Maka's goal, along the other meisters, is to have their weapons defeat and absorb the souls of ninety-nine evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the given weapon and thus be capable of being used by shinigami these weapons are called Death Scythes. The school is run by Shinigami, Death himself, as a training facility for weapons and the human wielders of those weapons, the meisters. The school has many other students including Black Star with his weapon partner Tsubaki, and Death the Kid with his twin weapon partners Liz and Patti.
In Soul Eater, meister Maka Albarn and her weapon partner Soul Eater are students at the Death Weapon Meister Academy, or DWMA for short, located in the fictional Death City, in Nevada, United States.
