soul eater anime versions eps 5

As usual, we have a look at the difference between the Cut and Uncut version.

Cut Version

The Uncut Version

Episode 5 continues with Maka and Blackstar’s arrival at Stein’s stronghold. There are great battle scenes throughout this episode, Maka reveals her ability to see other individual souls, similar with Stein’s ability.

Maka and Soul

Black Star

Tsubaki

Stein

The battle starts with Maka and Soul making their move, but was easily warded off by Stein. At the same time, the cheeky Black Star tried to attack from the other side. All their assault was not successful and that is when Maka realises the difference in terms of strength between them and Stein.

Stein manage to grab Maka during the fight and Black Star takes this opportunity to apply his Big Wave technique at Stein. Although the hit was successful, it didnt leave any effect on Stein as he has already adjusted his wavelength to suit’s Blackstar’s attack in advance, neutralising the impact.

Stein counter-attacked by applying some electrical energy to Blackstar, knocking him out on the spot.

Maka and Soul went to their last resort, that is the Soul Resonance after Soul manage to convince the dejected Maka. Maka almost gave-up after getting a glimpse at Stein’s soul and realised how powerful Stein is. Both of them merged their wavelength to produce the Witch Hunter weapon and launched the final attack against Stein. As expected, Stein manage to parry the attack with ease and destroying it at the same time.

Stein made the advance towards the fallen Maka, but was stopped by Soul. Soul shielded Maka with his body and warned Stein not to harm his meister. This is where the big joke starts. Stein kneeled down, patting Soul’s head and giving the pair a passing grade. He told them that this fight was a supplementary lesson ordered by the Shinigami himself.

Maka and Soul’s dejected look below

Other notes

Pity Black Star didnt use Tsubaki as his weapon as she was guarding Sid Sensei and I still dont understand Sid Sensei’s origin as a zombie in this episode. The Shinigami and Death the Kid was watching the whole battle from somewhere else and I’m surprised that even Death doesn’t know anything about the supplementary lesson. The Shinigami stated the Stein’s strength lies in his soul with high levels of observation, correspondence and compatibility. That’s how he manage to absorb Black Star’s attack at the beginning. Kid proceeds to assist Maya and Black Star after watching them losing their battle. The pathetic Death didnt make it in time as he was so depressed that he forgotten to fold the end of the toilet paper into triangulars. As a perfectionist himself, this was a major blow to him and even the Thompson sisters couldnt manage to drag him out of it.