Even though I didn't like their episode 4...by Tadashi:
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=18176
Even though I didn't like their episode 4...by Tadashi:
http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=download&tid=18176
Well, the obvious happened. wonder when the three-eyed Han-Rasen are gonna appear.
pretty interesting ep.
The obvious? Yeah, ok I totally don't believe that you were expecting that.
uhm... i said so in the last thread. mind you, I thought i was wrong at a point during the fight, but c'mon even then it was still kinda obvious. Shinigami is a good guy, as in he seems to care about people. he was acting more detached then in the previous battles. The teacher guy didn't kill them while he should have been way more powerful. and Stein spent an awful lot of time letting them recuperate (hell, even the cat lady was more agressive). oh and the fact that the whole mission was called "Supplementary Lessons".Originally Posted by animus
I don't read the manga, its just that this wasn't very well hidden (that made it funnier imo)
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Maybe he's a manga reader and thus totally expected it? I was a manga reader, but luckily I stopped right before this encounter, and thus didn't see it coming. It was quite interesting and believable in the sense that the Screwhead was made so... academic and without malice that either way his way of fighting would have made sense.
It's funny how Black Star is a genius of fighting but his basic character makes him somewhat useless most of the time.
There's really no way you'd expect that Stein was really a good guy unless you read the manga. He's too creepy, way too sadistic, and too evil looking (except for the whole chair thing). Death Scythe's explanation to Blair supports the idea even further, that he's some super genius from the Shibusen that was too interested in his own creepy scientific studies than being a Meistar. There is a very intentional path towards guiding the viewers in the direction that he "went astray."
Stein even appears in the OP with the creepy looking witch in the background, and is in the set of the evil looking characters.
The only supporting argument for it is that it's a little early for the "last boss" kind of character to show up.
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That aside, Stein's deskchair fighting style is one of the most imaginative and interesting to watch fighting methods out of a lot of series I've seen. It lets him come off as super casual, and therefore that much more powerful. He's not at all worried about anything they could do to him.
I can't think of any significance of the bolt in his head. It just looks like a nervous tick.
I also like Death the Kid's little freakouts. This one was great, especially since Patty starts laughing completely insanely in the background. She might be just as bad as Stein is.
EDIT:
AEN's it out by the way. It's a whole hell of a lot better than Tadashi's. They've improved a lot for Soul Eater, but still not my preferred version.
[AEN] Soul Eater - 05
Last edited by Ryllharu; Sun, 05-11-2008 at 07:45 AM.
When Makka was able to see Stein's soul it looked like it had a ginormous bolt in it as well. I wonder if that's how he's constantly retuning his souls wavelength.
*my first post... be gentle*
so, if stiens not the major villain of the series, i wonder who is. And was killind sid and turning him into a zombie part of the the supplementary lessons? its seems pretty fucked up to kill a guy just to fool a bunch of students.
I don't buy the "obvious" part. Just because you suspect that something may be up, doesn't mean that it is obviously so. There's enough evidence to suggest that he was really a bad guy for it to have been obvious, especially when he kicked Black Star's ass the way he did. And the supplemental lesson thing is really incosequential, since pretty much many if not most of these missions these students are doing could be considered or are supplemental lessons.
From what I undestand Sid wasn't killed to be made into a Zombie. He died on some mission or something, and Stein simply made him a Zombie.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
The thing is, I agree that when he started beating up Black Star i wasn't sure. but i was talking in relation to the previous ep. i mean, from that ep it was kinda evident that Sid was not what he said he was.
and, aside of Black Star, Stein didn't seem like he wanted to kill them or even beat them up too much. anyways, by the end of the first ep, it was kind of obvious that Sid wasn't a bad guy which made it kinda obvious that the whole thing was a set up.
btw... the bad guys are probably gonna be those three-eyed things we see in the OP.
Of course he didn't. He gave the impression they should be more or less in their original shape so that he could alter them any way he wanted. He had nothing personal against the students and rather treated them as scientific samples to study.
Good episode and all. Too bad there wasn't any Tsubaki action.. I can't say whether it was obvious Stein was bad or not, since I was spoilt by Gotwoot.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
I gotta say I'm really enjoying this. It's very quirky, but good too.
These 3 couples make for some great action. I too love Death the Kid's crazy symmetrical rants.
Generally, I figured the souls looked that way to be distinctive (well, sort of distinctive anyway). Maka's has twintails, Tsubaki's has a pony tail, Soul's has the pointy teeth he has, and the moron's has his spiky hair.
But you've got a really good point there. Didn't think about that one.
I'd be interesting to see Kid's. I bet you it's not symetrical.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Maybe we'll see in the next episode, since apparently he's going to go at it against Soul and Black Star... though I don't know if Maka is around to see his soul, and I don't think Black Star is capable of seeing them right?
Black Star is a total moron about anything outside of fighting (which he's a genius at) so I'd guess he doesn't see them. Whereas Stein and Maka seem to fight more intellectually, Black Star is all instinct. Even if he could see them, would he really look for information he could get out of them or even care at all?
Are only technicians able to see them, and not the weapons?
I don't think so, since both technicians and weapons need the skill to tune their souls together to create something like a Witch Hunter. I believe seeing other's soul is an extension off that skill. As Stein said before, he can see other's wavelength and tune his to theirs to neutralise their attack.
If it's bigger than his he would.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
That's a good question, I was assuming that only the Meisters were able to see them, but maybe the weapons too, and it goes without saying that also the Shinigamis should. But so far, all seems to point to only the Meisters, since they have been defaulting to them so far... I think Tsubaki was wondering about Black Star... if weapons would be able to see them, I would think that Tsubaki would be capable. With that said, I don't think this anime would have a strict rule about it, since it's whacky enough to bullshit it's way through any given situation.
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