Main Character Index
Crew of Edens Zero (Shiki Granbell, Shiki's Companions) | Crew of Edens One
Oración Seis Galáctica (Associates) | Interstellar Union Army
Grand Shiki Cosmos (Sakura Cosmos [Blue Garden, Sun Jewel]) | Others
The Final World

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Edens Zero

In General

Badass Crew: The main characters establish themselves as this before their adventure officially begins. Shiki is a Gravity Master with superpowers from a bygone age; Rebecca is The Gunslinger with twin blasters and uncanny marksmanship; Happy, who is really an alien cat android, transforms into said twin blasters; Weisz is a Technopath and Ace Pilot; and Homura is a Master Swordswoman.
Cool Starship: The Edens Zero is an extravagant black-and-gold dreadnought with a demonic-looking dragon's head at its prow. It also includes various luxuries such as a massive bathhouse with a cosmic skylight and superpower-inducing water, an Unlimited Wardrobe factory, a kitchen that automatically provides whatever food the crew wants, and a built-in fireworks launcher. Its Skull Fairy form is also impressive with a similar-looking dragon head.
Dark Is Not Evil: The Edens Zero ship itself is has a demonic looking dragon as the figurehead, large dragon/bat-like wings on its sides and a rather dark colour scheme on top of being the home of "the Demon King". Nevertheless, it is the home base of the heroes, the worst of whom could be considered a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
Dead Alternate Counterpart:
- With the exception of Shiki and Rebecca, the entire crew is all but stated to have been killed in the Bad Future that Rebecca experiences in her dreams.
- Following the Nero 66 arc, Noah speculates that Universe 2's entire crew was killed in the Anti Matter explosion with the rest of the crew. He's only half-right about Shiki, however...
Faster-Than-Light Travel: The ship has a Fast Travel function that warps immediately to any location it's already been to. This would totally remove the need to travel through Dragonfall if Ziggy didn't already delete all of the ship's stored coordinates beyond the Sakura Cosmos.
Fun with Acronyms: The first half of "Edens Zero" is an acronym for "Ether Drive Eternal Navigation Ship".
Have We Met Yet?: Before getting their memories back in Universe Zero, every crew member who traveled from Universe 3 (i.e., everyone except Witch and Valkyrie, who were dead at the time) is completely oblivious the first time they meet in Universe Zero, because logically, they've never actually met before.
Heroic Build: All of the human members of the Edens Zero are fit and muscular in the case of the guys and slim and buxom in the case of the girls. Witch, Sister, and Valkyrie are also busty for robots.
Identity Amnesia: By using Etherion to travel to Universe Zero, the crew lose their memories and must relive their entire lives from day one. Once faced with a specific Memory Trigger, they go through a Regained Memories Sequence.
Living Ship: The ship is technically alive according to Sister, but only when all Four Shining Stars are present and accounted for.
Mythical Motifs: Demons given the demonic appearance of the ship, and both the former and current captains bearing the title of "Demon King". The figurehead also brings dragons to mind, adding an intimidating presence to it.
Party Scattering: After the crew is sent to Universe Zero, they all find themselves three years in the past with their memories of the previous world overwritten with those they lived in the new world. Upon meeting as they did in the original world and suddenly getting their memories back, Shiki, Rebecca and Happy set out to find their crewmates in the heavily altered final world before dealing with the Edens One and saving Mother.
Past-Life Memories: A Cosmic Retcon variation. Unlike Rebecca, who overwrites her past self's consciousness with her own via Mental Time Travel, the crew members affected by Etherion gain their memories and experiences from Universe 3 while retaining everything from Universe Zero.
Peggy Sue: Everyone who was aboard the Edens Zero when Etherion was activated becomes this once their memories of the previous world return.
Power Copying: The ship is capable of loading its Ether turrets with their user's personal Ether by linking with them, making them more powerful and granting them qualities of their Ether Gear.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The core crew members consist of a castaway with No Social Skills who was Raised by Robots; a wannabe web celebrity with little online talent and presence; an alien cat who was made into an robot after a fatal accident; a self-centered thief and womanizer trapped in another timeline; an android with no memories and a desire for humanity; and a socially awkward samurai who habitually vocalizes her every thought.
Recurring Element: The ship's most closely guarded secret lies beyond a door labeled "Code 3173", a reference to Elie's numeral code from Rave Master, Mashima's first manga series. It's taken a step further with The Reveal that the door contains a Secret Weapon called Etherion, a Recurring Element in Mashima's works that Elie possesses.
Spell My Name with a "The": The official manga translation and English anime dub flip-flop between this with the Edens Zero itself, though the former eventually settles into calling it "the Edens Zero" more often than not.
Unlimited Wardrobe: Many of the crew members switch up their outfits every couple of arcs. Justified by the fact that their ship has a Dress Factory with fully customizable outfits, which breaks the limits of how many outfits the crew can wear.
Vague Age: No one on the crew has a confirmed age, though all of the human members, sans Connor, seem to be somewhere between their late teens and early twenties.

Demon King

Shiki Granbell

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Ziggy

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Shiki's Companions

See this page for information on Rebecca, Happy, Weisz, Pino, and Homura.

Demon King's Four Shining Stars

The Demon King's Four Shining Stars are a quartet of androids created by Ziggy to serve aboard the Edens Zero. Each member is connected to one of the ship's core functions, bringing out its full capabilities when all four are together.

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In General

The Ageless: Because they are androids, they all look exactly the same during their debut appearance as they did when Shiki was a baby.
Amazon Brigade: All of them are female, and all of them serve as the Elite Four to the Demon King.
Android Identifier: They have seams or certain patterns on parts of their synthetic skin to show that they're all Robot Girls. They can freely hide these seams whenever they want, though this is more of a Hand Wave for Mashima forgetting to draw them in certain shots.
Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Not counting Valkyrie, who is absent for the majority of the story, Witch is the calm and docile magic user (Beauty), Hermit is the genius hacker (Brains), and Sister is the sadistic ex-dominatrix (Brawn).
Bridge Bunnies: While perfectly capable of kicking some ass, Witch, Sister, and Hermit are usually the ones staying aboard to helm the ship while the rest of the crew serve as the expeditionary forces and small craft pilots.
Elite Four: A heroic example, despite what their master's title would indicate; they are state-of-the-art androids with unique functions and capabilities that, when brought together aboard the Edens Zero, turn it into one of the most formidable, spaceworthy ships in the entire cosmos.
Fake Memories: Their memories of living on Granbell with Ziggy are false ones he programmed them with because they wouldn't function properly without any memories. Their only real memories before disbanding come from the two weeks they spent returning to Granbell after "failing" to find Mother.
Four-Girl Ensemble: There's the dedicated and loyal Witch, the mannish and laidback Sister, the smart introvert Hermit, and the cool warrior Valkyrie.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Loyal and servile Witch is Phlegmatic, crude and hotheaded Sister is Sanguine, quiet and sarcastic Hermit is Melancholic, and brave and noble Valkyrie is Choleric.
His Name Really Is "Barkeep": The descriptive titles they're called by are their primary ID codes, which are more or less the casual "names" of androids. While each member has a name attached to their "titles"—Regret, Ivry, Mio, and Yuna, respectively—they're treated more as surnames than anything.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: They can't remember anything between their lives on Granbell and their return trip after finding Shiki, and figure something happened during this time that made Ziggy erase these memories. Subverted when it's revealed these memories never existed, because Ziggy built the Four Shining Stars after he already found Shiki; everything they remember before that is just Fake Memories they were programmed with at birth.
Machine Blood: They don't have actual blood due to being androids, but when they're heavily injured, a light fluid comes out of their bodies in the same way human blood would.
Mission Control: The team typically serves this role within the crew via communication lacrima, since their duties revolve more closely around the security of the ship itself and strategizing for Shiki's more inexperienced team.
Ms. Fanservice: With the exception of Hermit, the Four Shining Stars are all highly attractive, busty Robot Girls who have their share of suggestive scenes, despite having comparatively less screentime than girls like Rebecca and Homura.
Nice Mean And In Between: Witch is servile and dedicated (Nice), Sister is the rude, mannish ex-dominatrix (Mean), and Hermit is a Playful Hacker and at the same time sullen and snarky (In-between). Valkyrie's absence exempts her from this dynamic with the others.
Related in the Adaptation: Downplayed by the English anime dub, where the four androids refer to each other as sisters in a different sense from Sister Ivry, whose name really is "Sister". While they consider themselves to be family in all versions of the story, the Japanese script lacks any particular distinctions about their relationship to each other beyond that.
Replacement Goldfish: They were modeled after four of the deceased humans Ziggy found along with the baby Shiki, whom Ziggy intended for them to help him raise as the boy's mother figures, guessing that one of them was the child's real mother. Ziggy soon suffered a moral crisis over building them, feeling it was disrespectful both to the dead and to the androids' individuality, which led him to set them free to form lives of their own.
Ridiculously Human Robot: Unlike most robots, the Four Shining Stars' appearance and emotional behavior are identical to those of any ordinary human, and they have the physical ability to cry and bleed as if they were flesh and blood. This is because they were directly modeled after humans.
Robot Girl: All four of them are built to be female, and three of them are physically attractive young women, with the fourth being a cute young girl.
Super Mode: They possess a combat form called a Battle Dress that increases their battle capacity to varying degrees. Averted with Homura, who's not an android but is nevertheless already a skilled warrior without it, and settles for a holographic dress just so she doesn't get left out when the whole group suits up. Later arcs show they are capable of Overdrive, which pushes their power to even greater heights.
Super-Toughness: Being androids, they're able to withstand physical punishment that would leave humans dead or in pieces.
The Three Faces of Eve: Witch is the Wife (gentle and very protective of her "family"), Sister is the Seductress (Dominatrix by hobby and has no problem with Battle Strip), and Hermit is the Child (young-looking Playful Hacker). Valkyrie's death exempts her from this dynamic with the others.
Town Girls: Witch, who is subservient and polite, is the Femme; Sister, who is crude and fierce, is the Butch; and Hermit, who is intelligent and cynical, is the Neither.
Uniqueness Value: Each of the Four Shining Stars is entirely unique and can never be fully replicated by another android. Because of this, Homura becomes furious when Xiaomei pits her against a training bot holographically disguised as Valkyrie and passes it off as a replica with the same memories and personality as her, as Homura views the idea of a second Valkyrie to be an insult to the original.

Original Members

Witch Regret

Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno (Japanese), Laura Post (English)^{Foreign VAs}

^{Click here to see her unmasked}

"I am the Shield of Edens. I will eliminate whatever enemy I must to protect my family. That is the reason I fight."

The Shield of Edens, a sorceress who serves as the Edens Zero's caretaker and first line of defense. She is completely subservient to her master, the Demon King, and loves the crew as if they were her family, but is terrifyingly ruthless to anyone unwelcome aboard her ship. Witch specializes in using Shield Ether to create force fields, and Element Ether to manipulate her Ether as if it were magic.

The Ace: Aside from Shiki's raw power, Witch is by far the most powerful, talented, and capable member of the crew. She's a skilled chef and masseuse, defeats several of Drakken Joe's top minions without so much as a scratch on her, and is given 4- to 5-star rankings by Pino in all but two of her character sheet stats, the worst being her 1-star dog impersonation as a joke statistic.^note
Action Mom: She's a very strong fighter who can control Ether of various elements. She's later revealed to be an android modeled after Shiki's mother.
Back from the Dead: Her death in the Nero 66 arc is undone when the crew travels back in time to Universe Zero's past.
Badass Cape: Her Battle Dress comes with one, making her much more imposing than she normally does.
Barrier Warrior: Fittingly for someone called the Shield of Edens, Witch creates Deflector Shields out of Shield Ether that protect herself and the entire ship from virtually any attack thrown their way.
Beehive Barrier: One of her functions is a Protection Matrix, a Deflector Shield that takes this form.
Beware the Nice Ones: She's gentle and loyal to a fault, but turns into an icy and ruthless monster towards anyone who threatens the Edens Zero crew, or otherwise tries to enter unauthorized areas of the ship.
Black Magician Girl: Being a robot witch, the bulk of her combat ability is made up of offensive "spells" that revolve around Elemental Powers.
Braids of Action: The end of her hair is tied in a braid, and she's a powerful fighter.
Brutal Honesty: Witch doesn't mince words when she speaks with those who try to deny or are oblivious to the concept of death, since she believes it's best to face reality as directly as possible. This usually causes friction with her crewmates, and even earns her an accusation of being a "heartless witch" from Sister when she turns down trying to bring Valkyrie Back from the Dead. Despite this, she's always quick to smooth things over.
Cleavage Window: Her first outfit features a cut in the upper center that exposes quite a bit of her well-endowed chest, which viewers are treated to a close-up of in one of her very first appearances.
Combat Stilettos: Her outfit after the Sun Jewel arc comes with high heels, which she fights in and uses to stomp on Maria's throat later on.
Dead Alternate Counterpart:
- Following the Nero 66 arc, it's revealed shortly after her death in the Nero 66 arc that this Witch is one of countless Witches across the Multiverse, though the fact that she has an Uncertain Doom in Universe 1 and dies in nearly all other Universes hardly makes it much of a distinction.
- In the final arcs, this is Inverted with Universe Zero's version of Witch, who appears alive and well before any of her deaths in other universes happen.
Death Glare: On the very rare occasions when she's angry, her normally kind expression is replaced with a bone-chilling glare towards anyone who incurs her wrath, often visible through her One-Way Visor.
Elemental Powers: She is able to use "magic" by using elemental Ether, interchanging between Ice, Air, Lightning, and Dark Ether. Pocket Galaxy ups the ante by giving her Fire, Earth, and Water Ether.
Even the Girls Want Her: Witch's face is so beautiful that when she unmasks herself for the first time, Rebecca and Homura are just as captivated by her beauty as Shiki and Weisz are.
Extreme Doormat: She's all too willing to follow the new Demon King Shiki's orders to the letter, including barking like a dog or wearing a very revealing maid outfit. She later admits that, like the other Shining Stars, she's not really obligated to obey him; this is just how she usually is.
Go Out with a Smile: She flashes a Tearful Smile to her crew as she gives them all a Dying Declaration of Love in the Nero 66 arc.
Good Is Not Soft: Contrary to her usually gentle and submissive personality, Witch is terrifying and brutal towards her enemies on a level that rivals Sister, a professional Dominatrix.
Happiness in Slavery: Downplayed. Only Witch considers herself to be the Demon King's property due to her status as an android, which Ziggy and Shiki heavily discourage. Nevertheless, she is at her most content when following her master's wishes, no matter what her personal feelings may be. It's also indicated by Ziggy's orders for the Four Shining Stars to live their lives as they see fit that her subservience is entirely her own choice.
Have We Met Yet?: Happens as a Running Gag throughout the Reunion arc, where her crewmates all regain their previous memories in Universe Zero thanks to the power of Etherion, while Witch does not because she was dead by the time Etherion was activated. As a result, she's left confused every time she gets glomped and cried over by friends she hasn't met yet. She eventually rolls with it by the time they recruit Laguna, their last crewmate.
Heroic Sacrifice: Witch creates a Protection Matrix around the Edens Zero to protect the crew from the 20,000 Antimatter bombs detonated by Ziggy, who'd just hacked their ship to ensure it remains dead in the water. Unfortunately, forming the shield requires her to stand outside on the ship's hull, and her body ends up completely disintegrating.
Hot Witch: Her android body is very shapely, and she wears a dress which reveals a lot of leg and cleavage. For extra measure, she sometimes switches out her usual outfit with a classic wizard hat and staff on occasion, such as during the voyage to Mildian.
Innocent Fanservice Girl: She sees nothing wrong with letting Weisz get a peek of the skin beneath her swimsuit to show him how she can automatically tan her skin.
Ironic Name: For a character named "Regret", she is wholly defined by a lack of any regret, as she feels it's important for one to live without any. This is reflected in her death in Universe 3, which she faces with complete satisfaction over protecting her crew.
Leotard of Power: Her outfit after the Sun Jewel arc is a skintight leotard and cape, and she looks damn good kicking ass with it.
Magic Staff: She is occasionally shown holding a staff. It's mostly just to suit her image as a witch, but in Pocket Galaxy, it's her weapon of choice and she's able to cast her "magic" with it.
Magical Barefooter: Befitting of the name "Witch", most of her outfits lack any shoes, and she's noted to manipulate Ether like magic more than any other in the setting.
Mama Bear: As the Team Mom of the crew, she is both nurturing of everyone aboard the Edens Zero, and merciless to anyone who threatens their ship and their lives.
Navel-Deep Neckline: Her more traditional Hot Witch costume features nothing but a pair of sashes covering her chest, leaving everything in between and around them completely bare.
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Played for Laughs with her "mind-numbing torture & pleasure massage", which involves strapping someone to a cross and rubbing them so intensely with automated brushes that they lose all rational thought. The English dub takes it a step further by having Witch call this her favorite massage method.
No Body Left Behind: Her body is reduced to particles when she creates a Protection Matrix around the Edens Zero to block Nero 66's Antimatter explosion. As indicated by Hermit's warning, she was vaporized by the strain of creating a shield that size, not the explosion itself.
Number Two: She is the Edens Zero's second-in-command behind The Captain, Shiki, making her a benevolent form of The Dragon to his role as Demon King. She demonstrates this by providing direction and instruction to the crew on their journey, taking charge in combat, and serving as the de facto leader of the Four Shining Stars, the ship's Elite Four.
One-Way Visor: Her typical outfit comes with a helmet that covers the upper half of her face with a black visor, with her eyes only becoming visible when she expresses an intense emotion such as dread or anger.
Our Nudity Is Different: She finds it more embarrassing for her face to be uncovered than her body, which she says is part of her nature as a witch. At one point in the Red Cave arc, she brushes off getting her swimsuit burned to tatters by the planet's heat, but shrieks and covers her face when she realizes she left her mask behind; at another point after the Foresta arc, she enters the bath with nothing but her helmet on, and embarrassed when Rebecca asks her to take it off.
Red Baron: Besides the "Shield of Edens", which reflects her role as the ship's strongest line of defense, she's also called the "Steel Sorceress" because she's a robot witch. In the Lendard arc, Shiki's vision of her past as a Crusading Lawyer reveals that she received the nickname from Wizard, referencing her "ironclad logic" and her own nickname for him as a "magician of the courtroom".
Robot Wizard: She's a female robot named Witch. As her name indicates, the way she uses Ether is the closest to traditional magic out of the Four Shining Stars.
Sacrificial Lion: Her Heroic Sacrifice sends shockwaves through the crew, hammering home to them and the readers what kind of a threat they're up against. It also marks their shift in priority from "finding Mother and beating Ziggy along the way" to "defeating Ziggy at all costs".
Sarcasm-Blind: She follows each and every kind of order Shiki gives her to the letter without question, including his order to bark like a dog, which he admits was just a joke.
Sealed Good in a Can: She remains aboard the Edens Zero in stasis for fifteen years before Shiki receives the ship from Elsie, and doesn't awaken until Shiki makes an accidental voice command.
Sexy Slit Dress: Her initial dress has a slit to expose her left leg up to her thigh.
Spaceship Girl: Downplayed. Witch is not physically connected to the Edens Zero, but she is networked directly into its mainframe, essentially making her a part of the ship and allowing her access to its defense systems. Thus, while she can physically leave the ship whenever she wants, doing so would essentially leave it unguarded.
The Stoic: She is always extremely calm and polite, including when she cries, and only expresses anger through Tranquil Fury.
Team Mom: She has a kind and motherly nature that allows her to bring comfort to her crewmates during hard times, and goes into full Mama Bear mode when anyone threatens her beloved "family". This gets lampshaded during the Nero 66 arc, where Rebecca calls Witch the crew's mom and Shiki dubbing her the "Mother of Edens" while honoring her along with those who died in the battle.
Tranquil Fury: On the rare occasions when she gets angry, she remains just as calm as always, but with a terrifying Death Glare that pierces through her One-Way Visor.
Vapor Wear: Her first outfit's Cleavage Window indicates she has no bra, which her second outfit's Navel-Deep Neckline confirms.

Sister Ivry

Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii (Japanese), Allegra Clark (English)^{Foreign VAs}

^{Click here to see her appearance after the Nero 66 arc (SPOILERS)}

"Don't worry. No matter how much it hurts, I won't kill you. I'm the Life of Edens. I can bring you back to life as many times as I want."

The Life of Edens, a foul-mouthed nun who's in charge of the ship's hygiene. She has a serious sadistic streak, even keeping a BDSM dungeon in the back of her infirmary, but is otherwise a devoted healer who will never turn down a patient. Sister's Heal Atomizer gives her the miraculous ability to mend wounds, repair broken machines, restore lost stamina, undo negative status effects, and even "overheal" people—the last of which is just as dangerous as any injury.

Adaptational Sexuality: The anime's English dub gives her more leanings of being Ambiguously Bi, with lines of her commenting how cute Shiki looks, while the manga and Japanese script portray her as a Butch Lesbian. In hindsight, this winds up aligning with the fact that she privately enjoys being dominated by the male Cosmo, Mosco's Split Personality, which isn't revealed until the manga's final arc.
Berserk Button: Her biggest pet peeve is when someone tries pushing the button on Mosco's belly, especially Mosco himself, which plays as a Running Gag. This is because the button is a Split-Personality Switch Trigger that changes Mosco into Cosmo, who completely flips their dominant/submissive dynamic on its head and ruins her preferred image as a Dominatrix.
Big Sister Bully: She has this sort of relationship with Hermit, whom she teases often and gives a harsh scolding whenever she causes trouble. That said, Sister has no ill will behind it and genuinely loves Hermit like the others.
Blood Knight: Sister is the most itching to use the Edens Zero's cannons when faced with an enemy, whether it's an entire fleet or a single powerful opponent who could stop the ship on his own. Every time she does, she has to be reigned in by Shiki to avoid any unnecessary casualties.
Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Her interactions with Mosco almost always play out this way, with Mosco as the boke and Sister as the tsukkomi, mostly involving Mosco trying to push his button.
Butch Lesbian: Although she doesn't dress the part, she has butch mannerisms and speech patterns, and gets turned on at the idea of having a good BDSM time with beautiful women, especially Rebecca.
Combat Medic: Her main power is healing, but she's also a tough brawler, and she knows how to use her healing abilities to cause harm.
Dominatrix: She proudly calls herself an ex-dominatrix, keeping a BDSM torture chamber in the back of the infirmary, and most of her fights end with her erotically dominating her foes.
Everyone Has Standards: Sister has no qualms about torturing someone, yet when she dives into Kleene's mind to find the source of her mental condition in the Foresta arc, she is genuinely horrified seeing Kleene and her brother being gruesomely tortured by Müller when they were helpless children.
Expository Pronoun: In Japanese, Sister speaks using the informal masculine pronoun ore, showcasing her nature as a boisterous, foul-mouthed Lad-ette. When being disciplined by Cosmo, she switches to the more formal and feminine watashi, showing her complete submission towards him.
Flanderization: Sister starts out as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold with an occasionally shown affinity for BDSM and erotic torture. Starting in the Reunion arc, this affinity becomes more overt until it becomes her defining character trait.
Good Is Not Nice: Sister is a loyal crewmate who's committed to healing people, but she's also harsh to some of her closest friends, and at times just plain cruel to her enemies, often threatening to put them through a Fate Worse than Death that involves breaking and healing them until she grows bored.
Honor Before Reason: Her reason for putting Mosco's button off-limits is to hide the fact that she's a masochistic bondage slave to Cosmo, Mosco's Super-Powered Alter Ego, who only comes out when the button is pushed. However, Cosmo's ease in defeating Clown proves he's an even better asset in combat than Mosco, if not Sister herself, meaning Sister's pride in her Dominatrix image wound up holding the crew back every time Mosco could have proven his use to them.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's crass and makes fun of everyone in the crew, including her new master, but she's also a dedicated healer, admires Shiki's friendliness, and deeply loves her fellow Shining Stars like her own family.
The Lad-ette: She is an Ore Onna who talks like a thug, beats the crap out of anyone who slights her, and gets excited when stuck in the middle of life-threatening peril.
The Medic: Her role as the Life of Edens amounts to this, as she can magically heal both humans and machines, including the Edens Zero itself. However, her powers can only work on "living" things, and the ship technically isn't "alive" until all Four Shining Stars are present.
Muscles Are Meaningless: She doesn't have any more of a muscular build than the average busty woman in this series, but thanks to her stronger-than-human strength as an android, she can send bulkier opponents like Daichi flying with a single punch.
Mystical White Hair: Her hair is silvery white, and she's an android with extraordinary healing powers.
Navel-Deep Neckline: Her Battle Dress has a plunging neckline that reaches her midsection.
Nerves of Steel: She's a licensed therapist whose training and experience make her more resistant to psychological torture than most people. This comes in handy when she gets Mind Raped by Clown in the Lendard arc, giving her the mental fortitude to turn the tables on him.
Nun Too Holy: She dresses like a nun, but is otherwise The Lad-ette and a Dominatrix through and through.
Over Clocking Attack: Her most dangerous attack, "Overheal Destroy", involves using her healing powers to restore an enemy's stamina far beyond what the body can handle, causing them to overheat and blow up in a Non-Fatal Explosion.
Power Stereotype Flip: One would usually expect the White Mage with healing powers to be a sweet and gentle character. This is not the case with Sister, who is crass, violent, and outright sadistic, and uses her healing to justify torturing them.
Psycho Lesbian: She takes on more of this personality in Universe Zero before getting her memories back, taking a fancy to Rebecca and tying her up to have her way with her while fighting Shiki's team. Funny enough, this turns out to be Sister's Memory Trigger.
Sadist: She's into S&M, outright calling herself a former Dominatrix, and using her healing powers to make sure she can "play" with her victims for as long as she wants.
Sarcastic Devotee: Sister gladly pronounces her loyalty to Shiki from the moment they meet, but she doesn't hesitate to tease him as she does any of the other crew members.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: She's totally fine with performing a Battle Strip for seemingly no reason at all, not caring what anyone around her thinks.
Swapped Roles: Sister is the unquestioned dominant in her BDSM relationship with Mosco, her proudly submissive masochist slave. With his Super-Powered Alter Ego Cosmo, however, their dynamic flips on its head, with Sister becoming Cosmo's Property of Love.
Tomboyish Voice: Yukiyo Fujii and Allegra Clark give her a husky voice that matches her personality as The Lad-ette.
Too Kinky to Torture: Subverted. Sister actually finds it incredibly boring to be on the receiving end of torture, as demonstrated when Daichi and Clown attempt to have their way with her. Double Subverted with Cosmo, whose domination tactics turn her into a drooling, submissive masochist who enjoys every minute of it.
Torture Technician: Being a Dominatrix, she has a torture chamber hidden in the back of the infirmary where she can interrogate any of the ship's captives.
Vigilante Woman: Sister becomes one in Universe Zero, where she founds Rogue Out herself and forms it into a Vigilante Militia that opposes Drakken Joe.
Walking Spoiler: A minor Late-Arrival Spoiler, as just knowing there's a true Sister gives away that the first Sister that shows up in the Guilst arc is an impostor.
Walking Techfix: Her healing powers work not just on organic beings, but broken machines as well. However, it only works on a physical level, and only if the machine in question is "alive".
Whip of Dominance: Her primary weapon is a bladed whip, which is also her weapon of choice in Pocket Galaxy. It's suggestively called "Paradise Whip", befitting the whole Power Stereotype Flip gimmick of her character being a Nun Too Holy healer who's openly a Sadist and a Dominatrix with an authoritative and perverted demeanor.
White Mage: Her powers revolve around healing and restoration of any living thing, whether they are organic or mechanical. Her powers also work on petrification, as she demonstrates when she revives all of Illega's stone victims.
Wings Do Nothing: Her Battle Dress comes with metallic wings, though the fact she never uses them suggests they're just for decorative purposes.

Hermit Mio

Voiced by: Kanon Takao (Japanese), Xanthe Huynh (English)^{Foreign VAs}

^{Click here to her appearance after the Nero 66 arc (SPOILERS)}

"I can be kind because I do know pain. That is the way of my heart."

The Mind of Edens, an ace programmer and gamer who manages the ship's security systems. She locked her heart away within the virtual world of Digitalis after a traumatic experience fifteen years ago left her with a seething hatred of humans, but Shiki's kindness inspires her to come out of isolation and trust her new human crewmates. Hermit's special hacking ability, Master Code, allows her to break into computer systems and reprogram them however she pleases.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Downplayed. Hermit generally has light blue hair across all mediums, but the first season of the anime removes the green color gradient from the tips of her ponytails, making her hair one solid color, while the second season restores the gradient.
Animal-Eared Headband: Hermit's Battle Dress has a headband with anti-gravity rabbit ears floating above her head. Her Overdrive mode also sports rabbit ears directly attached to it.
Animal Motifs: Her motif is a rabbit, shown by her whisker-like Facial Markings and Animal-Eared Headband when she wears her Battle Dress and goes into Overdrive.
Attack Drone: Her weapon of choice in Pocket Galaxy is a pair of blaster-mounted drones, similar to the one she uses against Fie in the Belial Gore arc.
The Baby of the Bunch: Hermit is the youngest-looking among the Four Shining Stars, despite all four being built at the same time. Accordingly, Witch and Sister treat her as a little sister.
Blue Means Smart One: Hermit is the Four Shining Stars' unrivaled computer programmer and hacker, representing the "Mind of Edens". She also has blue eyes and light blue hair, wears blue headphones and partly blue outfits, and her Battle Dress comes with a blue Battle Aura in the anime.
Bratty Half-Pint: Hermit's usually a Cheerful Child, but she also has a big ego and gets especially smug whenever someone doubts her about it.
Broken Bird: She's introduced as this, having become bitter and depressed after being abused by humans in the most horrific ways. Thanks to Shiki, she recovers enough to regain her smile and sense of humor.
Cheerful Child: She's a cheery and helpful girl who loves playing games and making costumes in the Dress Factory, though she also has a bit of an attitude.
Curtains Match the Window: Light blue eyes to go with her light blue hair.
Dark and Troubled Past: After Ziggy's retirement fifteen years ago, Hermit became a lab assistant for the human Dr. Müller's research team to help them save the dying robot planet Hook by building an Ether accelerator, hoping to become friends with them in the process. To her horror, her new human "friends" turned out to be robot-hating mad scientists who used the accelerator as a Doomsday Device to destroy Hook. They then kept her as a lab rat for the next two years, putting her through Cold-Blooded Torture until the Interstellar Union Army finally liquidated their facility, leaving Hermit dead on the inside with a hateful grudge against humans.
Defrosting Ice Queen: She starts off cold and distrustful towards Shiki's crew because her Dark and Troubled Past made her decide to never get involved with humans again. Once Shiki and the others convince her they're good people who won't mistreat robots, Hermit warms up to them and joins the crew as their friend.
Despair Event Horizon: Her introduction sees her having given up on life due to the cruel way humans exploited her, and doing nothing to escape or flee when she's about to be killed by monsters. She regains her will to live thanks to Shiki and his friends' efforts showing her that they truly look past her mechanical nature and value her as a person.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: She sports these during her Heroic BSoD as an indicator that her heart and mind have been damaged by her horrific past. They light back up every time her cold exterior begins to crack until she finally returns to her old self.
Enhanced Punch: Her Logical Arm Blast is a single, superpowered punch with enough force to completely defeat her Superior Successor, Killer, leaving him in a bad enough state to perform a Suicide Attack.
Facial Markings: She has a pair of red lines shaped like whiskers on her cheeks. They turn pale when she's in the middle of her Heroic BSoD, and go missing entirely in some panels.
The Fashionista: Her profile lists clothes as one of her likes, and the Dress Factory is said to be her favorite room at the ship because she enjoys selecting new outfits for her crewmates.
Fire-Forged Friends: She starts out in the Digitalis arc wanting nothing to do with humans or the Edens Zero anymore, but is roused into helping them get rid of Spider, which opens her eyes to the crew's kindness.
Freudian Excuse: Hermit's initial hatred of humanity stems from her Dark and Troubled Past, where she was tricked, betrayed, and tortured by malicious humans who claimed to be her friends just so they could take advantage of her superhuman programming skills.
Gamer Chick: She is a reported fan of the MMORPG Rogue Fantasia, where she has hidden herself away by the time the crew find her.
Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is styled in twintails, fitting her Token Mini-Moe status.
Hartman Hips: She has quite a noticeable pair of hips despite her petite body type.
Headphones Equal Isolation: She always wears a headset, reflecting her status as The Hermit.
The Heart: She serves this role within the Four Shining Stars, being the most open about her emotional state and having a positive influence on the others When She Smiles. It's also befitting her Japanese epithet as the "Mind (Kokoro) of Edens", which can also be interpreted as "Heart of Edens".
The Hermit: "Hermit" is her actual name, and true to that name, she's first found far away from all society both in the real world and on Digitalis. She also typically enjoys activities that involve holing herself away to play games.
Hollywood Hacking: Her Master Code ability gives her this ability: once she's given access to a computer's data, she has complete freedom to manipulate it however she wants with just a few keystrokes.
Home Turf Advantage: Hermit is markedly more powerful when fighting aboard the Edens Zero than anywhere else, which gives her access to the ship's network so she can add its specs to her own CPU. This allows her to Overdrive and deliver a Curb-Stomp Battle to Killer, whose CPU performance was made specifically to be superior to hers.
Hypocrite: She acts as one during her Heroic BSoD in the Digitalis arc when she dismisses the lives of the planet's fully sentient video game characters when they're put in danger, saying they're "just data" no differently from the way she was treated as Just a Machine. She has an immediate Jerkass Realization when Shiki argues that they're alive because they can still think and feel like anyone else.
I Just Want to Have Friends: Her reason for helping humans in her past was to become friends with them, leading her to shut herself off from the world after humans betrayed her in the cruelest way possible. Through her first encounter with Shiki, she realizes she still harbors her old desire for human friends, which is the final push to getting her out of her Heroic BSoD.
In-Series Nickname: Rebecca gives her the nickname "Hermy" (Hami-chan in Japanese), which Sister finds extremely weird.
Like Brother and Sister: Hermit decided to be Shiki's Cool Big Sis when the crew first found him as a baby, which she upholds in the present day by being a calm, supportive figure who helps offset his goofy personality.
Little Miss Badass: While she looks like a cute preteen girl, she's a hypercompetent hacker who uses her intelligence and technological know-how to kick ass in battle.
Little Miss Snarker: She's usually a Cheerful Child, but gets frosty and sarcastic whenever she's in a bad mood.
Living Mood Ring: Downplayed. The whisker-like markings on Hermit's cheeks are normally red when she's feeling just about any mood, but turn white when she's in the middle of her Heroic BSoD.
Meaningful Name: According to Mashima, the name "Mio" comes from the Japanese word for water markers (miotsukushi), which is itself a Pun on Hermit's devotion of herself to others (mi o tsukushi), as is usually found in waka poems.
More Dakka: Her Guns Harvest attack involves hacking into an entire armory over a computer network and drowning her enemy in bullets, albeit with an Ether coating to make them non-lethal.
My Greatest Failure: Beyond despising humans for their cruelty towards her and other machines, the reason she refuses to help the crew in the Digitalis arc is because she feels responsible for the destruction of Planet Hook, which the human scientists she befriended blew up with the Doomsday Device she helped them build, rather than save it like the cannon was designed to do.
Never Be Hurt Again: As Shiki figures out in the Digitalis arc, the reason Hermit shuts herself off from humans isn't because she believes they're all heartless monsters like she claims, but because she's afraid to trust them after how cruelly she was treated when all she wanted was their friendship. Hermit's realization of this fact helps her overcome her hate and fear of humans.
Not Afraid to Die: Has this mindset during the Digitalis arc, having completely given up on living after the horrible things humans did to her in the past. She thus doesn't react when a horde of monsters attacks her, saying it's better than getting killed by humans, and tells the Edens Zero crew to just abandon her and the ship when it comes under attack by Spider.
Odd Friendship: After she gets over her hatred for humans, Hermit becomes close friends with Weisz, a Lovable Sex Maniac and Technopath who's skilled in mechanics, but has no knowledge about modern technology or programming.
Playful Hacker: Her manner of hacking always comes with a style of childlike mischief, such as turning Shiki into a Kaiju when he's fighting Jamilov/Spider, or trolling Spider by threatening him with a fireworks switch.
Pride: While she's ordinarily a sweet girl, she also has a very high opinion about herself when it comes to hacking and programming, especially around those who think they're her superior, and deems the Edens Zero's security to be airtight so long as she's on board.
Hermit: No radar will ever find this ship.
Weisz: (smirking) You're awfully confident.
Hermit: (smirking back) Who do you think I am?
Rei Ayanami Expy: Hermit is a Robot Girl with light blue hair and pale skin. When she's introduced, she's emotionally distant because of her Dark and Troubled Past, but the main characters manage to befriend her, and she becomes more cheerful as a result.
Sexier Alter Ego: Mixed in with Older Alter Ego, she takes on a more mature appearance with at least an extra cup size larger when she goes into Overdrive.
Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Her initial appearance sees her so disillusioned with humankind that she's bitter, hateful, and distrusting of everyone she meets. Beneath that angry mask, however, she's shown to be a Broken Bird who still wants to be friends with humans, but is too afraid to trust them. Once she's convinced that Shiki's crew is different, she's able to overcome her trauma and return to being a Cheerful Child.
Sudden Name Change: Hermit's full name was originally Hermit Milon, as revealed in her character profile, but Mashima renamed her to Mio after realizing he already gave the name "Milon" to another character in the manga.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: After shedding her Sour Outside, Sad Inside temperament in the Digitalis arc, Hermit frequently flip-flops between a sullen, snarky girl who gets annoyed by the crew's antics, and a sweet, playful girl who happily goes along with them when she's in the mood.
The Tease: She gets a bit of this on Weisz in the final arc when he gets unexpectedly embarrassed over her giving him a hands-on inspection in his Arsenal Suit, teasing him for feeling shy about an android touching him. It blows up in her face when he confesses he's shy specifically because she's the one who's touching him, leading her to stammer in typical Tsundere fashion.
Technopath: Her Master Code gives her power over machinery, but with a different angle from Weisz. Whereas Weisz can build and remodel machines from the ground up with his Machina Maker, Hermit can reprogram them over a computer network to gain total control over them.
Token Mini-Moe: Hermit is the only Shining Star with the appearance of a little girl rather than an adult woman, serving as the emotional core of the team.
Took a Level in Idealism: Before her introduction, she was a Wide-Eyed Idealist who personally suffered from the horrors humanity is capable of towards machines, giving her a bitterly cynical outlook on humans. She loses her cynicism after Shiki restores her faith in humanity.
Tragic Bigot: She is introduced with the belief that Humans Are the Real Monsters, and despising any machines who sympathize with them, because she was cruelly manipulated and treated as a lab rat by seemingly kindhearted humans who really only saw her as Just a Machine and sought to exploit her intellect. Thanks to Shiki, she accepts that there are humans who truly value her as an individual and want to be her friend, overcoming her prejudice.
Trauma Button: Reencoutering Dr. Müller in the Foresta arc makes her shake and cry in terror at the possibility of being experimented on and tortured by the sick bastard yet again. She only calms down when Weisz comforts her and gets her to focus. After Weisz beats Müller and reduces him to an even more pitiful state than he put her in years ago, Hermit gets over him entirely.
Troubled Fetal Position: Her default body position during her Heroic BSoD in the Digitalis arc, sitting curled up on top of one of Iron Hill's colossi in the real world, and on an isolated hill in Digitalis's game world.
Tsundere: She is the variety Her character profile labels her bonus stat as "tsundere" with 4/5 stars, but she leans closer towards Sugar-and-Ice Personality. One example of her tsundere behavior is when she acts indifferent towards reuniting with Valkyrie and getting all Four Shining Stars back together, but is later mentioned by Weisz to have been as excited as anyone, and is left in tears when the crew tells them about Valkyrie's death. Her flustered reaction towards Weisz's Love Confession is also rife with tsundere overtones.
Underboobs: Her outfit has a cutout that reveals the underside of her enlarged breasts when she Overdrives.
Unwitting Pawn: In her Dark and Troubled Past, she was manipulated by humans into helping them complete an Ether accelerator designed to provide energy for a dying robot planet Hook; they never told her that they would use said accelerator as a Doomsday Device meant to destroy the planet via Phlebotinum Overload.

Valkyrie Yuna

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese), Rebeka Thomas (English)^{Foreign VAs}

"If you have something to say, then say it. Words will give you strength."

The Sword of Edens, a warrior maiden responsible for all of the ship's armaments. Valkyrie served as Homura's childhood mentor and unofficial guardian on Oedo, teaching her how to use her Soul Blade ability, but went missing for five years while searching for Homura's biological mother, Kurenai, amidst social stigma towards her human-machine relationship with her pupil. She is eventually found long dead due to Kurenai's treachery on the planet Sun Jewel, where Valkyrie's sacrifice has inspired a revolution against Kurenai, forcing Homura to take up the torch.

24-Hour Armor: Valkyrie wears a suit of armor at all times as a warrior. Her replica at Mildian is the same, except barefoot as per the Temple of Knowledge's requirement, indicating at least the shoe pieces can come off, and other parts by extension, while also proving that she wasn't built with a body made of armor. During her time on Oedo raising Homura, Valkyrie wore a traditional kimono instead of her armor, as an android on a primitive feudal world would stick out like a sore thumb.
All of the Other Reindeer: Apart from Homura and an understanding magistrate, the people of Oedo have a generally negative view of Valkyrie's status as a machine—let alone a non-blood relative who raises Homura as if she's her mother—while those who can look past this still judge her to be an irresponsible caretaker. Valkyrie can put up with it just fine on her own, but it's when the people's prejudice starts to negatively reflect on Homura that she feels troubled by it.
Always Someone Better: Despite being the most incredible warrior Homura has ever seen, Valkyrie was allegedly never strong enough to beat Demon King Ziggy in combat. She also stood on even grounds with Elsie Crimson back when Elsie was still a child, with Elsie far, far surpassing her in the present day.
Ambiguously Brown: She has tan skin and reddish hair, but also has a Japanese-styled second name. Given that she's an android, and that all Four Shining Stars can adjust their skin tone to suit their liking, it means nothing about her ethnicity.
An Arm and a Leg: She is missing her left arm, which is shown getting torn off by the jaws of a ravenous Stone.
Back from the Dead: Thanks to the Cosmic Retcon at the start of the final arcs, the circumstances leading to her death in the old world never happen, allowing her to survive and have a Big Damn Reunion with Homura, Shiki, and all her old companions.
Barbarian Longhair: Valkyrie's Overdrive in Universe Zero turns her straight hair into a wild and messy mane.
Broken Ace: She is one of the greatest fighters of Ziggy's crew, and a source of great inspiration to Homura, but she also secretly feels inadequate to be Homura's mentor, largely influenced by prejudice from a society that could never fully accept a robot raising a human, let alone a human who isn't her own flesh and blood.
Contralto of Strength: The anime gives her a deep and resonant feminine voice to show her as the most action-oriented of the Four Shining Stars.
Cool Teacher: Homura admires Valkyrie and her teachings very much, despite not seeing her in five years.
Dead All Along: By the time the crew finally gets a lead on where Valkyrie is, she's already been dead for three years, having sacrificed herself to save the labor district from a swarm of Stones.
Dead Alternate Counterpart: Inverted with Universe Zero's Valkyrie, who is the one and only version of her in the Multiverse to avoid dying.
Death by Disfigurement: Her body gets very badly torn up during the battle that ultimately claims her life: her left arm is ripped off; her synthetic skin is cracked everywhere; her eye socket and parts of her metal skull are exposed; and she is missing the right chunk of her head.
Died Standing Up: Her body is found kneeling in the exact same spot where she died three years ago, holding herself up with her Soul Blade.
Dies Wide Open: Her remaining eye remains open and lifeless, an indicator that she has died.
Fan Disservice: She is normally a stunningly beautiful warrior, but the broken state of her remains makes her look like a decomposing corpse.
The Farmer and the Viper: She is the farmer to Kurenai's viper. Upon finding Kurenai having amassed a tremendous debt due to her gambling addiction, Valkyrie willingly takes her place so Kurenai can return to her daughter, Homura, and be a family again. Not only did Kurenai have no intention of returning, she ends up taking over the planet for herself so she can continue to make money, which she does by unleashing a horde of wild Stones on the labor district, ending with Valkyrie giving her life to save everyone.
Go Out with a Smile: Her body still has the same sad yet gentle smile she died with while remembering Homura and how much she wished she could have told her she loved her.
Hero with Bad Publicity: Zig-Zagged. She is this on Oedo, where its citizens are largely an Untrusting Community towards Valkyrie for her rough and violent nature, despite her efforts to settle the war on their planet. On Sun Jewel, however, she's shown nothing but respect from the labor district workers before and after her Last Stand, and is an Icon of Rebellion.
Hope Bringer: Her death gave Sun Jewel's prisoners the motivation to rebel against the unjust system that put them away. It's for this reason that Homura chooses not to take her remains back to the ship so that she can continue to inspire future generations on Sun Jewel.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A familial example with Homura. She realizes that continuing to raise Homura would only lead to problems, since society on Oedo frowns upon the idea of robots rearing humans and people rearing non-blood relatives, leading Valkyrie to sacrifice her own freedom so Homura's real mother can return. Unfortunately, Homura's real mother turns out to be evil as sin, and Valkyrie ends up unintentionally abandoning Homura for nothing.
Icon of Rebellion: After her Last Stand, her torn up body is left in the same place as a symbol of hope and inspiration to La Résistance.
Inspirational Martyr: Her Last Stand has inspired the citizens of Sun Jewel's labor district to form La Résistance against Madame Kurenai, fittingly calling themselves "Valkyrie's Army" in her honor.
Laser Blade: She's built to create swords of solid Ether, and teaches Homura how to use Ether Gear with the same technique.
Losing Your Head: Universe Zero's Valkyrie was sentenced to death via beheading on Oedo to spare Homura the same fate. Homura and the rest of Oedo believed her to be dead, but being that she is an android, she simply had her head reattached courtesy of Seiji.
Master Swordswoman: Her mastery of the sword is so great that Homura—a One-Woman Army capable of slicing missiles and parrying bullets—struggles to beat a training robot copying Valkyrie with less skill and power than the real one. Sadly, her skills aren't enough to keep her from breaking down beyond hope of repair when she fights off a horde of monsters on Sun Jewel.
Mentor Archetype: She mentored Homura in her Ether Gear, which turned Homura into the budding Master Swordsman she is today.
Missing Mom: She's Homura's adoptive mother in all but name, having raised her until she left her to bring Homura's birth mother back. Homura's motive to join the crew is to reunite with Valkyrie. When Homura finally finds her, Valkyrie has been dead for three years.
One-Woman Army: Being that Homura is a One-Woman Army herself, Valkyrie proves to be a bigger one, spending an entire day fighting off a swarm of ferocious monsters without letting a single innocent get hurt once she enters the fray. Her Universe Zero self takes it a step further when she takes on Shura's hijacked space fleet by herself, wiping out dozens of ships in her Overdrive form while the rest of the crew uses starfighters to do the same amount of damage.
Parental Substitute: Undergoes a Decon-Recon Switch. Although they don't view each other as mother and daughter, Valkyrie is the closest thing Homura has to a parent, since Homura's real mother left and her father is completely out of the picture. However, the constant prejudice and reminders that they aren't blood-related cause Valkyrie to feel unfit to care for Homura, leading her to search for her real mother, Kurenai. This ends far more disastrously than intended when Kurenai betrays her the first chance she gets. Upon hearing everything Valkyrie went through, however, Homura lovingly proclaims Valkyrie to have been her true mother all along.
Posthumous Character: She's been dead for three years by the time the main story begins, and is only seen alive through flashbacks.
Redhead In Green: She has reddish pink hair and her armor has green details.
So Proud of You: Valkyrie beams with pride for Homura every time she witnesses how much she's improved as a warrior, ultimately declaring her student has surpassed her.
The Soft-Hearted Warrior: She's a tough-as-nails badass Master Swordsman, but she has a kind and gentle heart towards Homura, for whom she was a loving Parental Substitute.
Storm of Blades: Her ultimate known attack, Odin Strike, unleashes a storm of countless Ether swords that can tear entire armies to shreds.
Strange Minds Think Alike: Homura's odd habit of challenging others to a fight in the bath comes straight from Valkyrie, who challenges her to a spur-of-the-moment sparring session with Homura in the Spa of Eden.
Tomboyish Ponytail: The warrior of the Shining Stars, and also the only one who arranges her hair into a ponytail.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She freed Kurenai from the slums so Homura could have her mother back. Valkyrie didn't expect at all that Kurenai would go and usurp the ruler of Sun Jewel instead of raising her daughter. Just to make it worse, Kurenai released all the monsters from the mines so the prisoners could fill her pockets more quickly. Valkyrie took responsibility for releasing such an evil woman by taking on the swarm by herself, which resulted in her death.

Later Members

Homura Kōgetsu

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Rutherford Siblings

In General

A brother and sister who specialize in Wind Ether Gear. Born into a privileged family before their lives were destroyed by an act of unspeakable cruelty, they were taken in by Drakken Joe and came under his employment. Following Drakken's defeat, they try their luck as members of the Edens Zero crew, collectively becoming the "Winds of Edens".

Big Damn Heroes:
- The two share a moment together in the Nero 66 arc, where they bust in to fight Callum and Lyra when the two enemies have Shiki and Rebecca at their mercy.
- In the Lendard arc, Jinn storms Deadend Crow's body together with Laguna to save Holy, who was absorbed into Crow's body, while Kleene absorbs Crow's Ether-jamming signal from the outside to restore Holy's Ether Gear.
Blow You Away: Both siblings use wind-type Ether Gear, but to different effects. Jinn's "Wind Rage" makes powerful gusts that cut like knives, boost his speed, obstruct opponents, and teleport, while Kleene's "Wind Snatch" lets her ride on air currents, absorb people and objects into a swirling wind cage (on top of shrinking them down to fit in her hand), and Catch and Return projectiles.
Brother–Sister Team: They work alongside each other under Drakken Joe (though it's more accurate to say that Jinn works as an assistant for Kleene, who works directly for Drakken), and keep up the dynamic after joining the Edens Zero crew.
Code Name: Kris and Kleene are codenamed "Jinn" and "Sylph", respectively, both of which are taken from a type of wind spirit. However, Kris keeps being referred to as "Jinn" long after his real name is revealed, while Kleene's alias is never used outside of her membership in the Element 4.
Dark and Troubled Past: Their family once financed Müller Royal Laboratories, but rightfully withdrew their support upon learning the twisted contents of Müller's research. The result: Müller killed the parents and used the siblings as guinea pigs in developing the perfect O-Tech, which involved dismembering Jinn/Kris with a chainsaw and forcing Kleene to watch. They were eventually rescued by Drakken Joe's debt collectors, but Kleene was left a traumatized wreck, while Jinn—who went searching for the one person who could heal Kleene's mind—was duped by a charlatan into working for her as a mercenary with a criminal record of his very own.
Defector from Decadence: They initially have little trouble following Drakken Joe, their benefactor after their Dark and Troubled Past left them with no family, but ditch him the moment it's revealed to them that Drakken only keeps them around to leech off their life force.
Elemental Hair Colors: They are users of wind Ether Gear and have green hair, because Wind Is Green.
Heel–Face Turn: Both start out as enemies of the Edens Zero crew (Jinn/Kris as a mercenary from Rogue Out before going solo, and Sylph/Kleene as one of the Element 4), but once the crew prove themselves willing to help them with their troubles, the siblings switch sides. They perform an involuntary Heel–Face Revolving Door due to the Cosmic Retcon overwriting their memories and sending them back to their old employer, but they immediately switch back to the crew's side once their old memories return.
Male Might, Female Finesse: Jinn's wind abilities are more geared towards offense, whereas Kleene is more defensive and versatile.
Meaningful Name: Their code names "Jinn" and "Sylph" come from mythological wind and air spirits, fitting their status as Wind Ether Gear users. The Sylph is especially one of the four Alchemic Elementals, and Kleene represents the element of wind in a Classical Elements Ensemble that's linked to Drakken Joe's alchemy.
Monster Brother, Cutie Sister: Jinn is a cold mercenary and trained killer who shows affection for no one except his sister, taking a long time to come around before he considers himself a friend to the crew. Kleene, on the other hand, is very outgoing and friendly despite what her Emotion Suppression would suggest, and is more open to the idea of socializing with the crew immediately.
One Degree of Separation: Jinn, the Rogue Out mercenary from Guilst, and Sylph, a member of Drakken Joe's Classical Elements Ensemble, turn out to be brother and sister. Their Dark and Troubled Past was also kicked off by Dr. Müller, the same Mad Scientist from Hermit's past.
Out of Focus: Jinn and Kleene don't get nearly the same amount of character attention as most of the crew after the Nero 66 arc, and are relegated to a supporting role in the battle against Deadend Crow in the Lendard arc.
Point of Divergence:
- They start out firmly on Drakken's side before Rebecca's first time leap, but after she arms the crew with knowledge to launch a direct attack on Drakken, they're able to persuade the siblings to perform a Heel–Face Turn.
- The Cosmic Retcon changes history so that Müller was never on Newton, and thus the siblings' parents never funded his research. As a result, he never murdered the parents or kidnapped the siblings for backing out on him, so Kleene was never traumatized, and Jinn never joined Rogue Out in search of Sister. Despite this, Jinn still became an O-Tech (this time by consent to better adapt to their planet's atmosphere), and he and Kleene wound up under Drakken's service anyway after taking a wrong turn to Guilst.
Power Gives You Wings: The siblings' Overdrive gives them a pair of feathered wings: black for Jinn, light for Kleene.
Punch-Clock Villain: Played straight with Kleene as one of the Element 4, where she's the least malicious member of the group alongside Laguna, and immediately clicks with the Edens Zero crew after her Heel–Face Turn. Downplayed with Jinn, a ruthless mercenary who means to kill Shiki for constantly getting in his way, but only so he can get Kleene the medical care she needs, which is what leads him to join the crew.
Red Baron: They dub themselves the "Winds of Edens" in the Nero 66 arc, citing their decision to support their crewmates by being the wind in their figurative sails.
Redemption Promotion: Both of them learn to do a complete Overdrive by the Nero 66 arc, something only Shiki and Drakken Joe were able to do before the siblings' Heel–Face Turn.
Riches to Rags: The siblings were quite well-off when they were children, with their parents being the biggest backers for Müller Royal Laboratories. After their parents were murdered and their lives destroyed, they were forced to hang in the criminal underworld.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Jinn is cold, aloof, and not interested in making friends, while Kleene is playful, sociable, and fun-loving despite her initial lack of facial expression. This is symbolized by their Overdrives, with Jinn having dark colors and Kleene having light colors.
Super Mode: While Jinn unlocks a rudimentary Overdrive state in the Belial Gore arc, both siblings undergo a complete Overdrive in the Nero 66 arc, changing them into winged warriors.
Trapped in Villainy: The Universe Zero version of the siblings are both innocent people who wound up in Drakken's service just because they got the wrong planet on the way to school abroad. Unlike the last world, this is Played for Laughs.
Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: A comedy example. In Universe Zero, he and Kleene left their home planet to study abroad, but got the location completely wrong and wound up on Guilst instead. As a result, they were taken in by Drakken Joe and became his minions, despite avoiding all the traumatic beats that led them to this fate in the previous world.

Jinn (Kris Rutherford)

Voiced by: Yūki Shin (Japanese), Jonah Scott (English)^{Foreign VAs}

Ether Gear: Wind Rage

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"I am a mercenary. I can't betray my employer. However, I swore I would always protect Kleene. Even if it costs me my life."

An O-Tech ninja who first clashes with the Edens Zero crew as a member of the Rogue Out mercenary squad, and later as a freelancer hired by Drakken Joe. Ruthless and anti-social, he initially cares for no one but his little sister, Kleene, stopping at nothing to cure her rare affliction. Thanks to Kleene's influence, however, he begrudgingly opens his heart to the crew.

Jinn uses a form of Wind Ether Gear called "Wind Rage" to create powerful gusts that can cut through solid objects. Combined with his mechanized body and his attempts to practice Overdrive, he can further enhance his wind's strength until it has the force of a typhoon.

Aborted Arc: His recurring rivalry with Shiki is set aside when the crew persuades him to join their side, and abandoned altogether when he chooses to remain with the crew.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Kleene has a mental breakdown during the Foresta arc, Jinn doesn't hesitate to get on his hands and knees to desperately beg Sister to save her, offering to give whatever organic body parts he has left in exchange.
All of the Other Reindeer: He was teased for being half-machine by most of the other students at Guilst's Skymech Dojo where he trained as a kid.
Almighty Janitor: During his stint on the Belial Gore, where he stands as little more than a hired mercenary and Kleene's assistant. Despite this fact, Jinn stands as one of the strongest minions on Drakken Joe's payroll, and the only one to have a rudementary grasp of how to Overdrive. Drakken also apparently trusts Jinn enough to have him as serve the last line of defense for his life support machine.
Always Someone Better: Jinn is easily taken for his word when he claims to know how to Overdrive, which lets him deliver a Curb-Stomp Battle to Shiki. He's quickly proven wrong when Drakken Joe shows up and knocks both him and Shiki out of their "Overdrives", revealing them to just be pale imitations of a real Overdrive.
Aloof Ally: He's forced to unofficially join the Edens Zero crew because he needs Sister's healing powers to help Kleene, and only lends them a hand because he can't afford to let anything happen to the ship while he and Kleene are on board. Beyond that, he makes clear he has no intention of staying or getting friendly with any of the crew, and that everything he does is only for Kleene's sake. He becomes noticeably less aloof after Sister cures Kleene's trauma, leading him to become an official crewman.
Anime Hair: His hair is green, spiky, and gravity-defying.
Anti-Villain: As a member of a shady mercenary business, he is complicit in the kidnapping of several innocent civilians, among countless other unspoken crimes, for the sake of curing his little sister.
Artifact Alias: He continues to be addressed by the Code Name "Jinn" after his Given Name Reveal in the Belial Gore arc, in contrast to Kleene, who drops the name "Sylph" after switching sides.
Badass Cape: He walks around with a dark, tattered cape that covers most of his mechanized body, and gives him an imposing look.
Barbarian Long Hair: His hair becomes longer and more unkempt after the three-year Time Skip, though he quickly switches this out with a ponytail.
Berserk Button: Mosco's friendship with Kleene serves as a comedic one for him, as it has led to several moments were the typically cold Jinn can't help but get visibly irritated.
Big Brother Instinct: The only person he cares about at first is his little sister Kleene, whom he says he would die for, and becomes aggressive when he believes she's being threatened or hit on. He grows very slightly more relaxed after joining the crew, however, enough to entrust Laguna with helping her while he helps protect the defenseless Holy in the Lendard arc.
Brought Down to Badass: In the Lendard arc, Jinn's Ether Gear gets canceled out by Deadend Crow's Ether jammer once Crow takes Kleene out to stop her from absorbing its signal. Despite this, his cyborg body is packed with weapons that allow him to hold out against Crow's Mooks until Laguna recovers Kleene.
Cool Mask: He wears an intimidating black faceplate when using a complete Overdrive.
Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has sunken, "evil" eyes, which Labilia lampshades when they first cross paths.
Curb Stomp Cushion: Though it ends with him and Kleene lying flat on their faces, Jinn puts up one hell of a fight against Sister in the Reunion arc, since she's shown bruised and ragged in the aftermath.
Cyber Ninja: He's an O-Tech with a 60% mechanical body mass who refers to his attacks as "ninjutsu".
Dark Is Not Evil: Jinn's Overdrive gives him a jet black outfit and wings, but by the time he achieves this form, he's firmly solidified his Heel–Face Turn and fights to protect his crew.
Defrosting Ice King: He starts out as a stoic mercenary who cares for no one except Kleene, and would much rather not associate with the crew any longer than he needs to after Sister offers to help her. He soon loosens his grip enough to allow Kleene to mingle with the crew for short periods of time, though he still remains on icy terms with the crew himself. Come the end of the Foresta arc, he shows his appreciation for all the crew has done by joining in on their activities, smiling for a moment when Shiki declares them to be friends at long last.
The Dog Bites Back: Not long after the fake Sister uses him as a Bulletproof Human Shield, he returns the favor when her true identity comes to light by crushing her head and killing her.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He rejects Weisz's sympathy in the Foresta arc after the latter learns he and Kleene were kidnapped and tortured by a sadistic psycho scientist.
The Dragon: He serves as this as a member of Rogue Out, being the only one of the fake Sister's men to match Shiki blow-for-blow without her help. He loses this position when he's made into Kleene's assistant aboard the Belial Gore.
Everyone Has Standards: He willingly works as a mercenary and takes lives, but he is disturbed by the idea of mutilation, as seen when he takes his leave upon witnessing Fie cut off Weisz's arm in World No.29, which makes sense given that he has childhood trauma related to his disassembly and reassembly into a cyborg.
Fantastic Fighting Style: Similar to Shiki, he has his own Ether Gear style called Skymech Ninjutsu, which he learned in a dojo on Guilst specifically tailored towards it.
Friendless Background: Subverted. At first, Jinn claims to have never had any friends, but upon reflection after meeting his old Rival Turned Evil Callum on Nero 66, he realizes from how well Callum treated him in the past that he was his First Friend.
Friendship Denial: While he's willing to work with the Edens Zero crew when Sister offers to help Kleene, he makes no illusions about wanting to be friends with them. It's Played for Laughs when he vehemently refutes Kleene's claim of Mosco being his "best buddy". He's far less hesitant to consider himself a friend after Kleene is healed, however.
Given Name Reveal: His real name is revealed by Amira to be Kris Rutherford in the Belial Gore arc. Despite this, apart from one moment where Sister debates which name to call him, everyone almost exclusively continues to call him Jinn.
Healthcare Motivation: His entire reason for joining an unscrupulous mercenary squad is so Sister can cure Kleene of her affliction, not realizing he's been duped by an imposter until the real Sister shows up. Uniquely for this trope, Jinn isn't in need of money so much as Sister herself, believing that her unmatched healing powers make her The Only One to be of any help to Kleene.
Lack of Empathy: By his own admission, he has no need for a "heart" or friends, and doesn't care about how his targets feel about being kidnapped against their will. The one person he cares for is his younger sister, Kleene, for whom he knowingly commits terrible deeds—be it for the fake Sister or Drakken—in exchange for help in healing her.
Leave Him to Me!: Although they're a Brother–Sister Team, Jinn tends to send Kleene out of trouble whenever they're faced with a single opponent, seen when he fights Shiki in the Belial Gore arc, and Sister while their memories are overwritten in the Reunion arc.
Loner-Turned-Friend: Jinn is introduced as a coldhearted mercenary who believes he doesn't need anyone besides his sister. After begrudgingly joining the Edens Zero crew so Sister can heal Kleene, he takes notice of how fond she's grown of the crew, and slowly opens himself to the idea of being friends with them himself, finally considering the Edens Zero to be his new home.
Love Is a Weakness: Prior to joining the crew, he sees no need to form connections with the "hearts" of anyone other than his sister, seeing people as obstacles that need eliminating.
McNinja: Despite being Cyber Ninja, his true name, Kris Rutherford, is distinctly Western-sounding. The fact that his sister doesn't share his faux-Japanese aesthetic is pretty telling in itself.
Mundane Utility: If he ever finds himself tied up, he can just use his detachable arms to untie his bonds, completely negating the typical weakness of an Ether Gear user.
My Master, Right or Wrong: Subverted on two accounts:
- In the Guilst arc, he overlooks being used by Rogue Out's leader as a Bulletproof Human Shield because he thinks she's The Only One who can save Kleene, but as soon as she's ousted as an imposter who never planned to save his sister, he retaliates against her in brutal fashion.
- In the Belial Gore arc, he shows no interest in any wrongdoing Drakken Joe has done to anyone, simply because he's his employer. That ends when it comes to light that Drakken is feeding off of Kleene's life force, prompting an immediate Enemy Mine with the Edens Zero crew.
My Sister Is Off-Limits: He denies everyone from any form of contact with Kleene that can be considered even remotely romantic. This includes not letting Shiki hug Kleene when she decides to join, telling the pervert Weisz to stay the hell away from her, demanding Laguna to stop "hitting on" her just for complimenting her smile, and detesting it when Kleene hugs Mosco.
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: He's a Cyber Ninja mercenary who uses Ether Gear, which technically makes him a wizard as well.
"No More Holding Back" Speech: Jinn has one in the Nero 66 arc. This is actually instrumental to his survival while he's being vaporized by Callum's Empire Ether, which requires the victim to have a strong sense and acceptance of self to fully undo the effects.
"As a child, I was the first-born son of the wealthy Rutherford family. In my youth, I was kidnapped by Müller and lost my limbs... Then I was rescued by Drakken, who took me to Guilst... I spent my days searching for Sister, so she could heal Kleene. I started attending the Skymech Dojo to get stronger. Then I did all kinds of dirty work for the fake Sister. Until I encountered the Edens Zero... The next thing I knew...it became my home. Who am I? I don't really know. But...my once dark, dead-end future is now wide open. Now I can be whatever I want. ...Whoever I want. That is who I am!!!!"
Not So Stoic: He first appears as a serious and grim villain who maintains an icy cool, but shows a lot more emotional vulnerability after his Heel–Face Turn, namely his comically aggressive protectiveness of his sister.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: By the time he appears on the Belial Gore, he's become so obsessed with surpassing and killing Shiki after getting overpowered by him on Guilst that when given the chance to fight him by Kleene's side, Jinn sends her to chase Homura instead so he can fight Shiki himself.
Pay Evil unto Evil: When he finds out the "Sister" he's been following until the Guilst arc is an imposter with no real intentions of helping his sister, Jinn angrily and remorselessly gets back at her by crushing her head beneath his foot.
Perky Female Minion: Universe Zero's version of Kleene is much more expressive and happy while working under Drakken than she was in the previous world, since she never went through her trauma that required her to undergo Emotion Suppression.
Perpetual Frowner: The guy's default expression is a cold, piercing glare. Although he starts smiling for the first time after Kleene regains her emotions, he still keeps a grim disposition.
Power of Trust: Demonstrates this in the Lendard arc, where he chooses to trust and support Holy by Shiki and Kleene's request despite his own suspicions of her, even defying his own Big Brother Instinct and letting Laguna tend to Kleene when she is put in mortal danger. It pays off, as Holy gives up on her plans to betray the crew after the war thanks to their support.
Power Stereotype Flip: Although he's a wind Ether Gear user, Kris is serious, no-nonsense, and antisocial.
Pragmatic Villainy: He stops Ganoff from needlessly torturing Rebecca after they've captured her to be added to Illega's collection because it would damage the "merchandise". Later, when the fake Sister orders him to kill Illega and take everything he owns, he questions the wisdom of doing so since, for all his slimy ways, customers with pockets as deep as Illega's aren't easy to find.
The Promise: When Kleene gets downed by Deadend Crow in the Lendard arc, Jinn reluctantly defies his own Big Brother Instinct and gives Holy backup because of a promise Kleene wanted him to keep, which was to support Holy and treat her like family. It helps that Laguna was already on his way to help Kleene to begin with.
Razor Wind: His Ether winds are able to slice skin, while his Windstorm Slash attack is sharp enough to cut through solid concrete.
The Rival: He becomes one for Shiki after their first clash on Blue Garden, telling him to come settle the score with him on Guilst. After Shiki proves himself to be the superior fighter in their brief scuffle from there, Jinn becomes obsessed with killing Shiki, attempting to learn Overdrive to do so. However, he puts his grudge for Shiki aside when forced into a truce that leads him to join the crew, though he still coldly rebuffs Shiki's belief that this makes them friends.
Rocket Punch: He can detach his arm at will and fire it at his opponents via remote control.
The Stoic: He rarely changes his grim expression unless he becomes sufficiently shocked, such as when "Sister" uses him as a shield against Shiki, and when he learns her true identity.
Super Mode: Between the Guilst and Belial Gore arcs, Jinn acquires a new form that he assumes to be Overdrive, the ultimate power of Ether Gear, which boosts his strength by 320% and creates winds with speeds of up to 130mph. As Drakken later informs him, this mode is only a pale imitation of "real" Overdrive. He later unlocks his true Overdrive in his battle with Callum during the Nero 66 arc.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
- His early tenure aboard the Edens Zero crew is filled with hostility against them due to his anti-social nature, only aiding them because they're his only hope at healing Kleene. He only becomes supportive after Kleene's successful treatment in the Foresta arc.
- During the crew's Enemy Mine with Holy in the Lendard arc, Jinn plainly states how he doesn't like or trust her, and rightly so since she plots to betray them all afterward. Nevertheless, he comes to her rescue when she's trapped inside Deadend Crow, both because it's Shiki's wish that they treat her like a part of the crew, and because Kleene made him promise to treat her as family because Holy's own family was lost.
Tears of Joy: At the end of the Foresta arc, he cries out of joy and relief over seeing Kleene finally recover her emotions after she is made to forget her childhood trauma.
This Is Unforgivable!: Subverted for laughs. At first, Jinn declares he will never forgive Homura for hurting Kleene in the Belial Gore arc, but when Kleene urges him to do it for her sake, he changes his mind on the spot.
Tranquil Fury: He wears the same chillingly calm face as always when he's at his angriest moment crushing the fake Sister's head.
Tsundere: Towards Kleene. On the surface, he seems to display the same aloof attitude towards her that he shows everyone else. However, she only needs to make a request and he'll instantly fold, regardless of his own personal feelings on the matter.
Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Zig-Zagged. After getting bested by Shiki, Jinn modifies himself to harness the power of Overdrive specifically to be more powerful than him and gives him a Curb-Stomp Battle, only to find out that Shiki also knows how to Overdrive. However, they don't get the chance to see how equal their skills are when Drakken knocks them both down with his bare hands. He finally masters his own Overdrive while battling Callum on Nero 66, bringing him closer to Shiki's level long after Shiki himself learned to Overdrive properly.
Villain Teleportation: He has the power to vanish into thin air with his Ether Gear when retreating.

Kleene Rutherford

Voiced by: Rumi Ōkubo (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

Ether Gear: Wind Snatch

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"Your wind... It doesn't belong here."

Jinn's younger sister, also known as Sylph, the Element of Wind in Drakken Joe's Element 4. Although she appears to lack emotion on the surface, her feelings are actually suppressed by the devices on her head due to a unique affliction that causes her to suffer from severe mental breakdowns at even the slightest expression.

Similar to her brother, Kleene uses a wind-type Ether Gear, "Wind Snatch", to create air currents that absorb any object or person, even in the vacuum of space.

Ace Pilot: She's almost as skilled of a Space Fighter pilot as Rebecca, with Kleene's ability to surround her ship with a barrier of wind giving her a leg up over ordinary pilots.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Kleene permanently joins the crew, and coaxes Jinn to do the same, after being welcomed onto the ship despite starting out as enemies, and getting her emotional instability healed by Sister in the Foresta arc.
Broken Bird: Her mind and emotions broke down from being Forced to Watch her brother being dismembered when they were children. She needs a special device to suppress her emotions and stop her from having panic attacks. She becomes emotionally stable only after Sister erases the memories of her childhood trauma.
Bullet Dodges You: Her wind Ether Gear can Catch and Return any projectile aimed at her.
Catch and Return: Her Wind Snatch allows her to manipulate air streams to perform this on her enemies' attacks, such as missiles or Homura's swords.
Character Catchphrase: "Your wind. I will stop it for you."
Defeat Means Friendship: Unlike Jinn, Kleene doesn't hold any hard feelings towards Homura about her defeat, and quickly warms up to the entire Edens Zero crew to the point where she'd rather stay than be forced by her brother to leave.
Designated Girl Fight: She squares off against both Rebecca and Homura in the Belial Gore arc, and Lyra in the Nero 66 arc.
Disney Death: Downplayed in the Lendard arc. She gets punched by Deadend Crow, a Humongous Mecha who could squish an ordinary human just by stepping on one, but no one knows for certain that it killed her, and they immediately rush to see if she survived. Sure enough, she turns out to be fine for reasons not divulged, presumed to be because her wind absorbed most of the damage.
Do Not Call Me "Paul": She scolds her brother for using her real name when she's on the job as one of the Element 4, where she goes by the Code Name "Sylph". This ends once she quits the team.
Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Zig-Zagged. Kleene can magically control who or what gets sucked into her wind; those that don't get to stand in place while the rest flies helplessly in the air around them. She also uses this to her tactical advantage, such as sucking Rebecca and Happy in, but leaving the briefcase Rebecca was holding to use as bait for her friends.
Elemental Personalities: In contrast to her brother, Kleene's personality does match her wind element: cheerful, playful, and a social butterfly.
Emotionless Girl: Her emotions are artificially repressed due to her mental condition, motivating her older brother to seek out Sister to heal her so that said repression is no longer necessary.
Emotion Suppression: She's developed a mental illness that causes her go into a complete nervous breakdown if she feels any sort of emotion, which are suppressed by her mechanical hair clips to allow her to function. However, they can be overloaded if her emotions are strong enough, causing them to reboot and re-suppress them.
Expressive Accessory: She has two hairpins with pixelated faces that change to match whatever she's feeling. They also double as emotion suppressors to keep her from suffering a Freak Out when she experiences any powerful emotion. Kleene no longer needs these devices after Sister erases her memories of her trauma, but she still wears them because she thinks they're cute.
Facial Markings: Her Ether Gear's Tron Lines coil around her upper body to across her face.
Fanservice Pack: She has a fairly modest chest at first, but her bust size balloons to be on par with Rebecca and Homura after the Time Skip.
Feather Motif: Being the Element 4's Element of Wind, she has wing tattoos on her shoulders and grows actual wings when using Overdrive.
Forced to Watch: During her and Jinn's Dark and Troubled Past, Müller had poor little Kleene tied up and made her watch as he cut her brother's body with a chainsaw. The experience completely shattered Kleene's mind and left her with a mental condition that threatened to kill her any time she felt any sort of emotion.
Freak Out:
- Due to her fear of outliving her usefulness and getting "absorbed" by Drakken, Kleene suffers from two in quick succession—the first getting suppressed with little trouble, but the second not so much—during her rematch with Homura in the Belial Gore arc, where Homura counters Kleene's wind with wind from her own Ether sword and proves herself a skillful wind user like herself and Jinn.
- In the Foresta arc, while helping out during the space battle around the giant server orbiting the planet, Kleene has a sudden meltdown upon sensing "somebody bad" nearby, causing her normally sharp piloting to slow down. This bad person turns out to be Müller, the man who caused her trauma in the first place, and it's bad enough to send her into a nearly fatal breakdown until Sister erases her memories of him, curing her of her condition for good.
Harmful to Minors: When she was just a child, Müller used her and Kris as subjects for cruel experiments, which involved Kleene being tied up and Forced to Watch as the doctor dismembered her brother.
History Repeats: Unlike most of the changes in the Edens Zero crew's fight against Drakken's forces between Worlds No.29 and 30, Kleene's fight with Homura is the one constant, right down to spilling into a dance theater. The main difference is that the theater is occupied in the first world, forcing Homura to spend more time trying to blend in and escape than prepare herself for Kleene's attacks; in the second world, the place is empty and Homura is armed with knowledge on how Kleene's power works, allowing Homura to develop a counter-strategy that results in Kleene's defeat.
Just Toying with Them: As Drakken's most light-hearted minion despite what her emotionlessness would suggest, she generally pulls pranks on her enemies and plays around with them in battle, with her Expressive Accessory smiling in impish delight to highlight her mischievous nature. She only takes things seriously when she's sent into a Freak Out over Homura negating her attack, fearing being "absorbed" by Drakken.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Once Sister determines the root of Kleene's trauma to be the Cold-Blooded Torture that Müller put her and Kris through, she erases those specific memories and everything that had to do with Drakken. This is treated as a good thing, as it saves Kleene's life when she suffers a nearly lethal mental breakdown, and permanently restores her emotional stability.
Mental Health Recovery Arc: Her arc involves her receiving medical assistance from Sister for a condition that causes mental collapse whenever she experiences emotions of any kind. This also serves as a subplot for the Foresta arc, and ends with her recovery once Sister erases all her memories directly related to her trauma.
Morality Pet: She's the one and only person in the cosmos who Jinn cares for, and everything he does, including allying with the most notorious criminals on Guilst, is to heal her from her stolen emotions. Jinn finding out that Drakken has been absorbing her life force along with all the residents of the Belial Gore, as well as Sister promising to heal Kleene, makes him perform a Heel–Face Turn along with his sister.
My Significance Sense Is Tingling: In the Foresta arc, she is somehow able to sense Müller, the man who caused her trauma, from outside the giant server he's in.
The Nicknamer: In English, she adds an "n" to the ends of certain people's names like Homura, Laguna, and Holy, which come out as "Homuran", "Lagunan", and "Holyn". The latter two names get a Dub Name Change in the official English version, making them "Lagunarino" and "Holily".
No One Should Survive That!: In the Lendard arc, Kleene gets punted straight into the ground by Deadend Crow over a hundred meters in the air, hard enough to leave a crater on impact, and leaving the crew fearful for her life. When Laguna finds her, she's covered in bruises but fully conscious and intact, with zero signs of bone-shattering trauma. Though it's implied that she used her wind to absorb most of the damage, it's not explicitly stated how she's able to stand.
Nominal Villain: Unlike the rest of Drakken's minions, Kleene doesn't have any inherently evil or selfish desires, simply wanting to be near her brother. It's thanks to this that she's able to integrate herself into the crew with almost no fuss compared to other ex-criminals like Jinn and Laguna.
Not So Stoic: She appears to be an Emotionless Girl until The Reveal that her Expressive Accessory is artificially keeping her emotions in check. Once faced with an overwhelming emotion such as shock, fear, or anger, it briefly overrides the emotional suppression to make her true feelings as plain as day.
Obliviously Evil: Downplayed. She is aware that Drakken is not a good person in the slightest, but she appears oblivious to the fact that the things she does under his orders are just as bad, and Jinn blatantly denies her doing anything wrong when she experiences a minor Heel Realization.
Oh, Crap!: She has this reaction when Homura figures out that she can cancel out her wind by generating wind of her own, which also allows her to break out of Kleene's Wind Cage. Her shock is strong enough to break through her artificial emotion suppression.
Perpetual Frowner: Invoked. Any emotions she outwardly shows are suppressed by a pair of mechanical hair clips, keeping her facial expression from changing beyond a sullen frown. Once she gets her emotions back, she becomes a whole lot more cheerful-looking.
Power Perversion Potential: When she says her power can steal anything she wants, she means anything, which she demonstrates by snatching Homura's clothes away.
Powers Do the Fighting: The winds that Kleene conjures up can absorb any person or object she chooses, giving her a more hands-off approach to fighting compared to Jinn.
Protectorate: Jinn's top priority is protecting her, and everything else comes second.
Punch-Clock Villain: Similar to fellow Element 4 member Laguna, Kleene is a decent person who's more or less just one of Drakken's hired guns brought on to keep his Ether levels in balance thanks to her and the rest of the Element 4's mastery of their elemental Ether.
Red Baron: She's known as both "Sylph of Wind" (with her Code Name) and the "Element of Wind" when acting as one of the Element 4, representing—you guessed it—wind.
Rei Ayanami Expy: She has light-colored hair styled in a bob cut, and is introduced as an Emotionless Girl and the minion of a villain to then make a Heel–Face Turn and become more cheerful.
Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: She's a major character in a Science Fantasy series and her hairstyle is a bob cut.
Sexy Backless Outfit: While her dress is conservative overall, it exposes her shoulders and most of her back up to the hips.
Signature Headgear: Her Expressive Accessory headpins, which also serve as emotional suppressors. They're such a staple to her design that she keeps them even after she's cured of her mental condition.
The Smurfette Principle: Applies to her exclusively as one of the Element 4, where she's the only female member.
Space Fighter: While working under Drakken Joe, she pilots a starfighter modeled after a bird, which she surrounds with rings of wind to serve as a defensive force field. She's also a frequent pilot of the Edens Zero's Taurus-class fighters.
Strange-Syntax Speaker: In place of her Verbal Tic in the Japanese version, the official English translation gives her a quirky speech pattern where she says the object of her sentences before the subject. This gets lampshaded when Pino mimics her in Kleene's character profile:
Pino: The way she talks... it is very cute!
Sudden Name Change: Zig-Zagged. Kleene's Ether Gear was suddenly renamed to "Wind Flow" during the Foresta arc's serialization, but it was changed back in the Japanese volume release, with her character profile using the correct name. The English volume doesn't make the same correction in the Foresta arc.
Tears of Joy: She happily cries into Sister's chest in the Reunion arc after she and Jinn regain their memories from before the Cosmic Retcon.
There Can Be Only One: She professes that the only ones whose wind is allowed to exist are herself and her brother, because she would be "absorbed" by Drakken otherwise. When Homura finds a way to make wind that rivals her own, she has a Freak Out over the thought of outliving her usefulness.
This Cannot Be!: She expresses this when Homura is able to create her own wind attack to counter hers. When she can't deter Homura, she starts screaming in fear and anger that no one should be able to control the wind but her.
Took a Level in Cheerfulness: When introduced, she's unable to express herself because of her Emotion Suppression. After Sister erases her traumatic memories that messed up her emotions, Kleene can once again smile and be happy.
Trauma Button: She suffers a bigger Freak Out than any she had before in the Foresta arc simply by sensing the presence of Müller, the one who mutilated her brother in front of her.
Trauma-Induced Amnesia: She's completely blocked out the event that caused her emotional instability, and Jinn worries that if she's reminded of it, it would be too much for even her emotion suppressors to handle. This event is revealed in the Foresta arc to be witnessing her brother's dismemberment when they were only children, which Sister erases from her memory to cure her.
Turn the Other Cheek: Kleene holds no grudges against Homura for defeating her in the Belial Gore arc, and urges Jinn to forgive her as well, reminding him that Drakken Joe was the one who ordered them to fight.
Two Aliases, One Character: She's introduced by the codename "Sylph" before being identified as Kleene, Jinn's previously unseen sister whom he mentioned in passing on Guilst.
Verbal Tic: In Japanese, she ends nearly all of her sentences with the particle no, giving her a feminine and cute-sounding style of speech. Since this can't be translated directly into English, she's made into a Strange-Syntax Speaker instead.
When She Smiles: She's able to smile again at the end of the Foresta arc when Sister erases the trauma from her memories and improves her emotional condition, with Rebecca thinking Kleene's smile looks very cute.

Other Crew Members

Mosco Versa-0

Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata (Japanese), Brock Foster Powell (English)^{Foreign VAs}

"Moscoy."

Sister's overweight android servant who performs various odd jobs around the ship. He was once reprogrammed as a member of the mercenary squad Rogue Out before Sister restored him to his original programming. He has a mysterious button on his belly, but since pushing it is strictly off limits, one can only imagine what it does...

Animal Lover: His profile says he loves small animals.
Big Eater: Although he's an android, he has a massive appetite, which puts him in Couchpo's good books after the kidnapping incident.
Big Fun: He's a big, chubby, friendly robot, and a source of comic relief.
Big Ol' Eyebrows: He has noticeably thicker eyebrows than most characters, giving him more of a comical look.
Birds of a Feather: Mosco and Couchpo get a bit of Ship Tease together as fellow Fat Comic Relief characters and Big Eaters.
Blush Sticker: He has permanent blush marks on his cheeks.
Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: His interactions with Sister almost always play out this way with Mosco as the boke and Sister as the tsukkomi, mostly involving Mosco trying to push his button.
Brainwashed and Crazy: By his first appearance, he's been reprogrammed by the fake Sister into joining an infamous mercenary group. That said, the most villainous thing he does on-screen is kidnap Couchpo, and is otherwise a Harmless Villain before Sister puts him back to normal.
Butt-Monkey: He's subject to all kinds of physical and verbal abuse, especially from Sister, which is all Played for Laughs.
Cuteness Proximity: In the Belial Gore arc, he becomes entranced by Maria's true form as a tiny little Cute Slime Mook. This backfires when Maria changes back and beats him when his and Sister's guards are down.
Crippling Overspecialization: His Sumo Wrestling skills are top grade, and he's briefly shown to equal Jinn in a wrestling match during their training on Foresta when Jinn could otherwise send him flying with Ether Gear. The catch is that it's also the only fighting style Mosco uses, and his enemies are always willing to exploit its weaknesses.
Disguised in Drag: He dresses up and acts like a woman in the Reunion arc while infiltrating Illega's tower as a Play-Along Prisoner.
Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: He has a button on his navel labeled "DON'T PUSH", which he tries pushing on numerous occasions. Sister doesn't say what it would do if pressed, except that she gets incredibly pissed whenever he or anyone else makes the attempt. The final arc reveals it's a Split-Personality Switch Trigger that changes Mosco into Cosmo, a Super-Powered, Sexier Alter Ego who turns Sister into his submissive bondage slave.
Fat Comic Relief: He's the only overweight member of the crew, and his main purpose for sticking around is to provide visual and verbal gags.
Flight: He has the ability to fly by rapidly thrusting his arms in whatever direction he wants to go. Illega's men question the physics that make this possible.
Gonk: He has a box-shaped head and a fatty frame that's wider than two averaged-sized people standing next to each other.
Good All Along: He initially appears as a member of the fake Sister's mercenary squad, Rogue Out. After getting shot up by Weisz, he's repaired by the real Sister and is revealed to have been part of the original crew with her from the start.
Good Costume Switch: After returning to the Edens Zero crew when Sister restores him to his friendly programming, he goes from a Walking Shirtless Scene to wearing a business suit that hardly fits him.
Harmless Villain: Apart from kidnapping Couchpo and helping with other illegal activities for ten years, Mosco poses no threat as a brainwashed Rogue Out member, and gets taken down by Weisz without putting up a fight.
In Spite of a Nail: The Cosmic Retcon prevents Mosco from getting reprogrammed by the fake Sister, but he winds up becoming a part of Rogue Out anyway, this time of his own accord under the real Sister.
The Load: He has absolutely no use in the Nero 66 arc when traveling with Shiki's group. The whole reason he comes is to fill the void left by Shiki by doing an impression of him, but gets kicked around by every enemy they come across.
Manchild: He's an android with the image of a grown adult, but he's a fan of children's cartoons, which he repeatedly tries watching as a minor Running Gag.
Memory Trigger: His memories return in Universe Zero after seeing Homura's attempts to use her Ether Gear.
Me's a Crowd: Universe Zero's Mosco has dozens of bots copying him which serve as the bulk of Rogue Out's fighting force.
Multiple Gunshot Death: Subverted. When he's first introduced on Guilst as a villain, Weisz shoots him up with his Million Bullets to prove to Homura he's not messing around, but Sister patches him back up off-screen.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
- During the space battle around the satellite server over Foresta, Mosco is given the order to eliminate all the enemy drones while Jinn tends to Kleene's Freak Out and Laguna heads inside the satellite to back up Weisz and Hermit. Nothing is spoken of it, but the drones are gone when all is said and done, showing he pulled it off.
- Averted in the anime adaptation, where he's shown getting pushed around by the drones, but still holding his own until they finally leave when the virus corrupting them is stopped.
Overshadowed by Awesome: By all accounts, Mosco is a genuinely skilled sumo wrestler, with the Nero 66 arc revealing him to be a galactic yokozuna, the highest rank in the sport. It's just that every other fighter in the series far outstrips him in fighting power thanks to their Ether Gear, or simply can't be bothered to follow the rules of sumo in combat.
Professional Butt-Kisser: Despite all the abuse he gets from Sister, he has nothing but Undying Loyalty to her and is always desperate for approval, proudly self-identifying as her manservant when Clown tries giving him a more flattering description like her valet.
Pungeon Master: He's prone to using phrases that allude to his own fatness in the manga's English translation, such as calling Rogue Out "heavyweight knights" and saying the similarly chubby B-Cuber Couchpo is "massively adorable".
Red Baron: Parodied. He asks Sister for a special title like all the Four Shining Stars and most of the crew have ("Shield of Edens", "Life of Edens", etc.). Sister calls him the "Pig of Edens".
Robot Antennae: He has a pair of antennae at the top of his head, showing him to be an android.
Running Gag: In almost every scene he's in, he or someone else tries to press the button on his belly, just for Sister to angrily order them to stop.
Series Mascot: He serves as a tertiary mascot behind Happy and Pino, the main mascots.
Ship Tease: He gets a little of this with Couchpo. They get off on the wrong foot because he targeted her as a "cute" girl to be trafficked to Guilst, but once they meet again, they bond over their mutual huge appetites and become quite close.
Sumo Wrestling: He evokes the image of a sumo wrestler with his fat stature, open palm thrusting, and his Verbal Tic "Moscoy", which is derived from the sumo term dosukoi. He's later revealed to be a highly accomplished galactic sumo champion with the rank of yokozuna (the highest rank), but is very Overshadowed by Awesome.
Throw the Dog a Bone: While he's still a Butt-Monkey as always, he gets a moment to shine in the Reunion arc by slapping Illega in the face and freeing all his hostages, including Homura.
Verbal Tic: He says the word "Moscoy" or some variation thereof, usually as a figure of expression. In Japanese, he speaks with a Kagoshima dialect and ends his sentences with "gowasu" whenever he speaks.
Verbal Tic Name: His Verbal Tic "Moscoy" is a Portmanteau of Mosco's name and dosukoi.
Visual Pun: His belly button is an actual button on his belly.
Walking Shirtless Scene: He goes completely shirtless as a Fan Disservice during his time with Rogue Out, and on multiple occasions after that.
What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Witch describes him as the caretaker of the Edens Zero, but none of his duties especially indicate that he's anything more than Sister's personal lapdog.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: According to his profile, he's scared of ghosts.
Yank the Dog's Chain: He valiantly stands up against Nasseh and Ijuna on separate accounts in the Nero 66 arc, prepared to show off his true merit as a Sumo Wrestling champion, but gets knocked to the ground with a single attack both times.
Zerg Rush: His army of copies in Universe Zero is more of a nuisance than he was on his own in the previous world, though Shiki still manages to send them flying with ease.

Laguna Husert

Voiced by: Taku Yashiro (Japanese)^{Foreign VAs}

Ether Gear: Tears Lover

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"Anyone who cries in front of me, will never stand back up again."

An effeminately dressed stage actor who first serves Drakken Joe as the Element 4's Element of Water. While blunt and seemingly unfazed by his employer's evil, he proves himself to be one of the more humane members of Drakken's team, and is eventually inducted into the crew by Witch. He prefers to keep his past and true intentions to himself.

Laguna's Ether Gear, "Tears Lover", allows him to not only control water, but also turn other people into water whenever they cry. Thus, he prefers to use dirty tactics to milk his enemies' tears for an easy win, only treating direct combat as a last resort.

Agent Peacock: He has an effeminate appearance, and wears stilettos and make-up. He's also a powerful water Ether Gear user capable of going toe-to-toe with skilled fighters like Weisz and Homura.
An Ice Person: When he unlocks his Overdrive, it allows him to manipulate the material state of the water he generates to form ice.
Anti-Villain: The Sandra arc reveals that Laguna's entire reason for joining Drakken Joe was to overthrow the evil Nero Empire, whose ruler is one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, and thus someone who could be rivaled and potentially defeated by Drakken.
Armed Legs: When faced with enemies like Weisz who are too tough to cry, Laguna simply digs his stilettos into their feet to make them cry from the pain.
Badass Longcoat: He dons a fancy, double-breasted coat when he goes into Overdrive.
Battle Discretion Shot: He squares off against Witch in World No.30 during the Belial Gore arc, but when the story cuts back to them after Fie and Daichi are defeated, Laguna is already beaten down while Witch doesn't have a scratch on her. Witch quickly finishes him off with Edens Glitter when next viewed.
Becoming the Mask: To Laguna, becoming a crewman aboard the Edens Zero is just another role he assumes in pursuit of his goal to take Nero down, no different from his role as an evil henchman of Drakken Joe. By the end of the Aoi War, however, he's formed a strong enough bond to the crew that he chooses to remain with them in the next world out of respect for Witch's dying wishes.
Big Damn Heroes:
- In the Foresta arc, he shows up at the last second to help Weisz defeat the Cyborg Dr. Müller.
- In the Nero 66 arc, Laguna stops a Hate Plague-infected Shiki and Rebecca from murdering each other by turning them into water, which also returns them to their senses.
- Along with Jinn in the Lendard arc, he comes to Holy's rescue when she's trapped inside Deadend Crow's body.
- In the final arc, Laguna steps in to help Shiki when Rebecca calls him for backup against Lightning Law after pulling off a successful Reverse in Universe Zero.
Biomanipulation: He uses Empire Ether, a technique common among Ether Gearists native to the Aoi Cosmos like himself, which allows him to manipulate his enemy's Ether on top of his own. In Laguna's case, this is how he can change others into water. It also lets him restore others' Ether balance when they're affected by others' Empire Ether, as well as mend broken bones.
Bridal Carry: He catches Ijuna in his arms this way after freeing her from her self-brainwashing.
Brutal Honesty: Laguna holds nothing back about his opinions on other people, such as when he curtly demands Rebecca to take a shower because she hadn't bathed in a week due to being too caught up in grief over Shiki's death in World No.29.
Cold Ham: He is voiced with a dry yet theatrical flair in the anime, making him seem larger than life while still looking cold and aloof.
Combat Pragmatist: Since all he needs to do to win is to get people to tear up, Laguna pulls out all the stops when it comes to making sure they do: stomping on their feet with stilettos, telling a sad backstory, lying about free money on the ground (to provoke Tears of Joy), making himself cry (because crying is contagious), yawning (which is also contagious), and crushing an onion.
Combat Stilettos: He wears pointed high heels, both to reflect his status as a Sissy Villain, and to serve as Armed Legs for him to milk his enemies' tears out with.
Crocodile Tears: Laguna is an expert at crying tears on command, which helps him sell his emotional manipulation tactics and change himself into water. It's not all malevolent, however; it's also the only way he's able to cry at all, because his workaholic ethic as an actor stunted his ability to cry "real", natural tears. Most pointedly, Weisz catches him mourning everyone who died in the Aoi War with "fake" tears, but doesn't call him out on it because he correctly reasons that Laguna's grief is genuine.
Curtains Match the Window: His eye and hair colors are both blue.
Dark and Troubled Past: He started out as a small-time actor, but something happened that led him to quit a promising career and join up with Drakken Joe in the Sakura Cosmos's criminal underworld, and he tells Witch to mind her own business when she prods him for details. That something was the Nero Empire's invasion of his homeworld, which caused his best friend's death and left him so Lost in Character that he couldn't cry over his death without treating it like another performance. This pushed him to joining the rebel army Oasis while acting as a cold avenger, which lasted until Laguna grew frustrated with Oasis's lack of action and went AWOL, abandoning his comrades for anyone strong enough to crush the Empire, no matter how evil they were.
Decoy Backstory: During the Belial Gore arc, he tells Homura his Tragic Bromance with a man who died of an illness before either of them could become the greatest Master Swordsman, but Homura immediately figures out he made it up to trick Homura into crying and score an instant win. He later reveals in the Nero 66 arc that his story was mostly true: the only differences were that he and his friend wanted to be Master Actors, and that his friend was killed by the Nero Empire.
Defeat Means Friendship: Downplayed. Witch scouts him out to join the Edens Zero crew so he can help them retrieve a Relic from the planet Red Cave, but he only accepts so he can lay low from the authorities, and immediately shoots down Shiki's belief that this makes them friends. The real reason he joins, though, is that Laguna figures the crew has a shot at defeating Poseidon Nero, since they managed to eke out a win against Drakken.
Defector from Decadence: Laguna joined Oasis in the hopes that they would defeat Nero's empire, but found that they were "all idealistic talk and no action", leading him to walk out on them and all the friends he made there.
Easily Forgiven: He's accepted by most of the Edens Zero crew rather quickly for someone who willingly worked for a crime lord as evil as Drakken Joe, though it helps that Rebecca put in a good word for him for the decent way he treated her in captivity. The only holdout is Weisz, who lets his personal hate for Drakken color his impressions of all his minions. It takes Witch's Last Request for the crew to be good to each other after her death that he rescinds his contempt for Laguna.
Elemental Eye Colors: He's a water Ether user with blue eyes.
Elemental Hair Colors: He has blue hair to match his eyes and water powers.
Elemental Shapeshifter: Laguna can turn his own power to change people into water on himself by crying on command. Unlike his targets, who are completely helpless in their liquified state, Laguna can freely return to solid form at any time.
Elemental Weapon: One of his aquatic powers is to create a sword made of water, which is solid enough to clash with Homura's Ether sword. His Ice Brand attack also creates a sword of ice when he's in Overdrive.
Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: He tends to spell out how his powers require his opponents to cry. This gets exploited by Weisz in the Belial Gore arc, where he uses this knowledge to stage his own defeat with holographic technology and study Homura's fight with Laguna before stepping back in.
Expository Hairstyle Change: Laguna wears his normally spiked Anime Hair hair down, which bears a close resemblance to Ijuna's hairstyle, implying he's still mourning her death.
Evil Is Hammy: While usually The Stoic, he has more Large Ham moments as one of the villainous Element 4 than he does after his Heel–Face Turn. Given the later revelations of his character, it's implied that his hamminess was deliberately played up to begin with.
Facial Markings: When his Ether Gear is active, Tron Lines in the shape of tears manifest beneath his left eye.
Famed In-Story: By the Reunion arc, his name and efforts as the new leader of Oasis are known well enough to be recognized by former emperor Nero and current emperor Shura.
The Fashionista: Fashion is listed as his like in his character profile. This reflects in his stylish choice of clothing, and several of his chapter covers look like they're taken straight out of a fashion magazine.
Foil:
- Laguna serves as one for Weisz, with both coming from criminal backgrounds while still being decent people at heart, and both preferring to fight dirty when they can afford it. The big difference is that Weisz stabbed his old gang in the back and strove to become a better person, whereas Laguna couldn't care less about which side he's on so long as there's no pointless evil involved. They've also both walked away from people they once called friends: Weisz out of selfishness and insecurity over his criminal life, and Laguna in his pursuit of power and revenge.
- In the Nero 66 arc, he's revealed to be one for Ijuna, another traitor to Oasis. But while Ijuna was kidnapped and mentally warped into abandoning Oasis, just to turn her back on them of her own free will out of love for her captor, Laguna walked out because he was never committed to Oasis to begin with, later finding a genuine group of friends and realizing the importance of the comrades he took for granted.
Heel–Face Turn: He's introduced in the Belial Gore arc as the Token Good Teammate of Drakken Joe's Quirky Miniboss Squad, but in worlds where Drakken is defeated, he gets recruited by Witch to join the Edens Zero crew.
Holographic Disguise: He dons one to make himself look like a middle-aged man while on the lam immediately after the Belial Gore arc. It's convincing enough for him to take up an acting career, but Witch is able to see right through him.
I Choose to Stay: After the Aoi War, Laguna decides to complete his integration into the Edens Zero crew, which was originally just another role he assumed in pursuit of his goal to take Nero down. When Weisz questions why he doesn't go back to Oasis, Laguna explains there's still some bad blood between over how he betrayed them.
I Fight for the Strongest Side!: He sides with whomever he feels has the best shot at defeating the Nero Empire, not caring if that someone is a vile scoundrel like Drakken Joe. He boards the Edens Zero for the same reason at first, but that changes when he develops a more genuine sense of loyalty to his new crewmates, especially after Witch's Heroic Sacrifice to save them all, Laguna included.
Improbable Weapon User: Uses an onion in battle, as breaking one open causes people to cry, allowing him to use his Ether Gear on them.
It's Personal: While everyone in Oasis and the Edens Zero crew wants to put an end to Nero's tyranny and stop Shura from committing robot genocide, Laguna has a more personal reason for joining La Résistance, as his best friend was killed by the empire.
Karmic Jackpot: His Pet the Dog moments to Rebecca in World No.29 ensure that she has a good word to put in for him with the crew when Witch decides to recruit him in the next world.
Logical Weakness:
- Laguna's ability to turn a person into water if they cry in his presence is near Story-Breaker Power levels, since it can easily let him defeat foes who would normally outmatch him, but the key weakness is that stipulation: an enemy Unable to Cry can avoid his One-Hit KO. By the final arc, however, he's able to pull this off on the Skeleton Army, who are incapable of crying physically, but still express profound sorrow over being forced to fight Shiki.
- Laguna's Water Ether Gear gives him a natural weakness to electricity. He works around this when he Overdrives for the first time in the final arc by changing his water into ice, which doesn't conduct electricity as potently as water.
Lost in Character: Everything that led to him joining Drakken is because of this. He'd become so absorbed in his roles that, when the Nero Empire invaded his home and his best friend was killed, Laguna caught himself critiquing and adjusting his own method of crying, like his grief was all just another performance. Recognizing he was falling down a rabbit hole, he retired and joined La Résistance against the Empire, but lost himself in a new "role" as an unfeeling man hellbent on revenge, which kept him distant from his fellow rebels until it drove him to leave in search of someone strong enough to help him achieve vengeance.
Makeup Is Evil: Subverted. He's indicated as a Sissy Villain by being the only Element 4 member (and one of the few male characters, for that matter) to wear makeup, but he's actually the Token Good Teammate alongside Kleene, and keeps wearing the makeup as an ally of the Edens Zero crew.
Making a Splash: He's the water specialist of the Element 4 whose main power is to turn other people into water when they cry. On top that, he can also Walk on Water, speak clearly from underwater, and create a water sword.
Master Actor: He's a professional stage actor who can flip between happy and sad expressions seconds apart from each other, whip up a backstory for himself on the spot (albeit based on personal experience), and shed Crocodile Tears on command. He uses these skills to coax people into crying so he can turn them into water, or himself when needed.
Master Swordsman: Despite his tendency to avoid fighting in favor of an easy One-Hit KO, his skills with his water sword let him fight on par with Homura, who was trained since childhood to hone her skills.
Meaningful Name: Laguna is another word for "lagoon", a body of water, in multiple languages.
Mistaken for Murderer: When his crewmates find him again in Universe Zero, he caps Aruna's mother in the head in cold blood. Just as Shiki starts tearing into Laguna, Ibaraki hollers "CUT!" and the woman gets up totally unharmed, revealing the "murder" was just a movie production Shiki was interrupting.
Murder Is the Best Solution: After getting his memories back in Universe Zero and finding himself leader of Oasis against the recently crowned Emperor Shura, Laguna assumes the worst of Shura and believes killing him is necessary for the good of the Aoi Cosmos. Once it's proven that this world's Shura isn't the bloodthirsty monster he was in other worlds, however, Laguna reconsiders his stance and helps negotiate an Enemy Mine with the Empire.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When Rebecca has been captured by Drakken Joe in World No.29, Laguna's demand for Rebecca to take a shower unwittingly gives her an opportunity to escape into the next world, because Drakken keeps no cameras in the bathroom for basic decency's sake, and is thus unable to react in time when Rebecca's Ether Gear fully awakens.
Non-Standard Character Design: His prominent cheekbones, makeup, and style of dress make him look like he stepped right out of Jojos Bizarre Adventure.
Not So Stoic:
- Laguna is typically an unemotional man who only breaks his cool when acting on purpose or getting Lost in Character, but he becomes truly shocked and horrified in the Nero 66 arc when he finds out his former comrade Ijuna joined the Empire, and the sickening details that led her to fall in love her captor and torturer, Shura.
- During the Reunion arc, it's implied that he is no longer emotionally stunted in Universe Zero as he was before, allowing him to express a broader range of genuine emotions, such as utter shock over seeing Xenolith in Miimi's body, Tears of Joy over seeing Witch alive, and Corpsing over seeing the balding old man Weisz would become.
One-Hit KO: His Ether Gear's primary power is to turn people into helpless but still living puddles of water while they're shedding tears. Naturally, most of his fight against the Edens Zero crew revolves less around combat and more around getting them to cry.
Out of Focus: Laguna doesn't get nearly the same amount of character attention as most of the crew in this Universe, and is relegated to a supporting role in the battle against Deadend Crow.
Pet the Dog: Laguna turns Rebecca into water to spare her from being tortured by Daichi, and later visits her to make her week of captivity as comfortable as possible, though he remains blunt about the whole thing. This proves to Rebecca that he's not as bad a person as the rest of Drakken's men, which pays off for him in the next world.
Point of Divergence:
- Laguna starts out firmly on Drakken's side before Rebecca's first time leap, but after she returns to the past and alters it to the point of Witch defeating Laguna instead of Weisz, Witch is able to convince Laguna to join the crew.
- Universe Zero's Oasis becomes a large and powerful enough fighting force to contend with the Empire without the Edens Zero crew's help. As a result, Laguna does not lose faith in their cause and abandon them, instead rising to become Oasis's leader instead of Goodwin.
Punch-Clock Villain: When he isn't trying to capture or kill the heroes, Laguna is an ordinary and somewhat blunt sort of guy, which gives Rebecca the impression that he isn't a bad person, despite her having every reason to fear the guy he works for. On the flip side, he's not particularly remorseful about working for Drakken Joe, either.
Rebel Leader: Due to the Cosmic Retcon, Laguna winds up becoming the leader of Oasis instead of Goodwin.
Red Baron: He calls himself the "Spirit of Water" when working as one of the Element 4.
Redemption Promotion: Laguna starts out one of Drakken Joe's top fighters, but becomes a great deal more formidable after his Heel–Face Turn, to the point of eventually Overdriving and single-handedly defeating Lightning Law, one of the Oración Seis Galáctica in Universe Zero, where the Galáctica are more powerful than previous members like Drakken.
Ship Sinking: When Shura's secretary and self-brainwashed Dark Mistress Ijuna is revealed to be one of Laguna's ex-comrades from Oasis, it's shown that she used to have a one-sided crush on him, which he lightly teased her for, in his usual blunt manner. Just when it seems they'll have another chance together when Laguna restores her mind, Ijuna still remains devoted to Shura and chooses to be Together in Death with him, because brainwashing or not, she'd already started to fall for him under his captivity.
Sissy Villain: He has an effeminate dress code that includes thick makeup and high heels, and he works as a henchman of the most notorious criminal in the Sakura Cosmos before his Heel–Face Turn.
Steven Ulysses Perhero: His name means "lagoon", and he works as a water-type Ether Gear user in a Classical Elements Ensemble. Discussed between him and the Rutherford siblings, who are wind users who both take Code Names from wind spirits ("Jinn" and "Sylph"), and are surprised that Laguna turned out to be his real name.
The Stoic: Deconstructed. He's typically unemotional and blunt, but only because his ability to properly express himself was badly stunted by his tendency to get Lost in Character throughout his career as a Master Actor, leaving him unable to do things such as cry without faking it, even when he's genuinely sad.
Tears of Joy: Despite remaining as stoic as ever, he can't contain his joy and cries in the Reunion arc over reuniting with an alive-and-well Witch in Universe Zero.
That Came Out Wrong: When fighting the Edens Zero crew for the first time, Laguna tells Homura he'll make her "sopping wet" in no time. He means he'll turn her into water, but she hears it as something more indecent.
Token Good Teammate: While unopposed to working for a villain as evil as Drakken, he proves himself to be the most decent person on Drakken's entire team when he stops Daichi from needlessly torturing Rebecca, and routinely visits her to make her as comfortable as she possibly can be when she's suffering a major Heroic BSoD over Shiki's death. She uses this to vouch for him when Witch recruits Laguna to help the Edens Zero crew.
Too Much Information: Played for Drama in the Nero 66 arc, where he uncharacteristically freaks and begs it to stop when Ijuna details how Shura repeatedly stripped her naked and walked her like a dog in public with a bomb inserted in her rectum.
Took a Level in Badass: The final arc sees two major steps up for Laguna in terms of power. First is that he's learned to turn people into water even when they're Unable to Cry, so long as they express sorrow. Second is that he's capable of Overdriving for the first time, which gives him the power boost he needs to defeat Lightning Law, one of Universe Zero's Oración Seis Galáctica; for comparison, Law is said to be more powerful than the original Galáctica, including Laguna's old boss, Drakken Joe).
Tragic Bromance: Invoked. He tells Homura a Decoy Backstory about a brother-in-arms of his who died of illness to move Homura to tears, but she sees straight through the attempt. At the end of the Nero 66 arc, it's revealed there was some truth in his sob story, as he did have a best friend who was killed by the Nero Empire, which led him to realize his stunted emotions and set him on a path of revenge that led him to working for Drakken Joe.
The Transmogrifier: His Ether Gear can transform people into water when they cry in front of him, which is an effect of his Empire Ether.
Unable to Cry: Downplayed. He's able crying on command as a staple of the acting business, but his ability to cry as a natural, emotional reflex has been stunted by years of getting Lost in Character.
Villainous Breakdown: In the crew's first battle with Drakken Joe, Laguna grows more and more agitated over Weisz working his way around his water powers that he loses his cool and tries to kill him. Given later reveals about his stunted range of emotional expression, and how he approaches life itself like a stage production, this is more a case of him getting Lost in Character.
Villainous Cheekbones: His prominent cheekbones are one of his few masculine features as an otherwise Sissy Villain, though this is subverted when his less villainous position in the story comes to light.
Walk on Water: One of his Ether Gear's multiple water-based features includes rising from a body of water and walking along its surface.
Water Is Womanly: Gender Flipped. Laguna is the water representative of the Element 4, but he's also a man—an effeminate man who wears high heels and makeup, and is more feminine than the only woman in the group, Sylph/Kleene.
Water Magic Is Ice: His Overdrive changes his water attacks into ice.
We Used to Be Friends: He and the rest of Oasis were comrades who fought the Nero Empire together, but when they meet again, everyone in Oasis turns their guns on him for deserting them years ago. However, it's soon revealed to be downplayed, as Laguna's old friends admit they're happier to see him and fight by his side again than they first let on, and would have only shot him if they really meant it.
Whole Costume Reference: When he finally Overdrives in Universe Zero, he becomes a walking shoutout to Gray Fullbuster and Juvia Lockser. The new form gives him the same style of coat as Juvia, mastery over ice in addition to his affinity for water, and the outfit has an armband that has a very suspicious "G+J" emembroidered onto it. His hair is already a fusion of the two, with his hair color closer to Juvia's and his hair style closer to Gray's. Also serves as a Production Throwback.
Would Hit a Girl: He doesn't hold anything back against female opponents, as seen with Homura in the Belial Gore arc and his ex-comrade Ijuna in the Nero 66 arc.

Couchpo

Couchpo (Chloé Françoise Ai)

Voiced by: Satomi Arai (Japanese), Janice Kawaye (English)^{Foreign VAs}

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"I mean, it's true, I can't fight like Shiki can. But I can at least protect this kitchen and the smiles it brings to your faces."

A gluttonous B-Cube celebrity who runs the food-centric MoguMogu Channel.^note"Munch Munch" Channel She becomes good friends with Rebecca when they and 27 other B-Cubers are kidnapped off the streets of Blue Garden to the planet Guilst. During a chance encounter with the crew on Foresta, Couchpo quickly makes herself at home in their ship's kitchen and sticks around on their travels, eventually earning a name for herself as the "Stomach of Edens".

Action Survivor: Couchpo has no Ether Gear or any other combat expertise like the rest of the crew, but she still has the spunk and street-smarts to survive on Foresta for a week after the planet's robots rise against the humans, and holds her own in battle by gnawing on the robots' heads.
Ascended Extra: She starts off as a Bit Character in the Guilst arc, becomes a Recurring Extra for a couple of arcs and an Omake, and finally gets promoted to main cast member after appearing in the Foresta arc.
Big Eater: All her content revolves around eating and making food critiques. It's also indicated that her love of cuisine rubbed off on Rebecca through her videos.
Big Fun: She's an overweight girl and the most upbeat of all the kidnapped B-Cubers befriended by Rebecca.
The Conscience: She takes on this role in the Nero 66 arc when Witch's abduction raises tensions among the crew, first by firmly but gently scolding Shiki for angrily barking orders at his friends, and again when she stops Sister and Hermit from rushing out and leaving the ship unguarded when the rest of their friends are already fighting to save Witch.
Dub Name Change: Her title, "Stomach of Edens", more accurately translates to "Appetite of Edens"^noteEdens no Shoku in Japanese.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Her first appearance in the manga gives her shades of Gonk with her beady eyes and nostrils with no pronounced nose, in contrast to her more cute-looking design in later arcs, which forms the basis of her anime design.
Extreme Omnivore: She eats anything that looks remotely edible, including the foam bubbles used to dissolve her clothes.
Fire-Forged Friends: Along with the other B-Cubers trafficked by Rogue Out who escape Guilst together, Couchpo goes from a stranger who's never heard of Rebecca to one of her dearest friends.
Gonk: On top of her weight, her design starts out with beady eyes, giant lips, and a stubby nose to make her stick out among the girls she gets kidnapped with in the Guilst arc. However, her ugliness is gradually toned down to make her Progressively Prettier while keeping her body size the same.
Hidden Depths: She has quite a few for someone whose personality initially seems to revolve around being a Big Eater: one, she's able to keep a calm and rational mind in dangerous and potentially fatal situations; two, her profile page lists her with a maxed out intelligence stat; and three, she has a firm grasp on editing, producing, and distributing her content, showing there's more to her online success than just cruising on being a Big Eater.
I Take Offense to That Last One: When a Humongous Mecha breaks into her hiding place on Foresta, looking for hidden humans and a food thief—i.e., Couchpo herself—she feels a greater need to clarify that she paid for the food she took than to panic over the human-hating automaton that threatens her.
Insane Troll Logic:
- She isn't happy to see Mosco at first in the Foresta arc due to how he kidnapped her in the Guilst arc, not realizing that Mosco was Brainwashed at the time. However, she almost immediately decides he can't possibly be bad because he's someone who loves to eat as much as she does.
- She resolves to protect the ship's kitchen with all her might immediately after admitting she can't fight. When Rebecca questions how she'll pull it off, Couchpo concludes that it might awaken some kind of fighting power lying dormant within herself if it means saving the food. Happy wonders how that makes any sense.
Just Here for the Free Snacks: Her motivation for sticking around on the Edens Zero after the Foresta arc is her amazement with the ship's Matter Replicator kitchen, which, according to her, can produce enough cuisine to last three years worth of videos.
Man Bites Man: She uses her appetite to fight back against Foresta's robots, gnawing on their heads.
The Mentor: She helps Rebecca improve as a B-Cuber after joining the crew, providing her with some desperately needed video-making tips and constructive criticism. By the end of the Time Skip, Rebecca has skyrocketed in popularity thanks to Couchpo's guidance, hitting three times her initial one million subscriber goal.
Nerves of Steel: Despite having zero fighting skill and getting wrapped up in several hostage situations and wars, Couchpo never once caves in to fear or panic.
Nice Girl: She's one of the sweetest people the crew knows, sticking around out of loyalty despite all the danger the crew gets into, and providing a calming presence whenever they're in a panic.
Plucky Girl: She always keeps an upbeat and determined attitude, regardless of her lack of fighting skill or the danger she repeatedly finds herself in.
Punny Name: Her screen name is derived from "couch potato".
Put on a Bus: After most of the Edens Zero crew reunites in Universe Zero, they decide that its best that not to involve either her or Labilia in upcoming conflict against Void or the search for Mother deeming it too dangerous.
Progressively Prettier: Her design gradually shifts away from the "fat, ugly girl" variety of Gonk to make her look more cartoonishly cute, with bigger eyes and a round button nose.
Red Baron: She gets her very own title among the Edens Zero crew as the "Stomach of Edens".
Ship Tease: She gets some with Mosco, her Brainwashed kidnapper from the Guilst arc, whom she takes a shine to over their shared love of cuisine.
Skewed Priorities: No matter what the situation is, whether it's trying to break out of Illega Tower or getting surrounded by a robot uprising, Couchpo's biggest priority is always either getting her hands on food or protecting whatever food she's already secured.
Slasher Smile: Played for Laughs when she makes one during a Badass Boast to anyone foolish enough to keep her apart from her food in the middle of a coming life-or-death war; it's unnerving enough to startle Jinn and Laguna, two prime examples of The Stoic in the series.
Vocal Dissonance: In the anime, she speaks with a peculiarly high-pitched, squeaky voice for a girl her age and size.

Walking Spoilers (unmarked spoilers for Chapters 169 onward)

The Captain

Captain Connor (Universe 3)

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The Connor of Universe 3. Unlike in previous Universes, where he is the Edens One's captain for hire under Ziggy, here he is a worker from Ziggy's factory on the planet Lendard. He chances upon the Edens Zero crew while fleeing for dear life from the Demon King, soon discovering himself to be none other than Rebecca's father, and cementing himself as the ship's captain.

See EDENS ZERO: Crew of Edens One for information on Connor in Universes 1 and 2 (prior to Chapter 171).

Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: After he reveals to Rebecca that he's her father, Rebecca is mortified by him showing her parental affection in front of her crewmates, putting on a Happy costume to fulfill her childhood dream, offering her to play an 18+ H-Game with him, and making out with her mother right in front of her.
Amicable Exes: He and Rachel were Happily Married for three years, so he couldn't understand why she left him with their newborn daughter, whom she would later abandon. Nevertheless, he's reluctant to assume the worst of his ex-wife even after discovering she's one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, and once everything is cleared up between them, they pick up right where they left off.
Back from the Dead: According to Rachel, Connor has been killed an untold number of times by her Cult due to their Forbidden Love, and she undid every one of those deaths by reversing time until she came to a world where he didn't die.
Big Damn Reunion: Double Subverted. His and Rebecca's reunion after 18 years gets off to an awkward start, since Rebecca has trouble accepting a sketchy Dirty Old Man as her father. However, after fully learning why he and her mother were torn apart from her, and realizing how much they still love her after all these years, Rebecca sets her misgivings aside and jumps into their arms, crying Tears of Joy.
The Captain: Shiki dubs him the official captain of the Edens Zero after proving his Ace Pilot chops in getting them out of the Interstellar Union Army's clutches, despite getting them into that mess in the first place.
Changed My Mind, Kid: Universe 3's Connor is so desperate to escape from Ziggy that he strongarms them into hiding him on another planet before they plan to take on the Demon King. However, he's inspired to return and help them fight after seeing them fight courageously for each other, and learning from Noah not only that they have no parents of their own, but that Rebecca is his long-lost daughter. Lampshaded by this exchange:
Weisz: Wait a minute. This guy just ran away from Lendard. And that's exactly where we're headed. What changed your mind?
Connor: Would it sound too idealistic to say...when I saw the lot of ye fightin', it captured me old heart?
Cowardly Lion: Connor is a good deal more panicky and cowardly in Universe 3 than he is in Universes 1 and 2. However, he's quite noble and heroic when properly inspired, enough to directly face off against Deadend Crow, one of the most dangerous androids in the universe.
Flat "What": He reacts this way upon learning from Noah that he and Rebecca are father and daughter, exactly like Rebecca does when he tells her the truth.
Forbidden Love: As an outsider to the Church of Saintfire, his romance with Rachel, their Archbishop, used to be strict taboo to the church under punishment of death. When the church's fanatics caught up with Rachel, they killed Connor and kept doing so each time she reversed time to save him until she finally found one where he wasn't killed, forcing her to leave him. With the Church's old customs abandoned by the time Connor's family reunites, however, he and Rachel more than happily pick up where they left off.
Freudian Slip: Hermit pieces together Connor's identity as Rebecca's father after he uses video streaming lingo in place of nautical speak, indicating that he'd been secretly watching his daughter's livestreams and keeping their relationship a secret until the time was right.
Going Down with the Ship: Subverted in his backstory in Universe 3, where he used to be a captain from the Freedom Force that fought the Nero Empire, but fled his ship before it sunk because he refused to die before finding his wife and daughter. He feels great shame for abandoning his post, but also reasons that he wouldn't have made much difference if he stayed.
Happily Married: Connor and Rachel were this for three years before the Church of Saintfire shattered their happy life and forced Rachel to return to them. In Universe Zero, they're joyfully reunited and remain together for good.
I Choose to Stay: After getting back together with Rachel in Universe Zero, Connor chooses to stay with her on Miltz rather than continue traveling with the Edens Zero crew, since he'd lost all his piloting skills thanks to the Cosmic Retcon.
I Will Find You: His wife, Rachel, left him with their newborn daughter years ago, which prompted Connor to travel the cosmos in search of them. He succeeds in finding his daughter, Rebecca, while Rachel—a.k.a. Saintfire Nox—is brought to him in the Lendard arc.
Luke, I Am Your Father: He's confirmed in the Lendard arc to be Rebecca's father, which he himself learned from Noah, and which Sister and Hermit pieced together already, but kept secret to let his child hear it from him once he was ready to tell the truth. Consequently, he's also revealed to be the ex-husband of Saintfire Nox, whom he knows as Rachel.
Muggle–Mage Romance: He is an ordinary space captain who fell in love with one of the most powerful Time Masters in the universe.
Not What I Signed Up For: This Connor signed up to get his piloting skills scanned and copied onto robots for decent pay. The hiring team left out the detail that those robots would be part of an evil Demon King's invasion force. His immediate response upon learning this is to hit the cosmic trail out of there.
Old Flame: He and Rachel were Happily Married before she was forced to leave him with their unborn daughter. When they find each other again after eighteen years, they resume their loving, passionate relationship without a hitch.
Pervert Dad: Downplayed when it's revealed his daughter is Rebecca, whom he climbed into the bath with when mistaking it for a co-ed bath in Universe 1, and ogled in her bikini with the other ladies on Dahlia, before their relationship was revealed. However, he legitimately didn't know Rebecca was his daughter the first time, and in the second, he was clarified to be non-sexually admiring how beautiful his baby daughter has become. Also, while this doesn't stop him from engaging in uncomfortable behavior like treating himself to her more suggestive videos, he never once intends to make any physical moves on her.
Rapid-Fire "No!": Just like Rebecca after him, this is Connor's second reaction to learning that he is Rebecca's father, following a Flat "What".
Rousing Speech: He gives one in the Lendard arc right before the Edens Zero charges into battle with Ziggy's army, which also doubles as a personal "No More Holding Back" Speech.
"I may be a man what fled from Lendard...but with this ship on me side, I can fight. Mateys...for the future of both humans and machines...we cannot let Ziggy do as he pleases any longer. I have chosen to fight. Now that me mind is made up, I'm prepared to stake me life on this ship. That scurvy scum sent his robot soldiers to dominate peaceful planets...and mercilessly kill scores of humans. Some what were children. Some what were happy families. Some what were young buckos dreamin' of the future. I say we take it back!! Let's bring peace back to the cosmos!!!"
Shared Family Quirks: Connor has quite a bit in common with Rebecca, namely her piloting skill, huge appetite, bad table manners, having the same kind of comedic panic attack when he describes escaping from Lendard as she did when she thought she was trapped in Norma's past, and sharing the same reaction to the news that they're related.
Sole Survivor: Connor is the only one out of the 100 human recruits to escape with his life; the rest are coincidentally stepped on by Deadend Crow, though they would've been killed by Ziggy anyway.
Tears of Joy: Sheds these at the end of the Lendard arc after he, Rebecca, and Rachel are fully reunited for the first time in 18 years.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: After the Time Skip, the crew (barring Shiki and Pino) aren't happy to accept his help in getting away from the Interstellar Union Army, since he got them into the whole mess by forcing them to hide him on Blue Garden. It's only when he gets backed up by Rebecca—who has the least reason to trust him after he fought against them in Universe 2—that they set their grudges aside.
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Connor is the middle-aged, balding and overweight husband to an Absurdly Youthful Mother.
Walking Spoiler: This Connor's existence not only explicitly confirms the series' setting to be The Multiverse, but he's also revealed to be Rebecca's father, whom she'd been searching for since the start of the series.
You're Insane!: All the crazy stunts he pulls as a crew member in Universe 3, from disabling the Artificial Gravity at maximum speed to diving headfirst into an asteroid field, leaves his pursuers and his crewmates questioning his sanity.

The Patient

Labilia Christy

Three years after the Aoi War, Labilia's popularity as a B-Cuber plummets in sharp contrast to Rebecca's rising fame, leaving her on the verge of obscurity. After revealing herself to be suffering from a terminal illness, she's brought aboard the Edens Zero for treatment, rekindling her friendship with Rebecca.

See EDENS ZERO: Blue Garden for more information.

Cosmo

"Lady Ivry belongs to me. No one other than myself is allowed to degrade her."

Mosco's alter ego, who only emerges when his forbidden button is pushed. Cosmo is Mosco's opposite in virtually every way, extending to his relationship with Sister, whom he treats as his property.

Always Someone Better: Cosmo is Sister's superior when it comes to erotic domination, being the only character in the series to thoroughly subjugate her to the point where she begrudgingly enjoys it.
Battle Butler: He's a smartly dressed butler and licensed BDSM master with unmatched bondage skills that can wreck an android as powerful as one of the Four Dark Stars in an instant.
Cool Old Guy: He's a sharp-looking Silver Fox who gives Happy the impression of being fairly strong before he even makes a move.
Hypocritical Heartwarming: For how harshly he subjugates Sister, he is also very protective of her, declaring himself the only one allowed to punish her, as Clown finds out the hard way in the final arc.
Knows the Ropes: His Galactic Bondage Knots instantly tie up his victims in rope, allowing him to contort their bodies or electrify them with the snap of a finger.
Last-Name Basis: Cosmo is the only character who refers to Sister exclusively by her second name as "Lady Ivry", though it's downplayed considering Ivry was Sister's original name before she became an android.
Red Baron: He calls himself the "Space Butler".
Ridiculously Human Robot: There is nothing visibly mechanical about him, so much that the only indicator that he's an android is the fact that he's another form of Mosco.
Sexier Alter Ego: Exaggerated. Cosmo is a slender, white-haired, mustachioed Silver Fox who has no physical similarities whatsoever to Mosco, a Gonk sumo wrestler with black hair, chalk white skin, and no facial hair.
Significant Anagram: "Cosmo" is simply "Mosco" with the letters rearranged.
Super-Empowering: Cosmo's Ether can be turned into a Magic Potion called Cosmo Energy much like how Sister's healing power can be made into a Healing Potion, allowing whoever drinks it to survive in space for a short time.
Super-Powered Alter Ego: Downplayed. On his own, Mosco is a talented sumo wrestler with certain superhuman powers such as Flight, but is typically overshadowed by other Ether Gear users and androids. Cosmo, on the other hand, is a fully fledged Battle Butler with Ether power that easily surpasses that of Clown, who is designed to be the Superior Successor to Sister.
Verbal Tic: The one and only trait he shares with Mosco is his tendency to say "Moscoy".

Etherion's Source

Rebecca Bluegarden (Universe 3173)

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Technically Universe 2's Rebecca, who was catapulted 20,000 years into the future of Universe 3173 along with Shiki during the Aoi War. Having died by the time she and Shiki were discovered, her preserved body was stripped of its time-travel Ether by the minds who constructed the Edens Zero, who amplified it and loaded it back onto the ship within her B-Cube as Etherion.

Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Zig-Zagged. Rebecca's body was found in just as poor shape as Shiki was, but the scientists who recovered her managed to restore her physical appearance to pristine beauty by the time she's shown, leaving the extent of the damage unseen.
Chekhov's Gun: Her B-Cube, which is seen in Chapter 4 unearthed along with her body 20,000 years in the future. Not only does the engraving of the Edens Zero's name on it serve as a partial inspiration for the ship's name when it's built in the future, but the cube itself is chosen by the ship's architects as the container for Etherion.
Chekhov's Gunman: She's first mentioned as an unidentified human corpse found by a pair of androids in Chapter 4, with her B-Cube being the only clue to her identity before it's confirmed 200 chapters later. On top of that, she turns out to be the source of Etherion.
Dead Alternate Counterpart: This version of Rebecca did not survive the spacetime distortion that blasted her tens of thousands of years into the future.
Drop Dead Gorgeous: Although she's dead, her Ether keeps her body from decomposing, leaving her perfectly preserved—and naked—for decades.
Human Resources: Etherion was created from the last traces of this Rebecca's Ether, which was extracted from her body, amplified, contained within her B-Cube, and sealed behind closed doors aboard Edens Zero as "Code 3173", giving the ship the ability to move through time.
The Lost Lenore: She's the only one of Shiki's friends that he can remember while suffering from Identity Amnesia as Ziggy, if only vaguely, and he regularly visits her body on planet Eden while wishing he could remember more. Sadly, after the incident with a Chronophage that strands him on Granbell in Universe 1's past, Ziggy forgets about her completely.
Recurring Element: Rebecca's connection to Etherion and the number 3173 is an element that Mashima used with the main heroine of Rave Master, Elie, combined with Mavis's connection to Fairy Heart in Fairy Tail, though the overall usage is different from either series.^{Explanation (Rave Master and Fairy Tail spoilers)}

Characters / EDENS ZERO: Crew of Edens Zero

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Edens Zero

Demon King

Shiki Granbell

Ziggy

Shiki's Companions

Demon King's Four Shining Stars

Original Members

Witch Regret

Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno (Japanese), Laura Post (English) Foreign VAsNatascha Geisler (German), Jessica Toledo (Latin American Spanish), Nayéli Forest (French), Valentina Pollani (Italian), Tônia Mesquita (Portuguese), Nattha Hiransathit (Thai)

Sister Ivry

Voiced by: Yukiyo Fujii (Japanese), Allegra Clark (English) Foreign VAsEsra Vural (German), Catalina Muñoz (Latin American Spanish), Begoña Hernando (European Spanish), Virginie Méry (French), Valeria Damiani (Italian), Teline Carvalho (Portuguese), Angkhana Phanprateep (Thai)

Hermit Mio

Voiced by: Kanon Takao (Japanese), Xanthe Huynh (English) Foreign VAsLea Mariage (German), Karla Carrizo (Latin American Spanish), Charlotte Hervieux (French), Laura Valastro (Italian), Carol Crespo (Portuguese), Sansanee Tinkeeradit (Thai)

Valkyrie Yuna

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese), Rebeka Thomas (English) Foreign VAsDoris Quevas (Latin American Spanish), Déborah Perret (French), Tamara Fagnocchi (Italian), Evie Saide (Portuguese)

Later Members

Homura Kōgetsu

Rutherford Siblings

Jinn (Kris Rutherford)

Voiced by: Yūki Shin (Japanese), Jonah Scott (English) Foreign VAsJulien Haggege (German), Felipe Waldhorn (Latin American Spanish), Benjamin Gasquet (French), Federico Viola (Italian), Renan Ribeiro (Portuguese), Manaswin Maliwong (Thai)

Ether Gear: Wind Rage

Kleene Rutherford

Voiced by: Rumi Ōkubo (Japanese) Foreign VAsAzul Valadez (Latin American Spanish), Manon Adolphe (French)

Ether Gear: Wind Snatch

Other Crew Members

Mosco Versa-0

Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata (Japanese), Brock Foster Powell (English) Foreign VAsJavier Jiménez (Latin American Spanish), Nicolas Justamon [Season 2, ep. 26-38], Emmanuel Gradi [Season 2, ep. 39-50] (French), Aswin Kamlobol (Thai)

Laguna Husert

Voiced by: Taku Yashiro (Japanese) Foreign VAsMarc Winslow (Latin American Spanish), Jim Redler (French)

Ether Gear: Tears Lover

Couchpo (Chloé Françoise Ai)

Voiced by: Satomi Arai (Japanese), Janice Kawaye (English) Foreign VAsKarla Carrizo (Latin American Spanish), Daria Levannier (French), Giada Sabellico (Italian), Karina Fonseca (Portuguese)

Walking Spoilers (unmarked spoilers for Chapters 169 onward)

Captain Connor (Universe 3)

Labilia Christy

Cosmo

Rebecca Bluegarden (Universe 3173)

Alternative Title(s): Edens Zero Demon Kings Four Shining Stars

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