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Sakura Cosmos

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The Sakura Cosmos ("Cherry Blossom Cosmos") is where the vast majority of the Edens Zero crew call home, and the place where their journey begins. Distinguished by a flurry of cherry blossom petals that dance about through the quadrant, it represents the season of Spring in the larger Grand Shiki Cosmos.

    In General 
  • Adapted Out: In the manga's first chapter, the cherry blossom petals are shown to come from a glowing cherry tree that floats in space. This tree is removed in the anime.
  • Crapsaccharine World: At a glance, the Sakura Cosmos seems like a peaceful and beautiful place with its welcoming cherry blossom petals and wondrous planets. Behind the scenes, however, it's practically governed by the intergalactic crime lord Drakken Joe through its criminal underworld, turning one of its planets, Guilst, into a place where all crimes in the book are legal.
  • Floral Theme Naming: Like three of the four Cosmoses, the Sakura Cosmos is named after a plant, specifically the cherry blossom.
  • Seasonal Baggage: It represents Spring in the Grand Shiki Cosmos ("Shiki" meaning "Four Seasons"), since the cherry blossom is a springtime flower.

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Brown Sea

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A confectionary resort planet with an ocean made out of chocolate.

    In General 
  • Level Ate: The planet is covered in an ocean of liquid chocolate, with cloud formations reminiscent of multi-flavored scoops of ice cream.

Digitalis

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The Super Virtual Planet, which outsiders "dive" into by uploading their consciousness into digital bodies. This world is a server for the fully-immersive fantasy MMORPG Rogue Fantasia, which was abandoned by its developers after its NPCs gained sentience and formed their own society, though the planet's rules remain in effect for players who choose to come.

    In General 
  • And I Must Scream: One NPC fully recalls the "nightmare" of only being able to say pre-programmed dialogue and finding solace whenever players were fortunate enough to unlock new things for him to say.
  • Cyberspace: Digitalis is both a virtual reality and a real planet where players must "dive" (i.e., upload their minds) to interact with it.
  • Double Meaning: The name "Digitalis" is both the name of a genus of plant, and an allusion to the planet's nature as a digital world.
  • Gender Bender: Players can make their Digital Avatar the opposite sex if they so choose.
  • Grew Beyond Their Programming: Originally, bosses could only be fought and every NPC would only have about one or two lines of dialogue. Eventually, their AI began evolving into what is now a sprawling world of freethinking people almost indistinguishable from ordinary humans.
  • No Fair Cheating: Anyone who tries tampering with the programming will result in their account getting banned from the game. Unfortunately, this doesn't cover players who hack others' accounts to benefit themselves or any other third person.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The planet's digital lifeforms are generally disregarded as clusters of data rather than fully sentient beings that can think and feel. As such, they are subject to acts of senseless violence and cruelty, or at least total indifference, on the account that they're "just data". This behavior ironically includes robots, who are commonly given the exact same treatment from humans.
  • Your Mind Makes It Real: Because players have to upload their minds into the planet, getting injured or killed in Rogue Fantasia results in same thing happening to them in the real world.

    Shinobi Troll 

The Shinobi Troll

Voiced by: Shunichi Maki (Japanese), Tom Fahn (English) Foreign VAs

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A friendly monster who serves as an event boss near the town of Crysta.


  • Affectionate Nickname: One of the girls in Crysta calls him "Shino" for short after he helps defend the town, which he takes a liking to.
  • Corner of Woe: He starts sulking when Weisz says he doesn't care that he accidentally spoiled the plot of his own event.
  • Dub Name Change: He's called the "Trollburglar" in the official English simulpub, which likewise afects his nickname, "Burgle". This receives a Sudden Name Change in Kodansha's volume release, which switches both names to the more accurate "Shinobi Troll" and "Shino" in Japanese, respectively.
  • Eye Scream: In the manga, one of the Magical Beast Army's arrows hits him in the eye while he's Taking the Bullet for the town.
  • Face of a Thug: He may be a terrifying monster whom players are tasked with defeating, but he would ordinarily be revealed in an in-game Plot Twist to be Good All Along, and is an absolute sweetheart besides.
  • Gentle Giant: He's roughly twice Shiki's size at a bare minimum, but he is kindhearted and uses his girth to defend.
  • Hero with Bad Publicity: His backstory designates him as the guardian spirit of Crysta who is mistaken for an evil monster by the townsfolk. That changes when he defends the town from Jamilov and the Magical Beast Army, and is seen for the good creature he truly is.
  • Not Quite Dead: He seemingly falls over dead after sacrificing himself to protect the town, but he later turns up perfectly fine despite his injuries.
  • Taking the Bullet: He heroically shields the people of Crysta from the Magical Beast Army's crossbows with his bulky body.
  • Verbal Tic: He ends his Japanese sentences with the archaic de gozaru verb form, while in English, he tacks "-eth" at the ends of his verbs.
  • Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: The English translation gives him the habit of ending certain words with "-eth", including nouns.

    Guiron 

Guiron

Voiced by: Takuya Nakashima (Japanese), Derek Stephen Prince (English) Foreign VAs

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The commander of the Magical Beast Army. Ordinarily a sub-boss, he is reprogrammed by Jamilov to follow his orders.


  • Adaptational Badass: He lasts a good deal longer as a boss in Pocket Galaxy, which gives him new attacks such as creating pools of poison and tornadoes.
  • Bad Boss: His Establishing Character Moment shows him turning a tiny goblin soldier of his into a bloody stain after landing on top of him.
  • Berserk Button: He gets peeved when someone brings up the fact that he's just a side-character without a backstory, something he admits he's very insecure about.
  • Bird People: He's an avian monster with the build of a Winged Humanoid and talons for feet.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: He and his army are reprogrammed by Jamilov into willingly becoming experience fodder for him.
  • Flat Character: Justified, as he was programmed to be nothing more than a sub-boss with no relevance beyond serving as an obstacle for players. He's quite annoyed by this fact.
  • Hypocritical Humor: He demeans the Shinobi Troll for being a mere sub-boss, but gets defensive when Shino retorts he's also a sub-boss, and not a very interesting one at that.
  • Monster Lord: He's in charge of a monster army filled with goblins, bat-cat hybrids, werewolves, and four-legged behemoths.
  • Punny Name: His name is a pun on giro, the Japanese onomatopoeia for glaring, like the Death Glare he gives the Edens Zero crew.
  • The Worf Effect: He looks like a big, tough monster, but is taken down by Shiki with a single kick.

    Turn-to-Timonium 

Turn-to-Timonium

Voiced by: Reigo Yamaguchi, Ayaka Shimizu (Japanese), Emma Martello (English)

A breed of noble "white horse" (actually a purple rabbit-like creature) that players of Rogue Fantasia can add to their parties on Digitalis. They are known as "Tantimo" for short.


  • Adaptation Dye-Job: In Rave Master, Tanchimo is colored in a shade of lavender with red lips and black eyes. Here, Amira's Tantimo is a darker shade of purple while Homura's has a noticeably reddish hue, and both have white lips and eyes.
  • Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": He's supposedly a horse, if a horse was actually a giant, head-wagging rabbit with frog lips.
  • Expy: Like Nikora/Plue, he is exported directly from Rave Master, where he served as the Rave Warriors' "carriage horse" in their search for the Rave stones, which his in-game backstory also alludes to.
  • Knee Capping: Homura's Tantimo falls victim to this in the manga, where Amira shoots it in the knee to build distance. Averted in the anime, where she trips it by shooting down a tree branch instead.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Tantimo's Japanese name is unchanged from how it's spelled in Rave Master, "Tanchimo", but is nonetheless changed here.

Granbell

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The homeworld of Demon King Ziggy, and the planet where Shiki grew up and the Four Shining Stars were built. Its defining feature is the Granbell Kingdom, a fantasy theme park that hasn't seen a visitor in 100 years before Rebecca and Happy. Apart from Shiki, the planet's sole inhabitants are the robots that run the establishment.

    In General 
  • Abandoned Playground: The whole planet is a theme park that hasn't received human customers for a century until Rebecca comes along.
  • Amusement Park of Doom: Subverted. The Granbell Kingdom seems to become this once the robotic animatronics decide they've had enough of being abandoned and forgotten, but it turns out to be an act.
  • Androids Are People, Too: Despite being machines, they all see Shiki as their friend. As such, they hate having to trick him into thinking they don't, knowing that the loneliness he'd suffer would be far worse.
  • Apocalypse How: Mere moments after Shiki leaves with Rebecca and Happy, all of the robots permanently cease functioning when their power source finally gives out, making it a Class 3B planetary extinction. The revived Ziggy cranks it up to Class X when he uses his gravity on it, reducing the entire planet to crumbling dust and rubble.
  • Break His Heart to Save Him: The robots are forced to send Shiki away with Rebecca by acting like they've been infected with a virus that turned them against humans, since they're all Secretly Dying and know that Shiki would spend the rest of his life trying to fix him if he learned the truth. It only works because Rebecca drags Shiki off the planet with her, which he comes to terms with while still holding out hope that they'll go back to normal someday.
  • False Friend: Subverted. They all chant that they never were, and could never be, friends with a human, but only to ensure Shiki would leave them so he wouldn't suffer an even worse fate.
  • Fantasy Character Classes: Parodied. All of them play a role of a fantasy character as a way to attract visitors to their planet and each of their roles is unique to each robot.
    • Sir Castellan has the role of being the Lord of the Granbell Kingdom's castle.
    • Michael has the role of being a wizard that watches Shiki.
    • Mirtha is the barmaid of Granbell.
    • John acts as the tailor.
    • Annie has to role of being the cook.
    • Shiki has the role of being Granbell's engineer, despite not having the skills to be an actual engineer. His role upon changing into a thief is played for laughs when he steals Weisz's brief case and childishly admits to not wanting to give it back.
  • Feudal Future: The Granbell Kingdom is a medieval fantasy kingdom where everyone is a robot. Justified as it is a fantasy-themed amusement park designed to give an immersive experience.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: The robots' Black Bead Eyes begin to glow an ominous white when they declare their intent to Kill All Humans.
  • Lying to Protect Your Feelings: They don't need Shiki to repair them since they rely on their auto-repair systems, but back when Shiki first gave it a shot when he was little, he was so proud of himself that the robots didn't have the heart to tell him they were actually just fixing themselves.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • The name "Granbell" comes from the Edens Zero's emergency alarms when Ziggy crash-landed on the planet after traveling 20,000 years from the future, the sound of which reminded him of a large bell (or in other words, a "grand bell").
    • Granbell's name in Universe 3173, Eden, is the partial inspiration of the Edens Zero's name; the other part comes from its intended destination, Universe Zero, and the engraving on Rebecca's B-Cube, unearthed 20,000 years in the future. Also, it harkens back to the Garden of Eden, serving as a dying paradise where machines worship the universe's creator, Mother.
  • Meaningful Rename: A multiversal variation occurs in the future of Universe 3173, where Granbell is known instead as Eden, since Ziggy didn't exist in this universe's past to name the planet.
  • Mr. Exposition: The majority of robots on the planet help explain to Rebecca and Happy a bit about Shiki's past, namely how he was brought to Granbell and raised by the Demon King.
  • Planet of Hats: Except for Shiki, every sentient being on this planet is a robot.
  • Secretly Dying: They've been staving off a permanent power outage for some time, but never had the heart to tell Shiki, knowing he'd waste his life trying to fix them. When Rebecca and Happy present the opportunity for Shiki to escape, they act like they've been infected with a virus to give Rebecca a reason to care enough about not wanting to leave Shiki behind.
  • Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: The bots appear to secretly despise humans, including Shiki, whom they claim to have kept around solely out of respect for the Demon King's wishes. This all turns out to have been a complete act to Shoo the Dog.
  • Small, Secluded World: Granbell is a tiny, backwater planet in the Sakura Cosmos that's built to imitate a medieval world straight out of a fairy tale, so there's no technology or resources suited for space travel like most other planets. This would have spelled certain doom for Shiki, who would've been left to fend for himself after the robots' inevitable deaths had Rebecca and Happy not arrived.
  • Turned Against Their Masters: Invoked by the robots themselves, who act like they've been infected with a virus that gave them self-awareness of the neglect and mistreatment they've endured at the hands of humans, leading them to stage a Robot War
  • Undying Loyalty: The robot citizens, including the Castellan, are unendingly loyal to the benevolent Demon King, and spend the rest of their days trying to carry out his Last Request to get Shiki off the planet so he won't have to suffer being The Aloner once they have all broken down.
  • Walking Spoiler: Knowing that the robots are only pretending to be infected by a virus because they're Secretly Dying is part of the First-Episode Twist.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The robots have suffered an entire century of neglect from humans once they stopped coming to the Granbell Kingdom, with no one bothering to scrap them beforehand. They all inevitably lose power and break down for good when this happens, but not before they use this as their cover story for why they suddenly turn on Shiki and Rebecca, two humans who firmly believe that Androids Are People, Too.
  • What You Are in the Dark: While the others are asleep, the robots begin ominously staring and trembling at Shiki and Rebecca, which seems to lead to the revelation that they hate humans and are plotting to betray them. Then, once they get away thinking the robots have gone mad, they go right back to their old, kind selves, revealing they were preparing to save Shiki by chasing him away before they all died.
  • Your Days Are Numbered: They are privately concerned that their Ether reserves are close to expiring after an entire century of neglect, which happens right after they force Shiki to leave them all behind by pretending to hate humans, sparing him from spending the rest of his days alone on their planet.

    Castellan 

The Castellan

Voiced by: Shinpachi Tsuji (Japanese), Jake Eberle (English) Foreign VAs

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"You are human. We are machine. We cannot be friends."

An old battle robot who plays the lord of the Granbell Kingdom's castle. He leads the planet's robot community following the Demon King's passing.


  • Authority in Name Only: Zig-Zagged. Although he's called the "Castellan" (castle lord), it's just the character he plays at the attraction, and he actually follows the benevolent Demon King. With the Demon King's death, however, he becomes a genuine leader to his community.
  • Blue Is Heroic: The anime and video game give him a blue complexion and cape compared to the Demon King's red and black design, which matches his role as the good lord of the kingdom.
  • Casting Gag: In the anime, he's played by the same Japanese actor as Fairy Tail guild master Makarov, Shinpachi Tsuji, likely owing to their similar facial designs. The Castellan is also among the first characters to die in the story, whereas Makarov has multiple brushes with death but never stays down.
  • The Coats Are Off: He tosses aside his cloak when he prepares to fight Shiki and show he means business.
  • Cool Crown: He wears one befitting the ruler of a fantasy kingdom.
  • Dub Name Change:
    • The anime's English dub credits him as the "Castle King", while Shiki addresses him as "Lord Majesty" rather than by his title.
    • Certain foreign translations like the French version translate his title as "king" rather than "castle lord".
  • Face of a Thug: He's a scary-looking Robot Soldier, but he's as warm and kind to Shiki as the rest of the Granbell bots.
  • Go Out with a Smile: He spends his last moments smiling warmly at Shiki for finally beginning his life off-planet, and commending the other robots for playing their parts admirably.
  • Good All Along: His grim expression and battle-oriented body make him look like the story's Obviously Evil Starter Villain, but once he's been defeated, it's revealed his villainy was all just an act motivated for Shiki's well-being.
  • His Name Really Is "Barkeep": He's simply known by his role as lord of the Granbell Kingdom's castle, being a robot designated for that exact function.
  • I Let You Win: He doesn't go all-out when fighting Shiki, only pretending to try and kill him so he'd leave safely. The anime adaptation subtly foreshadows this by showing him slightly misaiming his gunfire every time Shiki dodges to ensure his bullets don't hit.
  • Nice Character, Mean Actor: Subverted. He plays the Good Counterpart to the Demon King at the park, but acts as though he despises humans for leaving him and his kind to rust, and he tries killing both Shiki and Rebecca and stealing the latter's ship to take revenge. In reality, he orchestrated their entire rebellion to give Shiki a reason to leave the planet before they all break down.
  • Pimped-Out Cape: He has a regal cloak that hides most of his robotic frame.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: As a Robot Soldier, he's the second most powerful bot on the planet behind the Demon King (albeit by an incredibly wide margin), and is also second in rank.
  • Reused Character Design: The Castellan bears a striking resemblance to Makarov with a slight redesign beard from the second Time Skip, the main difference being that the Castellan is a large and intimidating Robot Soldier, while Makarov is a Miniature Senior Citizen no taller than an average child. The anime takes it a step further, giving him the same seiyū.
  • Ridiculously Human Robot: Downplayed. While still obviously a machine, the Castellan is the only one on Granbell to have a humanoid face and expressions.
  • Robot Hair: He's got a peculiarly spiked beard, and is a deadly and imposing robot.
  • Robot Soldier: He's a battle bot that was repurposed into a theme park attraction. He shows just how dangerous he is in battle when he turns on Shiki.
  • Starter Villain: Subverted. He poses the first threat the heroes face in the series, and serves as a means to prove the effectiveness of Shiki's powers, but he turns out to have been Good All Along.

    Michael 

Michael

Voiced by: Tomohiro Yamaguchi (Japanese), Shannon McKain (English) Foreign VAs

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"Great Demon King, we kept our promise...but if I knew it was going to make me so sad...if I only knew I would feel so lonely...I never needed a heart in the first place."

A wizard robot and Shiki's closest friend on Granbell.


  • Advertised Extra: He appears prominently in the first key visual showcasing the series' core characters, but he's left behind by Shiki and Rebecca in the first chapter moments before he shuts down and dies.
  • Becoming the Mask: Implied. As a robot who doesn't think he has a heart, he just plays along with being little Shiki's friend because that's his role at the park. By the time Shiki is grown, Michael has fully embraced being friends with him, and reflects on the loneliness he feels in his last moments over driving Shiki off of Granbell.
  • Love Hurts: A platonic example. While reflecting on the Demon King's saying that every being in the universe has a heart, Michael says he wouldn't have wanted one if he had known it'd hurt so much to never see Shiki again.
  • Robe and Wizard Hat: He's modeled after a wizard in a fantasy setting, and he dresses up as one accordingly. However, he has no actual powers to speak of.
  • Robot Buddy: He is Shiki's best friend on Granbell. It thus stings Shiki the most when Michael joins in on the other robots' anti-human creed.
  • Stepford Smiler: As a robot with a smile drawn on his face, he can't make any other expression when betraying Shiki, pretending to be his enemy, or when he's heartbroken to see Shiki leave.
  • Telepath: Subverted. Rebecca thinks he has a mind-reading sensor to know what she was thinking about Shiki, but he says he could understand just by looking at her expression and reading the room. The anime goes the extra mile and has him outright say they have no such sensor.
  • Unable to Cry: Being a robot, he is physically incabable of shedding tears, which he takes as proof that he doesn't have a heart. Despite this, he doesn't feel any less sad when he spends his dying moments watching Shiki leave home.
  • What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: When Shiki is still little, Michael doesn't believe himself to have a heart because he's a machine, and thus doesn't actually fit the requirements of being Shiki's friend. The moment he realizes he has one is when he has to send Shiki away.

    Mithra 

Mithra

Voiced by: Hana Satō (Japanese), Lizzie Freeman (English) Foreign VAs

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A robot barmaid.


  • Asset Actor: Pocket Galaxy gives her a generic robot NPC model instead of her usual design.
  • Bit Character: She's one of the less important Granbell bots with a name, mainly serving to set up the world and Shiki's place in it.
  • The Bartender: She runs the tavern and inn at the theme park, though it's not indicated that she serves alcoholic beverages, as she offers Rebecca a mug of soda instead.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Her name is "Mitra" in Kodansha's simulpub translation of the first chapter.

    John 

John

Voiced by: Motoki Sakuma (Japanese), Kyle Hebert (English) Foreign VAs

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A robot tailor.


  • Asset Actor: Pocket Galaxy gives him a generic robot NPC model instead of his usual design.
  • Bit Character: He's one of the less important Granbell bots with a name, mainly serving to set up the world and Shiki's place in it.
  • One-Steve Limit: Downplayed with the later introduction of Johnny, an Identical Stranger to Michael that Shiki finds on Norma.

    Annie 

Annie

Voiced by: Mei Shibata (Japanese), Jenny Yokobori (English)

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A robot cook.


  • Adapted Out: She doesn't appear or get a mention in Pocket Galaxy.
  • Bit Character: She's one of the less important Granbell bots with a name, mainly serving to set up the world and Shiki's place in it.
  • Supreme Chef: She's in charge of making the food served at the theme park, and does a damn fine job of it, given Rebecca's glowing reaction to her food.

Guilst

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A Wood Ether-rich planet where towns are built on the branches of a colossal tree known as Mechdrasil. Guilst was once a natural paradise and popular tourist spot, but after falling under the influence of the crime lord Drakken Joe, it has since gained infamy as the Planet of Criminals, a festering ground for every known illegal activity in the cosmos.

    In General 
  • Cozy Catastrophe: In the ultimate form of irony, the Chronophage ends up turning Guilst back into a natural paradise devoid of crime and untouched by modern technology by eating 1,200 years of the planet's history, which undoes an insurmountable number of human lives and completely erases anyone whose ancestry on the planet doesn't stretch that far back.
  • Crapsack World: It doesn't get much more crapsack than a planet where every conceivable crime is totally fair game.
  • Dub Name Change: "Mechdrasil" is known in Japan as the Kikaiju (機械樹), which is a pun on the words kikai (機械), meaning "machine", and Sekaiju (世界樹), meaning World Tree.
  • Gaia's Vengeance: Before Guilst's time can be totally rewound by the Chronophage, its Wood Ether kicks into overdrive and causes Mechdrasil to grow uncontrollably, totally demolishing virtually every manmade structure before the Chronophage finally finishes its meal.
  • Meaningful Name: "Mechdrasil" is a portmanteau of "mechanical" and "Yggdrasil". Its original Japanese name, Kikaiju, follows the exact same meaning.
  • Penal Colony: The Interstellar Union Army treats the planet as one for Drakken Joe, the biggest criminal in the Sakura Cosmos, allowing him full control of the planet in an attempt to contain his influence. This backfires when he evacuates the planet to escape the Chronophage before it devours the planet.
  • Soiled City on a Hill: More like a soiled planet. Guilst was once a popular tourist venue that existed in harmony with nature until Drakken Joe turned it into a cesspool of greed and lawlessness. Rather than stop him, the government ultimately let him have the planet, since it was enough to sate his criminal tendencies. Unfortunately, Drakken's new society is undone not because of anything he or its citizens do, but because a passing Chronophage eats the planet's time, which restores Guilst to its natural beauty, but erases countless lives and unleashes Joe onto the cosmos at large.
  • Tree Top Town: Guilst's entire civilization exists on layered platforms built on the branches of Mechdrasil.
  • World Tree: The entire planet is covered in the roots of Mechdrasil, a tree that's visible from outer space. It's so large that its branches serve as a sturdy enough foundation for entire cities to be built on top of each one.
  • Wretched Hive: What Guilst has devolved into by the present day, to the point that human trafficking is just one of several enterprises for criminal gangs to engage in without worry of retribution.

Rogue Out

    In General 
A mercenary squad who purportedly serve as the "knights" of the Four Shining Stars' Sister.
  • Creepy Cathedral: They utilize an abandoned church as a base while on Guilst, where the fake Sister also secretly keeps the real one, her "god", strung up crucified in the basement.
  • Faceless Goons: The bulk of Rogue Out's soldiers wear face-obscuring helmets.
  • Hired Guns: They're a mercenary squad who will take any job for any client, no matter how dirty or depraved they are.
  • Mooks: Rogue Out boasts at least several dozen soldiers. They all get taken out by Homura.
  • Punny Name: The name is written similarly to "log out", which is a more effective pun in Japanese, where they're spelled with only one letter apart.
  • Undying Loyalty: Most of the group's members have pledged their services to "Sister" for saving their lives...though for most of them, this may be against their will.
  • Unwilling Roboticisation: Implied. The fake Sister mentions wanting to preserve Shiki and the gang's corpses and "fixing" them into soldiers, suggesting that a number of her Mooks have had this inflicted on them.

    Pseudo-Sister 

Pseudo-Sister

Voiced by: Rena Maeda (Japanese), Lauren Landa (English) Foreign VAs

Ability: Heal Atomizer (stolen)

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The android leader of Rogue Out. She purports to be one of the Demon King's Four Shining Stars, but is soon revealed to be an imposter who has been using the real Sister's name and powers for a decade.


  • Above Good and Evil: She refutes Shiki labeling her as a bad guy, claiming that fulfilling her contract with her clients is all that matters.
  • Bad Boss: Although she heals her men when they are injured or knocked out, she does it solely so they can continue fighting on her behalf without rest, which she uses as an excuse to use Jinn as a Bulletproof Human Shield.
  • Bad Habits: She dresses and talks like the nun from the Four Shining Stars, but that's just a thin mask for her role as a coldhearted mercenary leader and extortionist.
  • Battle Strip: She removes her nun robes in preparation for fighting Shiki, revealing a Black Bra and Panties.
  • Black Bra and Panties: Her mechanical frame underneath her robe has markings designed to look like dark, frilly lingerie. Rather than using it to make an advance on Shiki, however, she shows it off as part of her Battle Strip.
  • Combat Tentacles: She has a single mechanical tentacle protruding from her back, which she uses to grab Jinn and use him to block Shiki's attacks.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: While Illega's refusal to pay her group for capturing B-Cubers on account of being one short of the 30 agreed upon is unreasonable in and of itself, she still sees killing him and taking his possessions the appropriate course of action.
  • Dragon Ascendant: In Pocket Galaxy she officially takes over as the Arc Villain on Guilst after back-stabbing Illega before the arc's final confrontation.
  • Dragon-in-Chief: While Illega technically serves as the Arc Villain of the Guilst arc for hiring her services, the fake Sister is the far more significant and menacing threat, giving Shiki more of a challenge.
  • Drunk with Power: She claims that her original intent was to borrow the real Sister's powers to heal her comrades. But when rumors of her "miracles" started attracting a legion of followers, the power went straight to her head and she decided to keep the real Sister locked up, keeping up the façade for an entire decade.
  • Flowery Elizabethan English: The manga's English translation gives her a Shakespearean manner of speaking befitting a woman of faith to match her extremely formal Japanese.
  • Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: She originally took Sister's powers for herself out of desperation to save her comrades' lives, but soon became a Slave to PR as followers flocked to her, mistaking her for the real Sister. This excuse doesn't fly with Sister, who wound up being held hostage and getting her good name dragged through the mud for an entire decade, giving her a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
  • Glasgow Grin: She has a pair of slits next to her otherwise ordinary-looking mouth that are hidden by her helmet, which open to reveal an abnormally wide mouth with razor sharp teeth.
  • Good Powers, Bad People: She uses her healing and repairing abilities to reconvert the dead into loyal cyborg minions, which she uses as meat shields with the excuse that she can just heal them to they can continue to battle ad infinitum. The fact that the powers aren't her own just makes it worse.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: There's not much gore since she is a robot, but the shot of Jinn crushing her head with his boot cuts away to show pieces flying into the air including a cybernetic eye, all but indicating he pulped her head in. Barely averted in the anime adaptation, which shows a split second of her head caving in.
  • The Heavy: While not the Arc Villain of the Guilst arc, she holds more plot significance than her employer, Illega, by keeping one of the Four Shining Stars hostage and impersonating her so she can monopolize her healing powers.
  • Karmic Death: She gets her head slowly and painfully crushed by Jinn, whom she'd been stringing along with the false promise of saving his little sister just to exploit his abilities. It doesn't help that she'd treated him as a Bulletproof Human Shield against Shiki earlier, using her healing powers on him to justify her actions.
  • Like a God to Me: She claims to view the real Sister as this, though she's evidently just trying to weasel her way out of getting punished too severely. Unfortunately for the imposter, Sister doesn't give a crap.
  • Masquerading As the Unseen: Her impersonation plan hinges on the fact that no one except the crew of Edens Zero and their closest associates know what the real Sister looks like, keeping her hidden deep in the basement of Rogue Out's headquarters. Naturally, the charade completely falls apart the moment the real Sister is set loose by Weisz and Homura.
  • The Medic: Like the real Sister she stole it from, she has the ability to heal wounds and repair machinery.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Suffers one at the hands of Sister Ivry, who promptly kicks the crap out of the fake Sister while ranting about breaking her, rebuilding her, and breaking her again for impersonating her. It's only due to the Chornophange about to overcome the planet that Sister can't act on that threat.
  • No Name Given: Her real name is never revealed, and she's only ever known by the name of the android whose identity she stole.
  • Nun Too Holy: She professes to be a follower of God, but is the leader of a ruthless mercenary gang.
  • Oh, Crap!: This becomes her default expression the moment Sister Ivry makes herself known to her and Shiki. She gets it again when Jinn is about to crush her head in.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: In Pocket Galaxy, she makes good on her threat against Illega pay for refusing payment for Rogue Out's incomplete shipment of B-Cubers by attacking him In the Back.
  • Red Herring: Readers are led to believe she is the actual Sister having undergone a Face–Heel Turn, though with enough wiggle room—namely, Witch pointing out that she looks nothing like the Sister she knows, despite having the same ID code and powers—to reveal that she's an identity thief.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Her intimidating presence and confidence completely crumble apart once she's ousted as an imposter, leaving her fearfully begging for mercy from the android she'd impersonated and the underling she'd mistreated.
  • Villains Want Mercy: Doesn't hesitate to start stammering excuses when the real Sister comes calling, or begging Jinn that she can help save his sister. Neither are in the mood to hear it, with Jinn crushing her head to pieces.
  • Walking Spoiler: Her true identity as an imposter is meant to be a plot twist.

    Jinn 

Jinn (Kris Rutherford)

    Ganoff 

Ganoff

Voiced by: Makoto Tamura (Japanese), Mike McFarland (English) Foreign VAs

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A long-necked alien armed with an assault rifle.


  • Adaptation Personality Change: A minor example when Rebecca plays up her own sex appeal to distract Ganoff from torturing her. In the manga, he looks dumbfounded like all the others, but in the anime, he's more agitated and threatens to keep doing it.
  • Ambition Is Evil: One of Pocket Galaxy's events shows him to be an ambitious sort who takes control of Rogue Out's remnants so he can build up enough money and power to take over the criminal underworld.
  • Adaptational Karma: In the main story, apart from the beating he gets from Shiki, he runs off and is never heard from again when the Chronophage comes to Guilst. The limited "Neo Rogue Out" event in Pocket Galaxy, on the other hand, sees him finally beaten and captured.
  • Dirty Old Man: He appears to be roughly middle-aged, but he shows how depraved he is by reaching down to her waist while wrapping his arm around Rebecca's shoulder and reaching down to her waist while fondling the chain around her neck and telling her to "shake that booty and kneel like a good girl". Unlike most of Mashima's characters, it's Played for Drama and ends up traumatizing Rebecca.
  • Dragon Ascendant: Ganoff returns in the Pocket Galaxy event "Neo Rogue Out" as the squad's new leader, turning it into a Bad Samaritan organization that lures the sick to harvest their Ether for their android army.
  • Freudian Excuse: Ganoff slightly delves into his past in the "Neo Rogue Out" event of Pocket Galaxy, revealing that he was treated like trash his whole life and wants to give others a taste of his suffering.
  • Hate Sink: He's a Jerkass who kidnaps and sexually harasses innocent women, ensuring he isn't spared any mercy when Shiki beats him. Pocket Galaxy makes him worse, revealing that he knows what it's like to suffer and yet wants to spread that feeling to others, which disgusts Sister and Hermit to no end.
  • Humanoid Alien: The only thing that sets him apart from a regular human is his abnormally long neck.
  • Jerkass: He's an unpleasant, lecherous, and morally bankrupt alien who enjoys his job of selling off innocent young women as slaves.
  • Lack of Empathy: He doesn't care the slightest about whether or not the "merchandise" (i.e., human slaves) he delivers to Illega gets "damaged", and threatens bodily harm when he's annoyed or looking to entertain himself.
  • More Dakka: His one manner of fighting is unloading a whole clip of bullets and shooting up everything around himself.
  • Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: He bails the instant he hears the Chronophage is on its way to the planet, leaving the fake Sister to Jinn's mercy.
  • Villain: Exit, Stage Left: He's last seen running to flee Guilst to avoid getting erased by the Chronophage. The manga and anime don't show whether or not he escapes, but a limited event in Pocket Galaxy shows that he does.

    Mosco Versa-0 

Others

    Illega 

Illega

Voiced by: Masafumi Kimura (Japanese), Brook Chalmers (English) Foreign VAs

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A fat, frog-like alien who collects beautiful young women from across the cosmos to turn into stone furniture.


  • Arc Villain: He's the driving antagonist of the Guilst arc, being the one who hires Rogue Out to kidnap Rebecca and other B-Cubers off the streets of Blue Garden. However, it's Rogue Out's leader, the fake Sister, who gets most of the spotlight, and she takes over from him in Pocket Galaxy after disposing of him herself.
  • Asshole Victim: As a decade-long human trafficker who strips girls naked and turns them into stone, he goes unmourned by his enemies regardless of whether he lived or died during the Chronophage's attack on Guilst.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Head-shotted by Rebecca with his own pistol.
  • The Collector: He wants to amass a collection of cute, all-female B-Cubers that have been kidnapped off the streets of other planets and turn them to stone.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Downplayed. He suffers an Uncertain Doom in the main story, where he's last seen unconscious several minutes before the Chronophage devours Guilst. In Pocket Galaxy, the fake Sister strikes him In the Back in the scene where he holds Copa hostage.
  • Fat Bastard: He's a morbidly obese frog man who has amassed a collection of "cute girls" via human trafficking.
  • Frog Men: He's an alien who resembles a big, fat frog with ears and antennae.
  • Gonk: An utterly ugly-looking person. His features only get worse after he takes a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Shiki.
  • Hate Sink: His total Lack of Empathy towards the terrified girls he's kidnapped and turned to stone over the years only serves to make his downfall more satisfying.
  • Kneel Before Zod: Makes Rebecca do this when he has Copa hostage with his gun. Luckily, a moment's distraction from one of his servants is all Rebecca needs to snatch both Copa and his gun away from him.
  • Lack of Empathy: He says he only feels sorry for anyone who isn't rich like he is. Other than that, he has no issue kidnapping innocent girls to turn them into stone, something he's done for a decade.
  • Non-Action Big Bad: Despite being the Arc Villain of the Guilst arc for commissioning the kidnapping plot that brings Shiki's team to Guilst, he has next to no combat ability to speak of beyond his dangerous tongue. This is best shown when he suffers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Shiki with no way to defend himself, and exits the arc pathetically fearing for his life when Rebecca takes him out with his own gun.
  • Overly-Long Tongue: He uses his to snatch up any bugs that touch his statues. He also uses it to catch Rebecca during her escape attempt, and it secretes a numbing toxin.
  • The Paralyzer: His tongue renders Rebecca's legs completely numb and unable to move when it touches them.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: Constantly has girls kidnapped to used for his "collection", and cries like a baby when he suffers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Shiki. When he learns the Chronophage is making its way to the planet, Illega whines about not wanting to leave his collection behind, with his servant trying to practically force him to abandon the girls.
  • Punny Name: His name is just one letter shy of "illegal", a fitting name for a criminal who buys human slaves for a living.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: He outright states that he can and will do anything he wants because he's loaded with cash. Unfortunately for him, "Sister" makes it clear his money doesn't have power over her, as she can just take it off his dead corpse.
  • Top-Heavy Guy: His head alone is bigger than the lower half of his body.
  • Uncertain Doom: He isn't shown escaping from Guilst when the Chronophage comes and eats 1,200 years of time after getting knocked out cold by Rebecca minutes before the monster arrives, making his survival uncertain, though unlikely.
  • Use Their Own Weapon Against Them: Rebecca takes him out with his own Ether pistol after snatching it from his hand.
  • Would Hurt a Child: He points a gun to Copa's head and threatens to kill her if Rebecca doesn't do as he says.

Hook

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A dying planet neighboring Planet Newton, inhabited only by robots that were discarded by humans.

    In General 

Newton

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The Planet of Science, a haven for doctors and researchers who strive tirelessly for the betterment of humanity. The effort was once pioneered by the members of Müller Royal Laboratories, who seemed to focus primarily on improving human-machine relations throughout the cosmos, but the facility was shut down after the dark secrets of their research came to light.

    In General 
  • Adaptational Villainy: The anime manages to make Müller's team look worse than they already were in the manga. In the original story, they lost all enthusiasm for torturing Hermit and grew troubled by their director's mad obsession with her, if only out of Pragmatic Villainy because he was driving their facility into the ground, rather than sympathy for the poor android. In the anime, the look more amused by Müller's downfall in spite of their circumstances.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: All the humans on the planet who Hermit befriended are actually manipulative assholes who use her and countless other robots to further their goal of destroying Planet Hook.
  • Crapsaccharine World: A seemingly utopian world of science with giant, delicious apples floating in the atmosphere...and also the place where Hermit was exposed to the wretched side of humanity as they used her to destroy a neighboring planet just because it was full of robots, which they secretly despise.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Müller and his associates act completely friendly and sociable on the surface, hiding that they're secretly out to destroy all robots. While Müller doesn't bother hiding how crazy he really is, his team continues to act just as ordinary as they always do while putting Hermit through Cold-Blooded Torture.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: Two years after blowing up Hook, karma finally catches up to Müller's team for all their illegal experimentation when the Interstellar Union Army raids their lab, arresting them on the spot and gunning down any of them who try to resist.
  • Mad Scientist: Though they do a good job of masking it, they carry out a successful ploy to destroy a robot planet simply because they hate robots.
  • Magical Particle Accelerator: The planet has one in the form of a Wave-Motion Gun designed to fire a concentrated blast of Ether at Planet Hook, with receivers on the planet designed to convert it into usable energy, thereby solving an energy crisis. Without the receivers properly calibrated, however, it becomes no different from a Doomsday Device that blows up the planet via Phlebotinum Overload.
  • Meaningful Name: The planet takes its name from Isaac Newton, who discovered how gravity works after being hit in the head with an apple falling from a tree. Fittingly, the planet has a giant apple tree whose fruit floats in the atmosphere.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Müller's team completely gives up on him after his Sanity Slippage over two years of non-stop experiments on Hermit when she's already been completely mentally broken. Not because they feel sorry for her one bit, but because it's just a waste of time and resources at this point.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: When the researchers' facility is raided by the Interstellar Union Army in the manga, the army commander authorizes the use of lethal force on any scientists who resist arrest, and the hallway that Hermit stumbles down is littered with the researchers' bodies. In the anime, no such authorization is made and the bodies are gone, suggesting the entire staff was taken in alive.
  • World Tree: Similar to Guilst, the planet has a gargantuan apple tree that can be seen from afar.

    Müller 

Müller

The head scientist of Müller Royal Laboratories, and a key figure in Hermit's past.

See EDENS ZERO: Crew of Edens One for more information.

Norma

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Weisz's home planet, also known as the Earthen Planet, where massive columns of crystallized Earth Ether regularly rain down from the sky, forcing its denizens to live in an underground city far below the uninhabitable surface. It is now classified as a "dead" planet for falling prey to the Chronophage, which consumed 50 years of Norma's time.

    In General 
  • Apocalypse How: Norma has suffered a low-key Class Z after getting fifty years eaten by the Chronophage, erasing the original planet and replacing it with a younger version of itself and its citizens. It isn't indicated how many Normans survived, but according to Professor Weisz, they had enough warning for a sizeable number to escape.
  • Crapsack World: While not to the same degree as Guilst, it's a fairly seedy and dangerous planet where the streets were plagued by crime gangs fifty years ago, and is said to have been dying before the Chronophage came along.
  • Sudden Name Change: For reasons unknown, Norma was called "River" in the original magazine publication of Chapter 3, where the planet was first mentioned.
  • Underground City: The planet's entire populace lives deep underground to avoid getting crushed by gigantic Earth Ether pillars on a regular basis.
  • Weird Weather: It rains skyscraper-sized pillars of Earth Ether that has crystallized within the planet's atmosphere. As time passes, the pillars embedded in the ground get worn down and return to the atmosphere, repeating the cycle.
  • You Are Already Dead: The people of Norma have already accepted that the planet was "dying" by the time Rebecca and Happy were kids. It turns out this is because they were in the middle of a collision course with the Chronophage, since there's nothing to be done once the Chronophage sets its sights on a planet.

Weisz's Family and Associates

    Professor Weisz Steiner 

Professor Weisz Steiner (Year X492)

Voiced by: Hiromichi Tezuka, Mei Shibata [child] (Japanese), Brook Chalmers (English) Foreign VAs

Ether Gear: Machina Maker

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The original Weisz, separate from the one who joins the Edens Zero crew. He is a brilliant professor who took a homeless Rebecca and Happy under his wing when they were kids, using his Machina Maker powers to save Happy's life. Like many of Norma's denizens, he escaped the planet before its time was stolen, and has been traveling the cosmos ever since.

For information on the alternate Weisz from the year X442, see EDENS ZERO: Shiki's Companions.

  • An Arm and a Leg: He had his right arm cut off by Drakken Joe for stealing his money by mistake fifty years ago. This moment was a huge slice of Humble Pie for him, and marked the start of his decision to turn his life around.
  • Artificial Limbs: His entire right arm is prosthetic since he lost his original arm as punishment for stealing money from DJ Zombie (a.k.a., Drakken Joe)—the very same money Young Weisz tries to steal in his introduction.
  • Broken Pedestal: Downplayed. Meeting Young Weisz and seeing the crummy person he used to be somewhat sours Rebecca and Happy's opinion of him overall. However, because Professor Weisz has already overcome many of these flaws, he still serves as the higher standard they hold Young Weisz towards, and they're pleased whenever they catch a glimpse of the professor's good traits from his younger self.
  • The Charmer: According to Bernadette, who was unimpressed by the "lowlife" Weisz back when he was a young man, the professor's charms increased with age.
  • Cool Old Guy: He's like a grandfather to Rebecca and Happy, and always looks out for their best interests.
  • Hero of Another Story: Ever since he escaped Norma, he says he's been on the space adventure he's always dreamed of going on. Whatever that entails is anyone's guess.
  • Humble Hero: According to Dr. Müller, Weisz once proved the groundbreaking Brai Theory (without explaining what it actually means), but declined the fortune he made off of publishing his findings, showing how he values the spread of knowledge rather than any monetary award for it.
  • Humble Pie: Weisz's betrayal of Sibir by stealing his money in the past is what set him on his path to a more respectable career as a professor, as he wound up mistakenly stealing a loan from Drakken Joe instead, resulting in the loss of his arm and the shattering of his ego.
  • I Was Quite a Looker: The Professor was once a self-described "studmuffin", as Young Weisz can attest to.
  • Long Bus Trip: Apart from the occasional mention, the Professor has an extended absence from the story when he leaves on a journey in Chapter 11, despite the Edens Zero crew bumping into several other recurring characters on different planets. This version of Weisz is technically never seen again, as a new Professor Weisz appears in Chapter 249 (nearly five real-life years later) after the Cosmic Retcon.
  • Minor Major Character: He's a universally renowned genius in the field of robotics, and played a major part in Rebecca and Happy's lives, but he gets put on a Long Bus Trip shortly before the main cast get their hands on the Edens Zero.
  • Mr. Exposition: He helps Shiki's crew make heads and tails of how they were seemingly sent 50 years back in time on Norma, introducing the Chronophage to them.
  • My Greatest Failure: In the past, Weisz falsely accused Sibir of stealing a pendant belonging to Weisz's mother, which led to Weisz getting his arm cut off by Drakken after trying to steal from Sibir in retaliation. When Sibir caught the real thief and tried to return the pendant, Weisz rejected it because it was proof he didn't trust his friend, and asked Sibir to hold onto it until he could forgive himself. This became his primary motivator to turning his life around, at which point he moved past getting the pendant back.
  • Parental Substitute: Old Weisz is the closest thing Rebecca and Happy have to a father, since they suffered from Parental Abandonment before meeting him.
  • Perma-Stubble: He has a touch of stubble on his chin, accounting for his age.
  • The Professor: Professor Weisz is touted as the most skillful machinist in the cosmos, capable of not only building robots indistinguishable from living beings, but uploading others' memories into them as well.
  • Reformed Criminal: He went from being a member of Sibir's gang to a respectable mechanic and roboticist.
  • Silver Fox: Apart from his wrinkles and receding hairline, Professor Weisz still retains his good looks from 50 years ago for someone in his late 60s at the youngest.
  • Technopath: Like Young Weisz, he can build and remodel machines in an instant with his Ether Gear. He is also frequently indicated to be a genius at it, with androids built by the Demon King admitting that they are second to the professor's craftsmanship with Happy, a robot completely indistinguishable from an organic creature.
  • Tragic Keepsake: Originally, the pendant belonging to his mother was a reminder of her death. After mistakenly accusing Sibir of stealing it and trying to take petty revenge, only to get his arm cut off by Drakken for his trouble, Weisz came to view the pendant as proof of the day he failed to believe in his friend, and entrusted it to Sibir as a parting gift.
  • We Used to Be Friends: Downplayed. Weisz and Sibir had a major falling out that resulted in the animosity seen between their alternate selves, but patched things up around the same time Weisz decided to walk away from the criminal life to become a professor. Because of their differing life styles, however, they drifted apart and never spoke to each other again.

    Irma Steiner 

Irma Steiner

Voiced by: Hana Satō (Japanese)

Weisz's mother, who died in the year X432 when her son was still a boy.


  • Back from the Dead: Subverted. In the Lendard arc, Killer raises Weisz's hopes that she was secretly revived by her doctors, even showing him her perfectly preserved body in what may or may not have been a hologram, just for Ziggy to later confirm that she's still dead.
  • Bold Explorer: Weisz mentions that she used to be an adventurer in her youth, and the pendant he keeps as a Tragic Keepsake was something she found on her travels.
  • Death by Origin Story: Her death left Weisz to take up a criminal lifestyle with no one he could truly learn to trust until his life turned out for the better, and her belief in Mother helped stoke the young Weisz's interest in joining Shiki's party, who were out to find Mother.
  • Deceased Parents Are the Best: Weisz fondly remembers her as a caring single mother who worked hard to make sure he wouldn't feel lonely without his father, who walked out on them.
  • Human Resources: Ziggy harvests her and countless other dead human mothers for their Ether, which is intrinsically linked to Mother for their ability to create life, thus allowing him to pinpoint Mother's location.
  • Missing Mom: She died from a then-unidentified ailment when Weisz was a boy, which Weisz learns in the present day was caused by Drakken Joe's life-support machine slowly draining her life force.
  • People Jars: Her body is preserved in a tank along with thousands of other humans mothers on Lendard, where their Ether is extracted by Ziggy in a plan to locate Mother herself.
  • Posthumous Character: She's been dead for 60 years (10 years from the young Weisz's perspective) by the time the story begins.
  • Struggling Single Mother: Her husband ran off with another woman, which led their son to lash out at other kids who made teased him for it, leaving her the burden of raising him on her own.
  • Walking Spoiler: While a relatively minor character, her death and the role she plays afterwards are tied into major spoilers surrounding Drakken Joe and Ziggy.

    Bernadette 

Bernadette

Voiced by: Harumi Sakurai (Japanese), Ryan Bartley (English) Foreign VAs

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An alien bunny girl who once worked as a waitress in Norma's seedy underbelly. Her original counterpart—who hasn't aged a day in 50 years—is currently traveling with Professor Weisz.


  • All There in the Script: Her name was first revealed in the credits of the anime adaptation, well before it's confirmed in the manga.
  • Alternate Self: Like Weisz, she has a younger counterpart living on Norma that Shiki's gang bumps into.
  • Fanservice Extra: She's an early Recurring Extra whose only role was to serve as Ms. Fanservice before more prominent female characters besides Rebecca were introduced.
  • Green-Skinned Space Babe: She's a hot alien Playboy Bunny with real ears, light skin and purple hair.
  • Little Bit Beastly: She's a space alien who could pass off for a human Playboy Bunny if not for her real rabbit ears, nose, and tail.
  • Long Bus Trip: Like Professor Weisz, Bernadette disappears to go on a journey with him in Chapter 11 and never shows up again, despite several recurring characters popping up on other planets. Also like Professor Weisz, she's never seen again before the Cosmic Retcon, with a new Bernadette taking her place when she "returns" in Chapter 249, nearly five real-life years later.
  • Mayfly–December Romance: She's a space alien who hardly ages a day over fifty years, and she finds Weisz infinitely more charming as an older man than a young Casanova Wannabe.
  • Older Than They Look: She looks the exact same age she does in the present as her fifty-years-younger Alternate Self does.
  • Recurring Extra: Before Shiki gets his ship, Bernadette has appeared together in group shots with the main characters for a handful of covers, despite having next to no relevance to the plot.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Fifty years ago, Bernadette was unimpressed by the scumbag Casanova Wannabe that Weisz used to be. Nowadays, ever since Weisz went straight and became a brilliant professor, she finds his charms irresistible.

Sibir Family

    Sibir 

Sibir

Voiced by: Yutaka Aoyama (Japanese), Bob Carter (English) Foreign VAs

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Sibir in the year X442
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Sibir in the year X492

A former friend of Weisz from the professor's criminal background, also known as Sibir the Mighty. His arsenal includes his Augmenter Arm—a mechanical gauntlet that enhances his strength—and a state-of-the-art Knight Gear for its time.

As a result of the Chronophage's time consumption, there exist two versions of Sibir from very different points in his life: his cruel younger self from 50 years in the past, and the original Sibir, who retired from crime and settled down as a bartender aboard the Belial Gore.

Tropes applying to Sibir in both histories:

  • Bald of Evil: As a young man, he's a lowlife with nothing but his name tattooed in Japanese on his scalp.
  • Bling-Bling-BANG!: His Augmenter Arm appears to be gold-plated in colored artwork and the anime.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: His shirt from his younger years diagonally covers the upper part of his chest and his left arm, while he has an oversized mechanical gauntlet on his right arm, which is much skinnier than his left.
  • Gosh Dang It to Heck!: In the manga translation, he uses relatively mild insults like "scumbag" (and, in the simulpub translation, "buttmunch") because Payo gives him flack for using swear words. Averted in the anime dub, where he uses the unquestionably profane word "asshole" and argues it's not that bad, implying he'd gladly use even dirtier language if given the chance.
  • Hate Sink: Subverted. His younger self is a ruthless criminal and a heartless bastard towards machines, making it easier to root for Shiki and Weisz when they finally give the alternate Sibir what for. When his present day self appears, however, not only has he become kinder and regretful of his past, but his past self's more admirable traits are also brought to light, making him more nuanced than the purely despicable figure he was introduced to be.
  • Hidden Depths: At first, he seems to be a big, brutish thug who's meant to be thoroughly unlikeable for the horrific way he treats robots. As more of his history with Weisz is explored, however, he's revealed to be a much more sensible person with who had a genuine friendship with Weisz, and was capable of putting petty differences aside, given time.
  • Honor Among Thieves: For all his criminal activity, he draws the line at stealing from his own gang, and is downright offended at the notion of doing so. Weisz wrongfully accusing him of stealing his mother's necklace is what led to their falling out.
  • Humongous Mecha: His younger self pilots a Knight Gear, which is equipped with a missile launcher and a self-destruct mechanism. His older self still keeps a picture of it in his bar.
  • Jerkass: In his younger years, he was a reprehensible criminal who treated robots like toys to be used and scrapped. His biggest redeemeing trait was his friendship with Weisz, who was such a bad apple himself that their friendship fell apart over a simple misunderstanding.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: In the middle of his falling out with Weisz, Sibir makes a point against Weisz accusing one of his friends of stealing from him without proof. However, Sibir does himself no favors with the flippant way he tells him this while reminding Weisz of the way he's stolen from others without batting an eye, something Weisz himself is insecure about.
  • Just a Machine: The younger Sibir takes sadistic pleasure in physically bullying robots to the point of breaking, not giving a damn about their sentience. As an older man, however, he's grown out of it and is capable of being perfectly civil to robots.
  • Kick the Dog: He has a history of treating robots like toys for his amusement, damaging or dismantling them when they disobey him, and tossing them to die in his scrap heap when he's finished. Pino barely gets it easier from Sibir's Alternate Self when he tears off her leg and replaces it with a screw when she is unable to dance on command, and almost doing the same to the other for running away.
  • Named by the Adaptation: His Knight Gear is called the Knight Gear Mage in Pocket Galaxy.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: He has one of the more unique designs among Mashima's cast of Only Six Faces, with a wide nose, big lips, and plates on his chin.
  • Power Fist: He has a robotic Augmenter Arm built by Weisz that's bigger and bulkier than the rest of his body. When Weisz destroys it, Sibir's real, stick-like arm is revealed.
  • Red Baron: He has the nickname "Sibir the Mighty", which suits him for his Augmenter Arm. Ironically, his real arm beneath it is wimpy and malnourished.
  • Scary Black Man: Taking his criminal nature and bigotry towards robots out of the equation, the young Sibir is still a big, forceful, intimidating figure who leaves weaker-willed characters like Pino trembling before doing anything truly terrible to them.
  • Tattooed Crook: He's a thug (or ex-thug, depending on the case) whose Japanese name is tattooed diagonally across the top of his forehead.
  • We Used to Be Friends: Weisz and Sibir were originally partners in crime, but a misunderstanding over a stolen pendant belonging to Weisz's mother led to them falling out. However, whereas the X442 Sibir is introduced right on the heels of their split, the X492 Sibir managed to smooth things over with his Weisz while never again being as close as they once were.

Tropes applying to the original Sibir:

  • The Bartender: He's taken up this profession aboard the Belial Gore, being a great deal more mild-mannered and polite with people, and chatting with Weisz over the old days between them.
  • Big Damn Heroes: He comes to Shiki and his friends' aid when they are being hunted by the rest of the Belial Gore during both timelines.
  • Cool Old Guy: Seedy past aside, this Sibir is an extremely timid yet friendly old barkeep.
  • Cowardly Lion: He cowers at the idea of openly fighting against Drakken Joe, but nevertheless sticks his neck out to help Weisz and his friends. He briefly gets the same fierce expression as his younger self when saving Pino in the redone timeline.
  • A Friend in Need: Ever since Sibir mended his relationship with Weisz, he considers any version of him to be his friend, which spurs Sibir to help the whole Edens Zero crew by extension when they land in hot water with Drakken Joe.
  • I Hate Past Me: He admits he's not proud of his younger days. When he sees how hostile Shiki is with him and how scared Pino gets around him, he apologizes for the transgressions of his past Alternate Self, despite not being personally responsible for any of it.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His decision to shelter the Edens Zero crew from Drakken instead of turning them over to the big boss end with Fie executing him for treachery in World No.29.
  • Reformed, but Rejected: Downplayed. Shiki still holds what happened to Pino against him, and Pino is understandably scared out of her wits when she sees him, but they dial it back after Weisz reminds them that his history is different from the Sibir they met.
  • Retired Outlaw: Like the old Weisz, this Sibir has long given up the criminal lifestyle and instead works at a bar, but claims that he could never quite adjust to the straight and narrow, which is how he ended up in debt to Drakken Joe.
  • Token Good Teammate: He's in the same boat in debt as every other passenger aboard the Belial Gore, but unlike the other citizens, who chase the Edens Zero crew in a heartbeat for debt erasure, Sibir comes straight to the crew's aid without hesitation.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: He's a completely different person from his asshole of a past self, well aware of how terrible he once was, and gives an honest apology to Shiki and Pino when he hears his past self caused trouble for them.

Tropes applying to the alternate Sibir:

  • Alternate Self: He serves as this for the original Sibir, representing his past life as a cruel, robot-hating criminal.
  • Arc Villain: He is the main villain of the Norma arc, where he stumbles upon Pino and tries using her technology from the future. Shiki and the others try to stop him from messing up the past before realizing it's actually Sibir who's been sent into the present along with the rest of Norma.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: He gets almost completely thrashed by Shiki during their second confrontation, though Sibir manages to get a solid hit in with his Power Fist before Shiki deals the finishing blow, which almost leaves Shiki defenseless when Payo takes control of Sibir's Knight Gear.
  • Giving Radio to the Romans: When Pino first winds up on the past Norma by mistake, Sibir is the first to find her and her advanced EMP technology that didn't exist in his time period, which he decides to exploit to commit crimes on a scale that wouldn't be possible back then.
  • Oh, Crap!: He gets this reaction twice: once when Shiki totals his Knight Gear for the first time, and again when Weisz tries shooting him with his busted Ether gun.
  • Point of Divergence: Due to Weisz stealing Pino from Sibir instead of a case full of money and escaping with the rest of the Edens Zero crew, the two end up being on worse terms than their original selves, since the original Weisz's theft led to him getting his arm chopped off by Drakken Joe and patching things up with Sibir later on.
  • That Makes Me Feel Angry: When Shiki wrecks his Knight Gear, Sibir openly declares, "Nobody's made me this angry in a very long time."

    Payo 

Payo

Voiced by: Reina Kondō (Japanese), Monica Rial (English) Foreign VAs

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A tiny bird who accompanies Sibir at all times, nagging him over every little thing he says.


  • Alternate Self: Like Sibir, the Payo that Shiki and the gang see on X442 Norma is one for X492 Payo, who's still alive and kicking after 50 years.
  • Dragon Their Feet: After Sibir is beaten, Payo activates his Mini-Mecha's self-destruct system to finish Shiki off, but is thwarted when Pino decides to fight back.
  • Intelligible Unintelligible: Even though he only communicates with chirps and tweets, Sibir can understand his criticisms perfectly.
  • Named by the Adaptation: The anime adaptation gives him the name "Payo" after the sound he makes.
  • Non-Human Sidekick: Payo serves as this for both versions of Sibir.
  • Pokémon Speak: Payo is only capable of saying "payo"; in the simulpub version, he says "t'chup" instead.

    Foote Brothers 

The Foote Brothers

Big Bro voiced by: Kenta Sasa (Japanese), Joe Hernandez (English) Foreign VAs
Little Bro voiced by: Sōma Shiomi (Japanese), Kiba Walker (English) Foreign VAs

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Older brother (left), younger brother (right)

Sibir's right-hand men, who are renowned for their mechanized legs and unparalleled footwork.


  • Accent Adaptation: The English translation of the manga and Pocket Galaxy gives the younger brother an exaggerated German Funetik Aksent with the appropriate phrases sprinkled in to account for his unorthodox dialect in Japanese. Averted in the anime dub, where he speaks normally.
  • Artificial Limbs: They each have an opposite leg replaced with mechanical limbs.
  • Bash Brothers: They have a reputation as a lethal pair of brothers.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: As goofy as they are, they have a reputation as The Dreaded on Norma, and they flawlessly parry all of Rebecca's bullets with just their legs. The Belial Gore arc also shows them among the villains who forced Rebecca into a situation where she had to use Cat Leaper to survive.
  • Co-Dragons: They share the position of Sibir's right-hand men, and are the only ones besides their boss who are left standing after Shiki mops the floor with the whole gang.
  • Distracted by the Sexy: Downplayed. They are aroused by Rebecca's legs and feet, which keeps them from fighting her seriously, but they're such skilled fighters that they run circles around her anyway.
  • Dragon Ascendant: An event in Pocket Galaxy sees them breaking out of prison and running Sibir's operation in their old boss's absence.
  • The Dreaded: Their reputation is feared enough that their alliance with Sibir is enough to send chills down Weisz's spine.
  • Hired Guns: They're relative newcomers to Sibir's gang who were hired to help with his operation.
  • Meaningful Name: "Foote" is an archaic spelling of "foot", and they're a pair of brothers who specialize in fighting with their feet. They're also shameless foot and leg fetishists.
  • Red Baron: They're known on Norma as the "Southern Annihilators" and the "Iron-Legged Foote Brothers".
  • "Super Sentai" Stance: They have their own battle pose that involves them high-fiving, low-fiving, and knee-bumping with their robotic legs.
  • Verbal Tic: The older brother peppers his phrases with "Yes, yes, yes" (Sore wa sore wa in Japanese), while the younger brother elongates his ending particles and certain words in Japanese, implying that he speaks with an accent.
  • The Worf Effect: They're stated to be powerful fighters, and their skill makes them tougher than the average Mooks that Rebecca can handle on her own, but they still prove no match for an Ether Gear user like Shiki.

Others

    Johnny 

Johnny (TB-400-02)

Voiced by: Tomohiro Yamaguchi (Japanese), Shannon McKain (English) Foreign VAs

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One of countless robots who have been toyed with and scrapped by Sibir. He is the same model of robot as Shiki's friend Michael.


  • Almost Dead Guy: He's already in his dying moments when Shiki finds him, and breaks down moments after Shiki realizes he can't do anything to fix him.
  • Forgotten Fallen Friend: When Shiki meets the present Sibir at the Belial Gore, Shiki never mentions Johnny's torture or the other androids that Sibir had tortured.
  • Identical Stranger: Shiki mistakes him for a past version of Michael he hadn't met yet. It's justified as they share a mass-produced model, as Johnny himself lampshades.
  • Restored My Faith in Humanity: Though he only meets Shiki for a few moments before he breaks down, he admits it makes him happy that a human would try to fix him out of kindness, since he had the impression that all humans are just as cruel and uncaring as Sibir.
  • Sacrificial Lamb: His main role in the story is to showcase the extreme cruelty machines suffer at the hands of humans like Sibir. It also hammers home that Shiki is truly unable to fix robots after spending his life thinking his mechanical skills was keeping his friends on Granbell in functioning condition.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He breaks down just a few moments after Shiki meets him.
  • You Are Number 6: Downplayed. He formally introduces himself by his model number, while "Johnny" is his "identification code".

Oedo

Homura's home planet. Its people form an archaic Yamato-style civilization with next to no modern technology.

    In General 
  • Feudal Future: The entire planet takes after feudal Japan, with the same degree of technology, while most of the known cosmos is already deep in the space age. The planet also happens to be in a constant state of war during Homura's childhood.
  • Just a Machine: While this isn't a universally-held belief on Oedo, several natives have openly expressed opinions towards robots that are generally unflattering at best and downright dehumanizing at worst: a group of Gossipy Hens is openly wary of Valkyrie due to her rough and violent nature, and the notion that she is a living person is dismissed by a group of teenage boys who see her as some kind of "love doll".
  • Meaningful Name: The planet's name is directly taken from the Japanese phrase Ōedo, which relates to the Edo period of Japanese history, and is precisely what the planet's entire culture is modeled after.

    Kenta 

Kenta

Voiced by: Shinei Ueki (Japanese), Jason Charles Miller (English) Foreign VAs

A boy from Homura's hometown, and son of a local magistrate.


  • Jerkass: He sees Valkyrie as little more than a sexual object, and tries getting Homura to apologize for hitting him over it under threat of branding.
  • Karma Houdini: After making such a huge fuss about it to his father, it's assumed he got off with little more than a tiny bruise to the face from Homura for insulting Valkyrie.
  • Minor Injury Overreaction: He takes Homura to the Court of Justice to grovel over giving him a smack to the cheek that only needs a tiny bandage.
  • Never My Fault: Feels no need to apologize for talking about Valkyrie's sex appeal without respect for her as a person with a heart.
  • Robosexuals Are Creeps: His attraction to Valkyrie as some kind of "love doll" is profoundly insulting to Homura, and the main reason why Homura punches him.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Since his father is a town official, he feels he has free reign to make Homura apologize for beating him up over insulting her mentor, and tries to get her branded for being a machine's "daughter" when she refuses.
  • Spoiled Brat: His father admits that he was never strict with him, which is why he ended up flaunting his father's influence.

    Kenta's Father 

Kenta's Father

Voiced by: Unknown (Japanese), John Eric Bentley (English) Foreign VAs

A magistrate from Homura's home village.


  • Face of a Thug: Although he has a stern grimace, he is very polite and civilized towards Valkyrie, and cracks a joke at his own expense.
  • Parents as People: He admits that he's to blame for Kenta's bad attitude, feeling he spoiled his son too much. Despite this, he dearly loves Kenta.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: He does his best to resolve Homura and Kenta's fight as peacefully as possible, labeling it as nothing more than a quarrel between children. He's also far less bigoted towards Valkyrie than most of the people on his planet, enough to speak to her on the same terms as a person rather than a machine.
  • Thicker Than Water: A firm believer of this, saying he's still able to love his son despite his bad attitude because they're family. This attitude encourages Valkyrie to find Homura's biological mother, which ends very poorly when she turns out to be an Evil Matriarch.
  • Unnamed Parent: His only identification besides his relation to Kenta is "Honorable Magistrate".
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His speech to Valkyrie about the value of blood relations causes her to feel unfit to look after Homura, leading her to search for Homura's real mother, which ends with her predicament on Sun Jewel.

Sun Jewel

See this page for more information.

Miscellaneous

    Murray Morrison 

Murray Morrison

Voiced by: Unknown (Japanese), Billy Kametz (English)

An artist who unfortunately finds himself deep in debt to Drakken Joe.


  • Blood from the Mouth: Suffers this after Drakken crushes a glass bottle in his mouth.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Drakken foregoes killing him for not paying back the money he owes, so he offers Murray some "jobs" on how to pay him back, these jobs including becoming a guinea pig for new drugs, mining for coal on a decaying planet, or becoming a Human Pet to an old pig lady.
  • Goofy Print Underwear: He's introduced stripped down to heart-patterned boxers.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: The anime zooms in on his eyes to avoid showing the damage he suffers from Drakken shattering a bottle crammed down his throat, in contrast to the manga, which shows his bloodied mouth and shattered teeth in full.
  • Mob Debt: He's up over his head in debt to Drakken Joe, the crime lord who rules the Sakura Cosmos's underworld, and his sole role in the story is to show what kind of Fate Worse than Death awaits those who can't pay him back.
  • Money Dumb: He decided to take a loan of 2 million Glee from Drakken Joe, an infamous Loan Shark who puts people through a Fate Worse than Death when they fail to pay off.

    Metal Bogey 

Metal Bogey

Voiced by: Yūki Sanpei (Japanese), Kellen Goff (English)

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A steel-skinned alien from the Planet Zorg.


  • Adapted Out: Pocket Galaxy replaces his one-on-one match against Shiki with a Multi-Mook Melee against metallic soldiers.
  • Chrome Champion: Has skin made of steel and is acclaimed as a powerful warrior.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Shiki takes him out with one punch in their bout, less than a few seconds after the word go. Lampshaded by Xiaomei, who predicted Shiki would win, but expected it to take more than a single hit.
  • Manly Facial Hair: He sports a fine, pointed mustache to sell his image as a badass fighter.
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: He's one of the burliest opponents in the series, but his instant defeat against Shiki's gravity-powered punch makes their fight one of the shortest.
  • Spirited Competitor: He shows great sportsmanship to Shiki before their match.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Wears nothing but a pair of boxing briefs.
  • The Worf Effect: He's shilled a bit as a powerful and unbreakable warrior, but he's toppled by a single Gravity Fist to the gut.

    Flanker Yocchi 

Flanker Yocchi

Voiced by: Yocchi (Japanese), Dave Wallace (English) Foreign VAs

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A famous B-Cuber from Bon Bo-Bon TV, and an SBA Cosmic Fleaweight Champion.


  • Adam Westing: The real Yocchi from Bom Bom TV plays him in the anime adaptation.
  • Adapted Out: Pocket Galaxy replaces his one-on-one match against Rebecca with a Multi-Mook Melee against goblins and other monsters.
  • Beehive Barrier: He uses a Protection Matrix, a Deflector Shield that takes on this form.
  • Deflector Shields: His Protection Matrix is a Beehive Barrier that blocks out Ether attacks, but does jack squat against physical attacks like an enraged Rebecca's kick to the face.
  • Geek Physiques: He's a shrimpy nerd who's celebrated as a fleaweight boxing champion, and he's one of the wimpiest fighters to go up against the heroes.
  • Gonk: His thick eyebrows, crooked teeth, and scrawny build make him look cartoonishly ugly.
  • Immune to Bullets: Downplayed. His Protection Matrix shields him from Rebecca's Ether bullets, but physical ammunition passes through his shield easily. It's because of this that Xiaomei chooses him to fight Rebecca to prepare her for Nino, a fighter who can also block bullets.
  • Nerd Glasses: He wears big, round glasses to go with his geeky personality.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is a parody of the real-life YouTuber Yocchi from Bom Bom TV, a Japanese YouTube channel.
  • The Nudifier: His bullets' Tatter Slime has the effect of dissolving his opponents' clothes to help him rake in views.
  • Tricked-Out Gloves: His boxing gloves are loaded with guns that fire bullets filled with clothes-tattering slime.
  • Verbal Tic: Like the title of his channel, he often goes "bon bo-bon."
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: He spends his screentime wearing nothing but boxers, but given his Geek Physique, it's nothing to write home about.
  • You Remind Me of X: When Yocchi shamelessly melts Rebecca's clothes, she's reminded of Illega for putting her through the same thing, which is enough to make her kick the crap out of Yocchi.

    Highway Ena 

Highway Ena

Voiced by: Shōhei Kajikawa (Japanese), Kellen Goff (English)

Ether Gear: Unnamed Speed Ether Gear

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A hyena-like alien who is renowned in the Sakura Cosmos for his fleet-footed Ether Gear.


  • Adapted Out: Pocket Galaxy replaces his one-on-one match against Weisz with a Multi-Mook Melee against werewolves.
  • Beast Man: He's a space alien who resembles a hyena with long, rabbit-like ears and a cottontail.
  • Break the Haughty: After bragging about his speed, Weisz deals him a humiliating defeat by shutting off his Ether Gear and stomping the crap out of him.
  • Brought Down to Normal: Weisz uses Pino's EMP to disable his Ether Gear, which instantly slows him down.
  • Dub Name Change: His Japanese name is "Highway Yana".
  • I Am Not Weasel: He's a hyena, a feliformnote  animal, but Shiki thinks he's some kind of dog, while Homura isn't sure whether or not he is.
  • Oh, Crap!: Has this reaction when Weisz manages to stop his Ether Gear and beat him up.
  • Punny Name: His name is a pun on "hyena", the animal he's based on.
  • Red Baron: Xiaomei introduces him as the "Comet of the Sakura Cosmos", indicating his extreme speed.
  • Speed Demon: Most of his time in the battle tournament is spent boasting about his Super-Speed, which he has his Ether Gear to thank for.
  • Super-Speed: His Ether Gear increases his speed to superhuman levels. Xiaomei specifically pairs him against Weisz because of this to prepare Weisz for Baku, another speed-based fighter, leading Weisz to build his Arsenal Suit to match.
  • Wall Run: He's able to do this with his Super-Speed, making him impossible for Weisz to catch.

    Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford 

Mr. Rutherford and Leen Rutherford

Jinn/Kris and Kleene's parents.


  • Death by Origin Story: Their murder kicked off the events leading their son and daughter to become a Cyber Ninja and a Broken Bird, respectively.
  • Deceased Parents Are the Best: The two were murdered for having the good moral sense to withdraw all financial support for Müller's research after he was ousted as an immoral Mad Scientist.
  • The Ghost: Mr. Rutherford is mentioned, but never seen. His wife, on the other hand, appears in one of Ziggy's People Jars on Lendard.
  • Human Resources: Ziggy harvests Leen and countless other dead human mothers for their Ether, which is intrinsically linked to Mother for their ability to create life, thus allowing him to pinpoint Mother's location.
  • No Full Name Given: The father is only ever addressed by his family name.
  • One Degree of Separation: Besides being Jinn and Kleene's parents, they're also the former backers for Dr. Müller, the same Mad Scientist who tortured Hermit and destroyed Planet Hook.
  • People Jars: Leen is one of the many dead human mothers assembled by Ziggy on Lendard to extract their Ether and locate Mother herself.
  • Posthumous Character: They've been dead for ten years by the time the story kicks off.

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