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3->''"If I were God..."''
4->''"I'm saving the world! You oughta try it yourself some time!"''
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6''Eden: It's an Endless World!'' is a cyberpunk manga by Creator/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.
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8Not 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.
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10The story deals heavily with relationships, especially family relationships, religion, drug abuse, death and morality. The complex relationships between characters avoids many forms of easy classification, and many of the characters fail to fall into stereotypical moulds.
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12Still here? OK, let's dig a bit deeper. ''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.
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14''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 published volumes biannually due to low sales. Titan Books published the Dark Horse translations in England, while Egmont Anime & Manga handled the German translation and publication.
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17!!''Eden: It's an Endless World!'' provides examples of:
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19* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Everyone who gets absorbed into the Colloid merges together as part of a mass of data with no identity. That data will eventually be used as a catalyst for the creation of a new universe.]]
20* AdamAndEvePlot: Averted:
21--> '''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.
22* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: In this case, it's not a human but a giant bacteriophage. Also, the Colloid uses the forms of absorbed relatives and friends to convince people to join.
23* AgeGapRomance: Both of Elijah's major romances feature this element, though his second romance at least takes place when he has become an adult. Loji attempts this with her teacher Kenji, but in the end their status is given a shrug.
24* AllLovingHero: Volume 9 puts major focus on the female Muslim terrorist Marihan Ishaq, whose express purpose in holding up a Chinese factory was addressing the oppression of the Uyghurs, cares about the lives of her hostages with no intent of actually killing them, betrays the other cells allied with her to stop a terrorist bombing innocents, and is the nicest person in the series who isn't a young child. [[spoiler:[[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth Too bad she couldn't last.]]]]
25* 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, and they're not European--they're just brown.]]
26* AnachronismStew: It's the future, so it can be expected that things like [=USBs=] will be obsolete by then, but they still make liberal use of floppy disks despite it.
27* AndIMustScream. Anyone infected with the Closure or Disclosure viruses will suffer a very slow loss of motor-functions as their skin hardens and their organs liquefy. [[spoiler:Sophia]] ends up this way when Sheshoan makes her quadriplegic and rapes her repeatedly.
28* AntiHero: Ennoia has made it his life's mission to bring down Propator, the organization that is essentially controlling the world. However, his main source of clout and power comes from being one of the biggest drug lords in the world. Simply being his son causes Helena to scorn Elijah initially as the drugs that Ennoia propogates have killed many of her friends.
29* AnyoneCanDie: Aside from [[spoiler: Elijah and Kenji]], don't expect those who appeared in the first volume to last until the end.
30* ApocalypseHow: Planetary, at a Societal Disruption level. The Closure and later Disclosure viruses have wiped out a good portion of humanity, enough for society to break off into gang-run crime holes and the militant unified government that oppresses them. [[spoiler:The finale nearly takes it to extinction levels, as the gamma rays from the wormhole intended to make a separate universe would destroy all life with changing weather patterns, or create a nuclear winter. The solution humanity comes up with "merely" changes this into extreme climate change that results in the extinction of several animal species.]]
31* ArmCannon: Several characters have their arms upgraded to shoot bullets and whatnot.
32* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Mustard gas is a blister agent, but the chemical attack in volume 2 has symptoms similar to a nerve agent or a pulmonary agent.
33* AuthorAppeal: Endo has an obsession with oral sex... and telling his readers about the dangers of [=STDs=]. He also admitted in an afterward that he finds the kind of woman who's tough and can give a mean slap good wife material, something [[spoiler:Helena and Miriam]] are for Elijah.
34* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Elijah and Miriam and Nathan each have at least one child in the final chapter. [[EarnYourHappyEnding And boy, do they deserve them]]]].
35* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Invoked and discussed. In volume 14, Elijah keeps trying to get his girlfriend pregnant so he can at least have a "happy ending" to the misery he's drowning in.
36* BadassNormal: Kenji seemingly has no cybernetic implants but he tears through those who do, and the assorted cybernetic monsters, with casual ease.
37* BigBrotherInstinct: Kenji to Elijah.
38* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The earth is saved from the total destruction that the creation of the new universe would have caused, but the ecosystem is heavily damaged (with many species such as the polar bear going extinct) and it is only with nanomachines in both the ocean and atmosphere that the damage can be undone. It is unknown and never will be known if the new universe managed to be created, but comfort is taken that if it was, Sophia will be able to shape it into something good. And Propatria continues to grow in power as more nations continue to join it, but with the most corrupt elements purged through Ennoia's work, it appears that it will be to the benefit of humanity rather than the detriment. And most of the main characters are seen to have started families. Though struggle remains, hope lives on]].
39* BlackAndGrayMorality: When the BigGood of the story is an internationally known druglord, you know the story is this. Ennoia 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 its totalitarian control. And his son Elijah, the protagonist, gets involved in many criminal activities during his quest to save his sister.
40* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Next to oral sex and {{Tsundere}}s, this has to be Endo's favourite trope. It appears in pretty much every issue.
41* BladeEnthusiast: 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 protégé and switches to a kukri.
42* 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 comparison, but manages to look like it was taken straight out of ''Manga/{{Akira}}''.
43* BookEnds: The covers for Volume 1 and Volume 18 are of Ennoia and Hannah lying on the floor next to wires and parts of Cherubim.
44** The beginning of the story takes place on an island set apart from civilization. [[spoiler:The climax of the story ends on that same island, though now it has become the central location of the Colloid. The only room still intact from Ennoia's childhood is the room where his parents danced.]]
45** [[spoiler: The first page from the manga is Ennoia's parents dancing. The last page is a single panel with Ennoia and Hannah dancing.]]
46* CarFu: Elijah rams a car into a cyborg at one point, crushing it into a wall. He then lights the car on fire.
47* CharacterizationMarchesOn: 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.
48* ChildSoldiers: Elijah, Kenji, and Loji specifically.
49* ChristianityIsCatholic: Averted. Miriam's parents are both Christian, but her Latino mother is Catholic while her Irish father is Protestant. This ended up causing friction between the two.
50* ColdBloodedTorture: Except for those whose motivation is revenge, it has an atrociously low success rate, realistically enough.
51* ColdSniper: Count the number of times where you see a character shot from a sniper rifle in prone position, performed a bolt action and an empty shell ejected drawn mid-motion.
52* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler:Right before shooting Miguel, the mob tells him that he could have just asked them for the money to pay for his sister's medical bills instead of outright stealing from them and defecting. While he didn't want to pay off the bills with blood money, he concedes the point before [[LastRequest asking them]] to keep his sister out of harm's way and to ensure her surgery is successful.]]
53* CombatTentacles: The Aeons and Demille.
54* TheCracker: Cyborgs are often used as such in the setting, using their minds as motherboards. Experts, such as Sophia, [[spoiler:her former husband Jason Li]], and Maya, can even jam missiles or create digital illusions to throw others off their trail.
55* CrapsackWorld: The story already begins with the Closure virus wiping out 15 million people, but in the aftermath, the world gets worse. The division between the poor and the rich grow wider with each passing decade, the dead are repurposed as monstrous cyborgs, betrayal is rampant, and even the people who stay far away from the nonsense of gangs and drugs still have a high chance of death, especially if they're in a country unsupported by Gnosia. Speaking of the virus, it turns from a disease that slowly paralyzes the body into one that ''crystallizes'' it, and is able to cover entire cities near the end of the story.
56* CyberCyclops: When they appear, You know they're up to no good.
57* DroppedABridgeOnHer: After a four year time skip, [[spoiler:Helena]] is killed because she is standing next to the target of an assassination attempt.
58* DeathByFlashback: PlayedWith. Anyone who tells his backstory to another character dies pretty soon afterwards. However, flashbacks happening for the reader's eyes only don't seem to trigger a death.
59* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Ennoia begins his journey by taking control of Cherubim and using it to kill his father. His journey ends when Cherubim is instead used to kill ''him'', to stop him from interfering with the Colloid's genetic data transfer.]]
60* DeathOfAChild: This world isn't kind to anybody, least of all kids. The manga seems to have a knack for showing young girls getting butchered.
61** One flashback showed guerillas forcing civilians to traverse a minefield to make a statement. Focus was put on a little girl who stepped on a mine and wisely didn't move from it, but had her foot shot off to trigger the explosion anyway.
62** The narcotics arc features [[spoiler:Cessie]] being bifurcated.
63** In volume 17, Tito's little sister Maria gets shot in the head.
64* DefrostingIceQueen: Helena. Also, Miriam.
65* DemotedToExtra: [[spoiler:Elijah, the protagonist of the story to this point, basically becomes this after the mission to save his sister goes horribly wrong. His arc ends with him going into rehab after falling hard into drug use. The main character of the final arc that wraps up the ongoing plot line is his father.]]
66* DisposableSexWorker: Entire mansions filled with them!
67* DiabolusExMachina: [[TraumaCongaLine Poor Tito]]. His brother is already involved with gang warfare and his father is nowhere to be seen, so when the brother dies that's not too surprising. After having lost his friends for stealing food from white supremacists, he's already torn, but he gets help from Kenji and company to get his mother and sister out of the gang war's way. [[spoiler:While he's able to survive, his sister is near ''instantly'' shot and killed by a sniper, with her mother soon following, despite neither of them looking like combatants or like any danger and no reason was given to why they were shot over anyone else.]]
68* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[spoiler:When offered a place to join and lead the Colloid by Maya, Ennoia essentially tells him to stuff it, as he sees the entire purpose of the Colloid as insulting to the legacy of the human race. He instead chooses to die on his own terms.]]
69* DistaffCounterpart: Letheia to Maya, in a literal example of the trope since they are both clones of the same Maya program, but one was put into a female body. She later starts referring to herself explicitly as the opposite to his rationality (nous).
70* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:Victims of the Disclosure virus and all those who chose to become part of it are part of an increasingly unsubtle metaphor for suicide. The old, sick, and hopeless all decide to go into the Colloid when they feel like they have no other option, or sometimes are called to it with visions of family members and loved ones that died. Even the purpose of the Colloid, to send genetic data to create a new universe, speaks to suicidal hopes of having a better life than the one they left behind. The least subtle of these instances is in Tito's choice; he contemplates going into the Colloid when his entire immediate family has been gunned down, but turns against it and goes back to civilization.]]
71* DoomedMoralVictor: The Muslim rebel Marihan Ishaq simply wanted the oppression of her people to end. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, she ends up losing everything that matters to her, and even though she sacrifices her life to save a mall full of people by jumping out a window with a bomb, she is remembered as a failed suicide bomber rather than a hero. She is one of the most pure hearted characters in the story, and she pays for it all the way until her death. She never gives up her idealism however.]]
72* DysfunctionJunction: Kenji, Sophia, Colonel Kahn and Wycliffe all have various traumas, with Kenji and Sophia being specifically notable. Elijah quickly develops his own.
73* DrivenToSuicide: Purposely done to [[spoiler:Pedro]] as revenge for what happened to [[spoiler:Cessie]]. [[spoiler:Elijah takes out Pedro's brother, then Manuela, just as they were about to board their escape plane. Having the two people he cared about most offed, Pedro then shoots himself.]]
74* DrugsAreBad: A recurring theme throughout the manga, not only dealing with whoever is abusing them but also denouncing the people who keep pushing the drug trade as just as bad for enabling them (which also includes Ennoiah). Reaches its height with [[spoiler:Elijah, who starts doing them to cope with Helena's death against the advice of those around him, but falls into them ''hard'' after Mana dies. The conclusion of his arc in the story involves him going to rehab to get clean.]]
75* EmotionlessGirl: Letheia has no emotions at all as of volume 11, mainly due to being four years old. Sophia's backstory has elements of this.
76* EnigmaticMinion: Maya, who steals his own body from Propater and immediately joins them afterwards. [[spoiler:He's secretly acting as an agent of the Disclosure virus. Maybe.]]
77--> '''Demille:''' So you still work for Propater?
78--> '''Maya:''' For now.
79* EvenEvilHasStandards: Elijah believes that even as a criminal he should have certain standards such as ''not'' killing people by [[ColdBloodedTorture beating their teeth out with a hammer, cutting their balls off and shoving them down their throat before sewing the mouth shut.]] He's chewed out by his father's henchmen because criminals ''do'' "rule through fear" according to them.
80* EvilutionaryBiologist: The disclosure virus.
81* {{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 ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'', only less vat-grown and more evil.
82* EyeScream: A lot. [[spoiler:Helena]]'s eye is perhaps the worst.
83* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:What ultimately leads to Mana's death. For most of her rescue mission, the team was aware that the nanomachines placed in her body were rigged to explode if she's anywhere near a satellite signal. The arc ends with them disabling Demille, who held the trigger for the explosion, but more importantly still staying above ground. [[DiabolusExMachina Jason Li cracks into the system and activates the bomb, killing Mana instantly.]]]]
84* FalseFlagOperation: NOMAD hired an extremist muslim group to raid a Propater laboratory - this was only a guise to trick a Propater scientist-turned-spy help Kenji's brother's mercenaries infiltrate the base in order to have Propater fight back so that their illegal lab was exposed in order to strain Propater-China and Propater-Islamic Alliance relations.
85* TheFinalTemptation: [[spoiler:When Ennoia gets back to his childhood home, he's pulled into an illusion made by the Colloid that allows him to live out his childhood with Hannah in peace. He only gets out of it when he realizes that [[SpottingTheThread Hannah never knew about him killing his own father]], so her comforting him over it here gave him pause.]]
86%% * FingerTenting: Tony, Kahn, Sophia, and Elijah, among others.
87* {{Foreshadowing}}: Cessie tells Elijah that she knew of Manuela once abandoning who would've been her older brother because she wanted to buy more drugs. [[spoiler:The same eventually happens to Cessie herself near the end of the arc, as Manuela abandons Cessie at the train station to escape to America with Pedro.]]
88* FriendlySniper: Elijah tends to use a sniper rifle as his weapon of choice whenever he can, but he's a very friendly guy.
89* GeniusLoci: The Disclosure virus.
90* GildedCage: [[spoiler:Mana's kidnapping treats her rather well, all things considered. She has full access to food, warm and expensive clothes, still goes to school, and even has companions in Loji and Maya. However, she still can't leave, as if she does the nanomachines implanted in her body will be activated and kill her.]]
91* {{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 Volume 12 is even worse. There's exposition.
92* GreyAndGreyMorality: The characters, just like the world, are a mixed bag. While there are completely morally good people in the world, there are many more on the supposed side of good who build their power by exploitation, and some on the "bad" side that were only pushed in desperation. Propater tries to make themselves into an all powerful unified international government but have continually exploited and oppressed Latin American countries and other third world nations; Nomad does its best to combat Propater's wrongs but their biggest figurehead is a drug kingpin that thrives off of their business; and even the Colloid, which by all means is a deadly disease slowly wiping out humanity, [[spoiler:wants simply for humanity to take the next step in evolution.]]
93* HadakaApron: ''Elijah'', of all people, does this to ''Miriam''. Apparently Helena thought it was funny, and Elijah didn't catch the sexual subtext. Then [[ButchLesbian Feng]] walks in the door, and Elijah goes to get it...
94** He later stops acting stupid and ''insists'' on wearing only the apron while he lives with Miriam and Feyman. [[spoiler: It's all part of his plan to use Miriam as bait for Propater. One might wonder if he could have found a ''less'' lecherous way to get her to leave...]]
95** At a later point, he also wants Miriam to wear it. (Or rather, ''not'' wear it.)
96* HalfIdenticalTwins: Maya and Lethia look almost exactly alike, except Maya is male and Lethia is female. However, neither are exactly human. Both are AIs (in fact, Lethia is a copy of Maya that Elijah made early in the story without realizing exactly what he was copying). They are otherwise opposites in many ways. Maya is purely a cyborg with almost supernatural abilities (like the ability to warp at will) while Lethia is partially organic (having overwritten the "data" of an existing brain that was damaged) and is otherwise just a very powerful android. And finally [[spoiler:Maya is working with the colloid to absorb as much of humanity as possible for the creation of a new universe while Lethia's goal is to save as much of humanity that remains in the aftermath.]]
97* HappyEndingOverride: The (roughly) halfway point of the story ends with Elijah and Helena officially getting together after many trials and relationship issues. We learn after a major Kenji focused arc and a timeskip that [[spoiler:they ended up breaking up, and Helena eventually moved on to a man who got on the wrong side of the Propator government and gets killed for it. And Helena is killed simply for being in the same room as him when they come for him. This ends up being the catalyst that causes Elijah to begin his slow descent into hardcore drug usage.]]
98* HeroicBSOD: When [[spoiler:Elijah]] realizes that [[spoiler:Manuela used her own daughter as ''bait'']], he despairs. When he realizes said bait was meant to ''die'', he completely loses it and kills [[spoiler:Manuela]]. A little later he's hit by the guilt. Marihan's BSOD is longer, but not as prominent.
99** Even more so, when [[spoiler:Mana]] dies, [[spoiler:Elijah]] completely crashes.
100* HeroicSacrifice: In volume 9, [[spoiler:Marihan]] sacrifices [[spoiler:her]]self to prevent a terrorist bombing.
101* HeWhoFightsMonsters: A lot of the time, when someone wants to right the injustices of the world, they just end up fueling the cycles of abuse that put them in their situations in the first place.
102* HookerWithAHeartOfGold:
103** Helena, who goes back into the trade during the narcotics arc. Her kindness extends to trying to take other prostitutes she knows are getting a raw deal out of their current employment and into the hands of either more ethical brothels or into a different life entirely. [[spoiler: She still fulfills the "love interest" portion of the trope, as she eventually takes fifteen year old Elijah's virginity and starts a brief relationship with him.]]
104** Subverted with Manuela. She's trying to take care of her daughter and doesn't seem like a bad person, but [[spoiler:she makes zero effort to get through her drug addiction when everyone around her tries to help her do so, and she ultimately uses her daughter Cessie as bait to escape to America with Pedro.]]
105* HopeSpot:
106** During a tense situation, Katchua and Wycliffe are stuck in the middle of a minefield being shot at by an enemy sniper while Elijah is trying to find and kill said sniper. Katchua steps on a landmine and Wycliffe plans to press down on the mine long enough for Katchua to get away, as penance for all the villagers he watched die to the landmines he set up to battle enemy combatants. Riddled with bullets, we see him jump for the mine right as the sniper blows off Katchua's foot. We see a shot of the little girl Wycliffe saw die and think this is the motivation he needs to make it. [[spoiler:He doesn't make it and they both blow up.]]
107** [[spoiler:When it looks like Mana will be able to escape and get the bombs extracted from her spine after defeating Demille, Jason takes full control over the bombs' activation order and kills her just when everyone is distracted.]]
108* HumansAreFlawed: Leans more towards the [[HumansAreBastards Bastards]] side of the human debate, but this is ultimately the view on humanity we're supposed to take from the story. As cruel as we are to each other and to others, there are still pockets of people willing to do good, and humanity eventually learns from its mistakes. [[spoiler:This is best exemplified in the end with Sophia--despite her being a negligent person in her youth, her disregard and abandonment of her children, and witnessing some of the worst humanity had to offer, she is ultimately the more capable person to direct the Colloid into the wormhole.]]
109* ImprobableAimingSkills: Kenji can throw a knife down the barrel of gun.
110* ItGetsEasier: At the beginning of the story, Elijah freaks out after killing his first human. Only a year later, he is perfectly OK with killing someone who has crossed a line for him. And then years later, he has become seemingly numb to death, not seeming to care that all the people on a passenger plane were killed to make everyone think Elijah was dead (he seemed more upset that all the time he had spent studying for college was pointless).
111%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Helena
112* KickTheDog: Everyone has their moments, but [[spoiler:Elijah]] killing [[spoiler:Manuela]] manages to stand out. Also, the entire [[spoiler:Mana]] rescue arc.
113* KidHero: Elijah for the early parts of the story. He hits the end of this trope when the first timeskip places him at fifteen and is completely out of it after the second timeskip when he is 19.
114* LatinLand: The story opens with characters wanting to cross "Los Andes", so either they're near Chile or Argentina. Volumes 6 through 9 take place in Bolivia.
115* LikesOlderWomen: Both of Elijah's love interests are older than him, though downplayed with his second love [[spoiler:and eventual wife]] Miriam in that the age gap is smaller (and he's actually an adult this time).
116* TheLostLenore: Though he publicly hides it pretty well, and on top of the fact that they had broken up already and she had moved on to another man, [[spoiler:Elijah takes Helena's death pretty hard, being one of the big catalysts for him to fall into hardcore drugs.]]
117* LoveMartyr: Helena accuses Katchua of this, placing emphasis on the mindless loving. Later on we have the cycle of romance between Manuela and Pedro, on ''both ends'', with Pedro willing to fund her drug abuse and her attempts to cut herself off from him because of love, and Manuela taking his abuse because of the same.
118* LoveRedeems: Helena has some interesting views on this (below), compare/contrast Elijah's father's views in the same issue.
119--> '''Elijah:''' I lov...
120--> '''Helena:''' Shhhh! Forgives doesn't make the sin go away.
121* MalignantPlotTumor: The first half of the story is largely just about the lives of various mercenaries and criminals trying to get by in a very harsh PostCyberpunk world. There is a subplot about a virus that causes people to completely harden into a strange carapace (at which point they can no longer move and shortly after die) that nearly caused the end of humanity in the prologue, but for most of the first half, it largely exists just to justify why the world is the way it is. [[spoiler:In the second half, it comes back into prominence as the Colloid; it is apparently sentient and begins to grow into elaborate structures spanning across the entire world. It also begins to absorb people (who willingly commit to being absorbed, usually when they have no hope left in the world) so as to gain enough energy to create a second brand new universe. This becomes the focus of the climax of the story.]]
122* ManySpiritsInsideOfOne: [[spoiler:The Colloid eventually gets to the point where anyone absorbed into it loses their identity and becomes a mass of data. Their memories and experiences will still remain, but it is simply accessed from a "database" the Colloid has.]]
123* TheMasochismTango: Pedro and Manuela's relationship in a nutshell. They sleep with practically everybody else but each other, he abuses her and is violently possessive of her, while she is in the constant process of breaking up and getting back together with him while her addiction consumes her life, [[spoiler:to the point where she even refuses help and puts her children in harm's way.]]
124* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Katchua]] was killed after losing her lower body to a land mine, although Helena didn't think it was necessary to kill her.
125* MenDontCry: Note that this is after her lengthy troubling flashback, and prompts his.
126-->'''Sophia''': So when's the last time you had a good cry?
127-->'''Kenji''': ...
128-->'''Sophia''': What? Why do men always give me weird answers to that question?!
129* AMinorKidroduction: Oddly enough, the story doesn't begin with young Elijah, but with young Ennoia discovering Cherubim and escaping his island home to become someone able to help the world.
130* 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 is the same.
131* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. When two intersecting triangles where one of the catheti in each triangle is the hypotenuse of the other triangle, a third party murders ''both'' hypotenuses, leading the remaining cathetus to ally and seek revenge for their unfaithful partners.
132* MyGreatestSecondChance: We see during a flashback that the mercenary Wycliffe was a soldier who as part of an operation against an enemy militia planted a bunch of landmines only to be forced to watch as said militia forced a nearby village at gunpoint to walk over said minefield to blow up the mines. The flashback culminates with a little girl stepping on one, and realizing it refuses to step off until the militia leader shoots out her leg from under her, causing the mine to explode. At present day, he ends up in a similar situation with Katia standing on a mine while they are under gun fire, with the enemy choosing to shoot at her leg to make the mine explode. Wycliffe, attempting to make up for the deaths he unwittingly caused with the mines makes a dive to land on the mine before it explodes, knowing he will likely die but at least Katia will be saved. [[spoiler:He is too late; the mine explodes and completely destroys the upper half of his body. Katia isn't so lucky. Her ''lower'' half gets blown up, so she has a few moments to see her missing lower half before Kahn puts her out of her misery.]]
133* NightVisionGoggles: 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.
134* TheNosebleed: Notably averted in early volumes. Hiroki Endo's {{Face Fault}}s are more expressive. A very subdued version appears later in the series, represented as a tissue paper stuck up one nostril. Endo is rather inconsistent with it too.
135%%* Theatre/OedipusRex: Kenji, to Colonel Kahn
136* 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 its more idealistic elements seem to be in power (though it helps that its most corrupt leaders were killed).]]
137* OnlySixFaces: A major issue with certain characters, to the point where characters not only have the same faces but also the same clothes; It's impossible to tell the difference between Naomi and Cheng, the latter of which spends almost an entire chapter without being a name, but appears several volumes after Naomi has become a regular minor character.
138* ParentalIncest: Sheshoan really did love her mother...
139* ParentalAbandonment:
140** All of Sophia's children, with the exception of her youngest, were given away or abandoned outright as she grew up. This comes back to bite her in the ass when two of them are on her opposing side, with one of them (Sheshoan) making it her life's mission to force her back into her own life.
141** Cessie never got to grow up in a stable household, with her mother becoming a drug addicted prostitute and not exactly having her needs taken care of when she's on one of her rounds. [[spoiler:Like her older brother, Cessie is abandoned when Manuela is given the opportunity to escape Bolivia with Pedro]].
142* PornWithPlot: 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.
143* PrimalScene: Mana, in her single digits, found Gina and her boyfriend Miguel in a rather intense act. It, like everything in this series, ends horribly, as [[spoiler:her ratting out Miguel leads to him getting shot, Gina falling into substance abuse, and eventually when she sobers up and enters medicine, her death.]]
144* PsychicNosebleed: For cyborgs or people with electronic enhancements, hacking into technology results in something like this. [[SubvertedTrope 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. When they run out, their brains cook.
145* PsychoForHire: The unnamed assassin in volume 7. Considering NOMAD is a mercenary organization, Kenji would be a heroic variation on this trope.
146* PutOnABus: After the arc involving the Uyghur Muslims in China, Kenji and Sophia disappear from the story for about 40 chapters before appearing again. Justified in that they are mercenaries with separate lives from Elijah, so they don't become relevant again until Elijah's father hires them for the mission to rescue Mana.
147* 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 the Japanese economy.
148* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Kenji]] Considering how completely messed up he is, this is hardly suprising.
149* RazorFloss: One of the weapons of the Ministry Spy.
150* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Helena does ''not'' want Elijah's pity.
151--> '''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?'''"
152-->'''Elijah:''' "..."
153-->'''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."''
154--> '''Helena:''' ''"You were raised to be so big and strong thanks to the sacrifice of girls like her. Your father must be awfully proud!"''
155--> '''Helena:''' ''"Thanks for saving us, eh? Elijah."''
156* ReplacementGoldfish, {{Lampshade}}d: Kahn tries to use Kenji to replace his son, as does Sophia. Kenji uses Sophia as a replacement for a mother he never actually met, and Kahn to replace his father. The Automater is an interesting take on the trope, grooming young males she finds to replace the sons she never could have.
157* {{Revenge}}: One of the ongoing themes of ''Eden'' is the {{Deconstruction}} of this concept.
158* [[ScienceDestroysMagic Science vs. Religion]]: The existence of cybernetic cardinals [[AvertedTrope suggests otherwise.]]
159** Also, just about everyone is asked by someone at some point "do you believe in God?"
160* SecondLove: [[spoiler:What Miriam ends up being for Elijah, after Helena is killed.]]
161* SingleIssuePsychology: While the Automater and Wycliffe have certain issues arising from single events, the only people with significant psychological problems achieved these through continued physical abuse or continued neglect. Sophia lived through her entire childhood without any help for her continued self-harm and multiple suicide attempts.
162* [[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 partner'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.
163* ShootTheShaggyDog: Honestly, [[spoiler:the entirety of Elijah's arc after the TimeSkip is this, specifically his mission to rescue his sister Mana. After a very tense mission and the looming fear that the microbots put into Mana's body will activate, everything seems like it's going to work out. Then the head of the operation to kill her detonates the bomb in her neck they thought they had already disarmed. Elijah breaks so hard that his only relevance to the story afterward is when he falls into hardcore drug use and has to go to rehab. His father takes over as the focus for the final arc.]]
164* ShipSinking: In Elijah's last arc before the four year time skip, he and Helena get together. Post time skip, they've broken up and [[spoiler:shortly after where the story comes back in, Helena gets killed for associating with their real target, her then-current boyfriend.]]
165* ShoutOut:
166** The cybernetics in ''Eden'' is taken straight out of ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', which Endo acknowledges by mirroring the cyborg operation from the ''Manga/GhostInTheShell'' Graphic Novel.
167** The PoweredArmor 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).
168** Mishima's exposition about the Colloid, in addition to Letheia's character design, owes a lot to ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain''.
169** The Hacker jargon is, of course, reference to ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'' and the Ministry Spy uses the same weapon as the vat-grown Yakuza hitman does in ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic''.
170** ''Film/BladeRunner'' references are of course abundant.
171* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Heavy on the cynical side. Any morally pure character who starts out such will either have all their ideals shot to pieces or they'll be another victim to the injustices of the world. The ones who struggle and survive in the world's underbelly don't get very far either, and while they still take advantage of others we learn often that their crimes will eventually catch up to them. [[spoiler:All that said, the manga ends on a surprisingly hopeful note--despite humanity's many, many flaws, Ennoia dedicates his dying speech to stating humanity deserves a chance to live and overcome their weaknesses, even if it takes entire lifetimes.]]
172* SniperRifle: Though he'll use other guns as needed, Elijah seems to prefer sniper rifles over other weapons. He gets rather good with it too.
173* STDImmunity: Notably averted. Several characters, major and minor, catch some form of [=STD=] 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=].
174* SuicideByCop: Volume 9:[[spoiler: Marihan, in order to be ejected through the window out of the building with the bomb she's carrying.]]
175* TokenBlackFriend: When Elijah enrolls in a private school, he soon befriends Nathan, one of the few black students there. Considering that they probably both face discrimination for being the sons of crime lords ''and'' their fathers are partners in crime, it's not that improbable. This friend also happens to be the nephew of Elijah's dad's right hand man.
176* TokenMiniMoe: [[PunnyName Loji]]
177* {{Tsundere}}: Surprisingly ''few'' appear, especially considering the page-long rant at the end of volume 8:
178-->'''Exerpt:''' ''To me, the definition of a "good woman" is "a woman who's suited to slapping others," and - if possible - then calls you a name like "Coward!" "Creep!" is fine too. I wouldn't mind "Pervert!" either. Of course, if she really thought you were a pervert, I guess she'd give punch rather than a slap - no, she'd attack you with an electric stun gun.''
179* TheUnfettered: 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.''"
180* ViewersAreGeniuses: What did you expect from an author who wrote that the original [[MindScrew ending]] of ''Anime/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.]]
181* WhereItAllBegan. Everything starts at a small island near the equator, everything culminates at that same small island near the equator.
182* YoungerThanTheyLook: Sophia looks like a teenager but is really 41, and similarly Jason Li looks like a boy when he's around the same age. It is mentioned that using cybernetic bodies this way is illegal. Then again, what ''do'' you do when you in your late teens place your brain in a body that doesn't age?
183* YankTheDogsChain: The Mana rescue arc is ''stuffed'' with DeusExMachina and DiabolusExMachina to keep readers on their toes.
184* ZippingUpTheBodybag: [[spoiler:Enoah]]'s in the final chapter.

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