Eden: It's an Endless World! Chapter 126 Discussion

A bit anticlimatic ending but oh well.



You can see the ending was rushed. To properly keep the pace, ideally it would need 2 more volumes.

Honestly very mixed feelings about this. Imo, the manga shined the most in its first half where individual characters were getting focus. However once the timeskip happened my interest started dwindling. Lots of characters introduced, either only relevant for a few chapters or quickly killed off. The political exposition was heavy but dull at the same time, while some characters were just introduced as infodump mouthpiece(like the scientists or politicians, wish at least one or two of them had proper focus instead). At the end of the day, only one or two characters made an impression on me, but even they were not used to their full potential(Sophia, Eliah, or Helena).

Apart from that it's a manga which carries lots of interesting ideas and concepts, religious, or philosophical themes like existentialism and quite an ambitious storyline, but I could hardly get invested in its presentation. In other words, lots of fodder for thinking, but had quite a few problems. The humour in its last half was distracting too.







Orvieto said:
TopgunUK said:




The story became empty, and I did not care nor got attached to any of the new characters introduced. This is a example of how too much killing of the lead characters also kills a story. By the end, there was no life left in the story. All the interesting and unique character dynamics were gone, and replaced with random new faces I couldn't care less about so far into such a long manga.



First Half: 10/10

Second Half: 7/0



This is exactly the problem imo, while killing the characters is fine since it gives a sense of dread in a manga with existentialism themes, but it could be executed in a much better manner as the first half showed- see Isaku's character.

The ending could be better, but it was satisfying. I kinda wanted Elijah to die, lol. His entire family died after all. I liked (and hated, at the same time) how the author killed off characters.



9/10.

First half of the manga was fantastic but I think we all agree that the last arc was a bit too... out there.

I think it's basically the same issue as 20th Century Boys. I'll still put it at 8/10 because the 60-70 first chapters were some of the best shit out of the entire medium.

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                        Wow is over finally...is sad that a very good manga ends but was a good experience and I like it and the final message...men we have to

have hopes for the future in this Endless World!

the ending, uhh its a idk feeling o.o?

Djevel said:
I expected a bit more of this final chapters. I'm a bit disappointed for how it ended, leaving aside Elijah and all, I didn't like the final part of this manga. It was OK for me, but I still think that Eden is great on the whole.



But I have some doubts regarding the end of this manga, and I would be grateful if someone could give me an answer:





1) Was it said the reason why the "vacuum mass" (the mass who spread the gamma rays I mean) appears?? Was it a God's action, the effect of the Barrel (the great pillar of colloid), an action that the virus itself started to do a long time ago or a Maya's action??



I know, maybe I forgot a big detail of the manga, and that's the reason why I'm asking that.





2) I didn't find out why Ennoah decide to become a Drug Lord after leaving Project Pleroma. This question is solved or it wasn't told?? I still don't know why he did that (yes, I did understand why he leaves Pleroma, but not why he becomes a Drug Lord, he could have made another kind of business or create another sort of organization...).





Thanks for all and my apologies for my english.



For the first if you are speaking to the "vacuum  energy"  is because of the collapse of the big "bubble" and if you are talking of the object they never explain appropriately,  Lethia said something in the end that this thing need "sperm" (the knowledge of the people store in the colloid) and that why comes closed to the earth.



And for the second  after leaving the island when they were kids Ennoah understands that was the best way of gaining power to protec Hannah.... remember that they were escaping from the Propatria Federation.

mayukachan said:
I agree with the above comment. I felt like the main problems were that it got nowhere at one point. I think the entire story could have been done less than 60 chapters instead of 126. There's way too many subplots that never really mattered in the end. While it's a good addition, the main story itself is already too complicated and hard to focus on if they add more stuff. And as much as I liked the art, the character designs looked too similar to one another that I mistook on person for another. There was a point where it was full of random sexual comedy (MC's nude under his apron) which was really unecessary as this was supposed to be a serious story.



Highlights of the story. I liked how they set up major character deaths (like Helena's, Mana's) and also I really liked how the author gave a backstory for most of the main cast. It was really well done. Not the mention the epic main story.



cupc said:
Eden towards the end reminded me very much of the End of Evangelion because of its themes, which wasn't really a surprise considering Endo is apparently a fan of NGE.

Ah! That's why.



Oh yea i forgot about the sexual part. Indeed the manga starts all serious with gore deaths, woman abuse and much more and after some point its like he decided to add more comedy into the manga. I mean a lot of mangas do that nowdays, but you have to decide that from the begining.