Other characters include B-Cubers (B・キューバー, Bī Kyūbā), which are users of an online video platform based on YouTube,[1][2] and cyborgs, alternatively called O-Tech (半分機械, Ō Tekku) in the series.
Multiple iterations of the same characters from alternate histories also feature prominently throughout the story, particularly those created by a time-devouring space monster called the Chronophage, and others who inhabit numbered parallel universes across the multiverse.
7] When discussing the series' villains, Mashima stated that his personal theme for Edens Zero was to make them "the absolute worst kind of trash possible" so that readers could look forward to their downfalls, while also giving them their own convictions that would lead them to battle the protagonists.
87] After Granbell's dying robot community chases him away with Rebecca to save him from solitude on their planet, Shiki searches for Mother to fulfill his goal of making 100 new friends across the universe.[ch.
2] He is a feline alien from the planet Excede who was fatally injured in a traffic accident during Rebecca's childhood, leading their benefactor, Professor Weisz, to transfer Happy's mind into an identical android body to help him survive.[ch.
[5][8] Weisz Steiner (ワイズ・シュタイナー, Waizu Shutainā) is a man from the planet Norma who practices the Ether Gear "Machina Maker" (マキナ・メイカー, Makina Meikā), which allows him to instantly remodel machines to improve their performance, deconstruct them, and create weapons.[ch.
11] there are two alternate versions of him that co-exist as separate people: his adolescent self, an amoral but good-natured criminal who joins the crew after betraying his gang leader, Sibir (シビル, Shibiru); and his elderly, present-day self, who has since matured into an esteemed robotics professor.[ch.
[11] E.M. Pino (EMピーノ, Ī Emu Pīno) is a miniature "anti-bot" android who generates an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that disables machinery and Ether Gear within range for short periods of time.[ch.
293] Mashima created Pino to serve as the mascot character of the series, but during development of the manga, he found it increasingly difficult to include her within the first chapter, where he incorporated Happy to stand in for her.
71] In the final arc, the four are revealed to have been modeled after deceased humans from Earth who aided in the planet's transformation into Mother, and were given false memories as Ziggy's companions to function as Shiki's caretakers.[ch.
194, 272] As the "Mind of Edens" (エデンズの心, Edenzu no Kokoro), she uses the hacking ability "Master Code" (マスターコード, Masutā Kōdo) to manage the ship's computer security and reprogram networked technology to her liking.[ch.
He derived the name "Mio" from the Japanese word miotsukushi (澪標, "channel marker"), which is used in waka as a pun on the phrase mi o tsukushi (身を尽くし, "to give one's all"), something that Mashima felt reflected her personality.[vol.
129, 130] In Universe Zero's altered history, Jinn willingly becomes an O-Tech as part of his home planet's culture, but is forced into Drakken's service with Kleene after coming to Guilst by mistake while studying abroad.[ch.
75] She suffers from mental breakdowns whenever she experiences any emotion, caused by a repressed memory of Müller forcing her to watch Jinn's dismemberment during their childhood, which requires her to wear emotion-suppressing devices on her head that also indicate her mood.[ch.
251] The character's design underwent multiple changes during development, all depicting him as thinner and more attractive than the finished version as an overweight old man, with different hairstyles varying from a receding hairline to "silky smooth" hair.
215] In Universe Zero, the One builds itself an improved android host named Over Nu Etherion Void (ONE・ヴォイド, Ōbā Nyū Ēterion Voido)[b] using God Acnoella's Möbius System.[ch.
235, 236] Void's body is modeled after the son's simulated appearance as a human adult, and allows him to use his Satan Gravity and Cat Leaper abilities inherited from Shiki and Rebecca, respectively.[ch.
205] The Chronophage's identity is revealed after Shiki battles the creature's "heart", an amnesiac woman who attempts to cause a second Big Bang after failing to find her stolen "time".[ch.
Müller (ミュラー, Myurā) is a human mad scientist introduced as Hermit's primary abuser who manipulates her into destroying the robot planet Hook, an event leading to his arrest.[ch.
127] In Universe Zero, Müller is the head of Poseidon Shura's imperial science department who fuses with a robotic duplicate of Xenolith to serve Void as one of the Oración Seis Galáctica,[ch.
179] Notorious as the "Titan of Eternal Darkness" (常闇の巨人, Tokoyami no Kyojin), he is responsible for the Bloody Atmos Day Incident, a mass murder of over one million humans on the Yukino Cosmos planet Swan.[ch.
1] Introduced as a good and kind figure who broke down from old age ten years before the series' beginning, Ziggy discovered Shiki on a failed voyage for Mother aboard the Edens Zero, raising him to use his own "Satan Gravity" ability.[ch.
2, 118] Introduced as a benevolent space pirate captain and Oración Seis Galáctica member who is notorious for conquering the "seven cosmic seas", Elsie delivers the Edens Zero to Shiki to repay a debt to Ziggy, her childhood benefactor.[ch.
289] Mashima noted that he had to be careful adding Xiaomei into the main storyline due to her conceived role as an omniscient narrator, but found that because she "knows everything in the entire world", he was able to include her "without too much trouble".[vol.
123] He debuts as an Interstellar Union Army officer who vengefully pursues Elsie for inciting the war that destroyed their home nation and families, antagonizing the Edens Zero crew for their association with her.[ch.
106, 201] As a citizen of the Yukino Cosmos planet Swan, Holy is a survivor of the mass murder performed by Deadend Crow, against whom she seeks revenge for publicly crucifying her and killing her younger sister, Sara (サラ),[ch.
218] Around Rebecca's birth, Rachel abandons her family to prevent her church's fanatics from killing them for their forbidden relationship, exhausting her ability to reverse time after thousands of attempts to avoid their deaths.[ch.
236, 281] Shooting Starlight (流星の灯, Ryūsei no Tomoshibi) is an adventurers' guild on the planet Blue Garden that Shiki joins, with Rebecca, Happy, and Labilia beginning as members.[ch.
[36] In a review of the first twelve episodes of the anime, John Serba from Decider considered Shiki and Rebecca to be "very thin characters – naif and non-naif, possibly both quite airheaded – in sincere need of substantial development", and criticized the vague establishment of their goals, but determined them to be "blank slates just [ripe] for whatever the universe throws at them".
[1] Ian Wolf from Anime UK News criticized the manga's lack of original designs compared to Fairy Tail, but felt that the similarities would help readers accept the "weirder aspects of the story".