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Wish I was the one who came up with the idea of being able to identify your long-lost childhood sweetheart by inadvertently stargazing with them…

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Cap it off with Shen Du (ML) giving Yan Xing (FL) a hand-drawn star map with her pastry named constellations 🥺

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he wanted to spoil her when they weren't even on good terms yet 🤷‍♀️

长乐曲 | Are you buying this for me?

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the way she peeks out her carriage left an impression on me tbh

长乐曲 · Melody of Golden Age · 2024

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my current roman empire

(the first gif is my fave)

长乐曲 | Melody of Golden Age (2024), dir. Wang Wei

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A Mutually Beneficially Relationship

Chapter 291 Spoilers (?)

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Chapter 2

Chapter 291

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Unpopular Opinion: Nashi Catching Strays

SPOILERS FOR UP TO CH. 268

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I am much happier that Void looks a lot like Shiki rather than being a Rebecca-Shiki mix. Kinda reminds me of Haru and Gale Glory, and Lucia and Gale Raregroove.

His hair seems longer, too, than post-timeskip Shiki's, or am I just imagining things...

(EDIT: I'm an idiot for not realising he may have Rebecca's blue eyes...)

Never really vibed with Nashi/Nasha Dragneel's design, or just the way Mashima drew a lot of the FT children to just be mixes of their parents lol. (EDIT: Yeah, this opinion of mine still stands.)

That is all.

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xiao jinyu: I may hurt her if I'm too serious. But if I'm not, she may not take it seriously. I was so anxious I scolded her just now but now she thinks I don't want to see her anymore.

leng yue: this is more interesting than novels.

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she SIGNED IT

with the RIB BONE

i can’t handle these two nerds i love them so much so frickin MUCH

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The Imperial Coroner: episode 3

Prince An Vs. The Chickens

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So I just found out that MarvelMusicVEVO recently dropped the Spanish lyric video for Con La Brisa. I’ve seen some healthy debate prior as to whether or not the song was intended to reflect Namor and Shuri or Namor and his love for the Talokanil, and I felt like giving my two cents 🤪

Foudeqush was interviewed by Lewis Shawcross (vid available on YouTube) where she explained that the prompt Ludwig gave her was “to explain to someone who has never the seen the sun what the sun is like.”

Head-scratcher, really. It can be used in favour of the Namor & Talokanil interpretation because Namor was the one who “introduced” the sun to his people, and so, the prompt could have referred to the Talokanil generation who witnessed the sun Namor brought for the first time.

On the other hand, whilst Shuri has definitely seen the surface sun, she has never seen the Talokan sun either. Sooo…the prompt could apply to her as well, no?

Either way, I paused at the last lines of the song…

…which roughly translate to “Let’s go, the two of us,” (x2).

Two is a pretty definite number, right? 🤔

Someone commented that it could be Namor’s mother’s song for Namor himself when she was trying to introduce the sun to him, but I’d argue that if that were the interpretation, it wouldn’t have been used in the scene where Namor showed Shuri Talokan for the first time, where no reference or flashback to Namor’s mother was shown.

In other words, yeah, I think Con La Brisa is a Namor & Shuri song. 🫡

BONUS: Unrelated but I’ve replayed this video of Letitia Wright singing “You’re Losing Me” (title?) so many times already 😭

The future of the Namor x Shuri ship may be uncertain in the MCU but if we ever get there and they have a more definite OST made for them without all the ambiguity that came with Con La Brisa then imma celebrate 💃🏼

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Their hands were so close and yet so far… 🥺

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lmao yup

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"Let's burn it together."

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Unpopular Opinion: I enjoyed Kaede more than Aoi.

SPOILERS UP TO CHAPTER 217.

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I'm not gonna try to be objective about this so this'll be more of a rant I needed to express.

It's true that Kaede felt rushed despite Lendard having more chapters than the other arcs, primarily because both Crow (who was, in fact, Cure) and Acnoella (who was apparently Elsie's mum) showed up and were offed.

But some people have mentioned that the good stuff in this arc have outweighed the bad (which, to be honest, are just pacing issues) and that's exactly my opinion as well.

The reason why I think the good outweighs the bad is pretty subjective. I think finding out who Ziggy is is one of the most important things this story has to offer. The adventure to Mother as well.

I felt like there was just too much going on in the Aoi Cosmos saga that the crew unnecessarily put themselves through, after Foresta. As cool and interesting Shura and Nero were as villains, their story almost felt like a huge detraction from the adventure space vibes the Sakura Cosmos presented. I will agree that Shura also having gravity Ether Gear and the presence of some parallelisms made during the battles between Shiki and Shura and Ziggy and Nero contributed to foreshadowing who Ziggy truly was, but those didn't stop me from ultimately feeling like Aoi overstayed its welcome.

Kaede Cosmos seems to have suffered the opposite problems - trying to get rid of too many powerful villains who were set up to be the biggest threats in a short span of time.

But the good is that we finally find out who Ziggy is, we understand that reaching Mother is ultimately linked to saving humanity, we learn even more about the origins of the Edens Zero, and we get the best freaking panel in the entire series:

(LOL, well, it may not be the best panel objectively and I'm probably the only one who would ever claim so, but for me, it just carries a certain weight that lingers. It could be the angst.)

So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that the reason why I enjoyed the Kaede Cosmos saga more than Aoi is because it once again emphasises why this story is called Edens Zero. Not Shiki and Friends. But Edens Zero. To somewhat add to my point, notice how the Sakura Cosmos was involved and was visited by the crew during the Kaede Cosmos saga. Whatever started in the Sakura Cosmos has some relevance to what is happening in the Kaede Cosmos. Aoi Cosmos has little to no relevance now.

Contrary to what a lot feel, I also think that the Edens One being the final villain is perfect, or at least, on brand for this manga, true to its themes of machines having hearts (that means evil hearts, too). I would very much prefer seeing a widescale space battle against machines and AIs who are wreaking havoc against humanity, posing actual threats to our crew, than a belatedly introduced human villain who might again disappoint if they fail to live up to the hype. Even if that human villain happens to be evil!Rebecca.

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I asked my RL friend way back then to re-do this Haru/Elie scene as a Shiki/Rebecca scene because it has always been one of my fave romantic scenes in all fiction ever

*sigh*

There’s genuinely nothing better than Hiro Mashima’s characters dynamics and as repetitive as they can be, I never get bored of them.