Eden of the East

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Eden of the East
Original title 東 の エ デ ン
transcription Higashi no Eden
Anime television series
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2009
Studio Production IG
length 22 minutes
Episodes 11
Director Kenji Kamiyama
music Kenji Kawai
First broadcast April 9, 2009 - June 18, 2009 on Fuji TV
Anime movie
title Eden of the East - The King of Eden
Original title 東 の エ デ ン 劇場版 Ⅰ The King of Eden
transcription Higashi no Eden Gekijōban I: The King of Eden
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2010
Studio Production IG
length 82 minutes
Director Kenji Kamiyama
music Kenji Kawai
Anime movie
title Eden of the East - Paradise Lost
Original title 東 の エ デ ン 劇場版 Ⅱ Paradise Lost
transcription Higashi no Eden Gekijōban II: Paradise Lost
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2010
Studio Production IG
Director Kenji Kamiyama
music Kenji Kawai
synchronization

Eden of the East ( Japanese 東 の エ デ ン , Higashi no Eden , Eng. " Eden of the East") is an anime television series that was first shown on April 9, 2009 as part of the noitaminA series on Fuji TV . It was created in the animation studio Production IG and is based on an idea implemented by director and screenwriter Kenji Kamiyama .

The series is thus also the first within A &A that does not build on an already existing work.

The story is about Saki Morimi, who, under strange circumstances, meets Akira Takizawa, who has no memories of his past and who carries a strange mobile phone with him. The pair discover that Takizawa is part of a game of life and death that aims to save Japan from its ailing state with a sum of 10 billion yen. The two go on a search for Takizawa's past and try to solve the riddle of the mysterious game.

action

Saki Morimi ( 森 美 咲 , Morimi Saki ), who has just finished school and is not quite sure what to do with her life, meets Akira Takizawa ( 滝 沢 朗 , Takizawa Akira ) under strange circumstances . He has no memories of his past, but has a mysterious mobile phone. Saki decides to help Takizawa find his past.

Takizawa discovers that he has a fortune of 8.2 billion yen (about 62 million euros) with his cell phone and that he can contact a person named Juiz, who uses the money to ensure that all of Takizawa's wishes are implemented. It turns out that Takizawa is part of a "game" in which 12 chosen ones - the Seleçao - received 10 billion yen each from the mysterious stranger Mr. Outside to rescue Japan from its ailing state. Each of the chosen ones may proceed as it makes the most sense to them. However, some rules apply, one of which is that a chosen one will be liquidated if their account reaches 0 yen without being able to save Japan.

While searching for Takizawa's past, he and Saki encounter some of the other Seleçao and learn about the means by which they are trying to save Japan. They learn that Takizawa himself has erased his memories and the suspicion emerges that he was responsible for the recent bombings in Japan and the disappearance of 20,000 NEETs (young adults who are neither educated nor employed) could. Saki's friends, with whom she developed the Internet portal Eden of the East , are also drawn into the story. They are initially critical of Takizawa, not least because of the jealous Satoshi Ōsugi , who is in love with Saki and fears that he will lose her love to Takizawa.

When Takizawa is invited to a meeting of several Seleçao, he learns that they carried out the bombings to wake up the Japanese people. At the time, Takizawa carried out a major rescue operation via the Internet and sent 20,000 NEETs on a voyage to get them to safety. As a result, rumors arose that Takizawa had killed these people and that he was responsible for the bombings, so that he felt betrayed by those he had saved and his disappointment erased his memories. Since Takizawa's rescue operation thwarted the original aim of the bombings, the other Seleçao are now planning an even larger attack.

Encouraged by the confidence that Saki has in him, Takizawa again decides to thwart the new attacks. With the help of the returned 20,000 NEETs and the Internet portal Eden of the East, he succeeds in destroying the bombs before they reach their destination. Takizawa recognizes that the Japanese people are capable of great achievement, but lack someone to take responsibility and leadership. So he instructs Juiz to make him King of Japan with the remaining money.

Conception

In the series, several real and current issues relating to society as a whole and specific to Japan are taken up: On the one hand, the subject of terrorism , as an attempt to change the social situation through violence, plays a major role. On the other hand, the socially and economically relevant subject of NEETs in Japan is taken up; These are young adults who refuse to take up a job that meets social expectations after completing their training and instead let their parents continue to finance them. The story also addresses the increasing influence of the internet, especially social software .

The cell phones used by the Seleçao also have a real reference: They are based on a design by the NEC Corporation that is specially tailored to motorcyclists. It was adopted in an almost identical design.

Both elements, terrorism and cell phone, are combined in the opening credits. The backgrounds, mostly designed in shades of gray, which show houses and landscapes in ruins, are repeatedly broken up by bright mobile phone lettering.

The end credits, on the other hand, are implemented using a mixture of paper cutting and stacks of paper and sheets of paper animated in stop motion, which are mostly presented in shades of gray. The pencils that cut the paper take on the role of rockets that cut through the air, while the explosion clouds are created from crumpled paper.

Origin and publications

The anime television series Eden of the East was created in the Japanese animation studio Production IG . Kenji Kamiyama , director and one of the ideas behind the film adaptations of Ghost in the Shell , directed the series based on the script he wrote himself. The original character design, however, comes from Chika Umino and was revised by Satoko Morikawa . The background music was composed by Kenji Kawai , while Yusuke Takeda was the artistic director .

The series was first featured in the 23rd issue of the manga magazine Young Animal . In February 2009, a film was also announced that will be shown in Japanese cinemas after the series. On March 19, 2009 the first official trailer of the series was shown and from April 9, 2009 the series began to be broadcast regularly on Fuji TV as part of the noitaminA program . There it ran until June 18, 2009.

The movie announced in the credits of the last episode ran on November 28, 2009 under the title Higashi no Eden Gekijoban I: The King of Eden in Japanese cinemas. A second movie called Higashi no Eden Gekijōban II: Paradise Lost had its cinema premiere in Japan on March 13, 2010. Both continue the story of the series immediately.

The series was released with German synchronization on April 15, 2011 by Universum Anime on DVD and Blu-Ray, as were both films - Eden of the East - The King of Eden on June 24, 2011 and Eden of the East - The lost paradise on September 23, 2011.

Episodes

number Original title English title German title
01 Ōji-sama o Hirotta yo ( 王子 様 を 拾 っ た よ ) I Picked Up a Prince I found a prince
02 Yūutsu na Getsuyōbi ( 憂鬱 な 月曜日 ) Melancholic Monday Carefree Monday
03 Reito Shō no Yoru ni ( レ イ ト シ ョ ー の 夜 に ) On the Night of the Late Show The late performance
04 Riaru na Genjitsu Kyokō no Genjitsu ( リ ア ル な 現 実 虚構 の 現 実 ) True Reality, False Reality Reality and fiction
05 Ima, Sonna Koto Kangaeteru Baai Janai no ni ( 今 、 そ ん な こ と 考 え て る る 場合 じ ゃ な い の に ) Now's Not the Time to be Thinking About That Wrong time to think
06 Higashi no Eden ( 東 の エ デ ン ) Eden of the East Eden of the East
07 Burakku Suwan Mau ( ブ ラ ッ ク ス ワ ン 舞 う ) Black Swan Dances The black swan
08 Arakajime Ushinawareta Michinori o Sagashite ( あ ら か じ め 失 わ れ た た 道 程 を さ が し て ) Search for a Fore-Lost Journey The search for the lost path
09 Hakanasugita Otoko ( ハ カ ナ 過 ギ タ 男 ) The Man Who Lived Too Little Blown by the wind
10 Dare ga Takizawa Akira o Koroshita ka ( 誰 が 滝 沢 朗 を 殺 し た か ) Who Killed Takizawa Akira? Who Killed AT?
11 Sara ni Tsuzuku Higashi ( さ ら に つ づ く 東 ) The East That Goes On Eden of the East continues

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Saki Morimi Saori Hayami Josephine Schmidt
Akira Takizawa Ryōhei Kimura Julius Jellinek
Satoshi Ōsugi Takuya Eguchi Dirk Stollberg
Yūsei Kondō Hiroshi Shirokuma Alexander Doering
Juiz Sakiko Tamagawa Cathlen Gawlich

music

In the opening credits of the series, the title Falling Down by the English rock band Oasis was used. For the international release it was exchanged for the Japanese song Michael ka Belial by Saori Hayami for licensing reasons . The end credits are titled futuristic imagination by the Japanese band School Food Punishment .

reception

The anime won the award for best television series at the 14th Animation Kobe .

Licensing

On September 7, 2010, Universum Anime confirmed previous rumors on Facebook and announced that it had acquired the license for the series and the two films and that it is planning to release them on DVD and Blu-ray Disc for the first quarter of 2011. After somewhat unclear statements, it was also confirmed on Facebook on September 15, 2010 that both the series and the films should appear in HD . This made Eden of the East the first anime series to be published entirely in HD in German.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ghost in the Shell's Kamiyama to Launch Eden of the East Anime (Update 2). Anime News Network , November 25, 2008, accessed May 1, 2009 .
  2. ↑ a b ノ イ タ ミ ナ ： 攻 殻 ・ 神山 と ハ チ ク ロ ・ 羽 海 野 が タ ッ グ ア ア ニ メ 「東 の エ デ ン」 が 09 年 ４ 月 か ら . Mainichi Shimbun , November 28, 2008; accessed May 1, 2009 (Japanese).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / mainichi.jp
  3. ↑ TV ア ニ メ ー シ ョ ン 「東 の エ デ ン」 と NEC が コ ラ ボ レ ー シ ョ ン . (No longer available online.) NEC Design & Promotion Ltd., archived from the original on April 21, 2009 (Japanese).;
  4. ↑ Production IG to Add Eden of the East Film in 2009. Anime News Network , February 6, 2009, accessed May 1, 2009 .
  5. ↑ Eden of The East the Movie I: The King of Eden. Anime News Network, accessed June 25, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Eden of The East the Movie II: Paradise Lost. Anime News Network, accessed June 25, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Eden of the East - The Series. Universe Film, accessed February 13, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Eden of the East - The King of Eden. Universe Film, accessed February 13, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Eden of the East - Paradise Lost. Universe Film, accessed February 13, 2013 .
  10. ↑ 第 14 回 ア ニ メ ー シ ョ ン 神 戸 賞 . (No longer available online.) In: ア ニ メ ー シ ョ ン 神 戸 . Executive Committee of Animation Kobe, 2009, archived from the original on September 27, 2008 (Japanese).;

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