Soul Eatober - Episodes 3-4

And hear we go. Hopefully this time I can get this up before midnight.

"The Perfect Boy"

And we meet the final set of protagonists; the Thompson Twins, Liz and Patty, and son of Lord Death, Death the Kid (always glad to hear Todd Haberkorn's voice). Something I've forgotten to bring up is that a lot of the monsters our protagonists have been fighting are based off of historical/fictional figures, such as Jack the Ripper, Al Capone, Rasputin, and Lupin.

Incidentally, I'm not sure who Lupin is referring to, because when I google search "lupin" I get Remus Lupin from Harry Potter, Lupin the Third, the plant genus, and then a character from an old series of French crime novels written around the same time as Sherlock Holmes. I'm guessing that last one is what they're talking about.

So in this episode, we are shown the team's shortcomings (in this case, Kid's obsession with symmetry) and at some point we see a male character have an encounter with (half)naked women. In the first episode, it was Soul crashing in on Blair taking a bath. In the second episode, it was Black Star sneaking up on Tsubaki bathing (and then again at the end of the episode in the women's bath). And in this one, Kid leaves Liz and Patty alone in the pyramid of Anubis to check on something, then comes back to find Liz and Patty strung up by mummy bandages, with said bandage slightly sliding of their shorts and shirts. I think I can deduce what the target demographic for this show is.

Good introduction to a group of fun characters. And now that we have the character introductions out of the way...

"Engage the Witch Hunter"

Maka, Soul, Tsubaki, and Black Star are given a mission from Lord Death to capture a dead teacher who had become a zombie. If they don't succeed, they get expelled.

This one began with Blair waking up Soul while being teasing and seductive, and Maka walking in, getting mad, and beating the crap out of Soul. I could probably listen to a long lecture that explains the constant use of soft-core porn as comedy in Japanese animated shows such as these, because I find this trend very fascinating, and that in the way that one would expect me to. Like, is there some sor of sociological reason for this? I'd like to know.

Anyway, another episode where we're sometimes shown how badass these characters can be when they serious the fuck up. Particularly Black Star. The serious badass moments with him are very satisfying, especially because of how annoyed I am with him most of the time. "Big" is still not the best word to have used here. "No one will ever be as great a guy as I am!" See? "Great" is so much better than "big".

The episode ends with the group approaching the house of one Dr. Franken Stein, who I recall being one awesome character. But that episode is for tomorrow.

Goodnight, everyone.