Soul
Eater, Vol 5
Author: Atsushi Ohkubo
Publisher: Yen Press
American
release date: November 4, 2014
Format/Genre/Length: Paperback/manga/paranormal/192 pages
Overall Personal Rating: ★★★★★
DWMA is having a celebration! It’s
their much-anticipated anniversary and should be a blast! Unless a certain
someone gets her way, aka Medusa the Witch, who has plans of her own.
Maka is concerned about Soul. He’s
hanging out by himself, but denies there’s anything wrong. She tries to get him
to dance with her, thinking it will help with their Soul Resonance, but ends up
with her father as a partner instead, to her dismay. Meanwhile, Crona and
Ragnarok have entered Death City and are waiting for Medusa to give them the
signal.
A rather drunken Dr. Stein drags
Medusa out onto the dance floor, to her embarrassment, but it seems he has his
own agenda, and confronts Medusa with the knowledge that she’s a witch. He
connects her presence at the school with the presence of a kishin beneath the
Academy, and she admits that he is right. Sid returns, having survived the
explosion at Medusa’s lab, and warns everyone to get out. But it’s too late,
the trap is sprung, the school sealed. No one can get out! Free warns Eruka the
seal will only hold for about an hour,
as she sends in the Mizune.
Stein tells them the only way to
stop the intruders is by going underground and asks if anyone wishes to go with
him. Maka, Soul, Black Star, Tsubaki, Kid and the sisters all volunteer.
Meanwhile, Shinigami-same tells those who remain the story of the Kishin
beneath DWMA.
Blair the Witch, in cat form, is
strolling through Death City, wishing she could be at the DWMA celebration,
which apparently is only for students, when she runs across the guy from the
fish store who gives her free fish and he isn’t looking very good. Just then
the mizune attack!
Stein instructs all the weapons to
remain in weapon form and not take human form. He realizes the enemy has split
up, lying in wait for them. Taking charge, he tells them he will take on Medusa
as Make, Black Star, and Kid break through Medusa’s wall. Kid, being fastest,
is to go after the ones who are after the Kishin. Maka is to pass Medusa and
the Demon Sword and catch up to Kid. Black Star will hold back the Demon Sword
so Maka and Kid get past, driving his soul wavelength into the enemy.
However, Maka has her own ideas of
how things will go down. She is determined to get back at the Demon Sword for
what he did to Soul!
This is one of the more
action-packed volumes of this series, as Stein and his students work together
to prevent Medusa and her minions from getting to and reviving the Kishin
beneath the Academy. As always, the story is interspersed with the author’s
humor. I love the scene with Stein and Medusa as they dance, and the one with
Maka and Soul is very sweet. We learn about Crona and his background (his
mother is a real witch!) and one has to feel sorry for him. (I keep forgetting
that Crona is male, since he looks female to me). I guess we’ll find out if
this treatment has destroyed his humanity or if there is a good person lurking
underneath.
I liked the scenes with Stein and
Death Scythe. Even though Death Scythe tends to be on the sleazy side, I can
tell he really loves his daughter. Be aware that there are scenes involving
Blair Witch that some might describe as ecchi. But I’ve seen worse in Food Wars
lol
There is also another
consideration here, that of Soul having the Black Blood in him. How will that
work out, and will it become a problem? More to come, can’t wait to read it!
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