Eden of the East

[Buffalobiian]

RIP big fella. You're the most lovable character in the whole show.

Ohsugi deserves all the attention he gets from Saki - none. Tempting as his offer was, she chose to believe Akira without even hearing him out. Ohsugi should now find a hole and hide for the rest of the show. Actually, no. I'd rather he does more stupid shit and crosses paths with other Selacao. Tubby finally got out of his hole after several years, and look what happened to him?

The dialogue between #1?(glasses guy) and #10 were funny though. After hitting tubby into the gutter, it sounded like he was saying #10 was the one trying to save people from missiles.

[David75]

#10 coud be Akira's brother, eventhough he didn't recognize Akira as such. Double memory wipe?

[RyougaZell]

Argh... if they can kill a cool character like Itazu, I hope they do kill Ohsugi soon.

Great episode. RIP great character Itazu.

[Ryllharu]

Another pleasant thing is that Saki wasn't interested in listening to Ohsugi, and even the others had their reservations. And I can't really see how one graffiti would convince them, either, even if it may increase their suspicions. Ohsugi of course only sees what he wants to see.

I think by this point thought that Saki's ability to see this objectively has already been a little bit tainted by her budding affection (if not outright love) for Akira. We discussed it either last episode or a few more back, but she can't really be expected to make unbiased judgements like her friends can.

For a larger issue, we don't really know if the NEETs are the ones who wrote that. It could have been Mononobe or number 10 (Yuuki) or any of the other Selacao who think their own plans might get messed up by Akira's benevolence.

The evil two are positioning themselves for dominance rather than salvation. Number 10 is working with the government now, and Mononobe used to work for them and seems to have set up the missle attacks. For at least part of the episode, I was wondering if Number 9 Akira had stolen someone else's name, which certainly seemed likely given how much Number 10 (Yuuki) looks to him. It would also explain why all the other Selacao believed that Akira had perpetrated the missle attacks. It seems like they intend to use terrorism and a false flag attack to take command of Japan and then mold it as they see fit.

It's weird that Mononobe is telling Yuuki that he will save Japan from missle attacks when Yuuki is the one who ordered them. A brainwipe may be likely here as well.

What number was Mononobe again? I notice he covered the number on his phone with his fingers most of this episode. They showed the number and the ring in an earlier episode.

@MFauli:
There have been re-encodes of gg's releases into low-resolution xvids this entire time. Check Tokyotosho once in a while.

[Buffalobiian]

[gg]_Eden_of_the_East_-_09v2_Patch.zip

CHANGES
Fixed tl errors. (inb4 hurrdurrstillwrong)


Commandline for non-windows users:
xdelta3 -d -s [gg]_Eden_of_the_East_-_09_[82EC590D].mkv Eden_09v2_Patch.xdelta [gg]_Eden_of_the_East_-_09v2_[5E1ECA09].mkv

Not very comprehensive, but at 0.5MB, "too big" is hardly an issue.

[Pandadice]

what was the deal with the commercials half way through these last two episodes? bad raws?

really sucked that panties died, he seemed like a pretty sweet character. this is definitely an interesting series, and it's so high quality at that.. I mean, yeah it's Production I.G, so I guess it should be expected.

I really can't see them wrapping this up in the next two episodes, but I guess that's what the theatrical movie is for? why do shows have to save the finales for the theaters . it'll be 6 months after the theatrical release until we get a sub >.<...

hey, did anyone notice the resemblance between that one bad guy, and the main dude from The Sky Crawlers?





kinda looks like I.G is recycling (not so) old character designs xD

[shinta|hikari]

Nice catch there. Recycled design indeed, although that is quite common especially for works within the same company.

[Buffalobiian]

Episode 10 - gg

[RyougaZell]

Oh heck... I want to know what happened to Takizawa... how was he betrayed??? Only one episode left... I hope they don't leave this unanswered until the movie.

And I LOLed at the 3 Selecao's plan been fooled just like that. And that woman had the very same voice like Juiz... wasn't she supposed to be a machine according to #1?

[Uberbaka]

1 episode left (plus film) and I'm feeling a bit underwhelmed by the series... =/

[Ryllharu]

If those three really thought that someone with a plan this ridiculous in scale and scope wouldn't anticipate, they are nowhere near as smart as they think they are.

When they announced that Juiz was an AI, I can't say I was surprised at all, considering she has answered multiple requests at the exact same time (Shiratori's arc). Now that they've moved her for only 5000 yen, I'm not so sure that their assumption was correct. Same goes for believing that Mr. Outside must be dead. Someone planning this wouldn't be so stupid to not leave a few false leads.

Overconfidence and greed got the better of them. The third guy hasn't even spent any money, he just allied himself with the other two because they want to cheat and "win" as a team so they don't get killed. Shiratori, the old doctor and Akira were all at least legitimately attempting to help in their own respective ways. Konda tried too, but got disillusioned and spent his money too fast.

That little brat Yuuki is nothing more than an angry jealous youth. He shoots off missiles just because he's a little pissed that life is hard? Mononobe is no better, taking advantage of that to kill off the burden of the elderly (huge problem for Japan the next decade or so). The old doctor took a different approach to that very problem. He set up a clinic that bleed money for the sole purpose of removing the burden of the elderly without removing the elderly themselves.

Mononobe, just like I expected, wanted little more than the power that cheating could afford him. He didn't want to save anyone, he and Yuuki and that other asshole just want power.


Concerning the NEETs, did Akira ultimately succeed in removing their burden as well? Mononobe and crew were going to kill NEETs too. Akira on the other hand, took 20,000 of the laziest and most introverted, unskilled people in Japan, standed them in Dubai. Now they've returned on their own power, motivated, and took over an entire tanker. Couldn't you say he's changed their attitude permanently? He took people who had no ambition and no goals and focused them all on getting home, getting revenge, and then probably making sure that they will never be tricked into a situation like that again.

The one he met earlier on the street (who had gotten home after meeting someone in Dubai) seemed quite content and moderately successful in life.

[Buffalobiian]

1 episode left (plus film) and I'm feeling a bit underwhelmed by the series... =/

So it's confirmed that this will be finished off with a film?

[Pandadice]

So it's confirmed that this will be finished off with a film?

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...t-film-in-2009

yeah, i guess

[Buffalobiian]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...t-film-in-2009

yeah, i guess

The link itself just says they're making a movie as well, nothing about the movie completing the TV series.

Thanks for the link anyways.

[fireheart]

gg ep 11

[Kraco]

I have to say I didn't see this coming. Also, it was just a bit shaky. How exactly do a bunch of neets standing naked on a roof plan the best manner of defense to shoot down cruise missiles? It's not like the military itself couldn't have done the same thing.

I guess the king part was still the most surprising thing about this episode. Especially since Akira is now out of money, as well.

At least we got an answer to the memory wipe mystery and why Akira is so hated by the neets.

[Archangel]

This has always been an wtf show... but this was one hell of an WTF ending O_o

Also, counter missiles? You needed 20.000 people to come up with that one?

[David75]

This has always been an wtf show... but this was one hell of an WTF ending O_o

Also, counter missiles? You needed 20.000 people to come up with that one?

I'm really wondering if using a counter missile at such a low altitude isn't in fact worse in the real world.

I mean a missile usually explodes meters before actually hitting the target to maximise the destruction power, that's for buildings, air targets, ground targets, and ships. For bunkers and underground facilities, the rule is different.

I don't know if tomahawks detonate their explosives when hit by a missile, but if they do in reality, it would be a catastrophy to use the strategy we've seen in that episode.

The 91 Irak war taught us that under a certain altitude, counter missile were in fact worsening the effects by adding their own explosion the the scud's...

What Saki and Akira experienced were only high speed debris from a tomahawk, good for them, they'd be dead if the explosives had ignited...

[Pandadice]

well.. I wasn't exactly impressed with the ending.. the whole thing never really seemed resolved or anything. If the theatrical movie isn't a finisher for the series, then there will definitely be another season (or, should be)

[Archangel]

There are still 2 movies ( that we know of ) so there's no way the ending would be anything remotely definitive