Dont know much about this anime, I only watched the trailer, but the action looks nice.
http://bt.animeen.com/down.php?date=...60034549dd566e
Dont know much about this anime, I only watched the trailer, but the action looks nice.
http://bt.animeen.com/down.php?date=...60034549dd566e
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strange animation, has elements of Bleach and Shana
but overall i like it, has action and comedy
The manga is quite witless, from what I have read from the beginning. Lots of comedy.
TheBladeChild's description was so overflowingly detailed that lets add a summary here:
"Set in the Shinigami technical school for weapon technicians, the series revolves around 3 groups of each a weapon technician and a human weapon. Trying to make the latter a "Death Scythe" and thus fit for use by the Shinigami, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and 1 witch." -AniDB
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If they are gonna make an anime with the same name as the most awesome True Runes (The Soul Eater) they should make it awesome and cool, not like a parody of itself.
Because everyone has played Suikoden or Soul Eater is totally a unique name right?Originally Posted by Shinji Ikari
Edit: I really like how they retained the manga's art style so well, the animation is amazing. But that's to be expected of a studio like Bones. Also is the OP song a TM Revolution song?
The people who play as Maka and Soul are practically unknown. Surprising.
Last edited by animus; Thu, 04-10-2008 at 11:51 AM.
I'll watch it because I like the title. XD
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The manga didn't convince me, simply because everything seemed chaotic and hard to follow the action. But the anime looks quite good, and the chaos makes more sense in this medium... will watch when another group releases.
I believe this is a new group. Their maiden release.
Soul Eater - 01 LoneWolf Subs
No idea what format it is. Can't download till I roll over my quota.
edit: whatever format it is, it's a whopping 300+MB release!!
Last edited by Buffalobiian; Fri, 04-11-2008 at 01:12 AM.
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The opening is done by T.M. Revolution and is called Resonance.
I have read the first 3 or so chapters of the manga and I can say for sure that Soul Eater was made to be an anime. The art style was, as others have pointed, too chaotic for a manga. Proof being that I caught many parts explained better in the show than the manga. I never really got why the 99 souls were initially confiscated in the manga, but the anime did a good job of explaining it.
PS. Does anyone know which version this one is? The late-night or regular?
I had trouble coping with this art style at first. Seemed so....unrefined.....but got used to it soon enough. I think I'll stick with this one too. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this series isn't going to get into anything too serious is it? If it does, all the better.
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Soul Eater - 01 (Uncut Version) - [Rumbel]
I don't fully understand the difference but the show seems to have two time slots, one of which is later at night and thus the uncut version can conceivably get away with more.
Strange that it wasn't for censorship reasons at all. Maybe that will change with later episodes.
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I watched Lone Wolf's version, which currently is the best of the released versions. Good video quality, but huge encode (350 megs). Audio's fine, translation is good, and they even toss in a few notes.
I'm definitely watching this series to the end.
BONES caught the style of the manga perfectly, the fights are amazingly fluid and well done, music fits well to get the feeling going, and as always, the series looks like someone ate a bunch of Nightmare Before Christmas sets and clay models before throwing them all up over the screen in eye-bleeding technicolor. Love it.
As for the characters, some have complained about the actress playing Maaka, but that's just the way Maaka is. Cold and a little flat in the beginning. The scenes towards the end were well played, and there was even a little tug on my heart when she was ranting while remembering all the reasons she hates her father.
Who is hilarious by the way. The scene were the two hostesses were talking about him while he was between them was great. That had me laughing. He's just so pathetic. Yes, he's the stereotype loser-papa, but it hasn't failed me yet.
Lastly, I want to throw in the quick observation about the first fight against Jack the Ripper. There was one point in all the fancy swinging and twirling (I love scythe fights...) that Maaka looked over her shoulder. Just a super-quick glance to make sure she knew where the position of the stairs was. If I didn't already have a fondness for this series, that would settle it for me. Just that tiny attention to detail in the character, the writer and the animator.
It says a bit about Maaka's character, and adds some realism to the fight. If she's swinging and twirling away like a madwoman, she should definitely use her surroundings as well as checking to see her own position. Keeps her at the advantage, and it even let her win the fight. Fight smart, not just DBZ/(Ichigo in Bleach) super overpowered.
What does LoneWolf do better than AEN? I'm trying to justify if the larger download is worth it.
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Absolutely.
Anything > AEN.
Didn't want to sound rude, but in what way? I'm sure there's things that you guys can pick up that I miss. Lots of things. I didn't see anything wrong with the encoding. Sentences made sense, and I couldn't see any obvious spelling/grammar mistakes. As for translating/portraying the characters properly, I don't have a clue.
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AEN took an "HD" file and made it 170 megs. Even if it's an mp4, they just don't look that good that way. The compression gets too high, and you lose a lot in the bitrate. Because the source was over 400 megs, they are coming from fairly high quality, but they are just pushing it too far. Order used HD sources for Gurren Lagann, and they were cutting it tight with 238 meg mp4's.
AEN has improved..a bit in their translation, but the translator has frequently defended himself saying that the only reason for doing this is to learn Japanese. I am not aware they use QC at all.
Spelling errors are common, the language is awful, and I often have to take time to figure out what the hell they were trying to say. I'm not fluent by any means, but after watching all this anime, you gain a pretty good idea what a word or phrase is analogous to in English. AEN subs rarely meet that.
It's gotten better, but when you're going from shitsubs to trashsubs, that's not saying a whole lot.
Okay, I'm convinced.Lone Wolf release it is. Maybe after a few years, I'll be able to pick fansubs apart like that too.
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Still, 350 is unnecessarily big. If they were using xvid it would be justified but not with h264. It tells the encoder doesn't trust the numbers (regardless of whether he knows what he's doing) but only wants to play it safe by bloating the file size. Under 300 is usually enough for h264 HD encodes based on everything I've seen unless you are talking about some really graphically insane series, which this one isn't by far.
I'll have to see if I bother to download 350 MB eps. I did it with Gundam 00 and Ghost Hound but generally it's waste of bandwidth.
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