The story to Soul Eater is funny actually because it starts out with you believing that this show will be about your main characters collecting souls to form a death scythe. The show starts out introducing three teams of weapons and meisters. Meisters aere people who run around collecting some messed up souls to keep the streets clean for lord death, aka the grim reaper. Meisters weapons are actually people, that transform into a weapon, anything from the average sword all the way to insanely awesome things like two transforming into two pistols. However, the story takes a different turn and brings you to a save the world plot, and that's the show shines, because at this shows core, it's a action adventure show. And it is fun, but nothing speacial.
As far as the animation is concerned for soul eater, it looks awesome, this show never seems to looses its budget as bones did an amazing job here, especially with character designs. This show is classicly called a Halloween anime, and that is perfect for this show. The fact that your characters main leader is Lord death, it really just has a Halloween type feel to it. So the animation is awesome.
The music for Soul Eater is pretty cool as well. The show has a mixture of rock and rap tracks that, in all honesty, couldn't be any better. And if you are anyone who has half a brain, you will know that the first opening of the show is absolutely amazing. Alot of people say that the second one is the better of the two openings in the show, but that's what opinions are for right? and as for dub vs sub, it's pretty much sub on this one because the dub is well done, but a few characters just don't sound as good in the dub as they do in the sub version. Maka just was not cast right and my god black star is absolutely annoying as all hell. On the plus on the dub, best performances have to go to Chuck Hub as stein as he fit the bill just right and for the sheer amount of awesome, Alphonse Elric's voice actor, Maxy Whitehead does Crona, and he does it just as well as he did Alphonse, thank you Maxy.
The characters of Soul Eater are actually the best part of the show. They each have specific goals and quirks that make them awesome. However to get this done' without writing 20 plus paragraphs, i will look at the main three teams that you see through the show as the cast is ginormous! You have Maka and Soul, who are what the entire first episode is focused on. Maka is a girl that has two defining traits, she hates her dad for what he's done in the past, and she is the character that always takes the front line showing that she's always got the guts to give it her all. You have Black Star and Tsubaki, Black Star being hyperactive version of Naruto and seeks to be the best assassin of all time. His weapon Tsubaki is a pair of chain sickles and is kind of Black Star's voice of reason.... Kind of. You have Death the kid and the Tompson sisters. Death the kid is the reapers own son, and well, his only real defining trait without spoilers is that he has an obsession with symmetry. His weapons, the Tompson sisters, turn into two pistols which kid can fire rapidly. All characters are very fun and entertaining, and i would go on but, never the less, spoilers.
So should you watch Soul Eater? Yes, the show is a very entertaining shounen and has it's faults, such as a bad dub at points, some annoying characters, and SORT OF poorly done plot, and some unanswered questions, but it really isn't about that. It's about the fun all the way to the last episode, and believe me this anime is fun. But I would say give it up about at least episode 6 or 7, because that is when the show really picks up.
