Disability in Soul Eater: Asura and Crona

For month_of_meta I wanted to write something about disability in Atsushi Ohkubo's manga Soul Eater--how it's used to play with Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, how it fits into overarching themes of interdependence and friendship, and just how many disabled characters there are.

The problem--and it is a lovely problem--is that I count five disabled characters and could make an argument for a sixth. It would be easier to break the meta up into parts and give everyone their own in-depth analysis.

Let's begin with the (disabled) antagonists.

( Spoilers galore. Also, discussion of mental illness, child abuse and body horror )

Disability in Soul Eater, part 2: OCD Goth Cowboy Jesus For Great Justice

Part 2 of an ongoing series. Part 1 is here.

(Contains: discussion of obsessive-compulsive disorder, lots of pictures, and spoilers GALORE, including a huge one in chapter 70-something of the manga that doesn't appear in the anime at all but became essential to my argument, as I am me.)

( In which Cthulhu Mythos is gleefully turned on its ear )

Next time: the resident Professor Snape mad scientist and the only disabled weapon so far.