Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Vintage:
April 9, 2009
Status:
Completed
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 a young woman currently in the United States of America on her graduation trip. But just when she is in front of the White House, Washington DC, she gets into trouble, and only the unexpected intervention of one of her fellow countrymen saves her. However, this man, who introduces himself as Akira Takizawa, is a complete mystery. He appears to have lost his memory. and he is stark naked, except for the gun he holds in one hand, and the mobile phone he's holding with the other hand. A phone that is charged with 8,200,000,000 yen in digital cash.
"Higashi no Eden" was a good mysteries series but it felt like the plot never reached its full potential.
The story started off pretty well though the main focus seemed to be on romance. After a while love became more of a background theme and secrets started to be revealed. Unfortunately the ending was a bit rushed and wasn't as epic as I expected.
The conversations were nothing extraordinary, not particularly funny or awesome but not bad either.
The animation wasn't always consistent. Sometimes a character didn't look the same as he usually would which kind of broke the flow of the anime but this didn't happen to often.
"Higashi no Eden" is good but not the best. It's enjoyable to watch, not too predictable and gives you something to think about. I would have happily watched another ten episodes but that might have stretched it out too thin.
