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ソウルイーター [Soul Eater] #20
Soul Eater, Vol. 20
Kid has been freed from Noah's greedy clutches, but The Book of Eibon remains at large. Noah was a troublesome foe, but the vast knowledge contained within the book could itself be dangerous - and information is not all that lies in its pages... Meanwhile, Crona has resurfaced in Moscow, his madness and Medusa's maternal pressure having all but consumed the friend Maka once knew. The question is how many will be devoured by Crona's madness before he can be stopped?!
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 22, 2011
About the author
Atsushi Ohkubo
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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.
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.
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March 11, 2023
Para empezar, admito que cuando Justin Law se presentó me encantó su diseño pero hasta allí. A estas alturas del partido es un personaje que me aburre, no me parece interesante y ya es hora de que se extinga porque me tiene francamente cansado.
Es en sí, un tomo de varias batallas que ni fu ni fa, no son tan dramáticas a excepción de la última escena de Chrona y Medusa que me encantó. Súper insana. La pobre se merece ser feliz. ¿Puede ser feliz ya?
Es en sí, un tomo de varias batallas que ni fu ni fa, no son tan dramáticas a excepción de la última escena de Chrona y Medusa que me encantó. Súper insana. La pobre se merece ser feliz. ¿Puede ser feliz ya?
August 29, 2018
5/5 ⭐️
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ENDING ARE YOU SHITTING ME???
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ENDING ARE YOU SHITTING ME???
October 4, 2022
Don't mind me, I'm just casually re-reading the entire manga for the 5th time or so because A) it's one of my comfort series and I need all the comfort I can get right now, B) I own the entire thing physically so it's right there, and C) everyone is talking about fall/ Halloween reads and SE fits that to a T.
Gonna give all the volumes 5 stars as a default. There's plenty I could complain about if I wanted, namely the unnecessary fanservice/ weird sexualization of teen characters, but I'm not gonna do that right now. It pops up rarely enough that I can just pretend it doesn't exist.
Gonna give all the volumes 5 stars as a default. There's plenty I could complain about if I wanted, namely the unnecessary fanservice/ weird sexualization of teen characters, but I'm not gonna do that right now. It pops up rarely enough that I can just pretend it doesn't exist.
February 12, 2015
I hated the part where Medusa made Chrona kill the bunnies.
May 14, 2019
Anything and everything else that happens in this book is secondary to that last chapter. Crona has officially lost his marbles and goes on a killing rampage. His latest victim was completely surprising to me and I wonder if it'll be a permanent death. I really need Crona to reunite with Maka so he can either be killed or redeemed. I'm hoping for a happy ending but I'm not holding my breath.
May 21, 2022
Tuvo sus altibajos, pero no me esperaba ese último capítulo, fue excelente. Pobre Chrona ;(
July 29, 2024
The madness is getting stronger! Whew things are wild right now and I can’t stop reading.
November 10, 2025
woaw, on est vraiment chez les fous.
moins une étoile parce que les grown ass men qui bavent sur des gamines ça commence à me sortir par tout les trous
moins une étoile parce que les grown ass men qui bavent sur des gamines ça commence à me sortir par tout les trous
August 2, 2021
Eibon revives angry
The school receives bears body but he’s still alive
Corona goes to fight random sychte users that Medusa has told them to attack
Corona leaves balls of madness
Maka and soul go to exterminate them but soul gets infected by the black blood
Stein fights him to protect everyone
Maka and Kim use their soul to help
Soul comes back and Maka yells at him
Bear and Justin fight once again
Bear dies and Justin is half alive
We see corona with Medusa and corona learns different ways to kill
And kills Medusa
Maka and star goes to help catch a whale beast
Maka notices that madness becomes thick the higher you go
The school receives bears body but he’s still alive
Corona goes to fight random sychte users that Medusa has told them to attack
Corona leaves balls of madness
Maka and soul go to exterminate them but soul gets infected by the black blood
Stein fights him to protect everyone
Maka and Kim use their soul to help
Soul comes back and Maka yells at him
Bear and Justin fight once again
Bear dies and Justin is half alive
We see corona with Medusa and corona learns different ways to kill
And kills Medusa
Maka and star goes to help catch a whale beast
Maka notices that madness becomes thick the higher you go
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June 29, 2021
I love this volume, it has a lot of unexpected that I think are brilliant
November 29, 2020
Soul Eater, Vol. 20 continues where the previous tankōbon left off and contains the next six chapters (82–87) of the on-going manga series.
Shinigami reunites with his son, Death the Kid – it is also the time for another step in the Index's plan. Death the Kid confesses to his father that the Noah he fought wasn't really human at all, because he was the personification of Greed. The Index wants to teach through the power of knowledge, but according to Shinigami, this power can create another form of madness, and so the Index creates another Noah with the personification of Wrath.
Meanwhile, Maka Albarn and Soul Evans are called to Moscow, as Crona has been found murdering Tsar Pushka, the death scythe in charge of Eastern Europe, and his partner with the power of mad blood. Feeling the power of madness, Soul Evans' wound opens up, awakes his true power, and loses his own reason against Maka Albarn. Inside his soul, the little ogre tries again to submit him to the power of madness but Soul Evans still refuses and finds his own self back.
At the same time, Crona keeps murdering people with the power of mad blood under Medusa's orders. In a moment of mother-child relationship, Crona loses himself and ends up stabbing Medusa. Meanwhile, Justin is found by Tezca Tlipoca and seems to have found out where the Kishin is hidden. Tezca tries to reason with Justin about what's right and wrong, but is eventually killed by him.
This tankōbon is written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. The tankōbon splits into two storylines: Death the Kid and his connection to The Index from the Book of Eibon, who has its own plans with the young shinigami. Meanwhile, Maka Albarn with her partner Soul Evans heads to Moscow, to stop Crona with the power of mad blood from causing more damage – as Crona has already killed a Russian Tsar.
All in all, Soul Eater, Vol. 20 is a wonderful continuation to a series that seems really intriguing and I can't wait to read more.
Shinigami reunites with his son, Death the Kid – it is also the time for another step in the Index's plan. Death the Kid confesses to his father that the Noah he fought wasn't really human at all, because he was the personification of Greed. The Index wants to teach through the power of knowledge, but according to Shinigami, this power can create another form of madness, and so the Index creates another Noah with the personification of Wrath.
Meanwhile, Maka Albarn and Soul Evans are called to Moscow, as Crona has been found murdering Tsar Pushka, the death scythe in charge of Eastern Europe, and his partner with the power of mad blood. Feeling the power of madness, Soul Evans' wound opens up, awakes his true power, and loses his own reason against Maka Albarn. Inside his soul, the little ogre tries again to submit him to the power of madness but Soul Evans still refuses and finds his own self back.
At the same time, Crona keeps murdering people with the power of mad blood under Medusa's orders. In a moment of mother-child relationship, Crona loses himself and ends up stabbing Medusa. Meanwhile, Justin is found by Tezca Tlipoca and seems to have found out where the Kishin is hidden. Tezca tries to reason with Justin about what's right and wrong, but is eventually killed by him.
This tankōbon is written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. The tankōbon splits into two storylines: Death the Kid and his connection to The Index from the Book of Eibon, who has its own plans with the young shinigami. Meanwhile, Maka Albarn with her partner Soul Evans heads to Moscow, to stop Crona with the power of mad blood from causing more damage – as Crona has already killed a Russian Tsar.
All in all, Soul Eater, Vol. 20 is a wonderful continuation to a series that seems really intriguing and I can't wait to read more.
April 22, 2022
So turns out tezca didn't die at the battle but fooled everyone into thinking that since he wanted to find Justin and try to bring him back to the good side. It unfortunately goes wrong and he ends up dead for real but not before burning half of Justin's face so he kinda has a Harvey two face thing going on. Gross.
Crona got sent to Moscow and Ukraine to do some tests with the black blood and it's horrifying. So kim, jackie, soul, Maka and Stein are dispatched to see if they can find crona and soul accidently goes mad. It was cute when Kim and Maka hugged Stein to get him to calm him down from the madness vibes soul was letting out through his soul. The other Russians in the branch got a bit jealous that the girls were hugging Stein.
Crona goes through her own fit of violent madness when Medusa starts being nice and loving to her. So crona, not being able to handle it, destroys her body through various ways and I'm just wondering if that was the plan all along. Guess I'll find out in.....
THE NEXT BOOK!
Crona got sent to Moscow and Ukraine to do some tests with the black blood and it's horrifying. So kim, jackie, soul, Maka and Stein are dispatched to see if they can find crona and soul accidently goes mad. It was cute when Kim and Maka hugged Stein to get him to calm him down from the madness vibes soul was letting out through his soul. The other Russians in the branch got a bit jealous that the girls were hugging Stein.
Crona goes through her own fit of violent madness when Medusa starts being nice and loving to her. So crona, not being able to handle it, destroys her body through various ways and I'm just wondering if that was the plan all along. Guess I'll find out in.....
THE NEXT BOOK!
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October 31, 2016
Was holding off to read the last 6 volumes for Halloween this and I was not disappointed! Last volume, we had Noah and the Bear head (that's what I call him), and Giriko all die anticlimactic. It was a wet blanket on what I considered a very creative volume with the deadly sins Book. Leave it to this author to have twists up his sleeves again! Turns out Noah is just a manifestation of the book and the bear had to fake his death! Soul Eater looked cool as ever going evil with a peak into his coolness as a facade to not fail. Great insight. I finally became a fan of bear as he tried to save his friends, tears flowed as I got attached to him in time to see his head detach from him. Medusa's actual death was poetic and fit so well to the theme. God, I wish they made this into an anime instead of the ending we got!!
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June 9, 2017
This volume steps up to the plate with five stars because of the last chapter. Although there are no new epic combats in this volume--we do see what appears to be the end of the battle between Tezca and Justin, but that feels tangential with none of the Spartoi involved--it still feels like things are building to a head, and that there is bound to be some really dark stuff coming up that finishes off the series. I'm really excited to see where it goes.
But it's the final chapter of the volume, a dark-as-pitch Crona and Medusa chapter at the end of the volume that thrusts this one over the top. Horrifying and truly twistedly powerful this is probably the best chapter of the entire series in my opinion. WOW!
But it's the final chapter of the volume, a dark-as-pitch Crona and Medusa chapter at the end of the volume that thrusts this one over the top. Horrifying and truly twistedly powerful this is probably the best chapter of the entire series in my opinion. WOW!
October 7, 2024
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Damn, this was so good and gory. I was really impressed at how this volume matured the story even more. Also, the character exploration in Soul was great and I loved all the fight scenes in this one.
A Hair on the Dramatic Side -- September Reading Wrap Up || 14 books!
Damn, this was so good and gory. I was really impressed at how this volume matured the story even more. Also, the character exploration in Soul was great and I loved all the fight scenes in this one.
June 20, 2022
So a lot to unpack in this volume with Justin vs Tezca which as a pretty cool fight with some interesting takes on what a Mirror can do. Kid finally finding Eibon which has been built up and I do like that plot point as it should lead to some really good world building also it's location was pretty clever and a nice call back. Finally we get some resolution on Medusa and it ended in a way that I was not expecting. Also good to finally meet more of the Death Scythes and seeing how they fight granted wished we would have gotten more on Tsar as what get is just from a short fight.
October 17, 2018
Just like the previous manga this one was very good. As I mentioned before I like the character of Crona. However, she is more and more affected by madness. Let's say the end is pretty surprising, I'm still in shock.
Tout comme les manga précédent celui-ci était très bon. Comme je l'ai mentionné précédemment j'aime bien le personnage de Crona. Toutefois elle est de plus en plus atteint par la folie. Disons que la fin est assez surprenante, je suis encore sur le choc.
Tout comme les manga précédent celui-ci était très bon. Comme je l'ai mentionné précédemment j'aime bien le personnage de Crona. Toutefois elle est de plus en plus atteint par la folie. Disons que la fin est assez surprenante, je suis encore sur le choc.
May 29, 2020
Whoa, another good one! This volume really took me off guard with a lot of the content. We really get some good character exploration, both with Soul and Crona. Also, seeing Stein fight with Maka, Kim, and Jacqueline was awesome. The only thing that stopped this from being five stars for me was the Justin Law fight. I'm just not a huge fan of him. *shrugs* But that ending! Holy cow! I don't think I'm ready for this series to end.
February 11, 2021
Well, things got exceptionally dark in this one. That last chapter gave me chills. Mostly because I guessed that’s where Crona was headed towards. But to think it was actually part of Medusa’s plan? Uff, hardcore.
Also, lots of interesting commentaries made in this volume about madness, gods and their worship. As well as some other stuff.
Plus, Soul handling the madness inside of him was great stuff.
I wish all of this would have been in the anime.
Also, lots of interesting commentaries made in this volume about madness, gods and their worship. As well as some other stuff.
Plus, Soul handling the madness inside of him was great stuff.
I wish all of this would have been in the anime.
July 26, 2025
Soul angst! The fight is quality, and the keyboard scythe is sick and I love it, but naturally we move right past it without talking about it lmao (next volume hopefully!). Oh and Stein realizes that just maybe Maka's powers were boosted in combination with Soul's lmao (thank god SHE knew that, not sure how Stein didn't). Like the last volume, it's all fantastic and intense (I just wish Soul got more attention and concern 😮💨).
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January 26, 2026
wish we had soul be more in the madness a little longer but sure! love my little duo.... justin you have had so many chances... AND YEAH. YOU DID GET UGLIER WHEN YOU WENT EVIL. I DONT EVEN LIKE YOU ANYMORE ... BUT CRONA?!?!?!? DaFAQ??? GOOD FOR HIM. MEDUSA FUCKING SUCKS BRO.....
so crona seocnd to final boss before the kishin orrrrrr
so crona seocnd to final boss before the kishin orrrrrr
June 10, 2025
Pitié le traitement horrible que Médusa à infligé à Crona et le fait qu'elle a sombré dans la folie à cause de tout ça alors que c'était juste une fille qui voulait de l'amour.. Faîtes que Maka la sauve 🙏🏾
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November 30, 2016
Mich konnten jez nicht alle Kämpfe komplett begeistert, aber es war schon wieder geilo und ich bin echt auf die letzten Bände jez gespannt oo
June 3, 2017
Ploooooot!
June 7, 2017
Poor Crona.
August 8, 2017
Oh, wow, this was some real madness!
September 24, 2018
Estoy en shock.
August 21, 2019
Pretty awesome series, I love most of the main characters! The story’s alright but still very enjoyable tho I think I prefer the anime much more😁👌⚔️📖❤️
October 16, 2019
We get to meet some Russian meisters who are interesting. Crona's black-blood abilities are expanding. There seems to be a resolution between Crona and Medusa. And some other good stuff. Not bad.
August 15, 2020
Capítulo 87 foi o melhor, sem dúvida. O volume merece 10/5
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