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Soul Eater Streaming on AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand
posted on by Jon Hayward
The news of Soul Eater's addition to AnimeLab's growing line-up dropped via digital newsletter. All 51 episodes of the manga adaptation is available to watch for free in Japanese audio with English subtitles.
You can start watching Soul Eater on AnimeLab by clicking here.
Soul Eater
Soul Eater follows the adventures of the students that attend the Death Weapon Meister Academy (DWMA), a specialised school run by Shinigami (Rikiya Koyama) to train the next generation of reapers. Maka Albarn (Chiaki Omigawa) is a meister who is paired with Soul Eater (Kōki Uchiyama), a demon scythe and together they hunt down the souls of evil humans and witches alike to ensure order in the world.
Soul Eater was originally a manga created and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo and published by Square Enix in Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine from May 2004 to August 2013. The series has since been collected into 25 volumes and Yen Press publishes the English translation. The manga series also spawned a spin-off, Soul Eater Not!, that follows the misadventures of three girls attending the DWMA before the start of Soul Eater.
The anime adaptation ran for 51 episodes from April 2008, the series was animated at BONES under direction from Takuya Igarashi (Star Driver, Captain Earth) alongside series composition from Akatsuki Yamatoya (Gintama, Heroman). Norifumi Nakamura (Ouran High School Host Club) handled the art direction with Yoshiyuki Ito (Fullmetal Alchemist, Space Dandy) on character designs and Taku Iwasaki (Black Butler, Gurren Lagann) composing the music.
The series was licensed by FUNimation Entertainment for North America who also released an English dub of the series in 2010. Madman Entertainment is the current license holder in Australia and New Zealand (AnimeLab is their streaming service) and they have released the series over four collections in 2010 and as a complete collection on DVD in 2013.
