Soul Eater ep.03

April 21, 2008 | 17 Comments

This is probably the most violent of the 3 prologue stories. While the first two episode showed the more playful side of the story, this one is pretty twisted. I certainly didn't expect the change of villain halfway through the episode. In fact, I thought the main villain they'll face in this one is the witch. Animation-wise, this episode is still as good as the first two. I guess having Square-Enix as one of your sponsors does help with the budget. Even mundane scene like Maka and Tsubaki wondering where their boys are look clean and well-designed. By the way, halfway through the episode, I was wondering why Kid sounds familiar to me and then it hit me that he sounds exactly like Light from Death Note. It looks like Miyano Mamoru uses his Light voice to voice Death and that voice is far easier to recognize than whatever voice he decides to use to voice Zero in Vampire Knight.

A thief has just broken out of a palace when all of a sudden, a shadow jumps out of the moon. The shadow tells the thief, whose name is Lupin, that it's over. He then orders his two guns, Liz and Patty, to transform into their human forms. The three then create a superhero pose, causing the thief to roll his eyes. The boy, whose name turns out to be Kid, is unhappy that Patty's pose is not perfect so he proceeds to scold her. Patty's older sister, Liz, reminds Kid that this is not the time for this, but Kid refuses to listen. As a result, the thief manages to get away. Kid is obsessed with symmetry and gets upset with the fact that the girls are not perfectly symmetrical. He then points out an example by squeezing their bazoomas, which results in him getting punched by Patty. Patty also points out that Kid's own hair is asymmetrical (there are white streaks on the left side of his hair), causing the boy to become depressed.

After he calms down, Kid uses his power to contact his father, Shinigami-sama. Shinigami-sama reminds Kid that he doesn't need to do soul collection because he's already a Shinigami. Kid, however, insists that he wants to make a weapon of his own. Because of this, Shinigami-sama tells him that he needs to collect twice as many souls since he has two weapons. Meanwhile at the Shinigami school, Maka/Soul and Black Star/Tsubaki meet up again, and end up talking about Kid. At the same time, Kid is on his way to a pyramid in Egypt after his father told him about the Pyramid of Anubis, a place where a necromancer witch makes mummy with a huge collection of wondering souls. Since Kid likes the symmetry of the pyramid, he finds the idea interesting and decides to head there. Not long after they enter the pyramid, however, Kid tells the two sisters that he feels a picture frame in his house is tilted to the right.

Because of this, he wants to go home and fix said frame. Liz would have none of this nonsense and drags Kid deeper into the pyramid. She, however, comes to a halt when they bump into a bunch of mummies who seem eager to make them their meal. Liz wants Kid to kill them already but as it turns out, Kid is not there anymore. He really feels that he needs to check the picture frame. Because of this, Liz and Patty have no choice but to take turns using each other's gun form to kill all of the mummies who try to attack them. Meanwhile, the necromancer witch is in the middle of performing a ritual to awaken the Pharaoh. Eventually, the Pharaoh is awaken but it grabs the witch and kills her. Because Kid is back in his house adjusting his picture frame, he doesn't know that Liz and Patty are now being attacked by the Pharaoh. Back at school, Black Star and Soul are asking their homeroom teacher, Sid, about the identitiy of Kid but Sid only tells them that the guy is not his student but Shinigami-sama's son.

Speaking of Kid, he's now back at the Pyramid and finds Liz and Patty all tied up in bandages. It doesn't take long before Kid is also attacked by the Pharaoh. Despite this, he manages to release Liz and Patty from their captivity. But before he can use them to shoot the monster, he ends up in a daze. As a result, he gets mercilessly pummeled by the Pharaoh. It seems Kid hesitates to attack because the Sarcophagus looks perfectly symmetrical. Since Kid refuses to use the gun, he almost die at the hand of the Pharaoh. However, the Pharaoh makes a mistake of getting out of his Sarcophagus, causing Kid to realize that the actual Pharaoh is asymmetrical. Kid is angry at this fugly creature and ends up blasting it away to stratosphere. In the aftermath, however, he also inadvertently destroys the Pyramid, causing him to be depressed. The episode ends by showing the 3 Shinigami groups: Maka/Soul, Black Star/Tsubaki, and Kid/The Twins.

Impression:

It looks like every single main male characters in this series has some kind of negative traits. Soul tends to do something without plan, Black Star is a show off, and Kid suffers from OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder). I don't mind it because it makes them a bit more humane. Plus, it was amusing to see Kid getting his priorities all wrong. Going back home to check on picture frame was ridiculously funny because it's not the kind of thing you expect from a shounen hero like him. The writers are also clever enough to include an appearance of the homeroom teacher, Sid, who'll make another appearance next week, albeit in different form. I thought it's a rather nice way to introduce the character because in the manga it feels as if the students don't actually know him that well. Once again I'm surprised at Soul/Black Star friendship. I guess after watching many episodes of Naruto, I always expect two male characters to be each other's rival. Well, these two are competing with each other but there's also a sense of camaraderie and strong buddy vibe with one another.

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