Soul Eatober - Episode 39

"Crona's Escape"

Well that wasn't as painful as I thought it would be.

Crona is obviously feeling incredibly guilty about what he did to Dr. Stein, and his friends are starting to notice how much weirder he is acting around them. He and Maka have a conversation in which he asks about her mother. Maka explains that her mother is always traveling and sending postcards, but Maka doesn't know exactly where she is most of the time. When Crona asks what Maka's favorite memory of her mother is, she says "that's easy, the divorce!" Crona deadpans that Maka has a weird family dynamic. Crona, the child whose blood is literally another person and whose mother is a snake witch, is calling someone else's family weird. This is the best fucking thing.

Deciding that he doesn't belong with his friends or his 'mother', Crona runs off into the desert, but Maka and Soul catch up to him. Crona confesses about what he did and Maka immediately forgives him (considering that he was pushed into it). I'm actually kind of glad they didn't go full Lion King 2 on this. Granted, you could call it lazy writing to throw in a plot thread that seems like it would be a big deal but then gets taken care of swiftly, but really I don't care.

So they confront Lord Death with the information and he thinks that Crona should be expelled, but Maka wants them to give him a second chance. Spirit (Oh hey! Haven't seen you in a while!) tells her that they can't because of how serious the crime is, but then Maka shoots back by pointing out the amount of chances Spirit got when he cheated on her mother. "You're one to talk about loyalty!" She says. She then says that she would rather give a second chance to someone who will actually keep to it. I mean, DAMN, that was fucking pro. I mean sure I was kind of rooting for him to get back on good-ish terms with his daughter, but they dropped that little plot thread a long-ass time ago.

Also, some other shit happens with other characters, like Arachne getting Asura to join her team, and Medusa 'surrendering' at the end, but whatever.

I'm honestly wondering how Maka's family works. Was her mother traveling to get her head clear from the divorce, or was she always traveling? Was Spirit left to take care of Maka most of the time? And then when she enrolled in the academy, and after he became a Death Scythe, did he just have more time on his hands and so went back to his womanizing ways since his wife was always away? But why would a top-tier meister like her not wanna be on Death's beck-and-call?

If any of that is true, Crona does have a point in calling Maka's family weird, even if him saying so would be like his blood calling the kettle "black".