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Edens Zero Chapter 280 Review

The race is on for the Crew of Edens to save the life of Mother. They need to summon a Chronophage, but they can’t as long as Cure and Freyja are onboard their ship. And while the fight between Freyja and Homura looks to be interesting, I don’t care at all about the one between Cure and Jinn. Thankfully, that “fight” isn’t even a fight. It’s a curb stomp.

Recap

Despite Ziggy running his fist through Void, that’s not the end of him. Using his Cat Leaper powers, he reverses time and avoids the attack, saving him. Yet Ziggy’s still determined to bring his son down. 

Aboard the Edens Zero, Jinn and Cure continue their battle, with Cure monologuing how his failure to destroy Swan made him realize that he was evil. However, he didn’t care; he liked being evil. As the two continue to clash, it appears like Cure manages to ensnare Jinn with his powers.

Jinn, on the other hand, remains unfazed by anything. First, he says that Cure is trash and always has been. Second, he uses his cybernetics to easily escape Cure’s trap and pummel him. Third, he remembers where Crow’s core was and guesses that it’s the same for Cure. While Cure’s begging for his life, Jinn runs him through with his wind ether, complete with a post-mortem one-liner. 

Review

Well, that was fast. I was hoping that Cure would go down quickly, but I didn’t think it would happen in a single chapter. Either Jinn has gotten stronger, or Cure has gotten weaker. Either way, I wouldn’t call what happened here as a fight. From the expression on his face, it seemed clear that Jinn was in control of the situation from the start. Given how he had fought him in the previous timeline, it makes sense for him to remember how to deal with him. Either way, it was nice to see him get his just desserts for a second time.

More importantly, it was nice to know that in Universe Zero, he never got to commit his biggest crime against sentient life. That means that Holy never lost her family or went through her horrible experience. Everyone wins, except for Cure. But that doesn’t really matter.

As for Void, it looked like I was right on the money about him using his time powers to undo his injuries. The only way that sort of thing could get anymore broken is if he could use it to stop time or fast forward it around himself. Hopefully, he’ll be kept busy long enough for the Crew of Edens plan to work. 

This chapter was basically the equivalent of that one meme where someone’s telling someone else to “shut their ***** *** up.” I liked that, and I liked the fact that we’re not going to see Cure again. However, I’m more curious as to how Homura’s fight will turn out. Bring the pain, Homura!

I Give “Wind Lance” a 3/5

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Edens Zero Chapter 208 Review/Recap

End of the line, Dead End Crow! That’s all I really have to say about this chapter. 

Recap

Thanks to Kleene being saved by Laguna, the jammer canceller turns back on, giving everyone inside of Dead End Crow their Ether Gear back. Thanks to her, the Edens Zero has time to recover as Crow slows down. Inside, Holy’s free to go on the offensive, only for Cure to regenerate and then do his rant on good and evil again. Then Holy’s like, “are you done?” because she also aimed at Crow’s power source. As a result, Cure goes ballistic and fuses directly with his creation. Angered, Holy prepares to kill him for good. 

Thankfully, however, Jinn reminds her that her late sister wouldn’t want to see her give her life for this. They escape just as the hole Holy created begins to seal. Fortunately, Eraser pulls up and uses his powers to reopen the hole. Thus, the Edens Sero fires its cannon at full power, obliterating it, and Cure, from existence. Dead End Crow has reached the end of the line.

Review

There isn’t much for me to say about this chapter. At least the main part, that is. I made my feelings about Cure and Dead End Crow pretty obvious in my last chapter review. I didn’t care about what self-justification Cure used to create villains. What he was doing was still wrong, plain and simple. He got what he deserved in the end, and I’ll go back to forgetting about him—end of the line, Cure.

What I really want to talk about is the final moments of the chapter with Shiki, Ziggy, and Pino. It sucks that despite everything, Shiki can’t beat his alternate future self/grandpa. However, it also makes sense story-wise. What I’m really interested in is Pino. I sometimes forget she was made by Ziggy, and we don’t know her purpose yet. If she says she might be able to help Shiki, though, then I believe her.

This was a very mediocre chapter for me, honestly. I still don’t like the twist with Crow and Cure, and I will likely forget about them before long. I’m more interested in the story behind Ziggy and how he turned out to be like this. 

I Give “Dead End” a 2.5/5

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Edens Zero Chapter 207 Review/Recap

Last chapter, we learned two big pieces of information regarding the antagonists. Firstly, Pino revealed that Ziggy hacked into her CPU and unwittingly used it to spy on the Crew of Edens. Secondly, we discovered the power source behind Deadend Crow was, in fact, a traitor. Cure of the Oracion Seis Interstellar is behind the monstrous machine, something that I was not happy to learn.

This week, we hear Crow and his rationale behind all of this…and it makes me want to punch him. Really, really hard!

Recap

In the fight against Crow, the Crew of Edens nears its breaking point. Kleene’s knocked out and Jinn’s barely hanging in there. As for Holy, her initial joy at the sight of Crow turns to horror when he attacks her. 

Revealing himself to be the one who created Crow, Cure says that he did it for balance. Cute goes on a monologue, saying that for light to shine brightly, there must always be darkness. So he created threats for the OSI to defeat, as well as the heroes who would defeat them. He gave Nero and Drakken Joe their powers, and then let them be vanquished. He also gave Elsie and Nox bad reps to make them villains.

Beyond pissed from learning that Cure slaughtered a million people on her homeworld, her younger sister among them, Holy reacts appropriately.

At the same time, Kleene awakens and starts using her canceller, giving Holy and Jinn their Ether Gear back. Holy then attacks Cure in a rage, which leaves Crow slower and vulnerable to the Edens Zero’s main cannon. 

Review

*Takes a deep breath*

Cure…I honestly couldn’t care about your reasons.

I honestly couldn’t care less why you decided to play both sides like this. Nor do I care why you think there must be balance like this. Because right now, all I’m hearing from your stupid mouth is self-serving. HOT. GARBAGE.

Does Cure even understand how many lives he’s ruined? If he gave Drakken Joe his powers, then everything we went through with him is retroactively this guy’s fault. There’s a universe where Shiki’s dead, thanks to Joe, and the others suffer fates worse than death. I still shudder remembering what happened then!

Moreover, what Cure says about extinguishing the darkness of Joe and Nero doesn’t make sense. Shiki took down Joe, while Ziggy slew Nero. He never had a hand in either of their downfalls, as far as we know.

Maybe good and evil exist in a form of balance; that’s how it always seems to be in a lot of fiction. Unless Cure can prove the universe requires balance to survive, he’s just doing it to justify a reason to keep existing. No matter how you look at it, his motives seem utterly selfish. He deserves what’s coming to him.

That said, I’m glad to see that what we heard of Nox, aka Rebecca’s mom, might be lies. And it is a very decent plot twist if I look at it from a narrative point. The problem I have is how the motives of Cure sound so dumb. If we learn otherwise, I’ll take back my words.

I Give “To Shine” a 2.5/5

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