This named prequel of the critically acclaimed "Soul Eater" has got me cringing and shuffling my hair, even more so than Eureka Seven's Pocket Full Rainbow movie. It surprised me that it did. Those who've read the manga and/or watched the anime series may have mixed feelings or downright hate it or love it, god knows why.
Story, 3: The story had a lot of potential, but it really didn't go into much context at all. The witch comes in to destroy all of DWMA but her motives are devoid and unoriginal. It's just looking for blood and gore for her entertainment with no background or so to back up why to even say how she came to be who she was. The supporting characters are really weak as they feel like they're just there to set up things for the MC until she realizes the situation not until the second to last episode. Yes, throughout the show the MC who is the weapon, I don't remember their name, that's how bad it is, goes on with her slice of life show and while she yearns to become stronger she doesn't really go through much of a training sequence or desire a goal when it's clear that would've made her motive at DWMA much more stronger than the friendship stuff she would've had with it. For the most part, the main cast just strolls around and have fun and then get a friendship boost for the last level....I'll leave the rest to you.
Art, 7: The art isn't really anything original or unique to say. It's similar to almost every anime in the last few years and present. Although it is quite refined and I haven't seen any derpy faces which kind of shows the studio gave the art a lot of time and effort.
Sound, 5: You know actually, I was so appalled by the characters every dialogue the sound I couldn't hear at all. Although I did like the opening song it was decent.
Character, 1: There is no character. They are a mixture of cliche, generic stereotypes as if they were just created like the Power Puff Girls. The MC strives for nothing. She knows nothing like Jon Snow knows nothing yet he is COOL and does something like a badass. Here the MC, weapon girl, does not do anything. She doesn't even try to realize the situation in DWMA nor cares about anyone else other than her friends. Who cares about fodder. The other two MC, the meisters, are yet again a generic princess who knows martial arts but is useless most of the time until the plot calls for it. The forgetful girl with big boobs and the idiot among them although the weapon girl is also an idiot. if you think about it they are nothing but fan service and I'm okay with fan service but not the way it's presented here. As for the rest, the original cast I was glad to see but they don't represent them as good as the original series even though this is a prequel. I don't believe they were that bland. Everyone else is just used a tool to set everything up.
Enjoyment, 1: If I cringed and shuffled my hair while moving around weirdly on my chair because of how bad and annoying this show was I'd be either crazy or this show is actually that appalling. There were moments that made me blush a little but it only lasted less than a second. It doesn't have any measure of excitement and the battle animations were terrible.
Overall, 1: This show is the worst show I've ever seen earning itself a 1/10. This show literally SLAPS you in the face if you enjoyed the Soul Eater Manga or anime this show detriments everything the world and character of Soul Eater once was. It tried to give a different take but the way it presented slice of life with some action was god awfully bad. The final fight literally yelled "PLOT". Don't joke with me, I love slice of life and if you do too this show does not live up to the Soul Eater series let alone it's own genre. It is NOT worth anyone's time yet already many people watched it or is watching it. I just felt like slapping whoever wrote this. The characters are literally a combination of only cliche and generic things. They don't have a taste of originality like Death the Kid's obsession with symmetry. Now that's called character. And for those rating this show above average should write their own stories and see to themselves they could write an even story just as bad as this or better. The show's main point...there was not point. It's your usual friendship stuff. The art and stuff was like I was watching any other anime that looked just like it. The conflicts within this story will kill your hype for expectations for the moment because it is a mind manipulation show. And that is my review without talking crap and spoiling anything. Although I actually did talk crap only.
Then again I'm not a reviewer.
