Eden of the East

[Xrlderek]

Will keep watching this, I thought it was good. I was really surprised that it didn't have any engrish.

[Sapphire]

Speaking of awesome stop-motion, one of the coolest stop-motions I've ever seen is featured on Youtube..

[Buffalobiian]

[gg]_Eden_of_the_East_-_02_[88C1E389].mkv

[MFauli]

wtf kind of power is that xd "BAM!"

Rather slow episode, but i like the atmosphere.

[Ryllharu]

I kind of had the feeling that the detective was a little creepy, and the end confirmed it. He felt kind of like a stalker, and I was wondering why he was so damn concerned with finding out who IX was. If he was part of administration like Juiz is, he would either already know, or didn't have a right to know. Everything about him felt...off.

The expenses in his phone were crazy too. He blows through it getting assassinations it seems. Maybe he even ordered the new missile strikes given his utter lack of cash now. Total lack of morals, which is a strange contrast considering Akira (IX) had all his memories wiped and has no reason to be considered "good" either.

Morimi is still cute though, and now that there is more intrigue, there's no question this series will be right towards the top of my weekly anticipations.


(I got my other question answered about the timeline of the missiles too.)

[shinta|hikari]

Great second episode. No stupid cliche developments, interesting characters, mysterious plot, what else can I ask for?

This is shaping up to be one of the best this season, along with K-ON and Cross Game.

[Buffalobiian]

Looks like the no-ED thing will continue for the rest of this series. In a way, that's good as it keeps any mysterious plots from previous eps mysterious. It's not like you need a preview every week to hook people onto this anyway.

[Oniken]

wtf kind of power is that xd "BAM!"

If you look closely, you can see the muzzle flash come from the car in the background when he says BAM in one of the shots. Reminded me a bit of Spike from Bebop

[Yukimura]

I can't be the only one who found this episode boring can I? Other than the last few minutes I didn't feel interested or engaged by the events of the ep at all.

On the 'mystery' side they spit out enough clues about what the voice on the other end of the phone does with the money that it doesn't feel like much of a mystery anymore. There's still the matter of why the system was been set up and to what purpose is it being used but from the way it's being presented as a side issue to the romance I don't feel like it's meant to be that important to the story. On the romance side we have another girl has the hots for the guy who is oblivious but she won't say anything, just blindly follow him around hoping he'll notice her and return her feelings. There's only so many ways this can go in a serious themed show and they've all been done (to death in my opinion). I don't think I'm going to get any more interested in the couple's relationship at this point but I'm still holding out some hope that the mystery side pulls something off that's engaging or interesting. The show is apparently only 11 eps so hopefully things will start picking up sooner rather than later.

[Buffalobiian]

I'm fully positive the mysterious side of things will be equal to, if not more than the romance side. They're introducing the darker material slowly but surely, building upon itself each episode. Figuratively speaking, it's not unlike how the detective will "catch up" to the pair and finally crossing paths. That's especially the case now that he's low on credit.

Talking about the plot, does anyone have a hunch on what's going on? Ther terms used in the latest episode didn't give terribly much away, but have some interesting implications:

-The detective mentioned "duty", and when looking at IX's spending, commented on how his spending isn't for servicing the country, implying that the credit is FOR servicing the country. The said country is certainly Japan, since it's implementing the Selecao System, and off all currencies, the phones use Yen.

-"Selecao" lit Selection/selected one, is used as a location. Tying in with Juiz calling them the Messiah, lit the anointed one, dedicated to a special/sacred purpose, confirms whatever "selection" IX is part of is there for a reason. Further more, who selected them? Ties in above?

-"Noblesse Oblige", lit "Whoever claims to be noble must conduct himself nobly", a repeated by Juiz almost like a reminder for these Messiahs to spend their credit for its intended purpose. "It's your responsibility to use it up", if I recall correctly.

- "Juiz">>"Judas"? Perhaps a reference to the one who, in conspiracy theories, secretly carries out the word of Jesus? Of the twelve disciples, he was also the on in charge of the funds/spending.

-"Eden of the East"....not so sure about this one. The first sanctuary (Eden) created, where the peace is kept by so called selected Messiahs with absolute power?

[Pandadice]

I can't be the only one who found this episode boring can I? Other than the last few minutes I didn't feel interested or engaged by the events of the ep at all.

On the 'mystery' side they spit out enough clues about what the voice on the other end of the phone does with the money that it doesn't feel like much of a mystery anymore. There's still the matter of why the system was been set up and to what purpose is it being used but from the way it's being presented as a side issue to the romance I don't feel like it's meant to be that important to the story. On the romance side we have another girl has the hots for the guy who is oblivious but she won't say anything, just blindly follow him around hoping he'll notice her and return her feelings. There's only so many ways this can go in a serious themed show and they've all been done (to death in my opinion). I don't think I'm going to get any more interested in the couple's relationship at this point but I'm still holding out some hope that the mystery side pulls something off that's engaging or interesting. The show is apparently only 11 eps so hopefully things will start picking up sooner rather than later.

I can definitely see where you're coming from. if you dig into it I can see how this could easily come off as some recycled boring junk. (that's the exact feeling i got from Tayutama. the "haven't i seen this enough?" reaction).

but I do disagree with you.. I enjoyed the episode.

so far I'm pretty much taking this at face value. I haven't really dug into it yet, (because I haven't seen much to dig into?) but just taking it at face value, looking at the characters and the art and the characters interactions, I'm really enjoying it. maybe it is just the character designs I've fallen for, but this show is genuinely entertaining me.

only 11 eps D:! i thought for sure it'd be a 24/26 :\. maybe it'll have a fast pace to it then?

[Kraco]

Juiz's quiz:

Episode 3 - gg

[David75]

Humm, It's a tad boring isn't it.

And they really had to spoof the "Big Blue" movie just because they had to show some images in the ep and would have had to pay royalties? Because it's the only movie that got wrong, all the others were named correctly, but they only referred to them.
On my original double CD from the time of the movie, it says Gaumont and Virgin as major having rights at the time. Oh well. That really a small detail.

So the main lead is thought to be a mass murderer.

Well, we'll see.

[Kraco]

I didn't think this boring. In contrary I thought it quite nice how they handled the phone theft issue. Hmm... Well, I admit the interaction between Takizawa and Morimi could have been better. But maybe we just kind of missed anything better when the cop attacked Takizawa and Morimi was left to finish the movie alone.

[Buffalobiian]

So who the hell confuses the phone number of their mistress and their wife? No one, I believe, and my suspicions were all but confirmed with the detective's last bit of dialogue. Being a game, it has rules. It's game over when you use up all your money, but it might be just as fatal if you steal someone else's phone. The fingerprint identification could be used as a security mechanism against innocent bystanders, but could just as easily identify fraudulent Selecaos and send in the Supporter for the kill. That could well be what our dead friend realised a little too late.

Note that this Supporter may not necessarily have anything to do with this "game", just someone who's in a convenient position with a potential motive to kill said agent.

Otherwise, killing NEET = saving a country? Interesting idea....not too fond of it though

Not sure if there's a link between the Twelve Selecaos and the Twelve Apostles, but it certainly fits in with this whole "Eden" symbolism. I would have commented on about the numbers, since Takizawa (IX) coincides with James the Just (#9), but then the detective (IV) being John (#4) doesn't make much sense.

And I really liked the dog. It was cute.

[narutosharingan]

Other than gg, which sub is worth watching? Is Lunar any good?

[Kraco]

I haven't watched other Eden subs than gg, but generally speaking Lunar is an old (many years old) fansub group of pretty decent and solid quality. They aren't probably bad at all if you want something else than gg for whatever reason.

[narutosharingan]

I haven't watched other Eden subs than gg, but generally speaking Lunar is an old (many years old) fansub group of pretty decent and solid quality. They aren't probably bad at all if you want something else than gg for whatever reason.

My computer can't play them

[David75]

Apparently, fake torrent for ep 4, had to edit, stay tuned

Edit: Legit one

[gg]​_Eden​_of​_the​_East​_-​_04​_[516BAE2B]​.mkv 314.18 MiB @ xabin.mine.nu

[Oniken]

I downloaded it, it was Episode 4 but had no subs