List of Edens Zero chapters
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Edens Zero is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from June 27, 2018, to June 26, 2024. 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 thirty-three tankōbon volumes from September 2018 through June 2024.[1][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 English tankōbon volumes were released from November 2018 through September 2025.[7][8]
Volumes
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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] 978-4-06-513234-0 978-4-06-513235-7 (SE) | November 6, 2018[7] 978-1-63-236756-3 | ||
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| A human boy named Shiki is raised by a community of robots at the Granbell Kingdom, an abandoned theme park. The park is visited by two content-creating B-Cubers—Rebecca Bluegarden and her robotic cat, Happy—whom Shiki befriends. When the park's robots turn hostile and declare revenge against humans for their neglect, Shiki rescues Rebecca with his gravity Ether Gear, a power taught to him by the park's deceased Demon King robot, Ziggy. Rebecca and Happy help Shiki escape the planet Granbell aboard their ship, the Aqua Wing, revealing themselves as space travelers. The robots break down from old age shortly afterwards, having staged their rebellion to save Shiki from solitude. Arriving at the planet Blue Garden, the three register Shiki into the adventurers guild Shooting Starlight, where he learns of a seemingly mythical goddess called Mother. Deciding to find Mother after the guild ridicules Shiki for claiming he has seen her before, the three travel to the planet Norma to acquire a more spaceworthy ship from Rebecca and Happy's benefactor, Professor Weisz Steiner. At Weisz's house, they are confronted by an unfamiliar youth 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, recognizing the youth as Weisz's younger self, who has stolen a briefcase from the criminal Sibir. The briefcase contains E.M. Pino, an android from the present era whose memory has been erased by Sibir, who has been using her EMP to commit crimes. After Shiki defeats Sibir and rescues Pino, the group takes her off Norma with the help of the younger Weisz, whose "Machina Maker" Ether Gear modifies the Aqua Wing to bypass a spacetime barrier surrounding the planet. The present-day Weisz contacts the group, explaining that the "past" they experienced was an alternate history created by the Chronophage, a space monster that devoured fifty years of Norma's time. The group is suddenly captured by the space pirate Elsie Crimson, whose ship, the Skull Fairy, is infested with alien parasites mimicking Elsie and her crew. When the group defeats the parasites, Elsie rewards them with the Skull Fairy, which she reveals to be Shiki's inheritance from Ziggy, Pino's creator. | |||||
| 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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| Shiki's group activates an android woman aboard the Skull Fairy named Witch Regret, a former crewmate of Ziggy who reverts the ship to its true form, the battleship Edens Zero. Witch advises the crew to reassemble her group, the Demon King's Four Shining Stars, to prepare for the voyage beyond Dragonfall, a swarm of dragons separating the Sakura Cosmos from the outer regions of space. While revisiting Blue Garden to investigate Sister Ivry, one of the Shining Stars, Shiki saves Rebecca's B-Cube rival Labilia Christy from being kidnapped by Jinn, a cyborg mercenary and wind Ether Gear user from Sister's mercenary squad, Rogue Out. During Shiki's absence, Rebecca is kidnapped by Rogue Out and sold to the lawless planet Guilst. To help rescue Rebecca, Weisz enlists Homura Kōgetsu, a wandering Ether Gear user and swordswoman who is familiar with Edens Zero. Shiki's crew follows Rebecca to Sister's headquarters on Guilst, where Rebecca rallies her fellow captives to escape and reunites with Shiki. As Shiki battles with Rogue Out, Witch detects the Chronophage approaching Guilst. | |||||
| 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 discover that Rogue Out's leader has been impersonating Sister when they find the real Sister trapped beneath Rogue Out's headquarters. After Shiki defeats Rogue Out, Sister ousts her imposter and recovers her stolen healing powers. Alerted to the Chronophage's approach by Witch, Shiki's crew leaves Jinn with the imposter, whom he kills for her deception, having sought Sister out to treat his younger sister, Kleene. Edens Zero and the captives escape with Sister and her servant Mosco Versa-0 before Guilst's time is consumed by the Chronophage. The crew quickly finds another of the Four Shining Stars, Hermit Mio, who has secluded her mind within the virtual planet Digitalis, a server for the simulated reality game Rogue Fantasia. Shiki's team enters the game to search for Hermit, but are impeded by Jamilov, a mass murderer and Rogue Fantasia player who works for Drakken Joe, one of six intergalactic outlaws called the Oración Seis Galáctica. | |||||
| 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 group avoids being killed by Jamilov, who uses cheats to make himself invincible. They soon find Hermit and attempt to recruit her, but she rejects them out of hatred for humans, having been deceived and tortured by cruel human scientists in the past. Homura appears to betray the crew by allying with Jamilov, but is exposed as an imposter, the shapeshifting government spy Amira, who is chased away by the real Homura. Hermit begrudgingly helps Shiki defeat Jamilov with her own cheats, and is surprised by Shiki's compassion for Digitalis' sentient NPCs when Jamilov spitefully attempts to delete them, prompting her to save the NPCs. After Hermit agrees to tentatively exit the game, Edens Zero is hacked by Jamilov's real-life persona, Spider, who begins destroying the ship from the inside. With Shiki's encouragement, Hermit accepts the crew's friendship 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 executed for his incompetence against the Edens Zero crew. Seeking to recuperate his lost wealth from the destruction of Guilst, Drakken contacts Noah Glenfield, Shooting Starlight's master, for information on Edens Zero. Meanwhile, the crew travels to the planet Mildian to consult the oracle Xiaomei over the whereabouts of Valkyrie Yuna, the last of the Four Shining Stars and Homura's mentor. After winning a series of battles for Xiaomei's amusement, including a duel between Homura and a training robot disguised as a replica of Valkyrie, the crew is directed to the planet Sun Jewel. Along the way, the crew rescues Connor, the shipwrecked captain of a spaceship called Edens One, who navigates a hazardous debris field to bring them to Sun Jewel. After thwarting a robbery attempt on the planet, Shiki and Homura witness the robbers' immediate execution by the planet's ruler, Madame Kurenai, using her Satellite Blaze weapon. | |||||
| 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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| Madame Kurenai's emissaries condemn Shiki and Homura for their violence against the robbers, using Satellite Blaze to send them to Sun Jewel's labor district to mine precious metals from ferocious monsters called Stones. After being publicly humiliated by Labilia, who falsely offers her help as repayment for Shiki saving her, Rebecca is guided to the labor district by Nino, a friendly subordinate of Kurenai. Rebecca's group meets Valkyrie's disciple Paul, who reunites them with Shiki and Homura, allowing the group to slay a massive Stone. Through a B-Cube recording belonging to Paul, it is revealed that Valkyrie left Homura in search of Kurenai, Homura's mother, who abandoned her daughter and betrayed Valkyrie to rise to power. Shiki's team finds Valkyrie's remains afterwards, learning that she died protecting the laborers from a Stone horde provoked by Kurenai. While Homura mourns, Shiki confronts Kurenai to fulfill Valkyrie's promise and have Homura determine her mother's fate. | |||||
| 8 | Someone to Love Aisuru Mono (愛する者) | February 17, 2020[21] 978-4-06-517355-8 | June 9, 2020 (digital)[22] August 4, 2020 (print)[22][23] 978-1-63-236982-6 | ||
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| Drakken confiscates Kurenai's Satellite Blaze for her attempts to double-cross him in a dispute over Edens Zero. In response, Kurenai activates her Knight Gear mech, the Kurenai Dragoon, which she uses to battle Shiki. She sends her elite minions, the Zaiten Three, to quell the laborers' uprising, but they are each defeated by Shiki's friends: Weisz uses his newly completed "Arsenal" battle suit to defeat Baku; Rebecca subdues Nino after awakening her speed-enhancing Ether Gear, "Leaper", oblivious to its ability to reverse time; and Homura impales Garrot with Valkyrie's sword, reinvigorated by her friends' support. Upon destroying the Kurenai Dragoon, Shiki brings Kurenai to Homura, who declares Valkyrie to be her true mother and renounces Kurenai. Attempting to flee, Kurenai is captured by a gang of delinquents led by a vengeful man whose face she disfigured. The team returns to Edens Zero to report Valkyrie's death to the other Shining Stars, who mournfully accept Homura's offer to become 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 falls asleep in Edens Zero's bath and dreams of herself and an older Shiki battling an army of machines, during which Shiki informs her that Happy is long dead. Upon awakening, Rebecca discovers that Shiki has led their friends aboard Drakken's space fortress, the Belial Goer, to investigate his pursuit of their ship. The group is quickly discovered and publically exposed by Drakken, who sends a trio of infiltrators aboard Edens Zero. When Witch defeats the infiltrators, Drakken dispatches his element-wielding special forces, the Element 4, and initiates a manhunt for Shiki's team. Weisz defeats the Element 4's 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 Goer. Attempting to deliver medicine for Weisz, Rebecca and Happy are captured and brought before Drakken by Kleene Rutherford, the emotionally-suppressed wind user and younger sister of Jinn, who serves as her assistant. | |||||
| 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, which he redubs "Cat Leaper". To Rebecca's horror, Drakken reveals he has had Labilia captured and brutally beaten as a token of goodwill, and leaves them in a cell under the watch of Daichi, the Element 4's earth user. Eventually, Shiki's team is captured by Drakken and the rest of the Element 4, while Sibir is killed by Fie for harboring the team. Drakken intimidates the group into submission, persuading Rebecca to join him for their release and having Weisz's arm severed as a warning, while Edens Zero is seized by his infiltration team, who are revealed to have faked their earlier defeat. Refusing to surrender, Shiki is executed by Drakken. After one week under Drakken's captivity, the traumatized Rebecca unwittingly activates her Cat Leaper in the shower, causing her to travel back in time to the moment before her friends leave to infiltrate the Belial Goer. Using Rebecca's knowledge of the future, the crew thwarts Drakken's infiltrators and directly attacks the Belial Goer 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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| The Four Shining Stars defeat the Element 4, with Homura discovering that Kleene suffers from a fragile mental state that causes severe nervous meltdowns whenever she experiences emotion. Meanwhile, Shiki's team is contacted by Noah, who explains that he has been using Rebecca's time-leaping ability as part of a plan to defeat Drakken. After freeing Labilia, the team is guided to a safe location by Sibir, who reveals that Drakken has been absorbing others' life force to maintain his youth for over 200 years; Rebecca deduces that Drakken needs Cat Leaper because he is overtaxing his body. Labilia suddenly reveals herself to be a disguised Amira, having long-rescued the real Labilia as part of an undercover mission to thwart Drakken. Discovered by Drakken, Shiki battles him as a distraction while Amira directs the others in reversing Drakken's life-support machine to weaken him, gaining Jinn's cooperation when Amira explains the machine's threat to Kleene's life. | |||||
| 12 | Advent of the Demon King Maō Kōrin (魔王降臨) | October 16, 2020[30] 978-4-06-521010-9 | September 28, 2021[31] 978-1-64-651151-8 | ||
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| The Edens Zero crew reverses Drakken's life-draining machine, but the process mutates Drakken into a rampaging monster. Shiki regains some of his memories from the previous timeline and enters Overdrive, a state of heightened power that allows him to defeat Drakken, while Edens Zero destroys Drakken's Satellite Blaze before it can annihilate Blue Garden. Jinn and Kleene become passengers aboard Edens Zero for Sister to treat Kleene's mental disorder, while Rebecca notices Connor's absence from the ship, with no one else remembering his existence. Deciding to revisit Granbell before leaving the Sakura Cosmos, Shiki discovers his robots friends' deaths before being attacked by a reactivated Ziggy, who declares his intent for machines to rule humankind and destroys Granbell. The crew battles Ziggy and his ship, Edens One, which has not been destroyed in the current timeline and is helmed by Connor. Edens One is driven back by Elsie, who leaves to pursue Ziggy, allowing Edens Zero to resume their voyage and reach Dragonfall. | |||||
| 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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| Edens Zero crosses Dragonfall into the Aoi Cosmos, where the crew investigates the oceanic planet Red Cave for clues about Mother's location. Following a downed spaceship with human remains inside, the crew finds an underwater ruin inhabited by Nadia, the dead human's android lover, who guards a volcanic tunnel containing a beacon to Mother. Witch warps to Blue Garden to recruit Laguna, who has been in hiding since Drakken's arrest, promising him safe passage from the Sakura Cosmos in exchange for his aid. Laguna's water Ether Gear allows Shiki to safely reach the end of the tunnel, where he collects a leftover supply of Mother's Ether from a mystical relic imbued with it. After helping Nadia cope with her lover's death, the crew traces the Ether to another relic on the planet Foresta, where its human population has been subjugated by the local robots. Shiki's group is aided by Rebecca's traveling B-Cuber friend Couchpo, who informs them that the robots have fallen under Ziggy's control. | |||||
| 14 | Star Drain Sutā Dorein (スタードレイン) | March 17, 2021[34] 978-4-06-521639-2 | December 21, 2021 (digital) January 4, 2022 (print)[35] 978-1-64-651285-0 | ||
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| Hermit determines that Foresta's robots have been infected by a computer virus transmitted from a giant server satellite, which risks spreading to the Four Shining Stars. Shiki's team comes into conflict with the commando team Beast, who are indiscriminately targeting infected and uninfected robots as ordered by the Aoi Cosmos' emperor, Poseidon Nero of the Oración Seis Galáctica. After Shiki's team defeats Beast's "Squad 6", they are saved from the more powerful "Squad 1" by Justice, Victory, and Creed, a trio of officers from the Interstellar Union Army. Justice becomes hostile upon realizing Shiki's familiarity with Elsie—his nemesis and another of the Galáctica—and uses his authority as one of the army's elite Oración Seis Interstellar to fight Shiki to the death. Meanwhile, Hermit brings Weisz to the server to help reverse the virus' effects, but finds the satellite guarded by a cybernetically enhanced Müller, the mad scientist responsible for torturing Hermit in the past. | |||||
| 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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| Shiki is rescued from Justice by Elsie, who duels Justice to a stalemate, and Xenolith, Ziggy's robotic mentor, who uses his gravity abilities to immobilize everyone on Foresta. Meanwhile, Müller boasts his responsibility for Jinn's cybernetic conversion and Kleene's mental trauma, having experimented on them as children in a vendetta against their family. When Kleene suffers a near-fatal breakdown over Müller's presence, Sister uncovers and erases her suppressed memories of the event, curing Kleene of her condition. Weisz defeats Müller with Laguna's help, which allows Hermit to free the planet's robots from Ziggy's control. Jinn and Kleene permanently join the Edens Zero crew out of gratitude while Couchpo remains aboard the ship after being impressed by its kitchen. Xenolith trains the crew to prepare them against Ziggy, who continues to incite robot uprisings across the Aoi Cosmos. Meanwhile, Nero entrusts control of the situation to his adoptive human son, Poseidon Shura, a sadistic gravity Ether Gear user. | |||||
| 16 | Prelude to the Aoi War[j] Aoi Taisen no Jokyoku (葵大戦の序曲) | July 16, 2021[38] 978-4-06-524027-4 | April 26, 2022[39] 978-1-64-651445-8 | ||
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| After the crew completes their week-long training under Xenolith, Edens Zero leaves Foresta to continue their search for Mother's relics on other planets. They are interrupted when Shura publically broadcasts his plan to retaliate against Ziggy by eliminating all robots in the Aoi Cosmos, using falsified reports of uprisings on peaceful planets as justification. To stop Shura, Laguna brings the crew to his estranged allies in Oasis, a rebel army that opposes Nero's empire. Oasis informs the crew of the All-Link System, a network that would give Shura influence over all machinery in the Aoi Cosmos when its planets are submerged in the cosmic ocean's high tide. After gaining Oasis' trust by helping them thwart an imperial raid on their hideout, the crew proceeds to the All-Link System's location on the planet Nero 66, where much of its imperial blockade is destroyed by Eraser, one of the Oración Seis Interstellar. | |||||
| 17 | A World of Ash Haiiro no Sekai (灰色の世界) | September 17, 2021[40] 978-4-06-524836-2 | July 5, 2022[41] 978-1-64-651472-4 | ||
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| Shiki battles Shura on the surface of Nero 66 as a diversion for his crewmates to find the All-Link System. Shura is impressed by Shiki's skill and offers his friendship, but Shiki rejects him for refusing to end his genocidal plans. In retribution, Shura decides to torment Shiki by forcing him to battle an army of robots he has programmed to self-destruct. After the robots defiantly shield Shiki from the explosion for his compassion towards them, Shiki returns to Edens Zero and discovers that Shura has abducted Witch to torment him further, prompting Shiki to go rescue her. Meanwhile, Shiki's friends face members of Oceans 6, the empire's elite special forces; Homura defeats the mirror-controlling member Mirrani Lucra after achieving her own Overdrive form, while the rest of Homura's friends encounter Mirrani's hypnotist teammate Nasseh. While under hypnosis, Rebecca briefly experiences an alternate future in which she has lost her legs, robbing her of her Cat Leaper ability. | |||||
| 18 | The False Five Itsuwari no Go (偽りの5) | November 17, 2021[42] 978-4-06-525998-6 | August 23, 2022 (digital) September 27, 2022 (print)[43] 978-1-64-651570-7 | ||
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| Weisz overcomes Nasseh's hypnosis and enters his Overdrive state to defeat him. Shiki attempts to save Rebecca when she is forced into a high-stakes card game against the Ocean 6's Lyra, but is stopped by her teammate Callum Steelford, Jinn's childhood rival. Using her Cat Leaper, Rebecca avoids having her legs severed and stalls Lyra long enough for Jinn and Kleene to arrive and defeat Callum and Lyra with their Overdrive forms. Continuing on, Shiki and Rebecca are brainwashed into fighting each other to the death by Ijuna, Shura's secretary. Laguna rescues the pair and recognizes Ijuna as a former member of Oasis who has developed Stockholm syndrome for Shura after years of torture and humiliation under his captivity. Upon reaching Witch's location, Shiki finds that Shura has heavily damaged her. Meanwhile, the Interstellar Union Army and Oasis unite against the empire as Ziggy, Nero, and Jaguar—one of the Oración Seis Interstellar—converge at the Temple, the imperial capital planet. | |||||
| 19 | Scattering in the Starry Aoi Sea[l] Aoi no Umi ni Chiru (葵の宇宙に散る[m]) | February 17, 2022[44] 978-4-06-526892-6 | October 18, 2022 (digital) November 15, 2022 (print)[45] 978-1-64-651571-4 | ||
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| Laguna defeats Ijuna while the Interstellar Union Army and Oasis suffer heavy casualties, including Creed, who is accidentally shot by his companion Jesse for allying with Homura, and Jaguar, who is killed by Nero after damaging Ziggy's minions Brigandine and Killer. After Shiki's group recovers Witch, Shura prepares to use the All-Link System against Ziggy and Nero by obliterating the Temple with its own stockpile of 20,000 anti-matter bombs. Nero, having anticipated Shura's betrayal, uses his secret wormhole Ether Gear to transport the bombs to Nero 66. As Shiki defeats Shura, Ziggy kills Nero and absorbs his Ether Gear, which he uses to activate the bombs. Shiki attempts to disarm the bombs, but with Xiaomei's intervention, he opts to evacuate his crew instead. Ijuna leaves Laguna's care to die together with Shura on Nero 66, while Witch perishes after using her force shield to protect Edens Zero from the explosion. | |||||
| 20 | 3 Years Later | April 15, 2022[46] 978-4-06-527525-2 | December 27, 2022[47] 978-1-64-651572-1 | ||
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| Recovering from Witch's death, Shiki postpones Edens Zero's voyage for Mother to focus on defeating Ziggy. The crew spends the next three years freeing numerous planets in the Kaede Cosmos from Ziggy's influence while searching for him. Alarmed by Shiki's vigilantism and growing strength, the government brands him as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica. Rebecca learns from Noah that her Cat Leaper has been sending her to parallel universes when the crew encounters an alternate version of Connor who is on the run from Ziggy, revealing Ziggy's base of operations to be on the industrial planet Lendard. The crew ferries Connor to Blue Garden to send him into hiding, but when they are ambushed by the Interstellar Union Army, Connor returns and helps them avoid capture by the Oración Seis Interstellar member Feather. While resting at the planet Dahlia, the crew is approached by Feather's teammate Holy, who proposes an alliance with Shiki. | |||||
| 21 | Operation Planet Eater Hoshigami Sakusen (星咬作戦) | June 17, 2022[48] 978-4-06-528179-6 | February 28, 2023[49] 978-1-64-651690-2 | ||
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| Shiki accepts Holy as a temporary crew member after she informs him of Ziggy's alliance with her enemy Deadend Crow, one of the Oración Seis Galáctica. Rebecca also rekindles her friendship with Labilia, who is brought aboard Edens Zero as a patient after revealing herself to have an incurable illness. Partnered with Elsie, Edens Zero plans to eliminate Ziggy and Crow by using Rebecca's time-distorting power to lure the Chronophage to Lendard, which is guarded by a dragon swarm controlled by God Acnoella, another Galáctica member aligned with Ziggy. Elsie bypasses the dragons and nearly defeats Ziggy, but is distracted when he briefly returns to his original self, leading Justice to save Elsie before Ziggy can kill her. Meanwhile, Shiki's team faces the Demon King's Four Dark Stars, Edens One's enhanced counterparts to the Four Shining Stars. | |||||
| 22 | The Ether of All Things Banbutsu no Ēteru (万物のエーテル) | August 17, 2022[50] 978-4-06-528658-6 | April 25, 2023[51] 978-16-4-651691-9 | ||
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| While the rest of the Edens Zero crew and Holy battle Crow, with whom Holy has a personal vendetta, the Four Dark Stars separate Shiki's team across digital dimensions to fight them individually. Shiki defeats Wizard, Witch's Dark Star counterpart, but Rebecca and Weisz are defeated by Clown and Killer – Sister and Hermit's counterparts, respectively – while Homura struggles against Brigandine, Valkyrie's counterpart. Throughout the battle, Shiki's gravity draws the Dark Stars' lost memories into his mind, leading him to discover that they were once closely acquainted with their Shining Star counterparts. Afterwards, Clown and Killer infiltrate Edens Zero to eliminate Sister and Hermit. | |||||
| 23 | Alternative | October 17, 2022[52] 978-4-06-529414-7 | June 27, 2023 (digital) July 4, 2023 (print)[53] 978-16-4-651692-6 | ||
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| Hermit and Homura destroy Killer and Brigandine, while Sister captures Clown and prevents him from stealing Etherion, Edens Zero's secret weapon. As the rest of the crew assists Holy when she becomes trapped inside Crow's body, Shiki's team reaches the center of Lendard, where Ziggy has gathered the bodies of countless human mothers in a plan to locate Mother through their Ether; the only living captive is Saintfire Nox, one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, who is revealed to be Rebecca's long-lost mother. Beginning their final battle, Shiki destroys Ziggy's mask and discovers him to be an alternate version of himself from 20,000 years in the future. | |||||
| 24 | Point Zero Genten Zero (原点0) | December 16, 2022[54] 978-4-06-529939-5 | August 29, 2023[55] 978-16-4-651887-6 | ||
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| Ziggy reveals the origins of himself and Edens Zero, which was built for him to return to the present using the power of Etherion taken from the future Rebecca's body. Pino notices that Ziggy has secretly unlocked her ability to Overdrive, which she uses to restore his original, kind personality. Ziggy explains that he has been controlled by a greater evil presently on Lendard, but is unable to reveal the enemy's identity, and requests Shiki to kill him before he can lose control of himself again. Meanwhile, Holy discovers Crow's power source and creator to be her teammate Cure, whom she helps Edens Zero eradicate along with Crow. Elsewhere, Elsie prepares to seize the source of Ziggy and Acnoella's robotic armies after destroying Acnoella, her mother, in a rage. | |||||
| 25 | The Final World Saigo no Sekai (最後の世界) | February 17, 2023[56] 978-4-06-530529-4 | October 31, 2023[57] 978-16-4-651888-3 | ||
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| Elsie deactivates Acnoella's dragons, while Ziggy provokes Shiki into destroying him by pretending to be controlled again by the true enemy, revealed to be Edens One, which is artificially intelligent. The Edens Zero crew escapes with their mothers' bodies before the Chronophage consumes Lendard along with Elsie and Justice, who willingly remain behind after losing their will to fight. Rebecca discovers Connor to be her father, and reunites with her mother, Rachel. Rachel explains that Mother is dying, which will result in humankind's extinction, and can only be saved in Universe Zero, the convergence point of all parallel worlds, where she warns that further time travel will be impossible. The crew uses Etherion to enter Universe Zero, where they relive their entire lives without any knowledge of the future. When Shiki meets Rebecca and Happy on Granbell, the three regain their memories of the previous world and happily reunite. | |||||
| 26 | A Happy World Shiawase na Sekai (幸せな世界) | April 17, 2023[58] 978-4-06-531238-4 | December 26, 2023[59] 978-16-4-651889-0 | ||
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| Shiki, Rebecca, and Happy find their lives in Universe Zero altered for the better, with Ziggy having prevented the Granbell robots' deaths and left Edens Zero on Granbell for Shiki. Joined by a past version of Witch, they revisit old planets to restore their crewmates' memories, culminating in another battle with Drakken Joe's forces on Guilst. In the process, several other drastic changes to history are revealed, including Homura's indebtedness to Drakken, Poseidon Nero's replacement of Laguna in the Element 4, and Shura's succession as emperor of the Aoi Cosmos. Nero guides Shiki on how to access his future strength, which he achieves by entering a new form of Overdrive that resembles Ziggy. When Nero explains his intention for Shiki to stop Shura, Shiki decides to befriend Shura and Drakken. | |||||
| 27 | Crimson Tears Kurenai no Namida (紅の涙) | July 14, 2023[60] 978-4-06-531893-5 | February 20, 2024[61] 979-88-8-877032-0 | ||
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| Shiki persuades the more humane Drakken to evacuate Guilst's population before the Chronophage's arrival. Homura regains her memories after reuniting with a living Valkyrie and reconciling with a heroic version of Madame Kurenai on Sun Jewel. The crew learns from Pino's restored memories that Edens One has built an android vessel for itself named Over Nu Etherion Void, and is served by a revised Oración Seis Galáctica that includes Xenolith, who is blamed for destroying Foresta. The crew reunites with Laguna on Sandra, where he opposes Shura and Xenolith as Oasis' leader, while Shura leads a manhunt for Xenolith, whom he accuses Oasis of sheltering. Xenolith suddenly appears in the body of a local girl's robot companion, revealing that he was stripped of his gravity powers and framed by Müller. | |||||
| 28 | Like the Deep Blue Sea Fukaki Umi no Gotoku (深き海の如く) | September 14, 2023[62] 978-4-06-532890-3 | April 30, 2024[63] 979-88-8-877033-7 | ||
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| Shiki and Shura join forces against Müller, who has fused himself with a robotic copy of Xenolith. Müller kidnaps Rebecca in a bid to harness her time powers, but Shiki and Shura thwart him with the help of the Oración Seis Interstellar, who have learned of the previous world's existence from Rachel, one of the army's directors in Universe Zero. After a celebratory gala, the Edens Zero crew meets with Rachel and the other directors – Noah, Nadia, and Elsie – who enlist the crew's aid in stopping Edens One. The crew travels to the Yukino Cosmos, bringing the Mother Ether they have retained from the previous world to obtain a waymark to Mother on Rachel's homeworld of Miltz. During the process, a masked intruder stops time for everyone except Rebecca. | |||||
| 29 | From Eternity Long Past Yūkyū no Toki yori (悠久の時より) | November 16, 2023[64] 978-4-06-532890-3 | June 25, 2024[65] 979-88-8-877034-4 | ||
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| Escaping the field of frozen time, Rebecca is aided by the elderly Professor Weisz against the intruder, the Oración Seis Galáctica member Joker Helix. Once an AI-powered game engine developed by Professor Weisz for Rebecca as a child, Joker traps Rebecca in a series of video game-like dimensions to play with her while attempting to steal the Mother Ether. With Shiki and the professor's help, Rebecca overcomes Joker's games and convinces her to surrender peacefully. Before leaving, Professor Weisz gives Pino a flash drive containing her deleted memories about the Four Shining Stars' creation. Edens Zero follows the waymark into uncharted space, where they are followed and attacked by God Acnoella and the Four Dark Stars. Meanwhile, Pino short-circuits after installing her memories and learning that human versions of the Shining Stars and Dark Stars have lived 20,000 years ago on a dying, modern-day Earth. | |||||
| 30 | Just Beyond This Point... Tadori Tsuita Saki ni wa... (辿り着いた先には…) | January 17, 2024[66] 978-4-06-534178-0 | November 26, 2024[67] 979-88-8-877310-9 | ||
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| Killer uploads a self-destruct program into Edens Zero's computer systems. Hermit works to resolve the issue by overriding the ship's systems with the other Shining Stars' authorization. However, the crew is preoccupied by Edens One's forces, with Mosco defeating Clown by changing into Cosmo, his overly dominant alter ego triggered by his forbidden button. Meanwhile, Shiki infiltrates Edens One to confront Void, but is killed by Lightning Law, one of Void's Oración Seis Galáctica. Discovering she can still reverse time in Universe Zero by becoming naked, Rebecca averts Shiki's death and contacts Laguna, who enters Overdrive and defeats Law. Shiki and Rebecca pursue Void as he approaches Mother to kill her. When Shiki fails to defeat Void, Ziggy returns alive to battle Void himself. | |||||
| 31 | Mother... Haha naru... (母なる…) | March 15, 2024[68] 978-4-06-534866-6 | April 29, 2025[69] 979-88-8-877445-8 | ||
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| Witch, Valkyrie, Homura, and Weisz defeat the remaining Dark Stars and Acnoella, preventing Edens Zero's self-destruction. Ziggy sends Shiki to save Mother while he distracts Void, whom Ziggy recognizes as his and Rebecca's son from the future. Shiki's group finally reaches Mother, who offers Shiki a choice between saving her, which would cause all those who died in previous universes to die in Universe Zero, or preventing these deaths while guaranteeing Mother's death. To aid his decision, Mother reveals herself to be the transformed state of planet Earth, which the Shining Stars' and Dark Stars' human models—including Shiki's parents, the models for Witch and Wizard—sent into Overdrive to save the planet from destruction at the cost of their lives 20,000 years ago. She further explains that she had been temporarily reverted to her planetary form by the Chronophage fifteen years earlier, an event that led Ziggy to rescue the infant Shiki before Mother's rebirth. | |||||
| 32 | In the Belly of Time Toki no Naka (時の体内[r]) | June 17, 2024[70] 978-4-06-535505-3 | July 29, 2025[71] 979-88-8-877446-5 | ||
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| Shiki chooses to let Mother disappear to preserve his friends' lives, but intends to save her by having the Chronophage revert her back into Earth and preventing its destruction before she completely vanishes. The Edens Zero crew lures the Chronophage by transmitting their time-displaced Ether across B-Cube, restoring Labilia and Couchpo's memories to assist them. The crew is hindered by Cure and Lady Freyja, the last remaining members of the Oración Seis Galáctica, who are defeated by Jinn and Homura, respectively. To hasten the process, Shiki enlists the help of Xiaomei, who reveals her own identity as Earth's Moon. Xiaomei uses her powers to send Shiki directly into the Chronophage's path, where he enters the creature's stomach and encounters its true form: a masked female figure who demands the return of her stolen "time". Meanwhile, Ziggy enters Overdrive and severs Void's legs, ridding Void of his time powers inherited from Rebecca. | |||||
| 33 | Friends Tomodachi (友達) | August 16, 2024[2] 978-4-06-536511-3 | September 30, 2025[8] 979-88-8-877485-4 | ||
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| Void summons an armada of warships against Edens Zero. Contacted by Labilia, Edens Zero's allies arrive and destroy the armada, allowing Ziggy and Edens Zero to destroy Void and Edens One. Meanwhile, the Chronophage determines her "time" cannot be found and prepares to annihilate the universe with a Big Bang. Shiki absorbs energy from the Chronophage's attack with his gravity, strengthening him enough to force her into eating Mother, which restores Earth. The Chronophage resumes her attack after finding her "time" within Rebecca and possessing her, revealing the monster to be Rebecca's amnesiac future self from Ziggy's timeline, who escaped her comatose body to follow Ziggy into the past. When Shiki desperately reminds the future Rebecca of their friendship, she regains her memories and peacefully fades away, releasing the present Rebecca. Pino deems her own role complete and quietly deactivates, while the Four Shining Stars supply their human selves with technology to help them properly revitalize Earth. Years later, the crew gathers on Granbell for the birth of Shiki and Rebecca's daughter. In limbo, Mother offers Pino a chance to be reincarnated as this child to fulfill her dream of becoming human, but Pino instead chooses to be reactivated as an android and reunites with her friends. | |||||
Notes
- "GIA" in the original Japanese release.
- "4 vs. 4" in the original Japanese release.
- Read as "VR-Sync"
- Stylized as "Prelude to the AOI War".
- Stylized as "Scattering in the Starry AOI Sea".
- Stylized as "It's HIM!!".
- "1072J" in the original Japanese release.