Back in 2018, about a year from when Hiro Mashima ended Fairy Tail, he got his next work underway with Eden’s Zero, which has Kodansha Comics handling bringing it to a larger audience. We learned back in June 2020 that an anime adaptation was in the works and was previously scheduled for an April 10th, 2021 debut on NTV in Japan. Then the bad news hit that it was set for Netflix in Japan with no simulcast overseas and it’ll be the fall before we see it.
While we’re still waiting for things to open up internationally, the show moves on and two new cast additions were announced today. Check them out with the full cast list below as well as visuals for the new designs!
Shinji Ishihara is set as the chief director with Yushi Suzuki directing. Mitsutaka Hirota is working on the scripts with Yurika Sato handling the character design adaptation. JC Staff is on board for the production.
The Japanese cast includes:
- Takuma Terashima as Shiki Granbell
- Mikako Komatsu as Rebecca Bluegarden
- Rie Kugimiya as Happy
- Hiromichi Tezuka as Weisz Steiner
- Shiori Izawa as E.M. Pino
- Shiki Aoki as Homura Kogetsu
- Sayaka Ohara as Elsie Crimson
- Houchu Ohtsuka as Ziggy
- Kikuko Inoue as Mother
The new additions include:
- Kiyono Yasuno as Witch Regret, one of the Four Shining Stars
- Daisuke Namikawa as Justice, a member of the Cosmic Government’s Interstellar Union Army
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四煌星の一人、ウィッチ・リグレット役は安野希世乃さんに決定‼安野さんからコメントも到着です❣ウィッチは5/22(土)の第7話より登場‼
「エデンズの盾」の活躍を見逃すな🌋
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次回第7話をお楽しみに❣
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The publisher is currently bringing it out digitally as a simulpub through ComiXology, Crunchyroll Manga, and Kindle with more outlets to be announced as that gets finalized. Additionally, it’s getting released in five languages with Chinese, English, French, Korean, and Thai translations being made available.
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Plot Concept: 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.
Previous promos:
[Source: ANN]