heavily reminiscent of something aimed at children – it is neither complex, nor does it fall back to the budget style of a single mouth moving in a scene with no other movement. The animation was always fluid and interesting and never turned into something easily bending – despite how much it resembled American animation at points. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this is how American animation might have been influenced if children's cartoons had remained popular on network television in America.In the end the series manages to wrap itself up nicely with a few epiphanies, plot points and characters that have developed along the way. I highly recommend it to anime fans that don't mind something with pre-teens as the intended demographic, but whom also want something with some more serious elements thrown into the mix as well. To be frank, this is one of the best anime I have seen in a long time.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/? p=11757).

What I like about Soul Eater so much is that it has something new to offer in story,settings,persona's of the main characters and art style. Its centered around the Shibusen,a school for "Weapons and Masters" in the fictional town Death City Nevada.A Weapon is a person that is born with the ability to transform into a Weapon, not just any but just the one they were born as ( there are few exceptions but I don't want to spoil the details). Master are the people who handle Weapons, Master and Weapon can only work together when they have a "Soul Link" that fits, for example, two arrogant persona's wouldn't work together but one arrogant and the other one humbled would work because they would balance each other out.The main characters are the three students Maka,Black Star and Death the Kid (the number of main characters increases during the story) and there Weapons, Soul,Tsubaki and the sisters Patty and Liz Thompson. Maka being very self righteous and ambitious, and Soul being only concerned about his coolness make a good couple but there is not much more to it than a hate/love relationship they got going on, don't get me wrong its well done but just something done before, Black Star himself is just very obnoxious but his relationship with Tsubaki is one of the deepest side story's ever, I don't want to spoil it. The one Character that just takes the cake is Death the Kid, he is funny,cool,original and just a total blast to watch. His trademark is being obsessed with symmetry, If something is just a mm off he completely looses his mind and has to correct it. His Weapons are there for some good slapstick but don't do much for story telling.

I, personally love Soul Eater!it's great, and sometimes has a twist to it.I think it's really funny at times, especially Death the Kid, son of Lord Death.I, really wish though that they had made Death the Kid the main character, but that's me, other's may be happy with Maka and Soul being the main characters.Over all, i give it 10/10. I recommend watching it. It's awesome!!!!!! :)I don't know if you thought this was a spoiler, but i put it their just in case. :)

What I like about Soul Eater so much is that it has something new to offer in story,settings,persona's of the main characters and art style. Its centered around the Shibusen,a school for "Weapons and Masters" in the fictional town Death City Nevada.A Weapon is a person that is born with the ability to transform into a Weapon, not just any but just the one they were born as ( there are few exceptions but I don't want to spoil the details). Master are the people who handle Weapons, Master and Weapon can only work together when they have a "Soul Link" that fits, for example, two arrogant persona's wouldn't work together but one arrogant and the other one humbled would work because they would balance each other out.The main characters are the three students Maka,Black Star and Death the Kid (the number of main characters increases during the story) and there Weapons, Soul,Tsubaki and the sisters Patty and Liz Thompson. Maka being very self righteous and ambitious, and Soul being only concerned about his coolness make a good couple but there is not much more to it than a hate/love relationship they got going on, don't get me wrong its well done but just something done before, Black Star himself is just very obnoxious but his relationship with Tsubaki is one of the deepest side story's ever, I don't want to spoil it. The one Character that just takes the cake is Death the Kid, he is funny,cool,original and just a total blast to watch. His trademark is being obsessed with symmetry, If something is just a mm off he completely looses his mind and has to correct it. His Weapons are there for some good slapstick but don't do much for story telling. If you are looking for a breath of fresh air, definitely check it out!