No change in status, though thankfully I am receiving some small amounts of feedback on my resume. One interview is scheduled for next week at least, considering it's been only a week I will take that as a good sign.
It's a mixed bag... this gives me the time to watch more anime as well as to play more video games, but it's not exactly under the circumstances that I wanted... being able to play is one thing, but having motivation past the job search itself has been trying.
So, I'm summoning what I have left to give a review of "Soul Eater".
Through the first three episodes, we're introduced to the main characters, who comprise three rather odd teams. See, there are "weapon meisters", people who wield the weapons.. and there are the weapons, which happen to be other people. I know, sounds odd, but at the very least we're not subjected to massively long transformation sequences.
The main protagonists are Maka Albarn, your prototypical scythe-wielding high-school sophomore, and Soul Eater, your prototypical high-school sophomore that turns into a scythe. One of the other two teams consists of Black Star (assassin who can't stay silent) and his weapon Tsubaki. The other gets odder... the weapon meister is Death the Kid, which happens to be the Grim Reaper's kid. His two weapons are a pair of sisters from Brooklyn, NY, who happen to turn into guns. Heh. And oh, by the way, Death is really a good guy.
So, you can probably tell that this series is half-comedy. There are quite a few other characters to add to the mix, teachers Sid and Franken Stein, who both happen to be weapon meisters. Maka's father, which is also a weapon himself. Excalibur makes mulitple appearances as one of the most annoying characters you'll find almost anywhere... Excalibur's shtick is that while any meister can wield him, he has 1000 rules for being handled. You can likely guess how arbitrary the rules are.
The other half is actually fairly decent action... even if sometimes it trends into the cliche slow-motion cuts and Death the Kid's massive attack, which typically gets shown three times each instance it's shown. While the first battle between new participants usually throws a surprise attack or two at you, when they do the next battle it flows fairly decently.
They did a very good job of showing the characters at their worst as well as at their best. All three characters had their weaknesses... Black Star's braggadocio and Kid's compulsiveness work against them at quite a few times. Maka, for her part, loses her share of duels, to the point that even though the show doesn't physically mention it too many times, you wonder exactly why she's lead because it's not exactly a given that she'll win any duel.
If there is one other thing that this show does well, it's opening and closing theme songs. I particularly enjoyed the songs in the second season, especially the funky-fresh ED3 as well as the rock song OP4. The animations accompanying the theme songs were pretty cool too, to the point that I wouldn't automatically skip the opening or closing sequences.
Fair warning, not to ruin the whole show, but the epilogue is like ten seconds long... there's closure, but not like scads of it.
Overall rating: 3.2 I will watch this one again, and I will think of this show each time I groove out on the theme music in the future on one of my mix CDs.
Thanks again for your patience, I hope to have more reviews up through the next few days.
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