The world of shonen manga has explored quite a few unique concepts over the years. Martial artists. Detectives. Inline skating. But one aspect that has remained largely unexplored is space. Battle shonen hadn’t quite embraced space opera until the creation of Hiro Mashima’s Eden Zero.
The follow-up to the creator’s manga Fairy Tail, Eden’s Zero was introduced in 2018. While it isn’t quite a sequel to the popular anime/manga series, it’s a story worth following on its own, particularly as it approaches it’s one-hundredth chapter. What makes it similar to Fairy Tail, and what’s it about?
10 The Creator
Eden’s Zero is created by Hiro Mashima, easily one of the most well-known manga creators in the industry. He’s got multiple popular series under his belt, beginning with Rave Master that ran about 35 volumes, a spin-off of Monster Hunter called Monster Hunter Orage, and most famously, Fairy Tail. Eden’s Zero is the latest in a number of long-running manga for him.
9 What It's All About
Set in the far future, humanity has conquered the stars. Humanity is strung across multiple planets and survive using special technology that relies on Ether energy. One such planet is Granbell, a planet that has nothing but robots on it... and a young boy named Shiki. When Shiki meets up with Rebecca, a young girl visiting the planet, he winds up setting out to explore the cosmos, looking for Mother, the creator of the universe.
8 The Narrator
Eden’s Zero features an omniscient narrator known as Xiaomei. She pops up very early in the story, vaguely explaining events that might possibly occur in the future.
This feels like a massive change from Fairy Tail, which doesn’t actually have a narrator at all, and instead tells its story more traditionally. Xiaomei is also occasionally included in the actual story’s narrative, though even then she tries not to reveal too much to the protagonists.
7 References To YouTube
For whatever reason, Eden’s Zero contains a ton of YouTube and digital celebrity references. It somewhat fits, considering they’re all out in space and people can create as much content as they want. One of the main protagonists is Rebecca Bluegarden, who works as a B-Cuber, a streamer aiming to become famous. Though she’s unpopular, we see multiple other B-Cubers in the series, all of varying types and levels.
6 It's Connected To Fairy Tail
Readers completely new to Eden’s Zero might misunderstand this as a sequel to Fairy Tail. It features characters who look exactly like many of Fairy Tail’s most popular members.
Rebecca Bluegarden is literally just Lucy if she decided to take up being a vlogger. Shiki is just Natsu with Gray’s hair and gravity powers. There’s a well-known space pirate known as Elsie Crimson, and she looks exactly like Erza Scarlet. We haven’t been provided a reason for this yet, perhaps the creator just wanted to save time.
5 A Discussion About AI
Several arcs in this series discuss the nature of robots. Are they really alive, and how close to humans should they be considered? Several of Shiki’s companions throughout the series are robots—powerful androids with complete sentience that either find themselves being used by humans or find a way to gain their own freedom.
In either case, we also get the return of Happy, who in this universe is a robotic cat that can transform into a pair of pistols for Rebecca to use in combat.
4 Chronophage
Perhaps the coolest thing about Eden’s Zero is there’s a sort of “countdown clock” in the cosmos. There’s a powerful, unstoppable dragon running across the cosmos that goes around “eating” planets. It’s called a Chronophage, and it eats time on a planet, completely erasing decades of a planet’s time, effectively creating massive paradoxes. No one knows what to do about it save leaving before someone can have their time consumed.
3 From Weekly Shonen Magazine
Eden’s Zero is published in Weekly Shonen Magazine. A series with decades of manga under its belt, this magazine was once known for Air Gear, Overdrive, Baby Steps, and dozens of other series. Currently, it’s known for publishing Ace of Diamond, Fire Force, Smile Down the Runway, Tokyo Revengers, and Orient, which is the series Shinobu Ohtaka worked on after finishing up the manga Magi.
2 There's A Huge Crossover
Eden’s Zero has a very obvious crossover with Fairy Tail. Mashima decided he would create a mash-up manga featuring all of his most popular creations: Rave Master, Fairy Tail, and Eden’s Zero. This series ran as a mini-series during 2019 and saw all three main characters run into each other on a single island. Natsu and Shiki are in search of a particular fruit, while Haru is present to find and destroy “Oasis."
1 Dangerous Bad Guys
Perhaps one of the more interesting facts about Eden’s Zero is Mashima’s attempt to correct some of the problems he sees in his own work. In the afterword for Volume Five of Eden’s Zero, he speaks about how people often see the villains in his work as sympathetic, making them want to root for the bad guys. Supposedly, Mashima has gone out of his way in Eden’s Zero to try and make the villains a lot less likable, wanting people to root for the heroes instead.
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