Soul Eatober - Episodes 28-29

This probably would've been more fitting a few posts ago, but....

OOOOOH, WE'RE HALFWAY THEEERE!!!

AAAHOOOH, LIVIN' ON A PRAAAAYER!!!

"The Sword God Rises"

So Maka is still paralyzed from the last fight with Arachne and company, and Black Star wants to get revenge on the people responsible. As it turns out, Arachne had an organization called Arachnophobia (of course she did) that's now up and running again upon her return. One of her "colleagues", Mosquito, goes to check on a thing some scientists they hired are working on. Sid, Nygus, and the Death Scythe Azusa go to scope out the place, but lucky for them, Black Star and Tsubaki show up at the front entrance, getting everyone else's attention. As it turns out, Mifune (the guy who protects the child witch Angela, and whom Black Star and Tsubaki fought in their first episode) is working for Arachnophobia now. So Black Star and Tsubaki fight Mifune again and we then get a little backstory about how Mifune met Angela. Since Mifune has an honor code thing about protecting children, Tsubaki suggests that he should become a teacher at DWMA. Obviously he can't, what with Angela being a witch and constantly getting hunted. In the end, they each go back to their respective sects, Sid and Nygus get a thing and that's about it.

It's fun to see Mifune and Angela again.

Ooh, at some point in the episode, Dr. Stein is trying to work out, but then starts hallucinating about Medusa again. I was listening with headphones on, so when Medusa's voice started coming in at one channel at a time (left ear only, then right ear only), my mind was blown. Like, that's some excellent detail right there. It also looks as if Dr. Stein has some unresolved feelings about Medusa. Very fascinating. And I thought I was joking about the sexual tension earlier on, but apparently not.

"Medusa's Revival"

Medusa takes over a child's body...

Yes, that's a thing that happens.

When the episode focused on that, it was actually quite unsettling. I mean, the poor child is now caught up in this mess she previously had nothing to with, and the poor mother must be terrified.

I mean, holy shit.

At the end, Medusa visits her sister Arachne, and they basically just explain how Medusa survived and have that sort of conversation between two villains who are sort of against each other usually do. Oh, and Eruka Frog is Medusa's informant in Arachnophobia! Yay!

At the academy, Maka gets better and Dr. Stein tries to teach the students how to "resonate" with multiple people in a team; basically what Sid, Nygus, and Azusa did in the episode previous. Some comedic fun was had there.

Also, I think I'm getting used to "Batsou Yume Uta".