| Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakkō | |
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| Kanji | 死神武器職人専門学校 |
| English | Death Weapon Meister Academy |
| Location Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Type | Academy |
| Located In | Death City |
| Realm | Soul Eater |
| Controlled By | Death |
| Primary Function | Training facility for Weapons and the human wielders of those weapons |
The Death Weapon Meister Academy (死神武器職人専門学校, Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakkō; Literally meaning "Shinigami Weapon Meister Vocational School"), or DWMA (死武専, Shibusen; Literally meaning "Death Military Department") for short, is an academy located in the fictional Death City, of Nevada[1] and the school that all of the main protagonists go to.
The school is run by Shinigami, the God of Death himself, as a training facility for Weapons and the human wielders of those weapons, the Meisters.[1] Each Meister has at least one Demon Weapon companion which has both a Weapon and human form. Shinigami created the school as an organization that protects peace in order to prevent the rebirth of the "Kishin" (鬼神), an evil demon god that in the past, nearly destroyed everything by plunging the world into chaos.The DWMA was founded on April the 1°.