Eden: It's An Endless World!, Vol. 1 - Softcover

Endo, Hiroki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593074069 ISBN 13: 9781593074067

Publisher: Dark Horse Manga, 2005

Synopsis

Eden Volume One is both a brilliant love song to the post-apocalyptic survival genre and the beginning of a deep exploration on man's role in the natural order. In the near future, a large portion of humanity is wiped out by a brutal, new virus that hardens the skin while dissolving internal organs. Those who aren't immune are either severely crippled or allowed to live with cybernetically enhanced bodies. Taking advantage of a world in chaos, a paramilitary force known as the Propater topples the United Nations and seeks world domination. Elia, a young survivor searching for his mother, travels towards the Andes Mountains with an artificially intelligent combat robot. When he encounters a group of anti-Propater freedom fighters, a maelstrom of unique characters unfolds. Graphic, cyberpunk, and philosophical, Eden is a place where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner!

About this title

About the Author:

Hiroki Endo is a manga artist best known for the science fiction series Eden: It’s an Endless World, which was named best manga by Wizard magazine in 2007. He is also the author of Meltdown and All Rounder Meguru series and a short-story manga collection titled Hiroki Endo’s Tanpenshu.

From Booklist:

A gay man, near death from the paralysis that has killed billions already, and two teenagers--one his best friend's son--live in a huge experimental facility, now dilapidated, that was built to foster plague-resistant individuals. The teens are its only success stories. Now the boy's father, his brain joined to a mechanical body, returns with soldiers and UN personnel. Amid revelations of friendship betrayed, a fight breaks out. With the help of an AI the boy has reanimated, the teens prevail. Twenty years later, the boy's son, accompanied by the same AI, explores a deserted city, and three men and a seeming girl capture him. Endo mutes manga distinctives for realism's sake (e.g., eyes look normal, not the size of saucers), keeps the violence short and sharp, inserts a few low-key satiric jibes at late-twentieth-century sociopolitics, and paces the narrative to facilitate milieu and character development. He conjures a postapocalyptic aura of near-palpable mystery. Why did what happened occur? Fortunately, this is just volume 1. Ray Olson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dark Horse Manga
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1593074069
• ISBN 13: 9781593074067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216