nenena | Your Soul Eater moment of zen.

Kid, you are a hopeless case D8 LOL~

The only thing that I didn't like of the chapter was the "puddle of blood" scene

AGAIN

HIS LEGEND STARTED IN THE 12th CENTURY.

I didn't know Black*Star likes yaoi. owo

Overall that ep could pass. I like it that they take another way on the battle with Mifune. Also the anime and manga will propably go in different routes in developing B*S - in the manga he gopt all the reality expreience adn now the matter of Angela, and here, basicly, he got pwnt (I had to use this). Maybe this experience will make him mature. If Mifune will live in the anime, I'll be quite happy (at least the anime will have that plus for Mifune fans, not to say that his death was bad, since it was a well written piece in those circumstances).

Oh, that Kid and cane shot is priceless. Kid is so drippingly dignified, *most* of the time, so when he loses his composure it's the funniest thing on earth.

Yes, this.

I LOL'd so hard at Kid's extended meltdown in this episode. Watching him and his father (metaphorically) bash their heads against each other was, like, the highlight of the episode for me.

Mannnnn, while i enjoyed this ep, i can't help but feel Kidd hasn't gotten any love throughout the series D:

Like Maka has her demon hunter thing, B*S has his fey blade and becoming a kishin thingy, but Kidd wasn't even important enough to get epix death canon in brew arc. Le sigghhhhh

And to top it off, Shinigami/Eibon revelation was el crummy. Gaaaaah.

... ehh at least we gots the manga.

So, I hear the revelation about Eibon and Shinigami isn't the big deal Kid had in mind? I think it's kind of understandable that the single-minded Kid took some suggestions of his father being anything less than honourable, and came to suspect his entire operation. Daft, but coming from Kid it makes sense for for me. Am excited for this episode simply to get some answers. And even Excalibur might not be so bad.

Thanks for the screenshots. Excalibur shoving his cane under Kid's nose is funny.

It isn't a big deal at all. Turns out: Eibon was just one of Shinigami-sama's old allies. Specifically, he was one of the eight comrades that Shinigami-sama mentioned waaaaaay back in episode twenty-whatever of the first season. Asura was another one of the eight. To be fair, Bones actually did put Eibon's silhouette in the flashback scene back in the first season, so this isn't exactly a retcon.

(And yes, the "That's it?!" and "Yes, that's it, what were you expecting?" back-and-forth in this episode is one of the funnier parts, in my humble opinion.)

Also, to be fair, Kid had assumed that the demon tools were evil, and back in episode 33 basically had Eibon conflated with witches in his head, which was why he was so shocked to see his father's name engraved beside Eibon's. And Eibon *is* connected to Arachne, after all. In Kid's head it's always been Shibusen Good, Everybody Else Bad, so of course at the first hint that there might be any sort of interconnection between Daddy and anybody who uses magic outside of Shibusen (hence "bad"), it blows his mind. And it starts to make Shibusen/Daddy "bad" by association.

Personally I don't think that Kid's arc is done yet, because the issues raised way back in his (one-sided) conversation with Stein still haven't come to a head. Plus we know that there's going to be some sort of WHAM! revelation coming in episode 48, so this may just be the fake-out anti-climax before the storm.

i can't help but feel Kidd hasn't gotten any love throughout the series D:

In comparison to the manga, though?

In the manga Kid got dismembered by Mosquito, got a bitchin' powerup from the Brew and then immediately lost it, and finally got OM NOM NOM NOM'd by Noah without even getting the chance to put up a fight.

In a certain sense, the anime has been much kinder to Kid than the manga has been.

But maybe not so much in terms of giving him interesting storylines. ;) The anime isn't over yet, though. We'll see.

I can see why Kid made the assumptions he did, which makes the ending of the whole fiasco both amusing and kind of satisfying: the first because the scene between Shinigami and Kid sounds funny, and satisfying to see that Kid's black-and-white (no pun intended) notions are proved wrong once again.

Quite how far wrong, perhaps, will be shown in 48's little revelation. I am a bad person for enjoying Kid being messed with... ;)

I'll have to re-watch the Stein 'conversation' at some point. It was about the nature of 'truth', if I recall correctly.

which makes the ending of the whole fiasco both amusing and kind of satisfying:

That's pretty much exactly how I feel.

I think that a lot of people are disappointed at how anti-climatic the Truth About Eibon is. But I think that its hilarious anti-climatic-ness is really satisfying in its own way. Not to mention epic lulz.

Plus we know that there are actual dramatic revelations coming along in about two episodes, so I have faith that Bones won't disappoint.

(Then again I also had faith that Mifune wouldn't die in the manga, so... I'm not exactly the best person at predicting these sorts of things.)

Oh yeah, gotta admit the "That's it" part was full of lulz in it's anti-climatic-ness.
Considering Mifune, I hope that he won't die here, but it makes me wonder if this "is" the end of the fight, since now B*S will be in a realm in the Youtou (maybe something with the purpose?), and as we remember the fight got serious after demonstrating the real power of the Demon Blade in the manga. Who knows.

well at least he got a powerup, plus the manga isnt over yet so im assuming theres more to come, and the eibon/shinigami revelation im sure will be a whole lot different. Even though the stuff thats happened to him in the manga wasn't necessarily... good, at least its stuff thats making him a somewhat important character.. i'm still clinging onto the small hope that maybe shinigami-sama is lying or something.

But it isnt just Kidd, i mean i'm sure we'll get more character development/backstory of other characters in the manga but in the anime we still know little to nothing about all the characters (except B*S & Tsubaki, and Chrona, a SIDE character) and its frusterating, especially with only 6 episodes left D:

I don't know which idea I like better--the "Yes, that's it, what were you expecting?", or the idea that it's a fake-out anti-climax. You can back up either one with logic and canon, and both "feel" like something that would happen in Soul Eater. I'm just wondering how the series will wrap everyting *else* up.
Maka and Soul have to do something amazing with the Demon Hunter.
Excalibur has to do something awesome and stupid, even if he did say that he just wants to watch.
Someone really ought to do something with the Morality Manipulation machine.
Shinigami-sama has to fight Asura.
The Ox-Kim group have to sneak into Arachne's castle, and presumably get into mischief there.
Justin and Giriko really ought to wrap their fight up somehow.
Mifune and Black Star must finish beating on each other, and end it in an emotionally meaningful way, 'cause this has been a slow train coming.
If the ED is any indication, there will be massive X-Men style property damage.

And even if they drop half of those threads, they have about 100 minutes to blast through the rest, and have an epilogue where people hug and cry and say "Let's make sure this doesn't happen again."

Cripes. Do you think they can cover all that, in the time they have left--or is it possible that they'll do an Empire Strikes Back and leave us hanging? Personally, I'd be overjoyed if they took a year off and resumed the story later on.

Oops, that was me. And this whole thing reminds me of school, where the paper is due in two hours, and I'm finally realizing that I'm not going to make it. Except someone else is running the race this time!

You're right, that's still a lot of stuff left on the plate.

I have faith that Bones can pull off most of those resolutions in 100 minutes, though. It'll be hyper-compressed, but they can still do it. Fullmetal Alchemist and Eureka Seven had similarly massively complicated plots when they launched into their final six episodes, and they managed to pull it off. So here's hoping.

Someone really ought to do something with the Morality Manipulation machine.

I thought Sid destroyed that waaaaaay back in episode twenty-something? I mean, they did show him planting bombs all over it, and then they showed him setting off the bombs later. Then both Arachne and Mosquito seemed to move on to other project, presumably because the MM Machine was a loss.

I haven't seen Eureka Seven or FMA (I mean to, eventually) but if Bones has pulled it off before, then I trust 'em! That's why the're writers, and I'm not :)
The MM machine was destroyed?! God, I don't remember that at all; I need to rewatch the whole series, in order, instead of watching Ep 5 for the seventeenth time.

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