There seems to be nothing truly special about this series. And I don't think I would recommend this to anybody who wants anything in-depth. I mean come on. The first 20 or so episodes seemed to have no bearing on the last 30. Yeah they introduced all the characters and you got to know them pretty well, but they were all cardboard cutouts. And if the true goal was to collect souls, then why in the hell do you divert the story line away to something totally unrelated.
- First,
the evil in the world is suppose to be demon souls and witches. Ok, I can handle that. Next we are introduced to black blood, which appearently is what happens to an individual who eats pure souls and not evil ones, or something along those lines. Anyways appearently it is bad, ok a stretch but this is anime, i understand how it goes. And then the best they can come up with is madness/insanity/whatever it was subbed as by the particular group who subbed it. I find this to be a very thin plot line. Sort of like they were pulling at strings and they never really wanted to define the problem.
- Second,
I don't know how many people got stabbed through the heart but did not die. Come to think of it, nobody in the whole series dies except for witches. Who don't die, they just sort of fade away. And for that much, whatever happened to Medusa's Soul? Can we say multiple plot holes?
- Third,
Ok you just got beat up by someone, and amazingly 20 min later you are healed, to full health. It is like Link Picking up a Heart in Zelda, without I don't know let's say a heart or a potion to heal you. Reminds me of Tom and Jerry or Roadrunner American cartoons. I'm sorry if you are cut through the gut, 2 episodes later, which take place the same day, you can't be running around like an idiot Black Star. And if someone impales a 6 inch hole through your chest, laying on the ground for 1/2 an episode bleeding does not make it better. No amount of tap will heal you. But again this is Anime this is to be expected.
- Fourth,
why does Maki become a Badass at the end, yet you don't tell us why or how? She just amazingly can matriculate scythes out of her body. What allows her to do this? And how in the sudden does she become lightening fast with her attacks? I know she was knocked out and apparently it was in her genes, but you don't explain why, but you tell us her mom is apparently very powerful(but yet we never meet her or are explained why she is so powerful), and we all know her dad's pretty kick ass. I'm guessing that's just another one of those Plot holes in this series.
I'm sure there are other plot holes out there, and other things that got on my nerves but seeing as I divided this series into 2 parts, watched the first 26 episodes then 2 months later watched the last 25, I’m probably forgetting some.
On a positive note, the characters are likeable, the art is very well done including the actions scenes, the Op and Ed are all very good especially the 3rd ending, the voice actors were all good, and it was very light hearted and easy to watch. And yes we all know everybody hates Excalibur, including me. Soul was definitely my favorite out of the ragtag team, and as well as he should. He seemed like to be the only one with his head on straight 1/2 the time where the rest, outside of Maki, were off in left field digging holes with their baseball mitt.
