Maka Albarn (Soul Eater)

Maka Albarn (マカ=アルバーン, Maka Arubān) is one of the main protagonists of Soul Eater. She is a young but dedicated student who takes after her mother, another prodigious meister. However, her relationship with her father Spirit is strained due to his constant flirtations with women, leading her parents to divorce. As such, Maka is obsessed with turning her weapon partner, Soul Eater, into a death scythe that will surpass her father.She collaborates well with Soul in battle, but sometimes gets frustrated at him when he does something foolish. When in danger, however, Maka does everything she can to keep Soul out of harm's way.

Why She Rocks

 * 1) She's pretty badass when it comes to her death scythe.
 * 2) Character Development: as she went from a girl with temper problems to her temper issues are replaced with being more responsible and courageous.
 * 3) Both Chiaki Omigawa (Japanese) and Laura Bailey (English) did fantastic jobs voicing her in English.
 * 4) Despite not having amazing raw talent and lineage that Black Star and Death the Kid through hard work she exceed those two.
 * 5) She's not only showed to be determined and courageous, but also to be pretty merciful especially to Crona.
 * 6) Memorable Quotes such as:
 * 7) *"A sound soul dwells within a sound mind & a sound body"
 * 8) *“Humans need fear to survive, we experience it so we can become stronger.”

Bad Qualities

 * 1) As previously mentioned in WSR #2 she did started out with temper problems.
 * 2) In the begging of the series she acted out pretty sexist towards males because of her father.

Trivia

 * 1) Maka's theme song is 'Psychedelic Souljam.' She also has a character song with Soul: 'Mauve Iro no Sympathy.'
 * 2) In the Official popularity poll taken by the manga's readers, Maka ranked 3rd, but in the Second Official popularity poll taken by the manga's readers, Maka ranked 2nd.
 * 3) The title of Maka's favourite book, The Dark Side of the Moon (月の裏, Tsuki no Ura) by the fictional author Lorda Donsany (ローダ・ドンセイニ, Roda Donseini) is a possible allusion to the 1973 musical album of the same name by the band Pink Floyd. This allusion is not only another one of Atsushi Ohkubo's numerous musical allusions in Soul Eater but also another allusion to Pink Floyd.
 * 4) In Volume 18 of the Soul Eater manga (which contained the Spartoi's adventures through the Book of Eibon), Atsushi Ōkubo created a horse-racing style table of the Soul Eater characters who have had their genders switched, and made a race as to who is the most lustful out of them all in a 'Lust Race.' #Maka was given a racehorse name like the other characters, which was Maka Impact, named possibly after the famous Japanese racehorse Deep Impact. Her popularity level was 56, but the odds of her being the most lustful was quite low.
 * 5) Maka's name happens to be an anagram for "kama", in which means "scythe".