Being a fan of anime movies, OAD’s and OVA’s in genral, and hearing that the series Eden of the East series continuies with this movie, I was keen to check out this movie content to see how Akira will save Japan. This movie answers some questions from the TV series, and it also asks some [...]
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Eden of the East returns for one more outing, with Mr Outside emerging from the shadows to finally pick a winner to his little game. Although while it does a good job of tying up all the story's loose ends, it's perhaps not the ending you would've expected... Read more...
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Title: Eden of the East Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Psychological, Romance Rating: 9.5/10 Summary: On November 22, 2010 ten missiles strike Japan. However, this unprecedented terrorist act, later to be called as "Careless Monday," does not result in any apparent victims, and is soon forgotten by almost everyone. Then, 3 months later… Saki Morimi is [...]
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Eden of East – Paradise Lost Funimation Entertainment 82 minutes Rating: M Summary With Mononobe turning up the stakes in the game to determine the final seleção left standing, Takizawa returns to Japan to face public scrutiny as a terrorist, as well as the widowed wife of the man who is apparently his father.  Meanwhile, [...]
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From the impression given by its title through to the very end of the series (at least thus far), Eden of the East conveys strong Christian symbolism.  Months after I drew allusions between three of the Seleção in the series and Biblical individuals (Shiratori and the adulterous woman, Mononobe and Lucifer, and Takizawa and Christ), [...]
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What does nudity have to do with terrorism and politics? Quite a bit it seems.  Eden of the East opens with a naked man who calls himself Akira Takizawa in front of the White House just as Saki Morimi gets … Continue reading →
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I recently got so bored at work that I brought along a few DVDs that I hadn’t opened since purchasing them. Man, was I wrong to ignore them for so long, as I found that watching Eden of the East was a rather amazing experience. I always beg the anime world for something compelling. Something [...]"mon0r keeps you up-to-date with not only Japanese culture but also games and technology. We strive to bring you the best information we can, though we’ve got plenty of our own opinions to give. You can read the original blog post here Eden of the East Review!.”
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This review contains minor spoilers. In late 2010, ten missiles strike Japan but claim no victims in an event dubbed ‘Careless Monday’. Three months later, a young woman named Saki Morimi visits Washington D.C. when she gets into trouble with the police, but a naked Japanese man holding nothing but a handgun and a mobile [...]
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While I didn't think that Eden of the East lacked closure, clearly some people did, so here's the first of two feature-length additions that aim to close out the story. The big problem with King of Eden, though, is that there's a large dose of deja vu to the story that unfolds here... Read more...
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Eden of East – The King of Eden Funimation Entertainment 82 minutes Summary It’s been six months since the attacks on Japan failed, and Takizawa is nowhere to be found.  Saki travels to New York to find him, but meanwhile, time stands still for no Selecao.  The game to become Japan’s savior is still on-going, [...]
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The King of Eden is the sequel to the extremely popular series Eden of the East. The story follows the aftermath of the series ending, as Saki Morimi and members of Eden of the East struggle to find the whereabouts … Continue reading →
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The main protagonist of this anime, in one of his self-inflicted pinch. In my last blog entry, I mentioned that I want to watch the 4 whole seasons (201 episodes) of the Gintama series. But because of a certain reason that I will make known during the review of the said series, I stopped watching [...] Related posts:Review: EDEN’s Bowy (エデンズ ボゥイ) Review: Paradise Kiss (パラダイス・キス) Review: Grave Of The Fireflies (火垂るの墓) Review: Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し) Review: Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版：破) Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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The main protagonist of this anime, in one of his self-inflicted pinch. In my last blog entry, I mentioned that I want to watch the 4 whole seasons (201 episodes) of the Gintama series. But because of a certain reason that I will make known during the review of the said series, I stopped watching it [...] Related posts:Review: EDEN’s Bowy (エデンズ ボゥイ) Review: Paradise Kiss (パラダイス・キス) Review: Grave Of The Fireflies (火垂るの墓) Review: Hoshi no Koe (ほしのこえ) Review: Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版：破) Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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When I watched the first episode of C – Control, I immediately thought of Mononoke for no major reason other than Masakaki and Kusuri-iuri seemed similar, ambivalent beings at face value. Of course the viewer had deduced that the Medicine Seller was actually the controller of foreign spirits, but his cunning and ambivalence nevertheless evidenced [...]
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Available from Amazon Available from Right Stuf Eden of the East Released By: Funimation Released: 10/19/10 Reviewed: 11/17/10 Rated: 15+ While on a school vacation to Washington DC, Saki runs into a mysterious naked man with no memories of who he is. All he has in his possession is a cell phone and a gun which makes for a [...]
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My final selection for this weeklong series on analyzing Eden of the East characters through the lens of Christian spirituality will come as no surprise, nor will the the comparison I make.  Akira Takizawa is unmistakably similar in character to Jesus Christ.   And while the savior motif is extremely common in anime, Takizawa’s connection to [...]
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I assume the world has three types of people in it: 1. People who like Eden of the East. 2. People who dislike Eden of the East. 3. People who are neither. It’s as good as any tool to introspect. Kenji Kamiyama asked the attendee at this one con I was at, this question: just [...]
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The third and final part of why the Production I.G. produced, Kenji Kamiyama written and directed series, Eden of the East, isn’t for you. Parts one and two are also available. 5. It’s filled with subtleties and symbolism The title is the first clue that all is not as it seems with Eden of the East, both [...]
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Continuing my mini-series on parallels between seleção in Higashi no Eden (East of Eden) and Biblical individuals, the focus of this post is on Daiju Mononobe, the primary antagonist of the series.   Mononobe is Lucifer himself.  While it’s easy to compare almost any villain to the Devil, Mononobe makes a more interesting parallel than most.  He isn’t [...]
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Part two of why the Production I.G. produced, Kenji Kamiyama written and directed series, Eden of the East, isn’t for you. Part one is also available. 3. You’re (probably) not living in a post-apocalyptic country Kanji Kamiyama did not live through the decimation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nor was he even born during the rapid rebuilding of [...]
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