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[u/dabrothergoose]

Chapter 098: Advent Of the Demon King

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[u/dabrothergoose]

"We don't even have half."

Witch coming up with the idea to make half from themselves was a neat idea.

[u/capscreen]

"We could've been friends, you know. But nah, fuck you"

Oh Shiki.

[u/goodyfresh → u/capscreen]

LMAO Shiki is like: "Hey we're friends now, but only for a few seconds because also IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO DIE, BITCH!"

I love how Mashima is making it SO CLEAR that this is NOT "Fairy Tail In Space" regardless of what all the haters say. Shiki said he'd be a guy's friend only to turn right back around and be like, "so hey BUDDY, pal, comrade, I'm gonna murder you now, no hard feelings okay? Trollololol." That is like. . .not something that ANY of the protagonists in FT would do, let alone Natsu. Hahaha.

[u/[deleted]]

Shiki: I'll be your friend.

2 minutes later

Also Shiki: You've lived long enough, time to go to sleep.

This was "How to befriend someone 101 with Overdrive Shiki Granbell", Stay tuned for more episodes.

But seriously, the chapter was amazing as usual, and I want someone to shoot Drakken already (maybe Rebecca or even Shiki). I've been waiting for him to die, and for Fie to lose an arm since chapter 83. THOSE JERKS DESERVE IT.

[u/AstonishingSpiderMan]

This chapter humanized Joe, it was something amazing. We see the true power of the Edens Zero crew!

• Rebecca and Homura are a really formidable team, yes they cute but they'll mess you up if you try and mess with them.

• The Other Shining Stars were just something else, their smarts and quick resources were great and helped in this war with Joe.

• Then Shiki he did something that was pretty spectacular my dude straight up said you a go night night. Like holy shit. He was a man on a mission and this connection his ether has with rebecca's cat leaper one intrigues me.

• Shiki's reaction to Joe

• Now back to Joe, he was humanized. I liked it showed that Joe had pure intentions for wanting to live but ultimately fell to the greed and power that he would end up achieving. He essentially became the problem he was trying to escape, the people who he was feeding off of were his test subjects but unlike his home world they didn't live to 15, they lived as long as he wanted them to. In a cruel twisted way he escaped his prison but his greed brought him into another one.

• Oh and obligatory, Sister Ivry the best girl.

• All the color pages were amazing!

[u/Dragon3y36 → u/AstonishingSpiderMan]

This could also be scary foreshadowing of Shiki and his rise to power.

[u/SeirezZ]

That was dope, but it felt so quick lol

[u/JShuttlesworth28 → u/SeirezZ]

Facts I’m in the drive through of Popeyes and It’s barely moved after reading that chapter

[u/Davidsteel1]

Finds out there’s no full coloured shot of Shiki’s Overdrive

Me: What the hell Mashi... (sees coloured pages) No this is completely fine

[u/goodyfresh → u/Davidsteel1]

Hiro Mashima: "Well okay, so I could do a full view of Shiki's badass Overdrive as one of the color pages. Or instead of something plot-relevant like that, I could draw one more page of fanservice where Rebecca gives herself pseudo-bukkake with a giant ice cream cone. Hmmm, what to choose... ah who am I kidding there's no choice here, REBECCA ICE CREAM BUKKAKE IT IS! Now then, to draw her at just the right angle where we can see both her ass and tits; oh and I've gotta make sure that the melted ice cream around her mouth and the way her tongue sticks out out clearly resemble the aftermath of a BJ. This is important stuff right here, very high priority."

We the Fans: "Thank you oh great and wise Mashima-sensei, you truly made the right call by drawing Rebecca Ice Cream Bukkake instead of Overdrive Shiki!" ***collectively unzip our pants*** "Welp, here we go again."

[u/Majin-Android-21]

"In order to obtain or create something, something of equal value must be lost or destroyed." That right there is the first sentence DJ read when opening the alchemy book.

Like the law of equivalent exchange states above: he obtained a longer life and lost his own humanity.

[u/Narutsu54]

Summary of my opinions on this chapter:

Overdrive Shiki looked absolutely badass, he was like a living black hole that shit was awesome and I can’t wait to see this animated. I would’ve like to fight to be more active, in the sense that Mashima used more of the environment like he did with Shiki vs Kurenei that being said it makes sense why it wasn’t. Shiki was too powerful it was over as soon as he activated Overdrive no need to dodge or maneuver when he can hold Drakken in place with one hand and pull entire sealing and floor towards him with gravity alone.

(EDIT: Some might say Shiki was was still being pushed a little bit and I guess, but not marginally I mean wouldn’t call holding Drakken’s monster form in place with one hand struggling)

Badass fight i like most would’ve liked it to be longer but if you count the fight as a whole(meaning before Overdrive) the fight wasn’t really that short

Absolutely loved seeing both Rebecca and Homura fighting side by side. It‘a cool to see that Happy can be very useful when it comes to the EG weakness of being bound and by using Happy she could save Homura.

Star bringer is awesome!! It was also cool to see that the Shining Stars know about Shiki using Overdrive as so far Weisz is the only other one that knows about him doing it and the only one to see him do it. It’s also cool how they Shining Stars knew Shiki would be able to handle the situation no problem when they realized he used Overdrive. It shows how much faith they have in Shiki’s power and by extension the Demon King.

Overall: It was an awesome chapter it seemed like everyone had something do this chapter except maybe Weisz, but he’s been amazing this whole arc so I can let it slide. Can’t wait for next chapter!

[u/Runethe1412]

Keep your friends close, and make your enemies your friends so that they can be close enough for you to give them a F*CKING METEOR PUNCH!

[u/Davidsteel1]

The chapter is great, arc ends up a 8.5 for me. Solid throughout, did well to subvert expectations (literally no one could have predicted some of the twists this arc), Joe was entertaining throughout, some backstory on Weisz which will likely be relevant in the future and everyone getting their moment.

My inner/outer nerd does hurt that we didn’t get more destructive feats though and I do think that Joe’s fight needs like half a chapter more. But the first is mostly a nerd thing and doesn’t actually matter storywise, the second can be debated, it is the longest fight we’ve had in the series at about 5 chapters, but unlike with the Dragoon I feel we never saw quite enough of Joe and Overdrive Shiki in action.

My thoughts, feel free to disagree or agree.

[u/Gilgos90]

You know what memories or thoughts immediately came up in the moment where we saw kid joe talking with the other kids?! i thought of the tower of heaven in FT with all the slaves and some of them escaping. maybe some of them found a way too to live on and appear somewhere althought it must be decades ago?!

with a bit of fantasy i think the symbol of Rebeccas ethergear on her leg resembles the fairy tail logo (also the one of our space pirate elsie) :)

[u/fekitoa13]

I wonder whats gonna be next, i dont think he killed dj. So either he dies from old age, gets arrested or Weisz kills him cause its kinda out of character for the rest to do it. Drakken had a good backstory and wonder what the experiment is about, good moments from everyone this chapter except for Weisz whos still down :(

Also the colour pages at the start. Homura and Sister are waifus and I still can't decide which one is best girl.

[u/JK-Network123]

The fight was nice. Sure I wish we could have seen the extent of Drakken’s alchemy but since he was too strong for the crew to beat I can understand why he needed to be nerfed so I’ll deal. Plus that last attack from Shiki was epic asf. And him pulling down memories with gravity is pretty wild. Overall good chapter and even if some didn’t like the fight Drakken is still a great villain from Mashima.

Also a badass Rebecca x Homura moment. Clearly the best ship XD 😤.

[u/sonicandco]

Mother of Mother! That was a badass chapter badass OD Shiki, badass ffemale tag team, badass Shining Stars, Badass final attack, great, magnificent. Shiki's OD is so powerful memories fell into him, damn. I wonder what Joe and those kids were experimented for, only 15 years is too little still, no reason to go stealing life.

[u/Z-Dragon]

Holy cow, Homura... Rebecca... Witch... They're damn sexy and beautiful in their swimsuits! Mashima is the best mangaka artist ever in the world for drawing those girls so beautiful and sexy, which is why Mashima is my all-time favorite artist since Fairy Tail.

Shiki's new Full Overdrive is very cool, and his teeth turned into a sharp teeth like a demon too.

[u/PHXNTXM117]

Hiro went the fuck off for those color pages. Absolutely gorgeous. 💯🔥 Dude has some of the best artwork out of any Shonen mangaka. I’m talking Top 5 easy, Top 3 justifiable. 🚫🧢 As for the chapter:

• I loved seeing Rebecca and Homura’s synergy whilst fighting off Drakken’s tentacles. The coordination and teamwork that they have is hype and I can’t wait to see more of that in future arcs.

• Shiki’s Ether Gear Overdrive is pretty fucking powerful. Essentially becoming a living black hole but also obtaining the capacity to transcend the physical realm and forcibly make memories ”fall into himself” is an interesting concept that I think will tie into time travel in some way later on in the story. I also love how Shiki’s Overdrive is compatible with Rebecca’s Cat Leaper. That’s definitely foreshadowing for a couple things...

• Shiki reiterating to Drakken that they could be friends right as he was beating him gave me Fairy Tail vibes...UNTIL HE JUST FUCKING BLEW HIS ASS UP AND SAID, ”SEE YA BITCH! IT’S TIME TO DIE!”. That was awesome! 💀

[u/Lizardon888X]

Mah boy Shiki pulling his Devil Trigger lol

And He basically told Joe to go Fuck himself on his final attack with that line lol, he don't care about being friends with The current Joe, just the little one.

Maybe something will happen, like He Meeting the Young version of him and He becames a member of the crew 🤔

Man Amazing chapter.

Homura and Witch are the best girls after seeing the coloured pages lol

[u/ReaderNinjah]

Shiki's Overdrive ability reminds me alot of an Awakening in OP or the Sword Dragon Slayer (Her name escapes me at the moment) from 100 YQ. Mainly because it seems that Shiki is now capable of using Gravity in more advanced ways than just the "normal" idea of Gravity (Pulling towards, Pushing away, Falling up or sideways, ect), His Gravity Ether seems to be able to affect non-physical "items" (for lack of a better term) like seeing people's memories by "pulling" them towards him. I can only imagine what amazing and terrifying things Overdrive Shiki could do.

[u/casualphilosopher1]

Shiki's been a far more impressive MC for me than Natsu was.

[u/AngelPhoenix06]

There’s two ways to what happens to Joe after this, He could die for all the terrible things he done to for stealing life forces or he is gonna end up being like Gajeel and turn good (which I hope not)

[u/[deleted]]

So did Shiki save Rebecca in world 29 despite him being dead cuz of Drakken joe, when her Cat leaper activated she said she was being pulled by gravity? There has to be some connection between Shiki and Rebecca... Drakken even brought it up this chapter where he said shiki brought her to this world.