Reading Soul Eater, I've always found that some volumes work better on screen as animation and some volumes work better as their original manga counterparts. A series like this one needs the colorful vibrancy of its anime adaptation to make a lot of its scenes excel, but sometimes Ohkubo creates a collection of chapters that are so exciting and so emotionally enthralling that the anime has a hard time capturing the same feelings as in the source material. Thus is the story of the fifth volume of Soul Eater: everything from Stein and Medusa's dance to Maka's thrown down with Chrona is strangely superior to how it is portrayed on the screen.

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