As each entry snaps seamlessly into the one that came before, even the over-the-top climax makes perfect sense when it arrives in context. BUT Soul Eater's plot lacks adequate breathing room for these doubts to ruin the experience. The twists and turns of the series' second half are hardly surprising, and the simple fact that the faculty leaves the fate of the world to a group of students seems implausible at best. If the viewer stops to think about the story, things start to unravel a touch. The powerful cast gets more in over its head with each passing episode, which helps maintain tension in the anime and adds to the believability of the villains' repeated escapes. After a brief set of explicit introductions, the story gets on the rails to placing the its child protagonists outside their comfort zones. In the end, the series' execution sets it apart from its copycat foundations. And the writers stuffed the cast with tropes borrowed from well-known horror works. A virtuous organization of supernatural fighters trying to prevent humans from turning into demons? D.Gray Man. A special school devoted to training warriors? Naruto. That said, Soul Eater offers little original to anime as far as its story goes. Fifty-two half-hour segments rarely yields as satisfying experience overall. The series' tight, energetic approach stands out despite the show's heavily derivative feel. Of all anime, shounen shows tend to embody the worst practices of uneven storytelling: Dragon Ball Z is so ponderous that the remastered Dragon Ball Kai manages with 1/3 the original's air time Naruto, an otherwise fun and action-packed romp, stuffs its final EIGHTY episodes with filler. Conversely, the plodding half-formed yarn of Aoi Hana withers when almost nothing happens (even by the statue-speed standards of yuri romance, that anime fails). The deft, non-linear approach of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni keeps its viewers on the edge of their seats. Pacing is the rate at which a story progresses the speed at which the plot develops can make or break any narrative effort, but appears to me to be an acute issue in anime. StoryLet's talk for a moment about pacing.
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