I hate this finale. I hate it with mui gusto.

Mostly because Soul Eater is one of my favorite animes. It's cool. It's quirky. It's recurring theme is INSANITY. It has a bisexual emo with a screaming sword made of black blood fighting a giant overall-wearing golem with a demon chainsaw. THAT'S JUST PLAIN AWESOME.

But this last episode... ugh.

Summary: Maka is fighting the almighty demon god. She uses her Demon Hunter attack. Does nothing. She reawakens her inner weapon heritage and does some awesome scythe-generating kung-fu. Does nothing. She's about to be strangled to death or something.

CUE FRIENDSHIP SPEECH

Demon God starts flipping out, his eyes bug and his head does a 360. Maka does this cool running thing and punches him in the face. The Demon God talks more in a really annoying voice that reminds me of the godawful asian drama Hot Shot. Then his face splits in half and he explodes, and EVERYONE LIVES HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE END.

The series was robbed of a truly epic final fight. Even though everything right up until the final episode has been pure win, the series fell short. Here are some things that could have made it better:
1. Instead of getting ignored, some other side characters could have had a show in it. Giriko should have turned into a chainsaw, and then get wielded by a giant Mosquito to fight the good guys that were just sitting in the robot city doing nothing (aided by lantern girl, gloves dude, and Oxford).
2. Maka's anti-demon wavelength could have actually meant something. The friendship speech, giving her courage, should have expanded her soul to the point where she could copy Black Star's Big Wave attack, and injected the anti-demon wavelength into the Demon God, killing him from the inside out. That would've been cool.
3. The part where Maka gets crazy scythe powers makes sense, but ultimately adds up to nothing. She attacks a bit with it, then it's over. No alluding to it previously, and no significance in the episode. Just.. padding for length. That time could have been used more constructively.
4. An epilogue. What happened to all the people in Death City when it turned into a robot? The remnants of arachnaephobia? Free and Eruka? Does Mifune become a teacher? (As Patricia said: That's what fanfiction is for. I guess......)
5. Black Star should have done something epic like Death the Kid did. I was expecting him to fight the Demon God a little after Kid blasted the Witch Soul out of him, but he was knocked out off-screen. Booooring. He should have used the big red sword he used on Mifune one more time.

And yes, I have made a journal for the first time in forevers. I really just wanted to get all that out there.

I'm gonna go read the manga. The art looks funny and the action is crap, so it better have a good ending goshdarnit!