Finished Soul Eater!

[tomoyoichijouji]

Yep, like the subject says. All 51 eps of it. And my (very) ramblingish thoughts of such!

Comments

[mangaka_chan]

After reading your thoughts on Soul Eater anime, it made me think of a book I'm reading right now. The book is called The Botany of Desire, and though it's a book on well, botany, the author discusses human's desire for control over nature being expressed through the manipulation of plants. The classical idea of Apollonian order over Dionysian wildness is something civilization promotes (at least in Western tradition), but the author argues that Dionysian elements of nature are also needed to introduce novel genes into plants or the plant lack the diversity to fight diseases and pests. In a way I think courage is our control over the primitive, instinctive reaction of fear. Flight-or-fight is such a strong built-in reaction that people controlled it with courage and logic

[tomoyoichijouji]

So courage from your stance is something that stands under order, and is right alongside logic in that sense

[mangaka_chan]

I think it depends on the situation. If it's between panicking and lashing out wildly then courage would stand on the side of logic where it would benefit you to remain calm and clear-minded. If however, in Maka's situation where the situation was impossible, logic says to go against Asura is foolish courage then becomes the force of madness. So courage is curiously enough something that swings both in the way of madness and logic.