Especially Advantaged Talent Class

Manga Anime

Alternate	E.A.T Class "EAT"
Group information
Affiliation(s)	DWMA
Leader	DWMA Faculty
Base of Operations	Death Weapon Meister Academy, Death City
Status	Active
Real world information
Debut	Chapter 1

“	The other 10% is the "EAT" (Especially Advanced Talent) Class, for agents who use their powers to battle evil.	”
—Sid Barrett, Soul Eater NOT!, Chapter 4

The Especially Advantaged Talent Class (a.k.a. E.A.T Class) is the advanced general curriculum in Death Weapon Meister Academy.

Overview

In this general advancement curriculum, agents (teacher and student) in this class use their power to fight against evil. The last 10% of the student body make up and follow this curriculum.

Teaching

In the EAT Class, most teachings and lectures revolve around a sort of science known as soul studies, teaching students about the very soul, and special training that aims to improve their ability to hunt the souls (often called "Battle Arts").

Whenever students fall behind in their studies and/or hunting activity, they're given a chance to complete remedial classes: lessons orchestrated by the headmaster of DWMA on account of poor soul hunting ability or repeated failures of performing certain quests that allow a student to make up and improve their grade with failure resulting in possible expulsion.

Testing

There's two special testing elusive to the DWMA in which students partake in:

• Ultimate Written Exam: A test given to both meisters and weapons within the academy every year which focuses on the soul studies subject.
• Athletics Test: A test of physical fitness, which is much more intense then that of normal athletics tests. Required for E.A.T. and N.O.T. students alike.

Student Life

Like the N.O.T. Class, there seems to be some sort of age requirement for joining the DWMA. Although the minimum age limit is unknown, middle school-aged students are eligible to join the DWMA and

Activities

Quests

Quests are missions undertaken exclusively by the E.A.T. Class student and faculty body outside the academy and are dangerous. Many of their missions revolves around the execution of those on Shinigami's List (Kishin Eggs in the anime) as well as investigations of supernatural occurrences and assassinations.

The quests are organized into different ranks; each student also has a rank. Depending on their corresponding rank, they're allowed to take on missions suited for them. These quests seem to be organized by the Receptionist as well as N.O.T Students in order by rank and posted on the mission board in the academy.

Sponsors

Popularly known weapon and meisters are able to have sponsors with which they make deals with corporate sponsors to make money and get rich. Students who signs deals to do sponsors may use the money they earn towards donations.

Special Privileges & Roles

Those within the E.A.T Class enjoy more privileges such as being able to afford to live in actual custom apartments, enjoy special privileges like being able to ride on a moped illegally or without a license, Additionally, they can be occasionally called to help out the N.O.T Class as a mentor similar to that of the faculty upon an instructor's choosing.^{[citation needed]}

Rank & Information Clearance

Partial look of a ID card.

Within the participants of the E.A.T Class, students, staff, and any agent under this designated class are classified to a star based and ranking system with one star being the lowest and three stars being the highest. They're also divided by a special rank: elite meister, death scythes, Death's family. Official meister and weapon teams share the same star status as one another.

Such information is recorded in a badge carried by it's agents with their name, miscellaneous information, and their rank in which determines the sort of quests they're capable of performing. Their badge also details the "Information Level" clearance a meister/weapon has in the DWMA's library divided into category levels 1-4, though the last two require additional special designation not typical of the star status of a given individual.

Rank	Clearance
&	Information Level 1
	Information Level 2
Instructors	Information Level 3
Elite Meisters, Death Scythes, and Death's Family	Information Level 4

Special Occurrences

Death Festival

Main article: Death Festival

The Death Festival (also known "Shibusai") is a annual tournament held ever year on Halloween. It is the biggest and most popular event of the year. Only E.A.T. students may participate in the Death Festival.

DWMA's Anniversary Eve Celebration

Main article: DWMA Anniversary Eve Celebration

The DWMA Anniversary Eve Celebration is a event in which the entire school and student body celebrate the founding of the academy on the day before its actual day in which it was founded. The celebration is held on April 1.

List of E.A.T. Class agents

Official Student Teams

Meister	Weapon	Rank	Team Type	Status
Hero	Formerly Excalibur		None	Inactive
Maka Albarn	Soul "Eater" Evans		Death Scythe Team	Active
Black☆Star	Tsubaki Nakatsukasa		None	Active
Ox Ford	Harvar D. Éclair		None	Active
Kim Diehl	Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupre		None	Active
Kilik Rung	Fire & Thunder		None	Active
Akane☆Hoshi	Clay Sizemore	Unknown	None	Active
Maka's mother	Spirit Albarn	Unknown	Death Scythe Team	Graduated
Sid Barrett	Mira Naigus	Unknown	None	Graduated
Crona	Ragnarok	None	Trial Team	Defected

Individual Students

Name(s)	Classification	Rank	Status
Elizabeth Thompson	Weapon		Active
Patricia Thompson	Weapon		Active
Dante Rockbell	Unknown	Unknown	Active
Selim Pride	Unknown	Unknown	Active
Watson	Unknown	Unknown	Active
Franken Stein	Meister	Unknown	Graduated
Justin Law	Weapon	Unknown	Graduated
Azusa Yumi	Weapon	Unknown	Graduated
Marie Mjolnir	Weapon	Unknown	Graduated
Auntie	Meister	Unknown	Graduated
Joe Buttataki	Meister	Unknown	Graduated

Faculty

Name(s)	Classification	Rank	Occupation	Status
Death	Meister	, Death's Family	Headmaster	Deceased
Death the Kid	Meister	, Death's Family	Headmaster	Active
Franken Stein	Meister	, Elite Meister	Instructor	Active
Marie Mjolnir	Weapon	, Death Scythe	Instructor	Active
Sid Barrett	Meister	, Elite Meister	Instructor	Active
Mira Naigus	Weapon	, Elite Weapon	Instructor, Interim Nurse	Active

Other Meister/Weapon Teams

Meister	Weapon	Rank	Team Type	Status
Alexandre	Dengu Dinga		Death Scythe Team	Active
Zubaidah	Jinn Galland		Death Scythe Team	Active
Enrique	Tezca Tlipoca		Death Scythe Team	Active
Feodor	Tsar Pushka		Death Scythe Team	"Deceased"

Triva

• Popular students in the EAT class include Kilik Rung, Kim Diehl (having her own undeground fan club), Death the Kid, and Soul Eater. Conversely, Hero is considered the most unpopular student among his peers.