History Headscratchers / SoulEater

** Play [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses TGWTG]]'s game of Guess Their Gender.

** [[HeroicAlbino Yes.]]
** [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Maybe he's Ishvalan.]]
** Remember how [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist Earth!Scar seemed to get along swimmingly with Earth!Lust]]? That.

* Everyone calls Black* Star a parody of {{Naruto}}. This wouldn't bug me if it weren't for the fact that A) They have virtually nothing in common after everything's said and done and B) Not once has this been hinted at beyond having Black* Star suck as a ninja, and that in itself was the joke. Why, fandom? Why?

** Going off of the person above and the person below: Black*Star is the only one of them who can fight without a weapon, gets away with his obnoxious behavior with little to no reprimanding by adults or his own partner, and in the anime, really is the reason why their group Soul Resonance isn't working - but it gets blamed on Maka anyway; although he gets called a {{Naruto}} parody, no one calls him a GaryStu. Tsubaki is easily the sweetest character in the cast, has been stated that, because of her agreeable personality, could work with anybody, never has a bad moment, and absorbed the demon soul of her brother; no one calls her a MarySue. Death the Kid is a ''future Shinigami'', gets kidnapped and ''several chapters'' are spent going after and saving him, he gets to fight with ''two weapons'', and has a huge fanbase; no one calls him a GaryStu. Maka is simply the "Good Girl" of the group (think Hermione from Literature/HarryPotter; she plays dirty if absolutely necessary but places a lot of emphasis on practice/studying and is naturally a very talented witch), she doesn't think better of herself, but she does have issues with trust, wrath, and envy that keep her from being perceived as perfect. And outside of her father, not one character treats her like she is. [[VitriolicBestBuds Soul]] even frequently reminds her of her faults, which is part of his own faulty personality (again, no one calls him a GaryStu). Not to mention that Maka ''isn't'' the only person who can fly, use soul perception, or has a griori soul.

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* In the [[http://www.onemanga.com/Soul_Eater/71.5/24/ latest chapter]] does anyone think Liz looks like [[OnePiece Zoro]]?
** You speak as if it's a bad thing.

** Only made more depressing when compared to the anime, where Mifune WANTS to work for Arachnophobia because they'll create a world where Angela can be safe AND gets a DefeatMeansFriendship ending. It's a copout that just emphasizes how much better Ohkubo's actual work is. Talk about JustBugsMe.

* It has been said numerous times that only weapons could eat souls. However, just as often it has shown non-weapons eating souls as well. for example, Al Capone's gang was shown eating human souls, and it's highly unlikely that all 99 of them are weapons. so [[JustBugsMe what bugs me]] is that I can't tell which one of those are correct.

* Maka is a MarySue. I like her too guys, but it's time to be honest with ourselves! She's got a special soul, she's got soul perception, she's half weapon, she has an exorcism wavelength, she's the top of her class, she's the child of a Death Scythe and she can do wildly advanced techniques! I get that it's hard to keep up with fan-favorites like Stein and Death the Kid, but I feel like Okubo is trying to give her all this shiny stuff to make us like her more, when honestly, I just can't relate to her at all. But wait really JustBugsMe is that NO ONE is willing to acknowledge this! Yes, she's funny, she's badass, but she's also a SUE.

* Demon hunter dammit, not genie hunter! (Sorry, ItJustBugsMe)

* Why is Noah considered a [[{{Shotacon}} pedo rapist?]] [[MemeticMolester Giriko]], I understand, but as far as I've read (up to chapt. 77 at this point) Noah's done horrible things to Kid obviously but I haven't seen him do ''that''. Is this just {{fanon}} or is there a genuine reason to call Chris Hansen instead of an Amber Alert?

** What's more, when he's not having a breakdown over symmetry, he's extremely modest, blushing and trying to walk away when he see's his weapon's tied up in the pharaoh's bandages, which were pulling at some of their clothes in... revealing ways.

** Well, we are talking about the kid who can pull a trigger with his pinkies. Maybe he can pull the trigger with both fingers while holding it with one hand?

** I have to agree with the comment above mine. It's pretty clearly stated that they are changed according to what their own interests and desires are in the opposite sex. Their personalities don't change according to how they'd attract their mate, their personalities change into what they find attractive in someone they might date. Whether you ship or not, you have two boy-girl partnerships that spend most of their time with each other: they even live together. To be partners, their personalities must mesh incredibly well. It's not a stretch to think that if any of them got romantic relationship, it would either be their partner or someone who is similar to their partner. So Soul and Maka essentially become each other. Maka getting a nosebleed could be a shoutout to how Soul gets nosebleeds whenever he sees Blair naked (even though he berates Maka for this). As for Black Star and Tsubaki, I'd dare to say it's the same thing. Tsubaki might not actually be naive, but Black Star might perceive her as such. Also, while Liz calls his personality "naive", I think it's a poor choice of word. Black Star as a girl didn't seem naive to me so much as just much more reserved than usual. Tsubaki I can't quite explain, but it could just be that Tsubaki's personality is so relaxed that it's just not possible change it, particularly not to something like Black Star's personality (also if it had changed they couldn't have had the pun that was present in Japanese). As for appearance, their appearance wasn't changed according to physical traits they like in the opposite sex. Their appearance was just changed according to what suited their own personality and looked like them, just the opposite sex.

** In general, people who read the manga give the anime ending a bad name because they feel that the manga ending was more fulfilling and made more sense. That's all it is. People are allowed to have opinions and prefer one over the other. You can try to justify why you like the anime ending and why it's not bad, but some people are just always going to dislike it because they preferred the manga ending.

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** My understanding of the situation is this: Sid said that soul perception and wireless communication is jammed on the island by the magnetic field's effects. It seems more like making it difficult than blocking the perception completely, since Maka(with very sharp soul perception) could sense Stein and Marie inside the field. Chain resonance did work on the island as demonstrated by Kilik and Ox. However within the field itself chain resonance was impossible so Maka&BlackStar&Kid had to go around the problem with Soul's piano. Soul resonance between meister-weapon pairs was never disabled.

** Seeing as the RuleOfCool runs rampant in SoulEater, I'd generally chalk this up to it as well. Alternatively, it could just be that his little fingers are unusually more dexterous than his index fingers. Or possibly it could have something to do with Liz and Patty's upward orientation during soul resonance. Or hey! Maybe because Kid is so obsessed with perfection, he intends to have each of his fingers be exactly as dexterous as the rest and he's just ''now'' at the point of training his little fingers to be this way.

* Okay, I keep hearing that SoulEater is like Manga/{{Bleach}}. Why? I have read/watched both and unless it's just the weapons that are alive... and... can upgrade (Shikai = Resonance, Bankai = Death Scythe / Demon hunter-ish level attacks)... and kill evil souls (Hollows Kishin eggs)... and... have upgraded versions of said... you know what? nevermind. I answered my own question.

** ''SoulEaterNot'' makes room for a Jaqueline/Kim pairing, or at least Jaqueline feeling atracted towards Kim.

* As I read some {{WMG}}s, and even part of the main trope page, I see a lot of people thinking that ''SoulEater'' is supposed to promote/symbolize Buddhism. I've taken a college-level class on World Religions, and I feel that either my class was a complete lie, or the series has nothing to do with it.

** I always saw ''SoulEater'' as a bunch of major faiths put in a blender:

* When the Kishin is released and later when Shibusen needs all the combat power it can muster to fight on several fronts against Arachnaphobia, we never see Shinigami mobilize any meisters except for those who are current staff and students of Shibusen. Instead Shibusen relies on Mooks armed with what appears to be sticks. Why? Its not like they cannot contribute to the war effort. Stein, Black Star and Sid all show that a meister can have [[BadassNormal significant combat ability all by himself even without a Weapon]] and can perform feats like Soul Sutures and Soul Shockwaves to a greater extent when partnered with one. Maka's anti-demon wavelength and soul perception are both crucial assets but her mother has the former at the very least. And yet they seem to talk about Maka's ability as their only ace in the hole despite the fact that her explicitly alive mother probably has better control over the anti-demon wavelength and is likely a more experienced combatant. Throughout the manga and anime, no effort seems to be placed on recruiting meister alumni to bolster Shibusen ranks even though they assemble the Death Scythes (most of whom have no current partner). Even if Shinigami considers that they earned their retirement after graduation, surely some would volunteer when the very sky itself turns red and madness runs rampant throughout the world? This can enter into UnfortunateImplication territory with many Meisters suffering from PTSD, dead or unwilling to literally help save the world. Another sinister turn is that the Weapons we see on panel are a large proportion of the Weapons still alive. We don't see very many Meister-Weapon pairs even in the background during the battle for the BREW which was a make or break battle for Shibusen. ConservationOfDetail aside, what logic dictates that children should be sent onto a battlefield rather than trained adults who have longstanding relationships as Meister-Weapon pairs? Aside from the Spartoi, Stein and Sid, we hardly see any other such pairs even in crucial battles.

** I dislike the Ending, but then Bones series always have great starts, meh endings, so it was stupid of me for expecting better ending. Story wise, they manage to wrap most, if not all loose threads. But Soul Eater is not renowned for its story to begin with. Soul Eater's strong point is its actions and in the last 10 episodes, action scenes play out more like Bleach than Soul Eater. Everyone is suddenly incompetent-there are many casualties because characters are too busy staring at the wall for minutes instead of paying attention at their enemies. Gone are the fast-furious-stylish actions from the first 40 or so episodes, and instead Bones makes uninspiring slash-parry-slash-parry tango like how actions are done in Bleach. Characters chat on and on during action scenes instead of fighting properly. I actually fell asleep during these "action scenes". In short, the Ending has no charm that Soul Eater first 40 and so episodes exude. And don't get me started with how they butcher Kishin's personality.

** Maybe it's a not a case of hurting evil but not harming the innocent (thus inert matter isn't "judged" in anyway and gets destroyed by default. Or maybe the geometry ''was'' evil. It was Medusa's hideout and it was pretty crazy archetecture after all...

** That wasn't canon anyway, it was part of the GeckoEnding.