When developing the idea for his next series, Mashima originally anticipated using another sword and sorcery setting similar to his previous manga, but decided on creating a "space fantasy" adventure series due to a lack of other such contemporary shōnen manga he coined the term "space fantasy" from his own misinterpretation of "SF", the abbreviation of science fiction in Japan, as a child. On May 30, 2018, Weekly Shōnen Magazine revealed that the series was tentatively titled Eden's Zero. He also stated that he was coming up with new ideas for the series "one after another". On May 14, 2018, Mashima commented on Twitter that he was becoming "a little confused" due to working simultaneously on this series, a Fairy Tail continuation, and another "secret" project. After his visit to the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France, Mashima revealed that the new series would be "a new form of fantasy", and that the character Plue from his earlier series Rave Master would appear in the manga. In the process, Shiki acquires the interstellar warship Edens Zero as inheritance from his grandfather figure, the mechanical Demon King Ziggy, who captained the ship during a previous voyage for Mother.įollowing the conclusion of his series Fairy Tail on July 26, 2017, Hiro Mashima posted a Tweet on Decempromising to start a new series sometime in 2018. After the park's robots force them off the planet to save Shiki from being stranded before their batteries die, the three set out to explore the universe by searching for Mother, the fabled goddess of the cosmos. One day, the park is visited by two space traveling B-Cubers – Rebecca Bluegarden and her robotic cat companion Happy – whom Shiki befriends while they are recording videos for their online account, Aoneko Channel. Shiki Granbell is a human Ether Gear user who lives among robots on the planet Granbell, a deserted theme park world in the Sakura Cosmos. 172 All but a select few characters are oblivious to the multiverse's existence those who gain awareness of it do so through exceptionally powerful gravity, which causes memories of their alternate lives to "fall" into their minds. Later in the story, the universe is established to be part of a larger multiverse with its own range of alternate histories and outcomes to certain events. 1 which are further enhanced by a transformative "Overdrive" state achieved by pushing their Ether past its critical point.
Several characters directly harness the Ether in their bodies with Ether Gear, a power from the universe's dark ages that grants its users superhuman abilities, Ch. 1 afterword one recurring device is the B-Cube, a video recorder that allows content creators, called " B-Cubers", to access a same-named video sharing website based on YouTube. 11Īll technology in the series runs on a magical power source called Ether, which forms the basis of the story's "space fantasy" aspect Vol. 15 and a monster called the Chronophage that devours planets and permanently rewinds their time, creating alternate histories without causing time paradoxes. 1 The universe is also home to various cosmic entities, such as cybernetic dragons that swarm in a sector bordering the Sakura Cosmos called Dragonfall, Ch. 179 Most planets and locations have futuristic elements, some of which are combined with classic fantasy. The universe is divided into four smaller "cosmoses" that correspond to the seasons: the Sakura Cosmos, which represents spring and serves as the initial setting of the series the Aoi Cosmos, representing summer the Kaede Cosmos, representing autumn and the Yukino Cosmos, representing winter. Main article: List of Edens Zero characters Setting Įdens Zero takes place in the Grand Shiki Cosmos, a fictional space-faring universe inhabited by humans, aliens, and sentient robots. A video game adaptation by Konami was also released. An anime television series adaptation produced by J.C.Staff aired from April to October 2021. 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.
It has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since June 2018, with its chapters collected into twenty tankōbon volumes as of April 2022. Edens Zero (stylized as EDENS ZERO) is a Japanese science fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima.
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