EDENS ZERO 26

Edens Zero #26

by Hiro Mashima, 真島ヒロ

眠りから目覚めたレベッカの母・レイチェルが告げた「マザーの命が間もなく尽き、全宇宙の人類が滅亡する」という衝撃の未来。それを回避する為、エデンズ ゼロ一行は後戻り不可能な最後の世界「ユニバース0」へと旅立つ。――そして舞台は始まりの地・グランベルへ。シキとレベッカ、そしてハッピーは再び出会い、世界を救う為の冒険が新たに始まった!!

Genres: Manga, Science Fiction, Comedy, Fantasy

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 17, 2023

About the author

Hiro Mashima (Jap: 真島ヒロ) is a Japanese manga artist.

He gained success with his first serial Rave, published in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 to 2005. His best-selling work, Fairy Tail, published in the same magazine from 2006 to 2017, became one of the best-selling manga series with over 72 million copies in print. Mashima began the currently ongoing Edens Zero in 2018.

Fairy Tail won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga in 2009, and Mashima was given the Harvey Awards International Spotlight award in 2017 and the Fauve Special Award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival.

Reviews

[Joe Crawford · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Isel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought everyone would remember right away

[寿理 宮本 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This really does feel like "New Game +", like the characters say! It picks up from where the prior book left off, with Shiki and Rebecca going off to re-find their friends, though they discover the "new" universe (Universe Zero) has self-corrected to account for a number of changes, including that the robots of Granbell are all normal and see Shiki off normally, unlike before when he was effectively "chased" away. They also get the Edens Zero just handed to them, unlike before—the most "New Game +" part of this whole adventure (including that Witch is very alive now)!

Going in order (as best as I can remember without looking it up) to get their friends back—probably because that's just the most efficient path since their original journey took them farther and farther from Granbell—they get Weisz and Pino, in what is probably the weirdest heartwarming scene* ever: Weisz yells at his "nag" of a mom, then regains his memory and runs to hug her with tears in his eyes, since she's "alive in this universe."

The rest of the volume is more of the same, retracing their steps to find their other friends but finding things (and themselves) are very different from what they remember, but I don't have anything specific to say about that.

The main weirdness about the book is the cover makes them look like Edens Babies: they're supposed to be three years younger than they were before the universe-merge, but here they look easily six years younger?? (although, Rebecca developed early, if so)

The main reason I took off a star is the normal Mashima requisite "bath scene humour" stuff, including that Rebecca and Shiki are discovering their abilities don't work as expected, so Rebecca slams her naked butt into Shiki's face.

...

I know I should expect it, but still.

Overall, fun, but still peak Mashima.

I do note in his Afterword that he mentions trying to make a completely different anime, but it's not turning out well... I have the strong feeling it's Farmagia, because... well... it's not very good, haha. Well, they can't be all winners.

*I originally typed "weirdest touching scene," which... has a very different connotation, especially if Mashima is involved.

[Timothy Pitkin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am still not sure how I feel about the idea of them basically going back in time and restarting everything. But I do like the idea that since this is a new time line that things did not happen in the way that they happened before and some of those changes are actually pretty cool like learning that Nero is not an emperor anymore and it is pretty cool and makes me excited to see what other changes are in store. I am still not happy about the time travel but the idea of having new changes will make it a lot more interesting.

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5 I really enjoyed this volume. The crew has traveled to Universe Zero. Now they all have to reconnect. It’s a fun thing to see everyone reuniting and seeing all of the changes in Universe Zero. Certain dead characters are alive since we’re 3 years in the past and we’re having the same confrontations again but with a twist. I’m digging it.

Read 11/25/2025
A very cute cover featuring Shiki, Rebecca, Weisz, Sister, Happy, & Pino for volume 27.

[Martu (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[zy忍 · Rating 3 out of 5]

*sighing intensifies*

Don't like a perfect world.

[Elissa Huskins · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many feels!!!!

[Ollie · Rating 5 out of 5]

✨✨✨✨✨

[David Doel · Rating 4 out of 5]

The promise of volume 25 has not been realized in volume 26. It seems like we are just dumping in lots of characters again; characters we have already seen.

[ReadingFrog · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars.

[Gigi · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐

[Olivia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hello, if you're reading this, it is more of a note to self then a public review, but reading it is still aloud.😉

YES!!!!! Witch is back!! 😭☺️ I totally started crying when I read that part of the book.(Page 19 has the first panel of Witch in this volume) I'm so glad Hiro found a way to bring her back. I'm overflowing with jubilee 😊.
I'm crying tears of joy just at the thought of her being back, words truly can't begin to describe how I feel right now. Plus, I'm loving how complex the story is getting, this is great, no, incredibly awesome and so beautifully written. This series took an unexpected, unique turn and I LOVE every bit of it.
I just love the idea of time-travel, especially in space (that's why my favorite movie is Interstellar, and my favorite manga series is Edens Zero). I also love how complex this is getting. I know most people would complain about how complicated it is, but it kinda prepared me for this, and also, characters in this series explain it well enough for people like that to be able to understand this really intricate storyline and insane storytelling (and i mean the good kind of insane, just as an FYI).
I'm surprised that this series isn't as popular or more popular that Fairy Tail (an other series by Hiro Mashima), because in my opinion, Edens Zero is better that Fairy Tail.
I just can't get enough of Edens Zero!!! ❤️😁😄

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bare with me.....so this one is like one of those moments you decide that you want do a cosmetic change in a game yet there's no edit option. So you save all your good gear and delete said character yeeting them back to the beginning BUT you do have all the goated gear. That sums up this volume. See I did that spoiler free.