List of Edens Zero chapters
Edens Zero is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It began serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine on June 26, 2018. The story follows a boy named Shiki Granbell who embarks on a voyage aboard the titular starship across different planets in search of a cosmic goddess known as "Mother". The chapters have been collected in tankōbon volumes since September 2018,[1] with 16 volumes being released as of July 2021.[2] The manga has also inspired a television anime and video game adaptation.[3][4]
The series is published simultaneously in six different languages: English, French, Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Brazilian Portuguese.[5][6] North American publisher Kodansha USA has released chapters of the series on digital platforms such as Crunchyroll Manga, ComiXology, and Amazon Kindle.[5] The first English tankōbon was released in November 2018.[7]
Volume list[]
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1 | Into the Sky Where Cherry Blossoms Flutter Sakura Mau Sora ni (桜舞うソラに) | September 14, 2018[1][8] 978-4-06-513234-0 978-4-06-513235-7 (SE) | November 6, 2018[7] 978-1-63-236756-3 | ||
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Shiki Granbell is raised from childhood by a community of robots at the Granbell Kingdom, an abandoned theme park. The park is visited by two B-Cubers – Rebecca Bluegarden and her robotic cat, Happy – whom Shiki tries to befriend to little avail. The next day, the park's robots turn hostile towards Shiki and Rebecca, declaring revenge against humans for discarding them. Shiki fights back and saves Rebecca with his gravity Ether Gear ability, earning her friendship. Rebecca and Happy take Shiki off the planet on their spaceship, the Aqua Wing, before the robots simultaneously down from old age, having staged their rebellion to save Shiki from being marooned. The three arrive at the planet Blue Garden and register Shiki into the adventurers guild Shooting Starlight, where Shiki recognizes a hologram of a cosmic goddess called Mother. When the guild disbelieves his supposed encounter with Mother, the three decide to find her and prove her existence, traveling to the planet Norma to acquire a more spaceworthy ship from Rebecca and Happy's benefactor, Professor Weisz Steiner. Upon visiting Weisz's laboratory, they are confronted by a stranger who introduces himself with the professor's name. | |||||
2 | Iron Tears Tetsu no Namida (鉄の涙) | November 16, 2018[9] 978-4-06-513249-4 | February 5, 2019[10] 978-1-63-236757-0 | ||
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Shiki and his friends discover that they have traveled fifty years to Norma's past, identifying the stranger as a younger version of Weisz, who has stolen a briefcase from the criminal Sibir. Shiki accidentally opens the briefcase to find E.M. Pino, an android from their own time period, and defeats Sibir to stop him from exploiting Pino's EMP technology. Shiki's group flees Norma together with Pino and a stowaway Weisz, the latter of whom uses his own Ether Gear, Machina Maker, to help them breach a cloudlike barrier surrounding the planet. The group is contacted by Weisz's present self, who explains that Norma itself was reverted to an earlier state by the Chronophage, a monster that devours planets' time. The Aqua Wing is then captured by the space pirate Elsie Crimson, who brings the group aboard her ship, the Skull Fairy. Deciding to take Elsie's ship for themselves, the group eliminates the alien parasites mimicking Elsie and her crew. Elsie congratulates Shiki from her nearby fleet and willingly gives him the ship, which she reveals to be his inheritance from his adoptive grandfather, Demon King Ziggy. | |||||
3 | Warship of the Demon King Maō Senkan (魔王戦艦) | February 15, 2019[11] 978-4-06-513875-5 | June 4, 2019[12] 978-1-63-236758-7 | ||
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While cleaning his new ship with his friends, Shiki unwittingly activates an android woman named Witch Regret, who reconfigures the ship into its original form, the battleship Edens Zero. Witch tells the crew that before they can navigate Dragonfall, a swarm of dragons separating the Sakura Cosmos from the outer regions of space, they must restore the ship's functions by assembling Witch's group of androids, the Four Shining Stars. Returning to Blue Garden, Shiki rescues Rebecca's rival B-Cuber Labilia Christy from the Rogue Out mercenary Jinn, whose organization – led by the Shining Star Sister Ivry – captures Rebecca and delivers her with other kidnapped B-Cubers to the lawless planet Guilst. Shiki and his friends travel to Guilst to rescue Rebecca, recruiting an Ether Gear user named Homura Kōgetsu, who is familiar with Edens Zero. Rebecca rallies the B-Cubers to escape and reunites with Shiki, who prepares to battle Sister and her mercenaries. Meanwhile, Witch detects the Chronophage approaching the planet. | |||||
4 | New Friends Arata na Nakama-tachi (新たな仲間たち) | April 17, 2019[13] 978-4-06-514881-5 | September 10, 2019[14] 978-1-63-236824-9 | ||
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Weisz and Homura find a second android named Sister imprisoned beneath Rogue Out's headquarters, discovering that she has been impersonated by Rogue Out's leader for the past ten years. The real Sister joins Shiki's crew after confronting her imposter, who is killed by Jinn for her deception. The crew and the B-Cubers escape Guilst before it is consumed by the Chronophage, which rewinds the planet's time by 1,200 years to a primitive state. The crew then locate the Shining Star Hermit Mio near Blue Garden. Unresponsive to the crew, Hermit has suffered severe psychological trauma and secluded her mind within Digitalis, a virtual planet and server for the simulated reality game Rogue Fantasia. Shiki's team enters the game to search for Hermit, encountering Jamilov, a subordinate of the crime lord Drakken Joe who regularly kills the game's other players and sentient non-player characters. | |||||
5 | Fireworks Hanabi (花火) | June 17, 2019[15] 978-4-06-515677-3 | December 10, 2019[16] 978-1-63-236788-4 | ||
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Shiki's team finds Hermit and attempts to bring her out of Rogue Fantasia, but she resists them out of hatred for humans, only to later be taken by Shiki when she is attacked by an army of monsters controlled by Jamilov. Homura appears to betray the team by allying with Jamilov, but is quickly revealed to be Amira, a government spy impersonating Homura, who chases her away. After using her programming skills to help Shiki defeat the invincible Jamilov by cheating, Hermit agrees to temporarily exit the game for maintenance, but still refuses to rejoin the crew. Edens Zero is then hacked by Jamilov's real-life persona, Spider, who begins destroying the ship from the inside. Hermit remains reluctant to help, revealing her distrust to be caused by human scientists who used her as a test subject after manipulating her into destroying a planet of robots. After being assured by the crew, Hermit chooses to be their friend and restores Edens Zero's security systems, humiliating Spider and saving the ship. | |||||
6 | Words Will Give You Strength Kotoba wa Tsuyosa o Ataeru (言葉は強さを与える) | September 17, 2019[17] 978-4-06-516233-0 | February 18, 2020[18] 978-1-63-236833-1 | ||
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Drakken has Spider killed for his loss against the Edens Zero crew, and contacts Noah Glenfield, Shooting Starlight's master, for information on the ship. Meanwhile, the crew travel to the planet Mildian to consult the oracle Xiaomei over the whereabouts of Valkyrie Yuna, the last remaining Shining Star and Homura's mentor. After Shiki and his team win a series of battles for Xiaomei, she reveals that Valkyrie is on the planet Sun Jewel. En route to Sun Jewel, the crew rescue a shipwrecked space captain named Connor, who expertly navigates Edens Zero through a debris field as a shortcut to Sun Jewel, having experience with a similarly named ship called Edens One. Shortly upon arrival, Shiki and Homura thwart a robbery attempt at a casino, which results in the robbers being immediately executed by the planet's ruler, Madame Kurenai, with the superlaser Satellite Blaze. | |||||
7 | I Know You Can Keep Pressing On Kitto Mae e Susumeru (きっと前へ進める) | November 15, 2019[19] 978-4-06-516893-6 | April 7, 2020[20] 978-1-63-236981-9 | ||
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Shiki and Homura are sent to Sun Jewel's labor district to mine metal from alien monsters called Stones as punishment for their use of violence against the robbers. After being publicly humiliated by Labilia in their search for the pair, Rebecca's group gains the sympathy of Nino, one of Madame Kurenai's elite men, who guides them to the labor district. There, Rebecca's group meets Valkyrie's disciple Paul, who reunites them with Shiki and Homura, allowing them to defeat a giant Stone together. Through a B-Cube recording Paul gives Homura, Shiki's team learns that Valkyrie left in search of Kurenai – revealed to be Homura's long-lost mother – who abandoned Homura and betrayed Valkyrie to rise to power. The team finds Valkyrie's inert body and realize she has been dead for three years, having sacrificed herself to defend the other prisoners against a horde of Stones unleashed by Kurenai. While Homura mourns, Shiki confronts Kurenai as she prepares to destroy the labor district with Satellite Blaze. | |||||
8 | Someone to Love Aisuru Mono (愛する者) | February 17, 2020[21] 978-4-06-517355-8 | June 9, 2020[22] August 4, 2020 (print)[22][23] 978-1-63-236982-6 | (digital)||
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Satellite Blaze is hijacked by Drakken's ship, the Belial Gore, forcing Madame Kurenai to send her elites, the Zaiten Three, to quash the labor district's resistance movement while she battles Shiki in her Knight Gear mech, the Kurenai Dragoon. Weisz joins his friends after finishing his armored Arsenal Suit, which allows him to defeat Baku, one of the trio. Rebecca is forced to fight Nino during a supply run and defeats him after awakening her own Ether Gear ability, which she names Leaper, while Homura defeats Garrot, the last of the trio, after overcoming her grief. Upon destroying the Kurenai Dragoon, Shiki brings Kurenai to be judged by Homura, who renounces her and declares Valkyrie to be her true mother; attempting to flee, Kurenai is captured by a gang led by a man whose face she disfigured. The team returns to Edens Zero to report Valkyrie's death to the other Shining Stars, who accept that they cannot repair or recreate her, and agree to Homura's offer of becoming the new Valkyrie. | |||||
9 | Don't Shed a Tear Nami o Nagasu na (涙を流すな) | April 17, 2020[24] 978-4-06-518522-3 | September 15, 2020[25] 978-1-63-236983-3 | ||
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Rebecca awakens from a cryptic dream about an older Shiki to learn that his team has infiltrated the Belial Gore to investigate Drakken's pursuit of Edens Zero. The team is quickly discovered by Drakken, who sends a trio of infiltrators aboard Edens Zero. After Witch defeats the infiltrators, Drakken orders his element-wielding special forces, the Element 4, to capture Shiki's team. Weisz defeats the water user, Laguna Husert, but is shot by the fire user, Fie. The team is sheltered by Sibir's present-day counterpart, who works as a bartender aboard the Belial Gore. Attempting to deliver medicine for Weisz, Rebecca and Happy are captured by Kleene Rutherford / Sylph – the wind user and younger sister of Jinn, who serves as her assistant – and brought before Drakken. | |||||
10 | Our Future Ore-tachi no Mirai (オレたちの未来) | June 17, 2020[26] 978-4-06-519436-2 | February 2, 2021[27] 978-1-64-651037-5 | ||
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Drakken invites Rebecca to join his group so that he can extract her Ether Gear, Cat Leaper; he also shows her a brutally beaten Labilia as a token of goodwill, which horrifies Rebecca. Leaving them under the surveillance of Daichi, the earth-using Element 4 member, Drakken captures Shiki during the latter's rematch with Jinn; meanwhile, Fie and Sylph capture Weisz and Homura, and Sibir is killed for sheltering Weisz. Drakken intimidates Shiki's group by pawning Happy and Pino and having Weisz's arm amputated, while his infiltrators aboard Edens Zero deactivate the Shining Stars and seize control of the ship; refusing to submit, Shiki is executed by Drakken. One week later, the captive Rebecca unwittingly activates Cat Leaper's power and travels back in time, returning moments before her friends' infiltration of the Belial Gore. Using Rebecca's knowledge of the future, the crew thwart Drakken's infiltrators and launch a direct assault on the Belial Gore to rescue Labilia. | |||||
11 | Shiki vs. Drakken Shiki vs. Dorakken (シキ vs. ドラッケン) | August 17, 2020[28] 978-4-06-520331-6 | May 4, 2021[29] 978-1-64-651038-2 | ||
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While the Four Shining Stars defeat the Element 4, Shiki's team is contacted by Noah, who explains that he has been using Rebecca's lifelong time-leaping ability as part of a plan to defeat Drakken; Noah mentions that Drakken has a weakness, but his transmission ends before he can reveal what it is. After the team finds Labilia and is guided by Sibir, Labilia unveils herself as a disguised Amira, who has already rescued the real Labilia. The team learns from Sibir and Amira that Drakken has maintained his youth for over 200 years, which leads Rebecca to deduce that he wants her power because he is overtaxing his body. The group is discovered by Drakken, whom Shiki battles while the others find Drakken's life-support machine to reverse its effects, gaining Jinn's cooperation when Amira reveals that the machine absorbs the life force of others, including Kleene. Enraged by the revelation, Weisz attacks Drakken to avenge the death of a loved one. | |||||
12 | Advent of the Demon King Maō Kōrin (魔王降臨) | October 16, 2020[30] 978-4-06-521010-9 | September 21, 2021[31] 978-1-64-651151-8 | ||
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The Edens Zero crew successfully reverse Drakken's life-draining machine, but the process mutates Drakken into a giant monster that overpowers Shiki and Weisz. Before Drakken can kill him, Shiki regains some of his memories from the previous timeline and activates his own Overdrive form, defeating Drakken and reverting him to an elderly, feeble state. After Drakken is arrested, Rebecca discovers that none of her friends have encountered Connor in the current timeline, where Edens One has not been destroyed. The crew decids to revisit Granbell before their voyage to Mother, only to discover the robots' deaths and the truth of their behavior. They are suddenly approached by a reactivated Ziggy, who uncharacteristically declares his intent for machines to rule humankind, summoning Edens One and destroying Granbell in the process. The Zero is rescued by Elsie from aboard the Skull Fairy, forcing the One into retreat. After Elsie leaves in pursuit of Ziggy, the Zero crew arrives at Dragonfall to resume their voyage, vowing to defeat Ziggy. | |||||
13 | Dragonfall Doragonfōru (ドラゴンフォール) | January 15, 2021[32] 978-4-06-521480-0 | October 19, 2021[33] 978-1-64-651223-2 | ||
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Accompanied by Jinn and Kleene, the Edens Zero crew cross Dragonfall through a breach left by Edens One and arrives in the Aoi Cosmos. Following information that Hermit recovers from the ship's deleted logs, the crew land on the oceanic planet Red Cave to find clues about Mother's location. In an underwater ruin, the guardian android Nadia directs Shiki's group to a clue within a volcanic cavern. With the group unable to bypass the cave's flames, Witch persuades Laguna to help Shiki safely reach the end in exchange for passage out of the Sakura Cosmos. The clue is revealed to be a Relic, a treasure imbued with Mother's Ether, which will allow the crew to pinpoint Mother's location more precisely by collecting the Ether of other Relics. After helping Nadia cope with the death of her human lover, the crew follow the Ether to another Relic on the planet Foresta, where the planet's robots have dominated the human population. Learning from Rebecca's visiting friend Couchpo that Ziggy has infected the robots with a virus, the crew are forced to fight them in self-defense. | |||||
14 | Star Drain Sutā Dorein (スタードレイン) | March 17, 2021[34] 978-4-06-521639-2 | December 21, 2021[35] 978-1-64-651285-0 | ||
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Shiki's group comes into conflict with members of Beast, a commando team sent by the Aoi Cosmos's emperor, Poseidon Nero, to end the uprising on Foresta by destroying all robots on the planet, regardless of infection. After Shiki, Rebecca, and Homura defeat Beast's "Squad 6", the team's more powerful "Squad 1" is quickly apprehended by a team of Interstellar Union Army officers led by Justice, who antagonizes Shiki for his association with Elsie, Justice's nemesis and object of pursuit on Foresta. Meanwhile, Weisz and Hermit enter the giant server satellite that is transmitting the virus, which they discover is being operated by the cybernetically enhanced Dr. Müller, the mad scientist responsible for traumatizing Hermit in the past; Kleene, who suffers from an emotional disorder that Jinn wishes for Sister to cure, experiences a mental breakdown upon sensing Müller's presence. | |||||
15 | So We Can Smile Brighter Takusan Warau Tame ni (たくさん笑う為に) | May 17, 2021[36] 978-4-06-523141-8 | February 22, 2022[37] 978-1-64-651286-7 | ||
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Justice overwhelms and nearly kills Shiki before being stopped by Elsie, who duels Justice to a stalemate that forces them both into retreat. Shiki is rescued by Xenolith, Ziggy's robotic mentor, who uses his gravity abilities to immobilize everyone on Foresta and stall the uprising. Meanwhile, Müller reveals his experimentation on the Rutherford siblings that resulted in Jinn's construction as a cyborg and Kleene's mental trauma during their childhood. Weisz destroys Müller's body in response with Laguna's help, allowing Hermit to disable the server and restore Foresta's robots to normal, while Sister helps Kleene recover from her disorder by erasing her traumatic memories. Afterwards, Xenolith begins training Shiki and the rest of the crew in preparation for their battle against Ziggy, who is also targeted by Poseidon Shura, Nero's son and another gravity Ether Gear user trained by Ziggy. | |||||
16 | Prelude to the Aoi War Aoi Taisen no Jokyoku (葵大戦の序曲) | July 16, 2021[2] 978-4-06-524027-4 | — | ||
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After the Edens Zero crew complete their training under Xenolith and resume their search for the Relics, Shura publicly announces his intent to retaliate against Ziggy by eliminating all robots within the Aoi Cosmos. With the crew determined to protect the robots, Laguna introduces them to his estranged allies in Oasis, a rebel army on the desert planet Sandra that opposes Nero's empire. The crew learn that Shura and Ziggy plan to use the All-Link System, a network that would give its user influence over the robots when all of the Aoi Cosmos's planets are submerged in the cosmic ocean's high tide. Securing an alliance with Oasis after assisting them against a surprise imperial attack, the crew proceed to the All-Link System's location on the imperial planet Nero 66, where much of its fleet is decimated by Eraser, one of the Interstellar Union Army's elite officers. | |||||
17 | A World of Ash Haiiro no Sekai (灰色の世界) | September 17, 2021[38] 978-4-06-524836-2 | — | ||
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Shiki battles Shura as a diversion for his crewmates to infiltrate the city where the All-Link System is located. Shura is impressed by Shiki's prowess and requests his friendship, but Shiki rejects him for refusing to stop his genocide of robots. In retribution, Shura leaves him to battle an army of robot soldiers while he assaults the Four Shining Stars aboard Edens Zero. After the soldiers perish defending Shiki from a suicide attack, Shiki discovers that Shura has abducted Witch, and goes to rescue her. Meanwhile, Homura is separated from her group by Milani Lucra, a member of the imperial team Oceans 6, whom she defeats after entering her Overdrive form. The rest of the group falls under the hypnosis of Nasseh, another Oceans member, but Weisz uses his Arsenal suit to free himself from Nasseh's control, prompting Nasseh to use a Sea Devil mech to engage Weisz. While taken hostage by the Oceans' Lyra, Rebecca performs an involuntary time leap and observes a possible future where she has lost her legs and Cat Leaper ability. |
Chapters not yet in tankōbon format[]
These chapters have yet to be published in a tankōbon volume. They were originally serialized in Japanese in issues of Weekly Shōnen Magazine and in English in issues of Crunchyroll Manga from July to September 2021.
- "Weisz vs. Nasseh" (ワイズVS.ナセ, Waizu vs. Nase)
- "Handprints" (手形, Tegata)
- "Lost Card" (ロストカード, Rosuto Kādo)
- "The False Five" (偽りの5, Itsuwari no Go)
- "Skymech Ninjutsu" (天械流忍術, Tenkai-ryū Ninjutsu)
- "The Winds of Rutherford" (ラザフォードの風, Razafōdo no Kaze)
- "The Beast Lord" (獣神, Jūshin)
- "The Red String of Destiny" (運命の赤い糸, Unmei no Akai Ito)
- "The Madness of a Man Who Knows No Love" (愛を知らぬ男の狂気, Ai o Shiranu Otoko no Kyōki)
- "The Strings of Unbreakable Bonds" (絆の糸, Kizuna no Ito)
- "Scattering in the Starry Aoi Sea" (葵の宇宙に散る, Aoi no Umi ni Chiru)
Notes[]
References[]
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