Characters / EDENS ZERO: Shiki's Companions

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The Final World

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From left to right: Pino, Weisz, Shiki, Happy, Rebecca, and Homura.

Rebecca Bluegarden

Rebecca Bluegarden

Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese), Kira Buckland (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Franziska Trunte (German), Sixnalie Villalba (Latin American Spanish), Silvia Sarmentera (European Spanish), Anaïs Delva (French), Erica Laiolo, Sofia Elfriede Bocchiola [child] (Italian), Hannah Buttel (Portuguese), Chutikan Bangdaeng

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

"It can't be over!!! It hasn't even begun yet!!! I'm—!! After I get out of here, I'm leaving the Sakura Cosmos!! My life is only just getting started!!"

An amateur B-Cuber from Planet Blue Garden and Shiki's first human friend, who strives to hit one million subscribers for her video account, Aoneko Channel,^note "Blue Cat" Channel by traveling to different worlds and recording whatever interesting thing she can find. Rebecca is oftentimes just your average, cheery teenage girl, but turns into a vicious gunslinger when armed with an Ether blaster, with her skills forged through countless hours dumped into FPS games. She eventually learns her own form of Ether Gear called Cat Leaper, which enhances her speed and allows her to rewind time by a few moments.

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• Ace Pilot: She's something of a gifted starfighter pilot, enough to handle her own against other pilots like Sylph/Kleene. Like her Improbable Aiming Skills, she gained this from playing games.
• Affectionate Nickname: A few of her fellow B-Cubers take to calling her "Becky" in Kodansha's translation as a sign of their growing admiration for her.
• Animal-Eared Headband: She keeps a pair of fake cat ears around, which she wears for her videos.
• Animal Motifs: She's often represented by cats or depicted as a Cat Girl, and her Ether Gear is called Cat Leaper. "The Cat" is also an alias for her, referring to her ability to control time.
• An Arm and a Leg: The Bad Future version of Rebecca that she sees in her "nightmare" has lost both of her legs from some unknown cause, taking her ability to use Cat Leaper with them and forcing her to wear metal prosthetics.
• Badass Normal: Rebecca starts out without any Ether Gear, but is still The Gunslinger with Improbable Aiming Skills who's fully capable of clearing out a room of enemies so long as she has access to a gun. After that, however, Noah informs her that she has always had the power of time leaping, and was Obliviously Superpowered the whole time before awakening her power as an Ether Gear.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Some of Rebecca's outfits leave her midriff bare, adding to her image as a feminine Gamer Chick who loves fashion and cats and usually wears Girlish Pigtails.
• Bathing Beauty: She spends most of her time on the ship relaxing at the bath, usually once every story arc at a minimum.
• Bathtub Bonding: She gets a fair bit of this Happy, and joined later by Homura, since they always share the Spa of Eden together.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She might be a friendly teenager, but she's a friendly teenager with a pair of guns, and she knows how to use them.
• Big Eater: She'll eat anything that looks delicious, no matter how much there is or how much she's already eaten. Just saying the word "delicious" will start her salivating.
• Boom, Headshot!: She prefers to deal with her opponents by shooting them in the head with her Happy Blasters. Luckily, these Ether bullets aren't lethal, but she gets her points across by putting a gun up to someone's head.
• Brought Down to Normal: Due to the Cosmic Retcon caused by traveling to Universe Zero, Rebecca starts out without her Ether Gear because she couldn't use it until after she met Shiki. She gets it back again after regaining her memories from the previous worlds, but it takes time for her body to adjust to it.
• Cat Girl: She designs her Digital Avatar on Digitalis to give herself the ears and tail of a cat. She also temporarily transforms into a Little Bit Beastly version when she's in the middle of a time leap or using Overdrive.
• Chekhov's Gun: When her Ether Gear first manifests during the Sun Jewel arc, it seems like little more than a convenient power-up for Rebecca that saves her from a pinch. In the Belial Gore arc, it's revealed to be the reason why Drakken Joe is pursuing the Edens Zero in the first place, and the reason why she or any of her friends are still alive, given that she can rewrite history with it.
• Child of Forbidden Love: Rebecca's parents are Captain Connor and Rachel, the Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire. Because Connor is an outsider of the church, a fanatic faction killed Connor and Rebecca in multiple timelines, with the result never changing as long as Rachel stayed with them. Eventually, Rachel was forced to abandon them both to create a world where they survived.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Downplayed. Her head isn't always in the clouds, but she can get lost in them easily when she sees something adorable or finds what she feels is the perfect video op.
• Double Meaning: She gives her Ether Gear the name "Leaper" because it enhances her leg power to enhance her jumping and speed. By sheer serendipity, she's able to keep this as part of the name after The Reveal that it allows her to perform a time leap.
• Does Not Know Her Own Strength: Her first attempt at using Ether Gear causes her to carelessly fire a Kamehame Hadoken through the Edens Zero's skylight, nearly getting herself sucked out into the vacuum of space.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap:
  • To raise the stakes in the final arcs, Rebecca's Ether Gear loses its Time Rewind Mechanic in Universe Zero. She still has access to her Super-Speed and Overdrive, but her more inexperienced younger body isn't immediately adept for it, forcing her to rely on her normal guns once she remembers she carries weapons with her in this new timeline.
  • Later on during the final arc, Rebecca realizes her Time Rewind Mechanic still exists, but she has to strip naked in order to do it, and it takes a much more serious strain on her body.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Downplayed. She appears to break out of being The Team Normal during the Sun Jewel arc, when her constant bathing in the Spa of Eden leads her to awaken her own form of Ether Gear, giving her great jumping skill and enhanced speed. After this, however, Rebecca learns from Noah that she's always had special powers, namely the power to rewind time, but was unaware of it prior to the Belial Gore arc.
• Former Friend of Alpha Bitch: Rebecca and Alpha Bitch Labilia were originally friends before the latter's personality got awfully nasty, making Rebecca into her designated bullying victim. However, no matter how cruelly Labilia insults and humiliates her, Rebecca can't truly hate her and will come to her aid when she's in trouble.
• Friend to All Living Things: She will accept any friendship whether it's with an animal, a robot, or both, owing this mindset to how she was able to continue her friendship with Happy after he was run over by a truck and revived as a machine when she was just a little girl.
• A Friend in Need:
  • After Shiki saves her life from his rogue robot friends on Granbell, Rebecca proves herself to be a true friend by taking him aboard her ship to escape without any obligation to do so, even though he already offered to stay behind and hold them off.
  • She proves herself to be this to her former friend Labilia, whom she jumps in to save from Drakken Joe even after all the horrible things the latter has done to her, before realizing Labilia was already saved by Amira to begin with.
• Future Me Scares Me: After Rebecca's second jump forward in time to a Bad Future, she's terrified of the state she find herself in, namely the fact that she's lost her legs and can no longer use Cat Leaper. Avoiding becoming this version of herself becomes a major point of drama and tension in the subsequent battles, as the possibility looms large in her head.
• Gamer Chick: She's a self-admitted gamer who spent most of her time playing with Happy over actually adventuring and working. An omake chapter also shows her dealing with the frustration of being mistaken for a G.I.R.L. in an online game.
• Genki Girl: She can get very excitable at times, especially when she discovers new inspiration for a video, with Happy being there to keep her grounded.
• Girlish Pigtails: She occasionally ties her hair into twin-tails that make look youthful and cheeky.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Rebecca is normally a very feminine Genki Girl who loves fashion and cats, but she adopts a much more masculine and crass attitude when shooting people up with her Happy Blasters.
• Goal in Life: Hers is to become the number one B-Cuber in the cosmos, starting by getting one million subscribers on B-Cube. She finally achieves her goal over the Time Skip thanks to Couchpo's mentoring, which lets her hit triple her original goal.
• Grand Theft Me: She periodically performs an unintentional version on herself from the Bad Future, which she mistakes for dreams: first in the Belial Gore arc, where she and Shiki are in the middle of a warzone with robotic drones; and again in the Nero 66 arc, where she's stuck in an unwakeable coma after losing her legs, making Shiki think for a moment that his world's Rebecca has recovered.
• Guns Akimbo: She's quite skilled at this to accommodate for her twin Happy Blasters.
• The Gunslinger: She hits three of the four categories when it comes to handling an Ether blaster: the the Trick Shot for dishing out headshots against at least a dozen thugs in a row; the Vaporizer whenever a single shot won't cut it; and the Woo not only from dual-wielding, but being able to land headshots while upside-down and in midair.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: Rebecca gets flustered when Xenolith calls her a "girl captivated by gravity", assuming that he means she's "into" Shiki and denying the very thought of it.
• Heroic RRoD: The skin on Rebecca's cheek begins to chip like porcelain whenever she uses her Time Rewind Mechanic more than twice in a row, though it heals after a few moments. Using it any more times than that causes more of her body to fracture, and it takes longer for her to heal, as demonstrated when she fruitlessly tries reversing time to a point before Witch's death for two days straight, leaving half her body covered in cracks.
• High Hopes, Zero Talent: Despite her lofty aspirations to be a famous B-Cuber, she is a complete amateur who relies almost exclusively on recording whatever random thing catches her interest. This results in videos that are too scattershot and unstructured, making her an easy target of mockery from Labilia. As for what she considers to be "good" content, it ranges from letting Shiki fly her ship with no experience to having him dance in a bunny girl costume. She overcomes this over the Time Skip when her more experienced B-Cuber friend Couchpo mentors her, not only improving her craft, but boosting her subscriber count to 3 million, three times more than her initial goal.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Every single combat skill she knows, from shooting to starship piloting, was acquired from playing video games for Mother knows how long. The former is Truth in Television, as people who use real guns for the first time after aiming for the head in First-Person Shooter games are prone to do the same in real life; the latter is more of a stretch.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Thanks to her skill in FPS games, she's able to perform no fewer than a dozen headshots within a matter of moments. This is noted as an uncanny skill for a marksman, since a person's head is too small and evasive to serve as a practical target.
• In a Single Bound: Her Ether Gear focuses all of her Ether into her legs, which allows her to jump great distances on top of giving her Super-Speed and superpowered kicks.
• Interspecies Friendship: She is a believer that whether one is human, animal, or machine doesn't matter when it comes to being friends, which stems from her own friendship with Happy, an alien cat who was turned into a machine.
• Kick Chick: Whenever she isn't armed with an Ether blaster, or when bullets don't work on an enemy, her next option is to kick them. It's partially because of this that she gains a form of Ether Gear that focuses all of her Ether into her legs, making her kicks magically charged and powerful enough to send a grown man flying.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: While she has a mean temper, she's a sweetheart who is dear friends with Happy and melts over anything that remotely looks like a cat.
• Leg Focus: Several of her fanservice shots are centered around her legs. Her official character profile also lampshades this, making "Leg Sexiness" as her custom stat and scoring her a perfect 5-star.
• Leotard of Power: Her Overdrive after the three-year Time Skip transforms Rebecca's clothes into a leotard that fully exposes the Ether Gear on her legs.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: She often gives the impression of an ordinary teen out of her depth, but the instant she takes hold of her Happy Blasters, she turns into a master-class marksman.
• Living Emotional Crutch: She becomes Shiki's main emotional support as their journey gets more difficult. She's the only one who can snap Shiki out of his Heroic BSoD after Witch dies, and comforting him helps Shiki accept that he has to move on from their loss.
• Loser Protagonist: Like Shiki, she's at the bottom rung of the Shooting Starlight guild, and she's spent most of her time either making weird online videos or holing herself up playing games.
• Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Anytime Rebecca activates Cat Leaper, her footwear gets obliterated from the sheer power released and she winds up barefoot, with everything up to the shins in tatters. Rebecca later has the foresight to take off her footwear before using her Ether Gear so it doesn't get ruined.
• MacGuffin Super-Person: Because of her Mental Time Travel power, she is heavily desired by Drakken Joe, who chases after the Edens Zero to extract her power for his own purposes.
• Magical Barefooter: Her Ether Gear is located at her legs. Therefore, she usually needs to be barefoot when she activates it. Her Overdrive also leaves her barefoot.
• Meaningful Rename: Originally, Rebecca just calls her Ether Gear "Leaper" because it enhances her jumping power and gives her Super-Speed. However, it gets redubbed "Cat Leaper" in regards to her true nature as "the Cat", whose actual power is to leap through time.
• Mental Time Travel: Her Ether Gear's true power sends her consciousness back in time to an earlier point whenever she is killed or enters a life-threatening situation. Up to World No. 29 (the 29th timeline created from her time leaping over the past 10 years), she barely retains any memory from previous timelines, but is still able instinctively avoid or change whatever put her in danger. After entering World No. 30 and fully awakening her power, however, she has complete Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory.
• Mercury's Wings: The markings for her Ether Gear are shaped like wings and manifest on her legs.
• Mood-Swinger: When the opportunity to fight arises, she turns from a Genki Girl into a Hot-Blooded Lad-ette and back in the blink of an eye.
• Ms. Fanservice: Shots of Rebecca tend to be set up to emphasize her large breasts, butt, and legs.
• Mysterious Past: Apart from being an avid B-Cuber who was abandoned as a child and grew up with an android cat, Rebecca doesn't know very much about herself, let alone why she has the power of Mental Time Travel. She's eventually revealed to be a Child of Forbidden Love between Captain Connor and Saintfire Nox, the time-manipulating Archbishop of the Church of Saintfire, which forced the latter to abandon her to keep her safe from her cult's more fanatical members.
• Named After Their Planet: Similar to what she does with Shiki, Rebecca modifies the name of her home planet, Blue Garden, into her surname.
• Necessary Drawback:
  • In order to keep her Time Rewind Mechanic from being too overpowered, Rebecca discovers several limits to it. The first is that she can only consciously rewind time back up to a few minutes; the second is that once she's winded back to a "point", it becomes an anchor that she can't go past; and third, she can only use it two or three times in a short period of time, as any more after that not only causes fatigue, but her body starts to crack apart. She also notes this particular application of her power is separate from the week-long jump she made during the Belial Gore arc, which she still doesn't know how to use at will.
  • During the final arcs, after being told by Rachel that her Time Travel Mechanic would be useless in Universe Zero, Rebecca discovers it actually isn't so long as she's completely naked. However, the trade-off is that a single Reverse causes her body to crack that gets gradually worse can't heal on its own without treatment.
• Nice Girl: She becomes quick friends with Shiki after only a short bit of friction, is wholly unbiased in any relationships between humans and robots (largely due to her own experiences with Happy), brings him along on their journey across the universe when he wants to make more friends beyond his planet, and sticks her neck out to save a friend-turned-bully because she doesn't have it in her to actually hate her.
• No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: invoked Rebecca gets a huge popularity boost following a shout-out from all the popular B-Cubers she had a hand in rescuing from Guilst. She's not bothered in the slightest that her videos are getting downvoted due to their trashy content, seeing it as the perfect chance to make better videos now that she has the attention.
• Obliviously Superpowered: Rebecca is The Team Normal early in the series, but gradually develops her own Ether Gear which grants her brief bursts of Super-Speed. Then comes the Belial Goer arc, where she goes through a Traumatic Superpower Awakening over watching Drakken Joe execute Shiki in front of her, unlocking her power of Mental Time Travel for her to Set Right What Once Went Wrong. Later, Master Noah informs her that she's always had this power, and had been unconsciously using it every time her life was threatened without any memories of having done so.
• Parental Abandonment: She'd been living on her own with Happy since she was just a little girl before meeting Shiki, reasoning that she was abandoned by her parents. It's eventually revealed both she and her father, Connor, were abandoned by her mother, Saintfire Nox/Rachel: Connor when Rebecca was a newborn, and Rebecca when she was a few years older. Rebecca is able to forgive her mother after learning Rachel gave up her family for their protection.
• Plucky Girl: She's capable of pulling through just about any hardship with a smile on her face in the end. She does, however, come close to getting broken after getting kidnapped and suffering a Trauma Conga Line in the Guilst Arc, though she's emotionally resilient enough to remain strong for the other kidnapped B-Cubers until they're all safe.
• Power Degeneration: Her Reverse ability damages her body when she tries using it three or more times in a row, suffering an unbearable headache and causing cracks to appear on her face. When she overuses her power in an effort to prevent Witch's death, a huge portion of her upper body becomes fractured.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Her hair changes color from ash blonde to white when she uses Overdrive.
• Power Incontinence: She briefly has no control over her Ether Gear when she tries using it for the first time in Universe Zero, leading Ether to rocket out of her leg and propel her skyward into the ceiling almost the exact same way she did in Universe 1. She manages to get the hang of it by the time they face Drakken Joe, however.
• Prehensile Tail: She grows a cat's tail that she can use as an extra limb when she's in her Overdrive form.
• Protectorate: Shiki is very protective of Rebecca, as she's the first human friend he ever made. He's so angry at the mere idea of Rebecca being hurt that he refuses to accept Noah as his friend because he put Rebecca in danger.
• Rebuilt Pedestal: She becomes one for Labilia by the three-year Time Skip. Labilia was originally inspired by Rebecca's enthusiasm in making her videos, but once Labilia became popular, she was disappointed in Rebecca for never improving her craft, and started cruelly bullying her to take her frustration out on her. After her incurable disease catches up to her and Rebecca starts to become successful, Labilia realizes how unfair she was to her old friend and makes amends with her.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She gets annoyed when her clothes get destroyed or stolen, which happens way more often than she would like.
• Remembered I Could Fly: Because her memories of her life in Universe Zero are jumbled up with her "mainline" self, Rebecca completely misses the fact that, despite Happy no longer being a robot and therefore can't transform into Ether Blasters, she still has regular pistols to defend herself with. She only realizes this when Happy himself desperately searches his own Universe Zero memories of how Rebecca would defend herself while she's being tortured by Daichi.
• Retroactive Precognition: Thanks to Cat Leaper's Mental Time Travel ability, Rebecca can gather information from the future and warn her crewmates about the bad things and unforeseen threats in the previous loop.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Zig-Zagged. It's indicated by Drakken that Shiki's Satan Gravity is what causes her memories of World No. 29 to "fall" into World No. 30, as well as to fully awaken her power in the first place. Before that, Rebecca never retained any of her memories from previous time leaps.
• Satisfied Street Rat: She spent her childhood scraping by on the streets of Blue Garden with no family to speak of, but her flashbacks with Happy show that the two were perfectly content living together.
• Shameful Strip:
  • She is subjected to this in the Guilst arc by Illega, who disintegrates hers and the other kidnapped B-Cubers' clothes with acid foam as a prelude to turning them into literal furniture.
  • In the Nero 66 arc, Lyra forces her to play a card game where the loser of each round also loses an article of clothing, with the loser overall also losing a body part. Rebecca gets stripped totally bare before rewinding time, saving herself from any further indignity.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Downplayed. Rebecca wears a shorter skirt for when she wants to attract viewers for her channel, but she draws the line at unwanted groping and peeping, and she censors her holographic videos for whenever someone tries getting a look up her skirt.
• Shared Family Quirks: Rebecca takes a lot from both of her parents. Her huge appetite, poor table manners, and aptitude for piloting come from Connor, her father, while her suddenly aggressive demeanor and Verbal Tic in combat come from Rachel, her mother.
• Ship Tease: She has plenty of moments with Shiki that make it look like they're growing romantic feelings for each other. The biggest one is when she kisses him on the cheek as her thanks to him for always rescuing her.
• Shorttank: She's the female co-star in a Shōnen series who wears Fanservice-y outfits that often include tank tops, miniskirts and shorts, is fairly girly and loves cats, yet has a hot temper no one wants to mess with, and is one hell of a shooter.
• Shower of Angst: After her week-long Heroic BSoD in the Belial Gore arc, Rebecca takes an overdue shower as she breaks down in tears over all she and her friends have been put through.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Rebecca starts off fancying herself as an internet celebrity who needs to go Clark Kenting in public, even though she hardly has any views on her channel.
• Stark Naked Sorcery: Rebecca's Ether Gear is at its strongest when she's stark naked. The first time it activates is when she's taking a bath at the Spa of Eden. Later, when she's taking a shower a week after Drakken Joe killed Shiki, Rebecca's Cat Leaper causes her to leap to an Alternate Timeline. In Universe Zero, after Shiki gets killed by Lightning Law, Rebecca strips naked to activate Cat Leaper, allowing her to turn back time and save Shiki's life.
• Story-Breaker Power: Her Ether Gear's true power is that of Mental Time Travel, which allows Rebecca to jump further back than her usual Time Rewind Mechanic and undo deadly outcomes for her and her friends. To keep up the tension in the story, Rebecca is unable to fully this power on her own accord the same way her eventually learns to master her rewind power, which is itself a limited ability that takes a harsh toll on her body through constant use.
• Street Urchin: She grew up on the streets of Blue Garden after being separated from her parents, if not abandoned by them, and used to live in a shack on the outskirts of the city, with only Happy to keep her company.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Rebecca strongly takes after her mother, Saintfire Nox/Rachel, in looks.
• Super-Speed: Rebecca's Cat Leaper gives her greater speed than Weisz's Arsenal Suit, which she can impart with vehicles she operates.
• Superpower Lottery: Rebecca's Ether Gear has a built-in Time Rewind Mechanic on top of Super-Speed, which is considerably more impressive than most of her crewmates' abilities. However, she quickly discovers during a reckless test drive of her powers that using it too many times continuously gives her a splitting headache and causes her skin to crack, revealing that her power has a limit.
• Superpowerful Genetics: Rebecca's Time Ether is inherited from her mother, Rachel, who comes from a long line of powerful time users from the Church of Saintfire.
• Sympathy for the Devil: As much of an insufferable Alpha Bitch as Labilia is, Rebecca is horrified to the point of tears when she sees Labilia reduced to a bloodied mess because of Drakken Joe's Cold-Blooded Torture. Although it later turns out Labilia was actually spared from the torture thanks to Amira, Rebecca still feels responsible for her capture.
• The Team Normal: Subverted. She starts out as seemingly the only human member of the core team who doesn't have Ether Gear, but makes up for it by being a Badass Normal Gunslinger who can fight on equal footing with her friends. However, she spends a good portion of the story working to break out of this by learning her own Ether Gear, which ultimately pays off in the Sun Jewel arc. After that, though, she learns she's had her powers since she was a little girl; she just didn't consciously know about them until the Belial Gore arc.
• Time Rewind Mechanic: Cat Leaper comes with a time-rewind ability she later calls "Reverse", which manifests when she first awakens her Ether Gear after getting dealt a lethal blow during her fight with Nino on Sun Jewel, letting her dodge the attack. While experimenting with this power on Foresta, she learns that a.) it can only rewind time by one or two minutes at most, b.) each Reverse creates an anchor that she can't move beyond, and c.) using it too frequently puts a serious tax on her body. This is treated as a completely separate technique from her one-week time leap to escape from Drakken in the Belial Gore arc, where she feels the entire world move rather than time going backwards.
• Took a Level in Badass: She turns from a Badass Normal to Empowered Badass Normal when she awakens her "Leaper" Ether Gear during the Sun Jewel arc, which allows her to take down one of the Zaiten Three, Madame Kurenai's most powerful warriors.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Two traumatizing incidents in her life lead her to develop her Mental Time Travel ability: the first was nearly dying in the same car accident that almost claimed Happy's life ten years ago, and the second is during a week-long Heroic BSoD that resulted from witnessing Shiki's death at the hands of Drakken Joe.
• The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Captain Connor looks like a fat old man, making it quite unexpected that he's the biological father of the Ms. Fanservice Rebecca.
• Unknown Rival: She serves as this for Universe Zero's version of Daichi, who tortured her in Universe 1 but has no idea who she is in this world because they never met before.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Shiki. After the three-year Time Skip, it's obvious they're attracted to each other, but neither seems ready to actively seek a Relationship Upgrade.
• Verbal Tic: When in full Guns Akimbo mode in Japanese, Rebecca ends her sentences with "zeyo", a comically super-masculine particle. Kodansha's translation opts to capture that level of weirdness by having her call people "ducky", which is essentially the British equivalent of "darling" or "honey".
• Weak, but Skilled: Despite her expert firearm prowess, she still sees fit to recruit Shiki as a bodyguard on account of his superior strength. In terms of Ether Gear, however, she drifts into Strong, but Unskilled, since her Ether Gear can change the laws of the cosmos by rewinding time, but she can't control when it happens.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: She firmly believes Androids Are People, Too, and is brought to tears when she sees people and machines commit terrible acts against each other just because they don't believe friendship is possible between them.
• You Are Number 6: Drakken addresses her as "No. 29" during their first personal encounter, as he is informed of her alias by Noah. This number relates to the amount of time leaps she's made throughout her life, with Drakken calling her "No. 30" when Rebecca makes another leap to prevent the crew's disastrous loss against Drakken.

Happy

Happy

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Charlotte Uhlig (German), Lucía Suárez (Latin American Spanish), Neri Hualde [Season 1, ep. 1-12], Belen Rodriguez [Season 1, ep. 13-25] (European Spanish), Karl-Line Heller (French), Serena Clerici (Italian), Gil Mesquita (Portuguese), Niramon Kitphinyochai (Thai)

^{Click here to see his Happy Blaster form}

"Aye, sir!"

Rebecca's lifelong friend and companion, who also happens to be a talking blue cat bot. Once a regular alien feline from the planet Excede, he was rebuilt as an android after a nearly fatal traffic accident horribly maimed his body. He has long since adjusted to his robotic form, which can be converted into a pair of Happy Blasters that Rebecca uses to fire compressed Ether bullets upon her enemies.

Not to be confused with the Fairy Tail version of Happy.

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• Animal Jingoism: Zig-Zagged. He seems perfectly fine with robot dogs as seen on Granbell, but "real" dogs like Nikora (supposedly) freak him out. This is in total contrast with Fairy Tail's Happy, who is freaked out by most dogs, but totally fine around Plue/Nikora.
• Badass Adorable: Downplayed. He's the Series Mascot who can morph into guns, but his badassery is mostly only when Rebecca is wielding him, since he has terrible aim without her Improbable Aiming Skills. However, he gets several upgrades to help him fight low-level Mooks on his own.
• Bathtub Bonding: He frequently shares bath scenes with Rebecca in the Spa of Eden.
• Beware My Stinger Tail: Come the Nero 66 arc, Happy can change his tail into a Laser Blade called the Happy Blade.
• Brain Uploading: Happy's robot body is 100% mechanical, with his mind and memories transferred into it fully intact via Professor Weisz's Machina Maker after his accident.
• Break the Cutie: He's beaten off-screen by one of Rogue Out's members during Rebecca's kidnapping early in the Guilst arc, leaving him to return to the main group in tears and his outer skin badly damaged.
• Cats Are Snarkers: Not to the same extent as his Fairy Tail counterpart, but he has occasional moments of snark, such as when he teases Rebecca for attracting the Male Gaze for her videos if she decides to wear a see-through maid outfit.
• Character Catchphrase: "Aye!" and "Aye, sir!"
• Charged Attack: His Ether Bullet Full Burst technique is a powerful charged shot of Ether that leaves him exhausted afterward.
• Childhood Friends: He and Rebecca met as children living on the streets of Blue Garden, and have been inseparable ever since.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: He helps Rebecca keep her feet on the ground whenever she starts acting out.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: Suggested to be the case with the "dream" of a Bad Future that Rebecca sees in the Belial Gore arc, where Shiki "reminds" Rebecca that Happy is dead. Ultimately confirmed in the Nero 66 arc, with Rachel later suggesting in the Lendard arc that it's a potential outcome in Universe Zero where Happy didn't survive his car accident.
• De-power: Happy's fateful roadside accident never happens in Universe Zero's Merged Reality, meaning he not only remains flesh and blood, but the reality where he becomes a machine is overwritten in all universes. This also means he never becomes an Equippable Ally for Rebecca, losing any role he had in battle.
• Equippable Ally: As a robot, he can transform his entire body into a pair of Ether blasters for Rebecca to fight with.
• Expy: He is identical to Happy from Fairy Tail in name and most of his appearance (having a black-tipped tail instead of white-tipped), and the name of his home planet is a play on the original Happy's Cat Folk race, the "Exceed". The major things that set them apart are that EDENS ZERO's Happy is more of a Straight Man than The Gadfly, lacks the ability to fly, is a robot who can turn into guns, and is the female lead's Non-Human Sidekick instead of the male lead's.
• First Friend: Happy and Rebecca are each other's first friend; both were abandoned early in their lives and were all alone until they met, and have been together ever since.
• From Stray to Pet: He was a stray cat who was starving on the streets of Blue Garden until Rebecca found him and adopted him as her beloved best friend.
• Funny Animal: He's a talking, perfectly civilized cat alien.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: In the manga, the full extent of the damage to his original body is mostly obscured, but just enough of his lower body is shown to suggest it was totally ripped off. This is not the case in the anime, which shows his body fully intact, though still bloody and wounded.
• Heroic RRoD: He's left burned out if Rebecca fires too much Ether, particularly after they perform a Charged Attack.
• Killer Rabbit: He may look like an ordinary cat, but he's really a robot who can morph into a pair of powerful Ether blasters.
• Lonely Together: Happy and Rebecca were both abandoned as children. When they had no one in the world, they found each other and have been together ever since.
• Meaningful Name: Just like his home series, Rebecca gave him the name "Happy" because that's how she felt when she met him after being alone for so long.
• Nice Guy: Happy is a sweet, virtuous, and loyal friend to Rebecca with hardly a mean bone in his body. This is in direct contrast with Fairy Tail's Happy, a snide, mischievous, but still good-hearted character.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: He's an alien cat android who can also turn into a pair of energy guns.
• Out of Focus: In Mashima HERO'S, he's relegated to a minor cameo aboard the ship along with the Shining Stars to keep Rebecca from using his advanced weaponry as part of an Alien Non-Interference Clause, which also helps avoid confusion with Fairy Tail's version of Happy.
• Parental Abandonment: He doesn't know what happened to his parents, but he's certain that they abandoned him, since he doesn't know if he was ever given a name.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Happy is the blue male robot cat to his fellow Series Mascot, the small pink Robot Girl Pino.
• Ray Gun: His weapon form is a pair of blasters that fire non-lethal yet very painful Ether bullets.
• Ridiculously Human Robot: More like a "Ridiculously Feline Robot"; he has a completely robotic endoskeleton, but his skin makes him look exactly the way he did before the car accident.
• Robot Buddy: He's been a Non-Human Sidekick for Rebecca for most of their lives, but he didn't become this until after his accident and rebirth when Rebecca was a kid.
• Satellite Character: His entire role revolves around being both Childhood Friends and an Equippable Ally to Rebecca, with Happy getting little to no focus for himself.
• Series Mascot: He mainly fulfills this role before Pino's introduction, and has more of a presence than her in promotional material for the anime. Since he's an Expy of a Fairy Tail character, this gives the series more recognition as a work by Hiro Mashima.
• Straight Man: Happy always questions Rebecca or rolls his eyes whenever she goes through one of her air-headed moments.
• Street Urchin: Like Rebecca, he grew up on the streets of Blue Garden after being separated from his parents, whom he's certain abandoned him.
• Swords Set To Stun: He turns into a pair of Happy Blasters that fire Ether bullets. These can inflict injury and knock people out, but they can't kill anyone, allowing Rebecca to fire them at people's heads without worry.
• Talking Weapon: He can still communicate while in his blaster form.
• Team Pet: Like the Happy from Fairy Tail, he's the cute talking cat who accompanies the core team in their adventures, although this Happy is also an android with the ability to turn into guns.
• Took a Level in Badass: After the crew's training following the Foresta arc, Happy shows off new transformations like an assault rifle and a laser-bladed tail. Taken a step further after the Nero 66 arc, where he's fitted with a Solo Blaster mode to fight on his own.
• Turn the Other Cheek: He readily accepts Labilia's apology for her cruel bullying towards him and Rebecca once the two girls make amends after the three-year Time Skip, mainly because he's willing to forgive anyone Rebecca does the same for them.
• We Can Rebuild Him: Happy was reborn in a robotic body after getting run over by a drunk cargo truck driver. Despite his initial fear of being rejected after the procedure, Rebecca still loves him despite his new form.

Weisz Steiner

Weisz Steiner (Year X442)

Voiced by: Hiromichi Tezuka, Mei Shibata [child] (Japanese), Ray Chase (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Julian Tennstedt (German), Mario Vargas (Latin American Spanish), Benoît Du Pac (French), Alessandro Fattori (Italian), Yuri Tupper (Portuguese), Komsan Ratanakornbodi (Thai)

"Fine. I'm from 50 years ago. I don't get you young people these days."

An alternate version of Professor Weisz from the past who came into the present after the Chronophage consumed fifty years of time from his home planet, Norma. Far from the respected scientist his future self would become, the young Weisz is a degenerate thief who prefers to steal, cheat, and smooth-talk his way through life, but quickly proves himself to be a stalwart friend to the crew. Weisz's Ether Gear, Machina Maker, lets him instantly build and remodel whatever machine he touches to his liking.

For info on Weisz's present-day self, see EDENS ZERO: Sakura Cosmos.

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• Ace Pilot: He knows his way around a spaceship, and proves to be a more effective pilot than Rebecca thanks to his ability to upgrade the Aqua Wing to his advantage in mid-flight. Elsie also commends his skill in getting past the wall of spacetime clouds surrounding Norma, though she proceeds to mock him for failing something comparatively simpler like avoiding a Tractor Beam.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: While he's still a greedy and womanizing douchebag with a heart of gold, Pocket Galaxy does away with some of his scummier moments, such as trying to sell Shiki's team out to Elsie back when he barely knows them, or shooting up Mosco to show Homura he means business on Guilst (though to be fair, Mosco doesn't show up in said scene). He also chooses to hang out with the crew a little longer before deciding to stick around permanently, instead of ditching them once they return to Blue Garden and coming back.
• Alternate Self: He's not merely Weisz from the past, but an entirely new person created by Temporal Duplication, which allows him to co-exist with his "future" self totally free of time paradoxes that would impact the other's life. It also means he won't necessarily become a professor in 50 years, nor is he guaranteed to live that long.
• An Arm and a Leg: Drakken Joe has his right arm cut off when he's at the villain's mercy (the signature punishment dealt to a thief in the unwritten code of conduct among career criminals), which mirrors how the older Weisz had his right arm severed on Norma fifty years ago. However, it gets undone by Rebecca's time leap into World No.30.
• Awesome, but Impractical: After Weisz goes into and out of Overdrive for the first time in the Nero 66 arc, he notes that it uses up even more energy than his Arsenal Suit, keeping the suit from becoming totally obsolete despite being nowhere near as powerful or effective as Overdrive.
• Baldness Angst: When Rebecca shows Young Weisz a picture of how he'll look in fifty years, he's shocked and upset by how thin his hair will become. It's suggested by the original timeline's Sibir that this is what motivates his change in hairstyle, though Weisz denies it.
• Book Dumb: His character profile gives him two stars in intelligence, and notes that he dislikes studying. Given that his older self dedicated himself to improving his life and becoming a respected professor after losing his arm for stealing from Drakken, this is all but stated to be a case of Brilliant, but Lazy, as he clearly has potential.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: He loves women with voluptuous bodies. He's thrilled to see the well-endowed members of the Four Shining Stars in swimsuits... Except for the petite Hermit, who he calls a member of the "kiddies' section".
• Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: Hermit, whom Weisz shares plenty of Ship Tease with, is the only girl who never becomes a target to his perverted antics. He eventually straight-up admits he's developed serious feelings for her in the final arc when she catches him getting shy over having a hands-on Arsenal Suit inspection from her.
• Casanova Wannabe: He fancies himself a smooth ladies' man who will do whatever he can to get his way with them. So far, every girl he's met has been thoroughly unimpressed with him with the exception of Hermit, and he actually has to work on that relationship to get her to like him as even a friend.
• Chivalrous Pervert: He loves ogling at beautiful women's boobs and butts. Still, he genuinely cares about his female crewmates and will always go to help a girl in trouble without question.
• Cross Player: In the virtual world of Digitalis, Weisz decides to have some fun and makes himself a sexy dark-skinned blonde female avatar with Stripperific clothing. He soon regrets his decision when he starts suffering from stiff shoulders on account of heavy breasts, and switches back to his usual appearance when trouble starts.
• Dislikes the New Guy: Weisz is the only crew member who complains about letting Jinn, Kleene, and Laguna stick around due to them being Drakken's "goons", despite getting similar flak from the crew before he officially joined. He eventually eases up around Jinn and Kleene in the Foresta arc after learning about their Dark and Troubled Past, and Laguna in the Nero 66 arc for the losses they both suffered.
• The Dulcinea Effect: He springs into action when he hears a girl is in trouble, though as a Casanova Wannabe, it's a given that he does this for less than altruistic reasons.
• Duplicate Divergence: Being a temporal duplicate of the younger Professor Weisz whose history was thrown off course, Weisz never gets shaken into pursuing academics to atone for his life of crime, and thus never becomes a professor. However, he settles into a stable circle of friends who bring out his more heroic side, becoming a seedy but good-hearted space explorer instead. He also focuses more on using his Machina Maker less for philanthropic purposes and more for combat and self-defense, including the invention of his Arsenal Suit, which the Professor himself has never made.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: His Overdrive form undergoes several last-minute changes between its debut chapter's digital and print release, adding large cables protruding from his back.
• Eating the Eye Candy: He takes any chance he gets to ogle at his female crewmates' breasts and butts.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He's gone from a troubled kid to a greedy, womanizing crook, but he never forgets his love for his mother, who died when he was little, and any reminder of her death is a sensitive Relative Button to him. His Universe Zero self takes her more for granted since she never died, but once his memories return, he immediately rushes into her arms crying Tears of Joy.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Although he isn't much better than the rest of his old gang of thieves, seeing how he also shares their idea of using Pino's EMP to make money, he draws the line at their callous mistreatment of her.
  • Despite disliking the Rutherford siblings for their prior association with Drakken Joe, Weisz is horrified and enraged when Müller gloats how he put Jinn through Cold-Blooded Torture and forced Kleene to watch.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: He stops slicking his hair back after using Arsenal for the first time on Sun Jewel, which signifies his commitment to forging a life for himself apart from his future self, and because he's afraid of going bald like his future self has.
• Fire-Breathing Weapon: Atlas Flame, an assault rifle instantly modified into a flamethrower. Its name is also a Recurring Element take from the dragon of the same name from Fairy Tail.
• Fire-Forged Friends: He initially starts off wanting nothing to do with the crew, only helping them escape from Norma so he can go on the lam, and almost selling them out to Elsie for his own safety right afterward. After coming back to introduce Homura to the crew just so he can use her to model outfits in the ship's Dress Factory, he winds up unwittingly earning their trust through the small acts of kindness he does along the way, proving that he has come to care for them despite himself.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Thanks to the Chronophage rewinding his planet's time, he's fifty years behind where he should normally be, and thus amazed and confused by all the advancements and changes he would've yet lived through.
• Force and Finesse: He shares the crew's gunner position with Rebecca when not using his Ether Gear or Arsenal Suit, but unlike Rebecca, who specializes in Improbable Aiming Skills with hand blasters, Weisz leans more towards heavy artillery like assault rifles to mow enemies down.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: None of his companions are fond of his scumbag and self-serving attitude, to the point that Shiki—an All-Loving Hero who practically lives to make friends—refuses to call Weisz one of his friends. After Weisz helps them rescue Sister and proves he has a Hidden Heart of Gold, however, the whole crew accepts him.
• Future Me Scares Me: Downplayed. When Weisz first sees his future self, the only thing he dislikes about himself is his receding hairline, which gives him preemptive Baldness Angst. He's otherwise flattered to learn what an accomplished genius Professor Weisz is, to the point of boasting about the Professor's achievements as if they were his own.
• Gadget Watches: He wears a special bracelet that can transform into his Arsenal Suit.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Despite being a crook and lecher, he shows signs of his future self's brilliance by constructing all sorts of powerful weaponry, from Sibir's Augmenter Arm, to his very own Arsenal Suit (albeit with Hermit's help in the latter case), to a Holographic Disguise app on his phone that uses the Dress Factory's tech to convincingly create any disguise he wants.
• Greed: A prime motivator for Weisz, who sees it as reason enough to steal from someone. This serves to contrast with his future self, who outgrew his want for wealth and fame after losing his arm as punishment for theft.
• Handsome Lech: He's fairly good-looking, but his flirtations have no success as women are grossed out by him acting like a perverted scumbag. Hermit is the only girl who calls him cool because he never lusts after her.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: For all his swagger, he typically has a low opinion of himself and uses his "superhero" alter ego, Arsenal, as a projection of the person he'd rather be than the lowlife crook he really is. Hermit, on the other hand, gives him a You Are Better Than You Think You Are one-liner when he gets in a rut over his suit getting totaled in the Foresta arc.
  Weisz: Sorry, but Arsenal is the champion of justice. Out of the suit, I'm...
  Hermit: Very cool.
• Hidden Depths: Although he does it for perverted reasons, Weisz shows he has an unexpected eye for costume design when he makes an Asian-style Playboy Bunny outfit for Homura, who is pleasantly surprised by how much she likes it after dreading the thought of having to model for him.
• I'll Kill You!: Weisz utters this as a warning to Laguna in case any of his crewmates die in the Nero 66 arc after learning he's been bouncing between whichever group has the best shot at defeating Nero. After Witch's Heroic Sacrifice, however, he takes it back on the grounds that Laguna lost friends of his own in the war.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Two of his attack names, Weiss Cannon and Metalica Explosion, are initially spelled as "Vise" and "Metallica" (with two L's). These were changed by the Lendard arc after it was established their names are references to the dragons Weisslogia and Metalicana from Fairy Tail.
• It's Personal:
  • Weisz goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Drakken in the Belial Gore arc after finding out Drakken caused his mother to die. His hatred for Drakken also colors his impression of Drakken's minions Jinn, Kleene, and Laguna when they join the crew.
  • When fighting Drakken Joe's crew again in Universe Zero, Weisz decides to go after Fie to settle the score with him for shooting and dismembering him in Universe 1.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For all his unrepentant greed and lechery, he treats robots like Happy and Pino very well, and he grows to care for the rest of the crew as they do for each other. He does get embarrassed whenever someone calls him a good person, however.
• The Lancer: Weisz is Shiki's closest male friend who's an amoral, greedy and lecherous Jerk with a Heart of Gold to contrast Shiki's naïve and heroic character.
• Loner-Turned-Friend: Weisz starts out as a lone wolf after suffering a nasty split with his old friend and partner in crime, Sibir, prioritizing his own self-interests over Shiki and the gang when they're forced to work together. Despite himself, however, he finds himself gravitating towards the others and decides to stick around.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: He's very open about wanting to have all sorts of perverted fun with his hot female crewmates, but he's still one of the good guys and his perverted antics are always Played for Laughs.
• Man, I Feel Like a Woman: He goes for a female Digital Avatar at Digitalis just so he can feel up his own breasts all he wants. He later uses the same disguise on the Belial Gore, using a face-changing Holographic Disguise app.
• Men Don't Cry: Compared to his fellow male crewmates, especially Shiki, Weisz hardly ever cries whenever he's sad or devastated, with his crying over his dying mother as a child being a rare exception. He overcomes this when he reunites with his resurrected mother in Universe Zero, openly crying Tears of Joy without shame.
• Momma's Boy: A positive example who had a very loving relationship with his mother, who raised him on her own, and her untimely death is still hard for him.
• More Dakka: His "Million Bullets" technique is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: a series of hidden turrets that mercilessly perforate his enemies with a barrage of bullets.
• Odd Friendship: With Hermit. He's a perverted Gadgeteer Genius and she's an ace programmer Little Miss Snarker, yet they get along really well. It eventually develops into full-on Opposites Attract when Weisz finds himself falling in love with her.
• One Head Taller: He gets some notable Ship Tease with Hermit, who is significantly shorter than him.
• Pet the Dog: He shows he's much kinder than he lets on when he saves Pino from his old gang and restores her torn leg for nothing in return, and giving Happy a slight repair job from getting banged up because he "felt bad seeing him".
• Poor Communication Kills: Weisz's falling out with Sibir kicked off with a misunderstanding over a stolen pendant belonging to his mother, which Weisz revealed to no one else but Sibir, unaware that someone else in their gang caught wind of it and snatched it for himself. However, it was Sibir's angry and dismissive response to Weisz's accusations—namely by saying that Weisz has stolen from other people without batting an eye—that caused Weisz to cut all ties with him.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: His Overdrive Super Mode causes his blond hair to turn light blue.
• Power Fist: He builds one for himself around his right arm on a few occasions: once to fight off the Interstellar Union Army when they're targeted by Feather, and again in the Reunion arc to get his revenge on Universe Zero's Fie, who cut that arm off in Universe 1.
• Pragmatic Hero: He typically resorts to dirty tactics when he has to fight, as demonstrated during the Mildian arc, where he bends the tournament's "no outside help from friends" rule by using Pino's EMP on an Ether Gear user, whom he proceeds to vicously stomp on, and later in the Belial Gore arc, where he stands back to observe Homura's fight with Laguna as a chance to gain information and decide the best way to beat him.
• Raised by Robots: He was orphaned at a young age, and bought an old robot (revealed in a chapter cover to be an Expy of Griff) just to have someone to keep him company. This robot is the one who taught him how to use Ether Gear, and was accidentally destroyed during Weisz's first attempt at using it.
• Recurring Element: A lot of his attacks contain references to dragons from Fairy Tail, the spiritual predecessor to EDENS ZERO:
  • The name of his flamethrower, Atlas Flame, comes directly from Natsu's Honorary Uncle, a dragon Wreathed in Flames.
  • His Weiss Cannon^note misspelled as "Vise Cannon" early on and Drum Buster are meant to be a reference to Weisslogia and Skiadrum, the White and Shadow Dragons, respectively; this is made more apparent by Weisz's descriptions of his attacks.
  • Metalica Explosion alludes to Metalicana, the Iron Dragon and Gajeel's foster father.
  • Grandy Ray and Grandee Wing, the name of Weisz's laser beam and Blade Below the Shoulder, are more or less a corrupted version of the Sky Dragon Grandeeney's name.
  • Ignia Buster is a nod to Ignia, the Fire Dragon God and Igneel's biological son from Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest.
• Red Baron: By the Lendard arc, he's taken to calling himself the "Flame of Edens" because of his use of heavy artillery—in other words, he packs some serious heat.
• Relative Button: His life with his parents is a very sensitive subject for him: he was picked on as a boy by other kids because his father walked out on them with another woman, and the death of his mother hit him so hard that a simple misunderstanding over Weisz's Tragic Keepsake of her triggered the end of his and Sibir's friendship. Killer takes special advantage of this in the Lendard arc by showing holograms of her to mess with his head, and Ziggy exhumes her preserved body among thousands of the human mothers he captured just to set an exampe to Weisz.
• Revolvers Are Just Better: He carries an old-fashioned revolver in a world where people carry more futuristic-looking guns. Justified due to coming from an age decades before the present.
• Robosexual: As the series goes on, Weisz starts getting Ship Tease with Hermit, a Robot Girl, despite his own mixed feelings about romance between humans and machines. This culminates in him admitting to having feelings for her in the final arc, not caring about whether or not she's an android.
• Serious Business: Weisz takes his superhero persona very seriously, and gets annoyed whenever anyone goes against the standard conventions, such as a villain attacking in the middle of a heroic speech, or Rebecca gaining Super-Speed powers that outstrip his Arsenal Suit's own speed, saying it clashes with one of the suit's "selling points" and breaks the "no two people have the same powers" rule for hero teams.
• Shadow Archetype: Young Weisz embodies the less than model citizen Old Weisz was before his maturation, being an ex-organized crime member who struck out alone to conduct his own dirty work. Whereas the professor is charitable, caring, and charming, Young Weisz is greedy, selfish, opportunistic, and shamelessly lecherous. However, Young Weisz proves to be no different from Old Weisz when he shows he cares for humans and machines deep down.
• Ship Tease: Despite his womanizing nature, he gets a lot of special focus together with Hermit, one of the few girls he doesn't lust over, instead trading playful jabs with her. He eventually makes a Love Confession to her when she teases him for getting embarrassed over Hermit examining him in his Arsenal Suit.
• Super Mode: Weisz first gets his Overdrive form when fighting Nasseh on Nero 66, vastly increasing the range of his creations. His particular form resembles a Cyborg or Ridiculously Human Robot, giving him blue hair and (following a design update) four cable-like tentacles on his back.
• Technopath: His Ether Gear lets him interface with machines and rebuild them instantaneously, ranging from physical repairs to upgrading ships and weapons, as well as dismantling or destroying them if the need arises. By his own admission, he's nowhere near the level of his older self, who could build a lifelike android body for Happy that's completely indistinguishable from his organic form.
• Took a Level in Badass: His Machina Maker makes him a skilled technician, pilot, and weapon-user, but not so much of a physical fighter. Once he completes his Arsenal Suit, however, he becomes a hell of a lot more efficient in combat like Shiki, Homura and, shortly afterward, Rebecca. It's taken further when he first uses Overdrive during his battle with Nasseh, putting him on par with Shiki and Homura again.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Weisz briefly snaps back into his older Jerkass behavior while experiencing Identity Amnesia in Universe Zero, and is more confrontational with his now living mother, calling her an old hag. He quickly goes back to his usual self once his memories return.
• Toxic Friend Influence: It's implied that some of his perverted views towards women rubs off on Shiki, who gradually becomes more vocal about wanting to see girls in skimpy clothes after Weisz officially joins the crew.
• Tragic Keepsake: He had a pendant that he received from his mother, who was an interstellar explorer before she died. The pendant was stolen and Weisz wrongly assumed Sibir took it, which lead to their falling out.
• Unknown Rival: He serves as this for Universe Zero's Fie, who shot Weisz and cut off his arm in Universe 1, but has no idea who he is in this world because they never met before.
• Vocal Dissonance: He keeps his usual masculine voice when using a female Digital Avatar on Digitalis in the anime and Pocket Galaxy.
• We Used to Be Friends: He and Sibir were once as thick as thieves, but an argument over a stolen pendant belonging to Weisz's mother caused them to split. Incidentally, the Chronophage rewound time right to around the point when they became enemies. Despite this, Weisz continues to think fondly of Sibir for saving his life, and isn't too perturbed by seeing Sibir's much different, elderly self from the present era, save for one moment when Sibir brings up the "minor disagreement" that led to their falling out. Once Old Sibir returns the pendant and explains what happened, Weisz all but loses any ill feelings he had towards him.
• You Can't Go Home Again: His ultimate justification for joining the crew. From his perspective, he and his entire planet were irreversibly thrust into a new time period. Since going back would mean cutting himself off from the rest of the universe behind a spacetime wall, or at the very least facing up to the police hunting him for being part of Sibir's gang, he realizes he can't go back to his old life and disavows Norma as a "dead" planet.
• You Killed My Mother: In the climax of the Belial Gore arc, Weisz goes ballistic when he finds out his mother's death was caused by Drakken Joe, who drained her life force to keep himself young; this also factors into his later reluctance to accept Drakken's former subordinates on the Edens Zero.

Arsenal

"You will be the first chapter in the Arsenal legend!!! And the legend of me... starts right here!"

Weisz's "superhero" alter ego, which he takes up whenever he wears his Arsenal Suit, an armored exoskeleton he constructed with Hermit's help. This suit runs on his body's Ether and draws out the true potential of his Machina Maker, which he uses to modify the suit with any weapon and gadget he needs.

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• Anti-Magic: His suit has an Ether coating, which increases his resistance to all Ether-based attacks, including Ether Gear.
• Arm Cannon: Using his Machina Maker, he can turn his arm into a machine gun or an energy cannon.
• Awesome, but Impractical: His Arsenal Suit lets Weisz school his enemies just as well as his crewmates, but it burns through his Ether much faster than usual. Once he runs out, the armor leaves him completely exhausted and falls away, rendering him unable to perform basic Ether Gear skills for a short while.
• Badass Longcoat: The Mk. II upgrade he wears on Nero 66 comes with a longcoat.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: His Grandee Wing is a massive curved arm blade generated along his lower arm.
• Calling Your Attacks: His own enemies call him out on how he gives his attacks needlessly long names. Arsenal proclaims it's all part of being a hero.
• Disability Superpower: When Weisz becomes temporarily paralyzed in the Foresta arc, he's able to keep fighting by using his Ether Gear to manipulate his suit to move. The downside here is that it uses up much more energy than the suit already does.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": He gets annoyed when his friends call him by his real name in public. Justified as he's trying to stay in-character, rather than fool them.
• Expressive Mask: His mask perfectly expresses his mood during comedic scenes, such as Blush Stickers when he suggests Rebecca wear a transparent maid outfit in exchange for his protection. He's also able to shoot a chilling Death Glare when he gets serious.
• Flawed Prototype: After getting his memories back in Universe Zero, Weisz builds a prototype Arsenal Suit from memory, since the suit technically didn't exist yet in this world. Because Hermit helped him complete the finished version, this suit lacks its armored plating and much of its power, leading to a struggle against Fie.
• Going Commando: He wears absolutely nothing beneath his Arsenal Suit when he first used it, since he never assumed the armor would fall off once its effects wore off. Later uses has him clothed underneath.
• Henshin Hero: Invoked. He wears a Kamen Rider-like armor and calls himself a great superhero. Whenever he feels he has to do something ill-fitting for a superhero, such as outright attempting to kill somebody, he takes his armor off to perform the deed in his usual identity.
• Hypocritical Humor: He professes to fight for love and justice, yet he's just as much of a lecherous Nominal Hero as he always is, best demonstrated when he says he'll protect Rebecca if she agrees to model skimpy outfits for him in the Dress Factory.
• Immune to Mind Control: Downplayed. His suit gives him an immunity to Nasseh's hypnosis, but only because his specific type of hypnosis is really just electrical signals that Arsenal's helmet interferes with.
• In the Name of the Moon: He tries to make a clichéd pre-asskicking speech when acting like a Henshin Hero. The villain doesn't wait until he's done to start attacking him.
• Large Ham: Weisz becomes a hell of a lot more theatrical and flamboyant as he takes his "hero" shtick and runs away with it.
• Lightning Bruiser: He becomes this by combining Super-Speed with his enhanced strength.
• My Hero, Zero: He calls his Arsenal Suit's final, ultimate upgrade "Mark Zero".
• The Nicknamer: He randomly gives Baku the tacky supervillain name "Baron von Lion" on the spot when they meet.
• Open Secret: His "Secret Identity" is no secret at all to Rebecca and Pino, who can tell who he is by the sound of his voice.
• Power Fist: His ultimate attack, Metallica Explosion, increases the size of his forearm until it's about as huge as he is, and it makes an explosion when it contacts his enemy.
• Power Gives You Wings: His Arsenal Suit's Mark Zero model gets an extra power boost from Hermit, giving him a pair of wings.
• Powered Armor: His Arsenal Suit, built with Hermit's help, is a suit of battle armor attuned to his Machina Maker to draw out its full potential. As such, he can modify it with firearms and other weaponry on the fly, and it affords him Super-Speed to turn him into a Lightning Bruiser, as well as Anti-Magic coating to protect him from Ether attacks. The downside is that it rapidly burns through his own Ether, making its period of usefulness very short.
• Secret Identity: Played for Laughs, which he tries (and fails) to maintain in front of everyone. He also tries to remain in-character in front of his friends, who aren't fooled for a moment since they can recognize his voice.
• Super-Speed: His speed can beat out Baku, another known Super-Speed user.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He can't believe that his enemy doesn't know that the villains aren't supposed to attack the superhero when he's in the middle of making an introductory speech.

E.M. Pino

E.M. Pino

Voiced by: Shiori Izawa (Japanese), Sarah Anne Williams (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Helen Blaschke (German), Betsabé Gutiérrez (Latin American Spanish), Piluca Martín (European Spanish), Charlotte Hennequin (French), Laura Cherubelli (Italian), Taís Feijó (Portuguese), Wichaya Wangcherdchuwong (Thai)

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"I found something that I want to do... I found a dream. Someday... I want to be human. [...] And when I am... then I'll eat curry burgers until I'm stuffed."

A tiny "anti-bot" android who specializes in using EMP to disable technology and Ether Gear. She was built by Ziggy some time between his retirement and death to serve as the so-called Light of Edens, but lost all memory of her past after it was cruelly erased by a gang of thugs. After being rescued by Shiki, Pino pledges him as her new master, joining him to discover the true meaning of her existence, and finding a new sense of purpose by being reborn as a human through Mother.

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• An Arm and a Leg: Her left leg is cruelly torn off by Sibir and replaced with a screw when she can't dance for him. Weisz later restores her leg using his Machina Maker.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: She can analyze people and their surroundings to determine their advantages and weaknesses. This gets Played for Laughs when her constant analysis of everything end up sucking all of Shiki's fun out of a sightseeing tour.
• The Baby of the Bunch: She's a very small and childlike robot, so her crewmates treat her as the kid of the crew, and are very protective of her.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: She betrays Sibir after Shiki speaks about her like a living person who needs to be loved and cared for, not a toy to be played with and disposed of.
• Become a Real Boy: Following her experiences in a human Digital Avatar on Digitalis, Pino makes it her dream to become a human for real so she can experience tastes and sensations that robots can't, believing that Mother has the power to grant this wish.
• Blessed with Suck: Her EMP has many uses that could come in handy in battle against enemies who use Ether Gear and mechanical weaponry, except it also affects her allies nearby, including Shiki and Happy, so she tends to hold her powers back unless she deems it necessary. She eventually overcomes this after the Foresta arc when she upgrades her EMP to target specific individuals so she won't affect her teammates.
• Break the Cutie:
  • Her debut in the Norma arc quickly establishes her as a traumatized wreck working for Sibir, who berated her, ripped off her leg, and erased her memory to get her to serve him. While she musters the courage to defy Sibir and becomes more cheerful thanks to Shiki, Sibir himself remains a Trauma Button for her when he meets his more docile, reformed present-day Alternate Self aboard the Belial Gore.
  • In the Lendard arc, she breaks down in tears when she deduces that Ziggy has been secretly accessing her data without her knowing, considering herself to be a traitor. Due to the urgency of the situation, however, she quickly pulls herself together.
  • During the final arc, Pino temporarily goes into an Angst Coma when she discovers the Awful Truth about the Four Shining Stars' origins, which she'd originally erased from her memory.
• Characterization Marches On: Pino acts very serious and matter-of-fact when first introduced in the Norma arc, which is a far cry from subsequent arcs, where she's more cheerful and inquisitive.
• Corrupt the Cutie: Played for Laughs when Captain Connor teaches her how to say "fuck you" in Gratuitous English, which she misinterprets as "fax you" before getting it right. The Bowdlerized manga translation switches it to "Screw you", but the intent remains.
• The Cutie: Despite suffering her own degree of physical and emotional abuse, Pino is the most innocent and cheerful member of the crew.
• The Dog Bites Back: After all the abuse she endures from Sibir in the Norma arc, she strikes back against him by shutting his Knight Gear down before his bird can kill Shiki with it, firmly declaring herself to be a living being and not Sibir's toy.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Her design—namely her head, eyes, and mouth—quickly transitions from blocky and robotic to soft and more distinctly human over the course of the manga. Her antennae also immediately jump from angular to ovular between the Digitalis and Mildian arcs. The anime uses her late design from the beginning.
• EMP: As her Punny Name implies, she can generate relatively harmless electromagnetic pulses that disable all other machinery (electronics, robots, etc.) in an area around her for a few seconds. This also shuts down Ether Gear, including her nearby allies'.
• Face Death with Dignity: When she's convinced she's about to die in the Lendard arc, she calmly accepts her fate with a Tearful Smile, telling Shiki that she hopes to be reborn as a human one day. Fortunately for her, her death was faked by Ziggy.
• Gender-Blender Name: "Pino" is a masculine name, yet it's used for a feminine android here.
• Genre Savvy: Lampshaded in the Miltz arc, where she defies Professor Weisz's attempt to give her a flashdrive containing important information in case he doesn't escape with them, calling it a "death flag".
• Humanity Ensues: Downplayed. She chooses a Little Bit Beastly humanoid form for her avatar on Digitalis, and takes a moment to admire her reflection when she catches a glimpse of it in a window. Weisz uses the same look as a holographic disguise for Pino during the Belial Gore arc.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: She gets a brief one when the newly resurrected Ziggy forces her to follow her programming and join his side, briefly turning her into a mindless drone that starts deleting her own memories of her friends. After being encouraged by Shiki to choose what she wants for herself, she's able to defy her programming and undelete her memories before they're gone forever.
• I Will Wait for You: As revealed in the final arc, Pino willingly left herself on Norma to be found by her master, waiting in a specially made briefcase that could resist the Chronophage's time-consuming power.
• Identity Amnesia: Ever since her memory of Ziggy was wiped by Sibir, she has forgotten everything about the purpose of her existence. She has her memories restored by Ziggy's true, good personality in the Lendard arc, revealing she was built with the power to Overdrive and power up her EMP to free Ziggy from the true Big Bad's control.
• It's All My Fault: During the Lendard arc, after Weisz half-heartedly suggests that Ziggy found out about their strategy to beat him because of a traitor in the crew, Pino checks her logs and realizes Ziggy accessed her data multiple times without her noticing, tearfully declaring herself to be the "traitor". Because this clearly wasn't a conscious betrayal, no one holds it against her, least of all Weisz, who already feels guilty for giving her the idea.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Sibir has her memory of her former master removed so she'd be loyal to him, though she retains her memory of her own name and functions. Even after getting her memories back in Universe Zero, they still have gaps regarding the secret of the Four Shining Stars, which she removed and entrusted to Professor Weisz.
• Laser Guided Tyke Bomb: Zig-Zagged. Pino is revealed late in the Lendard arc to be Ziggy's contingency against the Edens One, built with two functions she forgets she has due to her Laser-Guided Amnesia: one is her Overdrive, which enhances her EMP to a frequency that disrupts the ship's possession of Ziggy; the other is a destruction code to be used against the One itself. With that said, Ziggy didn't restrict her to that role alone, encouraging her to live her life however she chooses.
• Little Bit Beastly: Her imagined "human" form always sports a set of rabbit ears similar to her antennae.
• Living MacGuffin: Sibir holds her hostage so he can use her EMP abilities to steal military-grade robots and take over the city. Shiki and his friends want to rescue her because she's a friend who doesn't belong in Sibir's era, while Weisz wants her just to get rich off of her.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Sibir's cruelty of deleting her memory of her creator and tearing off a leg which he then had his men replace with a screw made Pino very eager to join Shiki, Rebecca, and Happy.
• The Needs of the Many: Downplayed. When faced with getting a group of B-Cubers off of Guilst, Pino deems it most "efficient" to abandon The Load who'd fallen behind when going back for her would endanger the group's chances of escape, and struggles to grasp Rebecca's decision to go back for her, even though they barely know each other. Once Rebecca does so, however, Pino assures her that she is happy with the outcome.
• The Noseless: Zig-Zagged. She is drawn without a nose most of the time, but there is one instance where she has visible nostrils before breaking into Tears of Joy.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore: Pino spends her whole introductory arc terrified of Sibir, who tore off her leg and erased her memories of her master so she'd work for him, and threatened to scrap other androids like her if she didn't follow his orders. After Shiki risks his life to save her, Pino responds by shutting down Sibir's Knight Gear and renouncing herself as his "toy". Sadly, this moment of empowerment doesn't last forever, as seeing the older yet humbler Sibir in the Belial Gore arc is a Trauma Button for her, though she gradually warms to him.
• One Degree of Separation: Before her appearance in the story, she was fixed up by Professor Weisz, Rebecca and Happy's Parental Substitute. When they get in touch with him, the professor says that her original master was Ziggy, the Demon King who raised Shiki.
• Only Known by Initials: The meaning of the initials "E.M." in Pino's name is unexplored beyond serving as a pun on "EMP".
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Among the two mascot characters, Pino is the small pink Robot Girl to Happy's blue male robot cat.
• Power Gives You Wings: She receives fairy-like wings when she enters Overdrive in the Lendard arc.
• Punny Name: A double whammy; "E.M. Pino" is a fitting name for a robotic EMP generator who also desires to become human like Pinocchio.
• Ridiculously Human Robot: She's an advanced android who can feel joy, fear, and sadness, and is capable of crying on all accounts. Shiki takes this as proof that she, like all other machines, has a heart.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Apart from Shiki and Rebecca, Pino is the only character who recalls anything from World No. 29 after Rebecca leaps into the next world, which Pino believes to be a memory defect. She is also shown to have a very vague recollection of Captain Connor, whom the crew never encountered in World No. 30, when she tries writing a character profile on him with only a garbled image and a handful of his personality quirks in mind.
• Robot Buddy: She becomes Shiki's Non-Human Sidekick, and is the primary Series Mascot of EDENS ZERO.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: The "hair" in this case is actually a metalic pink helmet, but it reflects her overall innocence.
• Series Mascot: The latest in Mashima's long tradition of mascot characters, with her design clearly demonstrating the Science Fantasy setting of the series.
• Sixth Ranger: Witch considers her to be the next generation to the Four Shining Stars, believing that she'll one day become the "Light of Edens".
• Telepathy: She uses a data link to communicate mentally with other androids, such as when she and Happy are left on their own and form a strategy against Nasseh in the Nero 66 arc.
• The Smart Girl: She is the most intellectual member of Shiki's field team, and is responsible for analyzing situations, devising strategies, and serving as a relay between them and Mission Control.
• Spock Speak: Pino always speaks in a formal, matter-of-fact style befitting of an android, no matter how emotional she becomes. The anime adds a robotic, almost monotonous tone of voice into the mix, and she rarely uses contractions in the English dub.
• Super Mode: The Lendard arc reveals that she was built with the power to Overdrive, which soups up her EMP to a specific algorithm and frequency that disables the Edens One's control over Ziggy.
• Tareme Eyes: She has big, wide eyes to reflect her bright and innocent personality. They become Tsurime Eyes for a time after the three-year Time Skip, suggesting that she's become sharper and more experienced, but Art Evolution reverts them back to their original shape.
• Took a Level in Badass: Not to the same extent as the more battle-ready crew members, but after the Foresta arc, Pino upgrades her EMP to disable specific targets without accidentally affecting her nearby friends, making her more reliable in battle. After Ziggy restores her memory, she also gains the power to Overdrive, which allows her to cancel out the frequency that's driven Ziggy insane.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: She starts out rather stiff when she meets Shiki and the others (though not opposed to making friends with them despite barely knowing who they are), and then meek and scared when her memories of Sibir are restored. Once Shiki inspires her to leave Sibir, however, she becomes a lot more lively and playful.
• Trapped in Villainy: In the Norma arc, Sibir forces her to designate him as her master and go along with his crimes after deleting her memories of Ziggy and tearing off her leg. Although she'd rather be with her real master despite forgetting him, she can't bring herself to ignore his orders, both because she's terrified of the further abuse she'd suffer from him, and because he'd take his anger out on other androids. Experiencing Shiki's kindness and concern convinces her to defy Sibir.
• Trauma Button: When Pino meets Sibir's older, original self aboard the Belial Gore, she immediately starts cowering in fear of him due to the abuse his Alternate Self put her through, despite logically understanding that the original is essentially a complete stranger to her. After he saves her from falling rubble in World No. 30, however, she swallows her fear to express her gratitude, which helps her overcome her trauma.
• Unwitting Pawn: It's revealed during the Lendard arc that Ziggy has had complete access to Pino's data for an unspecified amount of time, allowing him to read up on the crew's battle strategies and always remain one step ahead of them. When Pino realizes what he's been doing, she's horribly guilt-ridden about it.
• Weak, but Skilled: She has little to no combat ability, but her EMP and analytical skills can give her and her teammates an edge in a fight.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Downplayed. She's capable of understanding the concept of friendship, and considers herself a friend of Shiki. However, she doesn't understand the actions friends take for each other when it's "inefficient", such as going back for a lost friend when it decreases the survival rate of the majority.
• Wistful Amnesia: Despite getting her old memories of Ziggy deleted by Sibir, she still knows that she can't remember him and is deeply troubled by it.

Homura Kōgetsu

Homura Kōgetsu

Voiced by: Shiki Aoki (Japanese), Laura Stahl (English) ^{Foreign VAs}Katharina Schwarzmaier (German), Gigliola Mariangel (Latin American Spanish), Mayte Mira (European Spanish), Olivia Dalric (French), Giada Bonanomi (Italian), Amanda Manso (Portuguese)

"My name is Homura Kōgetsu. And my blade is the holy power granted me by my master. 'Tis the sword meant to defeat the Demon King."

A young swordswoman from Planet Oedo who has the unfortunate habit of blurting out every thought that crosses her mind. She was mentored by the Four Shining Stars' Valkyrie, whose five-year disappearance leads Homura to join the Edens Zero crew in the hope of finding her. Homura's Ether Gear, Soul Blade, is a technique taught to her by Valkyrie that produces swords of solid Ether with which to fight.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: She endured just as much gossip and harassment on her homeworld for being raised by a machine as Valkyrie did just for being a machine. This factors largely into Valkyrie's decision to leave in search of Homura's real mother, since Valkyrie felt Homura deserved better.
• Always Someone Better: Although she comes across as a Master Swordswoman to her friends and enemies, she is still just a student to the significantly more experienced Valkyrie, who is far more outclassed by Elsie Crimson.
• Ambiguously Bi:
  • While Homura makes it quite clear that she's quite interested in men, there are not-so-subtle hints that Homura's also interested in women, such as when she finds Witch's real face to be stunningly beautiful, and how she mentions her heart skipping a beat while blushing furiously over Holy's figure in the bath.
  • The English dub leans more into the implication that Homura is interested in women, namely by blushing while calling Sister attractive at the end of Episode 11, and also forcing herself not to look at Rebecca's Navel-Deep Neckline at the end of Episode 15.
    Homura (about Sister): I can't say this out loud, but she's kinda cute.
    Homura (about Rebecca): Don't turn around and stare at her body drenched in sweat! That would make things really weird!
• Animal Motifs: Homura eventually gains a fox theme, such as getting drawn with fox ears and a tail. This is appropriate considering the importance of Asian Fox Spirits in Japanese folklore and the Shinto religion. It also suits Homura's Yamato/Japanese styling.
• Animal-Themed Fighting Style: Homura's Five Sword Fencing techniques invoke the Five Animals in their movements, names and stances:
  • Her "Leopard Stance" attacks focus on quick simultaneous slashes invoking a leopard using its speed to attack its prey.
  • Her "Dragon Flash" has her lunge towards the opponent and knock them off balance while thrusting off the ground, then spinning towards the opponent before slashing downward across the chest. The move references the movement of an Eastern Dragon.
  • "Snake Strike" and "Snake Bite" involve sword thrusts that mimic a snake lunging and biting.
  • Her "Crane Form" is a stance that has her balancing on one leg like a crane and combining two swords into a double-bladed spear, which she can spin to generate wind.
  • Homura's "Tiger Form" attacks revolve around use of Wolverine Claws that can also generate electricity.
  • In her Overdrive form, she develops a sixth fighting style based on the Kitsune, which her Overdrive resembles.
• Antiquated Linguistics: She speaks with a formal tone like someone out of the Edo period in Japanese, which Kodansha translates into slightly medieval English.
• Bathing Beauty: Homura is seen bathing almost as frequently as Rebecca, although she likes them much better with cold water, because only slightly warm water makes her feel like she's burning.
• Bathtub Bonding: She takes all of her baths in the Spa of Eden with Rebecca and Happy, which quickly leads the two girls to becoming friends.
• The Big Girl: She's the main close-range fighter in Shiki's core team, with her specialty being swordsmanship.
• Blade Spam: Her Snake Strike technique is a split-second variety of this attack.
• Blow You Away: Her Towering Crane Gust attack blows gusts of wind when she turns her swords into a Double Weapon and spins it like a pinwheel. It's powerful enough to rival more experienced wind users like Sylph.
• Broken Bird: She becomes one in Universe Zero, where she lives a life of hardship after Valkyrie is executed in front of her over an accident Homura caused, followed by being forced to fulfill her mother's debts to Drakken Joe, leaving Homura miserable and desperate.
• Brought Down to Normal: Homura loses her combat experience in Universe Zero due to her trauma over Valkyrie's death blocking her Ether Gear. Once she sees Valkyrie alive in this world, her power returns along with her memory.
• Brutal Honesty: Her habit of voicing her innermost thoughts has led to her voicing some unflattering opinions towards people, namely Weisz, who is always informed of how uncomfortable he makes her.
• Calling the Old Woman Out: Defied. When Homura has the perfect opportunity to chew her mother out for abandoning her, causing Valkyrie's death, and all the horrible things she has done to the people of Sun Jewel, she simply chooses not to and lets her go—not because she loves or forgives her mother, but because she has virtually no feelings or interest towards her mother whatsoever. She does, however, humbly yet coldly request her mother to stay out of her life forever.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: Homura admits keeping secrets isn't something she's good at because of her bad habit to blurt out whatever is in her mind. This is why Witch decides to not tell her any specifics about Etherion, the ship's Secret Weapon.
• Character Tics: She usually covers her mouth with her sleeve whenever she's saying something that's supposed to be a secret.
• Clothes Make the Superman: Averted. Unlike the other Shining Stars' Battle Dresses, the "Battle Dress" Homura wears in the Belial Gore arc is purely cosmetic, and doesn't actually make her any stronger. Considering her Implausible Fencing Powers, this is hardly an issue.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Homura is a very quirky person with a unique mind, bordering on a social disability. She has a near total lack of a social filter, loses focus on other people around her when talking to one person, pathologically speaks her mind, seems incapable of having any internal monologue or holding back her honesty, and considers taking a warm bath to be combat training due to her extreme sensitivity to heat.
• The Comically Serious: Despite her perpetually solemn face, her tendency to blurt out her thoughts for no reason lends itself to some humorous and awkward situations.
• Cool Sword: Homura's Ether Gear allows her to create Laser Swords, which take on various forms including twin blades and tiger-like claws, or can be summoned en masse for a Storm of Blades.
• Cosmic Plaything: Homura is one of the few in Universe Zero whose life is made far worse by the Cosmic Retcon: left behind again by her mother, Kurenai; accidentally injuring Creed/Seiji when they're children, which leads to Valkyrie being beheaded in front of her; and being forced into debt to Drakken Joe, who sends her off to get turned into a naked stone statue. Fortunately, she finally catches a break when she discovers Valkyrie survived (since decapitation alone isn't lethal to an android), and that this world's version of Kurenai was Good All Along.
• Covert Pervert: At the end of the Digitalis arc, Rebecca and Homura are sweating buckets while in their jump suits, which Homura insists she would never talk about talk about how her sweat is overtaking every inch of her body in oddly specific detail. The English dub takes it further by having Homura openly resist looking at Rebecca's Navel-Deep Neckline.
• Damsel in Distress: Homura loses all her skills as a warrior in Universe Zero due to the severe changes in her life, which leads to her being helplessly sold to the deviant Illega to be stripped and turned into stone. Fortunately, Mosco is there to bust her out before Illega can turn her into a statue.
• Death Glare: She gives one to anybody who dares to show any disrespect towards her mentor. This includes her own mother, who caused Valkyrie's death, and only settles for scaring her out of her life with a terrifying glare because she doesn't find her worth anything else.
• Defeat by Modesty: Once Kleene blows away most of Homura's clothing during their first battle, the latter runs away from the battle due to the feeling of embarrassment.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: While she doesn't always say so, she is wholly aware of her habit to openly say what she means to keep to herself.
• Doomed Hometown: She comes from a village that was attacked by bandits that apparently claimed her father's life. Valkyrie saved her from a trio of them who were on the verge of kidnapping her and selling her to slavery.
• The Dragonslayer: Her Knight Gear is equipped with Ether that's effective against cybernetic dragons where ordinary Ether ammunition doesn't make a dent, making her invaluable in breaching God Acnoella's swarm of dragons around Lendard.
• Dual Wielding: Her Leopard Stance splits her sword into two short blades.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Homura's Reestablishing Character Moment in the Reunion arc shows her with dull, blackened eyes as an early indicator of how miserable the last five years of her life have been since the Cosmic Retcon.
• Everything's Better with Samurai: Invoked. She admits she was going for the image of a Western knight for her swordsmanship, likely as a tribute to her mentor, but ended up looking like a samurai, which Shiki thinks is way cooler.
• Extremely Protective Child: Homura is very protective of her unofficial adoptive mother Valkyrie. In the past, she only turned violent towards the people of Oedo who harassed her when they insulted Valkyrie. In Sun Jewel, when Garrot desecrates Valkyrie's corpse by licking and decapitating her right in front of Homura, she throws a Storm of Blades at him and then stabs him through the chest with Valkyrie's sword.
• Family of Choice: Double Subverted. She grew up under Valkyrie's tutelage since she suffered Parental Abandonment, but always insisted to everyone else that it was nothing more than a student-and-teacher dynamic. Ever since Valkyrie's disappearance, however, Homura's feelings towards her have changed to the point where she's willing to see her as a mother, and wishes to tell her this when they reunite. These feelings are finally solidified when she finds out what happened to Valkyrie and that her birth mother is in no way a good person, let alone a good parent, leading Homura to firmly declare Valkyrie as her one, true mother.
• Fantastic Fighting Style: Unlike other Ether Gear users, she has two separate style names: "Five Sword Fencing" when she assumes one of her five fighting styles, and "Warrior Maiden Single-Sword Attack", when using her sword's default form.
• Fatal Flaw: Her complete lack of a social filter inevitably becomes problematic when facing against enemies, who end up catching wind of her thought processes and secrets without her meaning to.
• Flowers of Femininity: Homura is a beautiful and noble Lady of War always dressed in elegant kimonos. At Digitalis, her avatar wears a rose in her hair.
• Formal Characters Use Keigo: She speaks with a formal register in Japanese, reflected by her Antiquated Linguistics in English.
• Friendless Background: She didn't have any friends at Oedo because other kids made fun of her for being raised by a robot. Therefore, she cares deeply about the crew because they're her first friends.
• Friendly Rivalry: Her desire to battle and defeat Shiki is purely out of a good-natured desire for a Worthy Opponent, since they become quick friends not long after they meet each other.
• Full-Frontal Assault: She tries to challenge Rebecca to a fight when they're both naked in the bath more than once, but Rebecca declines because fighting naked is too shameless. Elsie, on the other hand, does accept Homura's request for a duel in the middle of their Bathtub Bonding.
• Happily Adopted: She's an orphan Valkyrie picked up in a war-torn planet. While Homura only calls Valkyrie her teacher, their bond is closer to mother and daughter. Homura eventually does acknowledge herself as Valkyrie's daughter and successor.
• Heroic BSoD: She spends much of the Sun Jewel arc's final battle in the middle of one after she finds out Valkyrie was Dead All Along, and doesn't recover from it until the battle comes to her and snaps her out of her funk, though not before fully processing Shiki and Rebecca's words of encouragement.
• Humongous Mecha: During the assault on Lendard, Homura debuts her personal Knight Gear, Warrior Maid 95. Modeled after Valkyrie in both appearance and weaponry, it was made to allow Homura to reliably fight in outer space, something she couldn't accomplish with fighter ships on account of her poor marksmanship.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Homura feels responsible for Valkyrie's death in Universe Zero, where Valkyrie offered herself to be beheaded in Homura's place when Homura accidentally injured Seiji, the shogun's son. She's alleviated when she discovers Valkyrie survived the execution because simple decapitation isn't lethal to an android.
• I Never Got Any Letters: The reason Homura never knew why Valkyrie vanished in the first place is because a neighborhood cat ran off with the note her teacher left explaining everything.
• I Will Find You: Homura joins the Edens Zero crew to find her teacher, Valkyrie, who disappeared without saying a word. When she finally does find her in the Sun Jewel arc, Homura discovers she's three years too late, as Valkyrie has been Dead All Along.
• I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!: Every time she says something she ought to be keeping to herself, such as her secret agendas or unflattering opinions towards others, she usually caps it off by saying she won't comment on it.
• Implausible Fencing Powers: She first demonstrates her Ether Gear's power by slicing a high-speed missile clean in half with her sword. She's also capable of Parrying Bullets from unlikely distances.
• Inelegant Blubbering: She can't keep her cool and descends into messy tears upon discovering Valkyrie's battered remains on Sun Jewel, realizing her mentor is long dead.
• Ironic Name: The name Homura means "flame", yet she's hypersensitive to heat and fares poorly against anything above room temperature.
• It Was a Gift: When she was a child, she always carried with her a stuffed toy her biological mother gave her, and still keeps it in a storage device on the off-chance that they would meet so her mother could recognize her in the present day. When she discovers Kurenai cares so little about her that she's long forgotten about the gift, Homura decides to leave it with Valkyrie, her one true mother.
• Japanese Politeness: As a Yamato Nadeshiko, she always remains polite and apologetic whenever she slips into Brutal Honesty mode due to her lack of a social filter. She also firmly maintains this when confronting her Evil Matriarch birth mother by respectfully bowing on her hands and knees while very politely telling her that she means nothing to her anymore, and humbly requesting that she stay out of her life forever.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She always goes into battle wearing a beautiful and detailed kimono.
• Kimono Is Traditional: Her nigh-exclusive outfit is a kimono, which makes her stand out as the most old-fashioned looking character in a predominantly Science Fiction setting.
• Lady of War: She's a swordswoman who wears a floral kimono and carries herself with a calm, dignified air. Using her Leopard Stance and Soul Blade, she defeats a group of armed soldiers with almost effortless grace.
• Laser Blade: Her Ether Gear gives her the power to create a katana from her own Ether, allowing it to change shape to suit her fighting style. It also has the power to momentarily transfer its Ether into other people.
• Legacy Character: Following the Sun Jewel arc, she decides to take Valkyrie Yuna's place as a Shining Star. The other Shining Stars acknowledge her as Valkyrie Homura.
• A Lesson Learned Too Well: When she first met Valkyrie, Homura was so painfully shy that she could barely muster the will to introduce herself, so Valkyrie taught her the value of using her words and encouraged her to speak her mind more. Homura took this a bit too closely to heart, as now she can't help but speak her mind all the time.
• Little Bit Beastly: She gains the ears and tails of a fox when using her Overdrive mode.
• Master Swordswoman: Downplayed. She has Implausible Fencing Powers that the best real-life swordsmen can only dream of having, such as slicing missiles, deflecting bullets, and single-handedly decimating groups of enemies. All that said, she's still a young, growing student who cannot begin to compare to her mentor, and she gradually faces more challenging enemies that showcase just how much experience she still lacks.
• Ms. Fanservice: Homura is a well-endowed young woman with a curvaceous figure who wears a kimono that shows off her long legs and features Sideboobs. She is also subject to a lot of Male Gaze in the manga, which emphasizes her breasts, butt, and legs.
• My Greatest Failure: The apparent death of Universe Zero's Valkyrie serves as this for her, because Homura was sentenced to execution after accidentally injuring Seiji and Valkyrie took her place. She's vindicated when Valkyrie returns alive and well.
• Mythical Motifs: Her Overdrive is themed around the kitsune, manifesting itself by giving her white hair, fox ears and a bushy tail in line with her planet's Japan-like setting.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Valkyrie disappeared before Homura could see her off, as she spent their last day together crying over why she was forced to apologize for standing up to a group of neighborhood teens who were badmouthing Valkyrie. Then Valkyrie dies on another planet a couple of years later without Homura knowing for three years.
• No Social Skills: She has certain lapses when it comes to talking to others, in part because of her habit of always speaking her innermost thoughts in public. At one point in the Sun Jewel arc, she also instinctively shouts out loud for someone who's seen her mentor in the middle of a crowded building, and continues to do so against Pino's advice until Rebecca finally admonishes Homura.
• One-Woman Army: She is such a skilled swordswoman that she can wipe out an entire squadron of trained gunmen with ease.
• Parental Abandonment: She has lost both of her parents: her mother left before the war started to provide for their family, and her father is nowhere to be seen. It later turns out her mom outright ditched her to become the Evil Overlord of another planet, with her father still remaining unknown.
• Parrying Bullets: She's capable of using her Soul Blade to deflect bullets back at their firers with impeccable precision, and from across great distances.
• Pose of Supplication: She kneels and plants her face into the floor on occasions when she's thoroughly defeated or mortified, such as when Elsie soundly defeats her in a duel in the bath with just her toes, or when she finds out on Nero 66 that Creed, the army officer she'd been badmouthing, was actually a member of her homeworld's shogunate family.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Like Shiki, Homura's dark hair changes to white in her Overdrive Super Mode.
• Psychosomatic Superpower Outage: Suffers this between the Lendard and Reunion arcs after she causes Universe Zero's Valkyrie to be executed in her place, with the resulting trauma and guilt preventing her from using her Ether Gear.
• The Quiet One: When she was a child, Homura struggled to find the words to even introduce herself. She's since grown out of it thanks to Valkyrie, though at this point, she can't keep anything to herself.
• Raised by Robots: Homura was all but adopted by the Robot Girl Valkyrie when she was a kid, though Homura insisted Valkyrie was only her teacher when others called Valkyrie her mother. Unfortunately, their parent-child relationship made them targets of Fantastic Racism on Oedo, which is why Valkyrie left to search for Homura's birth mother.
• Red Baron: She inherits the title of "Sword of Edens" from her teacher, Valkyrie, as a Master Swordswoman who manages the Edens Zero's weaponry.
• Relative Button: She despises any slight or insult levied against her adoptive mother Valkyrie, whether it's someone who calls her less than human for being an android, or a supposed replica designed to mimic every detail of her.^note It later turns out to just be a training bot copying her.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She gets angry at Weisz when he uses his disguise app to put her in a stripper costume. She also tries to retreat from battle when Kleene uses her wind to steal Homura's clothes and leave her in nothing but her panties.
• Samurai Ponytail: She's a swordswoman from a planet that looks like feudal Japan, and fittingly ties her hair back in a high ponytail.
• Shameful Strip: Homura undergoes this in the Reunion arc, where she takes Rebecca's place as one of the girls who get captured by Illega on Guilst, forcing her to undergo the humiliation of having her clothes disintegrated with acid foam.
• She's Back:
  • Homura goes into a major Heroic BSoD in the Sun Jewel arc when she discovers Valkyrie's death, leaving her in a silent slump that her friends can only barely stir her from. Once she cathartically skewers Garrot for desecrating her teacher's remains, she gets her head back in the game and is able to press on with her life.
  • After going through Heroic BSoD throughout the Reunion arc, she regains her memories and recovers from her Psychomatic Superpower Outage the moment she sees Universe Zero's version of Valkyrie didn't die as she previously believed, returning her to the bright Lady of War she was in the previous world.
• Showgirl Skirt: She adjusts her kimono so the skirt splits down the front, showing off her legs.
• Shrinking Violet:
  • She used to be the exact opposite of the way she is now before she met Valkyrie, being so timid that it was a struggle just to introduce herself.
  • Following the events of the Lendard arc, the Cosmic Retcon turns her a great deal more timid and submissive than the usually fierce yet graceful warrior she was in the previous world, all due to the soul-crushing changes to her life that led her to become a Broken Bird.
• Signature Headgear: She ties back some of her hair in a ponytail with an iconic ribbon that resembles bunny ears.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She's an all-around Yamato Nadeshiko who is also trained in the art of swordsmanship by one of the Demon King's most powerful fighters.
• So Proud of You: During the Reunion arc, Homura holds this sentiment towards Universe Zero's Kurenai, whom the Cosmic Retcon changed from a cruel and unloving mother into a splendid person who did everything she could to reunite with her for five years, and formed a heroic defense force on Sun Jewel so her daughter could have a mother to be proud of.
• Spirited Competitor: Although she is very modest about it, she openly admits to getting excited whenever she is about to face strong adversaries. It's for this reason why she wants to fight Shiki, because to her, anyone worthy enough to inherit the title of "Demon King" from the one Valkyrie was never able to defeat must be a Worthy Opponent.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: Her Ether Gear allows her to create bladed weapons out of Ether.
• The Stoic: Her default expression is a distant, contemplative gaze, and while she still shows emotion, it comes across in less extreme changes than other characters, even when she becomes embarrassed or upset. There are times, however, when she proves to be Not So Stoic, whether she's enraged towards people insulting her mentor, cries inconsolably upon learning Valkyrie's death, or trembling with fear when she and the crew are mentally broken by Drakken Joe.
• Storm of Blades: She shares her ultimate attack, Odin Strike, with Valkyrie. Her first use of it becomes The Worf Barrage due to her inexperience, though she cleverly turns it around by using them to throw Valkyrie's sword into the air to impale her enemy. She uses it successfully for the first time when Overdriving against Mirrani on Nero 66.
• Strong and Skilled: She's a trained warrior who has enough power to take down several enemies at once and can come up with tactics to deal with tricky enemies.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Homura is cool and stone-faced most of the time, but she's friendly in general and cares about her friends. She especially has great affection for her teacher, Valkyrie.
• Super Mode: Like the rest of the team, Homura unlocks her Overdrive after completing her training with Xenolith, first activating it during her fight with Mirrani on Nero 66. Unique to her, she gains fox ears and tail.
• Super-Speed: Her Leopard Stance drastically increases her speed, allowing her to attack multiple enemies in an instant.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Homura has a habit of blurting out her private thoughts. This bites her in the ass when she reveals her intention to trick information out of Garrot when he captures her.
• Survivor Guilt: She gradually develops a sense of despair that those closest to her die, particularly after the deaths of Creed, who gives her a Dying Declaration of Love after being shot by Jesse, and Kurenai, who is Killed Offscreen by her captors after being set loose by Kurenai.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Despite disowning Kurenai as her mother for being an Evil Matriarch, Homura is distressed when Ziggy reveals how she was captured and left to rot for a year after they parted ways, and finds it difficult to accept that she's already dead when Homura sees her again.
• Take Up My Sword: Homura voluntarily takes Valkyrie's place among the Four Shining Stars after her teacher is found to be Dead All Along.
• Token Human: After Valkyrie is discovered to be dead, Homura decides to join the Four Shining Stars to take her mother figure's place. Therefore, she becomes the first and only human to be a Shining Star.
• Too Dumb to Live: Zig-Zagged. Her character profile rates her "intelligence" as a below-average two stars out of five, but her tendency to blurt out things she ought to be keeping secret in front of her enemies is less out of stupidity and more because she has a persistent social disorder. Unfortunately, making such simple, life-threatening mistakes makes her come across as rather dim to other people, which touches a nerve with Shiki.
• Weak to Fire: For someone whose name means "flames", Homura has a very low heat tolerance, which is both Played for Laughs when she can't enjoy a soothing hot bath without breaking out into a sweat, and Played for Drama when she almost dies passing out from a heatstroke while surrounded by fire on Red Cave and Foresta.
• When She Smiles: Creed/Seiji thinks Homura looks even more beautiful than usual when she smiles.
• Wolverine Claws: Her Tiger Form gives her these. She can also make them electrically charged to deal more damage.
• Wrecked Weapon: Her Soul Blade can be broken against a hard enough surface, and will remain in a broken state when summoned until Homura has time to reforge it.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: As someone who comes from a planet based on feudal Japan, she fully embodies the traits of a refined, polite, unwavering Japanese girl who's whole-heartedly devoted to her teacher and helping the rest of the crew she comes to call her friends.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Homura's standard outfit seems specifically designed to cover as much skin as possible, while also exposing the important bits for fanservice purposes.