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->'''Akira:''' You see. I'm a terrorist...\\
'''Saki:''' Eh?!!!\\
'''Akira:''' ...Or something like that.\\
'''Saki:''' [[BlankWhiteEyes ......]]

Saki 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 young Japanese man holding a gun and a cell phone, without any memories... and [[NakedFirstImpression completely naked]]. As he manages to elude police patrols sent after him, Saki, quite perplexed about the situation, gives him her coat for the sake of modesty, only to discover later that she had left her passport in her coat, and must find him to get it back. She eventually meets him again under even stranger circumstances, and, in an effort to recover his memories, the man, introduced as Akira Takizawa on his Japanese passport, accompanies Saki back to Japan.

As 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 human 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. Even as Akira and Saki continue in search of Akira's memories, 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, Juiz, who can apparently make anything happen, 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 for a mysterious purpose.

''Eden of the East'' premiered in April 2009, with director Kenji Kamiyama of ''[[GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' fame at the helm (bringing along with him ProductionIG), and character designs by ''HoneyAndClover'''s Chika Umino. The first episode had the highest ratings of any late-night anime that week, ranking #10 overall. The series ran for eleven episodes, with [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-06-18/eden-of-the-east-gets-two-theatrical-films-green-lit two theatrical films]] to follow in November 2009 and January 2010.

Has nothing to do with the 1952 John Steinbeck novel ''EastOfEden''.
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!!''EdenOfTheEast'' provides examples of:

* AmnesiacDissonance: [[spoiler:Subverted. The trope appears to be in full effect when the friendly, good-hearted 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.]]
* AnticlimaxBoss: Yusei Kondo demonstrates the power of being a Selecao agent when he kills two loan sharks and an innocent bystander in cold blood during the second episode, but [[spoiler:instead of going into a tough fight against Akira Takizawa in the third episode, Yusei, after spending the previous night kicking Akira and taking his cell phone in a poorly-planned attempt to steal the 8.2 billion yen he had, is merely lethally knifed by his wife who thinks he was cheating on her (when in fact he was busy doing whatever he did as a Selecao)]].
* ArcWords: "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/Act_II act II, scene I]] of ''JuliusCaesar'').
* BigFancyHouse: try Big Fancy ''Shopping Mall''
* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler:Apparently, the Seleção are given 10,000,000,000 yen to spend to help 'save' Japan, and once they run out they're killed by whatever system is behind it. No explanation as to why has been forthcoming.]]
* BlushSticker: About two-thirds of the younger cast members have this going on.
* ButtMonkey: Oosugi, definitely. He gets routinely brushed off by other characters, stood up, and drunk to the point of nearly puking in the street. Then Kuroha apparently kidnaps him and threatens to de-Johnnify him... [[spoiler:though it turns a serial rapist stole his bag and cell phone during the aforementioned drunkeness]].
* TheCharmer: Akira. At one point he talks a random businessman on the streets of Washington DC into handing him his pants with a smile.
* [=~Chekhov's Gun~=]: Remember that introductory narrative about a prince? [[spoiler:It's quite literal.]]
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The last part of episode 11. "''Bang.''"
* DeadpanSnarker: Micchon has hints of this, (She also [[LittleMissSnarker doesn't quite look]] the twenty-one years of age that the Japanese [[http://juiz.jp/blog/character/ character sheet]] advertises.)
* [=~Design Student's Orgasm~=]: 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.
** The extended version 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.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: Akira goes for a cellphone variation.
* [[DressingAsTheEnemy Undressing As The Enemy]]: [[spoiler:Oosugi, Hirasawa, and Kasuga strip naked in an attempt to get the laptop back when the nude formerly-missing [=NEETs=] invade it.]]
* EarWorm: ''Catch the wheel that breaks the butterfly...''
* EpisodeTitleCard: On a literal card, pinned to a decorated bulletin board.
* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler:Number I on Akira's reason for getting a mind-wipe: "You were betrayed by both those you helped and those who helped you."]]
* FalseCameraEffects: For instance, subtle "camera" instability during [[spoiler:Mononobe and Akira's helicopter ride]].
* FanService: For once, exclusively of the female-oriented variety. I hope you like skinny naked NEET boys!
* GagPenis: Akira's references to his "Johnny", in particular his exchange with the police woman in the first episode. (Also, the thing seems to have some kind of mind control powers.)
* GeniusDitz: Akira all the way.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Several terms in Portuguese, the English text sprinkled throughout the OP graphics, and the use of the term ''noblesse oblige''.
** The vaguely-Biblical intro text later shows up, rather unexpectedly, in [[spoiler:episode 6's ''background music'', during the fireworks scene]].
* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Diana (Number XI).]] With a cigar cutter! *nervous laughter*
* {{Hikikomori}}: "Pantsu" 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. [[spoiler:Saki and Micchon get him a new pair in episode 9, but he gets about five seconds of outside time before Mononobe (Number I) runs him over.]]
* IHaveManyNames: Akira. See the passports in episode 1 and the Eden tags in episode 8.
* 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 Snipper" who turns out to be [[spoiler:one of the Selecao.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: Akira.
* JigsawPuzzlePlot
* LiteralGenie: Happens once when Juiz takes Akira's hypothetical "[[spoiler:Make the Prime Minister say 'Uncle']]" request both seriously and literally. [[spoiler:Good thing it only cost him 60 yen.]]
** It could also have been Juiz's sense of humor coming into play.
* LampshadeHanging: The show so far has bore 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 Taxi Driver), but Jason Bourne?"
* 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.
* MeetCute: Akira meets Saki in front of the White House in the first episode, carrying a cell phone and a gun...and 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.
* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler:"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."]]
* NakedFirstImpression: How Akira meets Saki. In front of the White House, no less.
* NakedOnArrival: Akira. Otherwise known as: Okay, we get the amnesia... BUT WHY ARE YOU NAKED?
* NextSundayAD: The anime takes place in early 2011.
* RealSongThemeTune: Oasis, "Falling Down".
** Also falls under ForeignLanguageTheme.
* RefugeInAudacity: [[DontTryThisAtHome Don't try anything Akira does onscreen at home]]
* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: The series' main plot arc is mostly resolved, but there are a bunch of hanging threads that the films will almost certainly cover.
* SceneryPorn: The first episode would be an excellent example, with shots of Washington DC taken exactly from the city itself. ThisTroper, a DC native, recognized almost all the places Akira ran past.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Yuuki, Mononobe, and Tsuji's 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 Selecao phone? Stay tuned for TheMovie continuation!]]
** ThisTroper recalls something saying [[spoiler: the second set of "memory" tones gave Akira his memory back.]] We don't really know either way, though.
*ShipTease: Akira and Saki. Need I say [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pioxeEkAlRI more]]?
* ShoutOut: Where to begin?
** Yusei's killing of two yakuza loan sharks by forming a gun (well, a sniper did the killing, but he pointed) with his hand may be a shout out to Revolver Ocelot of the MetalGear fame.
** The show is littered with lampshaded shout outs to western (i.e. American) movies -- Akira's always actually mentioning which ones he's referencing in his dialogue.
** A brief verbal reference is made to The Who's rock opera Quadrophenia, further contributed to by the moped that Akira rides through the series.
** Not unexpectedly, there are also a number of references to ProductionIG's earlier ''GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'':
*** The two survivors from the missile-struck plane are an allusion to [[spoiler:Motoko Kusanagi and Hideo Kuze from ''2nd GIG'']].
*** The design of the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/EdenOfTheEast-ATOHarimaLab.jpg ATO Harima lab]] seen in episode 10 resembles that of ''SAC'''s [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/GhostInTheShellSAC-KenbishiHeavyIndustries.jpg Kenbishi Heavy Industries proving grounds]].
*** 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.
*** [[spoiler:Both series end with the interception of missiles in midair, averting major destruction.]]
* SpoilerOpening: The opening features Selecao symbols with Roman numerals one to twelve on them, supposedly referring to a speculated twelve agents working for this mysterious organization (Akira is IX). [[spoiler:During this sequence, IV, V, and X fade away in that order, leading to initial speculation that the Seleção with those numbers would die during the show in that order. Well, what do you know? Number IV (Kondo the detective) dies in episode 3, followed shortly by Number V (Dr. Hiura) in episode 4. And seeing as how he spent his remaining funds on the climactic missile strike, X can't have long to live]]
**[[spoiler:The King Has Come.]]
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: The first episode, set in a well-rendered Washington, D.C., features Americans who are cast by actual English-speaking Americans; the result the trope.
** Which is a little ironic, because despite the lengths they went to get good spoken English, they didn't to spell check the opening ("The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorese from power"). That, or wherever source they got the Shakespeare quote from had it spelled wrong to begin with.
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: 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.)
* TelevisionGeography: Averted. The first episode is rather faithful to Washington DC.
* TitleDrop: "Eden of the East" is the name of a small school recycling club Saki participates in.
* 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.
** Don't forget ".44 Magnum".
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The anime assumes that the Freedom Tower has been completed by the time the series takes place in 2012. However, the Freedom tower has recently been renamed to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_tower 1 World Trade Center]]. Also, since the tower suffered from the construction version of DevelopmentHell early in construction, early estimates indicate that the tower will not be finished until 2013.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Juiz can be contacted via a special Selecao cell phone, and the mysterious female voice refers to herself as a "concierge". She can assist every Selecao agent in a wide variety of tasks, from bribing airport officials to help skip customs and immigration, to bribing police officers to assassinate loan sharks.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Hiura (Number V)]] is introduced and killed in the same episode. [[spoiler:Kondo (Number IV)]] gets two episodes to live.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:In Shiratori's view, justice means killing "the enemies of women" by cutting their Johnnies off.]]
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: The opening, as well as various lines across the anime, seems to vaguely refer to Jesus, or, more specifically, the Messiah. Juiz, the VoiceWithAnInternetConnection, is the Portuguese word for "judge", and Selecao (more correctly spelled Seleção) is Portuguese for "selection". [[spoiler:Episode 10 reveals that Mr. Outside picked the names based on Brazilian soccer terms.]]
** The title as well. Probably.
***It's a reference to [[TheBible Genesis 2:8]], SoYeah.
* WingedHumanoid: One character appears to sprout wings to make an escape at one point, though it turns out to be an illusion courtesy of Juiz.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair and lips and eyes: Kuroha Diana Shiratori, model agency president, Selecao XI, and [[spoiler:serial killer]].

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