Soul Eater

Soul Eater 

Overview: Soul Eater is a manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Okubo. Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy", the series revolves around three teams, each consisting of a weapon meister and weapon that can transform into a humanoid. Trying to make the latter a "death scythe" and thus fit for use by the academy's headmaster Shinigami the personification of death, they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, in that order; otherwise they will have to start over again.

Plot: Soul Eater is set at Death Weapon Meister Academy"DWMA" for short located in the fictional Death City in Nevada, United States. The school is run by the Shinigami also know as Death, as a training facility for humans with the ability to transform into weapons, as well as the wielder of those  weapons called meisters. Attending the school are meister Maka Albarn and her scythe partner Soul Eater, assassin Black Star and his partner Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, who can turn into weapons such as a kusarigama, shuriken, and ninjato; and Shinigami's son Death the Kid and his pistol partners Liz and Patty Thompson. The goal of the schools meister students is to have there  weapons absorb the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the weapon and turn them into "death scythes", weapons capable of being used by Shinigami.