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Jan 30, 2017
All the way from the beginning the show told us that It's important for maester and the weapon to work in synergy, with deep enough connection they can overcome everything, absolutely everything. There wouldn't be a maester without a weapon and vice versa.
(Sound body, mind, soul etc...)

Maka and Soul had constant relations development but for what? In the end Maka did the courage asspull and oneshotted the omnipotent kishin with a single punch without any assistance from Soul, except the whole squad was cheering for Maka from their weird positions. Ending the series with a very unsatisfying note, not giving any closure.

Mind you, this wasn't even that comedic and it all just ended abruptly. They even built up the demon sub-plot with Soul since the first half of the series and in the end all that wait didn't get rewarded.
Other cringeworthy thing was the sudden plot postcard from Maka's mother and Maka's sudden weapon form which was super weird and not needed. Why the hell did they even bring that up when all she did was show it for 10 seconds and lose?

They also had so much development for Black Star too who achieved the 100% connection super saiyan mode with Tsubaki. He didn't use that form even once during their generic laughable giant boss fight. For all this time they built up Black Stars character for surpassing the gods and other great deeds, in the end he was defeated off-screen.

Kid unlocked that new weapon which was very reminicent to Death's style, in the end it did absolutely nothing except make the Kishin revert to his earlier stage which probably was stronger than the slow giant mode.

Not to mention people recovering from getting impaled and mutilated for 2/3 of their bodies.There was so much things they rushed in the last 15 episodes that it felt like it was a whole other series.

For the good things:
+ Every single character was likeable
+ Great soundtrack
+ Art and animation
+ Very impressive voice acting, I loved the seiyuu of Maka, Kid and Black Star
+Genius filler episodes
+Good plot and character progression till the latter half
+ Distinguished itself from other shounen until the final half when I literally drowned in cheese

-Rushed plot
-Asspulls in the end
-Shounen tropes in the end

I would've give it as high as 9/10 but in the end it fell into strong 6/10 or weak 7/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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