The SoulTaker: Tamashii-gari (SoulTaker)

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Japanese: The SoulTaker～魂狩～

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 4, 2001 to Jul 4, 2001

Premiered: Spring 2001

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: WOWOW, Pioneer LDC, Toshiba Entertainment, Toshiba Digital Frontiers

Licensors: Geneon Entertainment USA

Studios: Tatsunoko Production

Source: Original

Genres: Horror, Supernatural

Theme: Mythology

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 6.34¹ (scored by 8,181 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #7907²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #4265

Members: 27,048

Favorites: 74

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Synopsis

Kyousuke Date comes home one night and finds his mother dying in a pool of her own blood. In her final moments, she stabs him in the chest. After a swift recovery, Kyousuke searches for answers regarding his mother's motives, but finds more than he bargained for when he is attacked by two rival organizations: the Hospital and the Kirihara Group.

Kyousuke is surprised to discover that he has a twin sister named Runa, and both groups try to coerce information out of him about her despite his ignorance to her existence. As their assault continues, Kyousuke soon makes another discovery—he has the ability to transform into a terrifying mutant called SoulTaker. With these newfound powers, Kyousuke resolves to crush both organizations, uncover the truth behind his mother's actions, and protect Runa.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Nakahara, Komugi

Main

Momoi, Haruko
Japanese

Date, Kyousuke

Main

Saiga, Mitsuki
Japanese

Misaki, Maya

Supporting

Ootani, Ikue
Japanese

Mibu, Shirou

Supporting

Onosaka, Masaya
Japanese

Tokisaka, Runa

Supporting

Neya, Michiko
Japanese

Akiba, Megumi

Supporting

Enomoto, Atsuko
Japanese

Kirihara, Yui

Supporting

Hiramatsu, Akiko
Japanese

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Staff

Kawase, Kouhei

Producer

Ogura, Mitsutoshi

Assistant Producer

Shinbou, Akiyuki

Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Mima, Masafumi

Sound Director

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Opening Theme

"Soultaker" by Jam Project

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Ending Theme

	1: "Memory" by Shinji Kakijima (eps 1-7,9-11,13)
	2: "As Time Goes By" by Kousei Asami (eps 8)

Reviews

Oct 7, 2007

Mouser888

Recommended

I loved this anime. At the beginning you might have a bad view of the anime as just an all killing, no story anime. As the story moves on it becomes much deeper, so don't be too influenced by the first few eps. I recommend that you should watch this anime in segments, don't watch it all at once or you won't enjoy it. There are some that will like this style of art, it is a different, somewhat darker, little gothic style that keeps things interesting. Music's pretty good, I epecially like the opening. I really loved the characters too, each person had ...

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Jan 1, 2009

ladyxzeus

Mixed Feelings

The one word about SoulTaker is "colours".

Colours, colours everywhere!

The art of this anime is simply astounding. It breaks all the rules about colouring patterns, uses innovative games of light and shadow and the overall achievement is a confusion of bidimensional planes: awesome!

But... While the art is original and superb, the rest is pretty much mediocre. We can't really ask too much from a plot that mixes winged monsters, aliens and shotguns, except for high doses of bloody entertainment. They give it to us and, somewhat, the amazing art is appropriated to the flow of the events. The characters don't have any especially original trait: they ...

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Mar 9, 2009

Undertow

Not Recommended

The people that made this anime really tried their best to make this anime as bad as it can be, in my opinion. It's rare to run into something that ticks so many wrong boxes as this anime did with me.

I'll give you a breakdown of the scores and the reasons behind why it earned those.

Story: 1
At first glance the story seems quite interesting, however when I watched it, it quickly reminded me of several other anime and all originality of the story went completely down the drain.
It's basically an almost direct combination between Tekkaman Blade, The Guyver and the Devilman AVO. Especially when you ...

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