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It might be un-ethical to review a anime after only viewing the first two episodes but after watching the second episode i just had to post this.

Story (5): The synopsis above is a bit off. The beginning of the story basically has a girl who drops a notebook falls down to catch it and exposes her strawberry panties to our protagonist. after a whole 25 seconds of seeing her face the protagonist and the viewers can already tell who she is before the end of episode 1 and on top of that he becomes another girls boyfriend leading the story to be shallow in its ... original concept. if the main guy is supposed to get the main girl why did the creators choose the main guy to ask a "side" girl out?
alas all was fine until the male lead finds out which person was wearing the strawberry panties and says the most shallow thing a protagonist would say. It's as if, in the extra 5 minutes of screen time the female lead gets, it gives the male protagonist the ability to fall in love with her over the girl he is already in a relationship with. it put me off this anime almost completely.
Just because the male lead saw the female leads panties twice, share synergizing hobbies/goals, spends sometime together studying, and the female lead happens to look more beautiful than the girl the male lead is currently dating doesn't mean that the male lead should automatically fall in love with her. what happened to all the time he spent with his girlfriend? its as if all consideration of a current relationship was cast aside like a kid with toys.
so far the story recieves a 5 for having a first good hand concept for a romance/comedy/harem anime but a 5 because of how the story is being played out and lack of a good focus through the first episode.

Art (6): The art isn't bad, its not great either. its similar to the older animes styles like gundam or dragon ball z, without totally touching them. the coloring is very bright and almost but somehow feels very original too.
characters hair, eyes, mouths, and faces are in between the orignal styles of anime and the newer concepts sometimes the art would feel very cheap and sometimes the would feel very much like the current ongoing anime. overrall rating art is based on consistency of shapes and sizes and this anime feels like a montage of papers put together. the art is somewhat inconsistent feeling making viewers feel a pull between the show wanting to be comedy based,harem based, or romance based.
so far the art recieves a 6 for being above average and could have been a 7 had it been more consistent but a 6 because it felt inconsistent in drawing styles.

Sound (6): The sound is good. However the problem lies in when and where the sound is placed and how often the sound is brought up. this also includes character voices and the overall tone the sound produces in order to create the scene in anime. i'd like to say that even with a weak story or weak characters good sounds or tones put through may actually make it to be much better than it really is and thus sounds/music/tones are very much important. this anime has all the right sounds but sometimes it over uses them and it ends up feeling more like a video game that keeps playing the track from the beginning everytime a person were to change menus or screens. it becomes annoying, repetitive, and overdone. some character voices are a bit annoying especially the male leads friend with orange hair or when a character has fully completed his or her sentence and the corresponding character seemingly acts like s/he hasn't heard it at all or only part of it. newer animes would have one character cut off another characters sentences similar to a real life conversation but this anime perhaps wasn't in the year where that concept was put out or picked up yet.
had the art been as consistantly semi annoying as the sound this anime may turn out for the better so far it recieves a 6 for having good sounds effects but only a 6 for its repetitive usage.

Character (4):
Male lead: is a shallow pervert who suddenly forgets his relationship with his girlfriend to persue a girl he fell in love at first sight because of her strawberry panties, synergizing goals and study time.
Female lead: is a girl who wears glasses and has pig tails but is very "beautiful" when her glasses are off and hair is put down. wears strawberry panties, is very smart, and pretty magically makes the male lead fall in love with her. has brown then redish hair.
Male leads friend 1: has orange hair, very very annoying. and over exagerrates everything. (the comic relief character)
Male leads friend 2: the cool guy. nuff said this guy should be the lead instead.
Male leads girlfriend: a short haired blonde girl who the male lead ask out and they become a couple. (why is it that in every harem the blonde girl isnt the female lead...its always the pink or red haired one.)
Overall they're all normal except the male lead. hell even the slapstick comic relief character has a better chance of being the lead at least he's faithful unless this anime is trying to go for another "school days" O_O;;;

Enjoyment: not enough funny, not enough anything, and hopefully after im done this will be edited if not then beware this anime just might waste away my life as well as yours.

overall: so far this anime is bull compared to everything else i've seen hell im starting to think i like school days better. yeah its that bad right now.

Bones & Square Enix have done a great job this time.

Story: begins with cliches like "Killing number of monsters = reward", "protagonist(s) is the only one who can kill the monsters", and "Characters who questions and/or resolves in-order to become stronger".

Though these cliches can be found in almost any action anime Soul Eater stands out by putting the original intention of "Killing number of monsters = reward" out of the story (or at least short sighting it) and extends into the cliche of "Stop the bad guys from obtaining certain things in-order to rule the world". The story shines unlike any other anime when ... character contradictions, in depth character thought, and secrets come into play.

Art: The art uses a combination of "post-gothic" and "hip-hop" styles. Initially the art doesn't draw attention due to the "ghetto-ness" of the art that most anime viewers are used to. The art is only acceptable once the other categories of the anime come in. Action scenes are superb but the length of the scenes leaves the viewers wanting more. Certain action scenes lead more to character development verses action itself leading to a "Naurto-like/Bleach-like feeling", in other words a big disappointment. The anime features "post-gothic-ness" at certain points leaving a darkened tainted feeling (which is great for catching the viewers mood). When both arts are used in comedy it does the viewer(s) well because of the freshness (like someone hasn't made this joke even though they kinda have and its still funny feeling) it presents.

Sound: Soul Eater features music that gives off the feeling of "i want more so im going to buy that damn soundtrack". the voice actors aren't very renown (though you figure Bones and Square Enix would hire someone like "oh i know this guy!" kind of guy) but they fill their roles just fine (though some people think Maka/Black Star are annoying). The sound effects are fine and the intro is fine just as well. The only thing that stands out is the in anime music.

Character: Soul Eater doesn't shy off when it comes to character development. The story goes in dept with what the characters think and makes use of its time. The characters become stronger when they find a resolve which leads to a O_O holy sh!t O_O moment. Characters also contradict themselves which leads to a very human feeling (because we all contradict ourselves at some point).

Enjoyment: It's great very great just watch the first three and i promise its greatness.

Gainax is know for producing great anime and though Shikabane Hime: Aka may fall short in some anime viewers opinion I for one disagree.

Story: The story followed a cliche of "woman fights monsters, guy waits in sidelines" & "protagonist is the only one who can kill the monsters".

though people may think its cliche and played out (which it is) Shikabane Hime doesnt stray from its cause.
Bleach anime held the exact same features that Shikabane Hime: Aka did with "monsters come from people who don't yet want to "pass on" and thus become monsters in order to stay".
but what Bleach didn't do was keep that ... motion of helplessness where the hunter was alone and had to fight alone the majority of the time. Shikabane Hime: Aka is still catching the feeling of weakness where the protagonist is still fragile though she is almost immortal.

Art: isn't very catchy. Very simple scenes like bullets dropping wasn't new but felt satisfying. Hair styles where done cheaply (a first for Gainax). backgrounds and such weren't a letdown. some scenes depicted chibi or other comical relieving art which in my opinion made lite of the story or progression of it. and fight scenes were shortened in a disappointing way.

Sound: The music, sound effects, voice actors are all decent.
though none of them are renown voice actors they still play their parts well catch people into the story. the music wasn't bad in-fact it caught my attention and made me check out the song artist.

Character: Cliche, slow development that builds its way up. not much to say.

Enjoyment: i for some reason found the anime very catching after i watched it.