When the Soul Eater manga came to an end in 2013, it took a bold stance and chose to have a win for peace, with no fists or weapons pointed at the enemy. Instead, weapon Meister Maka, the transforming human-scythe Soul and friends lay down arms to impede an unceasing wave of madness in their world, which threatens to corrupt their fellow students at the Death Weapon Meister Academy. Fans of the manga and the anime, which had ended some four years before, were disappointed in the loose ends left by author Atsushi Okubo. Certain plot threads were dropped to bring the story to a close, and rather than being defeated, the evil of the Kishin was recaptured and guarded in the blood cocoon it first escaped. The lack of a decisive battle and defeat might also have been at fault for the manga feeling unfinished for some. Nonetheless, the final choice it made for perseverance over violence is part of what set this particular manga apart from the general shonen framework. By comparison, in the final episode of the Soul Eater anime, Maka reaches new depths of her connection with Soul to become part-weapon herself, then performs a disabling [...]
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