Soul Eater/Episodes

Soul Eater is a 51 episode Japanese anime series directed by Takuya Igarashi, and produced by Bones, Aniplex, Dentsu, Media Factory, and TV Tokyo. Bones and Aniplex were responsible for the animation and music production, respectively, as well. The anime is based on the Soul Eater manga series created by Atsushi Ohkubo. The series follows Maka Albarn, a "meister" of the Death Weapon Meister Academy (DWMA), and her living weapon, Soul Eater, as she seeks to make the latter into a "death scythe" through absorbing the souls of evil humans.

The series originally aired in Japan between April 7, 2008 and March 30, 2009 on TV Tokyo. The episodes also aired at later dates on TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, and TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting. The series was licensed by Funimation in the U.S. and appeared on the Funimation channel. The series premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami block on February 17, 2013.

Soul Eater has been released in four half-season DVD box sets in 2010. There are also two Blu-ray box sets that were released in Japan, containing both Japanese and English audio tracks; the first, "The Meister Collection", was released on January 26, 2011, and the second, "The Weapon Collection", was released on March 23, 2011. A complete series box set was also released on November 20, 2012.