pros
+ colourful and vibrant animation
+ hilarious humour
+ likable characters and development
cons
- overrated story, ending could have been better and soul always got the spotlight stolen
- confusing summary >.<
- average dialogue

conclusion: somewhat reminiscent of bleach... so for those who miss that one being on break, go ahead. easy to follow, with likeable characters and development, although psychological aspects/drama were slightly overtoned by comedy (there's series worse on that though). story is slightly patchy, partly predictable, and doesn't exactly follow the manga, so i felt like it could be better, but that might be me. a little perverted at times (no real ecchi aspect but the jokes... the jokes...!!), but still provides provides good action, funny humour, friendship, and familial love. wacky, hilarious, stylish, yet pretty violent at the same time. i would recommend the manga more than the anime (>better story, same lovable charas, and same comedy), but this is decent as well. don't have any particular complaints concerning the technical execution (seiyuu, animation, music). oh, but if you want to watch this, the sub provides a better feel for charas' personalities; the dub kinda changed the script.

peace. (show less)

I know there's more to it in the manga but as far as this anime goes, it's really misleading.

First of all, the title "Soul Eater" made me expect Soul to show some astonishing performance all along these 51 episodes. However, everyone just kept on stealing his spotlight, starting with Black Star and Tsubaki who got some serious character development all along the serie. Then, on the third team, we can see that Kid show some pretty good feats and that his weapons, the Thompson sisters, can very well fight on their own, much like Justin or Giriko. At some point in the manga, Soul watched Justin fight and wished he could similarly fight on his own. I thought he would undergo some serious training, but nothing happened and all he would ever do was transform into a rigid scythe and at most sacrifice himself uselessly to protect his meister. And about his meister, Maka, she even more steals his spotlight by having so many abilities. In the anime, she is even shown to be a weapon-type human but chose to fight as a meister. Way to belittle Soul!

The second misconception is the summary of the serie, stating that they are on a hunt to collect 99 kishin eggs and a witch soul. It seems this only applied to the first episode, and the characters never moved in that direction after that.

There's a lot more things which are confusing in this serie, at least to me, but I would like to end by saying that overall, it is an anime that is somehow worth watching thanks to some occasional good moments, whether for fights or for humor. (show less)