Trivia / EDENS ZERO

• Acting for Two:
  • In the English dub, Colleen Clinkenbeard voices both Elsie and Mother.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub, Lucia Suarez voices both Happy and Xiaomei.
• Actor Allusion: Colleen Clinkenbeard as a pirate who also goes by the "Pirate Queen"? At least she doesn't have rubber-related abilities. Not to mention how's she's voicing an Expy of a Fairy Tail character she also voiced.
• Channel Hop: Season 2 of the anime premiered internationally (excluding Asia and Latin America, in that last case, Anime Onegai would stream the series instead) on Crunchyroll instead of Netflix, where the first season premiered.
• All-Star Cast: while the original Japanese cast was a Dark Horse Casting, the English dub however has an all star cast of various big names.
• Colbert Bump: Mashima HERO'S, EDENS ZERO's crossover with Fairy Tail and Rave Master, has led to this manga gaining a new level of awareness overall.
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • Both Rie Kugimiya and Tia Ballard reprise their roles from Fairy Tail as the male Happy.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub, the same roles are also voiced by female actresses Lucía Suárez and Gigliola Mariangel respectively.
  • While the English dub avoids this with cisgender woman Laura Stahl voicing her, Homura, who is a female, is voiced in Japanese by Shiki Aoki, who is a transgender man.
• Cross-Regional Voice Acting: As a result of the second season moving from Netflix to Anime Onegai in Latin America, the Latin American Spanish dub will use the Chilean voice actors from the first season, while any new characters or replacements will be dubbed in Mexico.
• Creator Backlash: Mashima sought to create villians who were appealing, but truly evil in the first half of the series, but he feels he didn't accomplish that other than Müller.
• Darkhorse Casting: Among relatively recongizable leads like Takuma Terashima (Shiki), Mikako Komatsu (Rebecca), Rie Kugimiya (Happy), and Shiori Izawa (Pino), and smaller guest roles being filled out by heavy hitters such as Sayaka Ohara (Elsie), Hōchū Ōtsuka (Ziggy), and Kikuko Inoue (Mother), the main cast also includes Hiromichi Tezuka (Weisz), who is almost exclusively cast in secondary, bit or foreign dubbing roles, and Shiki Aoki (Homura), a more obscure actor whose medium of focus mainly lies in video games.
• Development Hell: Seemingly has happened to the Konami console game which has not been seen since its original announcement two years ago. Pocket Galaxy, the Konami mobile announced at the same time as the console game, has been released.
• Died During Production:
  • Anime director Yuji Suzuki passed away very suddenly on September 9, 2021, with four episodes remaining in the first season's broadcast at the time, three of which were directed by him personally. Fortunately, the episodes were late enough into production to be completed without him, and while Suzuki's death wasn't publicized until the final episode was aired, it came with an announcement of the staff's intentions to move ahead with future series productions.
  • Billy Kametz, the English actor for Noah Glenfield, passed away on June 9, 2022 when season 2 was announced.
• Directed by Cast Member: Brook Chalmers, who voices the old Weisz Steiner and Illega, is the voice director of the English dub.

• In Memoriam: The anime's first season finale was dedicated to director Yuji Suzuki, who died on September 9, 2021.
• Invisible Advertising: Crunchyroll barely promoted season two in the regions they streamed it.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: The magazine's Original Ether Gear Contest, held from September through October 2020, allowed fans to submit their own Ether Gear users to appear in the manga. The five winners—Callum Steelford, Lyra/Lila, Nasseh/Nase, Milani Lucra, and Ijuna—wound up appearing as members of Poseidon Nero's court (the first four as part of the Oceans 6, and the fifth as Shura's Number Two).
• Otaku O'Clock: Officially speaking, the anime adaptation is broadcast on Saturdays at "24:55", which is effectively Sunday at 12:55 AM.
• The Other Darrin: Director example, due to Yuji Suzuki passing away on September 9, 2021, Toshinori Watanabe directed season 2.
• Posthumous Credit: The final four episodes of the anime's first season aired after director Yuji Suzuki's September 2021 death.
• Real-Life Relative: Kikuko Inoue and her daughter Honoka respectively voice Mother and Xiaomei. Seeing how the two characters are connected (Xiaomei being "born again" through Mother), this is almost certainly intentional.
• Shrug of God: Fans have speculated that with EDENS ZERO using Expy characters based on the cast of Fairy Tail much like the latter did with Rave Master, Mashima was subtly setting up a Shared Universe that connected all of his past works. Mashima himself denied this in an interview, but immediately followed up by saying he was considering actually doing it ever since fans came to that conclusion. Roughly a year and a half later, he settled on a Crossover series, Mashima HERO'S.
• Trolling Creator: As a joke, Mashima said he hadn't decided on where to take the concept of an EDENS ONE after introducing it in Chapter 49, poking fun at his own tendency to set up new plot points and decide on what they actually are later. As an assurance to readers, he said he only partially didn't know what to do with it.
• Troubled Production: When the preview for Volume 31 was released, fans were quick to note how the characters on the cover were noticably Off-Model. According to Mashima, he was running low on time to draw a proper cover for the volume. Reluctantly, he touched up an unused sketch just meet the deadline.
• Unfinished Dub: While the first season was dubbed into English when Netflix streamed it, because the second season's global rights were awarded to the French company Mediatoon, who gave the English language license to Crunchyroll, neither have produced a dub, leaving subtitled versions the only way to watch season two. However, said season has been released in other non-English platforms like in France and Latin America with local dubs.
• Vaporware: The console game hasn't had an update since it was originally announced in 2020, and was quietly removed from Konami's list of upcoming games in their financial results press release for fiscal year 2022.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Shiki's original design concept looked closer to Natsu than it wound up being, and his Ether Gear would've taken the form of a mechanical Power Fist rather than gravity manipulation. Mashima also had it up in the air whether to make his hair black or white.
  • Pino was planned to appear from the very beginning as the sole Series Mascot, but Mashima couldn't find a good reason to have her on the planet with Shiki, so he postponed her debut to Chapter 6 and created a Non-Human Sidekick for Rebecca in her place. After considering many different animals, however, Mashima realized they were too similar to Happy and decided to make it an Expy of him.
  • The gang boss on Blue Garden had a vastly different design that more closely resembled Sibir.
  • The phrase "17 Nya" was going to be written on the side of the Aqua Wing rather than "Aoneko Channel", and may or may not have been the conceptual name of Rebecca's B-Cube account.
  • Instead of a Mechanical Lifeform, the dragon seen in the first two chapters was initially designed to be an Energy Being.
  • Mashima planned for two male characters to join the main cast before the introduction of the Four Shining Stars and Homura, who appeared much earlier and in quicker succession than he expected.
  • The Digitalis Arc went through significant changes from the get-go: in the earliest version, Homura's Warrior Prince avatar was a native of Digitalis seeking out Shiki's help; later, he was planned to be Justice impersonating Homura, which was switched to Amira, a new character. Several potential storylines in the arc were also cut due to Mashima's concerns for the story's pacing, such as an appearance from Labilia, which was bumped to the Sun Jewel Arc.
  • Captain Connor would have been a skinnier and more handsome middle-aged man, but Mashima wasn't totally satisfied with the design, and his editors didn't find him to be all that interesting, so he was redrawn as a Fat Slob to better sell him as a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass.
  • Weisz's Arsenal Suit originally specialized in giving him Shock and Awe powers, and went through multiple different names to match: (Vortex, Raijin, Blitzman, Thunderman, Lightman, Electo, and Electroman).
  • Ziggy was originally Shiki's name in the very first draft of the story, rather than the Demon King's in the finished version. Although after a fashion, Ziggy does end up being Shiki's name eventually.
  • Out of the Element 4 members, only Laguna and Sylph's names were settled upon, while Fie would have been called Onibi and Daichi would have been Mizuchi. Also, everyone's designs except Laguna's (barring the lack of sleeves) was drastically different: Sylph had poofy hair, heart-shaped Facial Markings, and was not an Emotionless Girl; Onibi bore a closer resemblance to Daichi with fangs, but kept the fiery hair and Eyepatch of Power; and Mizuchi was a dragon-like alien with Puppy-Dog Eyes.
  • Commando Team Beast was conceived with a fourth member who got dropped.
  • Universe 0 was almost called "Goetz 5 Vermillion World" which would translate into "A World That Prioritizes Circumstances" in a certain Kanji, but he felt fans wouldn't like it, admitting it seems like a dad joke.
• Word of God: Mashima has said that after the first half of the series ended up being very dark, he wants the second half to be Lighter and Softer and have more "contrived coincidences" help the characters in the story, which he thinks his fans will enjoy, almost calling Universe 0 a phrase that translates into "A World That Prioritizes Circumstances"
• Working Title: The series's title was tentatively spelled with an apostrophe as Eden's Zero when first announced.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Mashima has admitted in interviews that his last work, Fairy Tail, was written with little to no story direction in mind, unlike his preceding manga Rave Master, which he'd worked out to the end about halfway through. EDENS ZERO is his attempt to strike a balance between the two, setting the core story beats and characters in stone, and going wild with everything else that happens around them.
• You Sound Familiar: Dub-wise, Michelle Ruff (Madame Kurenai) and Doug Erholtz (Nino) previously voiced Elie and Musica in Rave Master.

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