Edens Zero Vol. 01

Edens Zero Vol. 01

It’s here! The creator of Fairy Tail, manga superstar Hiro Mashima, is back with a high-flying space adventure! All the steadfast friendship, crazy fighting, and blue cats you’ve come to expect… IN SPACE!

PATH TO DESTINY

At Granbell Kingdom, an abandoned amusement park, Shiki has lived his entire life among machines. But one day, Rebecca and her cat companion Happy appear at the park’s front gates. Little do these newcomers know that this is the first human contact Granbell has had in a hundred years! As Shiki stumbles his way into making new friends, his former neighbors stir at an opportunity for a robo-rebellion…And when his old homeland becomes too dangerous, Shiki must join Rebecca and Happy on their spaceship and escape into the boundless cosmos.

Biographical Notes:

Hiro Mashima is best known for being the author & artist of Edens Zero, Fairy Tail Zero, Fairy Tail S: Tales from Fairy Tail, Fairy Tail, and Rave Master.

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.

Title Notes:

Fairy Tail was one of the bestselling manga in the English-speaking world, building a larger and larger audience from its release in 2008 to its climax in January 2018.

Hiro Mashima is returning with a new series at the peak of his popularity. He attended New York Comic Con in October 2017 to sold-out crowds of thousands at the Javits Center, the Japan Society, and Kinokuniya bookstore.

Kodansha is betting on Edens Zero as a new flagship shonen adventure series (and a major anime adaptation, while not confirmed, is probably inevitable).

More details on Hiro Mashima:

Hiro Mashima’s twitter account

Publisher’s twitter account