Why Soul Eater's Animation looked so GOOD 

I honestly really wish that if a Soul Eater remake would ever get actually greenlit, Takuya Igarashi could get another chance at it. Although that could be unlikely considering he's been stuck with Bungo Stray Dogs.

As a Soul Eater nerd... If we got a full adaptation of the manga in the same style, I think I would cry. The animation is so amazing, it's part of what saves the Anime-original part for me.

It would be a dream come true if Soul Eater has a reboot, but the other day I was reading a note of why that might be difficult and it's in fact this reason, it had such a good team of animators but right now some of them are busy, it was a chance of a lifetime to gather all of them and also they gotta see if it's viable... I am just still, after all these years, wishing for that to happen, another chance 🙏🏽

One of my favorite cuts from soul eater does come from the opening. I absolutely love how the opening scene in the opening is done entirely with background animation as it zooms into each of the characters of the show. Yutaka Nakamura is such a good animator

Perfect choice of series to discuss! Man, I rewatch the OPs from time to time and it just stuns me the show looked THAT good. What a gem.

Soul Eater is definitely one of the best animated shows ever in terms of stylization and action.

the thing about getting into soul eater so young is i was never able to truly appreciate how GORGEOUS this show is until like a decade later. animation is still such a foreign realm to me but it is CRAZY to keep coming back to this show over the years and still be blown away by the art

Even after all these years, the anime still looks better than a lot of shows than come out nowadays. My favorite piece of animation was the first ending. The shading, color design and storyboarding was cinematic like. I never seen any series replicate that art style.

Man, before finding your channel, i really underestimated storyboard artists but now its pretty clear they are the spine of the production, with everything else being built up from there, really underrated considering how most (including myself) gush over the animation, which isnt bad but we gotta those story artists some love

This anime made me appreciate Shonen again. Made me realize that shonen can in fact be more than a long stretched out fight that lasts several episodes. I love me my DBZ, but going back to rewatch it is very hard for that exact reason. Soul eater definitely contributed to why the animation in mob psycho is so great for example. Love this anime, and I definitely need to rewatch it after 10 years of not revisiting it. Great video, thanks for the blast from the past!

Literally just started rewatching this series on a whim and you happen to upload this video. I forgot how great it looked but I shouldn’t have expected anything less from bones

is sad to know that if soul eater ever get the "Brotherhood" treatment we will never have this animation style ever again

Soul eater hits like no other anime

I loved Soul Eater, my fav character was Dr Stein. It's a shame the anime took another root and had a different ending because the the Manga was on hiatius, but I loved It non the less!

Love the editing on this video! It's wild how much care was put into the choreography, storyboards, and expressions of this show. I'm lucky to have this as my first shonen, seeing how thoroughly it influences my work even ten years after the first and only time I watched it. I'll have to watch it again.

They seriously don’t need to remake the series just use episodes 1-38 and animate the rest of the manga it would be the best decision (BTW soul eater is the sequel to fire force )

Soul eater has some of the BEST damn animation. It still holds up to this day and that’s thanks to the timeless artstyle and talent that worked on the show!! The fact that people still talk about this show to this day just shows how GOOD it is. It was truly ahead of its time,, and I hope that this resurgence in popularity means that perhaps there’s the slight chance of a reboot that follows the manga!!

Within the past year I've realize Yutaka Nakamura is my favorite animator, he's animated literally all of my favorite scenes and decided to study it as an animation student in college.

It still holds up. Even the colour is so vibrant. There are shows made today that doesn't look half as good as this or FMAB.

this is the anime i got obssesed over for literally all my childhood. i remember everything being so cool, the visuals, the animation and obviously the great sick music. it was just too much coolness for my little brain.

i litterally started rewatching soul eater last week, how ironic u make this video

few anime from that era still stand out to me as being some of the best animation I've ever seen the way that Soul Eater does. The smoothness and complexity of the moves in so many of those action sequences continue to take my breath away to this day. Just phenomenal.

This was just the video I didn't know I needed Soul Eater alway had a special place in my heart as it was one of the first animes I watched when I was younger and I realized how well written it was rewatching it later on This just gives me a whole new appreciation for it, and I love it even more!

It is pretty fire tbh

This anime is such a nostalgia trip for me, it's one of the first anime I've watched. God, I wish this late 2000s/early 2010s animation and art style was being made more nowadays.. most anime look like shiny pieces of plastic..

Going back to this show, I'm only now fully realizing how amazing the animation is in this show along with how much had to go into it after watching your video. It's amazing what a ton of well thought out sketch drawings can do for a series in terms of anaimation.

bruhh the editing is so hilarious 😭😭

Not sure why i was recommended this since I rarely watch anime, but you've sold me on this show gonna watch it later when not suffering through uni.

Dude this show goes hard

This video was really good because for someone with a lack of knowledge on how anime is created just listening to what your saying and how well you explain things it's really opened my eyes. I mean I feel like I understand a lot more now.

oh my god??? i had zero clue who Yuaka Nakamura was before this video and he has had a hand in some of the most popular shonen animes to date. One Punch Man, FMA and Brotherhood, Space Dandy, Cowboy Beebop, MHA and Mob Psycho are all ones he has been a key animator in along with Soul Eater. that is CRAZY. I will definitely be looking into more of his work!

"And some you... haven't" Dude, I love Scrapped Princess.

The art style was the first thing that stood out to me about this show the very rounded shapes juxtaposed against very sharp bold details it really stands out. The sun and moon are a good demonstration of the style but I also really enjoy deaths design the smooth animation stood out after that and the music and writing just cap it off the show has a definite aesthetic and it comes together so well I was disappointed by the non ending it deserved better

These are my favorite type of videos on your channel

it's been a favourite of mine for years, it really had such good direction and animation, the humor was not the best but it still is so strong

Awesome breakdown as always. I really enjoyed the Soul Eater anime. It's a shame it couldn't completely adapt manga and had to go its own original route, but it did make the animation by the stafd at Bones any less engaging.

Feels great to see someone make a video on my fav anime

Can't wait to see you do a video on Fire Force now that you've done SE, or the Monogatari series in general if we're speaking on fomer Shaft staff. Bake and Kizu in particular I'd love to see broken down. Your videos are very educational and entertaining, so keep up the great work! I use them to expand my knowledge and ensure I'm delivering accurate information in my own videos, just without getting into the nitty gritty of who animated what lol. If you’re looking for better retention on videos, I’d recommend tightening them up a bit more so that they’re quicker, and throwing in more of the jokes that this one had. Chapters may help as well with your style of presentation. I myself don’t usually use them but found myself looking for them on this video when I wanted to go back to a specific segment. Good to keep in mind that retention will vary a bit depending on the video and views, but by and large I think covering SE was a good idea. The previous ones I mentioned too, but covering this like Bocchi and CSM, discussing the internal production of studios like MAPPA - how CSM was falling apart, how it ties into JJK S2, why they take on so many projects, how they used to be - and general deep dives on anime studios would likely do very well. People don’t understand that a studio is sometimes just a name - Vinland S2, KonoSuba - and that sometimes they do play a big role in how an anime looks like in SE’s case. You’d not only be covering current stuff with things like Bocchi, Gundam, etc. - perhaps Oshi no Ko next season and compare it to Kaguya and how works by the same author can get wildly different adaptations - but you’d also be carving a niche for yourself as an animation educator that people can easily refer back to as “this dude/video does a great job explaining why MAPPA is the way they are, why Kyoani is the way they are, etc.” I think that could really blow up your channel, and I’d love for someone clearly educated and passionate on the subject to reach a wider audience than the people who currently do. I’m just spit balling ideas, tho. Let me know if you ever need any assistance and I’d be glad to help out as a fellow RU-vidr. Hope you keep killing it either way!

Ive always adored the art style and animation style of the Soul Eater anime, what a great video!

the angles in the openings is so immaculate

i love when characters don’t have a strict body structure (like the kishun in ep 1) and you can just play with their limbs during the action scenes.

god damn this show doesn't QUIT! so flippin' good.

another classic

Great video! I like that the artist names were kept up top during the examples, and how you showed the specific aspects of their styles that we’d recognize.

just imagine that soul eater resonance reboot post fire force series completion

YYYYOOOOO soul eater I didnt know I needed a video on this

This is amazing! like super inspirational, I’m going to start working on my animation more right now

I’m a proud to be apart of the 18% of people still watching here at the 9:30 mark lolol love you

Soul eaters music, animation, and general art style has and I think always will mesmerize me.

Good Video, Always loved the style of this show so i appreciate the breakdown

Really excellent informative video. Thank you.

It's a damn rare thing to see a series hold up as well as this one has.

Soul Eater deserves a modern remake that finishes the manga story. No 3d, match the old anime style, bring back the music, just redo it but add all the missed manga stuff.

I’m loving the drawings in the videos as of late man!

I'm glad youtube recommended this video to me! very informative analysis, thank you for your work!

Love the long format videos

1:29 ‘Eyyy! That’s a classic~

FINALLY YOU COVERED IT!!!! Fuck work… time to watch this 👀👀👀

I just happened to pick up this show in the past couple months and finished it last night. I made sure to add this to watch later so I could see it right away😊 I’m blown away how many notable animators worked on this and thought the entire time the animation quality was way ahead of it’s time. Thanks for the really informative video!!

Great video 👍

thanks for such a great analysis, very interesting! subscribed (:

Great video, though kinda sad that you didn't mention shin matsuo lol. Episode 23 is my favorite soul eater episode on a technical level, not only because of yutapon but mainly thanks to matsuo's incredibly atmospheric and eerie direction for asura's awakening

11:15 good lord I remember this part that lip sync was absolutely out of this world

Great Video! I can put a name to Soul Eater ed 1 now. Which is great cuz it's one of the best animated endings ever made.

No way I love soul eater!!!

Such a memorable show. It was *the* show that got me into anime. It’s great. Great video, cheers.

Literally the coolest looking show ever I love everything about it so much ty for this

Soul eater is sooo good and I love getting to know more stuff about it, even this behind the scene stuff, I never even realized how many "90s rap pose" shots it had or how prevalent it was during action sequences, but the amount of scythe spining definitely made it better

Great and interesting video

incredible channel !

Blackstar v mifune is LEGENDARY. I LOVED IT, the red with the lines back and white at the time BLEW ME AWAY. Animation and composite are important I rely on story and substance more. But, man did Soul Eater slap harder then a wife beater.

this video just made me start soul eater

I remember this show having some jojo level poses

I haven't dropped this in a while but maybe I'll try again. I think I good video for your channel would be how baki uses limited animation perfectly. And maybe point out how some shows do limited animation poorly

Huge Soul Eater fan but I've never seen that flip book animation. Wow, love it.

I really think that these animator catch really well the first manga episodes of Soul Eater, I love the manga as well because, holy the battle episodes are insanely drew, it's a bit sad that Atsushi Ohkubo doesn't care much about battle scenes like he used to in Soul Eater, like... he now focus more in fan service than dynamic poses, this is why I love Soul Eater anime so much but it won't get any new seasons, just cameos on other animes like Soul Eater Not, there you can clearly see how much his style changed

Omg the way you brought up saint Seiya, one of my favorites 😭😭

I would love to see a soft reboot of Soul eater where they don’t redo the whole anime but go back to a certain point in the story and continue from there. Like if they started where Medusa (possessing a child) surrenders to the D.W.M.A or redo the story from the start of the Arachne arc and then just follow the manga. If you still don’t understand what I mean look at the Blue Exorcist anime for reference. The end of season 1 had some anime only stuff from what I understand and season 2 over writes that ending and continues. When’s season 3 coming out?!

Thanks for this video. It’s been years since I’ve seen Soul Eater, but it always stuck with me and I always thought it was just because how epic the opening was. I knew the animation was good, but damn I never appreciated it was much as I am right now. Gonna rewatch it

Soul eater was one of my first and will always be one of my favorite anime I really hope they make a season 2 after fire force finishes

i will watch scrapped princess now

As my first major anime Soul Eater has a special place in my heart, I'll always love it The way this show looks will hold up for ages, it's looking good as always. I do still hope that one day after Fire Force maybe we can get a reboot green lit... It would be amazing

Thank you

I like to call those Action Flow Frames, for obvious reasons. Soul Eater definitely showed how they could change up the feel and dynamic of an action scene. Shows like Fate UBW and Demon Slayer have shown just how refined AFFs have become. There are a ton of other examples of them in other works and it's one of my favourite techniques that have been used in animation.

I'm that one person who knew Scrapped Princess. I had the manga, owned the anime lol. I feel so called out *at random*.

Wow I never realized how incredible the animation was in soul eater!

do you know who animated mosquito getting sliced? that part is so smooth

Straight facts, I'm surprised you didn't include Fire Force since it has the same creators and it has a Soul Eater easter egg of Maka's dad. Although that could be another video idea. Still a quality video regardless!

Story Board Play A Very important role when it comes to Key Animation Also man I love your channel and how you break stuff down for people who don’t know stuff about animation

Your video slowly embracing more memes, nice

I'll never understand how you guys find these intricate details about an anime's animation

Love your work every time you upload, I click on the video. I would love to see a video for one piece on how its animation got so good. You don't have to listen to me, but I would love to see it keep up the great work.

Hey, I’m loving your work! I think it would be interesting to analyze the animation of Jobless Incarnation from studio Bind, considering that it is a fairly new studio but the anime and the animation are fantastic

I remember the first time I "saw" Soul Eater. Everytime I would go to the mall and I'd sit in the food court there was this anime store nearby that sold anime stuff like Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, etc and one of its interesting aspects was the TV it had facing towards outside the store (to the passerby). I am not sure if it was reruns or it simply liked to show it but I remember seeing Soul Eater there all the time. If I being honest, I thought it was weird at first, Im not sure what it was exactly (maybe the dark attire some of the characters wore as well as Death) but I thought I would never watch it but years later when I was a teenager, with netflix (i think I cant recall) I decided to try it out (especially since I was getting into anime) and I loved it so much! It makes me sad that I didn't "discover" it sooner but it is what it is.

This was great informative video I really like the anime Soul Eater.

Soul eater is my special interest and I’m a super nerd for animation, so this video was super interesting!! I’ve always thought the soul eater anime was beautiful, even though the story lacked comparing to the manga, the songs, animation and style made up for it big time!

Hey man I absolutely love your content and how it covers the real talent and substance behind what makes the anime we watch great, do you know any other content creators like yourself that you could recommend? I find it hard trying to find channels that highlight people like the individual animators and staff behind anime

good video 👍🏼

As an inspiring animatior this is so cool to know about my first adult/teen anime❤ I hope to incorporate it with my stories

5:46 WAS THAT THE BITE OF '87?!?!