History Manga / EdenItsAnEndlessWorld

* {{Expy}}: Sophia is Endo's take on [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell Major Kusanagi]] (with a ''boatload'' of differences) while Maya, as an EnigmaticMinion working as an agent for Propater [[spoiler: or rather, the alien virus that wants to assimilate everyone]] ''himself'' clearly parallels [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Kaworu Nagisa]], [[spoiler:down to having an {{Emotionless|Girl}} 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.

* PsychicNosebleed, [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: For cyborgs or people with electronic enhancements hacking into technology results in something like this. However, it's not blood, it's ''coolant''; it's a last-ditch failsafe to keep their brains from melting down by flushing the coolant (it also comes out of their ears and eyes) when the heat dissipation can't keep up any other way than forcefully expelling it from the system. And when they run out, their brains cook.

** The PowerArmor displayed in the series is 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).

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Life goes on, and the new universe is created. Conflict goes on, but there's still hope, because the worst [[WorldHalfFull already happened]]]].

* ManOnFire: The explosion version, the flamethrower version and the torture-death version.
--> [[spoiler:'''Elijah:''']] Did you not use enough explosives?

* BlackAndGrayMorality: When the BigGood of the story is an internationally known druglord, you know the story is this. Ennoah is a career criminal responsible for the circulation of hard drugs around the world, but he uses the profits in his war against Propator which would see the entire world placed under it's totalitarian control. And his son Elijah, the protagonist, gets involved in many criminal activities during his quest to save his sister.

* AMinorKidroduction: Oddly enough, the story doesn't begin with young Elijah, but with young Ennoah discovering Cherubim and escaping his island home to become someone able to help the world.

* OneWorldOrder: A complicated example. Over the course of the story, we see more and more countries join a single world order named Propator. Behind the scenes, it is led by people with nefarious plans, but is also full of people who truly want to do good in the world, like the man who is elected to be the president of it. He realizes that he was he is mostly a figure head, but believes that the world needs to find unity in order for humanity to survive. [[spoiler:At and the end, Propator is still going strong, but it's more idealistic elements seem to be in power (though it helps that it's most corrupt leaders were killed).]]

* WhereItAllBegan. Everything starts at a small island neat the equator, everything culminates at that same small island near the equator.

* WeaponOfChoice: Kenji has a long knife that he regularly falls back on in close quarters combat with great effect. He eventually passes it on to his protege and switches to a kukri.
** Though he'll use other guns as needed, Elijah seems to prefer sniper rifles over other weapons. He gets rather good with it too.

%%* DarkSkinnedBlond: Helena, Pedro.

--->'''Sophia''': So when's the last time you had a good cry?
--->'''Kenji''': ...
--->'''Sophia''': What? Why do men always give me weird answers to that question?!

''Eden'' ran from 1998 to 2008 in the ''Afternoon'' magazine, reaching a total of 18 volumes. The series is translated into English by Creator/{{Dark Horse|Comics}} 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.

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 the MessianicArchetype, despite the religious overtones, is a minor character.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Ennoah, Hannah, Elijah, Sophia, Kahn, Wycliffe, Kenji, Helena, Katchua, Maya, Mana, Letheia, Arona, Wendy, Fong, Marihan and Mishima, as well as an even larger assortment of ''minor'' characters.

* PsychicNosebleed, [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: For cyborgs or people with electronic enhancements hacking into technology results in something like this. However. it's not blood, it's ''coolant''; it's a last-ditch failsafe to keep their brains from melting down by flushing the coolant (it also comes out of their ears and eyes) when the heat dissipation can't keep up any other way than forcefully expelling it from the system. And when they run out, their brains cook.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Kenji is rather unstable in the first arc he appears in, with an almost twisted manchild nature where Sophia calms him down by giving him a somehow motherly blowjob when he is on edge (and about to kill his commanding officer). Later appearances imply no such character deficiency and his relationship with Sophia is not sexual at all for the rest of the story.

* DeathByFlashback: PlayedWith. Anyone who tells his backstory another character dies pretty soon afterwards. However, flashbacks happening for the reader's eyes only don't seem to trigger a death.

* OneWorldOrder: A complicated example. Over the course of the story, we see more and more countries join a single world order. Behind the scenes, it is led by people with nefarious plans, but is also full of people who truly want to do good in the world, like the man who is elected to be the president of it. He realizes that he was he is mostly a figure head, but believes that the world needs to find unity in order for humanity to survive.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: And the shades of gray can get ''really'' dark.

* [[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.

* LikesOlderWomen: Both of Elijah's love interests are older than him, though downplayed with his second love [[spoiler:and eventual wife]] Miriam is only a few years older than him.

* BookEnds: The covers for Volume 1 and Volume 18 are of Ennoia and Hannah lying on the flood next to wires and parts of Cherubim.

* PsychicNosebleed, [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]: Hacking causes nosebleeds in people who should't have circulatory systems.
** It's not blood, it's coolant. It's a last ditch failsafe to keep their brains from melting down by flushing the coolant (it also comes out of their ears and eyes) when the heat dissipation can't keep up any other way then forcefully expelling it from the system. And when they run out, their brains cook.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Maya and Letheia, which adds FridgeBrilliance when you realize that [[spoiler: they are not human, and thus, take the appearance of whatever they like. They are not Latinos, they're not African, they're not European, they're just brown.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Aside from [[spoiler: Elijah and Kenji]], expect those who appeared in the first volume not last until the end.

* STDImmunity: Notably averted. Several character, major and minor, catch some form of [=STDs=] over the course of the series, and Endo had footnotes, asides and entire panels explaining the need for proper protection and cleaning to avoid [=STDs=].

* MultinationalTeam: Kahn's freedom fighters: Colonel Kahn is Georgian, Wycliffe is Caribbean, Sophia is Greek and Kenji is Japanese. They're then joined by Elijah, who is descended from Americans, Helena, who is from Lima and Katchua, who is Incan-descendant Peruvian. In a later volume, Kahn says he always works with multinational teams, because it's no fun when everyone are the same.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. When two intersecting triangles where one of the catheti in each triangle is the hypothenuse of the other triangle, an third party murders both hypothenuses, leading the remaining cathetus to ally and seek revenge for their unfaithful partners.

* BlackBestFriend: Elijah befriends Nathan, the nephew of his father's close friend and associate Tony, who was one of the only black students at the wealthy academy Tony enrolled Elijah in. They remain close friends for years to come [[spoiler:and Nathan is one of the few characters that manages to survive all the way to the epilogue, where he is shown to still be close with Elijah.]]