Soul Eater Not! (Japanese: ソウルイーターノット! Hepburn: Sōru Ītā Notto!?) is a manga written and illustrated byAtsushi Ōkubo. It is a spin-off of the main series, Soul Eater, taking place prior to the events of the manga. It began serialization in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan magazine on January 12, 2011. An anime television series adaptation by Bones aired on TV Tokyo between April and July 2014 and was simulcast by Funimation in North America.