What an absolute shit show of an ending. Mashima really needs to stop doing multiple projects and just focus on one.
Everything before this "Universe 0" arc is legitimately great but everything afterwards has been a slow spiral into "meh".
Imo the idea behind U0 is ok....but Hiro portrayed it in a really shit way.
The current arc is so boring, not only the battles but the villains too. What sucks too is the fact that we don't saw a new ether gear power since the nero empire arc. After the Oceans no new enemy had ether gear. The only ones are Ziggy and Void and the EG from them are nothing new to the readers....
Boring enemies....
Boring battles.....
Fake hype.....
No special abilities in the last 130 chapters or so....
Even the story is boring now.....
Only good thing was the flashback of the shining stars and who/what Mother really is......
Thats so sad.....