Higashi no Eden

 

Higashi no Eden

I watched the first episode of Higashi no Eden (or Eden of the East) yesterday.  I was intrigued by it’s art style since it resembled that of Honey & Clover which is one of my favorite anime series ever.  It turns out that it IS the same illustrator.  Anyways, here’s the excerpt for the show from AniDB.net:

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.

Yes, random indeed but perhaps that’s why I like it.  The first episode takes place in Washington DC so it was kind of interesting to watch and hear how they portrayed Americans.  Also they use “Johnny” to refer to the male genitalia so that was kind of amusing.  I’ll continue to follow the show to see how the story unfolds since it seems like an odd mixture of love story and some overarching mind controlling corporation thing… or something.

~ by finaltriggerx on April 13, 2009.