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Elsie's Pirate Crew

    In General 
The crew of Elsie Crimson's fleet, which is headed by her personal vessel, the Skull Fairy. They are notorious for robbing space ports blind throughout the universe, but their merciful nature towards their victims makes them one of the less pressing dangers to cosmic security. Inspired by the hospitality Demon King Ziggy showed Elsie when she was a refugee of war, the crew serves as a ragtag family for those who've lost everything.
  • Badass Crew: Though they don't get a whole lot of on-screen action together, they're a tight group and staunch allies of the Edens Zero crew who follow their Princess's orders without question.
  • The Dreaded: They have a reputation as dangerous criminals, and their presence inside Shooting Starlight makes everyone panicked and wary of them.
  • Never Hurt an Innocent: For all their crimes, they never harm civilians if they can help it. This is acknowledged by the Interstellar Union Army, who tend not to prioritize them when other organizations in the Galáctica pose a threat.
  • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: They're the most dreaded band of pirates in the universe, but they never once engage in any kind of piracy on-screen, more often acting as a gang of harmless ruffians than anything.
  • Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: All the pirates are implied to be this by Elsie's stance on welcoming anyone regardless of their background, since she herself is a Fallen Princess, and her two next-in-command used to be a firefighter and a doctor.
  • Recurring Element: The name of the ship "Skull Fairy" harkens back to the Fairy Tail series, especially considering the ship's owner is an Expy of one of its main characters. Their Jolly Roger also distinctly resembles the Fairy Tail guild emblem turned 90 degrees counterclockwise.
  • Space Pirates: Elsie's crew is nested mostly in the romanticized Type 2 pirates that operate a massive fleet of warships locked in a Stern Chase with the Space Police, led by a cross between Erza Scarlet and Captain Harlock.
  • True Companions: Elsie subscribes to the idea that everyone aboard her ship is a part of her family, and should always be given a fair chance even when they mean harm to each other.

Leadership

    Elsie Crimson 

Elsie Crimson

The Pirate Queen and captain of the Skull Fairy.

See EDENS ZERO: Oración Seis Galáctica for more information.

Princess Guard

    In General 
Elsie's second- and third-in-command, as well as her closest and most trusted confidants.
  • Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Their fiery/cold personalities are reflected in their Elemental Hair Colors and clothing designs (Gowen has flame tattoos, and Hyoga has snowflake-pattered armbands).
  • Back from the Dead: Their deaths in Universe 3 are overwritten by the Cosmic Retcon caused by Etherion's activation, sending the Edens Zero crew back in time to the Merged Reality of Universe Zero.
  • Dead Alternate Counterpart: Universe 3's Gowen and Hyoga are killed by Jesse moments apart from each other; Gowen via decapitation, Hyoga via shot to the head. The two seen in Universe 2, on the other hand, are last seen alive and well.
  • Elemental Hair Colors: Their hair colors match their respective elemental Ether Gears. The Fire Ether Gear user Gowen has red-orange hair that looks like a flame, while the Ice Ether Gear user Hyoga has light blue hair.
  • Expy: Gowen and Hyoga's clashing personalities and contrasting powers, and their ability to work together in spite of them, makes them a send-up to Natsu and Gray's dynamic.
  • Fire/Ice Duo: Gowen uses Fire Ether Gear and Hyoga uses Ice Ether Gear. They're also a Red Oni, Blue Oni who are always at odds with each other.
  • Lost in Translation: In Japanese, the team name "Princess Guard" is written in kanji meaning "Fairy Knights", which the English translation doesn't retain.
  • Mysterious Past: All that's known about their pasts is that Gowen and Hyoga were once a firefighter and a doctor, respectively. How they wound up becoming Space Pirates is a total mystery.
  • Number Two: They're identified as Elsie's "Number Two" and "Number Three", but neither of them agree on which holds which position.
  • Odd Couple: Their personality traits are polar opposites (the hot-headed Gowen and the cool and collected Hyoga), and for added oddity, one used to be a doctor and the other a firefighter. Nevertheless, they make an efficient team together.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Gowen is the passionate and thick-headed Red, and Hyoga is the stoic and analytical Blue. They also dress in the same colors.
  • Secret-Keeper: Elsie's trust in them is strong enough to let them in the know about Jesse's espionage.
  • Steven Ulysses Perhero: Both their names are Japanese words, "Gowen" (Gōen) meaning "mighty flame" and "Hyoga" (Hyōga) meaning "glacier". Therefore, both are named after their Elemental Powers.
  • Surprisingly Sudden Death: They're both abruptly killed in Universe 3 on Lendard when Jesse lures them into a trap, though Hyoga manages to take Jesse with him in his last moments.
  • Targeted to Hurt the Hero: Jesse brutally kills them both in front of Elsie while she's chained up on Lendard, all for the sake of breaking her and adding to her torment.

    Gowen 

Gowen

Voiced by: Chiharu Sawashiro (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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A hot-headed ex-firefighter whose Flame Bolt Ether Gear reduces anything it touches to cinders.


    Hyoga 

Hyoga

Voiced by: Kōki Ōsuzu (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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A cool-headed ex-doctor who creates barricades of ice that block Ether attacks with his Ether Gear, Ice Wall.


  • Badass Longcoat: Hyoga wears a sleek coat with a high collar, giving him a striking image as one of Elsie's elites.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Jesse shoots him blank in the head in Universe 3, though Hyoga lives long enough to get even and free Elsie.
  • Elemental Barrier: He can create ice barriers.
  • An Ice Person: His powers are centered around ice.
  • The Medic: As an ex-doctor, he's entrusted with taking care of his crew's injuries, though this is never seen in practice.
  • Sorry That I'm Dying: His last words before he expires in the Lendard arc are an apology to Elsie.
  • Taking You with Me: He's fatally shot by Jesse in Universe 3, though he takes the guy down with him by freezing his heart and punching a hole through his chest with a last-ditch attack, alongside freeing Elsie from her shackles.

Other Crewmen

    Behrman 

Behrman

Voiced by: Shōhei Kajikawa (Japanese), Jay Preston (English) Foreign VAs

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One of the more prominent members of Elsie's crew.


  • Big Damn Heroes: He shows up on a hoverbike to recover Elsie after she and Justice have given each other a serious beating on Foresta.
  • Cool Shades: These, apart from his hairstyle, serve to make him stand out among the other crew members.
  • Recurring Extra: He doesn't get a whole lot of screentime or characterization, but shows up a fair number of times whenever Elsie is around.
  • Those Two Guys: He's sometimes paired up with Jesse, the only other distinct member of the crew besides Gowen and Hyoga, before Jesse gets ousted as a spy.

    Jesse 

Jesse

One of the Skull Fairy's crewmen. He is expelled from the crew after being exposed as a spy working for the Interstellar Union Army.

See EDENS ZERO: Interstellar Union Army for more information.

Crew of the Belial Gore

    In General 
The crime lord Drakken Joe leads a powerful syndicate that controls the Sakura Cosmos from behind the scenes. Their base of operations is the Belial Gore, Drakken's personal space fortress. The Belial Gore was the heart of all criminal activity on Guilst, housing an entire sector of one of the planet's cities. After Guilst is lost to the Chronophage, the fortress becomes a sort of independent state.
  • Inconsistent Spelling: Before the ship's name is shown in the manga proper, it's spelled as "Berial Goer", then "Belial Goer", and finally "Belial Gore". The English anime dub and subtitles stick with "Belial Goer".
  • Recurring Element: The Belial Gore shares part of its name with Berial/Belial, one of the Oración Seis from Rave Master.

Leadership

    Drakken Joe 

Drakken Joe

The Dark Alchemist and CEO of the Belial Gore's moneylending company.

See EDENS ZERO: Oración Seis Galáctica for more information.

Inner Circle

    In General 
A trio of operatives who are most often seen lounging by Drakken's side.
  • Badass Crew: They're a tightly knit group of deadly assassins who are experienced enough make it past Edens Zero's minimum defense system of turrets and mechanical tentacles without breaking so much as a sweat. While their skills aren't enough to protect them from Witch in her fully powered Battle Dress, they still win by duping the crew into letting their guard down by faking their deaths (Seth and Diego) and surrender (Maria), rather than through brute force.
  • Elite Mooks: Although they serve right alongside Drakken, possess their own unique skills, and have a bit of characterization, they aren't his strongest minions and get taken out all at once with little fanfare. Unfortunately for the Edens Zero crew, the trio's loss dupes the Shining Stars into underestimating them.
  • Hero Killer: Double Subverted. They're supposed to be this before Witch gives them a Curb-Stomp Battle, but they use their defeats to slip right under the crew's noses, seize control of Edens Zero, and deactivate the Shining Stars.
  • Praetorian Guard: Subverted. All three of them are the closest to Drakken's side out of all his minions, and are built up almost to the same degree as him. When they finally make their move in the Belial Gore arc, they're easily taken out by Witch and get replaced by the Element 4 as the arc's primary Quirky Miniboss Squad.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: Subverted. While they're all trusted enough to serve directly by Drakken's side, and they're highly powerful in their own right, the Element 4 far outclass these three in power and importance to Drakken. Not that their lesser combat skill makes them any less dangerous, though.
  • Two Guys and a Girl: In terms of the main fighting force, Maria is the girl, and Seth and Diego are the two guys.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: After they get beaten in the Edens Zero crew's second go-around against Drakken, nothing is ever said about what happens to these three once their plan to infiltrate the ship gets exposed, such as whether they were arrested with Drakken or quietly go into hiding.

    Maria Slime 

Maria Slime

Voiced by: Yurie Kozakai (Japanese), Emi Lo (English) Foreign VAs

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An alien space slime who takes the form of a human woman. She has elastic powers that allow her to stretch her legs to superhuman proportions.


  • Cute Slime Mook: Her true form is an adorable little green slime creature with a big, round head and a froggy mouth. However, she's powerful enough in her human form to be one of Drakken Joe's Elite Mooks.
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Maria is drawn with a lock of Idiot Hair following her debut appearance, which is updated in the Japanese volume edition to include the new style.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: She works for a notorious crime boss, but she is noticeably repulsed by Spider's lecherous behavior.
  • Idiot Hair: She's given a distinctive curly lock of hair atop her head after her initial appearance in the manga.
  • Improvised Weapon: With her adhesive feet, she can rip the tiles off of a ship hallway's ceiling as a makeshift flail.
  • Kick Chick: Her Rubber Man powers focus on her legs, which she uses to attack and block off people.
  • Meaningful Name: Her surname alludes to her true nature as a Slime Girl, plus her ability to make her limbs loose and rubbery like slime.
  • Ms. Fanservice: A well-built buxom woman with a beautiful face, good figure, and the clothes to show it off. Spider can barely contain himself around her.
  • Oral Fixation: She's hardly ever seen without sucking, licking, or otherwise holding onto a lollipop.
  • Rubber Woman: She has the ability to stretch her legs, which are also adhesive.
  • Sensual Spandex: Her outfit is noticeably tight all over.
  • Shapeshifter Default Form: Her preferred appearance is that of an attractive young purple-haired human woman.
  • Slime Girl: Her usual form is a Cute Slime Mook, but she can take take a half-way form between it and her usual attractive human form to become a buxom green slime woman.
  • The Smurfette Principle: She's the sole female member of Drakken's inner circle.
  • Sole Survivor: Subverted. She seems to be the only member of her strike team to survive the initial encounter with the Edens Zero crew after Seth and Diego use their Self-Destruct Mechanism. However, their deaths turn out to be a ploy for her to gain the crew's sympathy so she can catch them off-guard while the others seize the ship.
  • Species Surname: Her full name is Foreshadowing to the reveal that she's a Slime Girl.

    Seth Anderson 

Seth Anderson

Voiced by: Taisuke Nakano (Japanese), Jason Charles Miller (English) Foreign VAs

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A gunslinging cowboy android with an impossibly fast trigger finger.


  • Contagious A.I.: Seth's android body is just a carrying case. His true form is a sentient Computer Virus, which allows him to hack into Edens Zero's systems and shut the Shining Stars down.
  • The Gunslinger: He's the Quick Draw type who's so fast on the draw that he can unholster his gun, fire it, and reholster it before anyones notices he's even taken a shot, least of all the one who got shot.
  • Killed Offscreen: Subverted. The next time he's mentioned after losing to Witch, he's said to have already committed suicide via Self-Destruct Mechanism, but he turns out to be Faking the Dead.
  • Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: He's a skeleton cowboy android who looks like he walked out of a Space Western.
  • Quick Draw: Seth is able to draw his gun, shoot Spider in the head, and holster his weapon before Spider even realizes he's been shot.
  • Revolvers Are Just Better: Being a robot cowboy, he carries a good old-fashioned revolver with physical ammo when nearly everyone else in the universe uses more modern guns or Ether blasters.
  • Self-Destruct Mechanism: He self-destructs after getting defeated by Witch, which Sister assumes Drakken programmed him against his will to do to avoid interrogation as a sort of Cyanide Pill. In reality, it's a tactic done to upload his A.I. into the Edens Zero's computer system and shut the Shining Stars down.
  • SkeleBot 9000: He's an android with a metallic Skull for a Head.
  • Smoking Is Cool: Despite being a robot, he always has a lit cigar in his mouth to go with his cowboy theme.

    Diego Reyes 

Diego Reyes

Voiced by: Reigo Yamaguchi (Japanese), Kellen Goff (English) Foreign VAs

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An android whose most notable asset is his brute strength.


  • Android Identifier: As a more humanoid robot than his teammate Seth, his face is made up of screwed-in plates to make his robotic nature more evident.
  • The Brute: He's the most physically capable of his team, capable of tearing through machines like tissue paper with his bare hands.
  • Invisibility Cloak: He has a stealth mode to make himself completely invisible, which he uses to fake his own death after Seth self-destructs.
  • Killed Offscreen: Subverted. The next time he's mentioned after losing to Witch, he's said to have already committed suicide via Self-Destruct Mechanism, but he turns out to be Faking the Dead.
  • Mighty Glacier: He doesn't showcase any particular speed or agility, but he's tough enough to rip Edens Zero's machine tentacles to shreds without moving an inch.
  • Perpetual Frowner: His face doesn't change much from a frown while talking.
  • Scarf of Asskicking: He wears a striped scarf around his neck, and he's one of the top enforcers of one of the most dangerous men in the Sakura Cosmos.
  • Self-Destruct Mechanism: Subverted. Similar to Seth, he appears to be programmed by Drakken to explode and avoid interrogation against his will as a sort of Cyanide Pill, which seems to happen after the team defeated by Witch. In reality, only Seth self-destructs while Diego uses an Invisibility Cloak to fake his own death.
  • Stealth Expert: Thanks to his stealth mode, he's able to completely fool the Edens Zero crew with a fake suicide by self-destruction, allowing him to reemerge and take Connor hostage once the rest of the crew is taken out.
  • Super-Strength: His big, burly muscles give him enough strength to rip through machinery easily.
  • Top-Heavy Guy: Not disproportionately so, but his upper body and arms are more muscled than his legs.

Element 4

    In General 
Drakken's special forces unit. Each member is considered to be a part of Drakken himself, and possesses a form of elemental Ether Gear that forms the basis of his alchemy.
  • Barrier Maiden: On a much smaller scale than the norm, they serve as this for Drakken himself, as he relies on their elemental Ether to maintain the balance of his own Ether due to his incredibly advanced age. Once they're defeated, Drakken's power level plummets below his informed Planet Destroyer capabilities (though he's still plenty powerful enough to give Shiki a nasty Curb-Stomp Battle).
  • Classical Elements Ensemble: Each member represents the classical elements of fire, water, wind, and earth. Fie turns into flames to move around and has fire-based sniping abilities; Laguna manipulates water and turns people who cry in his presence into water; Sylph conjures and controls wind; and the earth-themed Daichi sprouts and manipulates vegetation from his and other's bodies. Each element is also fundamental to Drakken's alchemy, which makes sense once it's revealed that their Ether helps keep Drakken's in balance.
  • Elemental Hair Colors: They all have hair colors that match the element they use: blue for Laguna, orange for Fie, green for Sylph, brown for Daichi.
  • Elite Four: They're far stronger than the trio who hangs around Drakken's office, and Drakken considers calling on them to be crossing the Godzilla Threshold.
  • Recurring Element: Their team name is a reference to Phantom Lord's Classical Element Ensemble of the same name from Fairy Tail.
  • Theme Naming: Each member has a codename that ties back to their natural element.

    Laguna Husert 

Laguna Husert

The Spirit of Water. After Drakken's arrest, Laguna goes into hiding until he is welcomed aboard the Edens Zero as a new ally.

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

    Sylph 

Sylph (Kleene Rutherford)

The Element of Wind. Along with her brother, Jinn, she defects from Drakken's side to have her illness treated by the Edens Zero crew, which she eventually joins permanently.

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

    Fie 

Fie

Voiced by: Toshiki Masuda (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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"The Flame Sniper Fie never misses his mark."

The Flame Sniper, a bloodthirsty marksman with impossibly precise aim. His Ether Gear, Flame Ammo, gives him the power to cloak his bullets and body in flames.


  • Accent Adaptation: As an equivalent to his Kansai dialect in the original Japanese, Kodansha's English translation gives him a Bronx dialect.
  • Anime Hair: His vertically-aligned, orange spiky hair invokes the image of Flaming Hair.
  • Ax-Crazy: He blatantly goes directly against Drakken's orders not to kill the Edens Zero crew because he can't resist the urge. He does, however, recognize when he's slipped up, and limits his kills to those he has free reign to do so on.
  • Cold Sniper: Downplayed. Fie is too Hot-Blooded to match the description, but he's ruthless enough to shoot Weisz down shortly after Laguna fails to catch him.
  • Crippling Overspecialization: He's at his most dangerous from multiple kilometers away, because when he's shooting from short range, any standard issue android can quickly figure out where he is and anticipate his moves from his flaming-hot heat signature.
  • Elemental Shapeshifter: He can change his entire body into a flame, which lets him slip through ventilation ducts.
  • Elemental Weapon: Thanks to his Ether Gear, his sniper rifle can shoot bullets that are Wreathed in Flames.
  • Eyepatch of Power: He has one that covers not just his right eye, but the whole portion of his face around it. Oddly, it's the eye he uses to aim with on his sniper rifle.
  • Facial Markings: His Ether lines creep up his face in the shape of flames or rising heat waves.
  • Fiery Redhead: He's the Element 4's fire specialist with a Hot-Blooded disposition, so of course he has fiery orange hair.
  • Hate Sink: There is nothing remotely likable about Fie, nor does he have any Freudian Excuse to even slightly justify his actions; he's just a murderous psycho for the sake of being one.
  • Hero Killer: Downplayed. He doesn't kill anybody, but he does come dangerously close with Weisz by shooting him through the abdomen, which leaves him bedridden and slowly dying.
  • Hot-Blooded: As is standard for a fire user, he mentions getting "fired up" when he's behind the scope.
  • The Idiot from Osaka: He speaks with a Kansai dialect despite there being no Kansai in this universe, but has several stereotypical traits: he's boisterous, violent, easily carried away, and not nearly as crafty as he thinks he is.
  • Improbable Aiming Skills: Fie accurately shoots Weisz through the chest across seven kilometers (4.35 miles)—including distance decay—and has a good enough scope of Weisz's friends to aim for their heads.
  • Just a Machine: Like most of his team, Fie has a prejudice against robots, which he demonstrates when he shoots and pelts the android Hermit with a heavy drone and mockingly asks if she's even capable of feeling pain.
  • Long-Range Fighter: He's the team sniper, and while his Ether Gear gives him some close-quarter combat skill, he becomes deadlier the further away he is from his enemies. He winds up losing to Hermit because he can't get far away enough to avoid her range of detection, losing his element of surprise.
  • Machete Mayhem: He's primarily a Cold Sniper, but he also keeps a machete on hand, which he uses to cut off Weisz's arm in World No.29.
  • Man of Kryptonite: His ability to become Wreathed in Flames makes him one to robots and androids, since he can melt straight through their metal bodies.
  • Playing with Fire: He's a fire-type Ether Gear user, which lets him create flaming bullets and transform himself into fire.
  • Punny Name: His name in English and Japanese (Fai) is one letter/kana and syllable shy of the word "fire" (faia).
  • Red Baron: He calls himself the "Flame Sniper", both for his marksmanship and his fire powers.
  • Sadist: He shows nothing but glee at the prospect of hurting others, from grinning madly as he cuts off Weisz's arm to demanding Hermit to tell him if she feels pain while in the middle of attacking her.
  • Scary Teeth: His mouth is full of razor sharp teeth that he shows off whenever he sports a Slasher Smile.
  • Slasher Smile: This is practically his default expression, but gets especially pronounced before, during, and after he's about to shoot somebody, and when he hacks Weisz's arm off with a machete.
  • Stupid Evil: When paired off against Hermit, Fie gives her a harder time in close quarter combat. However, he much prefers to finish her off while flaunting his sniping skills, which gives Hermit a perfect opportunity to track him down and box him in his own weapons stash.
  • Tattooed Crook: He's an Ax-Crazy sniper whose hands are covered in a flame decals.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: He wears nothing on his upper body except for a diagonal pants strap and a necklace of fangs.
  • Would Harm a Senior: He kills the original Sibir—an unarmed, frail old man—for harboring the Edens Zero crew instead of turning them in as per Drakken's orders.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Though he considers Hermit to be Just a Machine rather than a real girl, he still holds nothing back against her in battle.
  • Wreathed in Flames: While he specializes in covering his bullets in flames, he can also cover his whole body in flames, giving him the ability to melt through metal by touching it.

    Daichi 

Daichi

Voiced by: Atsushi Imaruoka (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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"Want some chocolate?"

The Element of Earth, an alien sadist who struggles with an addiction to torturing people. His Ether Gear, Pain's Tree, inflicts extreme pain in his victims by growing roots and branches inside their bodies.


  • Always Someone Better: He brags about how he's abstained from torturing folks for 60 days straight, showing off a commemorative coin awarded by his self-help group before going Off the Wagon. Sister shows how green he is by revealing a 10-year commemorative coin from the same group before laying on the hurt.
  • Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: He's an alien who can use his power to manipulate earth and wood. His skin is also covered in earthen plates, and his head and hair vaguely resemble a tree.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: While his goofy appearance and behavior when he isn't torturing people makes him the most comedic minion on Drakken's payroll, he's still an unhinged Sadist who loves torturing women.
  • The Brute: He's the largest and bulkiest member of the Element 4, and the most excessively violent.
  • Combat Sadomasochist: He starts off purely sadistic, but his fight with Sister awakens the masochist in him, making him realize how being tortured gets him off as much as torturing someone.
  • Exotic Eye Designs: His eyes are a pair of jagged blemishes in his face, giving him a truly creepy look.
  • Fat Bastard: He's a big, fat, depraved Torture Technician.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He appears to be friendly and cheerful, offering Rebecca a chocolate bar when he first appears before her. When he gets into the swing of torturing people, however, he turns into a roaring, ranting Sadist.
  • Funny Afro: His hair becomes this after suffering a Non Fatal Explosion from Sister's Overheal Destroy.
  • Giggling Villain: He breaks into fits of manic giggling when he goes Off the Wagon on his torture ban.
  • Glasgow Grin: There are stitches on the ends of his mouth that extend it into a creepy Slasher Smile.
  • Gonk: While the other three Elements are human-looking, Daichi resembles a large humanoid golem with a cracked face and arms covered in earthen plates. Furthermore, his eyes look like they're covered with scars, and he lacks a nose.
  • Green Thumb: His Ether Gear lets him grow roots and branches inside people's bodies, which is useful in keeping them from running away and torturing them from the inside.
  • Hate Sink: He's a disgusting, perverted alien with a disturbing addiction to torturing people, with nothing to redeem him or mitigate his evil.
  • Just a Machine: He appears to harbor this belief like most of his teammates, since he questions whether or not androids can feel pain like humans do, and is sadistically delighted when he tortures Sister and finds she indeed can.
  • Loves the Sound of Screaming: He gets ecstatic over hearing Rebecca's cries of pain when he grows tree roots through her body.
  • Meaningful Name: "Daichi" is the Japanese word for the earth/land itself, referencing his status as the Element of Earth.
  • No Sense of Personal Space: He makes his debut by emerging from the ground between Rebecca's legs, and proceeds to loom very closely to her.
  • Off the Wagon: He's a struggling torture addict trying to resist his sadistic urges, but after spending 60 days torture-free by the time Rebecca is left at his mercy, he readily gives in to his urges to torture her until Laguna intervenes.
  • Sadist: He enjoys inflicting Cold-Blooded Torture so much that he goes to group therapy to keep his addiction under control. However, the group is very lax on what doesn't count as "torture", such as a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, which isn't enough to curb his sadistic tendencies. Eventually, he caves completely and exerts total dominance over whoever he finds at his mercy, enjoying every moment of it.
  • Simpleton Voice: He has a creepy, childish voice in the anime that makes him sound none too bright. When his torture urges kick in, however, his voice becomes much deeper.
  • Slasher Smile: He constantly shows a creepy smile with a mouth full of large squared teeth.
  • Super-Strength: He has incredible strength that lets him bend a metal coin with his bare fingers with a bit of effort.
  • Torture Technician: Exaggerated. He's addicted to torturing people, and has group therapy sessions tailored for helping those just like him kick their addiction. He's also the one who carries out Labilia's Cold-Blooded Torture, but in his words, tying her up and giving her a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that leaves her a bloodied mess doesn't count as "real torture".
  • Would Hit a Girl: His urge to inflict Cold-Blooded Torture flies off the charts when he's surrounded by pretty women, whom he sees as the best victims. He's also the one Drakken puts in charge of giving Labilia a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.

Other Operatives

    Jinn 

Jinn (Kris Rutherford)

Sylph's older brother, a cyborg mercenary who originally worked for Rogue Out, now working as her assistant. His affiliation with Drakken ends when the Edens Zero crew offers to help treat his sister, whose life was put in danger by Drakken.

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

    Spider / Jamilov 

Spider / Jamilov

Voiced by: Tatsumaru Tachibana (Japanese), Jon Allen (English) Foreign VAs

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Click here to see him as Jamilov

A genius hacker and lowly computer technician in Drakken Joe's syndicate. Spider is known in the Digitalis RPG Rogue Fantasia by his player avatar, Jamilov, a scythe-wielding mass murderer who uses his hacking expertise to get away with killing NPCs and other players without getting banned.


  • Arc Villain: He's the main villain of the Digitalis arc, where he's found hunting down players and slaughtering NPCs For the Evulz.
  • Asshole Victim: After proving himself a complete piece of garbage who kills left and right For the Evulz, he gets shot and killed by a superior henchman of the very man he thought was his closest companion.
  • Ax-Crazy: He enjoys killing other players in Rogue Fantasia, which he is completely aware kills them in real life, forcing them to remain logged in so he can savor their final moments. However, he doesn't get the same thrill from killing the fully sentient NPCs since they just crumble away into coding, not that this stops him.
  • Bad Boss: He reprograms Rogue Fantasia enemies into loyal soldiers so he can slaughter them all and farm experience points, and casually feeds them to his Living Weapon to turn into ammunition.
  • Boom, Headshot!: Seth shoots him in the head on Drakken's orders for damaging his cred.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He lives up to his title as a genius hacker and mass murderer, and he makes sure to let everyone know that he's blood brothers with Drakken Joe.
  • Character Catchphrase: "They really don't do it for me!" Japanese
  • The Cracker: An evil hacker who's able to easily take control of Edens Zero's systems, at least until the superior Playful Hacker Hermit intervenes.
  • Delinquent Hair: His Digital Avatar has a prominent mohawk.
  • Digital Avatar: Jamilov, the identity he goes by in Rogue Fantasia, is simply the online persona of Spider, and looks a great deal more terrifying than he does in real life.
  • Dirty Coward: He won't fight unless he either has an unfair advantage or safely at his computer where he can't be reached. The moment when these aren't available to him, he folds like the wimp he is.
  • The Dreaded: He is feared by Rogue Fantasia players and NPCs alike for hacking others' accounts to indulge in his bloodthirsty pleasures without getting banned.
  • Energy Weapon: His scythe in Rogue Fantasia can transform into a mouth that fires a laser beam.
  • Evil Laugh: When cackling about his kills and skills, he belts out a distinctive "Bya ha ha!"
  • Evil Is Petty: Once his account on Digitalis is blocked and he's permanently kicked out of the game, he hacks Edens Zero as revenge. When that gets foiled by Hermit, he goes crawling to Drakken and whines for him to kill the crew just because he was embarrassed by them. Drakken has him killed for this reason, since some punk hacker getting defeated by some space-faring crew he doesn't know, and for the dumbest of reasons, is bad for his Villain Cred.
  • Face Death with Despair: When Hermit bluffs him with a fake laser cannon switch aimed straight at his ship, Spider wets his pants shrieking like a little girl.
  • Facial Markings: His Digital Avatar has a veiny pattern running up the left side of his face.
  • Famed In-Story: While he's just a small-fry in Drakken's syndicate, Rebecca recognizes him as one of the top five computer hackers in the Sakura Cosmos, with Spider clarifying (i.e., boasting) that he's the Sakura Cosmos's number one hacker.
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Spider wears Opaque Nerd Glasses outside of Digitalis, and is an established computer hacker and serial killer.
  • A God Am I: He considers himself to be a god on Digitalis due to his programming abilities making himself invincible. This leads to his Villainous Breakdown when Hermit proves to be more than a match for him.
  • Gonk: His real-world appearance is a stubbier version of his Digital Avatar with tiny eyes, thick lips, and an acne-ridden nose.
  • Griefer: He hacks other players' accounts to retool Rogue Fantasia in his favor, including the "no killing players or NPCs" rule, which gets them banned in his place. The fact that players die in real life if they're killed in-game, and that the NPCs are fully sentient lifeforms, makes him a particularly deadly version of this.
  • Hate Sink: He murders innocent people in front of the heroes' eyes, and acts like an obnoxious Troll in real life. He dies an unmourned Asshole Victim at the hands of the man he deluded himself into thinking was a brother-in-arms.
  • Hell-Bent for Leather: As Jamilov, he wears a leather jacket with a fur collar, befitting his personality as a psychotic cutthroat.
  • Hiding Behind Your Bangs: His Messy Hair covers his left eye and he's a hacker who relies completely on cheating methods.
  • I Call It "Vera": He calls his Sinister Scythe in Rogue Fantasia "Maria", which is apparently based on his obsession with Maria Slime. The actual Maria is less than flattered.
  • Invincible Villain: He's pathetically weak IRL, but on Digitalis, he exceeds his own limitations with infinite health and strength cheats, allowing him to take Shiki's hits without a scratch. Once Hermit takes his buffs away, however, he's easy pickings.
  • Knight of Cerebus: His senseless massacre of the town of Crysta is the primary reason why Xiaomei warns readers/viewers that the Digitalis arc will be "exceedingly sadistic".
  • Lean and Mean: He's one of the lankiest and most violently insane characters in the series, both through his Digital Avatar and in real life.
  • Living Weapon: His scythe, Maria, has a mind of its own and can transform into a set of jaws that eat through anything it wants.
  • Mad Eye: Jamilov's right eye bulges slightly more than the left, especially when he's grinning about how wickedly evil he is.
  • Maniac Tongue: There's hardly a scene where he lets out a laugh without his pointed tongue dangling out.
  • Narcissist: He egotistically calls himself a "winner" in Rogue Fantasia and IRL, both on account of his hacking expertise. He also brags about working with Drakken Joe, one of the most dangerous warriors in the cosmos, and insists on people calling him the number one hacker in the Sakura Cosmos when Rebecca says he ranks in the top five.
  • Nerd in Evil's Helmet: While he parades around Digitalis with a terrifyingly psychotic-looking monster for a Digital Avatar, he's really an Otaku who acts like a stereotypical Troll. Nerdy as he is, however, he is still every bit as Ax-Crazy as his Digital Avatar looks, since he murders other players in the most painful and sadistic of ways, knowing fully well that they'd die in real life.
  • Obviously Evil: He checks off so many standard "evil" character design choices with his Digital Avatar, from his fur-and-leather wardrobe straight down to his jagged physical features.
  • Opaque Nerd Glasses: In real life, he has thick glasses with an X-marking on the lenses that block out his eyes.
  • Red Baron: As a serial killer in Rogue Fantasia, he holds the straight-to-the-point title of "Mass Murderer Jamilov".
  • Scary Teeth: His Digital Avatar comes with a Slasher Smile that's filled to the brim with razor-sharp teeth.
  • Signature Laugh: His Evil Laugh, "Bya ha ha!" It's also how the heroes can tell who he is in real life.
  • Sinister Scythe: His weapon in Rogue Fantasia is a serrated scythe, which he uses to kill. It's also a Living Weapon that can turn into a set of jaws to gobble up enemies and buildings whole or fire a laser beam from its mouth.
  • Sinister Schnoz: His Digital Avatar sports a long and pointed nose, and is established right away as a murderous villain. It gets horribly bent out of shape after he suffers Shiki's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He thinks he's a member of Drakken Joe's inner circle, and constantly advertises himself as such. In reality, he's nothing but a tech support worker who got a passing compliment from Drakken for fixing his PC, which Spider took way too seriously. When they meet again, Drakken hardly remembers him.
  • Thin Chin of Sin: Jamilov has metal plates on his chin that emphasize its pointed shape.
  • Troll: He's a textbook example of a Gonk Internet Jerk with a laugh that's both wicked and obnoxious, talking like a troll poster does whenever people are in mortal peril.
  • You Are Already Dead: He dies getting shot in the head by Seth, but it happens so fast that Spider doesn't notice he's been shot, spending his last moments quivering in fear and confusion before slumping over.
  • You Have Failed Me: When Drakken finds out Spider lost pathetically to the Edens Zero crew after running his mouth over their affiliation, he orders Seth to shoot him in the head.

    Drakken's Secretary 

Drakken's Secretary

Voiced by: Motoki Sakuma (Japanese)

Drakken's slug-like alien secretary.



Nero Empire

    In General 
The Nero Empire—more commonly known simply as The Empire—is the empire ruled by Poseidon Nero. It was built within a single generation by Nero himself under the guidance of his Empire Dice, causing much bloodshed and oppression until its influence spread across the entire Aoi Cosmos, superseding every government on every planet within its borders. Boasting a fleet of 60,000 ships and 100,000 battlecruisers, among a few other weapons of mass destruction, the Empire is by far the largest subfaction within the Galáctica.
  • Child Soldiers: The Empire is shown to use these, as the Edens Zero crew contends with a young boy plowing through the streets of Sandra in an armored truck.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Several imperial soldiers suffer some of the most grizzly deaths out of any Mashima series:
    • On two separate occasions, Shura uses his gravity to crush his own soldiers into a bloody paste: one happens partially off-screen to a general who innocently called Ijuna his "consort"; the other happens in full view to a squad of soldiers defending the All-Link System, the sight of which nearly causes Rebecca to puke.
    • During his raid on the Temple, Jaguar tears through dozens of soldiers with such brutality that limbs and body parts rain down all around him. One terrified soldier likens their body parts to broken action figures, while another thinks he's stumbled into a Slasher Movie.
  • Decapitated Army: As soon as word breaks out that Nero is dead, the entire army surrenders with very little resistance.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: With a few exceptions that genuinely enjoy causing tyranny and death, the vast majority of the Empire's supporters are just ordinary folks fighting to make ends meet.
  • Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy:
  • What Measure Is a Mook?: Discussed. One of the Empire's soldiers calls Goodwin out for not considering any of the soldiers his rebel army killed when he's furious over the deaths of his own soldiers at imperial hands. Goodwin responds that the soldier has a point, and that just because the hates Empire and everything it embodies, that doesn't mean he personally hates the people who are a part of it. He settles the argument by inviting the enemy soldiers for drinks once the war is over.

Royal Family

    Poseidon Nero 

Poseidon Nero

The Emperor of the Aoi Cosmos.

See EDENS ZERO: Oración Seis Galáctica for more information.

    Poseidon Shura 

Poseidon Shura

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (Japanese)

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"Don't get it twisted. Women are a Glee a dozen. And everything in this cosmos belongs to me."

The adopted human son and imperial heir of Poseidon Nero. Much like Shiki, Shura is a Satan Gravity user who prefers to manipulate the gravity of objects, turning anything around him into a weapon. Due to his lonely and unloving upbringing under his father, however, Shura is also a cruel, wild, and violently insane deadbeat, turning him into one of Shiki's most hated enemies.


  • 0% Approval Rating:
    • Shura is so universally hated by the people of Aoi that public opinion for the Empire tanks to record lows once Nero puts him in charge of dealing with the robot uprising. This is to say nothing of his subordinates, who only follow him out of fear, and promptly abandon him when things take a hairy turn. Subverted when Ijuna remains the one person in the universe to remain by his side after falling in love with him.
    • During the final arcs, this trope is shown to be downplayed with Universe Zero's Shura, who has a better reputation as a Benevolent Dictator after becoming Emperor, but is still dismissed as an Inadequate Inheritor to Nero by some of his subjects. Once he dedicates himself to cleaning up Nero's messes by turning The Empire into The Republic, his approval ratings skyrocket.
  • Absolute Xenophobe: He takes Fantastic Racism against robots and androids to its furthest extreme by ordering the genocide of every living machine in the Aoi Cosmos, using the war against Ziggy as a front to exterminate what he considers to be an inferior race.
  • Adopted into Royalty: Nero took the human Shura on as his son and heir according to the will of his Empire Dice.
  • Adoption Angst: He despises his adoptive father, who never showed him any love, which motivates Shura to plot Nero's assassination to get him out of his hair for good. His Universe Zero self has no such qualms, seeing his father as a misguided but well-meaning ruler whose shoes he feels responsible to fill.
  • Alas, Poor Villain: After spending nearly all of his appearances being a psychotic, unpleasant, and irredeemably evil piece of garbage, he goes out with a humanizing death scene where Ijuna's choice to be Together in Death with him drives him to tears, realizing too late that a monster like him has the capacity to love and be loved by somebody, even if that somebody never would have loved him if he didn't drive her mad in the first place.
  • Always Someone Better: Shura is built up as someone more powerful than Shiki, having a natural talent for gravity that he practically trained himself from scratch, and boasting a fine balance of skill and strength that Shiki lacks. This becomes a non-factor by the time they actually meet, which comes after Xenolith puts Shiki through roughly 35 days worth of training in one week to level the playing field.
  • Ambiguous Start of Darkness: The precise details of what transformed Shura from a seemingly ordinary boy to a wicked and insane manchild are not given. All that's made for sure is that he spent his entire life unloved by anyone—least of all his own father—until he snapped, with the implication that dark gravity had something to do with it.
  • Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He fancies himself as the "king of gravity" due to his raw power and natural aptitude for Gravity Ether Gear, even though his only formal training in the Magimech Arts was from a single session as a child under Ziggy. Besides that, his fighting style mainly consists of simply lifting and crushing things, and he lacks the Semantic Superpower that users of "true" gravity have.
  • Ax-Crazy: Shura is a violently unstable fellow prone to acts of extreme violence and graphic homicide over seemingly trivial details.
  • Back from the Dead: The Cosmic Retcon that results from the Edens Zero going back in time to Universe Zero also means Shura's death in the Aoi War gets wiped from history.
  • Bad Boss: Shura is a horrendous leader who treats the Imperial army the same way he treats anybody else: by turning them into bloody paste when they rub him the wrong way or don't follow his orders.
  • Benevolent Boss: As shown in the final arcs, Shura is a much more compassionate leader in Universe Zero than the Bad Boss she was before the Cosmic Retcon, viewing the Oceans 6 and Ijuna as his trusted companions.
  • Benevolent Dictator: Shura behaves like one in Universe Zero, where he succeeds Nero as The Emperor. Rather than the depraved tyrant the Edens Zero crew expects him to be, he's a genuinely well-meaning ruler who's helped bring the Empire to prosperity, but nearly makes the same rash decisions he made in the old world in response to the Foresta crisis, which would permanently tarnish his reputation as a leader if not for Shiki's intervention.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Given his strength, connections to Ziggy, and personal animosity with Shiki, he certainly seems poised to become a major antagonist moving forward. In the end, he's so Out-Gambitted by Nero that his plans to achieve power were All for Nothing from the start.
  • Blood Knight: Shura is such a bloodthirsty maniac that he becomes ecstatic when Shiki shows he's good enough to keep up with him in a fight, asking to be his friend on the spot. Even after Shiki gets on his bad side, Shura would rather keep fighting him just to prolong Shiki's suffering, and is let down when Shiki pushes him into making their battle into "a boring old fight to the death" by going into Overdrive.
  • Break the Haughty: He spends the majority of the Nero 66 arc completely self-assured in his superiority over Shiki, as well as his victory over Ziggy and Nero, but that all comes crashing down when he gets Out-Gambitted by Nero and is soundly defeated by Shiki's ultimate Black Sky attack.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: He's very well aware of what a black-hearted monster he is, and he relishes that fact at every opportunity with a mile-wide grin, something he throws in Shiki's face when getting lectured over the weight of people's lives.
  • The Casanova: Taken to horrifying extremes. He describes women as "a Glee a dozen", but once he grows tired of two of the girls clinging to him, he doesn't simply ditch them, but murders them to set an example.
  • Character Tics: He has a tendency to puff his cheeks when he's belting out an Evil Laugh or indulging in some Evil Gloating.
  • Dead Alternate Counterpart: His Universe 2 and 3 selves die when Ziggy destroys Nero 66 to kill Shiki in the Aoi War, but it's presumed that his Universe 1 self is still alive since Universe 1's Ziggy doesn't come Back from the Dead.
  • Delinquent Hair: He has messy green hair that's shaved on the right side of his head to show what an irresponsible deadbeat of a son he is.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: His response to any minor slight against him is to senselessly kill and/or torture whoever it was that insulted him. Case in point, when Shiki refuses Shura's friendship, he goes straight for the Four Shining Stars, maiming Sister and Hermit while taking Witch hostage, just to see the look of anguish and fury on Shiki's face.
  • Dragon-in-Chief: Shura serves this role in the Nero 66 arc, where he's left in charge of the Empire's entire military force for the Aoi War while Nero sits on his throne in accordance to the Empire Dice's will to not interfere, and winds up being the most central and active threat the Edens Zero crew faces. Subverted when Nero reveals that Shura was dancing in the palm of his hand the entire time, as the Emperor turns his son's assassination plot against him on its head right as Shura tries carrying it out.
  • Drunk on the Dark Side: Because he Used to Be a Sweet Kid, it's implied that Shura's monstrous and extravagant behavior is a result of his heart falling into dark gravity, likely as a result of being driven mad by a lifetime of emotional neglect.
  • The Emperor: Universe Zero's Shura succeeds Nero as ruler of the Empire, but unlike the Evil Overlord his original self would have become, this Shura is a Benevolent Dictator. He ceases to be this when he abolishes the Empire and forms the Aoi Cosmos Republic.
  • Establishing Character Moment: In his first scene, he's seen in the company of two women while confronting a new call girl for failing to reply the other night. Instead of punishing her, he drops the other women straight to the ceiling when they tell him not to pick on her, killing them with a Sickening "Crunch!". As the new girl stares up at their off-screen remains in horror, Shura tells her he has plenty of women to spare because he owns everything in the cosmos, letting the pair's blood pour down all over him. This all establishes him as a Royal Brat, a Politically Incorrect Villain, and an Ax-Crazy maniac.
  • Even Evil Can Be Loved: Originally, Ijuna only came to have feelings for Shura because she used her Ether Gear to keep her mind from breaking after Shura's torture. However, Ijuna realizes that her feelings for him didn't go away after Laguna cut the string tying her to Shura, and embraces him knowing that he was Unknowingly in Love with her. The feeling of being genuinely loved by someone, even though it was someone whom he messed up so badly that she ended up crazy enough to love someone like him, reduces Shura to tears.
  • Evil Counterpart: Serves as one to Shiki, his exact opposite in many regards besides being a fellow Gravity Master trained by Ziggy and an adopted child under a non-human (grand)father. Shiki is compassionate, uses his gravity to protect and spread joy to his friends, and values lives of everyone whether they're human, machine, good, or evil; on the other hand, Shura is cruel, enjoys figuratively and literally crushing anyone who stands in his way, and values nobody's lives outside his own, least of all the lives of "worthless" things like robots.
  • Evil Laugh: He often breaks out into childish cackling, being the gleeful and proud villain that he is.
  • Evil Is Petty: As a villain, he takes just about any excuse he can to squash lives and get what he wants, no matter how insignificant. This ranges from killing a general just for calling Ijuna his "consort", to physically and emotionally tormenting Shiki for not wanting to be his friend.
  • The Evil Prince: As Nero's only son and heir, Shura wants to inherit the throne as soon as possible, which he tries by baiting Nero into a death match with Ziggy, all so Shura can officially claim everything in the Aoi Cosmos as his own.
  • Fatal Flaw: Pride is the worst of his many, many character flaws, as he's so self-assured of his own power, brilliance, and superiority to everyone that he doesn't even entertain the possibility of failure. Nero winds up seeing Shura's treachery to a mile away because of this, and completely undermines his plan to use his own Antimatter bombs against him by sending them all back to Shura before he has the chance to detonate them.
  • Flat-Earth Atheist: He lives in an age where Casual Interstellar Travel is a part of everyday life, and he himself boasts superhuman powers from a bygone era, yet he scoffs at the idea that Nero's dice are magical Relics that grant him absolute victory.
  • For the Evulz: There's no rhyme or reason behind his desire for carnage and absolute control; he simply has all the power and privilege in the cosmos to take whatever he wants, so he takes it.
  • Gravity Master: His "Demon King" Ether gives him access to the same gravity powers as Shiki and Ziggy, which he uses in a manner more similar to telekinesis by lifting a derelict spaceship out of the ground, ripping individual pieces off a machine, controlling cables and wires like rope to restrain targets, and crunching a boulder into a javelin. He also uses far more brutal methods on people, such as "dropping" people onto the ceiling, crushing them into bloody pulps, and plucking Shiki's eye right out of its socket.
  • Guyliner: He wears black eyeliner resembling streams of tears, which he's had even since he was a child.
  • Hate Sink: He is written to be so repulsively evil, being a psychotic and power-hungry prince who carries out grotesque acts of violence far beyond Mashima's usual standards, that it makes even an All-Loving Hero like Shiki refuse to be his friend. This gets downplayed in his death scene, which humanizes him by showing how pitifully lonely and starved for affection he really is.
  • Hated by All: Shura stands as one of the most despised characters in-universe. His father has zero affection for him, his subjects think he's an incompetent buffoon, his minions' reactions to working for him range from indifference to outrage to fearful obedience, and Shiki has sworn to never, ever be his friend. Even the one who has shown him any love and sympathy, Ijuna, only does so because she's under a delusion induced by her own Ether Gear. In the end, Ijuna's genuine affection for him after being freed from her Ether Gear's influence subverts this.
  • The Heavy: Though Nero is the villain in charge of The Empire that the Edens Zero crew battle in the Aoi Cosmos saga, Shura is the one who spearheads the saga's climactic Aoi War and gets the more personal interaction with Shiki, while Nero spends most of the action sitting on his throne and never meeting the crew face-to-face.
  • Heel–Face Turn:
  • Hell-Bent for Leather: When he's not being a Walking Shirtless Scene, he's wearing a shirtless leather jacket with pants.
  • Humanizing Tears: After spending all his time acting like a cruel and black-hearted monster, Shura undergoes a tearful Villainous BSoD when Ijuna concludes that Shura's love for her is genuine and accepts her own love for him without her self-brainwashing, which she asserts is proof that he has a human heart.
  • Hypocrite: He calls Shiki a hypocrite for hesitating to accept Shura's friendship over their clashing beliefs, but then tries to convince Shiki into abandoning his ideals that Androids Are People, Too, which ensures that Shiki turns him down.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: He dealt with soul-crushing loneliness since he was a child, unloved by his own father and having nobody else to love, which eventually drove him to madness. It's all but stated that he still craves some form of affection from somebody, but realizes his chances of that happening are impossible because of his lust for power and penchant for senseless carnage. When Ijuna falls in love with him despite it all, he's reduced to tears over getting the kind of love he thought a monster like himself could never have.
  • Improvised Weapon: Using his Gravity Ether Gear, Shura can use just about any object around him as a weapon. He uses this to his advantage when fighting in the ash fields of Nero 66, which are littered with crashed ships and ammunition he can fling at Shiki, at one point breaking a missile down into individual pieces for an increase in ammunition.
  • In Love with the Mark: Inverted with regards to Universe Zero's Shura, who was originally spied on by his world's Ijuna, but fell in love with her despite fully knowing her intentions. However, Ijuna eventually reciprocated his feelings, and they became engaged.
  • Interspecies Adoption: Shura is a human who was adopted by an alien with obvious fish man features like tentacle Alien Hair.
  • Just a Machine: He sees no value in the lives of androids, which he proudly and repeatedly demonstrates by sentencing all robots in his cosmos to death, programming a battalion of Robot Soldiers to perform a suicide attack on Shiki against their wills, and referring to Witch as an "it" while putting her through Cold-Blooded Torture.
  • Lack of Empathy: By his own admission, he's the kind of person who takes the value of every person's life very lightly, unless that life is his own. It's for this reason that he's able to slaughter people at the drop of a hat.
  • Ladykiller in Love: Taken more literally than usual, since he actually kills the women he's tired of, but it counts towards Ijuna, who started out as just one of many women he'd take to his torture chamber to have his way with. At some point, Shura started to develop feelings for her, but brushed it off as an effect of Ijuna's Ether Gear, which causes people to fall in love. He finally has a Love Epiphany when Ijuna reveals her power doesn't work on someone who's never loved or been loved by anyone before, proving that even a monster like him is capable of loving someone else.
  • Laughing Mad: One of the many signs of his mental instability is his tendency to cackle like a maniac when killing or insulting others.
  • Lima Syndrome: Shura thinks that he's only taken a liking to Ijuna—the woman he tortured and humiliated in every way possible—because her Ether Gear causes people to fall in love. However, in their final moments, Ijuna reveals that her Ether Gear shouldn't have worked on Shura because he'd never known love before, proving that whatever feelings he had for her were genuine.
  • Love Epiphany: After being long convinced that his feelings for Ijuna are just a product of her Ether Gear, Shura realizes with Ijuna's help that he fell in love with her all on his own because her power doesn't work on anybody who's never been loved by anyone.
  • Mad Eye: From the point of his introduction, he can hardly go a scene without one of his eyes bulging to show what an unstable madman he is.
  • Maou the Demon King: Though Shura doesn't use the title himself, his Ether is classified as the "Demon King" type, which gives him gravity powers.
  • Mask of Sanity: He's known to be a brutally violent and deeply disturbed man from the get go, but when he's in front of his father and the general populace, he keeps up the appearance of a respectful son and a charismatic politician.
  • Meaningful Name: "Shura" is the Japanese name of the Hindu demigod of war. It can also refer to someone who is in a situation where they must fight endlessly in a relentless and inhuman manner, which matches Shura's personality to a T.
  • The Most Wanted: Although he's the adoptive son of one of the Oración Seis Galáctica, who are this by default, Nero is so old that the Interstellar Union Army fears Shura's ascension to the throne far more than anything the Emperor can do, and thereby prioritizes Shura's elimination above all else in the Aoi War.
  • No Body Left Behind: His Universe 2 and 3 selves get blasted to atoms by the Antimatter bombs together with Ijuna in the Nero 66 arc.
  • Not Good with Rejection: He proves himself this in a platonic sense when Shura tries getting Shiki to be his friend so they can team up against Ziggy. Shiki rejects him for being a genocidal, robot-hating bigot who refuses to change his ways, which Shura sees as due cause to thrash the Shining Stars and kidnap Witch just to get back at him.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist:
    • Shura promotes himself as a Well-Intentioned Extremist with his plans to wipe out all robots in the Aoi Cosmos with the All-Link System, which he publicly declares is the only way to stop Ziggy's conquest. In private, he admits he just hates robots and was looking for an excuse to destroy them all.
    • In the final arcs, this trope is featured as a subversion with his Universe Zero self, who carries out the same plan from a genuine desire to stop the supposedly renegade Xenolith, and sees the plan itself as Dirty Business.
  • One True Love: Ijuna insists that Shura is her predestined love bound to her by the Red String of Fate, even though he's an utter monster who's never known love or how to love others in his entire life. In a twist, this is played straight: Shura developed Lima Syndrome over the days he spent torturing Ijuna, who had Stockholm Syndrome for him, triggering her Ether Gear ability that brainwashed her into loving him in the first place. Ijuna's discovery of this causes her to embrace her feelings for him, and they spend their final moments Together in Death.
  • One-Winged Angel: Shura's Overdrive form gives him various aquatic attributes, most notably Nero's Tentacle Hair and fish-like scales around his legs, which leaves him far more inhuman-looking.
  • Overlord Jr.: His father is The Emperor of the Aoi Cosmos, yet Shura is far worse: while Nero has a superficially noble desire to protect humankind, Shura feels entitled to owning everything in the cosmos, including people.
  • Pet the Dog: His decision to give Ijuna a secretarial position implies this, showing that for all his talk about women being expendible, she is the one exception. This is proven true when it's confirmed he spared her from the horrific torture he put her through because he'd fallen Unknowingly in Love with her.
  • Pimped-Out Cape: Universe Zero's Shura wears an extravagant, regal cape with a fur collar to highlight his status as The Emperor.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: From the moment he's introduced, she's shown to be a massive sexist who treats women as objects, comes up with sickening ways to humiliate and torture them, and murders them without batting an eye when they rub him the wrong way. He's also one of the most bigoted characters towards robots and androids in the series, targeting them specifically because he feels they're worthless. His kidnapping of Witch combines these vices by having him grope her while calling her Shiki's "toy".
  • Practically Joker: He has a lot in common with The Joker: he has green hair, he's Ax-Crazy, he murders people For the Evulz, he laughs at death and mayhem, and he becomes fixated on making The Hero suffer for refusing his friendship. Some parts of his design look like they come straight from Jared Leto's portrayal, namely the punk hairstyle, makeup, and body tattoos. He also has a victim-turned-sidekick who's fallen madly in love with him akin to Harley Quinn, except Shura's affections for her turn out to be real and not a way to wrap her around his finger.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: On top of being a murderous sociopath, he's also incredibly childish, laughing at the Space Battle between his men and the Interstellar Union Army and asking how many died like a little boy watching a fireworks display. He also attacks the Four Shining Stars to get back at Shiki for rejecting his offer of friendship by breaking his "precious toys" like a schoolyard bully would.
  • Psychotic Smirk: When he's not wearing a Slasher Smile, he's constantly making this expression to show what an unhinged monster he is.
  • A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: As with Shiki, Shura learned his Gravity Ether Gear from Ziggy, and he Used to Be a Sweet Kid before falling to The Dark Side.
  • Religious and Mythological Theme Naming:
    • The name Shura itself is the Japanese name for Asura, a power-hungry demigod of war found in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, which perfectly suits his nature.
    • His adoptive family name comes from the Greek god of the sea, Poseidon, reflecting how his father is Emperor of a cosmos filled with oceans.
  • Restoration of Sanity: Thanks to the changes in history brought about by the Cosmic Retcon, Universe Zero's Shura doesn't suffer from Parental Neglect, becoming a more mentally and emotionally stable person as a result.
  • Royal Brat: Since he's the adopted son of The Emperor, Nero, Shura is absurdly strong and entitled, to the logical detriment of his underlings.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: Despite his status as a prince, Shura acts as a Frontline General for the Imperial army, being the first to confront the heroes directly the moment they get involved.
  • Sadist: He enjoys watching his victims writhing in agony, whether it's putting crushing them into bloody stains with gravity, cutting them up or humiliating them in his torture chamber, or seeing their friends' and loved one's emotional anguish over it.
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend:
    • He very explicitly refers to Ijuna as his "secretary", nothing more, which comes off as odd given his tendencies as The Casanova. This is because Shura knows Ijuna's feelings for him were only artificially induced by her Ether Gear, so he figures that whatever feelings he has for her must also be fake...until Ijuna reveals that her power worked because he'd fallen in love with her for real and didn't realize it.
    • Downplayed when Shura appears in Universe Zero, where he's openly engaged to Ijuna, but gets angry when someone calls her his bride, since they technically haven't wedded yet.
  • Sketchy Successor:
    • The people of Aoi view him as one to Nero, who provides some manner of social stability despite his tyranny, while Shura is a psychotic, warmongering manchild who's hated and feared by everyone who works under him.
    • Downplayed with regards to Universe Zero's Shura, who actually becomes The Emperor as a Benevolent Dictator. He's still a reckless, irresponsible Blood Knight whom Nero predicts will become a tyrant without intervention, while his ascension prompts Oasis to rebel because they don't trust a "spoiled rich kid" to effectively run a government, but thanks to Shiki helping him keep his act together, Shura proves his doubters wrong by forming the Aoi Cosmos Republic to take responsibility for the Empire's transgressions.
  • Slasher Smile: As an Ax-Crazy, sociopathic dirtbag, Shura makes this expression when he's about to go off and murder somebody.
  • Smug Super: He's totally full of himself as a villain, but seeing as his gravity is powerful enough to stop the Edens Zero itself in midair, his confidence isn't unfounded.
  • The Sociopath: Shura is selfish, entitled, unstable, violent, and remorseless. He also views people as his possessions, and when he tries to reach out to people on a personal level like when he wants Shiki to be his friend, it's mostly just as a means to an end.
  • Sore Loser: Shura can't stand the idea of somebody being better than him, least of all his own father, because he never makes any plans while accounting for how they could possibly go wrong. He nearly gets himself blown up over this by trying to detonate the bombs he was planning to kill Nero with, because he refuses to believe Nero could have Out-Gambitted him.
  • The Starscream: Shura has designs to take his adoptive father's place as Emperor, which is why he arranges a war against robot-kind is to make Nero take the fall and be killed by Ziggy.
  • Strong and Skilled: As a Gravity Master who's touted as being stronger than either Shiki or Ziggy, Shura shows he has the raw power to stop a warship like the Edens Zero in midair with a wave of his hand, and the technique to dismantle machines to their base components in a matter of seconds. On top of that, he's quick to point out that just because his gravity works more on objects, that doesn't mean he can't use it on himself as effectively as Shiki can, making him a challenging fighter in hand-to-hand combat as well.
  • Stupid Evil: Every atrocity he commits is done purely for self-indulgence, whether it's slaughtering his own men for not doing their jobs right, wasting perfectly capable Robot Soldiers out of prejudice, or getting untold numbers of planets reduced to dust just to kill two powerful people. Because of this, his approval ratings are in the pits and nobody likes or respects him, which only fuels his desire to commit more evil.
  • Tattooed Crook: His eyes, chest, shoulders, arms and hands are covered in tattoos, and he's a twisted young prince who kills people in horrific ways without a moment's notice.
  • Tentacle Hair: Shura's Overdrive changes his Delinquent Hair into a full head of tentacles just like his adoptive father, Nero.
  • Together in Death: By the end of the Nero 66 arc, Shura and Ijuna die embracing each other in the planet's explosion, realizing and accepting that their twisted love for each other is genuine.
  • Took a Level in Badass: The Cosmic Retcon makes Shura far more powerful than he was before, capable of holding his own against Shiki after the latter regains his full power from three years in the future, where he became of the Oración Seis Galáctica.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: An exaggerated, non-Character Development example. Shura starts off as a psychotic, hedonistic deadbeat who kills his own men for the slightest insult, and only finds true love after torturing and humiliating Ijuna until he unwittingly drove her insane enough to love him back. Once the Cosmic Retcon occurs, Shura's history is completely altered and turns him into a well-meaning Benevolent Dictator who has a stable relationship with Ijuna, whom he'd never imagine putting through any sort of harm.
  • Torture Technician: He makes something of a sick hobby out of torturing captured soldiers of La Résistance, and brings Witch into the mix to torment Shiki. Ijuna, formerly the "princess" of Oasis, was one of his favorite victims, as he came up with some sickening methods of torture and humiliation, which included taking her on "walkies" as his naked Human Pet with a bomb shoved up her rectum.
  • Underestimating Badassery: Shura is so convinced he's the ultimate Gravity Master that he underestimates how much of a challenge people can give him. He's caught off guard when Shiki puts up a good fight against him, though he takes it very well, knowing he's found himself a Worthy Opponent. This is especially the case with Nero, whom he pegs as an aging doddard who's weaker fighter than Ziggy, and doesn't expect it when Nero actually appears to kill the Demon King with his own hands.
  • Unknowingly in Love: Shura turns out to be in love with Ijuna, whom he orphaned and turned into his personal plaything before he fell for her and turned her into his secretary. Because he knows what a heartless monster he is, however, he figures that he's just been brainwashed by her Ether Gear, which forces people to fall in love. He only realizes his feelings are genuine after Ijuna explains her powers don't work on someone who's never known love before.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Ironically, his plans to kill Ziggy only end up working in Ziggy's favor, as Shura and Nero's wrestling over the anti-matter bombs gives Ziggy the weapons he needs to cause the spacetime distortion that would lead to Shiki's death and his own birth.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Back when he first learned how to use his Gravity Ether Gear as a little kid, Shura appeared to be just as excitable and innocent as Shiki. Cut to the present day, where he's a psychotic, murderous deadbeat of a prince, likely as a result of falling into dark gravity.
  • Villainous BSoD: He experiences one right before his death when Ijuna permanently embraces her love for him and leads him to a Love Epiphany, which reduces him to tears over the realization that the heartless monster he's always believed himself to be is capable of loving somebody at all, and that his evil has ironically created the first person in his life to truly love and care for him.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Shura loses all the smug confidence he'd built up over the course of the Aoi Cosmos saga when he learns how thoroughly Out-Gambitted he was by the father he was trying to kill, refusing to accept defeat and nearly getting himself killed in the process. This leaves him blindsided to an attack by Shiki, whom he'd left for dead without bothering to check if he survived, leaving him ranting and raging for the rest of their fight before he's finally defeated.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Shura is introduced completely topless, showing off all the tattoos covering his upper body. He takes to wearing a leather jacket for most of his scenes after that, but doesn't wear a shirt underneath, and goes back to being topless after going into Overdrive.

Imperial Court

    Ijuna (Heavy Spoilers) 

Ijuna

Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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"I wouldn't expect you to understand... You'll never know the strength of destiny's bonds. Or the madness of a man who doesn't know love."

Shura's personal secretary, formerly a member of Oasis known as the "Princess". Believed dead by her old comrades, she was in fact captured and put through unspeakable tortures by Shura until she developed Stockholm Syndrome and fell desperately in love with him, joining the Empire to be by his side. Ijuna's Ether Gear, Red Destiny, produces strings of red Ether that cause two people bound by them to fall in love, while severing the strings changes that love into murderous hatred.


  • Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair color is black in colored manga art, but is changed to a dark reddish-brown in the anime.
  • Back from the Dead: The Cosmic Retcon that results from the Edens Zero going back in time to Universe Zero also means Ijuna's death in the Aoi War gets wiped from history.
  • Being Tortured Makes You Evil: She went from a heroic rebel from Oasis to a loyal imperial soldier after getting put through days of Cold-Blooded Torture by Shura and gaining Stockholm syndrome for him.
  • Birds of a Feather: When Ijuna realizes she still cares for Shura after getting freed from her brainwashing, even though he killed her father and made her life hell, she concludes she's just as big of a piece of garbage as he is, turning their twisted relationship into true, mutual love.
  • Broken Bird: She was a warm and friendly romanticist who acted as The Heart of Oasis, but Shura's torture broke her into becoming cold, cruel, and absolutely devoted to him alone.
  • Cleavage Window: Exaggerated. The window is so big, the fabric directly beneath it is torn and barely held together by the threads.
  • Combat Stilettos: She wears high heels that she uses to kick Laguna in their fight.
  • Conditioned to Accept Horror: She doesn't bat an eye any time Shura tortures or gruesomely kills anybody with her around, which is implied to be because he put her through the same kinds of horrors.
  • Dark Action Girl: She's a soldier strong enough to give Laguna a hard time in battle, and uses her Ether strings to brutally pierce through him.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Three years ago, Ijuna was caught by the Empire while trying to rescue some captured teammates from Oasis. Shura took an fancy to Ijuna and used a different woman's body to convince the rest of Oasis that she was killed so he could have her all to himself. After days of cruel and humiliating Cold-Blooded Torture that left her near death, Ijuna cracked and developed Stockholm syndrome for Shura, pitying him for how utterly alone and unloved he was, which then blossomed into a twisted romance towards her captor.
  • Dark Mistress: She has something going with Shura, which is revealed to be because she's a victim of Stockholm syndrome who's completely fallen for him after days of soul-crushing torture and isolation. For his part, Shura is aware of her feelings, but appears to be more amused by them than anything. However, he becomes very volatile when she gets mistaken for his "consort", an early indicator that their love is mutual.
  • Dead Alternate Counterpart: Her Universe 2 and 3 selves die when Ziggy destroys Nero 66 to kill Shiki in the Aoi War, but it's presumed that her Universe 1 self is still alive since Universe 1's Ziggy doesn't come Back from the Dead.
  • Death Faked for You: When she first went missing, Oasis found what they believe to be Ijuna's corpse with her face mangled beyond all recognition by Shura. In reality, it was a stranger's corpse that Shura set up so she could keep her all to himself.
  • Emotion Bomb: Her red strings act as an actual Red Strings of Fate that brainwash any two people connected by one into falling in love. On the other hand, cutting the string instantly afflicts them with an intense Hate Plague that compels them to try and kill each other; this doesn't end until at least one of them kills the other, or until their Ether is normalized, seen when Laguna turns Shiki and Rebecca into water and back.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: Ijuna used to have shoulder-length black hair when she was member of Oasis, but after she joined the enemy side, she has her hair cut to a very short length as a sign that she cut her connection to the rebel army.
  • The Heart: Laguna says that she was the "backbone" of Oasis along with Goodwin, and her presumed death both devastated them and intensified their hatred of the Empire.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Downplayed. After Laguna lifts the brainwashing she placed on herself, Ijuna seems to return to her old self and betrays the location for the All-Link System. However, while this is instrumental in Shura's defeat, she still remains completely devoted to him, and chooses to die together with him rather than return to Oasis.
  • Holographic Terminal: She has access to one, seen when she transfers command of the Oceans 6 to Shura.
  • Honorary Princess: The rest of Oasis calls her "Princess" because she's the daughter of their original leader, not because she's royalty.
  • Human Pet: Of all the many tortures Shura inflicted on her, she says the worst of them was when he took her out on "walkies", which consisted of her being stripped naked and walked like a dog in public, with a bomb shoved up her rectum on top of that.
  • I Choose to Stay: Although Laguna manages to free her from her self-inflicted mind control that made her fall in love with Shura, Ijuna believes herself to be too far beyond saving and sneaks away to be Together in Death with Shura before Laguna can give her the care she needs or reunite her with her old teammates.
  • Ignored Enamored Underling: Ijuna believes herself to be this for Shura because he's never known how to love anybody besides himself. When it dawns on her that he actually has fallen in love with her against his own judgment, she happily accepts him even after Laguna returns her to her senses.
  • Love Is a Weakness: Zig-Zagged. Ijuna fully embraces her love for Shura because of the power it's given her, but also admires Shura for his lack of love for anyone, because it allows him to kill without hesitation. In that sense, she aspires to follow Shura's example in renouncing all love except for what she feels towards him.
  • Love Makes You Evil: She joined the Empire and abandoned Oasis because she'd come to believe Shura was her One True Love after getting tortured by him and developing Stockholm syndrome. As Laguna figures out, her own Ether Gear brainwashed her into loving Shura without her realizing it. Unfortunately, lifting her brainwashing doesn't undo the sympathy she felt for Shura that triggered it, and she falls in love with him for real upon realizing Shura feels the same way about her.
  • Master of Threads: Her Red Destiny creates red Ether strings that can penetrate flesh or block any attack, including water thanks to her strings' Ether-steeling. They also have Emotion Bomb properties modeled after the Red String of Fate, forcing two people to fall in love when tied by the strings, and hate each other when the strings are severed.
  • A Match Made in Stockholm: Deconstructed. Ijuna started out feeling nothing but contempt for Shura with the rest of the Empire, but days of inhumanly cruel Cold-Blooded Torture was so much for her to bear that she developed Stockholm syndrome for him, and eventually fell in full-blown love with him, just to keep herself from falling apart completely. After it's revealed her love is simply a result of self-brainwashing, only for her to realize this wouldn't have worked if Shura hadn't fallen in love with her for real, Ijuna completely embraces her love for Shura, acknowledging her feelings as proof that she's just as crazy as he is.
  • More than Mind Control: Laguna initially pegs Ijuna's Face–Heel Turn as an obvious case of brainwashing, but Ijuna claims that she joined the Empire of her own volition because she's fallen in love with Shura. After learning more of how her Ether Gear works, Laguna quickly figures out that she unknowingly brainwashed herself into loving Shura, and promptly restores her mind as it was before. However, this doesn't erase the sympathy she felt for Shura that led to her self-brainwashing in the first place, which she realizes only worked because Shura developed feelings of his own for her, leading her to accept her love for him as genuine in the end.
  • No Body Left Behind: She gets blasted to atoms by the Antimatter bombs together with Shura in the Nero 66 arc.
  • Personality Powers: Ijuna is a romanticist who believes in the Red String of Fate, and finds it perfectly befitting that her Ether Gear powers are directly modeled after it.
  • Power Glows: Unlike other Ether Gearists, who gain Tron Lines on some part of their body when their powers are active, Ijuna's Ether Gear makes her entire hands and forearms glow red.
  • Power Incontinence: Because of her Traumatic Superpower Awakening, Ijuna had little direct control over her Ether Gear and wound up using it on herself without realizing it, brainwashing her into believing Shura is her One True Love.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: She has red-colored eyes, indicating her as a villain while also matching her theme of the Red String of Fate.
  • Red String of Fate: Her entire character is themed around this, from her Ether Gear creating actual red strings that force people to fall in love (and make them hate each other when the strings are cut), to her belief that she and Shura are figuratively bound together by it.
  • Redemption Rejection: After Laguna frees her from her own brainwashing, she realizes she and Shura still love each other and returns to him, accepting her own madness and throwing away her chance at reuniting with her comrades in Oasis.
  • Sadist: Ijuna has developed a sadistic side after being tortured and humiliated by Shura three years earlier, seen when she enjoys watching Shiki and Rebecca fight each other to the death against their will under her Ether Gear's influence, and violently kicks Laguna while he's down to make him listen to her Dark and Troubled Past.
  • Secretary of Evil: She's the personal secretary and Dark Mistress of one hell of an Evil Prince who gruesomely murders others without fazing her.
  • Sexy Secretary: She's a picturesque woman whose outfit is way too revealing than necessary for her secretarial position.
  • Ship Tease: A flashback to her old life suggests that she used to be interested in Laguna when he was with Oasis, demonstrated by her Tsundere reaction when she blushes at his suggestion that he's her One True Love, and pouting when he reveals he was joking. Just when it seems their chance at a relationship is restored after Laguna frees her from her self-imposed brainwashing, it gets sunk when Ijuna rejects redemption and embraces her love for Shura, the man she brainwashed herself for.
  • Stepford Smiler: She smiles calmly and sensually as she describes the torture and humiliation she endured at Shura's hands, namely getting walked naked through the streets on a leash with a bomb shoved up her rectum, showing just how hopelessly devoted to Shura she is.
  • The Stoic: She rarely changes her cold expression when watching Shura maim and kill others in front of her, or when she describes the horrors Shura put her through.
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Shura is a monster who has committed countless crimes and tortured her to the point of insanity, but Ijuna feels sorry for him because he has never loved or been loved by anyone. This has caused her to develop Stockholm syndrome and convince herself that she's in love with Shura.
  • Together in Death: Instead of escaping from Nero 66 before it's destroyed by Shura's Anti Matter bombs, Ijuna stays together to die with Shura, having realized that her Stockholm syndrome goes so deep that she can no longer live without him.
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Ijuna first discovered her ability to bind two people together in love while she was being tortured and humiliated by Shura for days on end. This also came with Power Incontinence, as she had no conscious control over her powers at the time, giving it the side effect of bonding her to Shura in love as a coping mechanism without her realizing it.
  • Walking Spoiler: Most of her character hinges around The Reveal of her being a supposedly dead member of Oasis.
  • That Woman Is Dead: When Laguna recognizes her as Oasis's "Princess", she coldly declares her old self he knew to be dead, affirming herself as an imperial soldier.
  • You Killed My Father: During her time as an Oasis member, her father's death was one of many reasons she had to fight the Empire. Now, however, she couldn't care less about it.

Oceans 6

    In General 
The top officials and elite fighting force of the Empire, handpicked by Nero to enforce his rule throughout the Aoi Cosmos.
  • Anti-Villain: By and large, the Oceans genuinely have the safety of the Empire's people at heart. To ensure this, however, most of them are willingly complicit in the large-scale eradication of innocent androids to protect the Aoi Cosmos's human population from a Robot War.
  • Biomanipulation: The younger Oceans all use Empire Ether, which lets their Ether Gear reconfigure other people's Ether to weaken their abilities on top of improving their own. As Laguna can attest to, this is something any Ether Gearist can learn in the Aoi Cosmos, but the Oceans are by far the most dangerous with it.
  • Praetorian Guard: Aside from Shura, they are the most powerful warriors in the Empire, selected by Nero himself.
  • Two Girls to a Team: Lyra and Mirrani are the only girls in this team of six.
  • Villainous Friendship: Among the younger generation, at least, there's a big enough sense of camaraderie between them that they all hang out together, maintain a group chat, and try warning the others whenever there's danger. They even flee Nero 66 together in an escape pod prepped by Nasseh.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Downplayed. By all accounts, the Oceans are more powerful than any of the Quirky Miniboss Squads faced before them, but most of their powers center around using Empire Ether to handicap or outwit their opponents instead of simply outmuscling them. Negating their Empire Ether helps even the playing field, and not a single one of them holds a candle to anyone in an Overdrive state.

    Callum Steelford 

Callum Steelford

Voiced by: Shūhei Iwase (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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"We may have trained together as kids, but if we're meeting again as enemies, then I will destroy you."

A taciturn man who trained at the same Skymech Dojo as Jinn on the planet Guilst. Callum uses the Ether Gear Carburetor to harness the power of fog and mist, with his Empire Ether adding the effect of atomizing his enemies.


  • Adaptation Dye-Job: He is light-skinned and his hair is completely grey in colored manga art, with different shades for his mohawk and shaved sides. In the anime, the shaved parts are brown, and he has slightly darker skin.
  • Always Someone Better: He wastes no time reminding Jinn that he never once defeated Callum in a spar, and proves it by dominating most of their fight. This becomes a case of Tempting Fate when Jinn not only improves enough to resist his Empire Ether, but also takes him down by Overdriving.
  • Ambiguous Start of Darkness: All that's known about Callum's past is that he was Jinn's Friendly Rival. Whatever turned him into a loyal soldier of a totalitarian empire goes unexplained.
  • The Comically Serious: He's mostly a humorless character, but his inability to grasp the team's group chat adds a nugget of humor to him.
  • Elemental Shapeshifter: One of his skills allows him to change into a cloud of mist to attack, evade, and teleport.
  • Everyone Went to School Together: He and Jinn trained together at the same Skymech Dojo on Guilst nine years before the events of the story.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: His current hairstyle is a buzzcut mohawk to fit his role as a hardened soldier. This contrasts with his longer hair from nine years ago, where he was more friendly and full of wanderlust.
  • Facial Markings: His Ether Gear's Tron Lines appear across his face.
  • Fantastic Fighting Style: Like Jinn, Callum is also trained in Skymech Ninjutsu, which allows him to control mist the same way Jinn controls wind.
  • First Friend: Despite his old assertion that he had no friends before joining the Edens Zero crew, Jinn acknowledges Callum as this, because he was the only student at the Skymech Dojo to treat Jinn with any respect outside of holding his own victory streak over his head.
  • Forgotten Friend, New Foe: Jinn doesn't recognize Callum right away when they meet as enemies on Nero 66, which is justifiable by the nine-year gap and Callum's Expository Hairstyle Change. Once Callum calls him out on this, however, Jinn sees the resemblance and the memories come flooding back.
  • Heroic Build: While not exactly heroic, he has the stockiest body out of the whole team.
  • Hopeless with Tech: When communicating in the Oceans group chat, Callum replies with a nonsensical, adorable sticker that reads "NICE", making Nasseh wonder when Callum will learn how to properly use the chat.
  • McNinja: Just like "Kris Rutherford", Jinn's real name, "Callum Steelford" is a decidedly non-Japanese name for a ninja.
  • Muscles Are Meaningful: He's one of the more muscular Oceans, and fittingly seems to favor a more direct physical approach to fighting.
  • Ninja: He's a Skymech Ninja just like Jinn, which allows him to move about and attack with ninja-like techniques associated with the wind and weather.
  • Noble Demon: Despite being loyal enough to his empire to kill his former friend, he shows he has enough of a heart to care for the well-being of lower-ranking imperial troops after ordering their evacuation from the anti-matter bomb explosion that destroys Nero 66.
  • Non-Indicative Name: A real-life carburetor—the namesake of his Ether Gear—is a component for a spark ignition engine that mixes air and fuel to make it combustable; only part of this process involves spraying the liquid fuel as a mist. The Ether Gear itself, meanwhile, utilizes mist as an elemental force of nature.
  • Rival Turned Evil: He was a Friendly Rival back when Jinn first knew him, but in the present, he's a soldier of an evil empire who doesn't question his orders to eradicate all robots.
  • Skilled And Strong: Compared to the rest of the younger Oceans, who rely more on their Empire Ether as a gimick to overcome their opponents, Callum has trained in his Ether Gear's inherent power years before learning to apply his Empire Ether to it, making him an overwhelming physical and technical challenge for Jinn.
  • The Stoic: He's ordinarily a stony-faced and serious person, which clashes with his more friendly demeanor from when he and Jinn knew each other nine years ago.
  • Super Smoke: His Ether Gear lets him change into a cloud of fog to move around and rain projectiles at his opponents. With help from his Empire Ether, he can also slowly dissolve others into mist.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: When he and Jinn met nine years ago, Callum was a much more friendly and approachable person who overlooked Jinn's cybernetics when the rest of their classmates teased him for it. In the present day, he's a cold young man who's willfully complicit in the attempted genocide of the Aoi Cosmos' entire android population.
  • The Transmogrifier: With his Empire Ether, he can use his Ether Gear to turn others into mist, which would kill them.
  • Unusual Eyebrows: His forked eyebrows help him stand out among Nero's forces.
  • Villain Teleportation: His mist Ether Gear grants him teleportation skills better than most villains the Edens Zero crew faces, since he can instantly appear wherever he needs to in order to attack.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Apart from his cape, shoulder pads and chest straps, he has no shirt.
  • You Will Not Evade Me: He marks targets with hand and fist prints from a distance, then instantly warps to them to strike the marked area.

    Lyra 

Lyra

Voiced by: Ikumi Hasegawa (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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"The show is about to begin. And I wanna play, too. I am just a punk kid, after all."

A cheeky B-Cuber who prioritizes fun and games over her imperial duties. Her Ether Gear, Gambler's Rush, gives her the power to change the values and properties of playing cards, either to cheat at games or produce random elemental attacks.


  • Ambiguously Gay: Lyra seems to have an interest in Rebecca when she first meets her. She orders the brainwashed Rebecca to strip naked before she releases her from Nasseh's hypnosis, and she looks pleased to stare at Rebecca's naked body.
  • Bad Influencer: On top of being an Imperial soldier, she's also a B-Cuber who hosts weekly parties and livestreams her Absurdly High-Stakes Game with Rebecca unedited across the entire Aoi Net, which also happens to be a thin cover for a Public Execution.
  • Cheaters Never Prosper: Lyra cheats at Lost Card, which entails drawing a higher number out of five cards to win, by using her Ether Gear to change her numbers to "5" and her opponent's to the lower number. Once Rebecca figures this out (by cheating with her own Ether Gear, no less), Rebecca manages to expose Lyra by ripping her number 4 card in half, putting them in a staggered deck to make it look like five cards, and hiding the real number 5 card in her person.
  • Curtains Match the Window: A curious variation. She has a case of heterochromia with a black right iris and a white left iris, matching her hair that has both white and black strands.
  • Death Dealer: Her Ether Gear allows her to manipulate cards, turning them into weapons with Elemental Powers, and changing their values so she can cheat at games.
  • Dub Name Change: Her Ether Gear's Japanese name is "Gambler Rush", without the apostrophe and S for "Gambler".
  • Electronic Eyes: Her left eye is artificial, having lost the real one to Nero in a game.
  • Elemental Powers: Along with changing the numbers on her cards, her Ether Gear likewise gives them different elemental properties like lighting and fire. However, she states the effects are random so even she doesn't know what the effects will be.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Lyra enjoys hanging out with Shura compared to nearly everyone else in the Empire, despite him being a well-known sociopathic madman, though she draws the line at doing "pervy stuff" with him. After Shura's scheming gets the whole planet Nero 66 doomed to obliteration, however, Lyra decides she "just can't with him anymore" and ditches him like the rest of the Oceans.
  • Eye Scream: The reason she has heterochromia is because she was beaten at Lost Card by Emperor Nero, who took her left eye as compensation, leading her to replace it with an artificial one.
  • Fixing the Game: Her Lost Card game involves players laying out five numbered cards for each other and drawing a higher number than the opponent, but thanks to her Ether Gear, she rigs the game by changing the cards' values as they're drawn, allowing her to pull a winning card no matter what her opponent picks (though she takes a few dives for the sake of entertaining her audience). Rebecca catches on when she uses her Reverse power to shift the outcome by switching her 5 for a 1 and pulling another card besides Lyra's 1, just for the outcome to stay exactly the same.
  • Fur and Loathing: Her pink mink coat doesn't just sell her image as a popular digital influencer; she's also a ruthless imperial soldier and serial mutilator.
  • Just a Kid: Subjected to this trope by the soldiers under her charge, who feel she's too young and careless to lead them, and would feel better with Fabiano or other the old Oceans' guidance. She simply retorts that it's because of her sheer power and ability to mess with her opponent's Ether that she became part of the Oceans.
  • Making a Spectacle of Yourself: She has gaudy heart-shaped glasses with pink lenses on her forehead, though she never wears them over her eyes.
  • Playing Card Motifs: She's introduced playing with some cards, at one point turning the entire deck into nothing but scythe-wielding jokers and scattering the deck as she prepares to engage her enemies. Her Tron Lines also form a heart symbol on her hands, resembling a card suit.
  • Psycho Pink: Her pink coat and hair accessories make her look cute, but she's also revealed to be a twisted girl who steals people's body parts when they lose to her, and she can make a mean Slasher Smile to boot.
  • Sadist: She's the host of a Sadistic Game Show based around high-stakes Strip Poker games, where the loser is not only stripped totally naked, but loses any body part of the winner's choice. Her bone-chilling Slasher Smile she makes when confessing how many times she's won, and how she'll be taking Rebecca's legs by the end of their game, says it all.
  • Shameless Fanservice Girl: She doesn't mind losing her clothes in her livestream show just to give her audience what they want. Of course, that's only because she rigs her games with her Ether Gear to ensure she wins in the end.
  • Signature Headgear: She always wears a pink ponytail ribbon and heart-shaped glasses to show off her flashy, spunky personality.
  • Slasher Smile: Lyra gives a creepy evil grin when she confesses how she's won at Lost Card over a hundred times and only ever lost once to Nero, which resulted in the loss of her left eye.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: She's a famous livestreamer who enjoys being adored by the people of Aoi, even though she's also one of the Empire's elite forces who help Shura's plans for robot genocide, and has dismembered over a hundred people in Absurdly High-Stakes Games. Unfortunately for her, her popularity comes crashing down when Rebecca ousts her as a cheater in the middle of a cosmic stream, which sends her into a Villainous Breakdown and leads her to Rage Quit.
  • Walking Swimsuit Scene: She always wears a leotard swimsuit beneath her fur coat and leggings, deliberately giving her audience some eye candy when she loses her clothes.
  • Youthful Freckles: She's a freckled girl whose youth among the Empire's soldiers is repeatedly called to attention.

    Nasseh 

Nasseh

Voiced by: Shōmaru Zōza (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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"What a shame... Just like that, they're out of commission."

A self-proclaimed hypnotist who enjoys twisting others' minds and emotions for his own amusement. His hypnotic power comes from his Ether Gear, Eye of Horus, which influences the minds of humans and androids alike.


  • Arm Cannon: His Sea Devil is equipped with an Ether machine gun in its hands and missile launchers in its knuckles.
  • Blood Knight: He's a self-professed fan of Powered Armor battles, which he exclaims while piloting his Sea Devil Mini-Mecha against Weisz's Arsenal Suit.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Mosco picks a fight with Nasseh by using his champion-level Sumo Wrestling techniques, but Nasseh ignores the rules of sumo by kicking him in the head, showing he can't be bothered to fight by other people's rules when he doesn't need to.
  • Crazy-Prepared: After the Oceans get beaten by the crew, Nasseh shows he had the foresight to get an escape pod prepped for them all, which they use to flee Nero 66's impending destruction.
  • Dodge the Bullet: His reflexes are quick enough that he can dodge Happy's Ether bullets, though Happy has noted before that his aim is far less effective when he isn't being held by Rebecca.
  • Emotion Bomb: He can influence people's emotions with his hypnosis, shown when he fills Rebecca and Weisz with uncontrollable sadness and fear, respectively.
  • Facial Markings: He has a distinct eye-shaped mark on his forehead, and he gets Tron Lines down his face and eyes when activating his Ether Gear.
  • Fights Like a Normal: Because Nasseh's Ether Gear relies solely on Mind Manipulation, he falls back on physical combat and piloting a Sea Devil Mini-Mecha when Weisz counters his powers.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite coming off as a Sissy Villain, he reveals during his fight with Weisz that he's a fan of Mini Mechas and Shoot 'Em Up games, and is annoyed that FPS or TPS games are the first things that comes to kids' minds when they think of "shooting games".
  • Hypno Ray: A biological example. His Ether Gear sends out electric signals that reconfigure his victims' Ether to make them follow his suggestions, whether it's altering their personalities, making them act like animals, or just plain Psychic-Assisted Suicide. It also affects androids, who are typically Immune to Mind Control, though it takes longer for the effect to kick in. The downside is that these signals can be easily jammed or blocked by protective gear like Weisz's Arsenal Suit.
  • Hypocrite: He claims that Weisz's Ether Gear is no fair since it disables his Sea Devil so easily, which is pretty rich given that Nasseh's own Mind Manipulation powers come with very few limitations on who or what it can affect.
  • Lightning Bruiser: His Sea Devil is huge and appropriately strong, and is fast enough to catch Weisz off guard and slam him through several structures thanks to its built-in thrusters.
  • Macross Missile Massacre: He can fire a huge amount of missiles from his Sea Devil's knuckles, more than one would think could fit there.
  • Mini-Mecha: He pilots a Sea Devil, a Knight Gear suit that's considerably smaller than Sibir and Madame Kurenai's Humongous Mechas, but still too big to be considered Powered Armor like Weisz's Arsenal Suit.
  • More Dakka: As if having machine guns in its hands isn't enough, his Sea Devil can create a gigantic barrage of Ether bullets above it to invoke major Bullet Hell on his foes.
  • No-Nonsense Nemesis: Downplayed. He hypnotizes his most dangerous enemies the first chance he gets, which is enough to make them unable to act, and prioritizes Pino once he finds out about her Ether Gear-nullifying EMP. The issue is that he prefers to indulge himself by giving his enemies comical and humiliating suggestions when he can just as easily order them to commit suicide, and when he does, it's done slowly so he can savor their final moments. This gives the heroes ample time to figure out how his powers work, resulting in his defeat.
  • Non-Indicative Name: His Eye of Horus doesn't invoke the real-life Egyptian symbol at all, let alone any eye-related imagery. It also has no relation or resemblance to Noah and Feather's Magical Eye powers, the Eye of God and Eye of Venus (both of which are subject to Dub Name Change from "God Eye" and "Venus Eye"), respectively.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: His hypnotic suggestions seem restricted to turning the heroes into Hypno Fools at first, making Weisz behave like a scaredy cat, Rebecca a crybaby, Mosco an Ojou and later a Gyaru Girl, Pino a mole, and Happy a pigeon. The comedy gets thrown out the window when he subjects Weisz and Rebecca to Psychic-Assisted Suicide.
  • Pretty Boy: He has an androgynous face, long eyelashes, slender build, and talks in a refined yet smug fashion.
  • Psychic-Assisted Suicide: His "fatal hypnosis" technique involves hypnotizing his victims into wanting to die, which they attempt to do by strangling themselves with a look of ecstacy on their faces.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: Nasseh shows a childish side to himself when he starts putting the crew through hilarious and humiliating hypnotic suggestions, laughing like a child, before resorting to Psychic-Assisted Suicide. He takes it further while piloting his Sea Devil, having the time of his life and talking about video games while causing massive Collateral Damage.
  • Sadist: He prioritizes his own entertainment above all else when hypnotizing his enemies, especially when ordering them to strangle themselves so he can indulge in their final moments. He also doesn't mind having to fall back on his Sea Devil, since it gives him the pleasure of fighting hand-to-hand.
  • Sissy Villain: His androgynous Pretty Boy appearance makes him look almost as effeminate as the girls on his team
  • Smug Smiler: He's always seen with some sort of smug smile, even shrugging off Shura murdering Cyca with a comment to the effect of "Well, that's Shura for you."
  • White Hair, Black Heart: His hair is stark white, and he's a through-and-through Sadist and Psychopathic Manchild.

    Mirrani Lucra 

Mirrani Lucra

Voiced by: Ayumi Mano (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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"You see, my hunting style...is to pick off my prey one by one. I bring them to my world to shatter them."

A serene woman who projects a calm face to hide her inner thoughts. With her Ether Gear, Mirror Trick, she is able to freely pass through mirrors and drag others into the world within them.


  • Bedlah Babe: Her clothes have the design of something an Arabian belly dancer would wear, with a midriff-baring buttoned vest and baggy, translucent pants over short shorts.
  • Beneath the Mask: She's introduced, she presents herself as a Knight Templar who aids Shura's genocide against the Aoi Cosmos's robots with cold indifference, marked by her lack of reaction to the death of the Oceans' Token Robot, Cyca. After being defeated, everything about herself is revealed to be a calculated front she put up out of fear toward Shura, as she already agrees with Homura that robots are living people with hearts, and is in fact devastated by what Shura did to Cyca, her grandfather figure.
  • Broken Tears: Upon defeat, Mirrani cries openly over her helplessness to stop Shura from killing Cyca, her beloved grandfather figure.
  • Confusion Fu: Her mirror-based fighting style is made for this. Once she drags her foe into her Pocket Dimension, she can use any mirrors in the area to hide and pass between, or shatter them to attack from multiple angles by launching the shards as projectiles or pummeling her foe from within, making it difficult for Homura to predict her attacks.
  • Divide and Conquer: Her preferred strategy is to trick individuals in groups into falling into her mirror world while being replaced by their mirror doppelgangers. This allows her to pick off the separated victims on her own time while also causing chaos in the enemy group as they struggle to deal with the sudden hostiles.
  • Doppelgänger Attack: Her Mirage Trigger technique creates five clones of herself that rush towards her opponent at once, which she resorts to using after Homura destroys all her mirrors beyond use.
  • Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair always covers her right eye and her combat style specializes in deceptive attacks with mirrors.
  • Inconsistent Spelling: Kodansha's simulpub originally spelled her name as "Milani", which was changed to "Mirrani" in the volume edition once its mirror-related theme became apparent.
  • Just a Machine: She comes off as yet another in a long line of villains who think machines like her teammate Cyca aren't living people, not batting an eye when Shura blows his head off. Then it turns out to be a rare subversion for the series; she not only knows they're alive, but actually loved Cyca like a grandfather, and was Trying Not to Cry over his death.
  • Knight Templar: She claims in her fight with Homura that everything she and the Oceans do is for the good of the Aoi Cosmos, blatantly disregarding the lives of the androids they aim to destroy, because she doesn't see them as "alive" to begin with. Subverted once Mirrani confesses it was all an act she put on out of fear of Shura, and that she's completely aware she's on the wrong side.
  • Magic Mirror: Her Ether Gear gives her control over mirrors by freely through any reflective surface and creating copies of herself. With her Empire Ether, she can also trap her opponents inside mirrors and replace them with their own evil reflections, who target their allies while their real selves watch helplessly.
  • Mirror Self: Her Ether Gear creates these, bringing the reflections of those who look into them to life, and switching them out their real world selves to attack anyone nearby. Their reversed features from the mirror also carry over to the real world; for example, Homura's reflection is left-handed and has her mole under her right eye.
  • My Country, Right or Wrong: Upon her defeat, Mirrani admits that she strongly disagrees with the direction Shura is taking the Empire, and only acts otherwise because she's afraid of what Shura would do if she disobeys. Nevertheless, while she lets Homura free of her mirror world, she also doesn't betray her teammates and alerts them all about the Edens Zero crew's power.
  • Pocket Dimension: She uses her Ether Gear to freely send herself and her opponents to the "mirror world", the realm inside mirrors where everything besides themselves is flipped horizontally, including the sound effects. She can also warp herself into mirrors within the mirror world to use them to her advantage.
  • The Power of Glass: She can telekinetically shatter mirrors and manipulate their shards to shred her enemies, or to use them as portals large enough to land punches and kicks through.
  • Punny Name: Her name is derived from the word "mirror", and can be read in Japanese as "mirā ni" ("inside the mirror"), alluding to her powers.
  • Perpetual Smiler: Mirrani almost always wears a cold and uncaring smile, whether it's listening to Shura's plans to destroy all robots or watching him kill Cyca in front of her. However, she turns out to be a Stepford Smiler who was Trying Not to Cry during Cyca's death, and sheds Broken Tears once she's beaten by Homura, showing just how terrified she is by what Shura has done.
  • Stop Hitting Yourself: A variation: she can enchant mirrors so that when her opponents strike their own reflections, they themselves take damange. Homura overcomes this through sheer endurance.
  • Swap Teleportation: She inflicts this on people and their own reflections whenever they look into a mirror that's under her control. The reflection then becomes an Evil Doppelgänger that attacks the victim's allies, while the original is trapped within the mirror to face Mirrani personally.
  • Token Good Teammate: Unlike almost everyone else who fights for the Empire, Mirrani fully believes that what they're doing is wrong, but her fear of Shura leaves her Trapped in Villainy.
  • Trapped in Villainy: She grew up wanting to join the Oceans 6 to be like her grandfather figure, Cyca. Now that she is one, she's made complicit in Shura's crusade to destroy all bots in the Aoi Cosmos, forced to fight out of fear of Shura after he executes Cyca in front of her.
  • Trying Not to Cry: She smiles when Shura blasts Cyca's head to pieces, but a flashback following her defeat shows that she was forcing it while on the verge of tears, both over losing a loved one and out of fear that she could be next.
  • Weaponized Teleportation: She can teleport herself through any surface of glass of her mirror dimension. She uses this power to transport her limbs through multiple glass shards and attack Homura.

    Cyca 

Cyca

Voiced by: Motoki Sakuma (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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"As a fellow machine, I am ashamed of his behavior. Baring his fangs against the great Nero Empire..."

An old mechanical reverend, and the only robotic member of the Oceans.


  • Back from the Dead: The Cosmic Retcon in the final arc undoes the death he suffers before the Aoi War.
  • Badass Preacher: Downplayed. He's a priest who's part of Nero's elite fighting force, but he says that he is one of the team's weaker fighters.
  • Cool Old Guy: He's shown to have been like a grandfather to Mirrani back when she was young, supporting her dream of joining the Oceans.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: He's introduced as one of Nero's Praetorian Guard, but suffers a Surprisingly Sudden Death in his second scene.
  • No True Scotsman: He harbors this sentiment towards Ziggy, feeling ashamed that a fellow machine would dare to oppose the empire.
  • Parental Substitute: Mirrani has seen him as a grandfather since she was little, and, though she hides it behind a cold smile, is devastated when Shura kills him.
  • Religious Robot: He's a robotic priest with the look of a Buddhist monk, though it's unknown what kind of religion he actually practices.
  • Surprisingly Sudden Death: His death at Shura's hands comes out of nowhere.
  • Token Robot: He's the sole robot among the Oceans. Shura takes this as due cause to kill him, refusing to fight the robotic Ziggy with another robot on his side.
  • The Unfought: Shura disposes of him before Cyca ever gets a chance to face any of the heroes in combat.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He gets offed by Shura with only two scenes and three lines of dialogue under his belt, though he gets a posthumous flashback as Mirrani's Parental Substitute to give him a little extra characterization.
  • Your Head Asplode: Shura kills him this way, obliterating his head with a Facepalm of Doom.

    Fabiano 

Fabiano

Voiced by: Yūya Murakami (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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"Your Majesty... We should take him to war. For the people of Aoi, let us strike down the Demon King."

One of the Oceans' veterans, and their most powerful member. He uses an Ether Gear that transforms his body into solid Aoi Crystal.


  • Back from the Dead: He's resurrected from his death in the Aoi War thanks to the Cosmic Retcon.
  • Body to Jewel: His Ether Gear lets him transform his body into a hard, crystalline substance for attacking and defending.
  • The Dragon: He's Nero's most powerful soldier, and stays closest to his emperor's side while his teammates are assigned to Prince Shura. Unlike other examples in the series, he doesn't face the heroes, instead getting fatally curb-stomped by Jaguar.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: He's built up as the strongest fighter in the Empire behind Nero and Shura, but is killed in an unceremonious Curb-Stomp Battle against Jaguar.
  • Elemental Punch: He attacks by turning his arm into crystal and landing a devastating punch.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: He's a Warhawk who believes The Empire is for the good of the Aoi Cosmos, but he's still repulsed by Shura's callous murder of Cyca, whom he fully regards as one of their own, showing that he has no prejudice against machines like other villains do.
  • My Master, Right or Wrong: As much as he can't fathom Nero's decision to sit on his throne and let The Empire fall apart, he loyally stands by his Emperor's side to repel the Interstellar Union Army's invasion. He gets killed by Jaguar for his trouble.
  • Old Soldier: Mirrani states he's one of the "old Oceans", implying he's served the empire for a long time.
  • Only Sane Man: He's the only Ocean to speak out against Nero putting Shura in charge of The Empire's offensive and doing absolutely nothing to stop it.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: He's frequently reputed as Nero's strongest soldier, but he's woefully overshadowed by Jaguar, who stands on equal footing with Nero himself.
  • Super-Toughness: His Ether Gear allows him to turn his body into incredibly hard and durable crystal. It ends up being a Power-Up Letdown against Jaguar, who easily punches through it.
  • Tranquil Fury: He calmly glares at Jaguar ripping apart his soldiers calmly before activating his Ether Gear to attack him.
  • Warhawk: His immediate response to Ziggy's attack on Foresta is to wage war on him, arguing that it's for the good of the Aoi Cosmos.

Beast

    In General 
Poseidon Nero's commando team, which is divided into multiple squadrons based on rank and power.
  • The Ghost: Only Beast Squads 1 and 6 are present and accounted for in the story.
  • Knight Templar: The team is authorized to end the robot uprising on Foresta by purging the whole planet of robots. However, among their victims are perfectly innocent robots who didn't fall under the Big Bad's influence, whom they treat as equally dangerous.
  • My Master, Right or Wrong: They swear total allegiance to Poseidon Nero, so when he orders them to destroy all robots in existence in response to a machine uprising in a single sector, they carry it out without question.
  • Quirky Miniboss Squad: They act as the primary antagonists of the Foresta arc, and a good few of the showcased members have goofy designs and cartoonish personalities, while also willing to use lethal force.
  • Sorting Algorithm of Evil: After Beast Squad 6 gives Shiki and company a hard time but are ultimately triumphed over, the stronger and more monstrous-looking Beast Squad 1 are sent in almost immediately to clean house and get things back on track. It's then taken further when Justice and his men note that Nero still hasn't sent out the Oceans, the true elites under his command, implying that Nero doesn't view the situation as truly threatening.

Squad 1

    In General 

Voiced by: Shunichi Maki, Sōma Shiomi, Takuya Nakashima (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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The most powerful squad of Beast, who are dispatched to pick up Squad 6's slack after they're taken down by Shiki's crew.


  • Bait-and-Switch Boss: When they confront Shiki and co and prepare to show what they can do, they're suddenly one-shotted by Victory and arrested by Creed in a handful of panels, leading to Shiki's battle against Justice.
  • Barbarian Longhair: The Tengu mask man has a long and messy mane, giving him a tough appearance.
  • Elite Mooks: Explicitly stated to be the strongest of squad in Nero's commando team, hence why they have the call-sign Beast Squad 1. However, they're also noted by Victory and Creed to be weaker than Oceans, the true elites of the Aoi Cosmos' Emperor.
  • Lizard Folk: One of them is a reptilian alien.
  • Malevolent Masked Men: The member with the most focus wears a Tengu mask, which suits a cruel and fearsome soldier of Nero's Empire like himself.
  • No Name Given: None of them are identified by names, since their one and only role is to lose to the Interstellar Union Army.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: They're beaten and slapped in cages before getting any meaningful characterization, let alone having their names and abilities revealed.
  • The Worf Effect: Moments after being hyped as warriors much stronger than Squad 6 and preparing to fight the intimidated heroes, they're easily taken down by Victory and Creed, all to show off the Interstellar Union Army as a force to be reckoned with.

Squad 6

    In General 
A squadron sent to suppress the machine uprising on the planet Foresta. Their presence leads to the Edens Zero crew's first open conflict with the Empire.
  • Freudian Trio: Mora is the clear impulsive and violent member of the trio, but Britney and Orc's roles are different from how they appear at first glance: the former seems to be detached and coldly practical, but later turns out to have angry and violent tendencies, which puts more emphasis on the latter's solemn task orientation.
  • Recurring Element: Each member alludes to a minion of Shuda from Rave Master in some way: Mora's "Glue Tear" and Britney's "Smoke Bar" share their names with Dark Brings used by Poosya and Georco, respectively,note  while Orc (a Cyborg) wears a pendant shaped like the number 70, referring to Poosya's co-lackey Rugar/Rugass 70 (also a cyborg).
  • Terrible Trio: They rank among Beast's weaker squads, if not the weakest, and—with the exception of Orc—are revealed to have wacky personas sooner or later. However, they still pose a good challenge for Shiki and his crew.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: The manga makes it unclear if they were arrested like Squad 1, killed in the resulting chaos of Foresta's near destruction, or managed to escape. Orc is eventually brought back in the anime adaptation of the Sandra arc, confirming he made it off Foresta and is still a high-ranking soldier until he's captured by Oasis, but Mora and Britney remain unaccounted for.

    Orc 

Orc

Voiced by: Takahiro Fujiwara (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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An orc-like O-Tech who can transform his robotic Blast Man Arm into a variety of firearms.


  • Arm Cannon: His Blast Man Arm can convert itself to fire different forms of ammunition, from multiple explosive blasts at once to Gatling Good level of Ether bullets.
  • Artificial Limbs Are Stronger: When not in firearm form, Orc's Blast Man Arm gives him incredible Super-Strength, letting him single-handedly carry a robot's head over twice his own size, tear through metal like scrap paper, chuck a drone at enemies like a frisbee, and withstand a direct punch from Shiki's Gravity Fist.
  • Badass Armfold: He drops in on Shiki like this while casually sitting on the wreckage of the last drone ship he destroyed and declaring his intent to fight him.
  • Cyborg: He's an O-Tech whose mechanical with a mechanical arm at the very least.
  • Defiant to the End: Even when finally overpowered and defeated by Shiki's Overdrive, Orc scoffs at him, claiming that Shura, another Gravity Master, is far more powerful.
  • A Dog Named "Dog": Exactly as his name suggests, he's an alien who looks like an orc.
  • Early Installment Character-Design Difference: He has ordinary arms in his very first appearance, while later chapters give him his mechanical arm, which sometimes disappears in certain panels.
  • Lost in Translation: Zig-Zagged. The first usage of the term "O-Tech" comes up when Britney addresses him as such in the Japanese version, which is written in kanji meaning "half-machine", but the English translation drops the name in favor of having Britney call him half-machine. Later on, however, "O-Tech" becomes a recurring term for all cyborgs, forcing the translation to be addressed.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: When he first encounters the Edens Zero crew, he's seen casually carrying the decapitated head of and spine of a Humongous Mecha-sized robot, seemingly ripped out by the neck.
  • Our Orcs Are Different: He is a space alien who resembles the "revisionist" variety of orc, with a stocky build and a prominent, if warped, sense of duty.
  • Sinister Shades: On top of his intent to purge entire planets of their robot population who were brainwashed to kill humans against their will, he's got a pair of black shades.
  • Swiss-Army Appendage: His Blast Man Arm is usually just a standard robot arm, but can change into different kinds of firearms, such as a missile launcher, a Gatling gun, and a straight-up energy cannon.
  • Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Downplayed in his anime-exclusive rematch with Shiki in the Sandra arc. Previously, he was so strong that Shiki needed to Overdrive to defeat him, leading Orc to upgrade his Blast Man Arm to make him even more powerful in just a week. By that time, however, Shiki had crammed over a month's worth of training within that week, so Orc gets his arm crushed and his whole body pinned down by a simple punch from Shiki's base form.

    Mora 

Mora

Voiced by: Yoshiaki Hasegawa (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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A ghastly man with a penchant for mayhem, especially if it involves smashing bots. His Ether Gear, Glue Tear, gives him the power to create, control, and transform into a powerful adhesive.


  • Accent Adaptation: The official manga translation gives him a Funetik Aksent that turns him into an Evil Brit who makes frequent use of slang such as "innit", "rubbish", and "oi".
  • Break the Haughty: He's so confident in the Nigh-Invulnerability his Ether Gear gives him that when Homura starts covering him in clumps of dirt, rocks, and wood to slow him down, he assumes she must be trying to make a getaway because she can't hurt him and returns to his non-sticky form. He only has a split second to realize he's left himself wide open, and is left a bruised, blubbering mess shortly afterward.
  • Cane Fu: He uses his cane as both a blunt melee weapon and a means of firing glue projectiles.
  • Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: He has dark circles around his eyes.
  • Intangibility: He can use his Ether Gear to turn his body into glue, which allows physical attacks to pass or splatter through him without any effect. The only way Homura can land a finger on him is to trick him into switching out of his glue form by covering him in forest debris.
  • Just a Machine: He's another of several villains with this mindset towards robots, which he sees as subhuman beings whose only worth is being destroyed, fueling his indiscriminate murder of brainwashed and innocent robots.
  • Lean and Mean: He's one of the thinnest and most unpleasant characters in the manga.
  • Logical Weakness: The natural outcome to his ability to change into glue is that anything can and will get stuck to him and hinder his movements. This becomes problematic when he has to fight in the middle of a jungle, where there's plenty of dirt, grass, twigs, and other debris to cling onto him. Of course, he can simply change out of his glue form to get unstuck—but that comes at the cost of his invulnerability.
  • Nightmare Face: During his fight with Homura, his face starts melting while he laughs with a deranged grin on his face.
  • Non-Standard Character Design: His design is overall more cartoonish than the majority of Mashima's characters, with his lanky appearance and huge, sunken eyes.
  • Perpetual Smiler: He wears a huge, open smile no matter what he feels, whether it's joy at killing bots or shock at Shiki's abilities. He finally loses it after Homura defeats him and reduces him to a sobbing wreck.
  • Playing with Fire: Downplayed in that he can't actually use fire, but his Hot Melt ability allows him to heat up his glue until it becomes a scalding liquid.
  • Sadist: He finds sadistic glee in killing weak and helpless robots, and he glues his opponents down so he can Kick Them While They Are Down. However, he prefers living foes more because the latter actually express their terror and despair as he's killing them better, and he tortures Homura with hot glue falling onto her exposed skin while telling her to keep screaming and show him more despair.
  • Signature Laugh: "Sha ha ha ha!"
  • Sticky Situation: He fights by manipulating glue in bullets or waves at his targets, which are so powerful that it takes all of Shiki's gravitational strength to pull his friends out of it. This gets turned on him when Homura takes advantage of his sticky form to cover him in so much debris his movement becomes restricted.
  • Squishy Wizard: His glue ability is the only thing keeping him from taking damage. When Homura turns his Ether Gear against him forcing him to turn it off just to move again, she's finally able to land a blow and knocks him out in one hit.
  • Torture Technician: Shows he can dabble in this in his fight with Homura, where he heats up his glue and drips it onto her body to burn her.
  • Verbal Tic: In Japanese, he ends several of his sentences with "-ssho", which is slang for deshō ("don't you think?"), and at one point works it into a cruel jab against robots by calling them shōmonai tetsukuzu ("worthless scrap metal"). The English version's answer to this tic is the British slang word "innit?" ("isn't it?"), with his insult being seamlessly changed to "inf-innit-ly worthless pieces of scrap".
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can turn his own body into glue, giving him Rubber Man powers and allowing attacks to pass through him. This can also work against him, however, since it likewise means objects like rocks and dirt can stick on him. Homura exploits this by kicking up enough dirt at him that they clump up enough to immobilize him, forcing him to turn off his Ether Gear to unstick the objects and leave himself vulnerable.

    Britney 

Britney

Voiced by: Harumi Sakurai (Japanese) Foreign VAs

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An intellectual young woman who harbors some deeply seated anger and jealousy issues. She uses the Ether Gear Smoke Bar to change her body into deadly gases.


  • Clingy Jealous Girl: She has some sort of history with a prettier yet stupider girl hitting on a man she either liked or was in a relationship with, which causes her to completely flip her lid whenever she sees other girls of similarly lacking intelligence.
  • Enemy Scan: Her glasses allow her to analyze people and their Ether Gear after witnessing it in action for a short period of time.
  • Enraged by Idiocy: She gets riled up when she takes Rebecca to be a Brainless Beauty for thinking that shooting or kicking her smoke form would work, since it reminds her of a prettier yet stupider girl who tried stealing her man.
  • Idiot Hair: She has a curly lock of hair atop her head. Ironic, considering her intelligence and usually cerebral demeanor alongside how she's Enraged by Idiocy.
  • Insufferable Genius: She has a keen intellect that allows her to run circles around Rebecca, but spends the entire fight mocking Rebecca for her inferior intelligence.
  • Intangibility: Like Mora, Britney's Ether Gear makes her completely impervious to physical harm and Ether weapons, which puts Rebecca at a disadvantage since her usual skill-set has no method of getting past it. It takes a tactical retreat combined with a "Eureka!" Moment for Rebecca to figure out how to beat her.
  • Logical Weakness: Her smoke form has the properties of smoke and acts like it. Rebecca uses this to buy time for her retreat by running through a path of flames since Britney's smoke form can't follow as well because smoke rises due to the upward current caused by heated air. Also, being smoke means she's very vulnerable to suction forces.
  • Make Them Rot: Her Poison Mist attack generates deadly nitrogen that causes any living thing it comes in contact with to rot and disintegrate. Rebecca falls victim to this, causing her skin to start sloughing before she rewinds time.
  • No-Nonsense Nemesis: When Rebecca corners herself in an appliance shop, Britney only takes a moment to mock her before flooding the room with corrosive nitrogen to rot her to death. The only reason it doesn't work is because it triggers Rebecca's Cat Leaper, rewinding time.
  • Politically Correct Villain: Britney scolds Mora for insulting machines in general, reminding him that their teammate Orc is a half-machine O-Tech.
  • Shock and Awe: Her Spark Heaven attack allows her to generate electricity in her smoke form, harming people and short-circuiting robots.
  • Slasher Smile: Her mouth twists into a creepy grin while she watches Rebecca's skin rot away from the effects of her Poison Mist.
  • The Smurfette Principle: She's the sole female soldier within her squadron, and the only one shown for Beast as a whole.
  • Specs of Awesome: She wears glasses that analyze her opponents' Ether readings, and is a talented Ether Gear user to match.
  • The Stoic: She's most often seen to be cold and impassionate in battle, calmly analyzing her enemies' skills and weaknesses. That ends when she shows herself to be Enraged by Idiocy.
  • Stoic Spectacles: She ordinarily has a calm demeanor and wears glasses.
  • Super Smoke: She can turn her body into smoke, which she can also make electrically charged or corrosive nitrogen.
  • Super-Speed: Her smoke form is fast enough to catch up with and overtake Rebecca while she's using Cat Leaper's speed boost.
  • A Twinkle in the Sky: Rebecca defeats her by using a specialized vacuum to suck her smoke form in, then punts it into the sky.
  • Villains Out Shopping: She mentions that she's a subscriber for STEM Girls, a B-Cube channel run by Rebecca's friend Miyako.

Church of Saintfire

    In General 
A religious organization on the planet Miltz that worships Mother. Saintfire Nox is the Archbishop and "founder" of their order.
  • Asshole Victim: It is hard to feel sorry for them being wiped out by Ziggy after it's revealed they're the reason why Rebecca never knew her parents.
  • Corrupt Church: They became this to the point of killing anyone who has relations to the founder of the church or possesses unknown pedigrees. Rachels finds this out the hard way when their fanatics kill Connor and their daughter, Rebecca, in multiple previous timelines.
  • Everybody's Dead, Dave: Nox is the only known surviving member of the organization; the rest are wiped out by Ziggy.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: According to Saintfire Nox, the church was already abandoning their extremist practices and reforming into a Saintly Church before Ziggy came and killed everyone.
  • Killed Offscreen: The Church of Saintfire is wiped out to the last man by Ziggy and his forces, all of which happens offscreen.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Despite never appearing onscreen, they are the reason why Saintfire Nox—a.k.a. Rachel, Rebecca's mother—was forced to abandon her family, which leads to Rebecca meeting Shiki and everything that follows.
  • Would Hurt a Child: The church's fanatics killed Rebecca while she was still a child in countless timelines.

    Saintfire Nox 

Saintfire Nox

The Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire.

See EDENS ZERO: Oración Seis Galáctica for more information.

Alternative Title(s): Edens Zero Elsies Pirate Crew, Edens Zero Drakken Joes Syndicate, Edens Zero Nero Empire

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