![]() ![]() She also at times tends to get annoyed with Soul due to his laid back personality, but they are still good friends at heart. She is brave, strong-willed, hard working, humble, kind, and determined to do what is right, but hates injustice and can lose control of her emotions when her friends are in danger. The anime depicts Maka as the most mature and casual character out of the main protagonists. When in danger, however, Maka does everything she can to keep Soul out of harm's way. She collaborates well with Soul in battle, but sometimes gets frustrated at him when he does something foolish. As such, Maka is obsessed with turning her weapon partner, Soul Eater, into a death scythe that will surpass her father. However, her relationship with her father Spirit is strained due to his constant flirtations with women, leading her parents to divorce. She is a young but dedicated student who takes after her mother, another prodigious meister. Maka Albarn ( マカ=アルバーン, Maka Arubān) is one of the main protagonists of Soul Eater. Soul Eater Maka Albarn Voiced by: Junko Takeuchi (drama CD), Chiaki Omigawa (anime) ep. The three main meisters of Soul Eater wielding their partners in weapon form (from left to right): Death the Kid, Maka Albarn, and Black Star. The names of several characters are based on the titles of other films as a form of tribute, such as Blair being named after The Blair Witch Project and Kilik after Kirikou and the Sorceress. He also designed supporting character Kilik Rung to be black after noting a lack of African characters in other manga series. However, he did base a few characters on people he was familiar with, such as Excalibur, whose personality he based on his own father. He resisted drawing influence from other people for most of his characters, particularly the main protagonists, who he instead based on assets on his own personality-the arrogant Black Star is based on Ōkubo's narcissistic side, the neurotic Death the Kid based on his manic side, etc. He also decided to use a scythe as Maka's weapon for its unique fighting style. Ōkubo decided to make the main protagonist of the series, Maka Albarn, a female in response to other shōnen manga having male main characters, and paired her and the other main characters with those of the opposite sex to demonstrate an equal representation of gender. The story element in which characters transform into weapons is an expansion on the idea of weapons being personified, which Ōkubo frequently saw in other fictional stories. Slump and wanted to create a story in which serious or intense action scenes would be defused or interrupted with comedic moments. SOUL EATER MANGA CH 1 SERIESWhile creating Soul Eater, Atsushi Ōkubo was heavily influenced by the manga series Dr. 4.4.3 Kim Diehl and Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupré.The spin-off prequel manga titled Soul Eater Not!, also created by Ōkubo, follows the everyday lives of three other DWMA students- halberd Tsugumi Harudori and her two meister friends, Meme Tatane and Anya Hepburn. The main Soul Eater manga and its anime adaptation follow three meister/weapon partnerships- Maka Albarn and her scythe Soul Eater Black Star and his shadow weapon Tsubaki Nakatsukasa and Death the Kid and his twin pistols, Liz and Patty Thompson-who act as field agents for their school and reap the souls of evil humans to prevent them from turning into kishin. DWMA is run by Shinigami, also known as Death, the Grim Reaper, as a training facility for weapons and meisters to hone their powers, as well as an organization to preserve world order against anyone who threatens it, including witches, monsters and evil demons called kishin. The main protagonists attend a school called Death Weapon Meister Academy (DWMA) located in the fictional Death City in Nevada, United States. Most of the characters in the series, including the main protagonists, are classified into two groups: humans who are born with the power to turn into weapons, called demon weapons, and the wielders of these weapons, called meisters. It is set in a fictional universe inhabited by various characters capable of using supernatural powers by channeling the wavelengths of their souls. The Soul Eater manga and anime series features an extensive cast of fictional characters created by Atsushi Ōkubo. Top row: Black Star, Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, Soul Eater Evans, and Maka Albarn.īottom row: Liz and Patty Thompson, Death the Kid, Blair, and Spirit Albarn. The main characters of Soul Eater (from left to right): ![]()
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