Volume 1

is the 1st volume of Hiro Mashima's.

Cover
Shiki Granbell leads Rebecca Bluegarden by the hand on a journey with Happy clinging onto her head as they float in space above a planet. The Aqua Wing is directly behind them and the flower petals of the Sakura Cosmos fill the space around them.

Afterword
"After spending almost 20 years drawing "swords and magic" fantasy manga, even I thought my next series would be more of the same... But somehow, this sci-fi story began to unfold. I wonder why (sweats).

In Japan, we abbreviate "science fiction" to SF, so when I was a kid, I always assumed it stood for "space fantasy." So I made this manga a space fantasy SF. It's in space, but it's fantasy!

Now, as for the reason why I'm drawing an SF manga, it's because nobody else is doing it. I mean, technically speaking, someone is, and has done them - there were tons of them in the old days. But when you narrow it down tyo the keywords "shonen manga," "space," and "adventure," it's a type of manga you can't really find much of these days, right?! I have to do it!! ...Is kind of how the whole thought process went. So here I am, a manga artist who's not especially a sci-fi geek, drawing sci-fi manga as if I'm writing fantasy. The super sci-fi geeks might be all, "Well actually, in physics that's..." or "The realtivity of..." but I'll just say, "I'm sorry, It's... it's fantasy, y'know." I will insist that all the wild technology works with the power of Ether. That's right - because this is a space fantasy!!"

- Hiro Mashima

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