(MAJOR SPOILERS)[Discussion] Soul Eater

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Soul Eater is set at Death Weapon Meister Academy. DWMA for short—located in the fictional Death City in Nevada, United States. This School was made to destroy evil in the world. The school is run by Lord 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 Evans; assassin Black Star and his partner Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, who can turn into a variety of different weapons such as a kusarigama, shuriken, and ninjatō; and Lord Deaths'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 Lord Death.

Main Characters:

Maka Albarn

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Maka Albarn is the main protagonist of Soul Eater. She is a young but dedicated student who takes after her mother, another prodigious meister. However, her relationship with her father Spirit Albarn is strained due to his constant flirtations with women, leading her parents to divorce. As such, Maka is obsessed with turning her weapon partner, Soul Eater, into a death scythe that will surpass her father. She collaborates well with Soul in battle, but sometimes gets frustrated at him when he does something foolish. When in danger, however, Maka does everything she can to keep Soul out of harm's way.

The anime depicts Maka as the most mature and casual character out of the main protagonists. She is brave, strong-willed, hard working, humble, kind, and determined to do what is right, but hates injustice and can lose control of her emotions when her friends are in danger. She also at times tends to get annoyed with Soul due to his laid back personality, but they are still good friends at heart. She differs from most main protagonists in anime in that she has the characteristics most male main protagonists have, but is a female.

Soul Eater Evans

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Scythe:

Soul Evans nicknamed Soul Eater, is a demon scythe and the partner of Maka Albarn, and the main male protagonist. His weapon form has a red and black scythe and an eye near its heel which expresses his emotions. He has a laid-back and nonchalant personality and tries to maintain a "cool" attitude, but often ends up embarrassing himself instead. He tends to bicker with Maka over unimportant things from time to time, but is fiercely loyal to her and has more than once displayed his will to die for his friends' safety. He also fights to resist the madness-inducing effects of black blood, which takes the form of a little demon who appears within his subconscious, after he is slashed in the chest by Ragnarok and infected with the Demon Sword's blood.

Black Star

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Black Star is a ninja assassin and the meister of Tsubaki. He is exceedingly arrogant and loud-mouthed for an assassin, preferring to make a flashy entrance rather than sneaking up on his opponents, and tries to upstage anyone who gains more attention than he does. He frequently calls himself a "big" man destined to surpass God, thus driving himself to his physical limits and making him one of the most athletic students at DWMA. He makes it a personal goal to defeat Kid in battle since Kid is a 'Death God'(Grim Reaper). He is a skilled combatant even when unarmed, using a skill that allows him to increase his own soul wavelength and channel it through physical attacks. He is one of the last remaining survivors of the Star Clan, a family of ninja assassins who slaughtered others for wealth until they were wiped out by DWMA, which took him in as an infant. He is oppressed by anyone who recognizes the clan's symbol, a star-shaped tattoo on his shoulder. Due to his obsession with power and to the fact that the Star Clan was wiped out because they started to consume souls, some believe he will eventually descend down the path towards becoming a kishin like his father White Star.

Tsubaki Nakatsukasa

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Kusarigama:

Smoke Bomb:

Ninja Sword:

Shuriken:

Enchanted Sword:

Tsubaki Nakatsukasa is the weapon partner of Black Star, classified as a "shadow weapon" who has the power to transform into a variety of ninja weapons including a kusarigama, a shuriken, a Ninja Sword, and a smoke bomb. She is gentle, quiet, friendly, and easygoing, and provides a soothing influence among her friends whenever they argue. She is also very patient and tolerant of others, which allows her to put up with Black Star's constant arrogance and showboating, and serves as a highly collaborative partner in battle. Her multiple weapon forms are part of a tradition passed down by her family, descended from the first demon weapons created by Arachne. She later acquires her most powerful form, the Enchanted Sword after absorbing the soul of her corrupted brother Masamune.

Death The Kid

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Death the Kid , called Kid for short, is the son of Lord Death and was created from a part of the Grim Reaper's being like his older brother Asura. However, lacking his father's aspect of fear and starting out as a child, Kid grows and developed his own personality. His status as a Grim Reaper grants him formidable godlike powers such as invincibility to a point. However, as an inheritor of Death's Madness of Order, Kid suffers from a crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder for symmetry in everyday life. As a result, he breaks down upon seeing anything off even by the slightest measurement, which hinders him in his daily life and in battle. This mindset results in him becoming the meister of the Thompson Sisters after seeing their matching weapon forms as a means to preserve his personal symmetry, but unable to fight using one of them while the other is missing. He can also summon a flying skateboard called Beelzebub as both transportation and a weapon. Because of his status as Grim Reaper and a polished meister, Kid is not required to collect souls or attend DWMA, but he does so anyway to create custom weapons suited to his desires.

Liz and Patty Thompson

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Liz:

Patty:

Twin Pistols:

Elizabeth Thompson and her younger sister Patricia Thompson, nicknamed Liz and Patty, respectively, are the weapon partners of Death the Kid.
Liz is a cynical but mature, smart and resourceful young woman who always finds Kid's perfectionist attitude annoying, and is also sometimes very cowardly and has a fear of ghosts and anything that could be titled "creepy".
Patty is an extremely childish girl who may not be too intelligent, but is able to maintain a cheerful attitude in any situation and usually has bouts of psychotic rage to motivate her partners.

They both take the form of semi-automatic pistols that compress Kid's soul wavelength and fire it in the form of energy bullets that range in strength from destructive blasts to painful yet non-wound-inducing shots. Both sisters are able to act as meisters whenever Kid is absent. As infants, they were abandoned on the streets of Brooklyn and survived by mugging passersby. They originally join Kid to exploit his wealth and authority as a Grim Reaper, but grow closer to Kid over time and outgrow their greed.

Some Major Characters:

Lord Death

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Lord Death, also known as the Grim Reaper, is the headmaster of Death Weapon Meister Academy and father to both Asura and Death the Kid. He is the personification of madness through order, reflected by his desire to maintain peace in the world and his aversion towards chaos. However, though he could render humanity into mindless drones, Death allows them to keep their free will. He is also the former leader of the Great Old Ones prior to sealing away his apprentice and first child Asura eight centuries ago who had become a kishin, binding his own soul around Death City to keep Asura imprisoned underground. Unable to leave the city as a result, Lord Death creates Death Weapon Meister Academy to train meisters and weapons to prevent more kishin from surfacing, and to create death scythes to help him maintain the peace. As headmaster, Lord Death normally resides in a special chamber in DWMA building called the Death Room, which others can contact through mirrors and reflective objects

Spirit Albarn(Death Scythe)

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Scythe:

Spirit Albarn, also named Death Scythe, is Maka's father and the sole Deathscythe resident to DWMA at the start of the series, with jurisdiction over North America. Though he can transform into a scythe with a black blade and a cross-shaped handle, Spirit is revealed to be able to fight on his own without a Meister. Originally partnered to Franken Stein, Spirit became a Deathscythe with the aid of his second Meister Kami, Maka's mother. However, due to his lecherous behavior, Spirit ends up being divorced and trying to win back Maka's respect. He acts primarily as a consort for Lord Death before being reassigned as Stein's partner after he is hired as a teacher at DWMA at the start of the series. However, in light of Asura's freedom, unable to assist him at the time as he was helping Stein defeat Medusa, Spirit remains by Death's side since then.

Medusa

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Medusa is the first major antagonist introduced in the story, a snake-themed witch who contains over a thousand snake familiars inside her body that she can use in her Vector Arrow spell.[ch. 5, 9] She can also create arrow-shaped panels on the ground called Vector Plates that throw anyone standing on them in the direction they point. Medusa is a scientist who developed Black Blood, a substance that enhances madness within people, and aims to use it as part of her experiment to enable the world to evolve and no longer be stagnated by the DWMA's actions. Medusa is resolute of her goals to the point of experimenting on her own child Crona whose purpose is essential to her overall scheme.

Crona(meister) and Ragnarok(weapon)

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(Crona is the pink haired guy)

Crona is Medusa's child and the wielder of Ragnarok, a weapon also known as the Demon Sword, which takes the form of a black longsword. Crona is androgynous in appearance, leaving the character's gender unknown, though Crona is addressed with male pronouns in the Yen Press and Funimation translations of the manga and anime, respectively, for convenience. As a child, Crona's blood is replaced with a sanity-detering substance called "Black Blood" which Ragnarok's essence is mixed into. This forms a symbiotic relationship between Crona and Ragnarok, the latter of whom appears from Crona's body in a black, vaguely humanoid form when not in his weapon form. Because of Medusa's abuse and Ragnarok's bullying nature, Crona is extremely reclusive and fearful of almost everything. Unlike normal weapon and meister pairs, who synchronize their soul wavelengths to increase their strength, Crona uses a skill called Scream Resonance together with Ragnarok, who emits a scream from the mouth on his weapon form's blade that causes it to vibrate and deal additional damage. The black blood can also harden to prevent physical damage, and can extend from Crona's wounds to be used as an additional weapon.

 

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