Edens Zero (season 2)
The second season of the anime television series Edens Zero was confirmed through the franchise's official Twitter account on February 9, 2022.[1] It is produced by J.C.Staff, with Toshinori Watanabe replacing Yūshi Suzuki as director following Suzuki's death.[2] Returning staff include Shinji Ishihira as chief director, Mitsutaka Hirota as script overseer, Yurika Sako as character designer, and Yoshihisa Hirano as music composer.[3] The plot continues adapting Hiro Mashima's original manga series of the same name from its ninth volume (chapter 69), following protagonist Shiki Granbell and the crew of the titular spaceship as they confront the intergalactic crime lord Drakken Joe.
| Edens Zero | |
|---|---|
| Season 2 | |
 Key visual of the season | |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nippon TV |
| Original release | April 2, 2023 – present |
| Season chronology | |
The season premiered on April 2, 2023, on Nippon TV and other channels.[4] Mediatoon Distribution licensed the season for worldwide distribution,[5] with Crunchyroll streaming the series in various regions.[6]
The opening theme is "Never say Never" by Takanori Nishikawa, and the ending theme is "Rinne" (リンネ, lit. "Reincarnation Cycle") by Asca.[4][7]
Episode list
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [8][lower-alpha 1] | Directed by [8] | Written by [8] | Storyboarded by [8] | Original air date [8][lower-alpha 2] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 1 | "Belial Gore" Transcription: "Beriaru Goa" (Japanese: ベリアル・ゴア) | Yoshiyuki Nogami | Mitsutaka Hirota | Shinji Ishihira | April 2, 2023 | |
| Rebecca Bluegarden passes out in the Edens Zero's bath, dreaming of a battle against robots where her friend Shiki Granbell is several years older and her companion Happy is dead. Awakening in the ship's infirmary, Rebecca learns that Shiki has led their friends Weisz Steiner, E.M. Pino, and Homura Kôgetsu aboard the space fortress Belial Gore to investigate its leader, Drakken Joe, who has been pursuing their ship. Shiki's team encounters an elderly version of their enemy Sibir from the present timeline, where he now works as a bartender aboard the Belial Gore. Sibir briefly reconnects with Weisz, his former friend, but inadvertently terrifies Pino, who still fears his alternate self. Before they can resume their investigation, Drakken publicly exposes the team's presence aboard his ship, trapping them and sending his three personal minions to raid the Edens Zero. | |||||||
| 27 | 2 | "Element 4" Transcription: "Eremento Fō" (Japanese: エレメント4) | Hidehiko Kadota | Mitsutaka Hirota | Takeshi Mori | April 9, 2023 | |
| Witch Regret single-handedly defeats Drakken's infiltration team, whose two android members appear to self-destruct while the survivor, Maria Slime, is kept for interrogation. In response, Drakken dispatches his special forces, the Element 4, and turns the Belial Gore's passengers against Shiki's team by offering a reward for their capture. Shiki's team attempts to hide their identities with a holographic disguise app invented by Weisz, but is found by one of the Element 4, Laguna Husert, whose Ether Gear turns people into water when they shed tears. Using various methods to force them to cry, Laguna liquefies most of the team except for Weisz, who uses his app to feign succumbing to his tactics before donning his Arsenal suit to fight Laguna. | |||||||
| 28 | 3 | "A Wind Blows Through the Sakura Cosmos" Transcription: "Sakura Kosumosu ni Fuku Kaze" (Japanese: 桜宇宙に吹く風) | Toshinori Watanabe | Mitsutaka Hirota | Toshinori Watanabe | April 16, 2023 | |
| Weisz defeats Laguna with remote assistance from crewmate Hermit Mio, returning his liquefied teammates to normal, but is shot by Fie, the Element 4's fire-using sniper. Sibir helps Shiki's team escape from Fie and shelters them in his bar, where they request medical treatment for Weisz. Due to Sister Ivry's preoccupation with interrogating Maria, Rebecca and Happy are sent to deliver medicine made from Sister's healing Ether. They are intercepted in space by Sylph, the Element 4's wind user, but Rebecca evades her by channeling her "Leaper" Ether Gear's speed into her starfighter. However, Sylph follows them to the Belial Gore's loading dock and immediately traps them inside a wind cage. | |||||||
| 29 | 4 | "No. 29" Transcription: "Nijūkyū-gō" (Japanese: 29号) | Yoshiyuki Kumeda, Kōichirō Kuroda | Megumu Sasano | Takeshi Mori | April 23, 2023 | |
| Unable to escape Sylph's wind cage, Rebecca alerts Shiki's team to her capture. The team finds Weisz's medicine in the loading dock, where they are attacked by Sylph and her assistant, Shiki's rival Jinn, revealing Sylph to be Jinn's sister, Kleene Rutherford. Jinn overpowers Shiki after entering Overdrive, a state of heightened power, while Kleene corners Homura as she escapes with the medicine. Meanwhile, Rebecca is brought before Drakken, who explains that he is pursuing the Edens Zero specifically to recruit her based on information that her guild master, Noah Glenfield, betrayed to him, addressing Rebecca as "No. 29". As a gesture of goodwill, Drakken shows her a cell containing her injured bully Labilia Christy, horrifying Rebecca. Drakken leaves Rebecca trapped in the cell, which is guarded Daichi, the Element 4's earth user and Labilia's assailant. | |||||||
| 30 | 5 | "Intercession" Transcription: "Chūsai" (Japanese: 仲裁) | Shigeru Ueda | Mitsutaka Hirota | Shinji Ishihira | April 30, 2023 | |
| Laguna turns Rebecca into water to stop Daichi from torturing her with his tree Ether Gear. Homura and Weisz are captured by Kleene and Fie, while Fie kills Sibir for harboring the crew. Shiki enters Overdrive to match Jinn, but Drakken intervenes, stating that neither Shiki's nor Jinn's forms are "true" Overdrives, and uses his alchemy Ether Gear to turn Shiki into stone. Drakken brings the four crewmates to an underpass to punish them for their infiltration, destroying Weisz's medicine and selling Happy and Pino to a junk shop, which coerces Rebecca into joining him to spare her friends. As a warning to the crew, Drakken has one of Weisz's arms cut off and reveals that Maria's team, whose android members faked their destruction, have disabled the Four Shining Stars and seized the Edens Zero. While his friends are terrified into submission, Shiki defiantly promises to defeat Drakken someday, but is shot in the head and killed by Drakken. | |||||||
| 31 | 6 | "Our Future" Transcription: "Ore-tachi no Mirai" (Japanese: オレたちの未来) | Yoshiyuki Nogami | Mitsutaka Hirota | Shinji Ishihira | May 7, 2023 | |
| In the week following Shiki's death, Drakken confines the traumatized Rebecca to extract her Ether Gear, "Cat Leaper", once it fully activates. When she tearfully wishes to see her friends again, her Ether Gear suddenly sends her falling into her infirmary bed aboard the Edens Zero, where Shiki is alive and the rest of the crew are unharmed. Rebecca believes the past week to have been a dream, but after she learns about and stops her friends from disembarking to the Belial Gore as before, it becomes apparent to the crew that she has made a time leap to the past with her Ether Gear. Using Rebecca's knowledge of the future, the crew thwarts Maria and her team's infiltration, and directly crashes the Edens Zero through the Belial Gore to rescue Labilia, who is still Drakken's captive. Drakken furiously prepares to kill the Edens Zero crew except for Rebecca, whom he calls "No. 30". | |||||||
| 32 | 7 | "4 VS 4" | Hidehiko Kadota | Megumu Sasano | Takeshi Mori | May 14, 2023 | |
| The Four Shining Stars engage the Element 4 in combat, with Hermit defeating Fie. Meanwhile, Noah contacts the rest of the crew via hologram and reveals his awareness of Rebecca's time leap through his observational Ether Gear "Eye of God", explaining that her numeric designation is based on the amount of alternate timelines she has created with time leaps she has subconsciously performed since her childhood traffic accident, and that his true intention is to defeat Drakken using Rebecca's power. Noah further reveals that Drakken is allegedly undead and uses a life-support machine to maintain his youth, but his transmission signal is lost before he can elaborate on Drakken's weakness. | |||||||
| 33 | 8 | "The Sword of Edens" Transcription: "Edenzu no Tsurugi" (Japanese: エデンズの剣) | Yoshihiro Mori | Mitsutaka Hirota | Takeshi Mori | May 21, 2023 | |
Notes
- All English titles are taken from Crunchyroll.
- The season premiered on April 1, 2023 at 24:55 (effectively, April 2 at 12:55 a.m. JST).
References
- Hodgkins, Crystalyn (February 8, 2022). "Edens Zero Anime Gets 2nd Season". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- Pineda, Rafael Antonio (September 16, 2022). "Edens Zero Anime Season 2's Teaser Reveals April 2023 Premiere". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 16, 2022.
- 「EDENS ZERO」第2期追加キャストに八代拓・大久保瑠美ら、OPテーマは西川貴教. Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 15, 2023. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
- Pineda, Rafael Antonio (February 14, 2023). "Edens Zero Anime Season 2 Video Reveals Element 4 Cast, Opening Song, April 1 Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
- Hazra, Adriana (April 1, 2023). "France's Mediatoon Acquires Edens Zero Anime Season 2's Global Rights". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
- Mateo, Alex (April 7, 2023). "Crunchyroll Streams Edens Zero Anime Season 2". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
- Pineda, Rafael Antonio (March 13, 2023). "ASCA Performs Ending Song for Edens Zero Anime Season 2". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
- "ANIME – Edenzu Zero Kōshiki Saito" ANIME – エデンズゼロ 公式サイト [ANIME – Edens Zero Official Website]. edens-zero.net (in Japanese). Archived from the original on March 12, 2021. Retrieved March 12, 2021.
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