Hiro Mashima

5 Stars!!!!

This is probably one of my favoured parts of the whole series, manga or anime.

When I started this series I was on the fence about Lucy. But after this volume, I'm impressed and now on team Lucy.

She showed her overpowering hateful father that she doesn't want his money, she wants to work, she wants to travel, and she will not stand for someone, even family, hurting her comrades/friends/new family. She took responsibility for running away, and apologized for not saying a word or show more contacting afterwards, but she put her foot down and flat out told him that he wasn’t going to control her life or her future anymore. It was mature. In that moment she wasn’t a spoiler teen, but a mature young woman making a choice, taking a stand.

She proved to be even more courageous when saving Loke. He always pulled away from her, and they weren't that close. But she did everything in her power, to the point of almost dyeing, to save him.

She’s loyal, kind and brave. Though she isn't the strongest in a fight, she doesn’t run, beat up or not.

I highly recommend this series, though it does have fan service, it isn't overpowering, and it doesn’t take up the whole story nor does it ruing it. I've seen worst, much much worst. In saying that, nothing about the fan service in this manga is offending.

I hope you give this story a try

Happy Reading

-Emily show less

I thoroughly enjoy Hiro Mashima's artwork style and imaginative storytelling. His action scenes are kinetic. His characters likable and fun. Edens Zero is a sci-fi manga and in volume one we meet Shiki, who has superior fighting skills, employs "ether gear," and who has lived among robots his entire life; super-cute Rebecca, who's a video personality seeking to get subscribers to her channel; and Rebecca's cat Happy, whom I recognize from the Fairy Tail manga. Volume one contains many show more memorable and diverse characters, a cool kingdom in an abandoned amusement park, and all sorts of interesting, sexy-cute, exciting adventures. Future volumes promise "dreams, wonders, mysteries, and dangers of epic proportions." This is a series I inted to collect and read in its entirety. show less

The cover looked pretty boring, but after taking a look inside on the publisher’s site, it did seem quite cool actually, so I checked it out.

I was gonna say the style reminds me a lot of Fairy Tail and One Piece, but Hiro Mashima is literally the mangaka of Fairy Tail, so yeah...
If you like FT or OP, you’ll love this too, probably. I, on the other hand, have never been intrigued by those 2 franchises, and this manga shows why. The art is great and I love how diverse everyone’s show more appearance is, but that’s about it.
Personalities of everyone are incredibly flat, there’s no real plot except constant fighting, and the main goal is something as basic as killing the ruler/god of the world. Protagonist has the most plain MC-energy, someone who would’ve died in the first page if he were a side character. But he’s not. So while the side characters are all more interesting (my favs are Chako, Frey and Mikoto (these two're unhinged, I love them)), he steals the focus with his lameness. Or may get a harem because he’s from a rare species. Nothing intriguing.

I was so bored most of the time. Wanted to give it a chance tho, trying to figure out where exactly the hype comes from, but again shows that I don’t understand mainstream hype.
But of course – it ends on a cliffhanger. I’m not really interested in following this story, though I do wanna know what happens... ugh. Although it’s quite self-explainable how it’ll continue and end.

Maybe I’ll check out volume 2 someday, maybe not. It’s definitely not in my priority list, though. If you’re gonna do the most basic dungeon academy plot for the perverted male gaze, at least give it some originality. Like a queer twist or a disability rep or something. Not chewing the same old heteronormative & neurotypical gum over and over again. (Well, I guess perverted men don't need more than that.)

~

Thanks to Kodansha for offering an eARC on Netgalley.

-06.04.25 show less

Well, that got really weird really fast. In this volume, we meet Erza's mother, who was the original dragon slayer, and the creator of dragon slayer magic. She became a dragon and carried Erza inside of her for more than three years as a human, and then four hundred as a dragon. And then she tried to kill her so she could live again as a human. Weird.
Important I suppose for the background of the dragon slayers, but I personally never wondered where the magic for that originated from, so I show more just found it weird. show less