List of Edens Zero episodes

Edens Zero
Promotional image for the anime.
No. of episodes	25
Release
Original network	Nippon TV
Original release	April 11 (2021-04-11) – October 3, 2021 (2021-10-03)

Edens Zero is an anime series is based on the manga series of the same name, written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. On June 12, 2020, Mashima announced on Twitter that the manga would be adapted into an anime television series. At the Tokyo Game Show livestream on September 26, 2020, it was revealed that the anime would be produced by J.C.Staff and directed by Yūshi Suzuki, with Shinji Ishihira serving as chief director, Mitsutaka Hirota overseeing scripts, Yurika Sako designing the characters, and Yoshihisa Hirano composing the music. The first season aired on Nippon TV and other channels from April 11 to October 3, 2021, and was Suzuki's first and final directorial work prior to his death on September 9, 2021.

The first opening theme is "Eden Through the Rough" by Takanori Nishikawa, and the first ending theme is "Bōken no Vlog" (冒険のVLOG, lit. "A Vlog of the Journey") by CHiCO with HoneyWorks. The second opening theme is "Forever" by L'Arc-en-Ciel, and the second ending theme is "Sekai no Himitsu" (世界の秘密, lit. "Secret of the World") by Sayuri. Netflix acquired streaming rights to the series, globally releasing the first twelve episodes outside Japan on August 26, 2021, and the remaining thirteen episodes on November 24 the same year.

On February 9, 2022, it was announced that the series would receive a second season. It is scheduled to premiere in April 2023, with Toshinori Watanabe replacing Suzuki as the director.

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	25		April 11, 2021 (2021-04-11)	October 3, 2021 (2021-10-03)
2	TBA		April 2023 (2023-04)	TBA

Episode list

Season 1 (2021)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original air date
1	1	"Into the Sky Where Cherry Blossoms Flutter" Transliteration: "Sakura Mau Sora ni" (Japanese: 桜舞うソラに)	Katsushi Sakurabi	Mitsutaka Hirota	Shinji Ishihira	April 11, 2021 (2021-04-11)
Rebecca Bluegarden and Happy travel to record online B-Cube videos at the Granbell Kingdom, a robot-operated theme park that has been abandoned for 100 years. They encounter a sole human boy named Shiki, who has lived there since childhood as the adoptive grandson of Ziggy, the park's deceased "Demon King" robot. Shiki frightens Rebecca with his attempts at befriending her, but she warms to him upon witnessing his friendship with the other robots. The next morning, the robots become hostile towards Shiki and Rebecca, seemingly influenced by a virus to rebel against humans for deserting them. When Rebecca cries in sympathy for Shiki, he reluctantly uses Ziggy's gravity Ether Gear ability against his friends to rescue her, earning her friendship. Rebecca and Happy help him escape on their spaceship, the Aqua Wing, revealing themselves to be from another planet in the Sakura Cosmos. Unknown to the three, the robots break down from old age shortly afterwards, having staged their infection to save Shiki from solitude on their own planet, Granbell.
2	2	"A Girl and Her Blue Cat" Transliteration: "Shōjo to Ao Neko" (Japanese: 少女と青猫)	Yoshihiro Mori	Mitsutaka Hirota	Yūshi Suzuki	April 18, 2021 (2021-04-18)
Rebecca and Happy take Shiki to the planet Blue Garden to register him into Shooting Starlight, an adventurers' guild, to serve as their bodyguard. Shortly upon arrival, Shiki recognizes a hologram of Mother, a female entity who is regarded as a mythical goddess that exists beyond the Sakura Cosmos; the guild members do not believe him when he expresses a feeling that he has seen Mother before, despite remembering nothing beyond his life on Granbell. After Rebecca takes Shiki outside in embarrassment, Happy is captured by a member of a street gang. While Shiki battles the gang, Happy reunites with Rebecca and transforms into a pair of blasters that she uses to defeat the gang's leader, revealing that Happy was given a mechanical body to survive a traffic accident from Rebecca's childhood. Meanwhile, the space pirate Elsie Crimson prepares to follow Shiki to Blue Garden.
3	3	"Adventurers" Transliteration: "Bōkensha-tachi" (Japanese: 冒険者たち)	Tsuneo Tominaga	Mitsutaka Hirota	Toshinori Watanabe	April 25, 2021 (2021-04-25)
Shiki continues to be ridiculed by the members of Shooting Starlight, while Rebecca is treated similarly by her guildmate Labilia Christy, a more popular B-Cuber. Disillusioned with the guild, Shiki proposes that he and his friends embark on their own adventure by finding Mother to record a video proving her existence. The three travel to the planet Norma to obtain a more spaceworthy ship from Professor Weisz Steiner, Rebecca and Happy's benefactor; they are missed by Elsie, who identifies Norma as a dead planet. Upon arriving in Weisz's house, the three are held at gunpoint by an unfamiliar young man using the professor's name. In a flash-forward 20,000 years in the future, two astronauts investigating a barren world discover a pair of human remains along with Rebecca's recording device, which is inscribed with the words "Edens Zero".
4	4	"A Man Named Weisz" Transliteration: "Waizu to Iu Otoko" (Japanese: ワイズという男)	Kazuma Satō	Mitsutaka Hirota	Shinji Ishihira	May 2, 2021 (2021-05-02)
At Weisz's house, the stranger escapes from an ambush arranged by the crime boss Sibir, from whom the stranger has stolen a briefcase. Rebecca deduces that her group has traveled fifty years back in time, with the stranger being Weisz's past self. After encountering Weisz again while hiding from Sibir, Shiki accidentally opens the briefcase and finds a small android inside named E.M. Pino, who has an electromagnetic pulse that disables machinery and Ether Gear. Pino remembers Sibir as her master and fearfully returns to him, leaving behind a B-Cube recording that reveals Sibir mistreating her and erasing her memory of her previous master. Learning from her briefcase's maintenance log that she comes from the present era, Shiki and his friends agree to rescue her to stop Sibir from altering history with her technology.
5	5	"Clash!! The Sibir Family" Transliteration: "Gekitotsu!! Shibiru Famirī" (Japanese: 激突!!シビルファミリー)	Katsushi Sakurabi	Mitsutaka Hirota	Yūshi Suzuki	May 9, 2021 (2021-05-09)
Shiki arrives at Sibir's base with his group and defeats most of the gang members, but Weisz hijacks their motorcycle and escapes with Pino. During the ensuing confrontation with Sibir and his Knight Gear mech, Shiki witnesses the death of a robot resembling his friend Michael from Granbell in Sibir's basement, where countless other identical robots have been discarded after being tortured by Sibir. Shiki is enraged by Sibir's cruelty towards robots and defeats him, which inspires Pino to disable the Knight Gear's self-destruct mechanism, saving Shiki while Weisz incapacitates Sibir. Meanwhile, Elsie approaches Norma, with her ship's interior now covered in an organic growth.
6	6	"The Skull Fairy" Transliteration: "Sukaru Fearī-gō" (Japanese: スカルフェアリー号)	Tsuneo Tominaga	Mitsutaka Hirota	Toshinori Watanabe	May 16, 2021 (2021-05-16)
Shiki's group and Pino attempt to leave Norma to have Pino's memory repaired, but the Aqua Wing is blocked by an energy field surrounding Norma. Weisz, who has stowed aboard the ship to evade the police, helps them bypass the field by using his "Machina Maker" Ether Gear to upgrade the ship. The group is contacted by the present-day Weisz, who explains that they did not travel to the past, but entered an alternate history created by a chronophage, a time-eating space monster that reversed Norma's time by fifty years. The Aqua Wing is suddenly captured by Elsie and brought aboard her ship, the Skull Fairy. Threatened with enslavement on the lawless planet Guilst, Shiki challenges Elsie to a duel over ownership of the Skull Fairy, which is infested with shapeshifting alien parasites. Upon reaching the ship's bridge, Shiki is startled to find a skull-faced Elsie.
7	7	"Warship of the Demon King" Transliteration: "Maō Senkan" (Japanese: 魔王戦艦)	Yoshihiro Mori	Mitsutaka Hirota	Shinji Ishihira	May 23, 2021 (2021-05-23)
Shiki defeats Elsie after a struggle, which causes her to change into a small alien creature, revealing her to be a parasite mimicking Elsie's form. The real Elsie congratulates Shiki from a nearby fleet and rewards him with the ship, having been entrusted by Ziggy to deliver it to Shiki to begin with. Engaged in a battle with the Interstellar Union Army, Elsie provides cover for Shiki's group as Weisz activates the ship's warp drive and sends them near Blue Garden. The group cleans and explores the ship, during which time Rebecca finds a bath that gives her powers similar to Ether Gear. In Ziggy's chamber, Shiki unwittingly activates an android named Witch Regret, who reverts the ship to its original form, the warship Edens Zero.
8	8	"Wind Howls on the Highway" Transliteration: "Kaze no Naku Haiwei" (Japanese: 風の鳴くハイウェイ)	Kazuma Satō	Mitsutaka Hirota	Yūshi Suzuki	May 30, 2021 (2021-05-30)
Witch advises Shiki's group to gather her android crewmates, the Demon King's Four Shining Stars, to ensure the Edens Zero's passage through Dragonfall, a dragon swarm that borders the Sakura Cosmos. After Weisz leaves them, Shiki's group visits Shooting Starlight for information on Sister Ivry, one of the three missing androids. While exploring the city, Shiki and Pino save Labilia from being abducted by Jinn, a cyborg and wind Ether Gear user who works as Sister's mercenary. Shiki and Jinn battle each other until Jinn receives orders to retreat, inviting Shiki to a rematch on Guilst. Back at the guild, Shiki and Pino learn about the abduction of several B-Cubers, including Rebecca. Realizing Jinn's involvement, Shiki's group prepares to disembark to Guilst, overheard by a kimono-wearing girl who is familiar with the Edens Zero.
9	9	"Planet Guilst" Transliteration: "Wakusei Girusuto" (Japanese: 惑星ギルスト)	Kiyoshi Murayama	Mitsutaka Hirota	Toshinori Watanabe	June 6, 2021 (2021-06-06)
Rebecca and the other captured B-Cubers are delivered to Guilst by Sister's mercenary squad, Rogue Out. Rogue Out's patron Illega, a collector of petrified women, prepares the B-Cubers for petrification by flooding their cell with a foam that dissolves their clothing. Meanwhile, Weisz returns to the Edens Zero with the kimono-wearing girl, Homura Kōgetsu, with whom he has made a deal to allow access to the ship. Homura offers to help the crew save Rebecca in exchange for the opportunity to duel the Demon King, Shiki, revealing herself to use an Ether Gear that Witch recognizes. On Guilst, Shiki and his team enter Rogue Out's headquarters and are confronted by Sister.
10	10	"The Great Naked Escape" Transliteration: "Hadaka no Dasshutsu Sakusen" (Japanese: 裸の脱出作戦)	Yoshiaki Iwasaki	Mitsutaka Hirota	Shinji Ishihira	June 13, 2021 (2021-06-13)
Homura uses her "Soul Blade" Ether Gear to defeat Sister's android soldiers, allowing Shiki and Pino to stow beneath Sister's ship as she disembarks to Illega's tower. Weisz becomes suspicious of Homura and threatens her by shooting Mosco Versa-0, an intervening Rogue Out member, with a battery of turrets. Meanwhile, Rebecca rallies the other B-Cubers to form a human pyramid and help her reach their cell's elevated glass window, using the clothes-dissolving foam to escape. Illega quickly corners Rebecca, but Shiki finds them and violently assails Illega. Pino calms Shiki by using her EMP to deactivate his Ether Gear, which also unlocks the B-Cubers' cell. Jinn locates Shiki, who fends him off as Pino leads the freed B-Cubers to safety. Aboard the Edens Zero, Witch detects a chronophage approaching Guilst.
11	11	"Sister Ivry" Transliteration: "Shisutā Ivurii" (Japanese: シスター・イヴリィ)	Yoshihiro Mori	Megumu Sasano	Shinji Ishihira	June 20, 2021 (2021-06-20)
Jinn is approached by Sister and her minion Ganoff during his battle with Shiki, who challenges all three at once. As this happens, Homura finds a second android named Sister captive beneath Rogue Out's headquarters, and convinces Weisz to release the android. After Shiki defeats the Rogue Out trio, the second Sister exposes their leader as an imposter who kept her imprisoned for ten years to harness her healing powers. Sister revives Illega's petrified victims before joining Shiki's group to escape from the chronophage. Jinn kills the imposter, accusing her of falsely promising to save his younger sister, Kleene. Meanwhile, Rebecca subdues Illega to rescue a B-Cuber who has fallen behind during their escape. Following the revival of Illega's victims, Rebecca allows them to evacuate with the other B-Cubers while she waits for Shiki, with ten minutes remaining until the chronophage's arrival.
12	12	"New Friends" Transliteration: "Arata na Nakama-tachi" (Japanese: 新たな仲間たち)	Hiroaki Takagi	Mitsutaka Hirota	Toshinori Watanabe	June 27, 2021 (2021-06-27)
Shiki reunites with Rebecca and Pino in the chaos surrounding the chronophage's approach, using his gravity to drop his group directly onto the Edens Zero to escape. The chronophage consumes 1,200 years of Guilst's time, killing most of the planet's population while restoring its pristine nature; among those who escape is Drakken Joe, one of six intergalactic outlaws called the Oración Seis Galáctica. Aboard the Edens Zero, Homura reveals herself to be a pupil of Valkyrie Yuna, one of the missing Shining Stars. Homura and Weisz are accepted as permanent crew members, as is a reprogrammed Mosco, who is revealed to be from the ship's original crew. Following Sister's intuition, the crew visit the monument Iron Hill orbiting Blue Garden, where they immediately find Hermit Mio, another of the Four Shining Stars.
13	13	"The Super Virtual Planet" Transliteration: "Chōkasō Wakusei" (Japanese: 超仮想惑星)	Katsushi Sakurabi	Mitsutaka Hirota	Yūshi Suzuki	July 4, 2021 (2021-07-04)
The Edens Zero crew learn that Hermit is in a catatonic state caused by psychological trauma. Witch determines that Hermit's mind is secluded within Digitalis, a virtual planet and server for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Rogue Fantasia. Shiki and his team enter the game by uploading their consciousness into digital avatars, warned by Witch that any injuries and death they sustain in the virtual world will affect their physical bodies. After interrogating the game's sentient non-player characters (NPCs), the team travels to the city near Hermit's location and encounters Jamilov, a player and affiliate of Drakken Joe who is notorious for killing NPCs and other players without being banned from the game.
14	14	"The Girl on the Hill" Transliteration: "Oka no Ue no Shōjo" (Japanese: 丘の上の少女)	Kiyotaka Ōhata	Megumu Sasano	Kiyotaka Ōhata	July 11, 2021 (2021-07-11)
After Jamilov logs out to attend a meeting with Drakken, Shiki's team reaches Hermit and tries persuading her to return to the Edens Zero, but she resists out of hatred for humans. Returning to the city, the team witnesses an oncoming siege of enemy monsters reprogrammed by Jamilov to kill the surviving NPCs. Shiki rescues Hermit from the monsters while his teammates help protect the city. Meanwhile, Homura is seemingly revealed to be working against the Edens Zero crew when she allies with Jamilov, intent on joining Drakken's ranks. As Homura openly betrays the team after Shiki returns with Hermit, a second Homura with a different avatar appears and saves Shiki from being killed by the monster army.
15	15	"Great Kaiju Shiki" Transliteration: "Daikaijū Shiki" (Japanese: 大怪獣シキ)	Yoshihiro Mori	Mitsutaka Hirota	Toshinori Watanabe	July 18, 2021 (2021-07-18)
The traitor Homura unmasks herself as Amira, a shapeshifting government agent who is investigating Drakken, and flees after failing to kill the real Homura. Finding that Jamilov is using cheats to gain advantages over Shiki, Hermit begrudgingly helps Shiki fight through her own cheats. Driven to frustration, Jamilov enters a computer code that begins deleting the game world and characters; Hermit is initially indifferent towards the NPCs, but is swayed into undoing the code when Shiki declares them to be living beings. After Shiki defeats Jamilov, Hermit agrees to exit the game, but continues to isolate herself. The Edens Zero's computer systems are then hacked by Jamilov's real-world persona, Spider, who gains full control over the ship.
16	16	"Fireworks" Transliteration: "Hanabi" (Japanese: 花火)	Kazuma Satō	Mitsutaka Hirota	Shinji Ishihira	July 25, 2021 (2021-07-25)
In a flashback fifteen years in the past, Hermit seeks to befriend the human Dr. Müller and his research team, whom she assists in developing a machine to provide energy to the dying robot planet Hook. To her horror, the machine obliterates Hook and her robot colleagues stationed there while Müller and the other humans celebrate, revealing that they engineered the disaster as an act of contempt towards robots. Müller conducts torturous experiments on Hermit for the next two years until he and his team are arrested, leaving a traumatized Hermit to distance herself from all human contact. Back in the present, the crew refuses to abandon Hermit as Spider destroys the Edens Zero from within, leading her to realize that she still desires friendship with humans. Assured by Shiki, Hermit restores the ship's systems and humiliates Spider with a prank missile attack, returning to her old, cheerful self.
17	17	"The Temple of Knowledge" Transliteration: "Chishiki no Kyūden" (Japanese: 知識の宮殿)	Yoshiyuki Nogami	Megumu Sasano	Kiyoko Sayama	August 1, 2021 (2021-08-01)
Hermit rejoins the Four Shining Stars, leaving Valkyrie as the last member to be found. Sister objects to visiting Shooting Starlight for information on Valkyrie's whereabouts, suspecting the guild's master, Noah Glenfield, to be connected to the events on Guilst. As an alternative, the crew travel to the planet Mildian to consult an omniscient fortune-teller who lives there over Valkyrie's whereabouts, spending the voyage modeling costumes in the ship's dress factory as part of Weisz's deal with Homura. The fortune-teller, Xiaomei, sends Shiki's team to a battle coliseum within her temple to compensate for her knowledge. Meanwhile, Spider seeks for Drakken to retaliate against the crew, but Drakken has him executed for his incompetence. Believing he can profit off of the Edens Zero, Drakken contacts Noah for information on the ship.
18	18	"Words Will Give You Strength" Transliteration: "Kotoba wa Tsuyosa o Ataeru" (Japanese: 言葉は強さを与える)	Tsuneo Tominaga	Mitsutaka Hirota	Toshinori Watanabe	August 8, 2021 (2021-08-08)
Xiaomei challenges each member of Shiki's group to a series of duels to indulge her obsession with watching battles, as she has restricted her powers to prevent herself from foreseeing their outcomes. Shiki immediately defeats the first opponent, a metallic warrior, with a single punch; Rebecca wins the second match against a B-Cuber who uses a bullet-resistant force field, which she easily bypasses with an ordinary kick; and Weisz exploits a loophole in the rules to use Pino's EMP against the third opponent, an Ether Gear user with superhuman speed. For the final match, Homura is pit against a supposed replica of Valkyrie, whom she discovers to actually be a training robot programmed by Xiaomei to act the part after defeating her. Satisfied, Xiaomei reveals the real Valkyrie to be on the planet Sun Jewel, and warns the crew of future confrontations against others who seek Mother.
19	19	"From the Planet of Eternity" Transliteration: "Eiei Mukyū no Hoshi yori" (Japanese: 永永無窮の星より)	Yoshiaki Iwasaki	Mitsutaka Hirota	Shinji Ishihira	August 15, 2021 (2021-08-15)
The crew anticipate a three-day voyage to Sun Jewel to avoid a hazardous debris field near the planet. En route, they rescue a shipwrecked captain named Connor from a passing school of fish in space. Connor quickly exhausts the crew's hospitality with his intrusive behavior and poor manners, but when the crew confront him for unauthorized piloting of the ship, they find that he has safely brought them to Sun Jewel through the debris field within the first day of the voyage; he remains aboard the ship, withholding the name of his original ship, Edens One. Weisz remains behind to construct a new weapon while Shiki's group investigates Sun Jewel, where Shiki and Homura thwart a casino robbery. Madame Kurenai, the planet's ruler and an associate of Drakken, publicly executes the robbers with a laser-mounted satellite called Satellite Blaze. For their use of violence against the robbers, Shiki and Homura are branded as criminals by Madame Kurenai's emissaries, who fire the same laser on them.
20	20	"Stones" Transliteration: "Sutōnzu" (Japanese: 鉱石生命体(ストーンズ))	Yoshihiro Mori	Megumu Sasano	Yūshi Suzuki	August 29, 2021 (2021-08-29)
Shiki and Homura are transported to Sun Jewel's labor district, where they are sentenced to harvest precious metals from alien monsters called Stones alongside the planet's impoverished citizens. The two quickly run afoul of Madame Kurenai's henchman Garrot, the district's cruel warden, who lashes Homura with his paralyzing whip and takes her away. Ignoring Garrot's threats against the other laborers, Shiki confronts him to rescue Homura. In the rich sector, Labilia offers to help Rebecca's group enter the labor district in exchange for a B-Cube collaboration as repayment for Shiki rescuing her from Jinn. However, the video is revealed to be a malicious prank on Rebecca, and Labilia reneges her promise after publicly humiliating her. Rebecca gains the sympathy of Nino, a fellow B-Cuber in the video's audience, who offers to guide her to the labor district himself.
21	21	"Reset" Transliteration: "Risetto" (Japanese: リセット)	Kiyoshi Murayama	Mitsutaka Hirota	Toshinori Watanabe	September 5, 2021 (2021-09-05)
Garrot transports Shiki and Homura to the den of the Black Rock, Sun Jewel's most powerful and valuable Stone. Meanwhile, Nino reveals himself to be a benign agent of Madame Kurenai and allows Rebecca's group to access the labor district. The group encounters Paul, a disciple of Valkyrie with a B-Cube that contains the truth of Valkyrie's circumstances, which he is hesitant to reveal to Homura. Guided by Paul, Rebecca's group reunites with Shiki and Homura and helps them defeat the Black Rock. Although this fulfills the quota displayed on Shiki and Homura's slave collars, the quotas immediately reset to their original value, instead of freeing them as they expect. Convinced of Homura's resolve, Paul removes the collars with his thievery Ether Gear and gives her the B-Cube. In the rich sector, Kurenai readies her satellite to eradicate the labor district in response to an impending uprising among Valkyrie's followers.
22	22	"My Mother, the Machine" Transliteration: "Kikai no Haha" (Japanese: 機械の母)	Kazuma Satō	Mitsutaka Hirota	Shinji Ishihira	September 12, 2021 (2021-09-12)
In a flashback ten years in the past, Valkyrie raises an orphaned Homura on the planet Oedo, where their relationship faces disapproval from natives who are prejudiced against machines. Five years into her training, Homura is reprimanded by a local magistrate when she attacks his son for insulting Valkyrie. The magistrate convinces Valkyrie that Homura needs her biological mother, who is revealed to be Kurenai. Finding Kurenai enslaved at Sun Jewel's labor district, Valkyrie takes her place in debt so that Kurenai may reunite with Homura. Two years later, Valkyrie learns that Kurenai has since remained on Sun Jewel and usurped the planet's previous ruler, having never intended to return to Homura. After Kurenai provokes a horde of Stones into attacking the district, Valkyrie perishes slaying the horde to defend the other laborers. Back in the present, Homura finds her teacher's remains and is devastated when Pino confirms that Valkyrie is beyond repair. Shiki consoles Homura and leaves her to grieve while he confronts Kurenai, resolving to bring her to Homura for judgement in Valkyrie's stead.
23	23	"Until the Day It Turns to Strength" Transliteration: "Itsuka Tsuyosa ni Kawaru Made" (Japanese: いつか強さに変わるまで)	Yūshi Suzuki Yūsuke Onoda	Megumu Sasano	Toshinori Watanabe	September 19, 2021 (2021-09-19)
During Shiki's battle with Kurenai's forces, Drakken hacks the Satellite Blaze for Kurenai's attempt to double-cross him, and prepares to seize the Edens Zero in combat. Kurenai sends Garrot, a reluctant Nino, and their companion Baku to attack the labor district while she battles Shiki with her Knight Gear, the Kurenai Dragoon. Rebecca tries recruiting Homura to aid the laborers against Kurenai's forces, but decides against it upon finding her still in a stupor over Valkyrie's death, and offers her own words of encouragement instead. Baku is defeated by Weisz, who has assumed a superhero alter ego named "Arsenal" with his completed weapon, a mechanical suit that he modifies with his Ether Gear.
24	24	"Taking Up the Torch" Transliteration: "Ishi o Tsugu Mono" (Japanese: 意志を継ぐ者)	Yūshi Suzuki	Megumu Sasano	Yūshi Suzuki	September 26, 2021 (2021-09-26)
As Shiki brings his battle with Kurenai into the labor district, Rebecca is forced to fight Nino when he traps her group during a supply run. After Nino defeats Rebecca, she notices several parallels between the crew's battles on Sun Jewel and Mildian, discovering hints that cause an Ether Gear to manifest in her legs. Her Ether Gear rewinds time to the moment before her defeat, allowing her to subdue Nino; she names her Ether Gear "Leaper" after her newly enhanced speed, unaware of its true power. Meanwhile, Homura notices the laborers' battle and attempts to join her allies, but is paralyzed as a delayed effect from Garrot's earlier lashing. Left at Garrot's mercy, Homura uses her ultimate Ether Gear technique to impale him with Valkyrie's sword after he negates her attack. She recovers and reunites with Rebecca's group afterward, thanking her friends for helping her overcome her grief.
25	25	"Someone to Love" Transliteration: "Aisuru Mono" (Japanese: 愛する者)	Yūshi Suzuki Yoshiyuki Nogami	Mitsutaka Hirota	Yūshi Suzuki Shinji Ishihira	October 3, 2021 (2021-10-03)
Shiki combines his powers with the Kurenai Dragoon's missiles to destroy the mech, resulting in Kurenai's capture. After Nino deactivates Kurenai's robot army, Shiki and Paul elect Homura to decide Kurenai's fate. Kurenai feigns compassion for Homura to gain her forgiveness, but Homura determines her true mother to be Valkyrie, demanding Kurenai to leave and never return; Kurenai is assaulted and taken captive by one of her previous victims shortly afterwards. Shiki's team leaves Valkyrie enshrined on Sun Jewel and returns to the Edens Zero, which has evaded Drakken, to inform the crew of Valkyrie's death. Witch and Sister argue over recreating Valkyrie from her backup data, which Witch explains would result in a different android lacking Valkyrie's emotional ties to the crew. Agreeing with Shiki that they must accept their loss, Homura offers herself as Valkyrie's substitute in the Four Shining Stars. The Shining Stars welcome Homura and mourn for Valkyrie before the crew continue on their journey, pursued by Drakken.

Season 2 (2023)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original air date
26	1	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Home media release

Region 2 — Japan

Vol.	Episodes	Artwork	Release date	Ref.
1	1–3	Shiki Granbell	August 4, 2021
2	4–6	Rebecca Bluegarden & Happy	September 8, 2021
3	7–9	Weisz Steiner & E.M. Pino	October 6, 2021
4	10–12	Homura Kōgetsu	November 3, 2021
5	13–16	Witch Regret	December 1, 2021
6	17–19	Sister Ivry & Mosco Versa-0	January 12, 2022
7	20–22	Hermit Mio	February 2, 2022
8	23–25	Valkyrie Yuna	March 2, 2022