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Eden: It's an Endless World! #16

by Hiroki Endo

人類に示された2つの道。どちらを選ぶかは自由だ。――民族間の戦争に加え、世界規模で発生した大地震により、世界は混迷を極めた。コロイドは数多の死者を飲み込み、意思と目的を持って拡大していく。傷つき、残された者の中には、生きたままコロイドに入ることを望む者も出てきて……。マーヤが人類に示す「新しい可能性」とは――？

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

222 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 23, 2007

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]

It's going to get worse before it gets better. If it ever does.

While waiting for this hypothetical happy conclusion - and I stress "hypothetical" - many people are turning to the colloid. For their salvation?
Things are getting tense inside Propater- a coup in the making? and Maya has a plan for Hanah.
Elia's back on drugs but he's getting better, thanks for asking.

There's little action in this volume but an oppressive sense of the end of the world approaching. The first part concerning Dr Shivan is deliciously bittersweet.

[Nolan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The existential crisis of Eden comes to a head in this volume and is largely a philosophical quandry about the future of humanity. It resembles the singularity, heaven, and even the metaverse all in one; a place where we can be free from what scares us in the world but still be a part of it. Where 'Eden' eerily gets so much right -- a pandemic that is both huge yet small enough to be dismissed is how economic gaps have widened, quickly, and any idea we had about a unity in the face of it is mostly a pipe dream, with racial and national divisions continuing to cause famine, genocide, civil war --it's hard to read knowing that in the future, our present perhaps, this suffering and unrest is fueled by a man-made concept of Eden, consider Mark Zukerberg's Meta being announced when nearly none of its problems as mere social media have been addresses, but all that aside, this volume is an excellent deep dive into the questions raised throughout the series, if not somewhat bleak, and a welcome change of pace from the intense and relentless action of the previous two volumes.

[Koen Claeys · Rating 5 out of 5]

This keeps on being addictive reading material. With only 2 volumes left, I’m starting to worry that I’ll be suffering from withdrawal symptoms after reading the end. This also keeps on being very topical reading, with the current global pandemic and this volume also zooming in on religious violence in India.

[Eressea · Rating 3 out of 5]

都要收尾了還是一直冒出新角色...