Soul Eater is, to say the least, a FANTASTIC series! The manga is by Atsushi Okubo, then the TV series was produced and just recently Funimation has finished the English dub.
The show is a great mixture of comedy, action, mystery, and sci-fi/fantasy type genres. The script is a perfect balance, as well as the characters. (EXCALIBURR..... EXCALIBUUURRRR!!!!) Comic relief is provided for the extreme action, awesome fight scenes, and scary, suspenseful mysteries.
The series is about a world where everybody has a specific Soul, and kids can be sent to the DWMA, a school to train fighters against evil souls. There are Weapons and Meisters, the weapons' wielders. The main characters are Maka Albarn and her scythe Soul Eater, Death the Kid (The Grim Reaper's son) and his twin guns, Liz and Patty, and Black Star and his weapon, Tsubaki. All of the students have totally different personalities and are best friends, striving to be the best, fight the best, and (In Soul's and Maka's case) gain enough souls to turn the weapon into a powerful Death Scythe.
It's a great series in general, the mood, the plot, the characters, the animation. The show follows the manga storyline very well for the first half of the series before veering away from the course. Nothing changes from the Japanese version to the English dub that really bothers me- except one thing.
No, the mouth flaps are great. Thescript isn't changed much at all, and in fact the dub is done very well. It's the voices that bother me. Or, rather, ONE voice.
What's up with Black Star, guise!?! He is voiced by Brittney Karbowski, who is (Obviously) female. The only problem? She makes Black Star sound female! HIS voice sounds like it belongs to a SHE. Black Star has a bit of an ego problem, and he shouts a lot, which doesn't help matters much. The voice is loud and annoying, and it just doesn't sound right after watching the whole series in Japanese, when Black Star has a rather deep and more natural voice for one of the world's strongest assassins. I don't mean to disrespect the voice actress, but I don't think this series was her best work.
That, in all, is the only thing of the whole series, Japanese and English, that bothers me! I've already stated everything else is fantastic- the only thing left to do with it is get EVERYONE to watch! ^_^
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