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Episode Name
English Title

The Black Blood Resonance Battle! – A Small Soul's Grand Struggle against Fear?

Rōmaji Title

Koketsu no Kyōmei Sen! 〜Kyōfu ni Hamukau Chiisana Tamashii no Taifuntō?

Episode Data Report
Airing Date(s)

Japan: August 11, 2008

Running Time

23:50

TV Rating

TV-14

Story Arc

Fight to the Death Arc

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Synopsis 
Empowered by Black Blood, Crona proves difficult for Maka Albarn to defeat. With their survival on the line, Maka and Soul Eater push themselves to the brink of madness.

The Black Blood Resonance Battle! – A Small Soul's Grand Struggle against Fear? is the twentieth episode of Soul Eater. It is adapted from Chapter 17 of the Soul Eater manga.

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Plot

Death City Underground

Continuing from earlier, Black☆Star again tells Maka Albarn to face Crona alone, promising to save "her sorry butt" should she prove too weak against Crona. Soul Eater excitedly tells Maka to prepare for this fight, while Black Star has Tsubaki Nakatsukasa initiate Speed☆Star, allowing him to pass Crona with no problems. Crona prepares to attack Black☆Star's back, but Maka blocks with Soul's blade then performing a high-impact punch into Crona so that their body will be damaged despite the strength of the Black Blood.

Maka then uses Scythe Catch, the blade of Soul keeping Crona from tearing away from Maka, followed by multiple punches to Crona's face and torso. But Maka feels the heaviness of Crona's body, thinking it is like punching lead.

Ragnarok shouts to Crona to focus not on the escaping Black☆Star but on defending against Maka. Maka holds onto Soul's staff to give her a moment to leap and with both legs kick Crona in the face, knocking back the Demon Sword meister while the force of her kick allows Maka to stay in the air long enough to land on both feet. On the floor, Crona cannot determine how to proceed against someone like Maka who, despite her seeming weakness, is defeating them. Ragnarok gives Crona an order that causes a mad grin to form on their face: "Kill her."

Soul advises his meister as well, demanding that she tell him that they have a chance of winning this fight. Maka answers: "Nope, not really." Soul sweats nervously before he breaks up laughing, complimenting her, in his own way, that she is so smart yet so dumb, and that her willingness to fight with no chance of winning makes her the best meister he could have. Based on how Maka usually handles situations, Soul thinks she will find a way to win anyway.

Ragnarok interrupts Soul's pep talk to remind Maka that Crona almost killed her and Soul before, and that Black Star would have been a more appetizing opponent to consume than Maka. To Ragnarok's confusion, Maka says one word: "Hooray." She is pleased that Ragnarok sees who she really is: before, Ragnarok saw her only as food, whereas now he sees her as an opponent and hence a person.

Maka's sardonic grin disappears as she expresses annoyance at Crona's perpetual fearfulness, as she demands they face her. Crona tells Maka to leave them alone, as Maka is already so weak that she will be injured should she move forward with this battle. Maka's smile returns, as Crona blushes in confusion at Maka's determined stare. Maka admits she is weaker yet knows her stronger soul likely means she will win. This response causes Crona to frown and finally face Maka. Ragnarok transforms, telling Maka to prattle as she wishes because no one is near enough to hear her screams when she will die in this battle.

But Maka still presses Crona, seeing that their frown means she has finally ticked them off. Maka introduces herself by name, demanding Crona's name so that her fight challenge moves forward. Crona and Maka then expand their soul wavelength, each with energy forming what appear like wings, Maka's angelic and Crona's dragonlike, ready for the real fight to begin.

Elsewhere underground, Spirit Albarn senses Maka and Crona's wavelengths, and Franken Stein confirms to him that Spirit's daughter has ignored Stein's instructions and is facing Medusa's child alone. The Vector Plates still encircle Medusa and Stein, each one ready to move to allow Medusa to attack Stein directly. While Medusa mocks Spirit's daughter as weak, the father tells the witch not to underestimate Maka.

Meanwhile, Soul asks why Maka is letting Crona stand there without attacking them. Maka goads Crona to act, prompting them to slice their own wrist with Ragnarok, the Black Blood emerging from the wound as Bloody Slicer, forming a boomerang-shaped projectile with Ragnarok's eye upon it. Maka dodges Bloody Slicer, but in that time Crona has moved forward to slice at Maka. Maka blocks Ragnarok with Soul's staff--but Ragnarok dissolves around Soul's staff into Black Blood, dripping onto the floor. Crona then commands that puddle of Black Blood to form Bloody Needle, spikes shooting upward at Maka. Maka leaps and uses Soul's staff as balance so she may flipped backwards and dodge the needles.

Maka slides back to create distance, but Crona begins Scream Resonance. Frustrated at Crona's attack, Maka demands to know why Crona is collecting innocent souls and resurrecting the Kishin. Crona explains that they are afraid, so it is by interacting with others that Crona can overcome fear. As for why they are resurrecting the Kishin, Crona says Medusa will abandon them unless Crona becomes a Kishin. Without becoming stronger, Crona concludes, they will always be afraid. Now that their Scream Resonance has climaxed, Crona and Ragnarok release Scream Alpha, the attack ripping through the floor in a straight line for Maka. But Maka does not dodge: she stands before the attack, saying that regardless how weak or afraid she is, she will face whatever attack Crona has. Maka blocks Scream Alpha with Soul, and even as the attack thrusts her back, she screams out Crona's name. But in the attack, Scream Alpha causes an explosion around Maka.

Elsewhere, Stein and Medusa continue to face each other, neither opponent engaging the other. Stein asks from where Medusa abducted Crona. Stein assumes that Medusa was trying to make Crona into a Kishin and in failing to do so now decides to resurrect Asura himself. Therefore, Medusa likely has no need for Crona, so Stein is curious what she will do with the child. Stein at least is pleased at these circumstances, but he is confused by Medusa is laughing. Medusa explains that her goal has not been only to revive the Kishin: as her primary goal has been to research the Black Blood, even these supposedly failed experiments help her to perfect that Black Blood. She also explains that Crona is not abducted: Crona is indeed Medusa's own child.

Meanwhile, Crona stands, waiting for the smoke to clear to determine whether Maka is no longer a threat. But Maka slams Soul's staff down to help herself back up. She runs towards Crona and swings Soul at them, but Crona, with a bare hand, blocks Soul's blade. As more Black Blood emerges from this new wound on their hand, Crona again asks why Maka persists when she is so weak. With that hand wound's blood, Crona produces another Bloody Needle to stab at Maka. Maka dodges and leaps back, as Soul explains that creating more wounds will leave him and Maka at a disadvantage. Maka and Soul then realize that they have one more attack to try: as they resonate their souls, they form Witch Hunter. Crona responds with Scream Resonance again as Soul tells Maka to increase their resonance as well.

Stein can sense the increased resonances of both Maka and Crona's pairs, while Medusa can sense that the Black Blood is becoming unleashed in Ragnarok and Soul, drawing both weapons into Madness. The Little Ogre grins. Maka prepares Witch Hunter while Crona prepares Screech Gamma. Spirit asks Stein to explain what is happening, who answers that the Black Blood is being activated.

Maka leaps and attacks with Figure-6 Hunter, which cannot penetrate Crona's Screech Gamma, so Maka attacks with Letter-U Hunter, knocking Crona back and tearing up the floor. But Crona blocks the attack with one arm. Wearing a mad grin, Crona asks whether these attacks are the best Maka can summon. With one strike, Crona knocks Maka back. While Soul is surprised that someone as lanky as Crona has such physical strength, Maka corrects him that it is the Black Blood of Ragnarok within Crona that strengthens them.

Manga and Anime Differences

  • In Chapter 17, when Soul asks whether they have any chance of defeating Crona, Maka initially says yes, but then immediately corrects herself that no, they have no chance. In this episode, however, Maka immediately says no.
  • Chapter 17 included the portion of Stein's use of Soul Thread Sutures on Medusa. This content was adapted as part of Episode 19 rather than taking place after Maka's fight with Crona.

Trivia

  • Medusa confirms to Stein in this episode that she identifies herself as Crona's mother and that she did not abduct the child.

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