SOUL EATER - 07 May 19
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Summary:
Maka and Soul have arrived in Italy for an extracurricular lesson that involves hunting down a murderer. While they are out doing this, a boy named Chrona armed with a sword finds himself surrounded by a large group of thugs in a church. A witch floating high above the church is telepathically telling Chrona to eat a lot of souls, and she infuses him with some magic that causes him to declare himself a demon. He then activates his sword Ragnarok, and it starts screeching at a high-pitch. By now, Maka and Soul have taken out the murderer, and shortly after Soul eats the soul, Maka senses something coming from the church. By concentrating, she’s able to tell that there is a meister and his weapon inside there surrounded by over fifty humans. It bothers her enough to investigate, and when they arrive at the door to the church, she’s shocked to find that all the human souls have suddenly disappeared. Inside, she finds just Chrona standing alone, and she then realizes that his weapon is inside of him. This is confirmed when Ragnarok sprouts out of Chrona’s back in the form of a dark and burly figure.
Since Maka sees Chrona as having broken the rules by taking these human souls, she prepares to fight, and Ragnarok changes into his sword form for Chrona. Chrona charges first, but Maka blocks his sword and counters by smacking him in the face. She manages to knock him down, but when she goes for the finishing blow, she finds that she can’t cut him. The only effect that her attack had was that it caused Chrona to bleed a little, and seeing the black blood makes Maka realize that Chrona’s weapon is his blood, meaning that she can’t damage him with any of her normal attacks. The witch then telepathically suggests that Chrona kill Maka, so Chrona turns on the sword’s screeching ability and attacks. When Maka locks blades with Chrona, the screeching Ragnarok injures Soul, forcing Maka to kick Chrona away. She figures out that the blade’s screeching causes it to vibrate in a deadly way, and this is bad because now she can neither attack nor defend with Soul. Maka doesn’t want him to get hurt any further, but she finds out too late that she can’t run either because her back is against the church doors, and, as Chrona points out, those doors open inward. When Chrona takes a powerful swing at her, it’s Soul who changes back into his human form and protects her with his body.
Preview
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Well it looks like our primary antagonists may have finally arrived. At least, that’s what I hope Medusa and/or Chrona will be since we’ve so far had a lot of cool fights and background information, but we haven’t had a significant story arc yet. I get the feeling though that, due to how Chrona appears to be manipulated by Medusa, he’ll end up joining Maka and the others. I’d also say he’s got an interesting fighting style, but that’s due largely to Ragnarok, and that sword felt very familiar looking to me. To take two Weekly Jump examples, it reminds me of Creed’s Imagine Blade from Black Cat crossed with with Cirucci’s vibrating blades from Bleach. The battle between Maka and Chrona thus ended up being mainly interesting because of the cliffhanger it ended on (a very nice one I might add).
Related to that, I think the preview this week was perhaps a bit too spoilerish. I’m now really looking forward to seeing Stein kick some ass (shame he doesn’t have his chair with him), but it I suspect it would have been even better if I didn’t see it coming.
Sadmask at 9:44 pm on May 19th, 2008
OH YES. MAH CHRONA
sara at 10:03 pm on May 19th, 2008
love the blood
exia at 10:08 pm on May 19th, 2008
kool kant wait for the subs
Tryptomine at 10:09 pm on May 19th, 2008
Hm, watching the raw now, I notice Chrona’s using ‘boku,’ so that’d suggest Chrona is in fact a ‘he.’ Was a bit amazed over the argument of this issue that broke out in the comments for 06.
Jenn-Jen at 10:17 pm on May 19th, 2008
@Tryptomine: Seriously? Well… you could think of Kanon where Ayu uses ‘boku’ all the time. I would guess that they used ‘boku’ so that Chrona’s gender didn’t really sway towards either direction.
And it looks like another awesome ep. Can’t wait to watch.
http://randomc.animeblogger.net/image/SOUL%20EATER/SOUL%20EATER%20-%2007%20-%20Large%2015.jpg
Lol. Death Scythe in this pic is hilarious.
Tryptomine at 10:25 pm on May 19th, 2008
@Jenn: That’s why I said ’suggest,’ since ‘boku’ is very rarely used by females, but not completely unheard of. If I’m not mistaken, I believe it tends to have masculine connotations, so it’s certainly odd to hear a girl use it.
SoulCaster at 10:27 pm on May 19th, 2008
It looks like this might clear up the confusion on Chrona’s gender, byte the voice it looks like Chrona really is male (though I was hoping Chrona would be female :-/, thought the comedy routine between Ragnarok and him worked better that way).
Anyway, this was another great episode, but I really wonder if they planning on doing one chapter = one episode? I was hoping the anime would give us some more background information on the cast, but by doing it this way I guess it ensures that the anime will always be interesting.
[T.O.S.C.]
Dragoon at 10:29 pm on May 19th, 2008
The official lists Chrona’s gender as unknown. Anyway can’t wait to watch this!
SoulCaster at 10:31 pm on May 19th, 2008
Argh… I forgot to add that I thought that they would give Ragnarok a more demonic sounding voice, but they didn’t making him sound like a normal character :-/ was a bit disappointed on this one, ah well..
[T.O.S.C.]
dot dot dot at 10:32 pm on May 19th, 2008
I’ve read some of the manga and if I recall correctly it says Chrona is “____”’s daughter…
longhaul at 10:39 pm on May 19th, 2008
chrona is female, read the manga
shirokiryuu at 10:39 pm on May 19th, 2008
If I recall correctly, I believe there’s a scene where Ragnarok tries to peep on Chrona (i.e. flipping her cloak over). That only make sense if Chrona is a girl.
v1cious at 10:40 pm on May 19th, 2008
well if it follows the manga, there’s an interesting twist at the end of the next episode.
v1cious at 10:42 pm on May 19th, 2008
Longhaul: i hope you’re not talking Mahou’s translations.
rc at 10:43 pm on May 19th, 2008
Tryptomine: He keeps saying he does not know how to talk to a girl in this episode; I think that shows that he is a boy, or at least to me with my common sense =P I could be wrong tho, what do I know? =)
BROOKLYN otaku at 10:44 pm on May 19th, 2008
yep,GUILTY as well did’nt realize “he” was a “she” till like a few more chapters into the manga.. she is cute…does that make me gay!?
Jin at 11:04 pm on May 19th, 2008
I’m a bit surprised they split up this chapter into 2 eps since up until now it’s been one ep per chapter. Oh well~
The episode preview doesn’t seem too spoilerish. Especially since there’s a lot more to it that Stein kicking some ass with Death Scythe x:
Yee can’t wait for more Chrona and Ragnarok though c:
RmX at 11:14 pm on May 19th, 2008
@Jin: What are you talking about? This episode ended exactly where chapter 4 ended.
A Day Without Me at 11:41 pm on May 19th, 2008
Man, I wish Maka would stop being useless - I like her character, so its wicked annoying to see her just kinda freezing up/flipping out and not being able to do anything in battle situations.
Dragoon at 11:44 pm on May 19th, 2008
What do you mean? She did everything she could do against Chrona.