Well folks, guess who is back? That is right. FAIRY TAIL IN SPACE IS BACK FOR A SECOND SEASON! What Fairy Tail in space? Is there such an anime?! Yes. That’s what people like me decided to call Edens Zero! HAHAHA!!! Sighs… Anyway, you know about that guy who wants to make friends and travelling into space to see some giant mother to get his wish granted or something like that? Yup, the journey continues. More friends. More allies. More enemies. More adventures. More fights. More jokes. More fanservice. More of everything. In space! HAHAHA!
Belial Gore Arc
Episode 26
What a way to greet the new season with a recap! But don’t worry, it won’t even last for 5 minutes! Phew. Now that Homura has taken over Valkyrie’s role, this means she is in charge of all sorts of weapons on the ship. They need all the firepower they can get because all that brute force is how they barge their way through the dragons. The ultimate weapon of Edens Zero is called Etherion. However it must be kept secret and only known among the 4 Shining Stars. Not even Shiki must know. As Homura can’t keep a secret, Witch will tell her another day. Rebecca has this dream whereby a destroyed future and a different looking Shiki saved her. Worse, Happy is dead! She wakes up in cold sweat, relieved nonetheless her cat is still alive. Because a strange ship has been following them, Shiki’s answer is to invade them. With Homura, Weisz and Pino, they head down there and it seems this ship, Belial Gore has its own city bustling with life. A good way to infiltrate and disguise themselves as they look for more info. Apparently Belial Gore belongs to Drakken so be careful. Along the way, they stumble into Sibir. However this guy is old, frail and good hearted. Though, Pino still scared of him. Sibir recognizes Weisz but not the rest since this version is a different future of him. Sibir feels bad for Pino although he doesn’t remember doing anything bad to her. Weisz tells Pino he understands she only saw his dark side. But there was a time Sibir was a good person and once saved him. Drakken then makes a public announcement that he knew some of Edens Zero members are on board Belial Gore. But this is all a trap as he sends some of his men to invade Edens Zero and take those crew members as hostage while Belial Gore is now under lockdown. So don’t do anything funny if you know what’s good for them.
Episode 27
Invading Edens Zero are Seth, Maria and Diego Reyes. They think Witch is a pushover as she claims she can singlehandedly deal with them. Jokes on them as Witch equips herself with a battle suit and uses Ether to fight them. They are swiftly taken out by surprise since Witch can change her Ether element. With the invasion over, Sister now will gladly interrogate them. The rest inspect the huge hole the enemies have created. It seems they have a special Ether Gear weapon that could reap through their special armoured exterior with ease. Hermit manages to make contact with Shiki and updates the rest that Edens Zero is safe. At the same time, Drakken issues a wanted statement for the fugitives and anybody who catches them alive will have their debts completely annulled. So everyone here is drowning in debt? Big chase coming up. They manage to run to the outskirts. Weisz uses his app for everyone to change their appearance. Shouldn’t he used it earlier? Suddenly Laguna pops up and turns Shiki into a puddle of water. He is one of the top 4 elite warriors of Drakken known as Element 4. They are all part of him. As you can see, Laguna’s specialty is water and as long as you cry, he can turn you into a puddle. All fell for this trick until Homura is left. Laguna makes weird attempts to cry and she holds her ground until she couldn’t. Yeah, who could ever resist no crying before an onion! As he collects the puddles, he notes one is missing. It is Weisz. He saw through Laguna’s trick and modified his app. This means pretending to cry and then disguising himself as a puddle. He dons his armour suit, ready for his counterattack.
Episode 28
All seems to be going great for Weisz until his suit starts to overheat. Thanks to Hermit’s advice to use some cooling system, he turns the tables back on Laguna and knocks him out. Before he can revel in his victory, he gets shot. The culprit is the flame sniper Fie who is part of Element 4. Shiki and co are released as they tend to Weisz. Pino calculates the origin of the bullet as Shiki dares the sniper take one at him. He fires and Shiki uses his Ether Gear to throw it back to him. Fie dodges but is now on fire to take them out. But Sibir’s smokescreen blocks his vision as he brings them back to his place for treatment. Relaying Weisz’s condition to Hermit, she’ll send Sister to deliver medicine via another gate. However Sister is busy torturing Maria and will have Rebecca and Happy do it. Sister seems to know Maria’s true identity (Seth and Diego self-destruct) and makes a deal with her to spill the beans. Maria then turns into her true form which is a space slime (and you thought her Maria Slime name was weird but damn it was a dead giveaway!). Rebecca rides through space but is faced with drones of Element 4’s Sylph. All that video games paid off as Rebecca easily crushes the drones. She meets her match when facing Sylph’s ship. In order to dodge her missile, she unleashes her Ether Gear to increase the speed of her own ship. Hermit notes with such power, she has the making of an Etherion Master. Rebecca manages to give Sylph the slip and land in the cargo area. They won’t get far as Sylph captures them.
Episode 29
Rebecca and Happy are trapped in a wind cage and can’t break out. As Hermit has lost contact with Rebecca, she sends her last coordinates to Pino so Shiki’s side goes to look for her. They find the medicine but no Rebecca. Shiki has Homura take the medicine back while he looks around. Of course Sylph is waiting to attack them. She is aided by Jinn who is her brother (Sylph’s real name is Kleene). Jinn stays back to handle Shiki while Sylph goes after Homura who is rushing back with the medicine. Meanwhile Rebecca wakes up in Drakken’s room. He assures he won’t kill or hurt her and just wants to talk. It is hinted that Noah sold her out, the reason he has info on Edens Zero. First, he shows her something: In a cell, a tortured Labilia. Rebecca should be happy for all the torment she has caused her, right? It’s his gift to her since Rebecca will be joining them. Drakken then reveals his reason for targeting Edens Zero: It has something precious he wants and that is Rebecca AKA No. 29. Drakken puts Rebecca in the same cell. He allows her to torture Labilia and do whatever she wishes except to kill her. Even the worst can bring in money. He goes off to tend some other business. But Rebecca can’t help free Labilia as Daichi of Element 4 is tasked to keep an eye on her. Of course Daichi is on the verge of going crazy. Went by 60 days without a single torture. Can he last 1 more day? Guess not.
Episode 30
Homura gets captured by Sylph. Fie finds Sibir harbouring Weisz and shoots the old guy. Laguna stops Daichi from hurting Rebecca further lest he wants to risk their boss’ wrath. Jinn and Shiki are about to go all out with each other but Drakken comes in between. Drakken then petrifies Shiki and takes him in. As our Edens Zero crewmates are captured, Drakken shows his ruthless side as he destroys the medicine meant for Weisz. He also says he has sold Pino and Happy to the junk for money. Shiki tries to fight back but in his tied up state, he only gets shot in the leg. Drakken warns him not to move or he’ll shoot the rest. First, he is going to punish them for illegally entering Belial Gore. He hints to Homura to use her body to make money and could even surpass her mother. Next, he cuts off Weisz’s arm. At this point, Rebecca will officially join his side just to let her friends go. But it’s not over yet. Drakken tells them that their entire Edens Zero ship has been neutralized. Diego faked his death to take control of the bridge. Although Seth self-destructed, he also did not die. Rather, he infiltrated Edens Zero to take over its programme to disable all the androids. This is the part Shiki is supposed to admit defeat, right? Well, he promises to defeat Drakken someday and become his friend. Unfortunately, Drakken shoots and kills him! What about his policy not to kill? Well, he makes an exception for those who do not obey him. Shiki dead. Edens Zero ends!
Episode 31
So uhm, this series still running? Anyway, it has been a week since Shiki is dead. Rebecca is locked up in her room. She is afraid and has lost hope. Laguna tries to talk to her to ease her since she is one of them but she is still hopeless. As she takes a shower, she remembers Drakken telling her that they have a device to extract her Ether Gear’s power. However it seems Rebecca’s Ether Gear isn’t speed but to change the laws of the cosmos. It is called Cat Leaper. He will not tell her what it is because it will put him in a disadvantage should she know what it is. The problem is that they need that power to awaken and only then they can extract it. This is why they are keeping a surveillance on her. So as Rebecca feels sad about everyone, suddenly her power activates. Drakken detects such power but it is too late before he could do anything. The next thing Rebecca knows, she is back in bed on Edens Zero. She is happy to see everyone alive. Before Shiki and co invade Belial Gore, Rebecca stops them to have a meeting. She relates what happen so the rest deduce she either went back in time or saw a possible future. But unlike Chronophage, only Rebecca has her memories intact. Then she remembers Labilia being captured. She confirms with Couchpo that she has not been posting her daily videos and this proves so. Despite all the torture she went through, Rebecca still wants to save her. Just then, Drakken’s men invade the ship. They are easily defeated by Witch but luckily Rebecca mentions this is just a façade. Thanks to the additional info, the trio are soon thwarted. Rebecca soon explains about Drakken’s fearsome power and the possibility of Noah being a traitor. Even so, they are no match for him. Shiki has an idea. Drakken is now impatient as his men has not contacted him back. Edens Zero then crashes into Belial Gore. Everyone will be fighting together to win.
Episode 32
After crashing in, Edens Zero crew is faced with Element 4. However to give Rebecca time to reach Drakken, the 4 Shining Stars will take them on. When Edens Zero reach Drakken’s tower, they are greeted with a hologram of Noah. First, he explains his Ether Gear ability to observe people’s location including outside time. He noticed Rebecca’s powers first activated 10 years ago. She was supposed to die in an accident. Whenever she is at the verge of death, her powers activate to change time and location. This is the 30th time she has used her power and hence Drakken is calling her No. 30. However, the downside of using that power is that she does not retain memories of the previous world. Surprisingly this time she could. It could only mean in this world she will defeat Drakken. It is unsure if she will be able to use that power again but in the event Drakken extracts her power, it will be the end of Rebecca’s world and the start of Drakken’s world No. 2. He admits he betrayed Rebecca and sold her out to Drakken because he wants to defeat him. He warns them about Drakken being powerful enough to be part of Oracion Seis Galactica and is using some life support machine to maintain his youth. Before more can be revealed, jamming interference cuts Noah off from the rest. His last words are Rebecca has figured out Drakken’s weakness in the previous world. However Rebecca can’t pinpoint what it is. Now we see Hermit fighting Fie. He thought being a sniper allows him to sneakily take her out but looks like she has heat seeking properties and once she smokes him out, controls all weapons in his arsenal and fire back on him.
Episode 33
Daichi may enjoy being a masochist too but he prefers to torture Sister. He thought he had her but some Ether Gear optimization whatever has her break free from his branches. She heals him so she could torture him until he passes out. Laguna has it tough with Witch. She knows he was once an actor but then disappeared. It may not be her business to know why, so she explains her reason to fight is to protect her Edens Zero family. So better think twice again the reason he is fighting her. Homura is able to absorb Sylph’s wind and this makes her scared. But some programme activates to turn her back into an expressionless killer. But even so, still not enough to defeat Homura. Rebecca’s side find Labilia but she looks fine and not tortured. Also here is Sibir as he hears them out. According to his history, his misunderstanding with Weisz was long resolved. Weisz used to be a troublemaker and it seems Weisz stole a suitcase not containing Pino but money. Weisz thought it belonged to Sibir when it actually belonged to a powerfully famous but unknown moneylender known as DJ Zombie. Weisz was caught and his arm cut off as punishment. He then started to change and became a good citizen. Thanks to DJ Zombie controlling the financial stuffs, he turned the planet into a criminal hotspot. Yes, DJ Zombie is Drakken! Sibir adds he looks the same as before and it is believed he is over 200 years old. It is possible he wants Rebecca’s power to return to his youthful body. He might not look like it but his power to keep his youthful appearance may be at its limit. Drakken realizes he has not enough time. But after thinking his underlings have not reported back and Edens Zero coming straight in to attack, he fears Rebecca may have awakened to her powers. Sibir thinks the gang should retreat for now and not fight Drakken. Unplugging his life support will not kill him right away. Labilia has a gist of what is happening. She will help them as she reveals herself as not human. Her face is a black hole?!
Episode 34
This Labilia in fact is actually Amira in disguise. While the true Labilia was captured, Amira infiltrated and swapped places with her. Currently she is hiding in some club. Speaking of which, Homura bumps into her. Still b*tchy as ever but running scared. Amira apologizes for the deception on Digitalis but it was necessary for her mission. You see, her mission is to get close to Drakken so as to absorb his memories to find his weakness. But thanks to Shiki’s side, now she has figured it all out and wants to be part of it. Suddenly Drakken arrives and turns the ground into muck. With no time left, he tries to take Rebecca but Shiki won’t allow it. Both men fall through several floors. Shiki will fight him and has the rest protect Rebecca. Amira as the rest lead her to Drakken’s life support system. There they stumble into Jinn. First, Amira asks if he knows what this machine does. Jinn is not interested in any way until Amira explains the secret of this life support machine. It actually absorbs the life force of all those on Belial Gore and converts it to Drakken. This is how he manages to live so long and retain his youth. In short, if you’re unlucky and get all your life force taken away, you die. Weisz becomes upset and runs away. This doesn’t sit well with Amira because she needs him to destroy the machine. This makes Jinn in a dilemma because Element 4 too is not spared from this. Sister makes a deal with Jinn that she will help Kleene if he helps them. Jinn will not betray his employer although he swore to protect his sister and destroys the machine instantly. Drakken goes into overdrive mode to fight Shiki. However it is interrupted by Weisz because he is mad at Drakken as the culprit who killed everyone.
Episode 35
Weisz trying to get his revenge on Drakken and blaming him for killing everybody on Norma. Flashback shows his mom and many others died from an unknown disease and it is hinted that Drakken brought that pathogen onto Norma. With Weisz blinded by revenge, Drakken could’ve killed him if not for Shiki saving his ass and telling him to calm down and work together to defeat him. That’s what friends are for, right? Further flashback shows Weisz showing Sibir a pendant he got that was a memento from his late mom. But one day it was stolen and he accused Sibir of doing so despite having no proof. Although Sibir might be a thief, he will not steal from his own comrades. Worse, Weisz rejected they were friends and as he got kicked out, he vowed to steal something back from him. Drakken then starts to weaken as Hermit has successfully shut down the entire system of his life support. But wait. Something worse happens. WTF Drakken now turns into a stronger and creepier tentacle monster?! Is this some video gaming logic whereby the last boss gets stronger the more his life reaches critical level?! Anyway, tentacle monster, huh? Oh Rebecca… Worse, he has hacked the satellite from Kurenai to shoot at Blue Garden. Edens Zero scramble to stop it. Drakken now craves for lives and kills his own comrades to take them. He also needs Rebecca’s power and he remembers Noah’s words that killing Shiki will activate it. But as he is about to do so, Shiki to activates to his powerful form. This power of his even allows him to see all the memories in previous worlds? Well, because it’s time to see Drakken’s flashback. Part of a group of experimental kids who will not live past the age of 15, Drakken refused to die like that and learnt alchemy to not only extend his own life but change the lives of others. That way, he could meet lots of people and make lots of friends! Gee, sound familiar? Shiki will now be his friend as he puts Drakken to sleep.
Episode 36
Drakken goes down in a single punch and turns into a frail old man. Weisz still wants to kill him but Shiki tells him not to. Can he be friends with a serial killer? It’ll be hard at first but yes. Weisz trolls us by shooting a few shots but turns out he missed on purpose. Yeah, he too finds it hard to kill him. In the aftermath, Amira arrests Drakken and hands him over to IUA. Sibir gives back the pendant to Weisz. It is not that he stole it but he retrieved it from one of his gang members who stole it from Weisz. Although Sibir wanted to give it back to him, Weisz told him to hold onto it. But he forgot about it and went on to be some professor (in the other timeline). Rebecca wonders what Connor have been doing all this while but it seems nobody knows who he is! Noah thanks Edens Zero crew in taking down Drakken. As gratitude, he reveals his identity which must be kept secret at all times: He is the director of GIA overseeing Sakura Cosmos and Amira is his colleague. As this incident cannot be made public too, he hopes they can be unsung heroes. Later Rebecca privately talks to him about her past of family. Funny, no matter how much he researched, he couldn’t find it or her power’s origin. As for Connor who existed in the previous world but no longer in this one, there could be another person who wields her Cat Leaper ability. He will investigate this further. Labilia tries to make amends with Rebecca but soon she returns to her b*tch mode by uploading embarrassing videos of Rebecca! This b*tch should’ve just died! Jinn and Kleene are guests on Edens Zero. Jinn is not happy to stay here but he has to since Kleene is undergoing treatment. She might be physically fine but her emotion is damaged and Sister is trying to fix that. Before Shiki continues his journey, he would love to visit Granbell first. To his dismay, all the robots have stopped moving. Did the virus get them? Hermit replays their memories and soon Shiki learns the truth that they have been putting up an act to be the villain to send Shiki into space before they run out of Ether forever. RIP my friends. But Shiki gets a surprise because here is Ziggy in the flesh. Or metal.
Edens One Arc
Episode 37
Sorry, no hugs and kisses. Ziggy attacks Shiki and regrets raising him. It seems his new goal now is to destroy all of humanity. As such, he commands Pino to join his side. Seeing the way she is programmed, she cannot refuse. As Pino overwrites herself, there is no way that Shiki’s words of telling her to do what she wants to do would reach her, right? OH WAIT! IT DID! Because Pino wants to be with them, she breaks out of Ziggy’s command. Now deeming her useless, Ziggy tells her to rot with her fellow human friends as he retreats back to Edens One. As explained, Edens Zero is just a prototype for Edens One and piloting this ship is Connor. Ziggy also has his 4 Shining Stars counterparts known as 4 Dark Stars! As the island is sinking, Edens Zero retrieve their crew members. Ziggy orders the destruction of Edens Zero. An epic space battle begins but it is mostly one-sided as Edens One is way superior and faster. Edens Zero taking on damage as Shiki is still in stunned mode. Eventually he comes to his senses and takes command for Edens Zero to escape. Even so, all the tricks pulled to escape is not enough as Edens One is hot on their tail. Rebecca is about to force herself to activate Cat Leaper (can she?) but moments Edens Zero meets a certain death, they are saved with the right timing of Elsie!
Episode 38
With Elsie’s intervention, Ziggy decides to withdraw and believes he is no match for her now. Elsie boards Edens Zero to tell what she knows of Ziggy. She starts off explaining about herself as a war refugee aiming aimlessly until Ziggy picked her up and she became part of his family. It was a time when Shiki was still a baby. Ziggy tasked Witch and Elsie to take care of Edens Zero until Shiki is ready to go into space. Because Elsie is bad in managing resources, she started plundering and became a pirate. Weisz finds the story strange because after Ziggy left Edens Zero and took Shiki to Granbell, what happened to that ship they arrived in? Witch theorizes Ziggy created Pino and had her use it to leave Granbell. That’s another story for another time. When Elsie returned years later to Ziggy, he was dead. But the Ether she felt emanating from him was evil. It wasn’t the Ziggy she knew. So she planted some drone in him and that’s how she knew to come to Edens Zero’s help when Ziggy turned evil. She doesn’t know the reason but a recording from the drone revealed evil Ziggy’s thoughts: He will go to Mother. As Elsie owes it to Ziggy, she will go after him. Shiki also feels the same and will chase after Ziggy although seeing Mother remains their top goal. Now they reach the Dragonfall area. A bunch of dead dragons caused by Edens One. So as Edens Zero gear up and fly through, lots of mechanical dragons on their tail. But nothing with a little Ether linking and teamwork to shake them off and voila! They burst through this barrier! Damn, it seemed so easy. Now they are in Aoi Cosmos. Ocean in space and fish swimming everywhere? The 4 Shining Stars discuss that anything outside Sakura Cosmos has been deleted from their territory although Hermit will try to recover those lost memories. But it seems they are on the path to the fire planet, Red Cave because Edens Zero has been through here 15 years ago. Then there is also this person whom you must not piss off: Poseidon Nero. He is also part of the Oracion Seis Galactica that Drakken and Elsie are part of. Unlike Drakken who rules the cosmos from behind the scenes, Nero rules Aoi Cosmos openly and thus is called the Emperor. For now, they set their destination to Red Cave in hopes of finding clues on Mother.
Red Cave Arc
Episode 39
Justice and his IUA pals contemplate on Drakken’s fall and they think there is some truth covered up behind it. And then some secret Prayer Council that Justice convenes along with Jaguar and other shady weirdoes. It seems they are Oracion Seis Interstellar and their goal is to crush Oracion Seis Galactica. Wow. This is confusing. Especially Justice who has a deep grudge on Elsie and wants to kill her. Seeing that she has gone to Aoi Cosmos, that’s where they’ll be heading next. We return to Edens Zero who has landed on Red Cave. Well, beach episode! Despite its name, it’s filled with sandy beaches and water! Fun time! Then the gang go have their underwater fun until they see a crashed ship. Too bad for the pilot, he is all bones. Noting a temple nearby, they go explore it but first, tentacle monster! Oh my, is this where Rebecca shows off her fanservice?! Oh well, no discrimination. Robots and guys too, the monster takes! Eventually Shiki breaks them out as they find themselves inside the temple. They are greeted by a robot named Nadia who welcomes them to the Temple of Mother Beacon. Rebecca finds the name familiar as it was carved on that dead pilot’s cockpit.
Episode 40
Nadia says that this temple contains a beacon that could be clues to lead to Mother. However they must pass through that door and she cannot guarantee their lives. Well, beyond this door is an insane amount of magma, flames and heat so you bet our gang can’t take it and quickly retreat. To solve this, Witch returns back to Blue Garden to get Laguna now working as an actor to help them. Uhm, so she really went all the way back there and even past those dragons?! While the rest wait, they listen to Nadia’s stories like how Ziggy was able to pass through it 15 years ago alone and got a beacon. It seems there was a treasure that emitted Ether that was also a power source for the androids here. Someone stole it and all the androids are now ‘dead’. Nadia survived only because of this cable she is stuck to that her beloved Andrew repaired. He is a human engineer whom she fell in love with. He left to get something and promised to return. That was 200 years ago. As Nadia still eagerly awaits that, Rebecca knows better Andrew has returned as that dead pilot and decides not to tell the truth. With Witch’s return, the plan is to use Laguna’s power to turn Shiki into water and then Witch will coat it with some special Ether for extra protection. Shiki then uses his gravity to push through the flames to enter this room filled with floating Ether parts that belonged to Mother. As he returns, Nadia further explains that there are countless of such pieces whether hiding in planets or floating in space. Such pieces of Mother are called Relics and gathering enough of them allows you to find her location. So it’s like a compass. Log Pose of space! The gang is ready to leave to find more Relics. With Nadia still waiting for Andrew, Witch then tells her the whole truth. There is even a last video from him that tells of his return. However his ship was hit by a meteor and crashed nearby. Nadia is saddened of this news but it seems he has brought back a Relic that returns Ether to the land. Now all the androids can move again and Red Cave returns to its original state as the deep waters reside. The 200 year promise of watching the red skies again have been fulfilled.
Foresta Arc
Episode 41
Is this going to be a trend because now Laguna is staying on Edens Zero. Based on his promise with Witch, he will leave once he finds a place to stay in Aoi Cosmos since he is wanted back on Sakura Cosmos. But no, he won’t be friends with Shiki. Meanwhile Justice is hot on Elsie’s tail. However she anticipates this because one of her crew member, Jessie is a government spy and has leaked info. She didn’t rat him out since he is like family to her. Everyone from all walks of life is free to join her crew seeing she will not reject anyone who seeks her help. She is willing to listen to him but since he refuses to talk, he is sent back to Justice. Edens Zero’s next stop is the planet called Foresta because based on the old log, this was its next stop and there might be a Relic here. After finding a spot to land in this very forestry planet, they are shocked to see humans as slaves to robots. We also see some robots arguing among each other whether to mistreat them or to treat them well since humans break easily. Well, non-believers kill those human rights believers! Shiki and co manage to slip away when a robot comes by. Happy and Pino just act like their masters. Couchpo then helps take them into her secret hideout. She was here to review some food but about a week ago, all this crazy stuff happened. Turns out Ziggy told the robots to rule over humanity and they started attacking humans. Soon the robots ambush them so everybody goes all out fighting. Uhm, I don’t think robots are meant to be eaten, Couchpo!
Episode 42
As Sister continues to examine Kleene, it seems the latter doesn’t want to be cured because doing so, she will have to leave this ship and she likes it here. Uhm, couldn’t she just veto her brother to say she’s staying? Because Jinn won’t tell how Kleene’s condition of having a mental breakdown each time she shows emotions come up, Sister wanted to ask Kleene directly but Jinn threatened her not to. Edens Zero is being attacked by drones so the 4 Shining Stars and ex-Drakken guys go into action. Meanwhile Shiki and co stumble into a cute fleeing robot. It pleads for help since Nero has sent forces to eliminate all robots on Foresta. Too bad it gets killed off by Mora. Crazy dude has got some sticky glue that really sticks. Shiki manages to break out from it using his gravity to fight him. Mora’s comrades, Orc and Britney observe the battle especially Shiki’s abilities that seem to be similar to that of Shura. Shiki uses his gravity to free the rest. But a drone attack bombs the area and separates everyone. Time for one on one matchups? Maybe. Homura vs Mora. Rebecca vs Britney. Shiki vs Orc. Shiki still believes Ziggy is doing all this for a reason but Orc isn’t buying it. He tells Shiki they are from Nero’s elite commando unit and have orders from him to destroy all robots on Foresta to protect all humans. This is also to send warning to Ziggy who started this rebellion.
Episode 43
Long story short, all our heroes win their fight against their opponents. Well, maybe except for Rebecca. Can’t best Britney in her smoke form so just run like hell! Meanwhile Weisz is being called back to Edens Zero because Hermit has discovered that a virus on some satellite set by Ziggy is causing the robots to go berserk. At this rate, the 4 Shining Stars will also be infected. Hence Weisz’s job is to modify it. Yeah, it would’ve been easier if they could just destroy it but nope. Just need to modify it. Elsie is also on this planet and what a rude welcoming as the robots start attacking her crew. But I suppose this is so that Elsie can transform into her Ether Gear and show off her Star Drain move. Meanwhile we see Shura being a cruel merciless dick by killing of his girls because he feels like it. They want us to hate him, huh?
Episode 44
Rebecca needs to rid of Britney but how to fight smoke? Yes, use a vacuum! But’s password locked! By the time Pino analyses it, Britney already blows smoke that rots Rebecca’s flesh! That is when her Cat Leaper activates and goes back a couple of minutes in time. This time she knows the password to suck and kick her away. Rebecca finds this version of her ability strange as it is more like reversing time rather than leaping to another world. So she tests it again a few more times to prove to Pino it is so. However like such great power, it takes a huge toll on her body and it is almost cracking up. Yup, there’s your warning not to simply use it so freely. Meanwhile Hermit and Weisz enter the satellite and to Hermit’s horror, there is Muller who is now part cyborg. Turns out he escaped from his imprisonment. Although it was Ziggy who planted the virus, now he is administering the server to control humans. He wants to abuse Hermit like before. Round 2 trauma. Elsewhere, Shiki and Homura are about to take on more of Nero’s elite commandoes but they are easily taken out by Justice and his IUA men. After imprisoning Homura, Justice learns Shiki knows Elsie. He doesn’t care about Ziggy or Nero because his most important goal is to capture Elsie whom he views as the most evil being. Since Shiki knows her, it is enough reason for Justice to kill him in the name of Justice! Did he just make a lame pun?!
Episode 45
Whatever Justice says about the privileges in the IUA, to take down evil with extreme prejudice, blah, blah, blah, uhm, isn’t he acting like a villain? But his powers are too much for Shiki to handle and he gets defeated although he still lives. Justice is about to deal the finishing blow but here comes Elsie to the rescue. Both know each other but now hate each other. Both are evenly matched as they possess the same Ether Gear. So we learn a few things. Elsie was a princess of some planet. Justice whose real name he has tossed away, James Holloway was engaged to her. Both sides lost everything. Justice blames it on Elsie’s betrayal. Both think their actions would’ve led to less losses. As their epic fight continues, Shiki is approached by this Yoda robot who tells him the true concept of gravity and to use the force that is infinite! Really?!Meanwhile Muller is fascinated by Weisz since as a fellow scientist, he has heard much of him. Weisz manages to break out from his predicament by transforming into Arsenal and then snap Hermit out of her trauma. But Muller isn’t done. He activates the switch that turns all robots into terminators. Yes, they kill all humans! Damn, how many human pets have died! Rebecca can stand her ground but with too many robots ganging up on him, Pino activates her EMP. Yoda robot then demonstrates his ultimate gravity move that puts a stop to the robots’ rampage as well as interrupting Justice and Elsie’s epic fight. He then introduces himself as Xenolith, the master of the force Magimech Arts and Ziggy’s mentor.
Episode 46
Xenolith might be dead 1000 years ago but that is his original body. Ziggy was a prodigy, learning and master everything in a day. Well, uhm, he is a robot! Anyway, Xenolith hopes Shiki will not turn to the dark side too. Xenolith’s gravity interruption has forced Elsie and Justice to settle it another day. Otherwise both would’ve died today. Rebecca trying to gather and reunite her fellow Edens Zero crew. Meanwhile Kleene is feeling unstable so Jinn pleads to Sister for help. The only way is to dive into her mind and see what’s wrong. Weisz’s attacks on Muller do no damage. He brags about all the experiments he done on humans to achieve this ultimate state. Especially the one done on Jinn and Kleene. The horrific experiment of Muller carving up Jinn to pieces as Kleene watches so as to emotionally break her. He targeted them because their family once funded his research. Of course he got busted and when the funding stopped, he targeted them for revenge after killing their parents. Weisz so mad he punches this dude but he can still stand up and blab. Apparently he has activated some doomsday system. In short, Foresta’s defence mechanism will destroy the planet. Laguna arrives in time to assist Weisz. After giving the mad scientist a water shock, Weisz proceeds to disassemble him. Muller then changes tone and pleads for Hermit to save him. But she uses him to disable the doomsday system and gives him a good punch. You’re not needed anymore so stay away. All threats on Foresta are gone and the robots become docile again. But at a great cost.
Episode 47
Elsie makes contact with Edens Zero to apologize for getting them mixed up in her affairs. She will still chase after Ziggy. Kleene has been saved thanks to Sister removing the horrifying memories of Muller’s experiment. Because of that, she can now give off a cute smile! Oh, did we mention she wants to stay here and be part of Edens Zero? I guess Jinn will have to comply. Justice is being contacted by Holy who is part of Oracion Seis Interstellar that he needs to take care of Shura who is Nero’s adopted son. Once that old guy croaks, this troublesome kid will take over so they want to avoid all that and have him eliminated first. She will send Jaguar and Eraser to assist him. We see Nero having a meeting with Shura and his elite team known as Oceans 6 (sorry, it’s not 11). Since Nero decides everything by the roll of his dice, fate has it that he will leave everything to Shura and not intervene. Bloodthirsty Shura revels in this as he sets sights on killing Ziggy. He means business as he kills off one of the Oceans 6 member who is a robot. They’re going to fight robots so they don’t need a robot comrade. Flashback shows Ziggy met Nero before. Ziggy trained Shura his skills since Nero’s powers weren’t compatible with his. This also gave Ziggy the idea of adopting a son. Xenolith revives as he mentions Ziggy’s plan to cause havoc on Foresta was because he fears him. No, not because he is a frail old robot now. But the fear of Xenolith meeting Shiki. Because now Xenolith is going teach him and transfer his powers to Shiki that will be able to take down Ziggy. But first, some VR training to better use their Ether. During the training, Ziggy hijacks Xenolith. Did he miss his grandson?
Episode 48
Ziggy takes Rebecca hostage and is going to kill her with his gravity. Unless Shiki promises not to pursue this case further, you’ll get to see all of Rebecca’s guts splatter out! Shiki breaks free from his binds to rescue her. Then it turns out it is all a simulation from Xenolith. Pretty impressive Shiki can use his Ether Gear at such moments but more needs to be done. With the jump scare over, back to more training for everyone. Of course Xenolith notes Rebecca’s power as the weakest and needs special training. Even so, her power is the most special that could change the world. Literally. Well, we’ve already seen it. Once training is over, Xenolith decides not to follow them and remain on Foresta. Witch asks him about meeting Ziggy. It was 15 years ago when he travelled to see Mother. However he was alone. This has Witch know something is wrong. Because 4 Shining Stars were travelling with him. What was it that caused them to erase their memories outside Sakura Cosmos? Meanwhile Ziggy notes the failure by the robots to take over Foresta. However this is all just a test and everything is still proceeding as planned. He remembers losing his memory when he visited Granbell. When he decided to look for Mother, he found Shiki. He was drawn to him and raised him as his own. After his revival, he got all his memories back including why he was drawn to Shiki. He is not a threat to robots but the entire cosmos. He must not be allowed to exist. In order to realize his goal for machines to dominate the cosmos, he will take Aoi Cosmos first. Edens Zero crew is on some mud planet. Because a huge building is a Relic, it is not possible to take it with them. Pino says they need to absorb its essence into its orb. That will be suffice although it will take some time. Right now on the news, Shura addressing his people. There were several uprising of robots on other planets too. But all were promptly subdued by Oceans 6. In order to protect the people, he vows Judgment Day and this means the elimination of all robots across Aoi Cosmos.
Sandra Arc
Episode 49
Hermit makes a quick check all over the internet and it seems there were no uprising unlike in Foresta. This means that Shura is using this an excuse to simply massacre robots. Obviously Shiki wants to defeat that jerk right now although Laguna stops him. It is not possible because of his army and fleet. I suppose Shiki doesn’t care because he can’t count? Anyway, Laguna knows a person who can help as he brings them down to the desert island of Sandra. Meanwhile Ziggy relishes this is all part of his plan. For Shura to kill all robots, he must activate All Link. He will use that to control all the robots. Likewise, Shura also knows Ziggy wants All Link and will get use this as bait to get him. Down at Sandra, Laguna takes Edens Zero to see his old friends. However they are not happy to see this traitor and surround them. Their boss, Goodwin is a huge cat and the leader of Oasis, the organization who is rebelling Nero’s rule. Well, Goodwin seems to be a huge fan of Rebecca! He might not listen to what Laguna says but he sure does for darling Rebecca. Goodwin will deal with the traitor later as the more pressing issue is dealing with Shura. He explains about this All Link system. Once in a while, Aoi Cosmos will be flooded with water. During that, all Ether will be linked within the cosmos and thus all networks become connected. 3 days till that big tide. When Shura’s army is here, time for our heroes to showcase a bit of their fruits of their VR training. Small fries are now too easy. Rebecca saves a young boy from the army driving a truck towards them. As thanks, he punches her face! Meanwhile Nero is being advised by his subordinate to stop Shura’s madness or their empire will fall. Nero reiterates that he will do nothing. Because it doesn’t matter what is done as the dice has guaranteed his victory.
Episode 50
Edens Zero and the rebels continue to beat the army. Then when reinforcements arrive, they head over there fast because well, Orc is going to use this super bomb that will blow up half the planet! Orc knows Shiki will be troublesome and tries to deal with him. But he doesn’t know he has undergone training and is now a different person. Yeah, Shiki owns him easily. Pino tries to hack into the bomb but Orc won’t give up and presses the detonator. So uhm, Shiki grabbing onto it as it launches into space? Kaboom! Don’t worry, he is still alive. He just flung it into space and the hacking reduced the bomb’s power. In the aftermath as the army is captured, Goodwin will not kill them as both sides have lost many. He might hate the empire as it takes away their freedom but he doesn’t hate the people. So once this war is over, he hopes they can drink together. A big guy with a big heart. Goodwin agrees to form an alliance with Edens Zero. Since IUA is coming here, there’ll be a big shootout so they’ll use this chance to defeat Shura and destroy All Link system. Weisz hears Laguna talking with one of his ex-comrades about getting revenge on Shura who killed one of their members who was a princess who went in to rescue her captured friends. He deduces Laguna joined Drakken’s group for this purpose. It doesn’t have to be any group. Edens Zero or Elsie, as long as it is a strong organization to take down Nero. He warns him not to drag his friends into his personal vendetta. If any of his buddies die, he will kill him. Now the war begins as Aoi Cosmos sees the biggest shootout ever between both sides.
A Journey Is Best Measured In Friends Than Lightyears
Well, I don’t know. I find it strange that at this point of this writing, there isn’t any announcement of the next season. This should be getting another season, right? The way they end it like that and tease us about the possible future. How could they end a season right in the middle of an important war? Or at least one that is about to start. After all, from my brief and simple Google search, there is enough material to cover another double cours of a season. Or is this series just going to follow the trend of a show having 2 seasons and that’s it. I know it’s a silly speculation but it could be just me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I’m a huge fan of this series. Seeing Fairy Tail has ended and left a hole for fans, this series as I would say would be decently epic enough to be the next Fairy Tail. But then again, it’s just my sentiments.
To be honest, this season does not disappoint although at the same time it is not that great either. Aha. My typical neutral on the fence answer. The plot is making some progress but it is not enough to warrant anywhere close to the ending. After all, the manga is still ongoing and we are still if I should say, at the initial stages of the story. As I have said, my sentiments had me thinking this is the next epic thing to replace Fairy Tail so there are going to be a lot more plots and characters along the way for Shiki and his Edens Zero crew to meet before the long journey finally ends. And yes, I anticipate it is going to be a long journey. Though, something like the length of Fairy Tail and not One Piece! Oh boy. So yeah, this may have the potential of reaching 3 digits of anime episodes but don’t mind me, I’m just getting ahead of myself. Yeah, why do I sound like I am so wanting another season?
I have mixed feelings about the first half of this season. Primarily, facing off with Drakken and taking him down. To be honest, I think I was just lying to myself thinking that Drakken would be the big bad boss and the endgame. But from the looks of it, he could be the weakest of the lot. After all, he was from my perception painted as some big bad villain from the first season so that’s where my misconception somewhat built up. That is why in some ways, the fight with Drakken ended faster than I expected and with much anti-climactic. There wasn’t much fanfare when Drakken was (somewhat easily) taken down (and in that manner too?!) but like I’ve said, Drakken in terms of galactic comparison to the rest of the bigger antagonists, he could be just a small fry. That is why I was having such dilemma about his arc went it just came to an end.
So we usher Drakken’s case out of the way and to the next plot and the second half of the series: Ziggy turning traitor and the next big bad. From the looks of it and as I have foreseen it, the second half wasn’t entirely enough to settle this. There’s a lot of mystery and intrigue in Ziggy’s sudden change of character as I continue to speculate he could be just playing the villain to shape up Shiki to fight an even bigger Demon Lord who could threaten the very fabric and existence of the entire universe: Mother! I know it sounds outrageous and it is. I just hope somebody or the next season proves me wrong. And of course I hope Ziggy becoming a bad guy isn’t because of some cheap plot twist as I have seen in Nanatsu No Taizai. Why did a heroic holy knight become a bad guy? Because as revealed many seasons later, he was being possessed by an evil demon! What the… What a downer. So I hope this isn’t the case either.
But if there was one thing that was my pet peeve, it was those mechanical dragons that surrounded Sakura Cosmos. The way they painted it, it was as though they were going to be a tough nut to crack. But alas as we saw, Edens Zero zipped through it like nothing. Sure, a bit of struggle but nothing that would put you on the edge of your seat. But that’s not the end of it. After that ‘breakthrough’, it now seems that everyone can zip in and out of Sakura Cosmos so easily. Like as though Dragonfall area does not exist anymore! I don’t know about you, but I felt this whole Dragonfall barrier thingy was like one dumb plot to keep Sakura Cosmos people inside and break their spirits if they ever think of venturing beyond. Well, now the impossible has happened so nothing is going to stop them from doing anything impossible. Like meeting Mother for real.
As for Shiki and the rest of his Edens Zero crew, what else can I say about them? The usual formula that their bonds will have them pull through at the toughest times. Rebecca still obviously there for fanservice but now we need to have a slightly different perspective of her seeing she has a very unusual power. Yeah, I hope it won’t be used for plot conveniences. Oh you know, everybody gets killed and then she leaps to another world for it. Yeah. That. And my curiosity of Mosco continues because what the heck is that “Do Not Push” button is for?! I’m going to add if he does push that, we will skip everything and go right to the ending! The ultimate cheat code! Moscoy… This season also adds new characters to Edens Zero crew and for now, they’re all ex-Drakken’s men. Well, it’s not so surprising as in Fairy Tail, we had members of a taken down guild joining the titular guild (Gajeel and Juvia were from Phantom Lord, remember?). So I’m just wondering when Maria will be joining the crew. What a waste to let this cutie disappear just like that, right? Or is that her character’s fate? I don’t know about Couchpo if she is officially an Edens Zero crew because she’s staying because of its magnificent kitchen. Where there’s food, there’s Couchpo! Now you can be assured all your kitchen food will be safe! Yeah, I foresee that’s her main role.
The other intrigue brought to light is Elsie and Justice but of course as we have seen, it is just the tip of the iceberg and is not of any significant importance at least for this season. I’m sure I take relief that a certain B-Cuber b*tch does not have a lot of screen time here. Yes, we viewers could have less of Labilia. It was a short-lived joy to see her being tortured as Drakken’s prisoner. Yes, I’m so evil in wanting to see this b*tch get a little taste of her just desserts. In the end, I think she didn’t learn much and returned to being a b*tchy B-Cuber like always. Yeah, maybe it’s her brand so it’s going to be real creepy to see her being a nice girl. Yikes. Xiaomei has been reduced to some redundant recap narrator, appearing only significantly for a short while to tease us about what’s going on or the possible future and nothing more. There are also many other characters here but of course I’m too lazy to note them all and many obviously appearing in only a single arc before disappearing forever.
Everything else in my opinion remains the same. The art style and animation (still looking a lot like Fairy Tail if you ask me), the action sequences (your obligatory battle and group fights to showcase our heroes’ abilities of course), the brand of humour (I think Happy has been reduced to mostly for some minor comeback comical relief character this season) and of course a handful of new seiyuus. Just to name a few (because I’m too lazy to just list the whole freaking list which is just freaking a lot) such as Rumi Okubo as Kleene/Sylph, Taku Yashiro as Laguna, Kazuhiko Inoue as Xenolith, Kenichi Suzumura as Shura, Takaya Hashi as Nero, Kenji Nomura as Goodwin, Aya Endo as Holy and Rena Maeda as Nadia. I am not impressed with all the themes this season either. Takanori Nishikawa who did last season’s opener is the only one retained for this season’s first opening theme, Never Say Never which has the same rock vibes as Eden Through The Rough. Another rock outfit for the second opener, Kaibutsu by Tani Yuuki. It must be just me since his voice sounds gay… This season’s first ending theme, Rinne by Asca is slow rock. The second ending theme is slightly more bearable to my taste, My Star by Lozareena is a slow ballad but is it my or does the singer sound like Lenka? Or is this Lenka’s Japanese moniker?!
Overall, once again this series is still rather okay in my books. On par with the first season but since it is still a long journey, it is too early to judge anything conclusive. Sure, I do that a lot especially for bad animes but since this isn’t entirely that bad, oh well. And I am pretty sure soon they will have another season because today we have run out of new animes to make and if we’re not doing remakes and reboots, we’re going to have to animate a series right until its source ends. Yeah. That’s today’s trend, I suppose. Because with a lot of sh*tty and not so impressive shows getting sequels (a certain isekai assassin to a certain isekai cheat skill to a certain isekai spirit chronicles to a certain rotten angel spoiling me to a banished hero living a slow life to a certain dead detective – all mostly I do not actually anticipate getting a sequel but looks like they are!!! F*CK!!!), it won’t be long before I hear the announcement of the next season for, wait for it, FAIRY TAIL IN SPACE!!! HAHAHA!!!
Chua Tek Ming~*Anime Power*~ !LiVe FoR AnImE, aNiMe FoR LiFe! 