Soul Eater Volume 2

Review Date: 2010 August 27 14:46

Reviewed by: Molly Drury

Released by: FUNimation

Age Rating: 15

Region: 2 - UK

Volume 2 of 3

Length: 325 minutes

Subtitles: English

Audio: English 2.0 Stereo

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Summary

The first volume of Soul Eater laid down the basics of the Death Academy and its students, or meisters and their human-weapons, who have to defeat and collect corrupted souls. The first volume introduced Maka and her weapon Soul, Black Star and his gentle but deadly weapon Tsubaki, Death the Kid and his twin guns the Thompson sisters Patty and Liz, and the rest of the quirky cast of characters, from the unhinged Dr Stein to Maka's overzealous father, Death Sycthe. The second volume picks up where it left off but takes us down a different path, away from hunting down souls and instead focuses more on the Death Weapon Meister Academy itself and the strange goings on within it. There is something evil in the Academy.

Review

The second volume of Soul Eater arrives with the same awesome characters, setting and sticks with its emphasis on teamwork and friendships, with a big dollop of weirdness too. It steers away from the soul collecting elements of the previous series to focus more on the Academy's inner workings itself, the characters' schoolwork and the evil lurking inside the school.