Eden: It's an Endless World, Volume 14

Eden: It's an Endless World! #14

by Hiroki Endo, Philip R. Simon (Editor), Kumar Sivasubramanian (Translator)

Hiroki Endo's epic manga series returns to blow fans away with a 232-page volume crammed with jaw-dropping battle sequences, strange sci-fi twists, and political power plays! Several years after the last volume, Elijah is still on a mission to free his sister from the Propater organization's clutches, but an older Mana has some skills of her own and a lethal bodyguard to boot! Elijah calls on some old friends and a few new mercenaries to devise a complex rescue plan to get Mana back -- but Propater agents, cyborg assassins, and their twisted Aeon super soldiers appear to block their every move!

Genres: Manga, Seinen, Science Fiction, Comics, Graphic Novels, Cyberpunk, France

232 pages, Paperback

First published March 23, 2006

About the author

Hiroki Endo (遠藤浩輝) is a Japanese mangaka born on 1970 in Akita Prefecture. He graduated from Musashino Art University. He is best known for his science-fiction series Eden: It's an Endless World, which has been translated into English by Dark Horse.

Reviews

[Frédéric · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mana's extraction doesn't go according to plan and blood is spilled as Enoa kidnaps Propater's puppet president in order to strike some kind of deal with him.

New characters are introduced, including 2 with surprising backgrounds. The basic plot doesn't progress but pure action takes over, as brilliantly directed as ever by Endo. The next volume promises to be hardcore.

[Koen Claeys · Rating 5 out of 5]

The more of ‘Eden - It’s an Endless World’ I read, the less I understand why this wasn’t a succes in English translation, why sales were disappointing... A year after publication of volume 12, it became more and more apparent to me that Dark Horse wasn’t going to finish publication of the entire series. I started mailing the editor, the translator, the publisher... all in the idle hope for a continuation. To my surprise, 2 years later, volume 13 appeared in stores and another year later volume 14. Sadly so, volumes 15 to 18 didn’t get published in English... All waiting and hoping was in vain.
Luckily scanlations exist....and with the help of a fanboy I managed to print my own volumes of what’s left unpublished.
Of course I wouldn’t have been going through all of this if Hiroki Endo didn’t produce a modern manga classic that’s effectively firing on all cylinders and hitting me in all the right places.

[Nolan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm reading this series quickly and volume fourteen and fifteen blur together for me. It seems that the larger narratives have reached their peak and both volumes doubled down on the action. The car chases and gun fights are fantastic, thrilling, and even if some of the story and character development is thinning out compared to previous volumes, its a compelling build to the end of the story.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

These volumes come out so far apart I can barely remember the prior one. At this point it's completely disconnected from the closure virus (in either of it's forms), and I can barely keep the characters straight. I could definitely benefit from a complete read through, but I had to get all the volumes through interlibrary loan with many volumes coming from out of state (#14 and #13 just came from Portland, OR), so I'm not sure I'd be able to track them back down again. Not all that much happened in this volume, but it was indeed action packed and a relatively new addition to the cast (Rosie) was pretty cool. Most of the focus was on action sequences and trying to spirit Mana away from her kidnappers. Still a solid series, but I'm ready to read the end.

[budburst · Rating 4 out of 5]

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