EDENS ZERO 25

Edens Zero #25

by Hiro Mashima

優しかった「じいちゃん」と冷酷な「魔王」。ジギーの持つ二面性の真実を知り動揺するシキ。だが、その拳の迷いがピーノに危機をもたらし……。一方、エルシーはドラゴンを操る絶大な力を掌中に収める。だが、その胸中には仲間を失った憤激が渦巻いていた……。訪れる厄災、そして永遠の決別。2万年の宿命に終止符が打たれる時、真の敵が姿を現す!!

Genres: Manga, Science Fiction, Comedy, Young Adult

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 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

[Sheepy · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many revelations! Plus the series heading into its final arc!!!

[Timothy Pitkin · Rating 3 out of 5]

So we get an end to the Lendard arc as we see Shiki finally defeat Ziggy and it was kind of touching but we also see Elsie defeat her mother and end the dragon threat and seeing what happens to her and Justice was very touching. But I am not to sure about the next part since it looks like the main focus is going to be time travel as the entire crew are going back in time which I am not such a fan of that concept.

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 We wrap up the Lendard Arc and see the final battle with Ziggy. We get to see a lot of parents as well. Which is pretty neat. The manga seems to be making a pretty big shift from here since the big bad Ziggy has been taken care of and a new threat emerges that is sending our crew off to Universe Zero. I imagine this is also where season 3 of the manga will end.

Read 11/25/25
Overdrive Shiki and Ziggy with Justice and Elsie on the cover of volume 25.

[Cara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vol 25 is intense! Be warned! The volume explores themes of friendship, loyalty, and the meaning of family while expanding the imaginative world of the series. With its thrilling action and intriguing revelations, it is a must-read for fans of the series.

[zy忍 · Rating 3 out of 5]

*sighs*

[Ollie · Rating 5 out of 5]

✨✨✨✨✨

[Isel · Rating 4 out of 5]

So... Is it going to end soon?

[David Doel · Rating 5 out of 5]

And now we get to replay the beginning. Currently, volumes past 27 are not available to me, but I'll probably look for them as they become available.

[Carver Booth · Rating 5 out of 5]

peak

[Gigi · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5⭐

[Cristhian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Weird but ok.

[Elissa Huskins · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume was super emotional. I can imagine it’s only going to get worse as we reach the final arc. TEARS WILL BE SHED! I need Shiki and Rebecca to end up together soon!!

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

With Shiki beating Ziggy. Elsie defeating her mother. Elsie and Justice having their moment (all the feels). There was so much going on here!

[寿理 宮本 · Rating 4 out of 5]

There's an amount I look at the type of book I am keeping vs. donating to free libraries once done, especially as I reorganise my shelves, and Mashima always looks next on the chopping block.

Then I read a book, and I put that chop on hold.

I think the big appeal to me, specifically, is the consistency of style, that after the [need to look up the approximate volume and insert here] volume of Fairy Tail, his art* became delightfully consistent, something I've come to appreciate after giving up on other titles because the artist's style changed to a significant enough degree I stopped liking it.

It's also just personally sort of funny to me thinking of, say, Shiki is Space Haru/Natsu, Rebecca is Space Elie/Lucy, Happy is... Happy (duh), etc. like the Mashima characters are cosplaying new characters who are still a very lot of the old characters. I mean, Mashima made Sieghart come back MULTIPLE TIMES, in the EXACT SAME DESIGN, so why not the others? I almost wish more creators did that—the next closest I can make even sort of the same joke with is Hiromu Arakawa, with a lot of new characters just being variants of Fullmetal Alchemist designs. (Then again, I don't follow a lot of creators who've managed to make multiple titles the way they have...) So I kind of keep Mashima around since he clearly likes the same joke I do!

I say all that, then there's another gratuitous bath scene where of COURSE the girls' being naked is a punchline. Because male gaze and target audience. Sigh.

That said, if I IGNORE that and look at the rest of the story, there are some rather nice loose ends tied up in this volume that I really like! In fact, if I didn't have FIVE MORE VOLUMES on my shelf that I haven't read yet because I couldn't find THIS one and didn't want to skip anything, if you were to tell me this was the last volume, I'd probably believe you AND be kind of okay with that! It wraps up in a sort of "soft reboot" but with a happy twist that's really nice. :D

(Of course, still have to take off the star for the bath scene... but I really should know what I'm getting into after all this time, given it's MASHIMA.)

So, feels like a series end but technically isn't, and it did take me a minute to at least fake remember where the prior volume left off, but on the whole I like it. Definitely recommended for existing fans! Not for newcomers, for certain—you wouldn't appreciate the end like a long-time reader would.

*and his assistants', I'm not ignorant of the manga process

[Develbooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beaucoup d'informations dans ce tome et une nouvelle aventure commence !