Soul Eater

    Soul Eater centers around three groups of students enrolled at "Death Weapon Meister Academy" (DWMA for short). While all three teams include important characters, the team including Maka Albarn and Soul Eater (yes the name is the same as the series'). Each team is made up of the weapon meister (the weapon wielder) and the weapon (a human transformed into a weapon). The DWMA's purpose is to supply Death with weapons to battle "madness", the students must defeat humans whose souls have succumbed to madness to certify their weapons as Death Scythes, weapons which are worthy enough to be used by Death. The story mostly is about defeating the Kishin (the source of madness), and making a few jokes along the way.
    This series sports a rather distinctive style of drawing. In general characters have few distinctive features other than their overall design. What makes the style so distinctive is their noses. The characters' noses are drawn a bit short, and when viewed head on the underside of the nose is shaded (kind of like reality). On top of that the environment has a distinctive style too. The environment is generally draw with beefy outlines. In fact their is a lot of juxtaposition throughout (not just in the drawing, but also in the rolls played by the characters).
    Overall I would say this was slightly above average. The storyline was pretty good, there were some good characters, and the action and comedy were fantastic (in case you haven't figured it out by now I'm an action/comedy fan). The action had good choreography, and the animation in fight sequences was well done (I generally find this point in animation lacking because of the amount of movement involved). The comedy was fabulous, albeit it was pretty dark, it managed to maintain it's comedic value mixed with the seriousness of it. Quite possibly the most interesting thing about it was it's themes. The most obvious perhaps is is extensive use of juxtaposition, which defined just about everything in the series. The one thing I have to say was lacking was the ending. An ending should answer any and all questions, and an ending to wrap up the story with a nice bow. The only reason to deviate from this is if you are alluding to something (like a sequel), but this series didn't do that. Instead it generated even more questions, and gave an ok ending. Overall an OK series, it did very well with it's core themes, but had an ending that didn't live up to expectations.

Most of the major characters