At last.

Summary:

Black Star leaves Maka to deal with Chrona while he pursues Death the Kid, and all the while Stein and Medusa’s battle continues. Stein finds himself unable to lay a finger on the witch, but he eventually becomes provoked by the Kishin’s insanity as his “other” side takes over. Maka allows insanity to consume her in order to match her wavelength with Chrona. When she finds Chrona’s soul and sees how Chrona feels deep inside, she opens up to Chrona and in the end, Maka offers a hand of friendship after suffering a few casualties. Chrona bursts into tears, not knowing how she should deal with this situation since no one ever taught her how.

At the same time, Death the Kid almost reaches Elka, only to be stopped by Free. Death the Kid’s attacks are powerless against Free as the wolf-man continuously declares his immortal body. Unfortunately, Death the Kid begins to worry by concentrating on how imperfect his surroundings are. It is only when Black Star arrives in the scene and points at Free that Liz uses this chance to inform Kid that Free has a chain attached to one leg. Death the Kid feels disgusted by the sight, and Black Star doesn’t hesitate for even a second as he rushes in to fight Free. But this intimidates Free as he tries to dodge all of Black Star’s attacks. While Death the Kid is backing up Black Star by firing bullets, he suddenly becomes aware that Free is actually a hologram. Free realizes that his plan has failed and leaves.

Elsewhere, Elka and Free reach the Kishin’s prison, but a lot of their precious time is taken up when they begin seeing illusions caused by the enormous power of insanity. Back in the hallway, Stein reveals his darker side and manages to stop Medusa’s movements by threading her entire body, but this requires full concentration, so if he dares releases the binding technique his head would fall off by Medusa’s Vector arrow aimed directly at his throat. Stein relies on the small chance of surviving and slices Medusa’s body in half. As death takes her, Vector arrows shoot up in the air and rains down like blood. Stein, overpowered by insanity, starts laughing even though due to Black Star’s blunder, the Kishin has awakened. The Kishin crawls out into the open as Maka arrives and tries to grab hold of him, but once in the open, she faints as Soul catches her. Free’s spell disappears and the students held captive in the cube are set free.

Shinigami appears and attempts to put the Kishin back where he belonged, but without a Death Scythe, he is unable to do so as the Kishin, also known as Asura, vanishes. Shinigami remembers back when the two were in the same organization, fighting for justice. Asura had been the most feared among them and he eventually went bad, deciding to devour human souls and swallow his own Weapon. Shinigami defeated Asura by creating a bag out of Asura’s skin and locking him up in Shibusen’s basement. After Asura departs, Shinigami orders Sid to call for all eight Death Scythes, but only four arrive. Maka’s father, Spirit, believes he will get a demotion for not being with Shinigami during his battle with Asura so he finds refuge in cleaning candle stands. Stein arrives to chat with him when two new female Death Scythes appear, Marie Mjolnir and Yumi Azusa. With one of the eight Death Scythes already present with Shinigami, Justin Law, the other four accompany each other as they visit Shinigami. Shinigami gives them each a specific assignment: Spirit is to remain as Shinigami’s Weapon, Yumi is to track down Asura, Marie is to be Stein’s Weapon and teach Maka’s class, and Justin is to help out with rebuilding Death City.

After they leave, Sid asks Shinigami what they should do with Chrona since he believes she should be punished nevertheless. Shinigami decides to let Chrona remain in Shibusen as one of the students. At home, Maka laments over Chrona and refuses to go outside until Soul drags her along and forces her to play basketball with the others. Maka is confused when it comes to playing basketball so her team naturally lose in the match and, as captain of the team, her penalty is going out on a date with her father. Spirit comes and remembers that he has to take care of Stein lest his “other” side opens again, but he is overwhelmed with happiness when Maka asks him to hang out together.

Seeing where blissmo left off and refusing to re-watch portions of episodes I have already seen, I’m going to assume that were are around episodes 26 and 27. Yea, thanks a lot, girly, leaving me only 2 episodes. Even if you did leave me 3 or 4, I will only be talking about those 2 and any other little knick-knack I can think of.

So Chrona has been in a containment room during this entire ordeal and no living person has gone near her. That being said, the only person who has been in contact with her has been Sid (haha, he a zombie, not alive… get it?) She is actually very scared of Sid because of how he looks. You can’t blaime her, Sid is a terrifying zombie-man. This is why, to get her out of her shell and out of that room, Maka is sent to retrieve Chrona. This isn’t any chore for Maka, since she has actually been wanting to see Chrona. So Maka, Marie, and Sid get Chrona out of the room.

Chrona and Maka go on a mission to investigate a golem that went crazy. The odd thing is that golems are supposed to be protective of their owners and villages and such; it’s in their basic nature. Assuming that the Kishin’s madness is at play, they head to the distant village. However, the people don’t accept Maka, Soul, and Chrona kindly. Everyone glares at them as they walk through the town, but one comes up and accepts them kindly. The man is a golem craftsman or something and he talks about the golem that went mad and lures the group out of the village. Turns out he wasn’t so kind after all. He is actually in league with the crazed golem. The weird thing about this is that the golem has a soul and the once kind man turned out to be a weapon.

Now Maka and Chrona have to prepare for a fight against an ancient golem and its super powered chainsaw weapon. This tough skinned, clearly strong monster is out of their league. Even after Maka convices Ragnarok to fight by offering candy. The black blooded demon sword stands a better chance against the golem’s attacks than Maka and Soul.

Back in Death City, Stein’s research has revealed an unsettled discovery. The golem is actually harboring the ancient witch Arachne’s soul. Chrona and Maka are going to need backup.

Since Chrona is absorbing the golem’s blows, Maka goes on the offense. She slashes the golem’s side, but is caught off guard when web-like thread shoots out of the cut; she can no longer move.

To cut to the chase, Justin Law is sent to help the group. Millions of spiders come towards the soul in the golem and form together to make the awakened Arachne. Justin comes along and has a weapon v weapon fight against the chainsaw. However, Justin Law is just too powerful, so Arachne and the weapon run away leaving the golem to slow them down. Now the students are safe, and Justin has completed his mission to protect the kids.

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Thoughts:

I’m pretty sure blissmo’s thoughts about Soul Eater are most always going to be something along the lines of “Best episode yet.” or “I love this show.” However, my thoughts are leaning toward conspiracy. I still am thinking that Spirit is somehow an enemy in the grand scheme of things. He escaped Free’s magic box when there wasn’t really any way he could have and he wasn’t with Shinigami when Asura was fleeing. I know, one can argue that he was with Stein, but what if that was just part of the plan. I don’t know.

Btw, new hotties. Medusa’s ancient mother, Arachne and Marie Mjollnir. *drool* This show just gets better and better.