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Soul Eater
A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Chiaki Omigawa
Maka Albarn (voice)
51 eps
Koki Uchiyama
Soul 'Eater' Evans (voice)
51 eps
Yumiko Kobayashi
Black Star (voice)
51 eps
Kaori Nazuka
Tsubaki Nakatsukasa (voice)
51 eps
Mamoru Miyano
Death the Kid (voice)
51 eps
Maaya Sakamoto
Crona (voice)
51 eps
Akeno Watanabe
Elizabeth Thompson (voice)
51 eps
Rikiya Koyama
Death (voice)
51 eps
Narumi Takahira
Patricia Thompson (voice)
51 eps
Houko Kuwashima
Medusa (voice)
51 eps
Masafumi Kimura
Sid Barrett (voice)
51 eps
Toru Okawa
Death Scythe (voice)
51 eps
Misato Fukuen
Eruka Frog (voice)
51 eps
Mayuki Makiguchi
Mizune (voice)
51 eps
Takashi Inagaki
Mosquito (voice)
51 eps
Nobutoshi Canna
Giriko (voice)
51 eps
Keiji Himeno
Ragnarok (voice)
51 eps
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Ox Ford (voice)
51 eps
Chieko Honda
Marie Mjolnir (voice)
51 eps
Michiko Neya
Arachne (voice)
51 eps
Yuuya Uchida
Franken Stein (voice)
51 eps
Kenjiro Tsuda
Mifune (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Soul Eater actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Soul Eater reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
Set in the Shinigami technical school for weapon meisters, the series revolves around 3 groups of each a weapon meister and a human weapon. Trying to make the latter a "Death Scythe" which is the highest title for a weapon and thus fit for use by the Shinigami, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and 1 witch. Maka & Soul Eater, Black Star & Tsubaki, and Death the Kid with Patty and Liz Thompson are the characters Soul Eater revolves around. Besides taking the time to gather souls, these students of Shibusen defend Death City from some of the most powerful of creatures while still attending school and trying to become stronger.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 51 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
200851 episodes
Originally the 'Late Night Show' was part of a late-night version of dual broadcasts of Soul Eater. The regular Monday 6:00 p.m. version and a late-night "Soul Eater Late Show" version. Special footage was added at the start and end of the commercial break, the next episode preview was also different from the regular version.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
200851 episodes
7.4IMDbBest episode · S01E01 Resonance of the Soul - Will Soul Eater Become a Death Scythe?
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Resonance of the Soul - Will Soul Eater Become a Death Scythe?
With 99 evil souls consumed, Soul just needs to defeat a witch to become a Death Scythe. He and Maka make their move against Blair - but a pointy hat doesn’t always mean witch!
- Directed by Takuya Igarashi
- Written by Akatsuki Yamatoya
S01E02
I Am the Star! The Big Man is Showing Up Here?
A mobster and his goons are gunning for a witch, and Black☆Star and Tsubaki want the souls of all involved. Their plan runs into trouble when the witch’s bodyguard draws his sword.
- Directed by Takebumi Anzai
- Written by Akatsuki Yamatoya
S01E05
Shape of the Soul - Enter the Ultimate Meister Stein?
Maka, Soul, Black☆Star, and Tsubaki tangle with the mad scientist responsible for turning Sid into a zombie - the amazingly powerful Dr. Stein!
- Directed by Shin Matsuo
- Written by Akatsuki Yamatoya
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E51
Late Night Show 51
S01E51
The Word is Bravery!
- Directed by Ikuro Sato, Takuya Igarashi
- Written by Akatsuki Yamatoya
S01E50
Sink or Swim?! The Men who Transcend the Gods?
- Directed by Shingo Kaneko
- Written by Akatsuki Yamatoya
S01E49
Asura Wakes - To the End of the World?
- Directed by Takebumi Anzai
- Written by Akatsuki Yamatoya
S01E48
Lord Death Wields a Death Scythe - Just One Step from Utter Darkness?
- Directed by Ikuro Sato
- Written by Akatsuki Yamatoya
S01E47
The Miraculous Coffee Table Flip - Fly, Our Death City Robot?
- Directed by Shin Matsuo
- Written by Megumi Shimizu, Akatsuki Yamatoya
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Yoshihiro OyabuProducer
- Bun YoshidaProducer
- Aya YoshinoProducer
- Taihei YamanishiProducer
Writing
- Megumi ShimizuWriter
- Akatsuki YamatoyaWriter
Direction
- Shinichi ToukairinDirector
- Mitsuhiro YonedaDirector
- Shingo KanekoDirector
- Takebumi AnzaiDirector
- Shin MatsuoDirector
- Ikuro SatoDirector
Cinematography
- Yohei MiyaharaDirector of Photography
- Tsuyoshi KanbayashiDirector of Photography
Music
- Taku IwasakiOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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