Death the Kid owns the spotlight

Summary:

A man cringes in fear as a shadow of an enormous ship overcomes him. The next day, Liz and Patty row a boat to a new town where their next assignment is based on, with Death the Kid shrouded in a dark cloak akin to his father’s and his face veiled behind a skeleton mask. Liz comments on the beauty of this area until they curve into a corner and realize that a large part of the island was “bitten” off. Investigating further on the matter, the trio question on eye-witness of what happened, and although nervous and shaking, he informs them that it was the Black Dragon. Soon, Death the Kid finds himself in a library reading piles and piles of books regarding the Norse mythology of the Black Dragon.

After a while, the group voyage the ocean once more with Liz and Patty rowing the boat and Death the Kid standing at the tip. Just then, the fog becomes thicker and a massive ship materializes before them. Trembling in fear, Liz refuses to get on the ship; however, Patty summons all her strength and rows towards the ship as fast as possible. Unfortunately, Death the Kid demands that Patty do it again since it wasn’t in the centre of the ship. Liz surprises herself by boarding the ship since she was too busy naming Death the Kid an idiot. Kid explains that he can sense many souls and discovers a room holding hundreds of human souls. As he’s about to keep them in order, a pistol points above his chin from below, and a spirit reveals itself to be one with the ship. He declares that he’s collecting the souls to feed a soon-to-be Demon God that’s close to Death the Kid and those who belong to Shibusen. Suddenly, the spirit calls upon the Black Dragon and Liz falls into a trap-door. Patty says that she’ll transform into a pistol, but Death the Kid can’t seem to use her since it won’t be symmetrical.

Searching for her friends and a means out, Liz wanders in fear. A high-pitched voice abruptly interrupts her train of thoughts and guides her to the right path. Liz decides to not even spare a glimpse of where the voice is coming from and refuses to listen to it since she believes that the ghost will eat her. As it turns out, the ghost is actually a young girl who was swallowed by the ship and she wishes the lead Liz back to her friends. Being stubborn as she is, Liz continues to refuse the offer until the ghost yells at her, which is when Liz reluctantly gives in. In the meantime, Death the Kid remembers how his father had arranged many marriages for him, but he chose none until he met Liz and Patty, who were able to merge into symmetrical pistols. When the pursuing spirit catches up to them, he asks Death the Kid where be his powers of a reaper. Death the Kid explains his beliefs on a world of pure balance between good and evil. Angered by this, the spirit aims his gun.

Liz is guided to the deck by the girl when from below, Death the Kid, along with Patty, shoot up into the air. The Thomspon’s Sisters quickly transform into their Weapon mode and Death the Kid readies himself for battle. When the conflict is seconds away from beginning, the spirit’s head is cut in half by a black blade that appears from behind. Chrona and Ragnarok arrive and destroy the evil spirit. Chrona then tells his Weapon to shriek and when it does, all the human souls of the ship gather on deck. Screaming once again, the souls get sucked in by Ragnarok’s mouth and the ghost of the young girl bids farewell to Liz. Knowing who they are, Death the Kid realizes that the Black Dragon is actually Chrona and Ragnarok as Ragnarok merges into Chrona’s body and “evolves”, spreading out torn wings from his back. Liz can’t believe that these two would do something so horrible and Death the Kid announces that Chrona and Ragnarok will be judged.

Thoughts:

This episode was quite nice, but I’d rant on about the lack of action and leaving it for next week. On the other hand, it was Death the Kid so I really enjoyed watching this. Poor Liz had to follow ghosts, and I would be pretty much freaked out as well. I have no idea who would win in the battle between Chrona and Death the Kid, although it’d be nice to see Raganrok getting injured or something. I wonder when Medusa’s going to appear, and if she does, if Death the Kid will get beaten up. But basically, this episode doesn’t really have much to say about except the animation was good as usual, there was certainly some comedy between Liz and her fear of ghosts, Death the Kid’s usual “symmetry business” and Patty’s adorable stupidity. If Death the Kid is smart enough, he’d be able to figure out that the gathering of human souls was for Soul Eater. Anyway, the next episode looks decent with lots of action and the “normal”. Oh and I really liked Death the Kid’s belief in the balanced world of good and evil, but his stance towards the end was so terribly lame and crooked that I couldn’t help rofl’ing.