Hiro Mashima‘s Fairy Tail is a series that has had a long-standing impact on my life. It is far from perfect and I could talk about its shortcomings for hours on end with friends, but at its best, the series felt like a great encapsulation of the pure, wacky, open-ended whimsy that I think helped reignite my love for simple, open fantasy stories. Now that the main series is over (well, mostly over; The Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest manga is still going strong), how would Mashima follow up on his previous success? Well there’s always the option to just up the scale all the way to 11! If Fairy Tail relished itself as a simple fantasy in a magical kingdom, then it seems like Eden Zero wants to present itself as a grand space odyssey where the galaxy is an endless ocean and every planet is a new island to discover.
Shiki is our new, wide-eyed ball of energy who is defined by those…
