SOUL EATER - 16 July 21
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Summary:
Death the Kid wastes no time in starting his attack on Chrona, shooting her multiple times at close range. It doesn’t do much damage to Chrona though, and Liz observes that Chrona’s attitude towards fear is kind of like how the sisters were before they joined Kid. The fight gets interrupted when the captain of the Nidhogg - who, despite being a severed head, is still alive - fires the ship’s cannons at the two combatants. The cannonballs and subsequent explosions have no effect on either Chrona or Kid, however Rangarok’s soul wavelength begins to swell up afterwards. Letting out a sreech to match Rangarok’s, Chrona uses a single powerful slash to cut the ship and its captain in half. As the ship starts to sink, Chrona and Ragnarok make their escape, and Kid tries to give chase. Unfortunately, he’s distracted by the fog clearing up and the emergence of a perfectly symmetrical sun and sky, and so Chrona and Ragnarok are able to get away.
Back at Shibusen, Medusa reports to Maka that her blood test came back normal. Medusa herself finds the lack of black blood odd because she had herself been watching when Maka had coughed up the blood during the last battle. Nevertheless, she gives Maka some bad medicine that will speed up the effects of the black blood and reveals to Maka that Soul had came to her about his dreams. This makes Maka angry because he hadn’t told her about it. After Maka leaves, Medusa tries to find the girl’s file so that she can figure out why the black blood is gone. That file is missing from her cabinet because Stein has it, and he suddenly appears behind Medusa and asks her about her interest in Maka and Soul. Stein also has a prescription that Medusa wrote for Maka for a medicine that he’s never seen before, but Medusa keeps up the good-nurse act and claims that it’s of the herbal variety. When Stein wonders aloud if her interest in such medicines is as a doctor or a witch, Medusa stares daggers at him for a moment before returning to her normal demeanor again.
Stein then completely diffuses the situation by falling out of the chair, and after he leaves her office, he pauses for a smoke. He had noticed how she had looked like she wanted to kill him, and it had actually made him shake in fear. As for what to do about her, Stein lets Sid and Sid’s weapon Nygus go investigate her home first. Sid finds the place filled with experimental materials, and sitting right below a magic circle on her wall is a diary. Reading it reveals what Medusa has planned, and Sid realizes that Medusa might try something tomorrow on the eve of the festival. Before he can leave to bring this news to Stein and Shinigami-sama though, Stein gets blown up by some bombs set by Eruka. Meanwhile, Kid returns to Shibusen and goes to question his father about what the captain of the Nidhogg had said about the Kishin close to them. He suspects that it has something to do with how his father can’t leave Shibusen.
Preview
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Well this was a surprise. Based on last week’s preview, I thought that this week would be pretty much all Chrona vs. Kid, but that was barely half the episode. That’s not to say that I’m complaining though. It was a cool fight while it lasted (the way it ended was a little anticlimactic), and the story then moved on to even bigger things - namely Stein/Sid figuring out Medusa’s secret, and Kid asking his father about the Kishin. There was a very interesting tension between Stein and Medusa, and I think it fuels the notion that the two will face off again soon. That might come as early as whenever Medusa strikes for the plan she’s concocted, though it won’t be next week because the preview shows a divergence from the main plot so that they can do an Excalibur side-story. I hate it when something like this happens because it feels like the series is killing its own story momentum by not taking advantage of a good cliffhanger. Oh well, hopefully it will at least be funny.
Lobotomy at 10:24 pm on July 21st, 2008
Love this show… no more bloody mess?
Sub pleeeeezzzz.
Kanako at 10:25 pm on July 21st, 2008
lol EXCALIBUR!
Tryptomine at 10:25 pm on July 21st, 2008
What!? They’re veering into anime-original filler? Damn it.
Jessica at 10:41 pm on July 21st, 2008
EXCALIBURRRRRRRRRR
ANYTHING INVOLVING EXCALIBUR IS NOT FILLER BUT ADDED AWESOME TO THE STORY. FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Artanis at 10:45 pm on July 21st, 2008
jajajajajaja
Zoe at 11:23 pm on July 21st, 2008
Yay, my favorite mummy <3
Rest easy folks, next episode is a one-time deal before they get into an arc that can’t be broken up.
SOSAnimeBoy at 12:03 am on July 22nd, 2008
Whoa… but BONES filler should be good. I mean, it’s BONES, right?
jonaht at 12:43 am on July 22nd, 2008
ok~ it’s getting more fun~
^.^
cant wait for subbed version…
Kanako at 1:33 am on July 22nd, 2008
lol if you read manga you know how crazy this series gets but these fillers are one of the best i seen they are just too funny!
BROOKLYN otaku at 2:21 am on July 22nd, 2008
totally agree with the preview… but you know, if ur an impatient jerk like myself and read the manga up to its current place, then you might actually look forward to some anime original eps. might be good
Kanako at 2:39 am on July 22nd, 2008
should be the other way around you look forward to next manga release and watch how funny souleater is in anime
KIJIN at 5:39 am on July 22nd, 2008
http://randomc.maximum7.net/image/SOUL%20EATER/SOUL%20EATER%20-%2016%20-%20Large%2008.jpg
Is it just me, or does Patty look like Guu from ‘Hale nochi Guu’ in this shot?
Sadmask at 8:44 am on July 22nd, 2008
I bet Soul Eater’ll be done even though the manga’s still going, much like FMA.
Westlo at 9:18 am on July 22nd, 2008
Why filler now when it’s about to get fucking good… sigh.
kh2masta at 11:15 am on July 22nd, 2008
if you read the manga theres a manga special with excalibur again so this might be that special.
Anime Fan at 3:17 pm on July 22nd, 2008
Ouch, this one is great
T.I.P at 4:47 pm on July 22nd, 2008
ok but medusa kept talking about some sort of wedding and being pregnant, and then before kidd confronted his father, he kept talking about a wedding and getting some woman pregnant too… Im scared, remember even sid was talking about a “wedding” before he got blown up wtf is up with that?
XIII at 5:42 pm on July 22nd, 2008
T.I.P, thats not actually what happened in the show. The subs you watched just sucked. Bad.
Cain at 7:29 pm on July 22nd, 2008
@Omni
“… Stein gets blown up by some bombs set by Eruka” (3rd Paragraph)
A little mistake here, should be Sid I believe. Would have been sad if Stein was to die this early in the show?
MeFTW at 5:22 am on July 23rd, 2008
I want to see if Soul really becomes the Demon King,cause of the black blood and all.