The Password is Courage

I’m not a big anime watcher, usu­ally only falling back on it when I’m in a cod­ing slump and feel­ing re­ally bored. It was on one such oc­ca­sion that I picked up Soul Eater. It’s rare to get such a char­ac­ter-dri­ven story out of main­stream anime. The char­ac­ters, music, art de­sign, style… all of it clicked with me. I fell in love with it from the first episode.

I stopped watch­ing about a month be­fore the story ended so that I could see the final five episodes all in one go. Well, it ended late last month and I only just got around to watch­ing them. Maybe be­cause I was busy, maybe be­cause I didn’t want to admit to my­self that it was over. Lit­tle of both, prob­a­bly.

In the end it was a dis­ap­point­ment. Soul Eater could have been so much more, if only they had fo­cused on the char­ac­ters in­stead of de­volv­ing into a huge ac­tion bat­tle. I guess such an end­ing it is to be ex­pected from some­thing based on a shōnen manga, though from what I’ve heard it de­vi­ated quite a bit from the source, which is still on­go­ing. Maybe I’ll pick that up.

Posted on April 28, 2009 in Anime, Soul Eater, TV

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