Soul Eater – Episode 02

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Animation: 10/ 10 (they haven’t become sloppy yet)
Story in this episode: 10/ 10 (as good as a second prologue can be)
Humour: 9/10 (the laughs keep on coming)
Overall Rating: 10/ 10

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Okay, well I was gonna jump straight to episode 14 seeing as I’m waaaay behind in my blogging, however I’ve changed my mind and decided to do super brief summaries of all the episodes in between just as this anime is currently one of my faves. So, yeah, here we go with the super posting! Let’s see how many episodes I can cover today – ikuze!

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~Brief Summary~

This episode is Black Star’s prologue and thus it focuses on him and his weapon Tsubaki. The episode begins with Black Star hiding in wait reading to attack Al Capone and his chums – Tsubaki’s weapon form is a chain scythe. With the whole “Law of the Assassin” number whatever going on, you get the false impression that the two of them are really serious characters – it’s pretty much a shock when he leaps down onto the table where Al Capone’s having his meal of souls, announcing his arrival by yelling at the top of his voice “I’m Black Star – I’m here to assassinate you!” Did he even pay attention to the rules he was spouting? XD Due to the sudden arrival both Black Star and Tsubaki get caught in a shower of gun fire and flee with a smoke bomb technique – definitely not completing their mission. We find out that Al Capone’s after a witch and then cut to a scene of the two protagonists outside, Black Star pretty proud of himself and Tsubaki looking rather depressed. Note that he refers to himself as “ore-sama” which means he’s kinda full of himself. On the other hand, Tsubaki’s one of those characters you’ve just gotta like, especially due the fact that she indulges his behaviour.

Back at Shibusen, our pair runs into our friends from the first episode, Maka and Soul – they each explain that things haven’t gone as planned – too right they haven’t =P. Black Star and Tsubaki then get called to Shinigami-sama’s room. Shinigami-sama says that he’s heard they failed in their mission, but Black Star remains confident that he’ll make Tsubaki his weapon and in the meantime presents Shinigami-sama with his autograph. Shinigami-sama knocks some sense into him =D.

He tells them that Al Capone is after a witch named Angela, and that it’ll be problematic if they get her power, although she apparently has a capable bodyguard. Black Star does the maths and realises that if they take care of the gang and the witch… Tsubaki would become a Death Scythe instantly. Excited he runs off before Shinigami -sama gets to explain the problem with the witch. ^^’ While Tsubaki tries to get Black Star to come up with a plan, Maka watches them from the window, saying that Tsubaki would do better with a different partner. Soul says that despite being rather stupid, Black Star’s got guts and that Tsubaki probably knows that.

Meanwhile Al Capone is outside the witch’s castle and there a man that looks like the bodyguard asks him why he’s there. Back with Black Star, he tries to prove to Tsubaki that they’re ready by hiding his presence and sneaking up on her… while she’s having a bath – whoops! Despite this they head off to the witch’s castle to find that all of Al Capone’s men. and the man himself, have been defeated and turned into souls. They’re then attacked by the bodyguard, Mifune. Black Star wants to fight and so – well this is a shounen anime – they do. Mifune seems to be a pretty good fighter, but with the smoke bomb technique Black Star seems to have the perfect chance of winning… until he announces his location by shouting again and falls down when hit by Mifune. Has he lost? Tsubaki seems to think so – until he gets up and complains that Mifune’s being cocky. ^^

Mifune calls Black Star a small fry and he gets annoyed claiming that Mifune’s trying to get all the attention. Black Star’s attitude completely changes at this point and he becomes totally serious – his presence seems different – it turns out to be Tsubaki in disguise and Black Star attacks Mifune from behind, winning. His reason? Because Mifun tried to stand out more – haha, what an attention seeker. About to deal the final blow, a chibi witch turns up and stops him with her special attack – hitting him on the head with a sword – ooo a fountain of blood! I think he was gonna be merciful – but at that point he gets ready to hit her with Tsubaki. This time he’s stopped by the relationship between Angela and Mifune and leaves with Tsubaki – aww!

They present the remaining souls to Shinigami-sama with the excuse that as they didn’t kill them they won’t have them – aww! It’s hard to tell but I think Shinigami-sama’s impressed/ happy/ shinigami-ish. Later Black Star tries to sneak into the women’s bath and the only problem that Tsubaki seems to have with that is that he didn’t mask his presence – lol!

~End of Summary~

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~Viz’s Word on the Episode~

Well at first (if I’m honest) I kinda thought that Black Star was very much a Naruto clone with blue hair – he has that same sort of happy attitude, and a similar hair style as well as a carefree attitude – plus he’s a ninja too. But after watching the whole of the episode (and all the others thus far) I decided that his character definitely has its own charms and partnered with someone like Tsubaki, well, you’ve gotta be totally different to me to not love this pair. If you really don’t, well tough – they supposedly get as much attention as Maka and Soul, so you’re just gonna have to deal with it, right? =P

We got to see a lot more action this episode, and of course there’ll be a ton in the next too seeing as it’s the final prologue episode and we get to meet the final main team – Death the Kid! I’ve gotta say (even though I’m already way ahead) at this point I was already frantic about seeing the next episode – not only is Death the Kid voiced by one of the voice actors I’m totally crazy about (Mamoru Miyano) but his style and the random three stripes on his head rock, oh and that ring too – call me a total random crazy fan for picking up a small detail like that if you want.

Hopefully I’ll be posting the summary for episode three in a bit – look out for it!

Viz signing out!

xxx

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~Preview of Next Episode~

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