Soul Eater chapter 64: Readiness

Series summary:

In Soul Eater, meister (職人 shokunin^?) Maka Albarn and her weapon partner Soul Eater are students at the Death Weapon Meister Academy (死神武器職人専門学校 Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakkō^?), or DWMA (死武専 Shibusen^?) for short, located in the fictional Death City,^[1] in Nevada, United States. The school has many other students including Black Star with his weapon partner Tsubaki, and Death the Kid with his twin weapon partners Liz and Patti. The school is run by Shinigami, Death himself, as a training facility for weapons and the human wielders of those weapons, the meisters.^[1] Maka's goal, along the other meisters, is to have their weapons defeat and absorb the souls of ninety-nine evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the given weapon and thus be capable of being used by shinigami; these weapons are called Death Scythes.^[1] In the universe ofSoul Eater, witches are powerful beings and the natural enemies of DWMA, as almost all of them have a destructive nature and almost all desire anarchy and chaos.

At the start of Soul Eater, Maka and Soul encounter the meister Crona and Crona's weapon Ragnarok; Crona is being forced to attack non-evil humans by Crona's mother and witch Medusa. Medusa eventually recruits the witches Eruka and Mizune, along with the immortal werewolf Free. Medusa and her cohorts attack DWMA on the eve of the festival to commemorate the establishment of DWMA. Medusa's goal is to revive the first "kishin" (鬼神^?), an evil demon god that nearly destroyed everything by plunging the world into madness, named Asura who was sealed beneath the DWMA by Shinigami. Medusa's group successfully revives Asura, though Medusa is seemingly killed in the process.

As Asura escapes the DWMA, the world is plunged into chaos and insanity, and because of this, Medusa's older sister Arachne comes out of hiding after 800 years. Arachne reforms her organization Arachnophobia, which poses itself as a serious threat to the DWMA; Arachne is joined closely by her demon butler Mosquito and demon weapon Giriko. The DWMA calls in the Death Scythes Justin Law, Yumi Azusa, and Marie Mjölnir to aide in the fight against Arachnophobia. During this time, Medusa is proven to be alive and possesses a young girl named Rachel. Maka and the other students are progressively getting stronger as they train and participate in various battles. Medusa makes a truce with the DWMA for a time so together they can annihilate the threat of Arachnophobia. Once Arachne is killed by Maka, Medusa betrays the DWMA and takes possession of Arachne's previously discarded body, regaining her lost strength.(thank you WIKI! this is the reason for the 'first impression' tag on the bottom :p)

Ok, so now you have a feel to what Soul Eater is about, this review is for the ‘saga’ that comes after all the deal with Arachne is done. Soul has recently transformed into a deathsythe since he ate Arachne’s soul and all the kids have been promoted to Spartoi, well, except for Kid since he was kidnapped and all….anyways, now that you know, onwards to the chapter review!

Summary:

Maka is seen flying around with Kim albeit really slowly…her puny soul wings just can’t fly fast enough. Soul thinks that even though now he is a deathsythe, he isn’t powerfull or ready enough to take on the things they are going to get themselves into (like saving Kid for example), Soul also remembers a conversation he, Maka and her dad (Spirit) had before.

Spirit told them that since they are part of Spartoi now and that they are level two stars meisters and weapons that Shibusen expects them to help around in suppressing the Kishin and witches that are still around. He also says that just like them, their enemies aren’t just going to do nothing and that they are targeting specialy talented people on Shibusen’s side, and this means Maka and her soul perception ability. It is imperative that Maka’s abilities are protected for the Shibusen’s sake.

Maka got offended that it seemed like her dad only cared about the safety of her powers instead of hers (*pout, pout*), Spirit asks Soul to intercede for him. (Soul: Wtf am I? your shrink??)

As Soul is thinking about all this, Maka tells Kim to please go ahead since she doesn’t want to hold her back and make her get late to class, to which Kim gladly accepts and takes off.

Of course this is just a rouse since Maka felt someone coming with a strong killing intent towards them.

This person turned out to be Gopher, one of Noah’s faitful servants, and he’s (really? A he?) hellbent on killing Maka for his master’s sake. Maka takes a peek out of his soul and discovers that he has the same type of soul she has, Grogori, but it’s full of evil magic.

Gopher proceeds to kick the crap out of Maka until he has her against a rock, he is just too fast for her and her puny angel wings….Maka gets fed up and says F*UCK IT! (ok not really, but you can guess she was thinking it! XD) and these spiky not-angel-like-at-all wings come out from Soul and she says “Now is a proper fight”.

Impression:

Meh. Waiting a whole month just to see some flips and kicks….I mean, I know it’s necessary but…the chapter felt boring for me, the only new things we have learned were that Gopher had the angel thingy soul like Maka and those new wings she got in the end of the chapter.

I hope next month we’ll have some more story development, or at least a really kick ass fight! (and KID dammit1! DX)