Soul Eater NOT!: The Perfect Edition Vol. 01 (Hardcover)

Soul Eater NOT!: The Perfect Edition Vol. 01 (Hardcover)

Experience the fun-filled, action-packed spin-off to Atsushi Ohkubo’s global hit with this all-new, deluxe collector’s edition!

The birds are chirping, the sun is laughing… It’s a beautiful day in Death City, Nevada, and fourteen-year-old Tsugumi Harudori is off to enroll at Death Weapon Meister Academy! But before she can become a rich and famous hero, she’ll have to find a trusty partner (or two) who can wield her!

The saga of the Meisters and their Weapons takes on a whole new look in the gorgeous Soul Eater NOT!: The Perfect Edition!

Dive into Tsugumi, Anya, and Meme’s adventures in a unique larger format on high-end paper stock that maximizes the dynamic art of the series!

Each volume of this deluxe omnibus edition of the megahit manga includes:

• The content of approximately 1½ original volumes!
• The content of approximately 1½ original volumes!The original color pages from the manga’s Japanese serialization!
• An updated translation and lettering!
• Brand-new cover art drawn by creator Atsushi Ohkubo himself!

Story Locale:Death City, aka Death Vegas, Nevada, United States

Series Overview: School is back in session at Death Weapon Meister Academy—this time for the NOT (Normally Overcome Target) class! Join Weapon-in-training Tsugumi, along with her Meister gal-pals Meme and Anya, as they learn to control their supernatural powers in a world of witches and demons!

Biographical Notes:

Illustrator, character designer, and manga creator Atsushi Ohkubo made his manga debut in 2001 in Square Enix’s Monthly Shonen GanGan magazine with the series B.ICHI.

Soul Eater, his longest-running work to date, ran in the same magazine from 2004–2013 and went on to become an international best seller with nearly 20 million copies sold worldwide. It received an anime adaptation in 2008 that was later broadcast on Cartoon Network.

Fire Force, his latest work, ran from 2015–2022 and has sold over 20 million copies worldwide. The first two seasons of its anime adaptation are currently streaming on Crunchyroll, with a third season in development.

Title Notes:

This hardcover edition comes at a larger trim size to maximize the series’ one-of-a-kind art, includes all the full-color pages published in Japan, and features brand-new cover art.

Best selling Soul Eater: The Perfect Edition is one of Square Enix’s best-selling titles, with all available volumes currently being reprinted! Volumes 1-10 have sold 370,000 units to date.

Global hit Soul Eater is an international bestseller with nearly twenty million copies sold worldwide. In the US, installments of the series and its spin-off regularly hit the New York Times bestseller lists for manga.

With a huge success in 2008, Soul Eater was adapted into a popular anime series that was broadcast on Cartoon Network; it continues to reach audiences via streaming today. Soul Eater NOT! was similarly adapted into an anime series in 2014 and is also streaming on multiple platforms.

SAME CREATOR AS FIRE FORCE! The first two seasons of the anime adaptation of Ohkubo’s latest series, Fire Force, are streaming worldwide now—with a third season on the way! The original manga is also available in the market through Kodansha Comics.

Older Teen – This material is suitable for readers ages 16+.