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Death Weapon Meister Academy, a.k.a DWMA or "Shibusen"...you could call it a school for heroes — an academy funded by taxes from around the world, dedicated to training meisters and their weapons in order to maintain world order. I guess you can say the people working for the DWMA are international government workers!

—Pamphlet , Soul Eater Not! Chapter 1 (Yen Press Translation)

Death Weapon Meister Academy (死神武器職人専門学校, Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakkō) is a school founded by Death to train meisters and demon weapons, maintain world order, and prevent the uprising of another Kishin.[7][8]

History[]

12th Century

Over 800 years ago, former Eight Reaper Legions member Asura defected and became a Kishin, Death intervened and fought against the newly-made being. Eventually winning the battle, he skinned him alive and used the pulled skin to create a sack capable of holding both Asura's soul and Madness within him and then bound his soul to the land to suppress and seal him away from the world. Finding himself immobile beyond the bounds of his own soul, Death then created Death Weapon Meister Academy on April 2. A building was built around the sealing area and the land around his soul eventually became Death City.[9][10]

Strife with the Witches

Over the course of centuries, both Death Weapon Meister Academy and the Witch Order fought one another. Many of their attacks involved creating new Spells capable of hurting Meister and Weapons within the academy, with the school coming up with another technique to counter it and vice versa. Eventually, Soul Perception was developed to detect Witches and in turn, the Witches created Soul Protect and have since used it to their advantage in attacking the DWMA.[9]

20th-21 Century

World War I

In the 1900s, Death Weapon Meister Academy became involved in World War I at some point. In the aftermath of the war, it was mandated that a Prime Minister of Japan was to be a DWMA graduate as a requirement.[11]

Star Clan Purge

Thirteen years ago prior, the assassin clan known as the Star Clan was destroyed by the DWMA due to its avarice and exorbitant violence in it's activities. However, the DWMA and one of its members, 12-year-old Sid Barrett, allowed one survivor, who was then taken to the Death Weapon Meister Academy under their care: the infant Black☆Star.[12]

Witch Infliltration

In DWMA's recent prior activities, the academy's central intelligence branch monitored a potential young witch slip into the student body though opted to allow the witch to reveal her intentions without intervention.[13] Around this timeframe, the DWMA experiences around fifteen incident involving Traitors.[14]

Synopsis[]

Design[]

Main article: Death Weapon Meister Academy (building)

Overview[]

Death Weapon Meister Academy serves a multitude of purposes; one of the school's main purposes is to ensure the prevention of another kishin,[15] maintain world order,[16] and upholds a responsibility of teaching demon weapons how to control their powers as a preventative measure from weapon abilities hurting others, helping them to potentially intergrate into society seemlessly.[17] In administration, the school is led by a headmaster and is supported through it's faculty members.[1]'

School[]

Enrollment into the academy[]

Enrollment into the academy as a student has a age requirement, although the specific age of joining is yet unknown; inviduals as young as 12 are able to join the academy.[18][19]

Advancement curriculum[]

In the academy, there are two general advancement curriculum that decide the purpose of both the student body and teachers present in the school:

  • Normally Overcome Target Class (オーバーノーマルー•オーバーカム•ターゲット•クラス, Ōbānōmarū• ōbākamu• tāgetto• kurasu): : The curriculum for non-combatants teachers and students. Ninety percent of the students in the DWMA make up and follow this curriculum.[20]
  • Especially Advantaged Talent Class: The curriculum that involves the students and teachers to use their power to fight against evil. The last 10% of the student body make up and follow this curriculum.[21]

Classes[]

As a academy, the school offers both general education and special classes in which said goals are to fortify student in mind, body, and soul (per the school motto). Along the general education subjects (i.e physical education), the core special subjects taught within the school includes: soul studies, literacy arts, and duel arts.[22] In addition, extracurricular classes exists and are given to students based upon their abiltiies: some examples includes the Extracurricular Lesson Solicitation Committee and the DWMA Central Intelligence Agency (the latter exclusive to the EAT Class).[22] These classes are considered electives in the DWMA.[23]

In cases where students are performing poorly in school, be it in general educational subjects or extracurricullar classes, remedial classess are offered; in the EAT Class, the headmaster is in charge of arranging remedical classess and lessons, doing so based upon student needs.[24]

Regulation[]

Per being a school, there's various rules unique to the academy such as:

  • If two students are dueling on school grounds, at least one of the faculty members must be present to witness.[25]
  • Hunting souls not on Lord Death's list is considered forbidden.[25]
  • Overhunting of human souls are forbidden.[25]
  • An execution order from the headmaster is needed to actively hunt a witch by staff and/or students during their extracurricular classes.[14]

Several acts can result in explusion from the school, including: Failure of all class subjects,[26] poor performance in soul collecting , and poor performance in remedial lessons.[24] Both the headmaster and experienced teachers of the academy are capable of expelling students .[27]

Student Life[]

Jobs[]

Death City has various part-time job shifts available for students, especially those who have spent all their weekly allowances from the DWMA. Jobs offered to the DWMA students are paid by the day due to the high job demand of penniless students seeking employment. Students seeking part-time work must submit an employment form to the DWMA.[28]

Jobs include waitress at Deathbucks Café, delivery at Death Shipping, cleaning the city's community pool, and working at other positions at Death Records, Restaurant Munehisa, and drugstores.[29]

Uniforms[]

The DWMA is a academy in which has no set uniform. However, there are a variety of preset uniforms one can choose from, and one can match any top with any bottom. While a student within the academy can select the uniforms and switch around match to their liking, they're also allowed to wear their own clothes.[30]

Students have additional uniforms specific to certain tasks, whether related to schooling, such as for physical education classes, dojo training, and extracurricular work at the Reception, or related to military missions, such as the Spartoi uniforms. Students working in Reception wear dark knee-length pants, light-colored high-length socks and light-colored shoes, checkerboard vests with ties held by skull brooches, and pill hats. These Reception vests also include skull-shaped belts on the back to provide a slimmer figure and curves to female employees. Dojo uniforms include a gii with dark pants, shoes if desired, and headbands if desired with skull logos. Physical education uniforms are similar for both male and female students. Students wear sleeveless shirts and gym shorts, with a zipped-up warm-up jacket featuring a skull logo on the breast and on the jacket's back. Spartoi uniforms vary across all members but are united in by color scheme and the Spartoi logo on some uniforms.[31]

Stage Names[]

In addition, the DWMA is a rather special school in that students may actually change their names upon entering into a stage name. Once a student has changed their name, they are stuck with the same name for a minimum of two years. Some examples include Eternal Feather and Soul Eater.[32]

Paramilitary Operations[]

Ranking[]

Primarily, the DWMA adheres to a unique, star-based ranking system present in both the E.A.T Class, the higher echelon of the school faculty, and the more paramilitary branches of the DWMA; within this star ranking system, meisters and weapons are evaluated based upon competence between one and three stars, with the highest being three stars.[22] This ranking sysyem is presented within an indentification card held by all members associated with the part ofthe school.[33]

In other situations, ordinary ranking is dependent on title and affiliated organization, therefore varying. Such titles include Captain, Generals, Chief, etc. It can be assumed these rankings are attained based on experience and capability.[34] Finally, special designations are also in place, granting various privileges to those who hold it.[35]

Student-level
Rank Privileges
Soul Eater Wiki Icon - Star Library Access up to Level 1,[35] Extracurricular lessson up to 1-star level.[36]
Soul Eater Wiki Icon - StarSoul Eater Wiki Icon - Star Library Access up to Level 1,[35] Extracurricular lessson up to 2-star level.[36]
Soul Eater Wiki Icon - Star Soul Eater Wiki Icon - Star Soul Eater Wiki Icon - Star Library Access up to Level 2,[35] Extracurricular lessson up to 3-star level.[36]
Faculty-level
Rank Privileges
Instructors Library Access up to Level 3,[35] Extracurricular lessson up to 3-star level.[36]
Elite Meister / Death Scythe / Death's family Library Access up to Level 4,[35] Extracurricular lessson up to 3-star level.[36]

Threat Levels[]

Death Weapon Meister Academy's threat level is arranged in letters starting from "D","C","B","A", and finally "S", the highest and most severe ranking. The only known "S"-level threat was Crona's making of the black globes with black blood due to it's madness-inducing effects.[37][38]

List of DWMA members & groups[]

Group name Leadership title Head Status
School
DWMA's faculty and staff Headmaster Death the Kid Active
Especially Advantaged Talent Class Various DWMA's faculty and staff Active
Normally Overcome Target Class Various DWMA's faculty and staff Active
Extracurricular Lesson Solicitation Committee Receptionist None Active
Clubs
Kim Diehl's fan club None None Active
Special Teams
Spartoi Various DWMA's faculty and staff Active
DWMA Elite Headmaster Death the Kid Active
EAT Class Resonance Teams
C Group Team Leader Maka Albarn Active
Kilik's team Kilik Rung Inactive

Paramilitary-related groups[]

Group name Leadership title Head Status
Specialized groups
DWMA Central Intelligence Agency Commanding Officer Sid Barrett & Mira Naigus Active
Global branches
DWMA's South America Branch
Death Scythe
Tezca Tlipoca Active
DWMA's African Branch Dengu Dinga Active
DWMA's Oceania Branch Azusa Yumi Active
DWMA East Asia Branch Active
DWMA's West Asia Branch Jinn Galland Active
DWMA's Eastern European Branch None Active
DWMA's Western European Branch Active

Trivia[]

  • Death Weapon Meister Academy is considered a Japanese-based organization.[22]
  • According to DWMA student Akane☆Hoshi, it is because of Death Weapon Meister Academy's profound power and absolute trust that the DWMA is very prosperous. Most of it's funding is received around the world in most countries.[39] Specifically, this money comes from taxes the countries give to the academy.[40]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Soul Eater Super Guidebook: How to Make a Death Scythe
  2. 2.0 2.1 Soul Eater Not! Manga: Chapter 3
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Chapter 23
  4. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Volume 4.5 (Not!)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 113
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 22
  7. Soul Eater Anime: Episode 1
  8. Soul Eater Not! Manga: Chapter 1
  9. 9.0 9.1 Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 16
  10. Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 20
  11. Soul Eater Not! Manga: Chapter 6
  12. Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 57
  13. Soul Eater Not! Chapter 14
  14. 14.0 14.1 Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 14
  15. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named SEMC6 Spirit Quote
  16. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named SENMC1
  17. (Yen Press) Soul Eater Not! Manga: Chapter 4 — Tsugumi:DWMA is a school that exists to teach children with powers like me....the "laws" that can help us integrate into society and lead normal lives.
  18. Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 42
  19. In Soul Eater series, Maka is 13 years old as of the Clown arc according to Chapter 42. As she is present as a student in Soul Eater Not! as of Chapter 1 (NOT!), that makes her twelve years old.
  20. (Yen Press) Soul Eater Not! Manga: Chapter 4 — Sid: 90% of the student body is placed in the "NOT" (Normally Overcome Target) Class, which is for non-combatants
  21. (Yen Press)Soul Eater Not! Manga: Chapter 6 — Sid:The other 10% is the "EAT" (Especially Advanced Talent) Class for agents who use their powers to battle evil.
  22. 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Soul Eater Not! Volume 4.5 Official Fanbook ~Need to Know~
  23. Soul Eater Super Guidebook: How to Make A Death Scythe
  24. 24.0 24.1 Soul Eater Volume 1; Chapter 1, page 158
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 3
  26. Soul Eater Volume 10; Chapter 36, page 18
  27. Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 1, Chapter 36
  28. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named SENMC3
  29. Soul Eater Not! Manga: Chapter 3, Chapter 8
  30. (Yen Press) Soul Eater Not! Manga: Chapter 4 — Maka:There's a real variety of uniforms here, isn't there? You're free to mix and match top & bottoms...or you can just wear your own clothes.
  31. Soul Eater Not! Chapter 19, Soul Eater Chapter 45, Soul Eater Chapter 62
  32. (Yen Press) Soul Eater Not! Manga: Chapter 3Eternal Feather: "DWMA is a special school, so they allow students to select their names. Some students even choose names as ridiculous as 'Soul Eater.' [...] Once you've changed your name, the school won't allow you to change it again for two years."
  33. Soul Eater! Chapter 1
  34. Soul Eater Volume 9; Chapter 34, page 123
  35. 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 35.5 Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 32
  36. 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 36.4 Soul Eater Not! Manga: Chapter 19
  37. Soul Eater Manga: Chapter 84
  38. Soul Eater Volume 20 - Volume 20's afterword explains that the threat level ranking is based on Japan's ranking of earthquakes.
  39. Soul Eater Volume 1; Chapter 6, page 190
  40. Soul Eater Volume 1; Chapter 1, page 22 - Booklet:An academy, funded by taxes around the world....

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