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| English Title |
The Seal Shrine – The Immortal Man's Tricks? |
| Kanji Title |
封印の社～不死身の男が仕掛けたからくり？～ |
| Rōmaji Title |
Fūin no Yashiro 〜Fujimi no Otoko ga Shikaketa Karakuri? |
| Airing Date(s) |
September 1, 2008 |
| Running Time |
23:50 |
| TV Rating |
TV-14 |
| Story Arc | |
| ←Episode 21 | Episode 23 → |
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The Seal Shrine – The Immortal Man's Tricks? is the twenty-second episode of Soul Eater.
Featured Appearances
Characters
Shibusen
- Maka Albarn
- Soul Eater
- Black☆Star
- Tsubaki Nakatsukasa
- Death the Kid
- Liz Thompson
- Patty Thompson
- Spirit Albarn
- Franken Stein
- Medusa
- Crona
- Ragnarok (shrunken by Maka's Anti-Demon Wavelength)
- Free
- Eruka Frog
- Otama Jackson
Other Characters
Locations
- Death City
- Death Weapon Meister Academy
- Underground
- Death Weapon Meister Academy
- Black Room
Techniques
Objects
- Black Blood
- Beelzebub
- The Little Ogre's key
Plot
Death City Underground (Flashback)
As Crona's body rejects the Black Blood, needles form along their body, piercing into Maka Albarn. But somehow Maka can still move towards Crona and reassure them with a hug. Something within Maka's wavelength brings some sanity to Crona's mind, as Maka explains that it is not that Crona cannot deal with others but that no one has taken the time to be there for them. Maka removes her glove to offer her hand in friendship, which drives Crona to tears.
Black Room
As Soul Eater smiles in appreciation of his meister's accomplishment, the record has come to a stop, indicating the Little Ogre's control over him and Maka through the Black Blood has been suppressed. As Soul departs, he adds that music is hardly a suitable hobby for the Ogre.
As the door shuts on its own, the Ogre expresses some potentially insincere disappointment that Soul has departed. As the Ogre twirls a key in the shape of his own head, he reassures himself that the door back into madness is always open to Soul. Yet he cannot help but be surprised how Maka's wavelength acted as "an exorcism wavelength."
Death City Underground
Medusa realizes the Black Blood has stopped. Franken Stein senses that Maka and Crona's souls have relaxed from the madness and that the fight has ended, as he reassures Spirit Albarn that Maka is safe, grasping Crona's wavelength to stabilize it.
Elsewhere, Crona complains that they cannot stop crying. Maka kneels before them while Soul stands, ready to follow Death the Kid and Black☆Star to stop the Kishin's revival. But Maka is worried about leaving Crona behind.
"Screw you guys!" someone with a high-pitched voice shouts. It is Ragnarok, who emerges from Crona's back, slapping a hand over her mouth and beating her head with his other fist--which barely hurts because the weapon is now tiny! Somehow, Maka's wavelength reduced Ragnarok. As Ragnarok lunges further at Maka, dragging Crona with him, Soul tries to push Ragnarok away from his meister. Ragnarok persists, confused why Maka would befriend someone as pathetic and "not fun" as Crona. Ragnarok assumes Maka desires Crona only to use as a punching bag to relieve stress, but as that is how he uses Crona, Ragnarok refuses to give them up.
Upset, Crona yells for Ragnarok to stop, throwing up a fist that punches Ragnarok in the chin. Ragnarok, as well as Maka and Soul, are stunned. Then Ragnarok bellows and tugs at Crona, furious to be punched and asking whether the meister has any idea what that feels like to be punched by Crona--which, of course, Crona does not know. Ragnarok compares the punch to the feeling "when you haven't crapped for three days and three nights and then get a toilet water splash-back bonus when you unload it all!" Maka and Soul look suitably disgusted as Crona fails to understand the crude comparison. Ragnarok then tugs on the bottom of Crona's outfit, exposing their legs as they struggle to cover their body.
Crona grows determined, telling Maka and Soul to depart while they hold back Ragnarok from following. Yet as Crona still yells for help against Ragnarok, Soul and Maka look less than convinced, hoping Crona does not die.
After Soul transforms into a weapon, Maka runs, hoping her teammates stopped Eruka Frog and Free from arriving at the Kishin's Seal Shrine. Soul asks whether Maka's wounds are healing, and she is surprised to find the Black Blood inside her has formed black scabs over her neck's wound to stop the bleeding. Soul is confused why the Black Blood is still in him while disappeared in Maka, which prompts her to stop running and consider. She then notices she is at the stairway further underground. Maka tightens her tie, tightens her grip, and descends the stairs--but jumping from the first step down to the bottom one.
Further ahead, Black☆Star stops upon finding smoldering ruins. Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, still in weapon form, reasons that Kid must have fought here. While Tsubaki hopes their friends are safe, Black☆Star is upset that Kid did not leave anyone or anything behind to beat up so he could stand out, as he kicks a nearby rock--which ricochets along the ruins and smacks him in the head. As Black☆Star is fallen on the floor, Tsubaki chides him that yelling will certainly make him stand up, then orders him to get up and catch up to Kid.
As Black☆Star leaps to catch up, Death the Kid continues to skate upon Beelzebub.
Kid is suddenly attacked by Free. None of his attacks work, even his Death Cannon, and he is suddenly possessed by his perfect mind disorders, only to be saved by Black Star. As Black Star attacks, Kid realizes the Free they were fighting was only an illusion, and the real Free is already far away with Eruka by the door of the sealed shrine. As soon as Eruka and Free enter the Shrine, they can feel Asura's soul wavelength. Both of them feel Asura's wrath before they realize it comes from the madness of the first Kishin.
Manga and Anime Differences
- Although in both the manga and the anime Ragnarok shrinks, the reasons differ. In this episode, Maka's Anti-Demon Wavelength purified Crona, causing Ragnarok to shrink in size. In the anime, although Maka's Anti-Demon Wavelength does purify Crona, it does not shrink Ragnarok, hence he is at his full size when he torments Crona as Maka and Soul escape. Ragnarok's first shrunken appearance occurs later in the manga, in Chapter 24, as a result of Death removing all the souls he had consumed through Crona.