Edens Zero

Edens Zero (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese science fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since June 2018, with its chapters collected into twenty-eight tankōbon volumes as of September 2023. The manga is published digitally in six other languages as they are released in Japan, with Kodansha USA licensing the series for English publication in North America on Crunchyroll, Comixology, and Amazon Kindle. An anime television series adaptation produced by J.C.Staff aired from April to October 2021. A second season premiered from April to October 2023. A video game adaptation by Konami was also released. Plot Shiki Granbell, a human boy who manipulates gravity with a superhuman power called Ether Gear, lives among robots on the deserted theme park planet Granbell in the Sakura Cosmos. The park is visited by spacefaring content creators Rebecca Bluegarden and her robotic cat companion, Happy, whom Shiki befriends. After the park's robots force Shiki off the planet to save him from being stranded before expending their vital Ether energy, the three set out to explore the universe by searching for Mother, the goddess of the cosmos. Early in Shiki's journey, the space pirate Elsie Crimson gifts him with the Edens Zero, an interstellar warship left by his deceased grandfather figure, the mechanical Demon King Ziggy. To prepare for the voyage, Shiki assembles Ziggy's original android crewmates, the Four Shining Stars, along with other friends he encounters: Weisz Steiner, a criminal from an alternate history created by a time-eating monster called a chronophage; E.M. Pino, an EMP android built by Ziggy who suffers from memory damage; and Homura Kôgetsu, a young swordswoman and pupil of one of the Shining Stars. Meanwhile, Rebecca discovers her own Ether Gear ability to reverse time and travel between parallel universes.