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The Final World
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Mother and Her Associates
Mother
Mother
Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Colleen Clinkenbeard (English) Foreign VAs
The Goddess of the Cosmos, a planet-sized entity who is said to grant any wish. Because she exists outside the known universe, very few believe she is actually real, and those who do always come back empty-handed if they survive the voyage to find her. Shiki has made it his goal to be the first to prove her existence, fueled by his need to know why she feels so familiar to him...
- The Archmage: Xiaomei refers to her as "the Great Sorceress" whose powers are capable of creating all life in the universe and granting any wish.
- Barrier Maiden: Mother's Ether is supplied across the entire Grand Shiki Cosmos to the human race, which dies out after Mother vanishes in nearly every world across the Multiverse. This also applies to machines, who would be able to sustain themselves on her leftover Ether for the next 20,000 years before running dry.
- Eyes Always Shut: She has her eyes shut in most of her scant few appearances across the series until Shiki sees a vision of her on Red Cave through her residual Ether left behind by one of her Relics.
- Gaia's Lament: As the planet Earth, she started losing her Ether from constant war and the destruction of nature, made worse by pollution, disease, and natural disasters across the globe, which nearly turned the world into an uninhabitable wasteland.
- Genius Loci: It's speculated by the Edens Zero crew that people once lived directly on Mother, evidenced by all of her Relics being manmade objects such as a candelabra, bottle caps, dice, and even a skyscraper. This is confirmed in the final arc, where it's revealed she used to be a planet—more specifically, Planet Earth.
- Giant Woman: Exaggerated to one of its most logical extremes, as she is a woman the size of a planet.
- Good Is Not Nice: Downplayed. When Shiki and his friends finally meet Mother, she offers Shiki a Sadistic Choice between saving her, which would ensure eternal peace but kill everyone who died in other universes (Shiki included), or guaranteeing everyone else's survival at the cost of her death, which would eventually lead to everyone's extinction anyway. However, she is very understanding over what a difficult and cruel choice it is, and sympathetically gives Shiki all the facts he needs to make his decision.
- Green-Skinned Space Babe: She has an incredibly alluring appearance on top of having a blue- and white-striped face.
- Have You Seen My God?: At some point in the future of almost every Alternate Universe—indicated to be very shortly after the Lendard arc—Mother dies and vanishes without a trace, and no more Ether is produced without her. By the year X20492, the universe is in its dying stages with humans long extinct and robots slowly shutting down as their Ether supplies dwindle.
- Living on Borrowed Time: In her original form as Earth, she was on the verge of a Class 5 apocalypse that would leave her incapable of supporting any life. Her transformation into Mother helped stall her death for a good twenty-thousand years, but by the start of the story, she's only a minimum of three years away from dying for good.
- MacGuffin Super-Person: Zig-Zagged. Her ability to grant wishes makes her sought after by many, but the heroes are more interested in befriending her and/or filming her for online cred. Her death is also sought by the Big Bad, who wants to wipe out humanity, since humans can't survive without Mother supplying Ether to them.
- Make a Wish: Mother has the ability to grant anyone who reaches her their wishes, such as Xiaomei's oracle powers.
- Meaningful Name: She is called "Mother" as a Mother Goddess who can supposedly reincarnate anyone who finds her. It also doubles as Foreshadowing to her true identity as "Mother Earth".
- Mother Nature: Her true identity is the Overdrive form of Earth.
- Mother Goddess: As the "parent of the cosmos", she's responsible for creating the universe and all life within it as the characters know it, and those who find her are rumored to be "born again" in some way.
- Mysterious Watcher: She somehow knows what's going on in the universe, and closely observes Shiki's adventure.
- Physical God: She is viewed as some kind of space goddess by those who know of her.
- Reclining Reigner: As the being who regulates peace throughout the Grand Shiki Cosmos, she is always shown lounging casually on a throne of planetoids.
- Sensual Spandex: She appears to wear some manner of skintight spandex that leaves very little of her body to the imagination. Given that its color matches her skin, it's hard to tell where the exposed skin ends and the outfit begins.
- Shrouded in Myth: No one knows who she is, how she was born, or why she exists. Given what little anybody knows of her beyond what she looks like, many doubt she exists and tends to disbelieve anyone who claims to have met her. Even the omniscient Xiaomei, one of the few people who's met her personally, had most other knowledge of Mother erased and is forbidden to know where she can be found. Eventually the final arc fully explores her origins as planet Earth itself.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Rachel reveals at the end of the Lendard arc that Mother is on death's door, which would spell the immediate end of the human race once she's gone, and the gradual decay of all mechanical life over the next tens of thousands of years.
Xiaomei
Xiaomei
Voiced by: Honoka Inoue (Japanese), Jenny Yokobori (English) Foreign VAs
The Time Oracle, a legendary fortune-teller who was reborn through Mother with knowledge of virtually all things past, present, and future within the universe. She can also see past the wall between fiction and reality, and serves as the self-described narrator of the story.
- Anime Chinese Girl: She's a cute girl with the standard Chinese name and a Qipao.
- Blessed with Suck: Defied. She realized how boring being omniscient would be if she knew everything that will ever happen, so she put a limit on her powers so she could only see a Multiple-Choice Future for any battle that hasn't happened yet, thereby giving her something she can enjoy in real time.
- Can't Live Without You: As Earth's Moon, she is essentially a part of Mother and would disappear along with her.
- Character Narrator: Xiaomei is the narrator of the story, but also plays a role within it.
- Covert Pervert: She gives off a mysterious and dignified aura when giving others her fortunes, but the moment she's about to watch a battle, she turns into an immodest, slobbering pervert who can't contain her arousal.
- Dissonant Serenity: She always speaks to readers with a polite smile, including while warning the reader about the story's more "sadistic" elements.
- Dub Name Change: The Japanese version of her title ("Time Oracle") is Tokiyomi, which more accurately means "Time Reader".
- Feet-First Introduction: In the anime, the first shown of her is a close up shot of her bare feet before she formally introduces herself.
- Flowers of Femininity: She's a beautiful and feminine fortune teller who wears a lily flower on the right side of her hair.
- Fourth-Wall Observer: She's the only character who speaks directly to the reader within the story. However, she only blatantly addresses the reader when others aren't around, shifting between roles as a narrator and a character within the story when necessary.
- Genius Loci: Her original form was Planet Earth's Moon, much like how Mother was once Earth itself.
- Genki Girl: She gets very energetic when she's about to watch a battle, to the point where it's practically a fetish for her.
- Greek Chorus: She comments on the story by directly cluing the reader into what direction it's heading in.
- I Have Many Names: "Xiaomei" is one of two names she uses, and the one she's known as within the Grand Shiki Cosmos. Her name outside the cosmos is "Luna", which was given to her in her original form as Earth's Moon.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: She personally met Mother when she received her Time Oracle powers from her, but in exchange, she had to surrender her memory of Mother's whereabouts, which are also blocked from her view of time.
- Magical Barefooter: She's a mystical fortune teller and is always barefoot.
- Mood-Swinger: Depending on the situation, she switches back and forth between a dignified oracle and a battle-crazed Genki Girl who gets off on watching people fight on a dime, with the latter completely ruining her mysterious aura for the crew.
- Not So Omniscient After All: She is rumored to know everything across all of time and space, but it turns out there are two things beyond her knowledge. One is the outcome of any battle that has yet to happen (specifically, she sees all possible outcomes, but can never be certain which will occur and how), which she does entirely by choice to keep herself...entertained. The other is the exact location of Mother, which she forfeited her knowledge of in exchange for her powers in the first place.
- The Omniscient: She has complete knowledge of anything and everything in the universe, from crushes to the weather to military secrets. However, she turns out to be Not So Omniscient After All when she explains the concept of a Multiple-Choice Future (mainly just in regards to battles), and is completely blind to Mother's whereabouts as the price for her powers.
- Power at a Price: As compensation for receiving her powers of omniscience from Mother, Xiaomei had to forfeit her memory of Mother's exact whereabouts, along with any rights to knowing it.
- Red Baron: She calls herself the "Time Oracle" for her ability to see almost everything and anything across all of time.
- Sex Is Violence: Zig-Zagged. She gets aroused while watching other people fight, rather than actually doing the fighting herself, as seen when she rambles about "the collision of muscle on muscle" and "blood and sweat flying everywhere" while drooling and trembling with hearts in her eyes. However, she states she gets excited because it's the one thing she can't predict with certainty, not necessarily because of the combat itself.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: Her Qipao completely exposes her shoulders and travels down to her hips in a V-shape.
- Sexy Slit Dress: She wears a red Qipao with a slit showing off her right leg.
- Stealth Mentor: During the Mildian arc, Xiaomei gives some odd prerequisites for Shiki's group to gain access to her knowledge, first by having them enter her temple barefoot, and then by putting them through a miniature Tournament Arc, which includes pitting Homura against a copy of Valkyrie. Rebecca eventually figures out in the following arc that the tournament was devised to foreshadow the crew's battles in the Sun Jewel arc, as well as to emotionally prepare Homura for Valkyrie's death, while the barefoot entry was one of several clues Xiaomei left to help Rebecca awaken her foot-based Ether Gear.
- Willfully Weak: She placed a restriction on her own powers so she could never know the outcome of a battle, just so she wouldn't get bored knowing every conceivable thing that will happen in the future. As a result, looking ahead to the end of a battle would show her a Multiple-Choice Future with potential consequences depending on who wins or loses.
The Precursors (Unmarked Spoilers)
The Precursors
A group of eight humans who lived on Earth before its transformation into Mother 20,000 years ago. Ziggy discovered their bodies along with Shiki after the Chronophage briefly reverted Mother to her planetary state, using them as the basis for the Four Shining Stars and Four Dark Stars.
- Death by Origin Story: They gave their lives to ensure humans like Shiki could have a future, while the Four Shining Stars and Four Dark Stars were built in their image.
- No Full Name Given: Only their first names are known, excepting Killer's human model whose name isn't mentioned.
- Posthumous Character: Flashbacks show that they cooperated to develop the Ether Overdrive theory that transformed Earth into Mother 20,000 years ago. Sadly, they still died when Earth was destroyed by natural disasters.
- Precursor Heroes: Although most of them were ordinary citizens of Earth, their efforts to Overdrive their planet directly led to the creation of Mother and the Grand Shiki Cosmos.
- Small Role, Big Impact: They're only seen alive in flashbacks from 20,000 years ago, but their actions are crucial to the creation of Mother and the Grand Shiki Cosmos. Ziggy also used the data he gathered from them to create the Four Shining Stars and the Four Dark Stars.
- Together in Death: As Earth was being destroyed, the eight of them stayed together until their final moments. Ziggy discovered their bodies, all closely lying together in the same room.
Regret
A defense attorney from New York, and Shiki's birth mother. She was used as Witch's model to give Shiki a mother figure.
- Go Out with a Smile: Her body is shown smiling as she holds her living son.
- Happily Married: She was married to Leonard, and they looked happy together.
- Hello, Attorney!: She was a gorgeous woman who worked as an attorney.
- Hollywood Genetics: Shiki is her biological son, but his black hair is completely different from the green hair of Regret and her husband Leonard.
- Missing Mom: She died when her son Shiki was a baby.
Leonard
Regret's husband and Shiki's biological father. He was Wizard's model.
- Crusading Lawyer: He was a good man and an attorney who was skilled enough to be called a "magician of the courtroom".
- Disappeared Dad: He died when his son Shiki was a baby.
- Happily Married: He was married to Regret, and they looked happy together.
Ivry
A woman who was college friends with Regret and Yuna. To cure her terminal illness, Yuna used her as a test subject for Ether treatment. She was Sister's model.
- Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Cooper used Ether therapy to cure Ivry of her terminal illness, but she still died when Earth was destroyed by natural disasters.
- Delicate and Sickly: Ivry suffered from a Soap Opera Disease that left her weak and bed-ridden, a far cry from her brash and energetic android duplicate. After Cooper cured her, she behaved closer to how Sister does.
- I Owe You My Life: After getting cured of her Soap Opera Disease thanks to her friends and Cooper, Ivry spent the last months before Earth's destruction trying to make it up to them all.
- Unwitting Test Subject: Yuna used Ivry as a guinea pig while Ivry was undergoing an experimental Ether treatment to be cured of her terminal illness, which helped Yuna's research in sending Earth into Overdrive.
Cooper
The doctor who healed Ivry from her illness. He was Clown's model.
- Accidental Hero: Cooper was the first man on Earth to practice Ether therapy—stimulating a person's Ether to remove all abnormalities from it—as a way of stopping an unknown plague with no known cure. While this is heroic in and of itself, it also gave Yuna and Mio the idea to use the same method on their dying planet's Ether to send it into Overdrive and save it from total ruin.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: When Earth was being destroyed, Cooper prioritized getting his patients to safety instead of trying to save himself.
- Nice Guy: He was a very kindhearted and selfless man who was devoted to saving his patients.
- Super Doc: He was a master-class surgeon people called an "acrobat of operation", and successfully cured Ivry of a seemingly untreatable disease by stimulating her body's Ether, something no other doctor had put into practice before.
Mio
A Japanese student. Alongside her senpai, she traveled to America to meet Yuna and aid in her research. She was Hermit's model.
- Joshikousei: She was a young Japanese girl and wore a classical Sailor Fuku female school uniform.
- Teen Genius: Mio was a computer genius capable of hacking into the Large Hadron Collider and using it to send the Earth into Overdrive.
- Token Minority: Mio and her senpai were the only Japanese among the eight Precursor Heroes, as the others were American.
Mio's Senpai
An upperclassman from Mio's school. He was Killer's model.
- No Name Given: Killer's human model is only addressed as Mio's senpai.
Yuna
An American physicist who develop the Ether theory when Earth was heading towards destruction. She was Valkyrie's model.
- The Ace: Yuna was both a renowned physicist and a professional surfer.
- Ignored Expert: Yuna scientifically proved the existence of Ether beyond all doubt, yet her plan to replenish Earth's Ether by sending the planet into Overdrive didn't receive the government's approval, as they deemed it to be insane. When the Earth started getting destroyed by worldwide natural disasters as a result, Yuna decided to force an Overdrive anyway.
Howard
An American surfer who had a close relationship with Yuna. He was Brigandine's model.
- Ambiguously Related: He has the same skin and hair tone as Yuna, and they had a close and trusting friendship, but nothing is said for certain about how the two were connected.
- Satellite Character: Compared to all the others, Howard has no role or agency outside his support for Yuna.
- Surfer Dude: Downplayed. He doesn't speak like a stereotypical surfer, but has the laid-back and simple-minded attitude, and makes surfing a part of his identity.
The Chronophage
In General
The Chronophage
A space monster that passes through the universe and devours the time of planets, rewinding them to an earlier state and leaving alternate histories in their place.
- Accidental Hero: By eating Mother's time and turning her back into Earth by the time Ziggy reached her, the Chronophage is unwittingly responsible for creating a temporal duplicate of Shiki whom Ziggy rescued, saving Shiki from dying like the original Shiki did when Earth went into Overdrive 20,000 years ago.
- Beast of the Apocalypse: Any world caught in the Chronophage's path suffers a planetary level Class Z, and nothing can stop it. The only way for anyone to save themselves from this creature is to get far, far out of its way.
- Clock Roaches: As revealed in the Lendard arc, the Chronophage is attracted to planets where someone has gone against the flow of time, since it can sense time fluctuations and home in on them like a beacon. Such is the case with Rebecca's time-leaping, though it's not necessarily a guarantee one will appear.
- Create Your Own Hero: The Chronophage is the reason that Shiki—who is actually a temporal duplicate of a human who died as an infant when Earth changed into Mother 20,000 years ago—was able to be taken in by his own future self, since he wouldn't have existed had the Chronophage not eaten over 20,000 years of Mother's time and changed her back into Earth.
- Diabolus ex Machina: The Chronophage shows up in the Guilst arc while the Edens Zero crew is in the middle of rescuing Sister, leading to a harrowing escape scene. This creature's actions also unleash Drakken Joe into the universe when he's forced to escape the planet as well.
- Dub Name Change: It's known in the series' native Japanese language as Tokihami, which roughly means "time eater" in much the same way as its English name.
- Eldritch Abomination: Its nature and abilities are completely alien. The first image of it feeding on a planet only reveals a strange, vaguely draconic shape made of energy ribbons. It reappears in the Guilst arc with more defined serpentine traits, with its most discernible feature being a gaping maw full of sharp teeth that unhinges like a snake when it eats a planet.
- Energy Beings: Its body has no physical mass, evidenced by the way one swallows Guilst whole and moves straight through it while the planet remains in the same spot.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The Chronophage is considered to be a greater threat to the cosmos than any of the villains the heroes face, simply because absolutely nothing can be done to avoid or undo the damage it causes by erasing planets and displacing parts of history. The Chronophage is also the reason that Ziggy's mission of heading to Universe Zero and saving Mother ended with him crashing onto Granbell and being Trapped in the Past without his memories, setting up the events that lead to Ziggy's adoption of Shiki, the creation of the Four Shining Stars, and the construction of the Big Bad, the Edens One.
- Meaningful Name: The word "Chronophage" means "time-consuming", which fits its description perfectly.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: The anime adaptation gives the Chronophage a red and black coloration to go with its nature as a great cosmic evil.
- Single Specimen Species: The Chronophage is the only one of its kind. This leads to a Dub-Induced Plot Hole across all official English translations that posit there is more than one Chronophage, which persists until the final arc when Shiki makes it his mission to destroy the Chronophage to end its to the cosmos menace for good.
- Spacetime Eater: It devours the time of planets they visit, permanently rewinding those planets to an earlier state and creating a copy of everything on those planets at that point in history. The only thing that remains of the planet's original form becomes a cloud-like energy field called a "spacetime wall", which makes leaving the planet impossible for all but the most skilled pilots.
- Temporal Duplication: As a side effect of the Chronophage eating a planet's time, it replaces said planet with an earlier copy of itself and everyone who lived on it up to the point where the Chronophage finishes its meal, all without triggering a Temporal Paradox, since eating a planet's history doesn't mean its history never happened. Such is how a younger version of Weisz is able to leave the planet and live a radically different life without affecting his present-day self, who escaped the planet.
The Heart (Unmarked Spoilers)
The Heart of the Chronophage
A female figure who exists in the belly of the Chronophage.
- Domain Holder: The Chronophage's belly is its own little pocket dimension that she can control.
- Kick Chick: As a Cat Leaper user, she uses her legs to fight.
- Malevolent Masked Woman: She wears a cat-eared mask with no facial features except a single, glaring, pupilless eye surrounded by crack-like veins.
- Rapunzel Hair: She has long, wavy hair that nearly reaches the base of her feet.
- Samus Is a Girl: The core of the Chronophage is a mysterious woman whose desire to regain her lost time fuels its hunger for the time of planets.
Heavenly Knights of the Dancing Sakura
In General
Heavenly Knights of the Dancing Sakura
An order of twelve heroes who lived and protected the Sakura Cosmos during the Dark Ages. Its members are memorialized as colossi at Iron Hill, a monumental satellite that orbits Blue Garden.
- Ambiguous Gender: The statues are completely covered in armor from head to toe, so it's impossible to tell the gender ratio from sight.
- Badass Cape: At least eight members have worn them, if their colossi are anything to go by.
- Memorial Statue: Iron Hill is a colossal, cherry blossom-shaped satellite with a statue of each Knight standing at the tip of one of its petals, serving to "guard" Blue Garden as they supposedly did during the Dark Ages. It's such an enormous construct that Hermit looks to be about the size of an ant when perched on top of one of the colossi's heads.
- Precursor Heroes: They're well known to have guarded the Sakura Cosmos during the Dark Ages.
- Sinister Scythe: One of the Knights' statues is shown carrying one.
- Staff of Authority: The hero Arcelik allegedly carried an elaborate staff with a bird of prey perched on top of it.
- Sword Plant: The colossus of Orgia strikes this pose.
Xenolith
Xenolith
The founder of the Magimech School of Gravity Martial Arts. He died as a human one thousand years ago, but his mind and spirit live on in the body of a robot.
See EDENS ZERO: Grand Shiki Cosmos for more information.
Creatures and Machines
Dragons
Dragons
Gargantuan creatures that soar through the cosmos like comets. Countless dragons swarm in a hazardous region of space bordering the Sakura Cosmos called Dragonfall.
- Always a Bigger Fish: Rebecca's Aqua Wing is hardly as big as a dragon's eyeball, yet a dragon itself is about the size of a firefly compared to Mother.
- Breath Weapon: The dragons built by God Acnoella can fire a Wave-Motion Gun from their mouths as if they were breathing fire.
- Cybernetic Mythical Beast: If not for the fact that they're confirmed to be living, independent creatures, one could easily assume dragons to be spaceships in the shape of one.
- Giant Flyer: A variant that's dreadnaught-sized and flies through space.
- Gold-Colored Superiority: Dragons are among some of the most powerful entities in the series, marked by their universally golden coloration.
- Mecha-Mooks: God Acnoella mass-produces dragons through her Möbius System, making them more resilient and destructive than the ones in Dragonfall.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Dragons in EDENS ZERO are Cybernetic Mythical Beasts that live exclusively in space and can devour spaceships whole.
- Red Herring: The series' introductory scene features Shiki, Ziggy, and Michael spotting what appears to be a comet while stargazing, and questioning whether or not it's really a dragon. By the end of the first chapter/episode, it appears to be confirmed as a dragon when Shiki has his first proper sighting of one after mistaking it for a comet. Just before the final arc, however, the scene repeats to show what Shiki saw that day was actually neither a dragon nor a comet; it was the Edens Zero itself traveling back in time to Universe Zero.
- That's No Moon: They're so massive and luminous that they can easily be mistaken for comets from a distance.
- Wave-Motion Gun: God Acnoella's dragons have a hyperthermic laser beam as a Breath Weapon, which can instantly incinerate several spaceships at once.
Kawpicatt S4
Kawpicatt S4
Mimetic alien parasites that copy the appearances of humans. They're considered to be pests due to their tendency to infest ships.
- Combat Tentacles: Their forearms can change into tentacles that extend and secrete adhesive slime to attack and ensnare their victims.
- Dub Name Change: "Kawpicatt" is a close approximation of their original Japanese name, Nīteru, which is a pun on the word niteru, meaning "similar-looking".
- Octopoid Aliens: Shiki thinks they're some kind of space octopus going by their tentacle limbs, though when one reverts to its actual form, it's a small, slimy oculothorax.
- Punny Name: "Kawpicatt" is a corruption of the word "copycat", suiting their nature as mimickers.
- Shapeshifter Default Form: The Kawpicatts' default form is that of a tiny little Blob Monster with a single eye.
- Shapeshifting: They can mimic the appearance of humans using traces of DNA. Once incapacitated, they revert to their base forms.
- Skull for a Head: The Kawpicatt mimicking Elsie has a terrifying skull face with Glowing Eyes of Doom.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: The one imitating Elsie is the first opponent Shiki faces whom he truly struggles against. It takes awakening his partial Overdrive for the first time in order to defeat it, and even then, Elsie boasts that the creature is far weaker than she is.
- Zombie Gait: They slowly shamble around like zombies, though their Combat Tentacles help pick up the slack with their elasticity and long reach.
TB 7000
TB 7000
A training android that can copy the appearance, personality, and combat abilities of any fighter.
- Ditto Fighter: The TB 7000 can be programmed with the information of any warrior, mimicking not just their techniques, but their appearance, voice, behavior, and memories. The only things they can't account for are raw power and skill, which is how Homura is able to beat a TB 7000 disguised as a replica of her Master Swordswoman teacher.
- Holographic Disguise: This bot uses holograms to convincingly pass off as anyone the programmer wants.
- Replacement Goldfish: Xiaomei invokes and deconstructs this trope by programming a TB 7000 to act like a replica of Valkyrie, which shares all of her knowledge and memories of Homura with the real version, but none of the emotional attachment. This serves as a warning to the crew of what they would get if they ever tried to bring Valkyrie Back from the Dead.
