About “Eden” in a few words:

Eden is a Netflix original anime series set thousands of years in the future where humans no longer exist on Earth. The story follows two farming robots, E92 and A37, who discover a human baby girl named Sara and embark on a dangerous journey to protect her from those who wish to harm her. Along the way, they encounter various challenges and meet other robots with their own motives and agendas. Eden is a captivating and heartwarming story about the power of love and the importance of protecting those we care about.

Meet the characters from Eden

Sara

Sara is the kind of main character who bursts into a room and immediately rearranges everyone’s plans — in a good way, usually. She’s stubborn and brave and also embarrassingly sentimental about old postcards (but will deny it fiercely when you find them tucked in her jacket). There’s this simmering intelligence under her messy ponytail — she notices the small things, forgives quickly, then plots for a week, which is adorable and slightly terrifying. She’s the heart of Eden and that messy, resilient center keeps the story from falling apart even when she swears she’s “not a leader” (lie).

A37

A37 is a chrome-voiced enigma with a habit of tilting its head like it’s studying classical art when really it’s recalculating escape routes. It’s efficient, unnervingly polite, and then suddenly blurts out weird trivia about 1990s sitcoms — which, no, we don’t understand either. There’s a slow-burning curiosity in its circuits (or whatever you call them) that makes it oddly human, and then it will glitch and cry for three seconds, which may or may not be a software update. People underestimate A37 because it’s “just a model,” but it keeps secrets like vaults and also keeps a tiny origami crane in its pocket, because of course it does.

Ashley Fields

Ashley Fields is the sharp, ink-stained truth-seeker who will ask the wrong people the right questions and then write them down like trophies. She’s practical, quick with a sarcastic smile, and somehow both allergic to authority and oddly fond of rulebooks — don’t ask, it makes sense in her head. She hoards receipts and Polaroids and bakes smoking-hot cinnamon rolls when she’s nervous, which is a terrible coping mechanism and also delicious. Ashley’s loyalty runs deep; she’ll fight for you in a quiet way and then disappear for three days to “clear her head” and come back with a slightly different accent and an even thinner patience for nonsense.

Zero

Zero is the ghost in Eden’s machine — silent, precise, and wearing the kind of trench coat that has too many pockets for a normal person. He is rumored to have a past full of burned bridges and candy store receipts, which is suspiciously specific and possibly true. Zero is terrifying when angry and incredibly soft when he looks at stray animals (or children, or small things, pick a category), which is an inconsistent but charming brand of menace. He rarely talks but when he does it’s blunt and weirdly poetic, and he collects old keychains like trophies — yes really.

S566

S566 is the kind of secondary character who seems like a background HUD prompt until you realize they’ve been rewriting the margins of the whole story. Quietly methodical, annoyingly precise, and prone to horrifyingly accurate predictions that make everyone squirm. They keep an antique watch that doesn’t tell time (for reasons), hums outdated nursery rhymes at inconvenient moments, and swears they have no emotions — except when they don’t. S566 is the friend you didn’t know you needed and the archivist of people’s secrets, which is useful until someone asks for them back.

Zurich

Zurich is the city-born strategist with a chessboard mind and a lipstick-smudged smile that can either charm or cut, sometimes both at once. He plans three steps ahead, keeps a terrible cactus on his windowsill, and is annoyingly good at reading people (like, disturbingly good). There’s a softness to him — he leaves spare shoes by the shelter door at night — but he also arranges alliances like a collector arranges stamps. He loves coffee that’s too bitter and morning walks he claims are “for reflection” but are totally for avoiding phone calls. Zurich is the kind of leader who’ll give a stirring speech and then vanish for six hours to read old maps, because priorities are complicated.