Manga Review: Soul Eater

Title: Soul Eater
Author: Ookubo Atsushi
Release: Monthly
Status: Ongoing
Genre: Shonen, Fantasy
Art: A
Originality: S
Story: A
Characters: S
Humor: A
Action: S

Impression: This is about a group of kids who go to a school that trains children to develop their physical and spiritual strength to hunt down corrupted souls and witches. One half of the students have the ability to turn into weapons and the other half work as their partner weapon meisters. This is a pretty good shonen manga with some dark concepts thrown into the works. I like how it uses the idea of insanity changing one’s perspective on the world. The battles are pretty damn cool too and the art style make them very intense. In comparison to the anime, I have to say that the manga’s battles are much better.