Wednesday 1 June 2011

アニメ: 東のエデン Eden of the East

Difficulty Level: 2
Subs: Episode 1-4 here  full series transcript here


This show is addictive right from the start (some guy with no memory turns up naked outside the White House)!!! It continues to be pretty addictive as you find out whats going on. And the animation is a really nice style, i liked it! It's light and fun to watch, but it's really about social issues in Japan atm, and how they can fix the problems.

Ah, i kinda want to say more, but i don't want to ruin it for anyone who hasn't watched it yet...

Anyway, there are two movies that follow directly from the series to try to end it. Actually, i thought the end was a bit rushed and unsatisfactory, but the series is definately good enough overall to watch anyway!

The language difficulty can be split directly into two groups, i thought. The first is difficulty level 1, when the characters are talking amongst themselves about ordinary things. This stuff is very easy to understand. The second is more like level 3, when they're talking about noblesse oblige, and the game in general. So, in this case difficulty level 2 is an average of those two, rather than all the speech being level 2-ish.

1 comment:

  1. Ah, something from Noitama, the greatest anime block ever.^^ I love 東のエデン, even though the ending of the second movie was kind of disappointing. I'll probably get the novel adaptation and start reading it soon.

    滝沢明って本当にかっこいよね。 Did you see that DVD extra with the interview of Akira and Saki's seiyuu? This one: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI3Mjk1NzM2.html They look like they had fun with it.^-^

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