This final story arc concludes numerous storylines of Soul Eater, as Asura is defeated for now, Death the Kid ascends to his status as full Shinigami, and Crona takes a final action to protect the world.Dark Side of the Moon IMaka, Black☆Star, and their weapons ready themselves as they face a familiar opponent, Crona. However, Crona is more powerful than before, as they have succeeded in absorbing the Kishin Asura.
Dark Side of the Moon IIAs Crona grows stronger upon consuming Asura, Maka Albarn and Black☆Star struggle to hold their own against them. As Crona uses their madness to disrupt the soul wavelengths of their Shibusen opponents and captures Soul Eater and Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, Death the Kid and Spirit Albarn try to catch up to Maka and Black☆Star's location.
Dark Side of the Moon IIICrona's thorny attacks are too much for Maka Albarn and Black☆Star to bypass to rescue their weapons, Soul Eater and Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, who are trapped by Crona's Rose Thorns Storm. As neither meister can wield a weapon because Crona disrupted their soul wavelengths, Spirit Albarn demands Maka wield him and successfully rescues Soul and Tsubaki. Upon learning that a child can wield their parent's weapon form regardless of wavelength disruption, Crona becomes overwhelmed by guilt for killing their mother, Medusa. From within Crona's body, Asura uses this opportunity to reassert control, re-emerging and consuming Crona.
Dark Side of the Moon IVAs Crona is overtaken by Asura, Maka, Black☆Star, Kid and their weapons start their final battle with the Kishin, Asura.
Dark Side of the Moon VThe Kishin reveals significant information about Death the Kid that turns this war on the Moon into a battle between Shinigami.
Dark Side of the Moon VISoul Evans unleashes the power of Black Blood to strengthen his teammates against Asura. While Death the Kid doubts his ability to emerge as a full Shinigami against the Kishin, Maka Albarn and their teammates encourage him. With their faith in him, Kid begins to connect the last Line of Sanzu.
Dark Side of the Moon VIIDeath the Kid assumes his full power as a Shinigami, not without the loss of one of his loved ones. Even with this new power, however, Asura remains a powerful opponent, which may lead to the death of another of Kid's peers.
Dark Side of the Moon VIIIBlack Blood saves Maka Albarn's life, as well as empowering her and Soul Eater. With their Shibusen peers and unlikely allies in Eruka, Free, and even Gopher, Maka is able to attack Asura directly so to enter him and save her friend Crona.
Dark Side of the Moon IXShibusen's war against the Kishin ends in this, the penultimate chapter to Soul Eater! Maka Albarn slices into Asura until she and Soul are within him, locating Crona. As a plan is proposed to defeat the Kishin, teachers, classmates, friends, and family will be sacrificed to stop Asura's madness.
Final Chapter: A Sound Soul Dwells in a Sound Mind and a Sound BodyIn the aftermath of the battle on the Moon, Death the Kid realizes what his ascension as a Shinigami entails when it comes to negotiating peace with the witches, and the fate of his father. As life in Death City changes upon the defeat of the Kishin, Maka Albarn, Soul Eater, and their friends face a new world: it's an unpredictable future, but that's what makes it so exciting.
"Dark Side of the Moon Arc" contains examples of:
- And the Adventure Continues: Maka vows to see Crona again, that they would defeat the kishin no matter how many times they would have to
- As Long as There Is Evil: Crona tells Maka that Asura, the embodiment of madness born of fear, cannot be killed as long as there is fear in the world. This is why they proceed to seal him on the Moon instead, and it is likely that Lord Death sealed Asura under Death City in the first place for the same reason.
- Assimilation Backfire: Crona tries to absorb asura into themselves but becomes morally weakened after seeing Maka and Spirit work together in a healthy parent child relationship, giving Asura the opening he needed to overwhelm Crona.
- Babies Ever After: Marie is revealed to be pregnant with Steins child in the last chapter,
- Barrier Maiden: Crona seals themself away with Asura on the moon, possibly forever, to keep the world safe from his madness, similar to how Death Sealed himself away in death city.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: Crona learns this the hard way when Asura absorbs them in the form of Assimilation Backfire
- Grand Finale: serves as one to the Manga series
- Go Out with a Smile: Spirit keeps a calm face even when facing a tidal wave of mad blood about to imprison him, Marie, and Sid on the moon for Maka's sake.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Crona ultimately seals up Asura alongside them on the moon to save Maka and the world from his madness
- I Will Wait for You: Non-romantic (unless you ship them) version. Crona makes this sort of vow to Maka when, right before they make their Heroic Sacrifice and imprison themselves alongside Asura, she tells them that she'll come back for them someday and tells them to wait for her. The series ended right after, but on the hopeful note that they may yet be reunited, someday.
- Killed Off for Real: When Kid finally ascends as a true Grim Reaper, Lord Death happily passes on.
- Official Couple: Marie is revealed to be pregnant with Steins child in the last chapter
- Pregnant Badass: Marie is revealed to be pregnant with steins child in the last chapter and is implied to have been before the battle on the moon started
- There Can Only Be One: Excalibur explains that there can only be one Grim Reaper. Thus as Lord Death's son Death the Kid awakens more and more to his Grim Reaper powers, his father's mask begins to crack and when he succeeds in achieving his full power, his father disappears completely, only leaving behind his cloak for Death the Kid to inherit.
