Soul Eater by Square Enix

Soul Eater is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Okubo.[1] The series follows the adventures of three students at a school called Shibusen known as meisters, who use demon weapon companions with human and weapon forms. These meisters, Maka Albarn, Black Star, and Death The Kid, seek to turn their weapons, Soul Eater, Tsubaki, and Liz and Patti respectively, into "death scythes" for Shinigami, the head of Shibusen, by having their weapons consume the souls of ninety-nine evil humans and one witch.[2]

The manga initially began as three separate one-shots serialized between June 24, 2003 and November 26, 2003 in two manga magazines published by Square Enix. The first one-shot was published in the summer 2003 special edition of Gangan Powered,[3] the second one-shot followed in the autumn 2003 special edition of the same magazine, and the third-one shot was serialized in Gangan Wing. The manga started regular serialization in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan magazine on May 12, 2004. The first tankōbon was released by Square Enix under their Gangan Comics imprint on June 22, 2004 in Japan; as of October 22, 2008, thirteen volumes have been released.[4] The series is published in English by Yen Press, and is serialized in Yen Press' Yen Plus manga anthology magazine. The first issue of Yen Plus was released on July 29, 2008.[5] An anime adaptation of the manga, produced by Bones and Aniplex, began airing on TV Tokyo on April 7, 2008.[6]