Talk:Grimm/@comment-4010521-20130911021301/@comment-4010415-20130911063001

Maybe. Bleach even has the soul reaper academy, but it doesn't really show it much, whereas Soul Eater is based entirely around the characters' time at their academy. At least Beacon isn't run by some representation of the grim reaper himself, and at least the weapons aren't living beings.

Besides, it's kinda hard for anything to be completely 100% truly and thoroughly original anymore, especially when you follow mythology and/or culture. Japan has a lot of focus on good and evil souls and spirits, as well as things like chi/aura/chakra/whatever.

Hell, people can compare Kekkaishi to Bleach on the mere fact that the job of the main characters in Kekkaishi is to use their weapons and spells to get rid of evil spirits, and only people with a certain kind of soul or soul energy can see spirits.

Aura can be compared to spirit energy in Bleach, chakra in Naruto, stuff like that. Not entirely sure about soul wavelengths from Soul Eater, considering that that is actually kind of different but still has tiny similarities.