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3->''This is the story of only eleven days belonging to a young man who dared to fight under the atmosphere of this country, and the girl who watches over him.''
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5Saki Morimi, a young Japanese woman on her college graduation trip to the United States, decides to take an extra detour to Washington D.C, which she considers to be the center of the world. It is in front of the White House that she meets a mysterious yet charming young Japanese man holding a gun and a cell phone, with no memories... and [[NakedFirstImpression completely naked]]. As he manages to elude police patrols sent after him, Saki, understandably perplexed by the situation, gives him her coat for the sake of modesty, only to discover later that she had left her passport in the pocket, and must find him to get it back. She eventually runs into him again under even stranger circumstances and, in an effort to recover his memories and prove his innocence, the man (introduced as Akira Takizawa on one of his many passports) accompanies Saki back to Japan.
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7As the two make their transition, Japan is struck by a missile that bisects a plane in the air and explodes in downtown Tokyo, causing several casualties. The attack seems to relate to a previous event known as "Careless Monday", when ten missiles struck downtown Tokyo -- somehow, without the loss of a single human life. After everything that has occurred, Akira and Saki form a strong bond and continue in search of Akira's memories together; however, the former soon realizes not is all as it seems -- his cell phone carries 8.2 billion yen in the form of digital money, and can contact a mysterious female voice on the other end named Juiz, who can apparently grant any request, including bribery and assassination. She informs Akira that he is Number IX, and that, as one of the Seleção, it is his ''responsibility'' to spend all the money and become the "saviour" of Japan. If he fails, he'll be eliminated.
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9''Eden of the East'' (''Higashi no Eden'') premiered in April 2009, with director Kenji Kamiyama of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' fame at the helm (bringing along with him Creator/ProductionIG), and character designs by ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'''s Chika Umino. The first episode had the highest ratings of any late-night anime that week, ranking #10 overall.
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11The series ran for eleven episodes, with [[TheMovie two theatrical films]] following, ''The King of Eden'' in November 2009 and ''Paradise Lost'' in March 2010. Both the series and the movies have been licensed for US release by Creator/FUNimation. Now available on their [[https://www.youtube.com/show?p=UPgexqjW65w YouTube]] channel. Technically there are ''three'' movies, a prequel movie entitled "Air Communication" met with a theatrical release just prior to King of Eden but in actuality it was nothing more than 2 hour long RecapEpisode with the characters recapping the events of the series, it didn't even get a separate release, being relegated to an extra on the King of Eden DVD.
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13Has nothing to do with the 1952 John Steinbeck novel ''Literature/EastOfEden'' (well, actually, they ''do'' reference it once), nor the cricket stadium in eastern India called Eden Gardens, nor with the RPG series ''[[VideoGame/TengaiMakyou Far East of Eden aka Tengai Makyou]]''.
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16!!''Eden of the East'' provides examples of:
17* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The anime was released in mid-2009 but assumes that the Freedom Tower has been completed by the time the series takes place in Early 2010. It also shows the Shuttle as a museum piece, though the Shuttle programme still had 2 years to go before being wound up at the time of the anime's release.
18* ActionSurvivor: Akira frequently gets himself into crazy situations, like being chased by cops, gunfights, car accidents etc. and often comes out relatively unharmed due to sheer luck, intuition and resourcefulness.
19* AIIsACrapshoot: Although she never goes ''evil'', Juiz changes over the course of the show in ways that were almost certainly not intended. After the timeskip, she evolves to fit what the various Seleção want/need.
20** XI's has become a loyal assistant with a close emotional connection to her employer.
21** IX's answers the phone after six months like a mother waiting to hear from her son, and sounds deeply hurt when he asks if he can cancel a previous order.
22** VI's has become a ServileSnarker; the pair spend most of their time yelling at each other.
23** II's has become a flirty secretary hanging onto his every word.
24** I's hasn't changed an inch. All he ever wanted was a servant who didn't question his orders.
25* AmnesiacDissonance: Subverted. The trope appears to be in full effect when the friendly, goodhearted Takizawa learns he ordered the missile attacks before he wiped his memory, but it's later revealed that he actually prevented the attacks from causing any fatalities and later took the blame for them.
26* AnimeThemeSong:
27** Averted with [[Music/{{Oasis}} "Falling Down"]]. May have been due to a case of GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff, as Oasis are quite popular in Japan.
28** Played mostly straight for the US release. Since they would have had to pay royalties for each episode the song played on (due to US royalty laws), Funimation opted not to double the release budget and have "Falling Down" only in the first episode and commission a standard theme song for the rest of the series. The opening for the rest of the episodes in the US release is "Michael ka Belial" by Saori Hayami, the Japanese VA for Saki.
29* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Oddly enough, the Japanese broadcast used an English song as the theme ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEzmU7YSXJs "Falling Down"]] by Music/{{Oasis}}), but the Creator/FUNimation version used a Japanese song in North America due to rights issues.
30* ArcNumber:
31** Number 9.
32** 20,000 [=NEETs=].
33** 10 Billion Yen.
34** 12 Seleção.
35* ArcWords:
36** "Noblesse oblige", and "The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power" (a quote from [[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Julius_Caesar_(unsourced_edition)/Act_II act II, scene I]] of ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'').
37** "The king has come, to save us from the dark."
38** "Please continue working as a messiah/savior."
39** "Seleção".
40** "Johnny".
41* AssholeVictim: All of the targets of the Johnny Killer are awful sexist men who are criminals and rapists.
42* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: Saki sits in one after getting food dumped in her lap to make her leave.
43%%* BigFancyHouse: Try Big Fancy ''Shopping Mall''.
44* BlandNameProduct: [[Website/{{Yahoo}} Yanboo!]]
45* BlessedWithSuck: The Seleção are given 10,000,000,000 yen to spend to help 'save' Japan, but this negatively affects almost all their lives. And if you fail, attempt to abdicate from the Game, or use the money for blatantly selfish reasons you'll be eliminated.
46* BlushSticker: About two-thirds of the younger cast members have this going on, plus Saki.
47* BrickJoke:
48** After the credits of the second movie, [[spoiler:Takizawa finds Mr. Outside and smacks him in the face]].
49** The ED of the anime shows Akira using a FingerGun to shoot down oncoming pencil-missiles. [[spoiler: In the final episode, he's doing it again as fighter jets intercept the Tomahawks fired by Yuki.]]
50* ButForMeItWasTuesday: PlayedWith. Yuki thinks Mononobe is pulling this on him after [[spoiler:the game ends because he doesn't realize his memories of him have been erased and is so offended by it that he shoots Mononobe dead]].
51* CensorBox: "Johnnies" are always concealed by a white blob that's been scribbled onto the animation cels frame by frame, causing the edges to constantly move around.
52* CharmPerson: The sight of Akira's magic penis persuades a businessman on the streets of DC to hand over his pants, and a policewoman to let Akira and Saki go.
53* ChekhovsGun:
54%%** Remember that introductory narrative about a prince?
55** In the first episode after Akira finds evidence of his activities as a Seleção, he references the film ''Film/TaxiDriver''. [[spoiler:Guess what the Seleção boss Mr. Outside works as.]]
56* ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike: After [[spoiler:Akira]] evacuated the people that lived where the Careless Monday missiles would hit, their first response was to assume that he and the 20,000 [=NEETs=] that helped him had something to do with them in the first place.
57* ConspiracyPlacement: Seleção has a bad habit of marking all its equipment with the organization's symbols.
58* CripplingCastration: The "Johnny Killer" disposes of her victims by castrating them. with a cigar cutter.
59* CutApart: A very drawn out example. Osugi is drunk and wandering around the street just as Kuroha is walking down the same street and the episode ends. Next episode we see someone with a bondage mask on his face tied to a chair and being threatened by Kuroha, and Osuga's friends are unable to contact him but eventually judge an online poster to be him by the pictures of his stuff lying around the room. [[spoiler:A couple episodes later it turns out the two never met on the street: the man in the mask was actually a serial rapist that stole Osugi's stuff before getting kidnapped and Osugi had his phone taken away while his new co-workers were making him drink a lot as a sort of initiation.]]
60* DesignStudentsOrgasm:
61** Opening credits with a cyan/magenta-colored theme, overloaded with text, various elements related to the story and slowly-growing flower motifs -- set to music by Oasis.
62** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5BDyjgbjPU&feature=related The extended version]] made to accompany the Japanese single release is even trippier, with imagery of bucking horse statues, cherubim statues, abstract photographs of buildings and power lines, as well as a hand holding a half-eaten apple.
63** ''The King of Eden'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-OJVdR2JQY its own opening]] that appears to have been made by the same people.
64* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In the movies, Saki goes half-way around the world to look for Akira, only to find that he doesn't remember her. Nevertheless, they hit it off again right away, chase each other around New York, frequently put themselves in danger for each other, flirt, date, appear to have fallen in love, separate ''again'', and at last share their second kiss before the finale. Then the end reveals that even though Akira promised to come back for her, Saki hasn't heard from him. If the final scene is any indication, Akira will eventually return.
65* DoggedNiceGuy: Osugi is head over heels for Saki, she however, [[JustFriends has no romantic interest in him whatsoever]] and she and Takizawa gradually fall for each other, Osugi briefly has a GreenEyedMonster phase but it's mostly past by the end of the series.
66* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Mr. Outside [[spoiler: is posing as a taxi driver]].
67* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The alternate opening theme used in the English dub is "Michael or Belial" by Saori Hayami, who voices Saki in the show.
68* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Akira goes for a cellphone video call variation.
69* DressHitsFloor: When Kuroha attempts to seduce Akira at the hotel, she unzips her dress and lets it pool around her feet.
70* DressingAsTheEnemy: Osugi, Hirasawa, and Kasuga strip naked in an attempt to get the laptop back when the nude formerly-missing [=NEETs=] invade it.
71* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: Mr. Outside]] makes several cameos in the series before his actual debut in ''Paradise Lost'' - appearing as [[spoiler:a patient at Dr. Hiura's hospital, explaining how he got there so quickly to eliminate Hiura from the game]], and again as [[spoiler:the cab driver that takes Saki and Micchon to the mall]] in the last episode.
72* EpisodeTitleCard: On a literal card, pinned to a decorated bulletin board.
73* EtTuBrute: Number I on Akira's reason for getting a mind-wipe: "You were betrayed by both those you helped and those who helped you."
74* EveryonesInTheLoop: Everyone is kept apprised of the evolving situation as information filters through. It helps that cell phones are a major part of the plot.
75* {{Expy}}:
76** It's no coincidence that Akira looks EXTREMELY similar to [[Manga/HoneyAndClover Morita]]. Then again, the character designs for Eden are done by Creator/ChikaUmino.
77** He also looks very similar to Aoi/The Laughing Man from the first series of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''. Considering the series share a director, this is unlikely to be a coincidence.
78* FalseCameraEffects: For instance, subtle "camera" instability during Mononobe and Akira's helicopter ride.
79* FanDisservice:
80** Kuroha may be attractive, but she's also the [[spoiler:infamous "Johnny Hunter"]].
81** Lots of characters are naked during the series, but they're almost exclusively skinny (and not so skinny) naked NEET boys with white squiggles over the fun bits.
82* {{Foreshadowing}}: Akira's apartment in Washington is littered with paraphernalia from the movie ''Film/TaxiDriver'', which also turns out to be [[spoiler:what Mr. Outside was disguising himself as and how he picked the Seleção in the first place. This is likely intentional InUniverse, as a clue Akira left for himself as part of his MemoryGambit]].
83* FourIsDeath: IV is the first Seleção to die.
84%%* GambitPileup
85* GambitRoulette: Akira's plans boil down to 1): Erase own memory. 2): ??? 3): Profit.
86* GratuitousForeignLanguage:
87** Several terms in Portuguese (apparently only because Mr. Outside was a fan of Brazilian soccer), the English text sprinkled throughout the OP graphics, and the use of the term ''noblesse oblige''.
88** The vaguely-Biblical intro text later shows up, rather unexpectedly, in [[spoiler:Episode 6's ''background music'', during the fireworks scene]].
89*** You also hear a brief snatch of it playing in the taxi to the White House at the very start of the first episode.
90** The helicopter Takizawa takes with Number I in Episode 10 has a sign that says "By all means please do the sheet belt," but this may be TruthInTelevision...
91* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: [[spoiler: Akira himself announces to Japan that he was behind Careless Monday and other terrorist attacks. Even though some don't believe this story, very few people are aware of the whole truth by the end.]]
92* HandOrObjectUnderwear: In episode 11, Ōsugi is deeply embarrassed of having to be naked to fit in among the [=NEETs=], which is illustrated by him covering his junk with his hands. When he ends up being seen by Saki and Micchon and has a NakedFreakOut, he tries using the laptop to cover himself, causing Micchon to get angry since he's "letting his thingie touch the laptop".
93* {{Hikikomori}}:
94** The 20,00 [=NEETs=] whose role in Careless Monday gradually gets explained.
95** Several characters identify as [=NEETs=] even though they are actively engaged in society.
96** "Panties" Itazu's only pair of slacks blew away in the wind three years prior to the series, at which point he resolved never to leave his room again (though this may just be an excuse as he makes ready use of internet shopping for other things). Saki and Micchon get him a new pair in Episode 9, but he gets about five seconds of outside time before [[spoiler:Mononobe (Number I) runs him over]].
97* HospitalSurprise: A brief scene near the end shows [[spoiler:Panties in a hospital room, having evidently survived being run over by 1 and 10]].
98* ICallHimMisterHappy: "Sir, I'm gonna have to see your Johnny." Used several more times as a slang term for a penis too. In Episode 7 we meet a "Johnny Hunter" who turns out to be [[spoiler:one of the Seleção]].
99* InnocentInnuendo: Crosses over with DoubleEntendre, In the first movie, Saki sends an e-mail to her friends saying she's found Takizawa and they're ''heading back to his apartment'', Osugi misinterprets this.
100-->'''Osugi:''' SAKI! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!!
101* InternetCounterattack: The Eden of the East can use their website systems for such purposes.
102%%* IWillFindYou: Pretty much the plot of both movies.
103* KillAndReplace: Kurohe's plan quest to "save Japan" involves her becoming a SerialKiller who targets sexist men who are criminals and rapists, and then replaces them with better men.
104* LampshadeHanging: The show bears a resemblance to [[Film/TheBourneSeries the Jason Bourne series]], with an amnesiac agent and what seems to be a conspiracy going on. The show hangs a lampshade on it when, upon finding a variety of different passports of himself in his cupboard, Akira mutters, "not De Niro (having seen his many guns first and thinking of ''Film/TaxiDriver''), but Jason Bourne?"
105* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Akira had his memory wiped (apparently by himself) and cannot remember anything that has to do with himself -- apart from his apparently near-encyclopedic knowledge of western movies (as in movies made in the West, not [[TheWestern Westerns]]).
106* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the second movie, the two who launched the missile strikes are [[spoiler: run over and shot, by each other no less]].
107* MadArtist: Seleção No. VI, a member of the film industry who among other things tries to kill Saki and Akira via exploding ShowerScene because "There's never been a movie in history where two people are blown up inside the bathroom!"
108* MeetCute: Akira meets Saki in front of the White House in the first episode, carrying a cell phone and a gun... and [[NakedFirstImpression also completely naked]]. Saki, out of embarrassment, [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn offers Akira her coat]], then later discovers that she had put her passport in that coat's pocket, forcing her to seek Akira back out.
109* MemoryGambit: "Going by the history, IX was quite the charming individual before his memory was wiped. He threw away his past and bet on a new self. So I think you're fine as you are now."
110* MessianicArchetype: What Mr. Outside hopes the Seleção program will create for Japan.
111* MutualKill: [[spoiler:Mononobe kills Yuki with his car, but not before the latter shoots him to death through the windshield]].
112* NakedFirstImpression: How Akira meets Saki. In front of the White House, no less.
113* NakedOnArrival: Akira is completely nude when he first appears.
114* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Takizawa again, of course, but also used as a (surprisingly plot important) gag in the final episode.
115%% * NerdsAreSexy: Most of the main characters are but the rest of them are a varied bunch.
116* NextSundayAD: The anime was released in spring 2009 but takes place in early 2010.
117* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted for the most part with Takizawa making verbal references to Creator/MegRyan and Creator/RobertDeNiro, which makes it all the more jarring in the first movie where we see a poster for a movie by ''[[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Alfound Heathcork]]''.
118* NoEnding: One of the main criticisms of the both the series and the films is that they end with quite a number of plot threads that either weren't adequately resolved or were just plain skipped over.
119* OlderThanTheyLook: A majority of the cast are in their early-mid twenties yet look like they just turned 16. Micchon takes this to the extreme by being a 21-year-old yet looking like she just turned ''10''.
120* OmniscientDatabase: The Eden of the East [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot augmented reality search engine crowdsourcing message board]] that Micchon wrote.
121* PlotSensitiveLatch: At the beginning of the first movie, Saki's suitcase bursts open as the cabbie manhandles it, spilling guns and ammo and ''grenades'' onto the ground- not hers, but a setup by one of the Seleção. How they got the suitcase to open at exactly the right time, though...
122* PutOnABus: In-story, the [=NEETs=], put on ships to the Middle East. [[TheBusCameBack They come back]] in Episode 9.
123* PuzzleThriller: Akira opens the story naked outside the White House with a gun, a cell phone, and [[IdentityAmnesia no idea who is he or how he got there]]. The plot then spends time trying to figure out the answers to this, and how the phone works, and ''how to save all of Japan'' before he runs out of money.
124* RefugeInAudacity: Don't try anything Akira does onscreen [[DontTryThisAtHome at home]].
125* ReReleaseSoundtrack: The American release only kept ''Falling Down'' from Music/{{Oasis}} as the opening theme for episode 1, but used a replacement J-Pop song (provided by the Japanese producers) for the remainder of the series. This was due to Funimation having to pay royalties every time the song appeared on the disc and was only willing to pay to use it once.
126%%* TheScapegoat: [[spoiler:Akira]] willingly became this.
127* SceneryPorn: The first episode is an excellent example, with shots of Washington DC taken exactly from the city itself. The first movie does much the same with New York City.
128* SequelHook:
129** [[spoiler:The plan to bomb Japan is thwarted, but what's this? Akira asking Juiz to make him the king of Japan? And erasing his memories again? ''And'' slipping Saki his Seleção phone?]] Stay tuned for TheMovie continuation!
130** And then, after the second film, [[spoiler: TheStinger shows Takizawa climbing into the cab driven by Mr. Outside (who doesn't seem to remember him), and he slaps him with a sandal and lectures him about how their work together has only just begun and that they have a lot more world-saving to do. The film's final shot is of his cellphone...getting a call from Juiz.]]
131* ShipperOnDeck: Sis ships Takizawa and Saki to the point that she practicality does backflips when she [[MistakenForRomance thinks]] ''they're going back to his home to have sex''.
132* ShooOutTheClowns: The entire tone of the show changes in Episode 8 when the plot really kicks in, the majority of the humor is cut out. Even Takizawa and Saki's romantic subplot is put on hold and not brought back until the last few minutes of the second movie.
133* ShouldersUpNudity: During episode 11, most of the naked male [=NEETs=] are shown from the waist up, though the few times they're not their junks are covered by a CensorBox or SceneryCensor.
134* SignatureDevice: Each of the Seleção is given a distinctive cellphone which connects them to the concierge service to execute their commands and serve as a credit card. They are each numbered from 1-12.
135* SleepCute: Akira and Saki in the theater in ''The King of Eden''.
136* ShoeSlap: When Akira manages to find Mr. Outside, he slaps him with a slipper, which he doesn't seem to mind at all.
137* ShoutOut: Where to begin?
138** The show is littered with lampshaded shout outs to American movies -- Akira's even mentions which ones he's referencing in his dialogue.
139** A brief verbal reference is made to Music/TheWho's rock opera ''Quadrophenia'', further contributed to by the moped that Akira rides through the series.
140** Not unexpectedly, there are also a number of references to Creator/ProductionIG's earlier ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'':
141*** The two survivors from the missile-struck plane are an allusion to [[spoiler:Motoko Kusanagi and Hideo Kuze]] from ''2nd GIG''.
142*** The design of the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/EdenOfTheEast-ATOHarimaLab.jpg ATO Harima lab]] seen in Episode 10 resembles that of ''SAC'''s [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GhostInTheShellSAC-KenbishiHeavyIndustries.jpg Kenbishi Heavy Industries proving grounds]].
143*** A wardrobe full of guns in the first episode includes Togusa's distinctive Mateba revolver.
144*** Akira remarks that he had a mental image of Juiz being "a bunch of girls in some huge room [...] all lined up and ready to take our requests", like the ''[=GitS=]'' Operators.
145*** Both series end with the [[spoiler:interception of missiles in midair,]] averting major destruction.
146** A less obvious one is when the members of Eden are meeting in Episode 6 and one of them pops out of a rolltop desk several times in a subtle reference to the prisoner from the Creator/AkiraKurosawa film ''Sanjuro''.
147* SoundtrackDissonance: By Episode 2 things are getting weirder and weirder. Akira appears to be a renowned celebrity with billions of yen in funds attached to his bizarre, high-tech phone and no bloody idea how things got this way. Cue happy jazz!
148* SpoilerOpening:
149** The opening features Seleção symbols with Roman numerals one to twelve on them, supposedly referring to a speculated twelve agents working for this mysterious organization (Akira is IX). During this sequence, IV, V, and X fade away in that order.
150** Similar to the first example, there's a brief sequence in the first movie's opening that shows lines coming out of I's Seleção emblem and destroying II and XII.
151** The closing credits are perhaps even worse. [[spoiler:They show Akira's paper cutout pointing at and shooting down "missiles" before they can strike.]] The same happens in the last few minutes of the final episode.
152* SupernaturalPhone: The Numbers all have phones that can call Juiz, who will grant any request within the realm of their 10 billion yen budget.
153* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic:
154** Listen very closely to the song on the cab's radio at the beginning of Episode 1. (It helps if you've also paid attention to the text in the OP.) The song, a soulful gospel tune called "The King Has Come" plays at a few points (it pretty much becomes an Arc Song if you're listening closely enough), but most appropriately when [[spoiler:Akira shoots down the missiles, and it is still playing when he orders Juiz to make him king of Japan. It also plays at the close of the second film]].
155** While not written for the anime, [[Music/{{Oasis}} "Falling Down"]] has some lyrics that are very relevant to the plot.
156*** 'Here am I, lost and found': Akira wipes his memory and loses his past, finding a new purpose in life in the process
157*** 'If you won't save me, please don't waste my time': If you have one of those phones then it's your mission to "save" Japan. Fail and you get eliminated.
158*** 'I try to talk with God to no avail': Akira goes looking for Mr. Outside, but never gets to meet him [[spoiler:until the very end.]]
159*** The repeated 'All that I've ever known': Akira has a past life, but it's now lost to him and everything after waking up outside the White House is all that he's ever known
160*** It's quite fun to speculate on the lyrics from the full song that didn't make it into the anime too.
161* TakeMyHand: When Akira reaches out for Saki to get on the boat and come with him, indicating that he still wants to be with her. Later he does the same thing when she's in an elevator.
162* TemptingApple: The apple is very symbolic, though it plays no part in the plot other than its relation to Eden.
163* TelevisionGeography: Averted. The first episode is rather faithful to Washington DC.
164* TitleDrop: "Eden of the East" is the name of a small school recycling club Saki participates in. And the ridiculously cool search engine/BBS they wrote together, which can automatically tag photos and videos (hell, you don't even need to save a file, it can identify things in real time!) no matter what the angle.
165* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Kuroha is shown nude, but only via a topless from the back shot in both movies, in ''The King of Eden'' when she's [[ShowerScene taking a shower]] and in ''Paradise Lost'' when she's [[SleepsInTheNude sleeping naked in her bed]].
166* UndressingTheUnconscious: In episode 7, Akira passes out from his wounds in Kuroha's arms, just as she was attempting to seduce him in the hotel room. When Saki arrives, she finds an unconscious Akira naked in bed while a underwear-clad Kuroha is sitting beside him playing with his hair. At first, Saki seems to think [[NotWhatItLooksLike they slept together]] and [[TheGadfly Kuroha doesn't dissuade the notion]], but it's made clear to the audience Kuroha stripping him so could bandage his wounds.
167* UnresolvedSexualTension: Saki and Akira get plenty of this. It's clear from the moment they meet that they're attracted to one another, then the relationship jumps back and forth, developing quickly (they spend almost the entirety of the first few episodes together - they date, they comfort each other, they even kiss) then backtracking and coming to standstill, before deciding to focus on their ''friendship'' and trust in one another for the remainder of the anime.
168* UnusualEuphemism: "Johnny" gets tossed around a lot, and not always in circumstances that make sense -- the odd zombie-like creatures of Episode 4 get this name, for instance.
169** Don't forget ".44 Magnum".
170* ViewerFriendlyInterface: ''The King of Eden'', in a laughable scene where Panties manually rewords the title of an ExactTimeToFailure, resulting in the timer adjusting itself flawlessly.
171* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Hiura (Number V)]] is introduced and eliminated in the same episode. [[spoiler:Kondo (Number IV)]] gets two episodes to live.
172* YoungerThanTheyLook: Sis, who, despite wrinkled appearance, is in her thirties.

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