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Eden: It's an Endless World!  
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Description
In the panic surrounding a worldwide pandemic which kills 15 percent of the population and cripples many more, a secret organization, the Propater, topples the UN and seizes control of much of the world. A boy and a girl, raised in an abandoned virology research center, immune to the virus, are attacked by the Propater and escape.

Based strongly on Gnostic mythology, all major characters are named after gnostic deities, and have analogous roles.

Type
Manga

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Associated Names
エデン イッツアンエンドレスワールド
Eden (ENDO Hiroki)
EDEN: It’s an Endless World!

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Latest Release(s)
v.18 c.119-126 (end) by Manga Underground (1119d ago)
v.17 c.118 by Manga Underground (1227d ago)
v.17 c.117 by Manga Underground (1288d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
18 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

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Eden by Master_M2K

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2 topics, 17 posts
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User Rating
Average: 8.7 / 10.0 (649 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8.61 / 10.0
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May 2nd 2013, 2:15pm PST

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Action  Adult  Drama  Psychological  Sci-fi  Seinen  Tragedy 
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Author(s)
ENDO Hiroki

Artist(s)
ENDO Hiroki

Year
1997

Original Publisher
Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)
Afternoon (Kodansha)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
Dark Horse (13 Volumes - Ongoing)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #435 increased(+38)
Monthly Pos #503 increased(+5)
3 Month Pos #489 increased(+55)
6 Month Pos #507 increased(+79)

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On 1165 reading lists
On 1313 wish lists
On 986 completed lists
On 90 unfinished lists
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Forum Posts
Eden - The End 644 days, 5 hours, 18 minutes ago
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 Exceptional Story   
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by Jokagetto9
May 27th, 2010, 11:42am
When I started this manga I was expecting something vaguely similar to Road Warrior: end of the world, fighting to survive, blah blah blah. Something just to kill time. However, this story goes above and beyond, diving deep into politics, crime, religion and even quantum physics. I highly recommend this series. It addresses, from many different perspectives, the complexity of human nature. The story is vaguely similar to Eureka seveN, with the major difference being that there are no "heroes." Everyone is just trying to survive by their own ideals. For as long as they can. The gnostic tie-ins are quite brilliant as well.

The only drawback I would say is keeping track of the characters. There are many different factions each with their own connections. You can tell at some point that the artist had trouble creating a unique appearance for various side characters. The story could use a chapter by chapter identification guide on each of the newly introduced characters just so you don't mix them up. Hell, during some flashbacks you may have to wait to determine the sex of the character in focus.

All in all if you have the patience this story will thoroughly wow you.
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 A Great Read   
Rating: 9.5 / 10.0
by markdarkangel
April 30th, 2010, 7:55am
I think Endo has really out done himself with Eden as a manga-ka. Eden is a futuristic, post-apocalyptic world manga that cover different view points from a over the world in an gradual time span. It is very rough, graphic, and shows dark side of humankind with acuracy. In other words some people would have to find the stomach to read.

Eden has a huge character base where there is not only one main character but many, using character perspective of what is happening as its base. You either love or hate many chracters who are great but either way alot of them die so it doesn't really matter. The ending was kinda anti-climatic but it was not half-assed, stupid or did not make any sense.

Eden is one of those mangas you read and can re-read if you don't understand, there's alot of that, but it's awesome. START READING.
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 Amazing   
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by Leosten
July 27th, 2009, 2:41pm
Just a multigenerational, worldwide, political, social, religious, scientific, complicated, action, sci-fi sometimes romantic tale of multiple in-depth and all the more interesting and various characters... And it's freaking good.
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 Exceedingly clever from specific perspectives.   
Rating: 7.4 / 10.0
by Crenshinibon
July 6th, 2009, 2:25am
I think how much one is inclined to enjoy Eden is most likely directly correlated to how you read it. As a standard post-apocalyptic sci-fi story, it flickers from above average to slightly below in terms of quality, although it is quite expansive and well-drawn. From a purely character-based perspective, it's moderately more impressive, but the utter failure of development for certain characters doesn't favor it. In the end, I think that Eden is best enjoyed as a philosophical piece that utilizes biblical symbolism to strongly prove a point, and in that regard, it allows the whole of Endo's narrative talent to comes into play. It may not be as wonderful as Tanpenshu, but it really is a stunning work in terms of thought provoking philosophy on the single level, and I hope that, like with films like Donnie Darko, the readers can see beyond the storytelling flaws to derive the meaning underneath, otherwise there's not much of a point to reading it, now, is there?
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 page-turner   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by elalendi
February 7th, 2009, 9:59pm
Reminds me of Eternal Sabbath. It's wonderfully dark and thought-provoking and how can you resist all that awesome kick-ass battle scenes and the sci-fi-ness?? Um, I do NOT find it lame (although yes, there are some concepts of science and all that which I don't understand, but still, it's not BORING) and I think it is VERY realistic. Especially the battle scenes. And the characters... my god, they're in-depth.

The only things I have against it are the unnecessary sex scenes that pop up every once in the a while (but whatever, this is a seinen manga and the intended audience are like middle-aged guys) and that sometimes, the manga gets confusing. There's lots of characters and new ones are always appearing out of thin air, while the old ones hang in the background until they reappear to surprise you at random intervals. It's kinda hard to keep track of who is exactly who. And the plot gets... weird sometimes. Like there are moments when I'm like, "What was the whole point of focusing on what's-her-face for 5 chapters and then killing her off?" etc, etc.

The art... I love it, surprisingly since I'm always picky about it. It's not flat-out gorgeous or perfect, but I like how realistic it is (more or less) and it's definitely not bad enough to disrupt the whole thing.

Did I stress how realistic it seems? It's not just the plot, but even the dialogues and most importantly, the relationships between the characters and the portrayals of... emotions. Very touching at times. I love how even the minor characters have their own limelight.

It's moderately-paced, although a bit slow in the beginning. But believe me, it's worth reading! I have not been able to put it down since I picked it up yesterday. And the philosophy bits in it and the stuff about religion... just really, really intriguing.
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Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by mono-sama
October 29th, 2008, 5:01am
great great great manga.
the story goes different directions as you go, so it keeps you guessing
great cast of characters with brilliant development.
well executed artwork and action scenes.
a good mix of genres with realistic romance and sex. someone commented on "unneccasary random sex scenes" but these only appear when relevant to the plot. sex is a very poignant part of many people's lives and especially in the development of their personality, and in this manga, people's lives are disected to that level of detail. the girl who was":
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killed off", was not pointless: she was a major part of elia's life, which led to his drug problem and further problems...


re-readability is high too

... Last updated on April 30th, 2010, 12:07pm
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 I completely agree with crazykitty180   
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by raven1016
July 21st, 2008, 5:35pm
She/he is right on the mark with what she/he wrote. I agree with everything she/he said. Too many flash backs, story is too confusing because of the way it was told/layed out. The art is very nice!
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 Eden   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by LastExile777
May 10th, 2008, 7:06pm
Eden is one of my best seinen manga. with good and interesting plot,cool and original drawing Eden is old school classic manga. One of best!
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 it pretty lame   
Rating: 3.0 / 10.0
by lame2846
February 11th, 2008, 7:59pm
the story pretty good but the character suck the main character still try to act all wimpy even through he not that weak the worse thing about this story it comedy suck the story suppose to be serious but it try put few lame laughing moment
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 no very realistic, but very good manga   
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by judas1985
January 10th, 2008, 7:03am
me quede lelo luego de leer este manga porq el trabajo q se habia echo con los escenarios especialmente con la ciudad de Lima es muy acertado pareciera q el dibujante paso una temporada por Lima, btw yo soy de Lima y me parecio q los escenarios es como los q yo veo cada ves q salgo de mi hogar, eso me encanta en el manga ademas de la viceras q se desparraman en cada pelea, en lo general me encanta el manga
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