Soul Eatober - Episodes 25-26

"The Death Scythes Convene"

Lord Death calls together all of the Death Scythes he has appointed all across the world, but only three others showed up. Spirit is told he needs to be near Lord Death as much as possible, so another Death Scythe, Marie, is appointed as both Stein's partner and Stein's replacement as a teacher since he'll be the new school nurse (what with Medusa being gone and all that). Meanwhile, Crona is being held in custody (a dungeon in the school, basically) and Maka and the others are playing a game of basketball.

One of the things brought up in this episode (aside from possible romantic nonsense) is that Asura's wavelength may be able to increase the madness in certain people, including Dr. Stein (his madness being the 'wanting-to-dissect-people' thing). I'm actually kind of surprised that he's become a main character in his own right. Considering his introduction, one would've assumed he would just be the cool teacher character who sometimes does stuff, but now he has his own story arc and I'm just so happy.

Oh, and one of the Death Scythes is a priestly-looking guy named Justin, voiced by ERIC VALE! :D

At the end, Lord Death decides to enroll Crona in the DWMA. Sure to make a good episode......

"The Exciting and Embarrassing Trial Enrollment"

Aaaaaaand I was right.

Maka shows Crona (and Marie) around the academy. This had a few choice scenes, like one where Maka encourages Crona to write a poem. First, you have Soul constantly mocking the idea and getting promptly chopped for it. Then, Crona writes a poem, and everyone who reads it gets super depressed. This is just so much fun.

Also of note is the continuing madness of Dr. Stein. In one scene, his desire to dissect people to found out more is represented by an hallucination of Medusa, tempting him to go and dissect people (mainly Crona). I love this. I love this a lot.

Near the end of the episode, Crona and Maka are sent to the Czech Republic to investigate a rogue golem. And of course the episode ends in the middle of a battle. Such as life.

Another disc down.