List of Soul Eater chapters

The cover of the first volume of the Soul Eater manga released by Gangan Comics on June 22, 2004, in Japan

Soul Eater is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Okubo. 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, Black Star, and Death the Kid, seek to turn their weapons, Soul Eater, Tsubaki, and the Thompson sisters respectively, into "death scythes" for Lord Death, the Grim Reaper and head of the DWMA, by having their weapons consume the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch.[1]

The manga initially began as three separate one-shots serialized between June 24, 2003, and November 26, 2003, in two manga magazines published by Square Enix. The first one-shot was published in the summer 2003 special edition of Gangan Powered,[2] the second following in the autumn 2003 special edition of the same magazine,[3] and the third serialized in Gangan Wing. The manga started regular serialization in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan magazine on May 12, 2004. The first tankōbon was released by Square Enix under their Gangan Comics imprint on June 22, 2004, in Japan; as of December 12, 2013, 25 volumes have been released.[4] The series is published in English by Yen Press, and is serialized in Yen Press' Yen Plus manga anthology magazine. The first issue of Yen Plus was released on July 29, 2008.[5]

  1. ^ "Story section at manga's official website" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on December 18, 2011. Retrieved April 20, 2008.
  2. ^ "Summer 2003 issue of Gangan Powered" (in Japanese). Square Enix. Archived from the original on May 2, 2008. Retrieved April 20, 2008.
  3. ^ "Autumn 2003 issue of Gangan Powered" (in Japanese). Square Enix. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2013.
  4. ^ "Books section at manga's official website" (in Japanese). Square Enix. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
  5. ^ "Yen Press Announces Titles to Run in Anthology Mag". Anime News Network. April 19, 2008. Archived from the original on April 21, 2008. Retrieved April 19, 2008.