This episode is all about our favorite and most lovable creature ever, Excalibur! From he beginning to the end, he keeps us enchanted by weaving his epic tale of heroics to his newest unsuspecting victim, Ox-kun. Yes, Maka’s number one academic rival has fallen into the annoying endearing hands of Excalibur.

Summary:

The typical story of how awesome Excalibur’s powers are is read to us by Ox-kun as he heads towards Excalibur’s cave at the top of the water fall. During his tread through the water, I can’t help but notice how he is easily passing odds that there insurmountable to even Death the Kid; surely Ox can wield the weapon! He is qualified and equally annoying in my mind, but this episode would soon teach me that he was clearly not GAR enough.

Immediately we start off with the initial “Lame” reaction followed by “Fool” and “My legend began in the twelfth century” rebuttals. All that follows next are ramblings by the holy sword about how his mornings start off with coffee but he clearly drinks tea and allusions to his personal life and past. Apparently, Excalibur has a hawt wife and three kids, was a leader of what appears to be a 1950s American gang, and performed spectacular dances in opera houses.

Meanwhile, our lovable main characters have gathered at Soul and Maka’s to eat and prepare for a big project that is due the next day.

Back with Oxford and Excalibur, Excalibur continues to tell his newly found companion about how he fell in love with a woman, and how soon their relationship came to an end. It was then that Excalibur decided to put the ways of being a gangster behind. Later on he transforms into the sword and permits Oxford to take him in hand and live as a hero among others. Oxford grabs the handle and places it back into the stone, explaining that his intention was to write a report on Excalibur for school reasons, but now he doesn’t want to anymore since Excalibur proves to be annoying. Elsewhere at Shibusen, Liz complains in exhaustion that she hasn’t completed her assignment, but Black Star has. He only scribbled a few words that read: Fool.

Thoughts:

I’m so glad that I finally can keep up to date with Soul Eater. My couldn’t play those mp4 from AEN and Tadashi properly, but now that I have my macbook for college, I’m am ready for all the HD animes the internet can throw at me!

This episode was hilarious! Soul Eater is a very well done show because it holds it’s audience in two key areas: comedy and action (I won’t say that the story or characters are bad, but for the sake of my illustration I must limit it to two). Although this episode seemed filler, I’m betting that it was actually in the manga. I don’t know, somebody who read the manga might want to correct or confirm me on that. Point is, I don’t care if it is filler or not. Excalibur is one of my new favorite anime characters because of this single episode. He’s so adorable, full of himself, and awesome; therefore, the funniest thing the show has to offer as of yet.

To be honest, I wasn’t looking forward to this episode at all and was going to wait for the next episode instead, which explains why this post is so late. But then I saw all the hard-work JLeeson put in and pitied the poor man and decided otherwise; I finally watched it and it was full-on LOL mania. Excalibur is in some way annoying, but adorably annoying, and even though his dance was really repetitive, I thought it was cute. During those scenes involving Excalibur with his gang, I kept wondering why the word “Pencil” kept popping up out of nowhere. I like Black Star’s idea of writing an essay with only a couple of words because then, life would be so much easier. About Excalibur’s children … Why aren’t they half-human? At least episode eighteen looks like some SRS BSNS.