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Episode Proper name
English Title	Courage That Beats Out Fearfulness – Maka Albarn's Cracking Resolution?
Kanji Title	恐怖に負けない勇気〜マカ=アルバーンの一大決心?
Rōmaji Title	Kyōfu ni Makenai Yūki 〜Maka Arubān no Ichidai Kesshin?
Episode Data Report
Season	1
Airing Date(s)	June 23, 2008
Running Fourth dimension	24 minutes
TV Rating	TV-14
Story Arc	Uncanny Sword Arc
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Synopsis
After seeing Soul's new scar, Maka searches for the strength to go on her partner prophylactic. Information technology could be a tough prospect - the witch responsible for the wound is dangerously close.

Courage That Beats Out Fear – Maka Albarn's Neat Resolution? is the twelfth episode of the anime Soul Eater. Information technology is based on Affiliate 9 of the Soul Eater manga.

Featured Appearances [ ]

Plot [ ]

Witches' Realm [ ]

Maba, the Head Witch, gathers the earth's witches for their periodic meeting. While Medusa, accompanied past Crona, makes her advent, she almost immediately slinks away, adamant to depart for another location, but to have their path blocked by the witches Eruka and Mizune. Medusa feigns politeness to her fellow witches, while Crona has no idea how to answer (just to face up Ragnarok'southward bullying and demand for all of Crona's money).

Medusa asks why Eruka would be so upset. The serpent witch assumes the frog witch is upset with bringing Crona to their meeting, which is surprising when one modest and hungry witch already brought a human with her. Although these unwanted companions bother Eruka, she is also upset with Medusa's infiltration of the DWMA, and her plans to plough Crona into a new Kishin. Even with Maba'south endorsement, Medusa'south plans endanger the witches' covenant, evident because Eruka saw Medusa steal something from Maba'south room. Because Maba must accept lost perspective in her sometime age, Eruka is determined to stop Medusa, even if that means killing her.

Medusa shoves her hands into Eruka and Mizune's mouths

Unfazed, Medusa dons a serpent-skinned cloak given to her by Crona—then shoves her fingers into Eruka and Mizune'southward mouths. Medusa says she would like to kill the 2, but now is not the time. With a friendly greeting, she departs with Crona, leaving a frustrated Eruka scared.

Death Weapon Meister University, Dispensary [ ]

Later on that day, Dr. Medusa performs a physical on Soul Eater, to confirm that he is recovering since his battle in Italian republic with the Demon Sword Meister. While Medusa confirms that Soul is recovering well, save for a slight arrhythmia, she senses something else is bothering the young weapon. He explains that he has had nightmares the last few nights since the incident.

Blackness Room (flashback) [ ]

In his dream, Soul, dressed in a pinstripe adjust, sits in a fancy chair in a dim room, with red curtains and a checkerboard floor. A photograph plays a skipping record of familiar dimestore jazz. In a few moments, a small demon in a double-breasted conform arrives, dancing out of stride with the music.

The Little Ogre refers to the music as swing, only for Soul to right him it is jazz. The Ogre replies that indeed jazz would be more suitable for nighttime, while Soul over again disagrees, saying music demand not follow whatsoever schedule and so the Ogre should make his own conclusion. The Ogre replies back that decisions are up to individual persons, like Soul has the decision he can make to surrender fright and seize the power he is offering. Later on being cut up by Crona, Soul should realize he lacks the power to survive, so why not surrender his fright?

The Ogre seizes Soul by his wrist, dragging him into the darkness exterior that Black Room. But Soul is fearful of what is outside that room, begging the Ogre to let him remain until his dream ends. The Ogre tells Soul to face up those fears outside until he is set up to pause the rule .

Outside the room, Soul finds in darkness, until he spies calorie-free far ahead. He follows that calorie-free, simply to emerge from his meister's stomach, every bit his meister collapses back, dazed and appearing dead.

DWMA Dispensary [ ]

Narrating the dream to Medusa causes Soul to hyperventilate. Not seeing the doctor behind him, Soul fails to notice Medusa smirking, pleased with the progress of her black blood inquiry. As she takes his blood pressure, she assures aloud to Soul that his nightmare is to be expected after the difficult experiences he has had. She asks whether anything else bothers him, only to acquire that he has noticed how strange Maka has been interim. Medusa claims she is sorry to hear that.

Class Crescent Moon [ ]

Black☆Star and Maka Albarn, with Blair in cat form atop her shoulder, gaze at an oddly actualization jar. Their teacher, Franken Stein, instructs Blackness☆Star to dip his hand into the jar's Kyūkon H2o, as it will help him to increment his soul's strength slowly over time to withstand Tsubaki Nakatsukasa's new Enchanted Sword Mode. Upon dipping his unabridged hand into the water, Black☆Star feels all of his soul drawn away from him. He removes his hand in time, almost instantly recovering. Stein advises that Black☆Star take this work more slowly, with simply ane finger at a time into the jar to build upward his soul's strength—advice the excited meister immediately ignores, continuing to shove his unabridged hand into the jar.

Black☆Star shouts that he looks forward to this training, as so far he has been focusing on musculus training but. Black☆Star's new training upsets Maka, as she is surprised this ninja has been then potent then far with just muscle training. As Black☆Star claims he is at a dissimilar level of skill than Maka, she exhorts Stein to let her train with the i of those jars also. Stein refuses, as the water is designed just for Black☆Star's Enchanted Sword training. Stein adds that Black☆Star'southward desire to be big and a god is his drive to better. He advises that for Maka to improve is to detect her ain methods to strengthen her soul to confront the unique challenges she faces. He says anxiety will help her to motivate herself, but until she realizes what she lacks—without some goal—he cannot aid her. Before parting, Stein welcomes Maka to see him once she realizes what she lacks.

Blair then reminds Maka that preparations remain for the party the meister is hosting in honor of Soul's recovery and Blackness☆Star and Tsubaki's outset soul acquired.

DWMA Clinic [ ]

As Soul dresses, Medusa orders him to return in one week. His dressing is interrupted past Maka, happy to announce she is ready to head habitation for final party preparations. But upon seeing the scar beyond Soul's blank chest, she feels to blame for his injury and quietly says she is leaving the University now and for Soul to follow when he is set up. Equally presently every bit she shuts the door, Soul tells Medusa how pained Maka looks when she sees his scar. Medusa is silent.

Soul and Maka'due south Apartment [ ]

Maka hosts a commemoration at her and Soul's apartment

At sunset, Soul and Maka'southward friends have finished the dinner portion of their get-together in commemoration of his discharge from the infirmary and Black☆Star and Tsubaki'southward first soul possession. Black☆Star compliments Maka'south cooking—in quantity, finding the flavor to be lacking. While their female peers compliment Maka's cooking to brand up for Blackness☆Star'south crassness, Death the Kid is impressed with how tidy the flat is. Soul responds that the apartment is so tidy because Maka pesters him to make clean it upwardly. Kid asks whether the two live alone, simply to exist answered by the inflow of Blair, in her humanoid form and wearing but a towel. She asks whether whatever of the party-guests would like to breast-stroke with her. Every bit she stretches, her towel falls to the floor, stunning some guests and giving Soul yet another nosebleed. Equally Child wonders whether this flat is always so strange, Soul begs 1 of his friends to accept this cat domicile with them.

Death City [ ]

Meanwhile, Medusa has departed the Academy. She thinks most how Soul'due south frequent nightmares are a sign that the blackness blood is now affecting him. Because Soul has recovered from his concrete injuries, now is the time to test how the black claret interacts with his body. She holds in her hand a central that she stole from Maba during the witches' meeting, with which she will release a prisoner to fight Soul.

Once reaching an isolated alley, nevertheless, Medusa senses two enemies near her: Eruka and Mizune confront her again. Medusa feigns atheism that these two "friends" would want to kill her. Eruka tells Medusa that witches are supposed to raise hell, but so long as Medusa risks exposing witches to Lord Death, they cannot afford to let a liability like this snake witch survive. Medusa drops her pretense, replying that Eruka's outfit makes her and so patently a witch that information technology is dangerous for her to be in Death Urban center. Eruka responds that with Soul Protect and her transformation magic—the latter a magic that Medusa lacks—they can either kill her or depart. And fifty-fifty if Medusa wanted to fight dorsum with her own magic, she cannot afford to release her Soul Protect without Lord Death and the meisters locating her. Proud of her ain plan (and corny amphibious puns), Eruka releases her Soul Protect, as does Mizune.

Soul and Maka'due south Apartment [ ]

This soul protect release alerts Maka, who shouts that witches are in Decease City and, before her weapon can follow, departs their apartment.

Death City [ ]

Despite seeming outmatched by Eruka and Mizune, Medusa maintains her calm. She removes her physician's lab coat—revealing to Eruka that her bare artillery no longer take their customary serpent tattoos. At that moment, Mizune begins to writhe, and Eruka realizes why Medusa lacks her tattoos: those were Lite Serpents, snakes transferred from Medusa's body through the hands she shoved into Eruka and Mizune'southward mouth. As Eruka watches the snakes, by Medusa's order, rip Mizune apart from the inside, Eruka realizes Medusa can do likewise to her. Medusa confirms she has multiple snakes in her body, all with magic without demand of releasing Soul Protect.

Medusa prepares to release those snakes within Eruka but is interrupted by the arrival of DWMA members. Eruka uses the distraction to transform into a frog and hop away. Medusa hastily replaces her coat simply is surprised that the 2 meisters who go far to see her are Stein and Maka.

When Stein explains he and Maka sensed witches in this alley, Medusa claims she had sensed them equally well, came to this alley, but could find no such witches. Maka considers whether the witch she sensed was the same ane that she and Stein encountered at Santa Mario Novella Basilica in Italy, but Stein is not convinced. As Medusa suspiciously optics Stein, he explains that the witch in Italian republic had the Demon Sword Ragnarok and his meister Crona with her, and the witch in Italy seemed too cunning to release her Soul Protect in the heart of Decease City for no reason. As this witch in Italy has an interest in meisters and weapons, she likely is hiding within Expiry City to detect students. But Stein hastily adds that this is merely conjecture and that he is happy Medusa is safe.

As Stein and Medusa and talk, Maka considers how frightened she is should she ever face Crona and Ragnarok again. She intends to grow stronger, yet she does non know how. Maka then hears Soul call out to her, her weapon having followed her from the apartment and followed her to this alley to see whether she is okay. He notices how odd she has been acting. Maka then remembers how she could non face him before considering of his scar, and she realizes that she must overcome her fears of having Soul hurt. She puts a mitt onto his chest, intending not to let her fears bother her anymore. Soul is confused, until Maka approaches Stein and says she knows what she lacks. Stein studies her eyes, and he realizes she has gained the courage to fight her fear. He instructs her and Soul to come to his office tomorrow forenoon for a special lesson.

Desert [ ]

That night, Eruka hops equally fast as she can, merely equally she is far enough abroad from Death City, she can rest. Unfortunately for her, Medusa has caught upwards with her—dropping a foot atop the frog—because she could sense the location of those snakes within the frog'south trunk. Medusa threatens to kill Eruka unless the frog follow instructions: with the key she drops onto Eruka, Medusa orders Eruka to infiltrate the Witch Prison to release Prisoner thirteen, who she will society to fight Soul to see how the black blood works inside him. Shocked, Eruka says she cannot release that Prisoner 13 without facing exile from, or death by, the witches. Medusa says Eruka can merely die past her snakes if that is preferable, prompting the frog witch to acquiesce.

Witch Prison [ ]

An inmate counts, adding 2 plus i repeatedly. A guard is bellyaching that this prison is upwardly to this arithmetic once again, the prisoner claiming he is multiplying, non adding. Their discussion is interrupted by a howl that silences both. This howl comes from a blindfolded man, kept in a prison cell with shackles across his hands feet along with a brawl and chain. This intimidating man says he desires i thing: to watch a good comedy.

Manga and Anime Differences [ ]

Trivia [ ]

This episode introduces Mizune, who will be shown in a afterwards episode as being one of many Mizune sisters.
In the Funimation English dub, Maka says she is upset Blackness Star tin can grow stronger by using the Soul-Sucking Water, whereas in the original Japanese, she actually is upset that Blackness Star has up to now engaged in only muscle grooming. Both pieces of dialogue accost the same point, notwithstanding: Maka is upset because Black Star, having exhausted his muscle training, at present can focus on just the Kyūkon Water, while she is trying to improve at both musculus and soul training.
The dorsum of Soul's shirt has a crescent moon under its collar.
Eruka claims Medusa lacks transformation magic. In the manga and the anime, it is shown that Medusa instead locates her soul within her own snakes or humans like Rachel Boyd.

Posters in this episode characteristic cameos from characters designed by Atsushi Ōkubo for other serial.
- When Maka stands upwardly in her living room upon sensing Eruka and Mizune release their Soul Protect, a poster behind her shows Shotaro and Charisma Justice from Ōkubo'due south previous manga series B. Ichi. The poster also says "B-1," an abbreviation for "B. Ichi" ("ichi" meaning "one" in Japanese, hence turning "b. ichi" into "b. ane," a pun on the bones that Shotaro uses for his superpowers). Charisma Justice was confirmed as a graphic symbol in the Soul Eater universe in Episode 9, in which Black☆Star is reading a comic book featuring the character.
- When Medusa is about to kill Eruka, before she transforms into a frog, i of the posters in the aisle has a true cat and rat on it. The rat resembles Rat, from Ōkubo'south Soul Eater GAIDEN.
The alley in which Eruka and Mizune environment Medusa in Death City includes numerous signs, including ones featuring Expiry, the Death Weapon Meister Academy, and announcements to encourage challengers. One sign has a large hand resembling Death's with the word "STOP" beyond it, like to the gesture and the same word that appears along it when Death stops Spirit Albarn from confronting Blair in Chapter 0.one of the manga.
This episode hints of Stein's awareness that Medusa is the witch from Italy, based on his reply to Medusa about the likelihood that either Eruka or Mizune were that same witch, as well as the staging of the scene so that Medusa and Stein never face each other while seeming to speak effectually the topic of that witch's identity.
In the next episode'due south preview, Medusa says she will replace Soul Eater with a new show, Pretty Doctor Medusa, a show not proper to show in prime number time. Maka arrives to push the snake witch away with Witch Hunter, and so Medusa performs a spell to brand flowers appear around the meister.
The Funimation English dub of this episode includes additional performances by Ian Sinclair, Anthony Bowling, and Wendy Powell. Trina Nishimura, who voices Mizune in this episode, is credited as an extra. Sinclair is also the English vocalization for Akane☆Hoshi in the anime Soul Eater NOT!

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