History Manga / EdenItsAnEndlessWorld

''Eden: It's an Endless World!'' is a cyberpunk manga by HirokiEndo set in the aftermath of a global plague that has radically altered the social and economic stature of the world, and tells the story of Elijah, the son of freedom fighter Enoah Ballard, who opposes Propater, a global pseudo-religious organization that tried, more or less successfully, to launch a coup d'etat on the entire world.

* ShoutOut: The cybernetics in ''Eden: It's an Endless World!'' is [[strike:reminiscent]] taken straight out of ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', which Endo acknowledges by mirroring the cyborg operation from the ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' Graphic Novel. His PowerArmor are inspired by Creator/ShirowMasamune's Landmate-designs in ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' and their aerial deployment is one long ode to ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' (of note, the design for Shirow's Landmates were based on Heinlein's ideas) while Mishima's exposition about the colloid, in addition to Letheia's character design owes a lot to ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain''. Hacker jargon is, of course, references to ''{{Neuromancer}}'' and the Ministry Spy uses the same weapon is the vat-grown Yakuza hitman does in ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic''. ''Film/BladeRunner'' references are of course also abundant.

* {{Expy}}: Sophia is Endo's take on [[GhostInTheShell Maj. Kusanagi]](with a ''boatload'' of differences) while Maya, as an insufferable, obnoxious EnigmaticMinion working as an agent for [[strike:the evil organization that lurks in the background]] [[spoiler:[[strike:the alien that wants to assimilate everyone]]]] ''himself'' clearly parallels [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Kaworu Nagisa]], [[spoiler:down to having a less-evil, [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]] DistaffCounterpart that accompanies the hero.]] The Ministry Spy is a ShoutOut to the Yakuza vat-grown assassin from JohnnyMnemonic, only less vat-grown and more evil.

** Your mileage may vary on this. The amount of sex is about equal to some other seinen manga, and isn't ''that'' graphical (fairly tame actually). It also lacks mass-rape, unlike, say {{Berserk}}.

* ShoutOut: The cybernetics in ''Eden: It's an Endless World!'' is [[strike:reminiscent]] taken straight out of ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', which Endo acknowledges by mirroring the cyborg operation from the ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' Graphic Novel. His PowerArmor are inspired by Creator/ShirowMasamune's Landmate-designs in ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' and their aerial deployment is one long ode to ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' (of note, the design for Shirow's Landmates were based on Heinlein's ideas) while Mishima's exposition about the colloid, in addition to Letheia's character design owes a lot to ''SerialExperimentsLain''. Hacker jargon is, of course, references to ''{{Neuromancer}}'' and the Ministry Spy uses the same weapon is the vat-grown Yakuza hitman does in ''JohnnyMnemonic''. ''Film/BladeRunner'' references are of course also abundant.

Still here? OK, let's dig a bit deeper. The series is perhaps best described as ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' turned UpToEleven. ''Eden'' is extremely violent, filled with explicit sex and nudity, lots of philosophy, even more religion, and moral ambiguity in ways that would make Creator/AlanMoore proud. Characters are regularly killed off, beaten, wounded, tortured, crippled, and raped by villains and heroes alike; and TheMessiah, despite the religious overtones, is a minor character.

* TheMessiah: A female muslim terrorists who cares about the lives of her hostages with no intent of actually killing them, betrays other cells to stop terrorist bombing and is the nices person in the series who isn't a young child.

Still here? OK, let's dig a bit deeper. The series is perhaps best described as ''GhostInTheShell'' turned UpToEleven. ''Eden'' is extremely violent, filled with explicit sex and nudity, lots of philosophy, even more religion, and moral ambiguity in ways that would make AlanMoore proud. Characters are regularly killed off, beaten, wounded, tortured, crippled, and raped by villains and heroes alike; and TheMessiah, despite the religious overtones, is a minor character.

Still here? OK, let's dig a bit deeper. The series is perhaps best described as ''GhostInTheShell'' turned UpToEleven. Eden is extremely violent, filled with explicit sex and nudity, lots of philosophy, even more religion, and moral ambiguity in ways that would make AlanMoore proud. Characters are regularly killed off, beaten, wounded, tortured, crippled, and raped by villains and heroes alike; and TheMessiah, despite the religious overtones, is a minor character.

* ShoutOut: The cybernetics in ''Eden: It's an Endless World!'' is [[strike:reminiscent]] taken straight out of ''GhostInTheShell'', which Endo acknowledges by mirroring the cyborg operation from the ''GhostInTheShell'' Graphic Novel. His PowerArmor are inspired by ShirowMasamune's Landmate-designs in ''{{Appleseed}}'' and their aerial deployment is one long ode to ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' (of note, the design for Shirow's Landmates were based on Heinlein's ideas) while Mishima's exposition about the colloid, in addition to Letheia's character design owes a lot to ''SerialExperimentsLain''. Hacker jargon is, of course, references to ''{{Neuromancer}}'' and the Ministry Spy uses the same weapon is the vat-grown Yakuza hitman does in ''JohnnyMnemonic''. ''Film/BladeRunner'' references are of course also abundant.

* HannibalLecture: Helena does ''not'' want Elijah's pity.
--> '''Helena:''' ''"OHH! But I'm surprised to see that the son of the boss of South America's biggest drug cartel is in a place like this. You know what kind of slums and ghettos I grew up in? All the young men there get their girlfriends using drugs to make them all excited in the sack, see? When the women get hooked on the drugs they'll do absolutely anything for it. So they send their women out to stand on the street. And then suddenly the guys become pimps, without having to move a muscle. If they do very well, after a while they might become the head of their own prostitution ring. Heroin, cocaine... ...that's what killed a lot of my friends in the business. The stuff your father sells, ''[==]'''right?'''"
-->'''Elijah:''' "..."
-->'''Helena''' ''"Then, once they came to the mountains the guerrillas exploited the Indios in the coca fields... ...and when they found pretty young girls like Katchua they'd rape them to while the time away."''
--> '''Helena:''' ''"You were raised to be so big and strong thanks to the sacrifice of girls like her. Your father must be awfully proud!"''
--> '''Helena:''' ''"Thanks for saving us, eh? Elijah."''

* TheRant: Each volume has an entire page at the end where Endo rants about something tangibly related, ranging from his work as cook in a restaurant to just ranting on about paraphilia and sex, or even the Japanese economy.

* [[strike:Heroic]][[HeroicSociopath Sociopath]]: Kenji

* DeadLittleSister: Elijah has a dead older sister, a kidnapped younger sister, a kidnapped (then [[spoiler:comatose]] then [[spoiler:amnesiac]]) mother and a [[spoiler:Dead Ex-Girfriend]]. Eventually [[spoiler: he ends up with a Dead Little Sister.]]

* YamatoNadeshiko: Helena accuses Katchua of this, placing emphasis on the mindless loving.

* OedipusRex: Kenji, to Colonel Kahn

''Eden: It's an Endless World!'' is a cyberpunk manga by Hiroki Endo set in the aftermath of a global plague that has radically altered the social and economic stature of the world, and tells the story of Elijah, the son of freedom fighter Enoah Ballard, who opposes Propater, a global pseudo-religious organization that tried, more or less successfully, to launch a coup d'etat on the entire world. Not entirely successful, they kidnapped Elijah's mother and sister to keep Enoah from opposing them too much. Elijah fled Propater by escaping to South America with his father's combat robot for protection. Over the course of the story, he meets and joins forces with a variety of different, well developed characters, all with their own motivations, problems, morals and ethics, relationships and agendas.

The story deals heavily with relationships, especially family relationships, religion, drug abuse, death and morality. The complex relationships between characters avoid many forms of easy classifications, and many of the characters fail to fall into stereotypical molds.

Still here? OK, let's dig in a bit deeper. The series is perhaps best described as ''GhostInTheShell'' turned [[UpToEleven up to 11]]. Eden is extremely violent, filled with explicit sex and nudity, lots of philosophy, even more religion, and moral ambiguity in ways that would make AlanMoore proud. Characters are regularly killed off, beaten, wounded, tortured, crippled, and raped by villains and heroes alike; and TheMessiah, despite the religious overtones, is a minor character.

''Eden'' ran from 1998 to 2008 in the ''Afternoon'' magazine, reaching a total of 18 volume. The series is translated into English by DarkHorse Manga, who publish volumes biannually due to low sales. Titan Books publish the Dark Horse translations in England, while Egmont Anime & Manga handle the German translation and publication.

!!This manga provides example of:

--> '''Layne:''' Well, ''you two'' can't be the only ones having babies! Your children would have to leave this island to meet up with other survivors. Inbreeding would result in recessive gene expression... ...and then man would die.

* AuthorAppeal: Endo has a [[strike:thing for]] obsession with Oral Sex. ...and telling his readers about the dangers of [=STDs=].

* {{Expy}}: Sophia is Endo's take on [[GhostInTheShell Maj. Kusanagi]](with a ''boatload'' of differences) while Maya, as an insufferable, obnoxious EnigmaticMinion working as an agent for [[strike:the evil organization that lurks in the background]] [[spoiler:[[strike:the alien that wants to assimilate everyone]]]] ''himself'' clearly parallels [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Kaworu Nagisa]], [[spoiler:down to having a less-evil, [[EmotionlessGirl emotionless]] DistaffCounterpart that accompanies the hero.]] The Ministry Spy is a ShoutOut to the Yakuza vat-grown assassin from JohnnyMnemonic, only less vat-grown and more evil.
* EyeSquick: A lot. [[spoiler:Helena's]] eye is perhaps the worst.

--> '''Helena:''' ''"Thanks for saving us, eh? Elijah."''

* NightVisionCamera: Despite the meticulous research Endo includes in ''Eden'', he still manages to make a character look through plastic with both far and near -infrared vision.

* {{Revenge}}: One of the ongoing themes of ''Eden'' is the [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstruction]] of this concept.

* [[FourLinesAllWaiting Six Lines More Waiting]]: By volume 11, there's Elijah and Letheia looking for Mana, Arona, Wendy and Fong following the trail of [[spoiler:Arona's]] husband's killer, Mishima investigating the disclosure virus, Ennoha's war against Propater, Sophia and Kenji running operations for NOMAD, and whatever Maya is up to.

* [[TheUnfettered The Unfettered]]: Ennoia Ballard. He sets himself up as the most powerful drug lord in South America so he can keep his family isolated in luxury away from the rest of the world. He states his philosophy as: "''People who are really important to you should be treated with unlimited love, and all others treated with unlimited cruelty.''"
* ViewersAreGeniuses: What did you expect from an author who wrote that the original [[MindScrew ending]] of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' "didn't leave [him] unsatisfied"? [[spoiler:Volume 11 requires the reader to piece together ''three'' separate discussion of quantum physics to understand what is going on.]]
* WhereItAllBegan. Everything starts at a small island neat the equator, everything culminates at that same small island near the equator.

* ShoutOut: The cybernetics in ''Eden: It's an Endless World!'' is [[strike:reminiscent]] taken straight out of ''GhostInTheShell'', which Endo acknowledges by mirroring the cyborg operation from the ''GhostInTheShell'' Graphic Novel. His PowerArmor are inspired by ShirowMasamune's Landmate-designs in ''{{Appleseed}}'' and their aerial deployment is one long ode to ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' (of note, the design for Shirow's Landmates were based on Heinlein's ideas) while Mishima's exposition about the colloid, in addition to Letheia's character design owes a lot to ''SerialExperimentsLain''. Hacker jargon is, of course, references to ''{{Neuromancer}}'' and the Ministry Spy uses the same weapon is the vat-grown Yakuza hitman does in ''JohnnyMnemonic''. ''BladeRunner'' references are of course also abundant.

* PlotWithPorn: There is a plot that requires an [[ShownTheirWork extreme attention to detail and knowledge]] of quantum physics and familiarity with ''other works'' by ''other authors'' in ''different genres'' (none of which are easy to understand) There is sometimes explicit porn or, in fact, a whole subplot about the face of underground porno industry.

* {{Gorn}}: All the time. [[spoiler: Katchua's death]] and especially [[spoiler:Helena's torture]] stand out though. The realistically depicted torture and torture-murder in vol. 12 is even worse. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel There's exposition.]]

* BodyHorror: The Closure virus causes the immune system to over-react, leading to the eventual hardening of the skin as the cells refuse endocytosis and exocytosis, covering the body in a solid ceramic shell while the internal organs undergo necrosis and pour out through cracks and holes in the hardened skin. The Disclosure virus is a mutated strain that causes hardening of internal organs as they pour out, turning the entire victim into a vaguely humanoid crystal. Feyman's virus is mild in comparsion, but manages to look like it was taken straight out of ''{{Akira}}''.

** [[IGotBetter She gets better]]. Sorta.

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--> "If I were God..."
--> "I'm saving the world! You oughta try it yourself some time!"