Soul Eater NOT!, Vol. 4

ソウルイーターノット! [Soul Eater NOT!] #4

by Atsushi Ohkubo

Tsugumi Harudori is in love with life at DWMA, but she still hasn't made a decision on whether to take Meme or Anya as her meister. Anya has delivered an Tsugumi must make her choice by Halloween--and the clock is ticking! Can Tsugumi make up her mind in time, and without hurting one of her friends? It's a savage but super-fun life!

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Supernatural, Comics, Comedy, Graphic Novels, Paranormal

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 12, 2014

About the author

OHKUBO Atsushi

Atsushi Ōkubo ( 大久保篤), also romanized as Atsushi Ohkubo, is a Japanese manga author and fantasy artist known for his work on the manga series Soul Eater, which has been adapted into an anime. Okubo worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine, on the manga series Get Backers. He also created artwork for various cards for the Lord of Vermillion game.

Atsushi Ōkubo was not a model student and was more attracted to drawing than to learning. At the age of 20, after finishing studies at a manga school where he met Rando Ayamine, the author of Get Backers, he became Rando Ayamine's assistant for two years. Finally, he won a competition at Square Enix's Gangan magazine with his first manga series B.Ichi and it was published for four volumes. After the end of his last manga, he created Soul Eater, still for Square Enix's Gangan magazine, which brought him worldwide success.

Reviews

[Alexis U · Rating 2 out of 5]

This volume was pretty boring and disappointing. I think I lost the plot in all that fan service... sigh.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not that great but I love the characters! On to the last one

[Eriss · Rating 1 out of 5]

Where did the plot go?



There's just too much fan-service for me to care about the story at this point. Following the pattern of the third volume, this volume is also comprised of short stories and mini chapters. Not a fan. I liked what was promised during the first and second volumes, but the third did a switcheroo, and everything went down a canyon from there.

It sucks to say this when the finish line is literally the next volume, but this volume slayed every last interest I had in this series. I didn't think it possible, but alas...

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5⭐️ A little too much fan service, but I love these characters. I don’t really mind that the plot is thin in this and the last volume. They’re cute and funny, which is what I signed on for! A supernatural school life manga.

[Pinky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kim turns into a tanuki and Jacqueline leaves her outside.

[georgiaotaku · Rating 2 out of 5]

*big sigh*

[Aitana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bueno, la trama vuelve a ratos, y después se vuelve a perder entre el fanservice.
Sólo me queda un tomo. Si quedaran más, me plantearía no seguir leyéndola.
Me gustaría que se enfocara más en la trama.

[A.J. Culpepper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Marginally better than the previous three. It leaves you with one hell of a cliffhanger!

[Filia Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume was better than volume 3 was by far, but I still don't think it was as good as the first two volumes were. The main plot is at least there this time, but it's still between these pointless short stories. Additionally, there was way more fan service than usual in this volume. One whole chapter is seriously devoted to it, and it's not the only time it comes up in this volume. I think it maybe was there one time in the other volumes, so having most of this one taken up by it was a bit of an annoying surprise. .__.;. The other volumes didn't need it to move the story, and neither did Soul Eater (the regular one), for the most part.
I'm super disappointed in this volume, and hope that 5 is better.

[Mel · Rating 3 out of 5]

At last, Atsushi Ohkubo couldn't help himself and inserted an extremely over-sexualized scene involving the very young protagonists of the series, thus knocking my rating down a few stars. Soul Eater Not! so far has been everything one could want a lighthearted prequel to be--hilarious, cute, with small insights into the world and characters. I stuck with Not! even when I gave up on Soul Eater after one volume because it didn't seem to fanservice out its characters as much, so this volume was a bit of a setback for me.

[Noemi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Eons above volume 3, Volume 4 wasn't as nearly a chore to sit through and read. Actually, I really enjoyed it. The porridge joke that Meme makes when Tsugumi is sick was pretty funny and the other filler is cute and charming at the expense of not being mind-numbingly pointless like in the previous book. Serious shit happens at the end. Kim and Jackie get trapped at the local video arcade and must beat 50 levels of Dig-Dug while naked in order to escape.

[Claire · Rating 2 out of 5]

Slightly better than the last one. Things are moving forward but still a lot of filler (seriously with the filler we could be done by now.) Tsugumi really does need to make a choice so she can be a better weapon. I hope that Slay and Akane show up in the regular Soul Eater Books.

I am about to start the final book. I need 2 resolutions:-
1. Tsugumi makes a decision
2. They defeat with Witch Gorgon.

Plus less filler....

[David Basora · Rating 3 out of 5]

The value to this series is that is explains more of the mechanics of the world Ohkubo has created, interspersed with silliness and character development. With this being the second-to-last book, I'm getting worried about these three characters since they did not figure into the finale of the main series at all.

[Marianna Rainolter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finalmente ritorniamo alla trama principale della serie! Peccato che il prossimo è l'ultimo volume è sarà un finale probabilmente velocissimo... Uhm... Era meglio la serie originale

[Luna Jordan · Rating 3 out of 5]

TBA