Soul Eater (ソウルイーター, Sōru Ītā) is an Anime based on the manga series by Atsushi Ohkubo. It's directed by Takuya Igarashi and produced by Bones, Aniplex, Dentsu, Media Factory and TV Tokyo. The anime consists of 51 episodes airing between April 7, 2008 and March 30, 2009 on TV Tokyo.
The English adaption of the series was licensed by FUNimation Entertainment. The show was released in 4 half season box-sets in 2010.
Synopsis
Death Weapon Meister Academy is a school located in the fictional Death City in Nevada, United States. The school is run by Death, as a training facility for humans with the ability to transform into weapons, as well as the wielders of those weapons, called "Meisters". Attending this school are meister Maka Albarn and her scythe partner Soul Eater; ninja Black Star and his partner Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, who can turn into a variety of different weapons such as a kusarigama, shuriken, and ninjatō; and Death's son Death the Kid and his pistol partners Liz and Patty Thompson. The goal of the school's meister students is to have their weapons defeat and absorb the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the given weapon and turn them into "death scythes", weapons capable of being used by Death.
In the original Japanese version and Manga, Crona's sex is left ambiguous (the creator himself often stating "I don't know"). In the English dub male pronouns, are used to refer to Crona. Funimation has admitted that they settled with this rule because they felt that "it" would have been insulting to Crona as a character.[1]
