Soul Eater is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Atsushi Okubo. Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy", the series revolves around three teams, each consisting of a weapon meister and (at least one) weapon that can transform into a humanoid. Trying to make the latter a "death scythe" and thus fit for use by the academy's headmaster Shinigami, the personification of death, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, in that order; otherwise, they will have to start all over again.
PLOT:
Soul Eater is set at Death Weapon Meister Academy for short located in the fictional Death City in Nevada, United States. The school is run by Shinigami, also known as Death, as a training facility for humans with the ability to transform into weapons, as well as the wielders of those weapons, called meisters. Attending this school are meister Maka Albarn and her scythe partner Soul Eater; assassin Black Star and his partner Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, who can turn into a variety of different weapons such as a kusarigama, shuriken, and ninjato; and Shinigami's son Death the Kid and his pistol partners Liz and Patty Thompson. The goal of the school's meister students is to have their weapons defeat and absorb the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the given weapon and turn them into "death scythes", weapons capable of being used by Shinigami.
Soul Eater - Battle Resonance: Wrought your weapon into a death scythe in the fighting game Soul Eater: Battle Resonance, find 99 souls born from the egg of the kishins and one witch's soul. Maka and Soul Eater has failed this task once by mistaking the soul of Blair the cat as a witch, they could not bear to fail again.
Following the plot of the first 24 episodes of the anime, you get to take part in the fights Maka and gang participated in and experience the coolness of the characters at first hand. For those who has never seen the anime, be amazed at the comical situations the characters managed to get themselves into, for the long time fans, this game is filled to the brim to new story elements and costumes as well as items to get a rare insight into the characters mind and their wardrobes.
The cast of Soul Eater make like the cast of Bleach and battle it out in a fighting game that features 13 pairs of fighters who bout on 12 stages inspired by the animated serial. The default Story Mode features an original drama for each fighter as he/she battles through the ranks.
The Mission Mode (50+ missions) gives players certain objectives and goals that must be completed before moving onto the next mission. In addition to the regular cast of fighters, players may also create a custom character from prefabricated cel-shaded parts. To add authenticity to the game, Namco hired the voice actors from the television series to recreate utterances, grunts, and other spoken sound effects. The PS2 edition of the game includes a "Soul Theater" option which features animated sequences culled from the original televised series.
CHARACTERS:
Maka Albarn & Soul Eater
Death the Kid, Liz & Patty
BlackStar & Tsubaki
Ox Ford & Harv
Sid Barett & Nygus
Franken Stein
Shinigami
Medusa
Free
Crona & Ragnarok
Mifune
Blair
Excalibur
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Popular anime "Soul Eater" has become fighting action! I adopt Partners battle rise in call-and-response system and tag attack, and relive the original story & IF scenario! Production and dramatic full full voice is further enliven Battle! Regardless experience the "resonance battle of the soul" that combination of magic weapons and weapon craftsman weaves!
FEATURES:
- Third person perspective.
- 3D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Demons, Fantasy & Anime themes.
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