#Xiaomei Edens Zero

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[animeclawfoots]

Edens Zero episode 48 (2023)

[therealmofamorus]

Muse suggestion: Xiaomei (Edens Zero)

Interesting

[animeniacfan]

Now Laguna has Overdrive, Too!

[itshikka]

Mother & Xiaomei

[fionnalovesanimeboys]

What do you mean ?! We're finally getting to the big battle and you telling me we will have to wait AND what the hell was all of that at the end of the episode ? Seems like our favourites are going to take some damage and suffer TwT

[charlierejouis]

Quick Notes: Chapter 293

This is it, everyone. Let's go!

It's great to see Xiaomei introduce us one last time.

It's crazy how little time seems to have passed. Everyone looks pretty similar to the way they did the last couple chapters. Mashima's pretty good about that.

Some people wish we got more lead-in to Shiki and Rebecca's relationship. I get it, but I've seen people say Xiaomei's their kid and Void was their kid, among other things. This was inevitable.

I'm not a fan of Weisz's new hair. It's long enough to tell that he's older, but it feels wrong to see him without spiky hair. Although, he does look like the older professor now...

It's great to see Homura and Valkyrie are on Oedo with good Kurenai. If only we knew where Creed was...

"One plus two makes one million power!!" What a throwback. It's still three, though.

It's good to see everyone else here.

You know, it's good to see that Pino gets to come back because Mother allows her to be reborn. It should feel like a cop-out, but it doesn't.

"And it doesn't matter if you're a human or a machine. Not to my master. Or to my friends on the EDENS ZERO." What a quote to end the series on.

I'm not sure about EZ as a whole just yet, but this might be the best ending to any of Mashima's works.

It's been a pleasure to do this for six years straight. I hope you enjoyed seeing these as much as I've enjoyed making them.

See you!

[rkmatsu]

DRA fancasting

I was heavily inspired by @creepercraftguy's headcanons on voices for the Danganronpa Another cast so I caved and did my own as well. I have decided to use VAs that weren't in any of the official Danganronpa games and anime while also considering the other roles the voice actors are known for as well as their overall energy.

That being said, this was made in all good fun if it and its' sequel (which I'll post tomorrow hopefully) were official games. I hope you enjoy the picks as I did.

Yuki Maeda - Zach Aguilar Notable Roles: - Tanjiro Kamado (Kimetsu no Yaiba) - Koichi Hirose (JJBA: Diamond is Unbreakable) - Genos (One-Punch Man) *Also for a note, Utsuro himself will share the same VA as Yuki, though the voice would have some distinction.

Akane Taira - Lisa Reimold Notable Roles: - Ui Tamaki (Madoka Magica: Magia Record) - Emma Verde (Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club) - Kurumi (Lycoris Recoil)

Kiyoka Maki - Amber Lee Connors Notable Roles: - Shouko Komi (Komi-san) - Pieck Finger (Attack on Titan) - Furina/Focalors (Genshin Impact)

Mitsuhiro “Mitch” Higa -Jonah Scott Notable Roles: - Kojiro Nanjo (SK8 the Infinity) - Legoshi (Beastars) - Tatsu (Way of the House Husband)

Kizuna Tomori - Sarah Anne Williams Notable Roles: - Sayaka Miki (Madoka Magica) - Nonon Jakuzure (Kill la Kill) - Peacock (Skullgirls)

Ayame Hatano - Ryan Bartley Notable Roles: - Komugi (Hunter x Hunter) - Shoko Ieiri (Jujutsu Kaisen) - Ram (Re:ZERO)

Kakeru Yamaguchi - Alejandro Saab (CyYu) Notable Roles: - Gabimaru the Hollow (Hell's Paradise) - Tatsuya Shiba (The Honor at Magic High School) - Izumi Miyamura (Horimiya)

Kanata Inori - Brianna Knickerbocker Notable Roles: - Hu Tao (Genshin Impact) - Kanao Tsuyuri (Kimetsu no Yaiba) - Filo (Rise of Shield Hero)

Kinji Uehara - Daman Mills Notable Roles: - Lyney (Genshin Impact) - Blade (Honkai Star Rail) - Legato Bluesummers (Trigun Stampede)

Haruhiko "Haru" Kobayashikawa - Aleks Le Notable Roles: - Sonon Kusakabe (Final Fantasy 7 Remake) - Luke (Street Fighter 6) - Caiman (Dohedoro)

Satsuki Iranami - Jenny Yokobori Notable Roles: - Yoimiya (Genshin Impact) - Xiaomei (EDENS ZERO) - Martina Electro (Rain Code)

Yamato Kisaragi - Landon McDonald Notable Roles: - Kazuki Kurusu (Buddy Daddies) - Ranpo Edogawa (Bungou Stray Dogs; S3 - Onwards) - Noritoshi Kamo (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Mikako Kurokawa - Anne Yatco Notable Roles: - Nobara Kugisaki (Jujutsu Kaisen) - Raiden Shogun / Raiden Ei (Genshin Impact) - Lola Metrose (The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter)

Tsurugi Kinjo - Howard Wang Notable Roles: - Narciso Anasui (JJBA: Stone Ocean) - Hikari Ku (Octopath Traveler II) - Langa Hasegawa (SK8 the Infinity)

Rei Mekaru - Lizzie Freeman Notable Roles: - Yanfei (Genshin Impact) - Trish Una (JJBA: Golden Wind) - Hinata Tachibana (Tokyo Revengers)

Teruya Otori - Nazeeh Tarsha Notable Roles: - Alhaitham (Genshin Impact) - Chobei Aza (Hell's Paradise) - Jude (The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent)

[creepercraftguy]

Danganronpa Rebirth - Voice Actor Headcanons.

So here’s the latest update of this little series on my blog where I assign official voice actors to characters that don’t have them. Today we’re doing another Fanganronpa, Danganronpa Rebirth.

Now as per usual, I need to point out a few things.

This is NOT CANON. These are HEADCANONS and are unofficial. It’s just a hypothetical situation. If the characters were voiced, this is who I imagine would voice them.

I am aware of RebirthVoices being a thing, and this post is not to besmirch them or their work or effort. This is just a hypothetical cast that Chunsoft would probably hire assuming Rebirth was actually a canon game in the series.

I did the same thing with other fangans in the past, SDRA2 and Blowback. Check those out if you’re interested.

This series ended up becoming a lot more popular than I initially thought, so I’m just gonna keep up the apparent good work. So without further ado, I hope you enjoy my ideas. Or don’t. Your choice.

Ayumu Fujimori - KALIN COATES

Also Voiced:

Young Esdeath (Akame Ga Kill)

Pochi (World’s End Club)

Utakata Misogi (Chivalry of a Failed Knight)

Akira Tsuchiya - KELLEN GOFF

Also Voiced:

Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights at Freddy’s)

Kai Chisaki/Overhaul (My Hero Academia)

Diavolo (JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure: Golden Wind)

Aruma Todoroki - ALEXIS TIPTON

Also Voiced:

Lucina (Fire Emblem)

Mei Hatsumi (My Hero Academia)

Kid Trunks (Dragon Ball)

Kasumi Izumo - SARAH WIEDENHEFT

Also Voiced:

Power (Chainsaw Man)

Tohru (Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid)

Zeno (Dragon Ball)

Kazuomi Samejima - BEN BALMACEDA

Also Voiced:

Raido (Aharen Is Indecipherable)

Neku Sakuraba (The World Ends With You)

Pedro (One Piece)

Note: This is interchangable with Max Mittelman, but I already assigned him Yamato Kisaragi in a previous post and didn’t want overlap.

Kego Sakuma - CHRISTIAN BANAS

Also Voiced:

Thoma (Genshin Impact)

Steve (Dying Light 2)

Mango Cookie (Cookie Run Kingdom)

Maiko Kagura - SKYLER DAVENPORT

Also Voiced: 

March 7th (Honkai: Star Rail)

Azusa Aizawa (I've Been Killing Slimes For 300 Years And Maxed Out My Level)

Valerie (Pokemon Masters)

Marin Mizuta - BRIANNA KNICKERBOCKER

Also Voiced: 

Rem (Re:Zero)

Hu Tao (Genshin Impact)

Sakura (Fire Emblem)

Mikoto Itsuki - KAYLI MILLS

Also Voiced:

Emilia (Re:Zero)

Alice Synthesis Thirty (Sword Art Online: Alicazation)

Keqing (Genshin Impact)

Misuzu Aisaka - MEGAN TAYLOR HARVEY

Also Voiced:

Sophia (Persona 5 Strikers)

Ringo (Soul Hackers 2)

Towa Herschel (Trails of Cold Steel)

Mitsunari Koga - AARON DISMUKE

Also Voiced:

Hanzo Urushihara/Lucifer (The Devil is a Part-Timer)

Senku Ishigami (Dr Stone)

Tamaki Amajiki/Suneater (My Hero Academia)

Narumi Osone - JENNY YOKOBORI

Also Voiced:

Yoimiya (Genshin Impact)

Pupil (Akudama Drive)

Xiaomei (Eden’s Zero)

Nico Himuro - CHANDNI PAREKH

Also Voiced:

Faruzan (Genshin Impact)

Lola Bunny (Bugs Bunny Builders)

Harley Quinn (Batwheels)

Saiji Rokudou - CHRIS HACKNEY

Also Voiced: 

Dimitri (Fire Emblem)

Kamisato Ayato (Genshin Impact)

Illumi Zoldyck (HunterXHunter)

Seishi Yodogawa/Zen Katagiri - XANDER MOBUS

Also Voiced: 

Joker (Persona 5)

Tanzo Kubo (NEO: The World Ends With You)

Yahaba (Demon Slayer)

Monodora - GREG AYRES

Also Voiced:

Monokuma (Danganronpa: The Animation)

Negi Springfield (Negima)

Youhei Sunohara (Clannad)

[toonabby]

Happy (late) triple birthdays; Jenny Yokobori, Kimberly Anne Campbell, and Nazeeh Tarsha!

Jenny Yokobori's notable voice roles:

Kumiko Albertson from The Simpsons

Yoimiya from Genshin Impact

Kuromi and Cinnamoroll from Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures

Keita Atsumi from Taisho Otome Fairy Tale

Jade Hunter and Ainsley Slater from Rainbow High

Diesel and Maiden from Goddess of Victory: Nikke

Xiaomei from Edens Zero

Anri from Neptunia: Sisters VS Sisters

Nazeeh Tarsha's notable voice roles:

Alhaitham from Genshin Impact

Azo Chobei from Hell's Paradise

Kyoichi Majima from My Home Hero

Ichirou Kuga from A Galaxy Next Door

Finn Rasado from Rainbow High

Suzaku Ban from Shinobi no Ittoki

Soji from Revenger

Lauda Neill from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

Blue Gelato from Love After World Domination

Kimberly Anne Campbell's voice roles:

Hayase Nagatoro from Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro

Nahida from Genshin Impact

Augusta Frederica Adel-Adler from 86 EIGHTY-SIX

Hina from Hunter x Hunter

Shino and Kano Mizusaki from Blue Reflection Ray

Argo from Sword Art Online: Progressive

Jemima from The Promise Neverland

Typhon from Re: Zero

Ao from Disgaea 7

[historyhermann]

English Sub Season Review: Eden’s Zero Season One

Overview (Spoilers Below)

In this sci-fi anime, Eden’s Zero, follow Shiki and his friends on a journey across the galaxy to find all four sisters and give the Edens Zero battleship its full power. On the way, they encounter a player who murders people in a virtual world, a devious hacker, a power-hungry leader, and a person who can see the future.

Reprinted from Bubbleblabber, my History Hermann WordPress blog on Jan. 31, 2023, and Wayback Machine. This was the fourth article I wrote for Bubbleblabber.  I would recommend this series. I claimed that I watched the dubbed version in this review, but that was a lie, as I actually watched the subbed version, as I prefer subs to dubs any day. I said I watched the dubbed version so this would be published. This is the ONLY article I wrote for Bubbleblabber that I'm still proud of. This post was originally published on December 20, 2021.

Our Take

The first twelve episodes of this series introduced a young boy named Shiki Granbell (Sean Chiplock), who meets the equivalent of a YouTuber, Rebecca Bluegarden (Kira Buckland) and her cat companion, Happy (Tia Ballard), as they search through time and space for a being called “Mother” (Colleen Clickenbeard), with Shiki trying to make as many friends as he can. This space romp continues the story of Shiki, Rebecca, and Happy, with some comparing it to earlier works by Hiro Mashima like Fairy Tail and Rave Master, as their crew continues to expand. The entire English VA cast moves the series forward with its energy, radiance, and exuberance.

The animation of this series from J.C.Staff is smooth and captivating, especially in battle scenes. It continues to astound, especially with new opening and closing themes beginning with episode 13 and moving forward. There are colorful characters, backgrounds, and animation which often blows you away. This includes the introduction of the wealthy sector of the planet Sun Jewel in the later part of the season. The show’s second opening theme is “Forever” by L’Arc-en-Ciel, and the second ending theme is “Sekai no Himitsu.” J.C.Staff is known for producing well-known series like A Certain Scientific Railgun, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Azumanga Daioh.

There is the typical storytelling device of a narrator named Xiaomei (Jenny Yokobori). She is the Time Oracle and presides over the Temple of Knowledge on the Planet of Time. She knows everything in the universe and has future-vision a little like Garnet in Steven Universe, as she knows that the future branches out in various possibilities. She is weirdly obsessed with putting her visitors through battles, not knowing their outcome. She spends most of her time in the series as a narrator from the audience, not unlike the Watcher in What If…?

I found the episodes where Shiki and his friends go to Digitalis, a virtual planet/dimension, interesting. This isn’t because Pino chooses to be a human, Homura chooses a male avatar, or Weisz a female avatar, the latter two choosing avatars different from their original genders. Rather, it is due to the setting itself it seems to be applying to those who play with virtual reality or online multiplayer games. Specifically, Shiki and his friends can’t rewrite the code of the planet, but can use their real-world abilities, and they can log out of the game. The mix between reality and the virtual world reminds me a bit of The Hollow, which toyed with this concept.

Eden’s Zero has similarities with other shows which have hackers, as Hermit is well-skilled with breaking into systems to help her friends. Hermit is a bit different, however, as she has a dark past. She was deceived by humans into building a cannon which obliterated another planet, and for years she is tortured by scientists for their own ends. While she is rescued from a prison, the trauma of her experience prevents her from stopping a hacker which is destroying the Edens Zero, until Rebecca connects directly with her, and Shiki tells her to believe in herself, causing her to regain some faith in humanity.

The characters of Happy, who can transform into blasters, and Pino, who has an EMP which can knock out technology for a brief period, are interesting additions as well. Perhaps it is a commentary on anime shows themselves when it turns out that the Ether Gear that Rebecca, Homura, and Shiki use do not work when your hands are tied. In contrast to other series, it is made clear that everything has a heart, no matter whether it is human or robotic. However, this also means that humans and robots can die and stop functioning.

One of the intriguing plot threads is Homura’s journey. She becomes more a part of the team in these episodes, but is willing to save her friends, even from innumerable odds, like on the digital world, when she is facing a government spy, Amira (Emi Lo), who is impersonating her, and a murderer who is cheating to stay in the game. She hopes to reach her master and mother-of-sorts, Valkyrie, as part of the mission to find the goddess of the universe and struggles with facing a copy of Valkyrie when she visits the Planet of Time and thinks back to her early life. This comes to a head in episodes 19 to 25, when the crew go to the planet Sun Jewel, with wealthy and poor sectors. Whether it is  like Star Wars and Fairy Tail, or not, it is a unique series in and of itself.

Homura finds out that the brutal Madame Kurenai, who won’t tolerate any crime or violence on the planet, is her greedy mother, who has enforcers to keep “order” in the labor district of the planet and wants to destroy the whole district with a superweapon as it isn’t profitable for her. She also discovers, to her horror, that her master, is no more, and she takes time to process this, while the audience learns of how Kurenai betrayed Valkyrie, continuing to fight with encouragement from her friends. Following Kurenai’s defeat by Shiki, she rejects Kurenai’s plea for forgiveness and says she wants nothing to do with Kurenai. In a bit of karma, Kurenai runs into the forest and is captured by Cedric, a man whose face she burned off, and they turn her into their “pet.” Homura makes peace with what happened, leaving Valkyrie behind, and decides to take on the same role as Valkyrie. Two of the shining stars, Witch and Sister, even embrace each other over the death of Valkyrie, and cry together, sad to see the loss of their friend.

There are funny parts in the series, like the different outfits the characters wear, including skimpy ones, especially embarrassing Rebecca. She is a character who changes outfits more than any other character, including when she wears an outfit from a popular anime, only to have her be embarrassed by Labilia Christy (Lizzie Freeman), an arrogant B-Cuber. She also spends time discovering her own magical powers, even using them to defeat Nino, a B-Cuber who declares that anime will save the universe, and saves the day by telling Kurenai’s enforcers, known as the Punishers, to stand down.

Eden’s Zero does not shy away from maturity. For instance, episode 21 has warnings for language and smoking. In other episodes, we see characters being tortured or dressed in outfits which appears to be fan service. On the other hand, Weisz, a male character, is naked in one episode, and embarrasses himself, so it’s not only women who wear revealing clothes. Additionally, there is fighting in nearly every episode, mainly led by Shiki to protect his friends, including in the final episodes of this season where Madame Kurenai fights against Shiki in a huge mecha, through the city center and into the labor district.

© 2021-2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

[lilium-dragomir]

[evor20]

[greennime]

Yeah, why shouldn't she?

[animeking8193]

All of Xiao Mei's ..."Happy" Faces

She was always pretty cool as the narrator, but these looks are PRICELESS

[friendlyneighbourhoodrobot]

Oh great.