'' Soul Eater'' is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by

Atsushi Okubo , is a Japanese manga artist known for his work on the manga series ''Soul Eater (manga), Soul Eater'' and ''Fire Force'', both of which have been adapted into anime television series. Ohkubo worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine, on the man ...

. The series follows the adventures of three students at a school called the Death Weapon Meister Academy (or DWMA for short), known as meisters, who use demon weapon companions with human and weapon forms. These meisters,

Maka Albarn The '' Soul Eater'' manga and anime series features an extensive cast of fictional characters created by Atsushi Ohkubo. It is set in a fabricated universe inhabited by various characters capable of using supernatural powers by channeling th ...

, Black Star, and

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, seek to turn their weapons, Soul Eater, Tsubaki, and the Thompson sisters respectively, into "death scythes" for Lord Death, the

Grim Reaper Death is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper (usually depicted as a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe) causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul. Other b ...

and head of the DWMA, by having their weapons consume the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch. The manga initially began as three separate one-shots serialized between June 24, 2003 and November 26, 2003 in two

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published by Square Enix. The first one-shot was published in the summer 2003 special edition of ''

Gangan Powered is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese mark ...

'', the second following in the autumn 2003 special edition of the same magazine, and the third serialized in '' Gangan Wing''. The manga started regular serialization in Square Enix's ''

Monthly Shōnen Gangan is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese mar ...

'' magazine on May 12, 2004. The first ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or ...

'' was released by Square Enix under their ''

Gangan Comics is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese mark ...

'' imprint on June 22, 2004 in Japan; as of December 12, 2013, 25 volumes have been released. The series is published in English by

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, and is serialized in Yen Press' ''Yen Plus'' manga anthology magazine. The first issue of ''Yen Plus'' was released on July 29, 2008. __TOC__

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Official manga website
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