Did Takizawa Erase His Memories Again? Eden of the East

Japanese anime tv set serial

Eden of the East
Encompass art of the first Japanese DVD volume featuring protagonists Saki Morimi (left) and Akira Takizawa (right).
東のエデン ( Higashi no Eden )
Genre	Mystery[1] Political thriller[2] Psychological[three]
Created by	Kenji Kamiyama
Anime television series
Directed by	Kenji Kamiyama
Produced past	Koji Yamamoto Tomohiko Ishii
Written by	Kenji Kamiyama
Music by	Kenji Kawai
Studio	Product I.Thou
Licensed by	AUS Madman Entertainment NA Funimation Uk Anime Limited
Original network	Fuji Television set (Noitamina)
English network	Us Funimation Channel
Original run	April nine, 2009 – June eighteen, 2009
Episodes	xi (List of episodes)
Novel
Written past	Kenji Kamiyama
Illustrated past	Chika Umino
Published past	Media Manufactory
Imprint	Da Vinci
Published	September 18, 2009
Anime film
Air Communication (Compilation Movie)
Directed by	Kenji Kamiyama
Produced by	Kōji Yamamoto Tomohiko Ishii
Written past	Kenji Kamiyama
Music by	Kenji Kawai
Studio	Product I.One thousand
Licensed by	AUS Madman Amusement NA Funimation UK Anime Limited (current)
Released	September 26, 2009
Runtime	125 minutes
Anime film
The Rex of Eden
Directed by	Kenji Kamiyama Masayuki Yoshihara (assistant)
Produced past	Kōji Yamamoto Tomohiko Ishii Hiroyuki Seda
Written by	Kenji Kamiyama Shōtarō Suga Naohiro Fukushima Shunpei Okada Carlos Kasuga
Music by	Kenji Kawai
Studio	Production I.G
Licensed by	AUS Madman Amusement NA Funimation UK Anime Express (current)
Released	Nov 28, 2009
Runtime	85 minutes
Anime film
Paradise Lost
Directed by	Kenji Kamiyama Masayuki Yoshihara (assistant)
Produced by	Kōji Yamamoto Tomohiko Ishii Hiroyuki Seda
Written by	Kenji Kamiyama Shōtarō Suga Naohiro Fukushima Shunpei Okada
Music by	Kenji Kawai
Studio	Production I.One thousand
Licensed by	AUS Madman Entertainment NA Funimation UK Manga Entertainment
Released	March thirteen, 2010
Runtime	95 minutes
Novel
The Male monarch of Eden - Paradise Lost
Written by	Kenji Kamiyama
Illustrated by	Chika Umino
Published by	Media Factory
Imprint	Da Vinci
Published	Apr 23, 2010

Eden of the East (Japanese: 東のエデン, Hepburn: Higashi no Eden ) is a Japanese anime television series, which premiered on Fuji Television set's noitaminA timeslot on April 9, 2009. Created, directed and written by Kenji Kamiyama, it features grapheme designs by Chika Umino and animation production past Production I.1000. Based on an original story by Kamiyama, it is the first original blitheness series circulate in noitaminA.^{[4] [5]}

A compilation of the Television set series, Eden of the East Compilation: Air Communication, had a express theatrical release on September 26, 2009.^[6] Two other theatrical films have too been released. Eden of the Due east Movie I: The Male monarch of Eden (taking identify six months later on the serial) was released in Japan on Nov 28, 2009 and the 2d movie, Eden of the East the Flick Ii: Paradise Lost (taking place hours after The King of Eden), was released on March 13, 2010.^{[vii] [8] [ix]} The Telly series and both films take been licensed for release in Due north America by Funimation.^{[10] [xi]} The series premiered in the US at Anime Expo in 2010 forth with a panel discussion with director Kenji Kamiyama, animation director Satoru Nakamura, and producer Tomohiko Ishii.^{[12] [xiii] [14]}

Plot [edit]

Anime series [edit]

On November 22, 2010, ten missiles strike Nihon, but in that location are no casualties. The apparent terrorist set on is named "Devil-may-care Monday", and no one takes responsibility. Three months on, university graduate Saki Morimi visits New York City and then Washington D.C. for her graduation trip. Outside the White House, Saki encounters a naked Japanese man suffering from amnesia. The man, after receiving Saki's coat, follows the directions of a concierge, Juiz, on his unusual cell phone, to an apartment where he finds multiple faux passports, choosing the identity of Akira Takizawa. Saki appears to retrieve her passport, and they render to Japan, where a new missile has hit.

Takizawa discovers that his phone carries ¥eight.2 billion in digital money, and that he is part of a game, where twelve individuals called Seleção are given ¥10 billion to save Japan in some way. The Seleção are able to contact Juiz, who can fulfill their orders for a toll. However, if the money is used up completely, or for selfish purposes, the private will be eliminated by the Supporter, the bearding "twelfth man" of the group. During the search for answers, Takizawa learns he was involved in Careless Monday, transporting twenty-1000 NEETs to Dubai subsequently they helped evacuate the missiles' targets before the attacks.

He also encounters other Seleção, including constabulary officer Yūsei Kondō, neurosurgeon Dr. Hajime Hiura, and serial killer Kuroha Diana Shiratori, who targets rapists. Saki and her friends, who run a company called Eden of the East, eventually become involved in the conspiracies surrounding Takizawa. The company's proper name stems from a cell phone app that tin can recognise and provide details on items and people via social networking.

Takizawa meets Yutaka Itazu, a hikikomori and hacker, who studies Takizawa and the tardily Kondō's phones, able to access the Seleção requests. They observe Takizawa did not launch the missiles, but it was orchestrated by other Seleção, Daiju Mononobe and Ryō Yūki. After Takizawa leaves, Itazu discovers sixty more than missiles will be launched, just is run over by Mononobe earlier he tin inform Takizawa. However, Itazu sends the Seleção database to Eden beforehand, and recovers in hospital.

Mononobe approaches Takizawa, inviting him to his endgame. He explains that Mr. Outside is really Saizō Atō, an elderly businessman who helped rebuild post-war Japan. He believes Atō has since died. Travelling to Atō's business facility, Mononobe reveals to Takizawa that Juiz is an advanced artificial intelligence, housed in twelve supercomputers. Takizawa objects to Mononobe and Yūki'due south program and leaves, simply not before they reveal Takizawa's made himself a martyr to defend the NEETs from existence defendant as terrorists, erasing his retention to protect them.

Takizawa reunites with Saki and Eden at his home, a shopping mall in Toyosu, just equally the xx-chiliad NEETs render from Dubai on a cargo send. Takizawa draws anybody to the roof, ordering them to suggest a countermeasure for the approaching missiles. Juiz summons the JSDF to intercept the missiles. Takizawa, knowing he volition be unable to pose as a terrorist, asks Juiz to make him the "King of Japan", erasing his memory once again, but he slips his cell phone into Saki's pocket beforehand.

The King of Eden [edit]

Six months afterward the events of the anime, Takizawa has disappeared, while Saki searches for his whereabouts. Juiz sends Saki a message he recorded before erasing his memory again, Takizawa instructing her to run into in their "special identify". Following the missile strike, Eden became a successful business, and Takizawa has go a folk hero named the "Air Rex", his paradigm marketed by Seleção, Jintaro Tsuji, hoping to turn him into a martyr or terrorist. Eden also learns Takizawa'southward last name has been changed to Iinuma, the same as the recently deceased Prime Minister of Japan. Tsuji spreads rumours that Takizawa is Iinuma'southward illegitimate son.

Saki, realizing that Takizawa'south message may be alluding to Basis Nothing in New York, travels there. She discovers a gun has been smuggled into her luggage, her cab driver fleeing with Takizawa'southward phone in the dorsum. Saki eventually finds Takizawa, who does non recognize her. They retrieve her purse and Takizawa's phone from the cabbie, Takizawa accepting his lost identity. Eden, who have admission to the Seleção database, learn Yūki destroyed his phone, and Dr. Hiura is alive, his retention erased by the Supporter. They later detect that Mononobe has hacked their systems, forcing them to shut Eden downwards.

Takizawa hopes to notice out what became of his mother, traveling with Saki to a carousel where they detect a golden band left there by his mother. They are attacked by men working for Iinuma, and picture show director Taishi Naomoto, a young man Seleção, only he is arrested. Kuroha aids Takizawa, informing him that he must return to Nihon to confirm his illegitimacy as the Prime number Government minister'due south son. Mononobe begins targeting a serial of trucks, actually housing the individual Juiz supercomputers, with missiles. He destroys the Supporter and Tsuji'south trucks, while Kuroha sacrifices her ain to go along Takizawa in the game. She leaves while Takizawa and Saki fly to Japan.

Paradise Lost [edit]

Takizawa and Saki get in in Japan, coming together Iinuma'south widow Chigusa, who removes several strands of Takizawa's hair for a DNA test. Takizawa is separated from Saki, request her to track down his mother past identifying his pet domestic dog through Eden. Takizawa subsequently escapes his escorts by swapping places with one of the NEETs. He contacts Eden, who have retreated to the university campus, informing him of the Juiz trucks.

Saki and her friend Satoshi Osugi track down Takizawa's mother, Aya, who runs a bar. She admits she lived in New York and had a fling with Iinuma, just does not confirm or deny the identity of Takizawa's male parent. Aya flees when Mononobe sends constabulary to interrogate her. Takizawa tracks down his Juiz truck, meeting up with Eden members Micchon and Sis, who hijack Mononobe's truck. Eden's leader Kazuomi Hirasawa meets Saizō Atō, discovering he is live and works as a cab driver, doubling likewise as the Supporter.

Takizawa and Eden arrive at Iinuma'due south house, where Mononobe meets Takizawa. Mononobe asks him to retire from the game and then he tin win and take control of the government. Takizawa agrees equally long as Mononobe becomes Prime number Minister, just the latter declines. Takizawa goes ahead with his own endgame, addressing Nippon using the "Airship" phone app, roleplaying equally a terrorist but encourages order to change their country for the meliorate. In a final human activity, he gives all the recipients one yen each.

Impressed, Atō ends the game, declaring all of the Seleção as winners. Equally a cheerio gift, he erases their memories of the game over the phones. However, Takizawa is unaffected, immune to its furnishings. Mononobe leaves, running into Yūki, who is unaware of what has happened, and tries to murder Mononobe for abandoning him. Mononobe crashes his car, running over Yūki in the process. Takizawa checks the DNA exam, discovering he is unrelated to her hubby. He departs, kissing Saki and promising to run across her again. In the epilogue, Saki narrates how Eden close downward for a while to support the NEETs. In a last scene, Takizawa meets Atō, and they drive off to speak about future plans.

Characters [edit]

Main [edit]

Saki Morimi ( 森美 咲 , Morimi Saki )

Voiced by: Saori Hayami (Japanese); Leah Clark (English)

Saki Morimi is a young woman in her terminal twelvemonth in university. After her parents died, she has been living with her married elder sister and her family, who have been supporting her through college. She visits New York City as part of her graduation trip but leaves her friends to visit Washington D.C. alone. At the starting time of the series, she throws a coin at the White House lawn and is approached by law, but Akira Takizawa bails her out of trouble. After realizing that her passport is in the coat she gives to Akira, she follows him, and later on goes back with him to Tokyo, Japan. She tries to get a chore then that she does not get reliant on her sister's family, just after her interview with her brother-in-law'south sometime company goes desperately, she follows Akira on his adventures and gets her old gild, "Eden of the E", to partner with Akira on their business venture.

Akira Takizawa ( 滝沢 朗 , Takizawa Akira )

Voiced past: Ryōhei Kimura (Japanese); Jason Liebrecht (English)

A young man who lost his memory considering of a brainwashing program, Akira Takizawa meets Saki Morimi in Washington D.C., appearing naked and only carrying a handgun and an extremely advanced cell phone with the phrase "noblesse oblige" printed on it and 8.2 billion yen in digital money credit. When Saki is questioned by police force after she throws a coin in the grounds of the White House, he helps her out and she gives him her coat to thank him. When he makes his first phone call, a female voice claiming to be "Juiz" answers. She sends him a map that marks an apartment edifice where he is apparently staying. In his apartment, he finds guns and many different passports which seem to all belong to him. Saki follows after realizing she left her passport in the coat she gave him and the two make up one's mind to return to Nihon together. His real proper noun and DOB are unknown; his electric current identity every bit Akira Takizawa was chosen from the passports he found, which lists that in Toyosu, Japan and that he was built-in on January 7, 1989, one twenty-four hours younger than Saki Morimi.

Eden of the East club [edit]

The Eden of the Eastward club started out as a small recycling group, merely has apace turned into a springboard for a successful commercial website, thanks to Micchon'south revolutionary paradigm recognition engine that resides in the Eden website and Saki's ability to improve the value of any item, including junk. Soon, the site's ability to work on phones attracted many student subscribers. All the same, afterward the students abused the social matchmaking abilities where a girl dropped out and the university launched an investigation, the team slowed development on the project. In addition to Saki, who handles public relations, the members include:^[15]

• Satoshi Ōsugi ( 大杉 智 , Ōsugi Satoshi ), a friend of Saki who holds unrequited honey for her. He is the first among the order members to join the corporate world. He is voiced by Takuya Eguchi in Japanese and by Michael Sinterniklaas in English.
• Kazuomi Hirasawa ( 平澤 一臣 , Hirasawa Kazuomi ), the de facto leader of Eden of the Eastward. He has delayed his graduation with his ultimate goal to create a paradise for NEETs.^[15] He is voiced by Motoyuki Kawahara in Japanese and by J. Michael Tatum in English.
• Mikuru Katsuhara ( 葛原 みくる , Katsuhara Mikuru ), nicknamed Micchon ( みっちょん ), a shy but frank daughter who programmed the Eden of the East'southward image recognition system. She is also Hirasawa's cousin.^[15] She is voiced by Ayaka Saitō in Japanese and past Stephanie Sheh in English.
• Haruo Kasuga ( 春日 晴男 , Kasuga Haruo ), a club fellow member who likes to sit inside the clubroom's rolltop desk. He notices Osugi had gone missing afterward he had dinner with him. He is voiced by Hayato Taioh in Japanese and by John Burgmeier in English language.^[15]
• Sister ( おネエ , Onee ), a club member who reviews the legal documents. Her real name and historic period is unknown. She is voiced past Kimiko Saitoh in Japanese and Lydia Mackay in English.^[15]

The club has also used a consultant, Yutaka Itazu ( 板津 豊 , Itazu Yutaka ), a biggy nevertheless reclusive hacker nicknamed Panties ( Pantsu ) based on an alternate reading of the Kanji in his name, and the fact that he has been a shut-in since he lost his pants two years before the start of the series. He is voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama in Japanese and by Newton Pittman in English.^[16]

In the get-go picture show, Eden of the East becomes a small business organization and the club members attempt to support Saki and Akira while tracking the Seleção activities.

Seleção and related characters [edit]

The Seleção (Portuguese: "Option") are the participants of the game. Each carries a special "Noblesse oblige" cell telephone that is credited with 10 billion yen which they must use to "save Nippon". They can spend the money in whatever manner they wish, using a concierge named Juiz (Portuguese: "Guess") to attain the goal, still, any Seleção who uses up their money before they tin can consummate their mission, who acts purely for self-interest, or does nothing with the phone for an extended period of fourth dimension will be eliminated past a person (one of the twelve) chosen "The Supporter". Similarly, if someone breaks the rules they volition exist eliminated. When someone is declared the winner of the game, the other xi are eliminated. The person who created the game is named "Mr. Outside."

Pictures of known Seleções during the get-go motion picture. Number 7 is the only Seleção not revealed in the anime.

Daiju Mononobe ( 物部 大樹 , Mononobe Daiju )

Voiced by: Atsushi Miyauchi (Japanese); John Gremillion (English)

Seleção No. 1.

Mononobe is i of the chief antagonists in the series. A former bureaucrat, he has connections to many of the political leaders in Japan. He maneuvers to become an executive (CEO in the TV series English dub) of the ATO Establishment. He brings Akira to the ATO headquarters and reveals more data about his past with the hopes of recruiting him to his side. His ambition is not only to win the game, but to replace Mr. Exterior himself equally he assumes Mr. Exterior is expressionless. According to him, Nippon is in a state of apathy acquired by the economic prosperity it has obtained since the finish of World State of war II, and the strong political influence from countries like the U.s. into their social club, thus he plans to save the land by rallying the population with a wide scale terrorist attack.^[17] Yet, Akira and the NEETs recruited past him managed to foil his plans, offset with Careless Monday, and then by countering the missiles at the terminate of the regular TV serial.^[eighteen] In the King of Eden film, he uses the Japanese police Public Security Dept to investigate the Eden of the East group, which has been involved with Akira Takizawa's activities. Using his connections with the government, he intends to pass a "100% Inheritance Tax Bill" in order to combat Akira'due south plan with the NEETs. In Paradise Lost, he reveals that he plans to overthrow the current regime and install a more powerful ane at the cost of individual liberty. Afterward his retentivity is wiped when Mr. Outside ends the game, Mononobe crashes his car after being shot at by a crazed Yūki. Information technology is unknown whether he survives or not.

Jintarō Tsuji ( 辻 仁太郎 , Tsuji Jintarō )

Voiced by: Kōji Yusa (Japanese); Todd Haberkorn (English)

Seleção No. 2.

Tsuji, nicknamed "2G", is a Seleção working with Mononobe and Yūki. He seems to care very piffling about Mr. Exterior's "game" and wishes simply for it to be over as soon every bit possible. He claims he has non spent any of the 10 billion yen he was given.^[17] In the King of Eden film, he begins to make his move, by making Takizawa the primary effigy of a major trend and idol. He is responsible for marketing Takizawa as the "Air Rex", with advertisements and merchandise depicting Akira's pose while averting the missile crisis. Ultimately he plans to have Takizawa sacrificed equally a martyr and hero of Japan. He is technically eliminated from the game when Mononobe destroys his trailer, just later on loses his coin when Mononobe arranges to have him investigated past tax auditors.

Toshiko Kitabayashi ( 北林 敏子 , Kitabayashi Toshiko )

Voiced by: Reiko Seno (Japanese); Juli Erickson (English language)

Seleção No. three

Seleção iii appears to exist an elderly purple-haired woman according to the Seleção listings in The King of Eden, but takes action in the second film. She makes her first telephone call to Juiz to guild some food. It is revealed at the end of the film that she is in fact hospitalised, and graciously thanks Mr. Outside for the game.

Yūsei Kondō ( 近藤 勇誠 , Kondō Yūsei )

Voiced by: Hiroshi Shirokuma (Japanese); Christopher Sabat (English language)

Seleção No. iv.

A detective in Japan. Afterwards spending nearly all of his money without accomplishing the mission given past Mr. Outside, he steals Akira'southward cellphone in order to take possession of his cash, but his plans are thwarted when he is informed by Juiz that a Seleção's coin tin can only be used past its rightful owner. He is stabbed past his wife while attempting to return the telephone to Akira, but manages to warn him of how unsafe the game is earlier dying.

Hajime Hiura ( 火浦 元 , Hiura Hajime )

Voiced past: Shinji Ogawa (Japanese); Kent Williams (English)

Seleção No. 5.

Hiura is a 52-year-old former talented doctor specializing in neurosurgery. Due to an blow, his hands are unable to be used in surgeries that require precise accuracy, and eventually he resigns. Based on his quondam thought that the number of patients a doctor tin can help is limited, Hiura uses the cellphone to aim for the platonic treatment for all illnesses. He is eliminated by the Supporter after spending all of his money, and although he failed to relieve Japan, he tells Akira that he succeeded in his own mission. In The King of Eden film, it's revealed that the Supporter didn't kill him; instead he erased his memories.

Taishi Naomoto ( 直元 大志 , Naomoto Taishi )

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (Japanese); Josh Grelle (English)

Seleção No. 6.

Naomoto ^{[notation ane]} appears in The King of Eden motion picture equally one of the major antagonists. A moving-picture show director who intends to motion-picture show the "ideal movie," with Akira and Saki as the main characters, and to ultimately impale them in a way that has never earlier been seen in film. For that reason, he causes the protagonists a lot of problems, specially Saki, considering he figures that the prince will come to save 'the damsel in distress'. His ill-conceived plot is foiled thanks to Shiratori's successful extraction of Takizawa and Saki in her Porsche Cayenne. He is last seen in police custody in America.

Akira Takizawa

Seleção No. 9.

The male person protagonist of the series. Takizawa's position as Seleção No. nine is revealed early on, although at first he does not understand what it means because he is suffering from amnesia.

Ryō Yūki ( 結城 亮 , Yūki Ryō )

Voiced by: Masakazu Morita (Japanese); Jerry Jewell (English)

Seleção No. 10.

The perpetrator responsible for the missiles fired on Careless Monday. Despite this, Yūki is very meek and shows hesitation when forced to assist in the silencing of Panties. He allies with Mononobe, as they have similar goals. Yūki's motivation for Devil-may-care Monday was to take revenge confronting the society he hated.^[17] He was forced to work to support his ill parents and felt cheated by the system. In The Rex of Eden movie, he appears to be inactive, merely he reveals to Tsuji that he has cleaved his telephone in a bid to evade Mononobe, who is tracking him, resulting in his elimination from the game. He soon becomes obsessed with getting revenge against Takizawa. Since Yūki broke his phone and does not receive Mr. Exterior'due south final bulletin, Yūki's memories are not erased when the game ends. However, he is run over by Mononobe'due south car when he attempts to murder Takizawa. It is unclear whether he survives or not.

Kuroha Diana Shiratori ( 白鳥・D・黒羽 , Shiratori Daiana Kuroha )

Voiced by: Rei Igarashi (Japanese); Christine Auten (English language)

Seleção No. 11.

Shiratori is president of a model agency by twenty-four hours; however, past night she is a series killer. She uses the Noblesse Oblige cellphone to clean up evidence of her murders and cover up her crimes. She kills men past severing their penises ("Johnnies") with a cigar cutter. Even so, she only targets men who have victimized women, such as rapists, inspiring her current deportment as a Seleção. In The Rex of Eden flick, she allies with Akira, saving him from diverse problems. She is eliminated from the game when she shields Akira's Juiz trailer from a missile launched by Mononobe with her own trailer. Her memories presumably are erased along with those of the other Seleção when the game ends.

Saizō Atō ( 亜東 才蔵 , Atō Saizō )

Voiced by: Hiroshi Arikawa (Japanese); Grant James (English)

Seleçao No. 12

A powerful businessman who helped build postwar Japan. He is subsequently hinted to be Mr. Outside ( ミスター・アウトサイド , Misutā Autosaido ).^[17] An unseen and mysterious graphic symbol, he chooses xi Japanese citizens as Seleção and gives them the phones with their mission to bring stability to Nippon in any style they wish. Even so, he warns that he will send a "Supporter" to eliminate any Seleção who use upward their money before they tin can complete their mission, acts selfishly, idles for an extended period of time, or breaks his rules.

Akira Takizawa subsequently realizes that "Ato Saizo" is a pun for the Japanese pronunciation of "Outside." A football enthusiast, Saizo's inspiration for the Seleção proper name came from the Portuguese word for selection and the mutual nickname of Brazil's national team.^{[17] [note 2]} His true identity is not revealed until Paradise Lost, where he is an elderly homo who has posed as a simple cab commuter. Saizo besides has four female helpers who call him "grandpa" and assistance him with the game. All of the Seleção were passengers in his cab at some point, where he asked them how they would spend 10 billion yen, with the exception of Takizawa, who had met Atō Saizō when he stopped beside the taxi on a bicycle. Afterward the events of the Paradise Lost film, Saizo declares all of the Seleção winners and has their memories erased to gratis them from the game. Takizawa manages to go along his memories and tracks down Saizo and then that they can work together to improve Japan.

Juiz ( ジュイス , Juisu ) ^{[annotation 3]}

Voiced by: Sakiko Tamagawa (Japanese); Stephanie Young (English)

A mysterious female voice who acts every bit a concierge for the Seleção. She gives them information and provides for their requests to exist answered, from executing large scale purchases to bribing government and conducting assassinations. In episode 10, information technology is revealed that Juiz isn't human simply is an advanced artificial intelligence. In the King of Eden Movie, it is further revealed that there are twelve copies of Juiz, each housed in a device bearded as a cargo trailer. (The Juiz devices originally were stored in a facility that Mononobe institute, but they were relocated to mobile platforms, leaving behind big holes at the facility). When a Seleção is removed from the game, their trailer is scrapped, or alternately, a Seleção is removed if their trailer is destroyed. Judging by the differing reactions of the various Juizes, the AIs appear to be independent entities, simply initialized from the same generative lawmaking base of operations. In episode 10, a woman appears at ATO headquarters with the same voice and fashion of speech as Juiz; this serves to cast doubtfulness on whether she is really Juiz or whether her voice and personality (if not her memories) merely were used as the model for developing Juiz. In the Paradise Lost flick, the woman is revealed to exist one of Mr. Exterior'south 4 quadruplet granddaughters: women who facilitate the requests that are given to the Juiz units.

Seleção No. 7 is never seen in the series or films, but Seleção No. 8, a middle-aged human, makes a cameo at the conclusion of the second film during Mr. Outside's closing statement.

Product [edit]

The series was announced in 2008's 23rd issue of Hakusensha's Young Animal manga magazine, cogent Kamiyama's interest as creator, director and writer and Umino'due south involvement as character designer.^{[4] [5]} It was further appear that two theatrical films are as well planned for the series, which is stated to premiere on November 28, 2009 and March 2010 respectively, afterward the television serial ends its original run.^[seven] In March 2009, it was also announced that the series would premiere on noitaminA on April 9, 2009.^[19] On March 19, 2009, the official website to the serial relaunched with a trailer, which announced that the opening theme would be "Falling Downwards" by English rock band Oasis, while the ending theme was "futuristic imagination" by Japanese band School Nutrient Punishment.^[20]

On Apr 9, 2009, the series began its run of 11 episodes. On September 26, 2009, the studio released Eden of the East Compilation: Air Communication, a film retelling of the events of the serial.^[21] The studio originally planned for a second season but decided instead that a pair of movies would be a better means of continuing the story; the films were released on Nov 28, 2009 and Jan 9, 2010 respectively.^[22]

In North America, the series was released on Blu-ray and DVD in 2010.^{[23] [24]} The movies were released in 2011.^[25]

Reception [edit]

The Japanese release of the showtime DVD volume debuted on July 29, 2009, in 23rd identify on the Oricon video charts with four,394 copies sold for the calendar week of July 27 - August ii, 2009.^[26] The first book of the Blu-ray Disc release was also released on that day, and debuted in seventh place on the SoundScan Nippon Blu-ray Disc charts.^[27] The series has won numerous awards since its release, including the TV Characteristic Award at the 2009 Animation Kobe festival and the best idiot box series of the year honor at the ninth almanac Tokyo International Anime Fair.^{[28] [29] [30]}

The series received high marks for its first episode in the Anime News Network Spring 2009 Preview Guide. Reviewers Theron Martin, Carlo Santos, and Casey Brienza each gave the first episode a rating of 4.5 out of 5,^{[31] [32] [33]} while Carl Kimlinger rated it a 5 out of v.^[34]

In his review, Martin wrote that "this is non your normal anime series. If you're looking for the new flavor's most unusual entry, something well departed from all of the game adaptations, shonen action series, and cutesy romances, this one is it." Additionally, he praised the artistic aspects of "outstanding background art, appealing grapheme designs, highly likeable atomic number 82 characters, and a unique closer." He concluded that "this one does everything it can to depict viewers in with its first episode and become them to want to continue watching, and many will."^[31]

Santos commented that "there'south only one reason this episode falls curt of perfect: information technology's not until the stop that the story really takes off", but also pointed out the "slick, expressive animation."^[32]

Brienza started her review maxim "Well, what the heck; might as well exist edgeless right from the get-go: I loved it," only criticized the "hackneyed plot" and claimed it "has been ripped whole cloth from a Robert Ludlum novel." Her praise related to "the scrupulous, realistic detail of the Washington D.C. setting" and the "gentle, whimsical innocence" of "Chica Umino's character designs", as well as "the scatalogical [sic] humor... and tender hopes of the heroine which reminds me a lot of Hayao Miyazaki."^[33]

Kimlinger, while admitting "I am non a fan of Kenji Kamiyama", stated the episode was "a weird and charming start to a weird and mannerly show." He wrote that "the outset few minutes of Eden are some of the funniest in contempo retention", and commented that "both leads accept a conspicuous excess of likeability, and Kamiyama displays a mastery of smiling humanism that would have been unthinkable earlier in his career". Like Brienza, he pointed out that "the debt Eden owes to The Bourne Identity is considerable", but concludes that "the result is, in a word, superb".^[34]

Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Charles Solomon ranked the series the fourth best anime on his "Summit x".^[35]

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Notes [edit]

1. ^ Naomoto is spelled as Jikimoto in the English closing credits for the Eden of the East movies.
2. ^ Further show of Mr. Outside's enthusiasm for football is the Seleção's 'crest', which is in the mode of a Brazilian escutcheon.
3. ^ Juiz is the Portuguese word for "Judge". The phones used to contact Juiz have a sword and scales, which are symbols normally used in courts to represent justice and law.

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External links [edit]

• Official website
• "Eden of the Due east". Production I.G. Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2009-03-18 .
• "Eden of the East" (official anime Website). FUNimation.
• Eden of the East (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_of_the_East