Eden Volume 10 Eden Its An Endless World v 10
Eden Volume 10 Eden Its An Endless World v 10
Hiroki Endo continues to push Eden in new directions, introducing strange sci-fi horrors and dynamic characters in dangerous settings across the globe. By 2112, the Closure Virus has already wiped out about one-third of the world’s population, but it mutates again to infect not only people and living creatures-but inorganic matter as well. Dubbed the “Disclosure Virus,” this new threat overruns several major cities, creating huge crystalline shapes with the matter it absorbs. Relentless action is ramped up again in the pages of Eden’s complicated, violent story arc!
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Get Art and Story, Disjointed Volumes
I picked up Eden this year and have collected all the volumes. The story and art are top notch. Hiroki Endo has done an amazing job creating an interesting science fiction backstory and has placed vivid and flawed characters who live out their lives as though they were in Greek tragedy.
My only problem is with how the current volumes are being assembled. Volume 9 should have been longer in order to complete the story arc of Kenji in Eastern Asia. Instead, in volume 10 we have a abrupt ending to that story arc and the story moves back to Elijah and Peru. The new story is very disjointed. Characters are shoved on ’stage’ and give a name and skeleton backstory. Nothing is fleshed out. I felt as though I was reading character summaries as relationships and scenes were not being developed.
In many respects it feels rushed, much like the Battle Angel Alita novels that were replaced by the Last Order series.
I hope in the next volumes, Endo takes more care to introduce only necessary characters. It seems that Endo may only have one message to say — that war and violence leads to meaningless lives/death and that human beings can only truly develop/evolve if they understand each others experiences. I just hope he doesn’t get too heavy with the message like Warren Ellis and try to tie up the unresolved plot issues of volume 7-8 (Maya & Mana).
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