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''Soul Eater'' is a [[Shonen]] manga by Atsushi Ookubo which has been regularly serialized in Monthly Shonen Gangan since 2004. It received a 51 episode anime by [[Studio BONES]] in 2008. As of January 2011, Monthly Shonen Gangan has ran a [[Prequel]]/[[Spin-Off]] named ''[[Soul Eater Not]]'' by the same mangaka, running alongside the original series while covering and expanding on events prior to the original story.

** {{spoiler|This trope is the only reason why anyone is still alive in the most recent arc. Everyone is fighting on the moon, with no spacesuits-First of all, anyone who passed third grade science should know that there is no air on the moon, so how are they breathing? And even before they started to choke, they should've been ripped apart by the low pressure, and those are only two of the reasons why they should all be dead.}}

* [[Art Shift]]: Whenever someone is going insane or experiencing some intense emotion. Happening more often as the series goes on.

* [[Asskicking Pose]]

* [[Astral Checkerboard Decor]]: The floor of Soul's [[Mental World]].

** {{spoiler|Gopher to Kid, after discovering his OCD (Kid seemed impervious to torture, but then he noticed the corners of Gopher's mouth were uneven and completely lost his cool)}}.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Death the Kid seems to be going this way as of recent chapters...}}

** {{spoiler|After a [[Heel Face Turn]] Crona pulled this, going back to Medusa.}}

** Cemented in the latest chapter, as {{spoiler|Kid is about to fight Black☆Star.}}

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Mandheling brand coffee sounds like mandolin, which is why Shinigami keeps strumming a chord every time he talks to Joe Buttataki about coffee. It's a knee-slapper, that one.

** This one, from when Kid first meets Soul and Black Star. It's kinda subtle at first, but becomes more obvious upon the second reading:

* [[Insane Equals Violent]]

* [[Insane Troll Logic]]:

Marie: IDIOT!! We're never serious, so we're allowed to be crazy sometimes? That's ridiculous!! }}

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha]]: the {{spoiler|Death City Robo}}

* [[The Lonely Piano]]: Appears in the final battle after {{spoiler|Maka and Soul wake up to find that the rest of their [[Nakama]] have all been defeated}}. Of course, they were asking for it, given how Soul both plays the piano {{spoiler|and uses this for a literal [[Theme Music Power-Up]]}}.

* [[Lolicon]]: Maka's dad is a non-exclusive one. The way he acts toward his own fairly young and [[Pettanko|relatively flat]] daughter is... [[Squick|well, pretty creepy]]

'''Medusa''': Say another word and I will ''kill'' you! }}

* [[Lost in Translation]]: In the original recording, Joe Buttakaki argues with Lord Death about his coffee requirements but ends his sentence with a word in Japanese that sounds like "mandolin", so Death, [[Cloudcuckoolander|confused, holds a mandolin]]. In the English dub, they change it so both characters just say "coffee beans", meaning it's no longer a miscommunication, and Lord Death holds a mandolin for absolutely no reason!

*** And then Mosquito gets one of his own when he realises that Kid has the real Brew. Kid then forces him to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|retreat]].

* [[Oh, No, Not Again]]: Black☆Star takes the cake when after seeing {{spoiler|[[Jerkass|Excalibur]]}} in the Wrath chapter of Eibion, which naturally pissed him off, the group leaves the chapter with Black☆Star (and pretty much everyone else) glad to be ridden of the annoyance, only to find {{spoiler|Excalibur}} ''again'' in the ''next chapter''. Black☆Star's reaction? ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Well...]]''

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: Shows up during {{spoiler|the fights between Shinigami and the Kishin, and during most of the Kishin battles.}}

* [[One Head Taller]]: In the main cast, the female weapons are significantly taller than their male meisters. Soul and Maka are at pretty much the same height.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Maka and Soul using {{spoiler|the Black Blood}}

* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: Some of the songs on the OST (most notably [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mto_4TRoxXw "PSYCHEDELIC SOUL JAM"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsPg3rK498I&feature=channel "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Have a Nice Dream"]) have really good English pronunciation. The lyrics, however, not so much...

* [[Tailor-Made Prison]]: The Demon God being imprisoned with his own skin.

* [[Take a Third Option]]: During the last Mifune vs. Black☆Star fight in the anime. Mifune asks Black☆Star if he will choose the "Path of the Demon" or the "Path of the Warrior". Black☆Star (somewhat predictably) decides that neither path is good enough for him, and choose to forge his own path forward. He never really elaborates on what the path is, but it clearly comes with powerups (the Enchanted Sword grows about a foot longer and glows red.)

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Ox Ford and Kilik Lunge. Subverted in the manga when they get expanded roles, not so much in the anime.

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Death the Kid

Kid: "I am a ''Shinigami''. I grant ''no'' freedom to kill." }}

* [[Thriller on the Express]]: episode 30 of the anime, "The Red Hot Runaway Express". Kid, Patty and Liz have to board the speeding train and fight an enemy on board for possession of a magical artifact, while a third party outside is fighting both sides.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: An ever-present threat for everyone, especially those infected with the black blood.

* [[Word Salad]]: We either hear the lyrics to, or hear Justin Law thinking the words to his music.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Black☆Star suffers from this ({{spoiler|he beats Mifune in his first appearance and takes down Sid, but is utterly overpowered by Stein, bested by Death the Kid, needs help to take down Free, fails to stop Medusa and is one-shotted by Asura during his awakening, following being utterly humiliated by Mifune during their rematch and failing to complete his objective during the battle with Mosquito.}}) and indeed suffers a minor [[Heroic BSOD]] from it. Later in the anime after recovering from his [[Heroic BSOD]], he fights {{spoiler|Asura}} and the Worf Effect started when {{spoiler|Asura recovered from Death the Kid's Death Cannon with all three Sanzu Lines}}.

** Seems to be reversing in the manga as well, unless Black☆Star loses to Crona...