First Round Pluto vs. Edens Zero

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Pluto Naoki Urasawa​	-	Edens Zero Hiro Mashima​

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- After 5 days, the Manga with the most votes will proceed into the next round
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[Jammin]

Here we are once more my brother and sisters. We stand at the beginning of a long journey. A journey to give Mashima's masterpiece the credit it deserves and to usher us into a new era of wondrous shounen prosperity. I'm speaking, of course, of...

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Now for those of you reading this series I don't have to say anything. You know how good it is. You know that it represents a refinement of what Fairly Tail and Rave Master were while smoothing out some of the wrinkles that left a sour taste for some. It is one part Fairy Tail, one part One Piece, one part cosmic space adventure.

It wears it's legacy on it's sleeve. Making no effort to hide the call backs and inspiration it takes from the best parts of the previous series. With Plue and Happy and many familiar faces with fun twists. It actually makes you look forward to the next character introduction just to see what Mashima is going to do next. It might be something new or it might be something familiar but it's always entertaining and often with emotional depth that will catch you off guard.

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Vote for fun! Vote for the future!

Vote for Eden Zero!

 

[Arjuna]

It's hard,one the one hand we have our friend Jammin who nominated EZ which is a rising star.On the other we have Pluto which is a masterpiece and one of my favourites.Difficult.I need some time to think.

 

[The one who laugh]

So how is the friendship power in this manga is it broken as FT if it is then it will be harder to convince me to vote for it

But I will see some chapters from Pluto to see what it is about

 

[Venom]

So how is the friendship power in this manga is it broken as FT if it is then it will be harder to convince me to vote for it

But I will see some chapters from Pluto to see what it is about

I hvent seen any Frndship power yet in this mangathis mangas mcs motivation is his will power like if others can do it he can do it as well

 

[Jammin]

So how is the friendship power in this manga is it broken as FT if it is then it will be harder to convince me to vote for it

But I will see some chapters from Pluto to see what it is about

I'd say the "friendship power" isn't as strong as Fairy Tail for sure. I highly recommend reading the first chapter for any who are curious as I think you'll find it sets a different tone than you might be expecting. Specifically I think you'll find it more bittersweet than you'd think.

Spoiler: Cliff notes version if you just want to know

Shiki, the main character, is a boy who was raised in an abandoned robot theme park planet by the robots there and no humans at all. Rebecca, the girl, is something like a futuristic youtuber who goes to the abandoned park in the hopes of finding something to do a good video about. Where she meets Shiki and, after some hi-jinks, has lots of fun.

Until all the robots turn on Shiki and Rebecca and try to steal her space ship so they can escape the abandoned world in a pretty dark turn. He then fights his way through the only family he's ever known and escapes with Rebecca. And as he's flying away it's revealed that they were all nearing the end of their life cycle and wanted to save him from staying there while they die. And, as he flies off, they all collapse and die.

So that's much heavier than most of what Fairy Tail does right out of the gate.

 

[The one who laugh]

I'd say the "friendship power" isn't as strong as Fairy Tail for sure. I highly recommend reading the first chapter for any who are curious as I think you'll find it sets a different tone than you might be expecting. Specifically I think you'll find it more bittersweet than you'd think.

Spoiler: Cliff notes version if you just want to know

Shiki, the main character, is a boy who was raised in an abandoned robot theme park. Rebecca, the girl, is something like a futuristic youtuber who goes to the park in the hopes of finding something to do a good video about. Where she meets Shiki and has lots of fun.

Until all the robots turn on Shiki and Rebecca and try to steal her space ship in a pretty dark turn. He then fights his way out and escapes with Rebecca. And as he's flying away it's revealed that they were all nearing the end of their life cycle and wanted to save him from staying there while they die. And as he flies off they all collapse and die.

So that's much heavier than most of what Fairy Tail does right out of the gate.

Hmm interesting I guess I have some mangas I have to read to make choice this will be long night

 

[immblueversion]

Hmm interesting I guess I have some mangas I have to read to make choice this will be long night

I don't want to go into too many details, but Mashima also came up with a nice, refreshingly clean spin on time shenanigans in this series; that was the bit that completely sold me. Nothing like the chaotically timey-wimey mess that capped off the Grand Magic Games.

 

[Arjuna]

Yeah POF is not a part of this series, it's unfair to talk about POF in this series.

 

[Jammin]

Yeah POF is not a part of this series, it's unfair to talk about POF in this series.

The true driving force is something I like to call POP.

Power
Of
Pino

 

[Farfalla]

Jams, I love you, but at least at this point you're used with me taking a different path from yours alrdy, right o/

 

[Jammin]

Jams, I love you, but at least at this point you're used with me taking a different path from yours alrdy, right o/

It's alright Farf. I completely understand. Poor Pino though, she's crushed...

 

[Farfalla]

You don't wanna know what was my first thought after reading Pino's crushed ç.ç

 

[Jammin]

You don't wanna know what was my first thought after reading Pino's crushed ç.ç

I'm legitimately afraid to ask for some reason.

 

[Lambu]

Fairy Tail had terrible writing in its final arcs, I checked Eden's Zero first chapter out of curiosity and it was the same kind of bad. Dont know if it picked up a little now but I can't possibly vote for it as of now.

 

[HereNThere]

I haven't even read Pluto, but it still way too early to give Eden's Zero any props. And I say this as someone who's liking the direction the series is currently going.

 

[Seraph]

Voting Pluto,Eden's Zero is still too "young" to compare and rate it against Finished and praised Works,i like reading it though.

 

[Jammin]

I haven't even read Pluto, but it still way too early to give Eden's Zero any props. And I say this as someone who's liking the direction the series is currently going.

Voting Pluto,Eden's Zero is still too "young" to compare and rate it against Finished and praised Works,i like reading it though.

Early and young... perhaps but that's all the more reason to celebrate what it is and to celebrate what it will continue to be for a long time to come. At least that's what I think.

--- Double Post Merged, Sep 30, 2018, Original Post Date: Sep 30, 2018 ---

Besides if Pluto was so good how come @goldb is a no show? This manga inspires some real passion apparently.

 

[Reebi]

Fairy Tail had terrible writing in its final arcs, I checked Eden's Zero first chapter out of curiosity and it was the same kind of bad. Dont know if it picked up a little now but I can't possibly vote for it as of now.

It gets much better.

 

[Demonspeed]

I am rather curious about Edens Zero because of the apparent positive reactions but because of FT I am not sure if I should read it or not. I was not too bothered by FT's writing anyway( AFAIR in the anime at least) but it's a 6/10 at best to me. I think it was better at the beginning though.

Rave was Mashima's better series IMO. If maybe 10 volumes later the reactions about Edens Zero are still good maybe I will read it.

I read Pluto and it was pretty good, not that outstanding though. Will decide later, Bob hasn't posted yet.