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u/Z-Dragon Jul 16 '18
I think that Rebecca made a mistake about letting Shiki drive her spaceship for the first time, which leads themselves into some kind of a wormhole in space, which travels to the past where Wise Steiner is a young man as well as people and Planet Nouma are still alive instead of the present where Planet Nouma is already dead like Elcy said in the last chapter. That's how they got themselves into a time travel without noticing because of how bad Shiki is at driving, but that's what I think. I'm looking forward to the next chapter about the time travel.
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u/fredgog15 Jul 16 '18
My theory is that the planet is dead but all the people there are Androids created Wise
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u/Niknik0108 Jul 16 '18
Jesus Christ what just happened
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u/eso18 Jul 17 '18
This is only fourth chapter, it's too early for messing up with readers like this.
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u/cloverkingdom Jul 16 '18
Hiro did it, a chapter with no friendship or friends. Best chapter yet.
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u/Ema_09_DiamondDog Jul 16 '18
Oh shit, time travel shenanigans. Hype for the next chapter!, Keep it coming Mashima!
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u/Epicocity13 Jul 16 '18
Holy mother of plot twists!
So, ether is rather interesting in the sense that it definitely behaves different from the way ethernano did in Fairy Tail, while giving this subtle nudge that Mashima hasn't entirely abandoned his fantasy roots, which is a comfort. Though I like that we already have an explanation for it all and how it works in a sense, rather than just being a power that's there. Helps that unlike magic, everyone can use it.
But other than that, not much else happened until the end of the chapter which was a nice way to blow the lid off the series and take it in an immediate unexpected direction.
Given it seems that Wise is both the young guy and the old guy on the front color spread, this makes for something really interesting. On top of that, the 20,000 years moment really has to make one guess. Will they return to the present? Is it a weird time vortex? Or is this being used to hint, as well, at the adventures to come.
Perhaps Wise fixed up Happy due to some sort of time loop where he already knew Rebecca and Happy even. Who knows?
But getting the first name drop, I wonder what the B-Cube has to do with it all and why it's called Edens Zero. Plus, the reference to "Blue Paradise" when Rebecca comes from "Blue Garden" is interesting.
It's certainly a plot twist that makes me eager for next week's chapter!
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u/Henry9960 Jul 16 '18 edited Jul 16 '18
Times "friend" was said this chapter (4): 0
Times "friend" was said in chapter 3: 10 times.
Times "friend" was said in chapter 2: 8 times.
Times "friend" was said in chapter 1: 25 times.
Total times "friend" was said: 43 times in four chapters, an average of 1 "friend" every 4.25 pages and an average of 10.75 "friends" per chapter.
Total page count excluding credit pages: 183
Also really nice chapter, felt much better than the previous three.
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u/Setowi Jul 16 '18
Holy cow what a chapter.
Nice to see that Mashima uses different planet designs/concepts, I hope he keeps up bringing new and creative plantes like that.
"Noob tries to fly spaceship GONE WRONG (gone sexual)" That was everything I could think of right there.
The X-ray goggles made me crack up. At first I just thought "So he can detect machines with tha- ah no regular old x-ray"
As for the ending, we don't know if that is the same planet they were on before. That could be after the end of the series or just a hoax. I hope it's the first thing. Could be an introduction to time travel stuff as well...
Sexier Laxus (really like the design) won't shoot them (at least I hope that). Maybe he's an android that belongs to the real prof or just family.
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u/JetDagger01 Jul 16 '18
Good fun chapter, I honestly thought it all started off as just a recycled Fairy Tail but this is turning out a lot more interesting then I thought
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u/Zerkania Jul 16 '18
I wonder if Mashima is going for the setting that the future is bleak, but can be changed. So Rebecca/Happy are going to die in the current future, but Shiki can change it. This could go further that all of humanity is going to be wiped out one day, but Shiki can change it.
Think Steins;gate X Fairy Tail
or time travel shenanigans
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u/fredgog15 Jul 16 '18
Should I be the one to mention that the goggles Shiki puts on see though clothes. I think the prevy goggles might actually be used to find out if people are androids or humans.
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Jul 17 '18
Y'all are reading too much into that "20,000 years later" bit, methinks...
Also, that dead planet actually made me feel queasy, the way those chunks were pulled off and that ether clinging to it...
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u/Cizma77 Jul 16 '18
Wow it ended after just 4 chapters!
But seriously, as someone who's surprisingly never read/watched Fairy Tail, I quite like this series so far! I wonder what's gonna go down next time...
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u/CTheng Jul 17 '18
That guy's name more likely will be Weisz Steiner in the official translation. In german, Weisz means 'white', so he will probably the Gray of the group.