kjoneil
03-03-2011, 06:59 AM
http://cdn-www.mania.com/content_pics/000006/92/63/8f0fe6c00a97c4ba_thumb.jpgReview by Kate O'Neil (http://www.mania.com/soul-eater-vol-5_article_127860.html)
Mania Grade: B
Soul Eater is a competent shounen manga that doesn’t stray far from the usual rhythm of the genre. The two major things which set it apart from it’s contemporaries is it’s cartoony halloween-themed art and the somewhat unique relationship of it’s two leads. The battle to protect the DWMA is just beginning with meisters and weapons already paired off with their antagonists for this confrontation. Everything is racing along at a brisk pace. It looks like Maka and Soul are already off to a shaky start and we have to wait till the next volume to see how they regain their control and stave off the madness threatening to consume them.
Mania Grade: B
Soul Eater is a competent shounen manga that doesn’t stray far from the usual rhythm of the genre. The two major things which set it apart from it’s contemporaries is it’s cartoony halloween-themed art and the somewhat unique relationship of it’s two leads. The battle to protect the DWMA is just beginning with meisters and weapons already paired off with their antagonists for this confrontation. Everything is racing along at a brisk pace. It looks like Maka and Soul are already off to a shaky start and we have to wait till the next volume to see how they regain their control and stave off the madness threatening to consume them.