Eden no Ori

Good manga, bad ending.

Was really enjoying the manga, the suspense, the developmen. Although it is a pretty classic shounen manga, I think this is my second most favorite shounen manga (you should read diamond no ace) because of the setting and how it plays out.

But the ending was really bad, like REALLY bad. It was so rushed and it seemed to me like that they could've gone many other routes that would've made it so much better. When i realised that I've read the last chapter I got lowkey mad (lol). But it is what it is i suppose. still worth a read.

I was hooked from the very first chapter. It had great character development and you just learn to love every one of them. It's not one of this lame apocalypse stories. I really recommend you to read it and get your one opinion.

It has a lot of mysteries which makes you want to read more and more in the hope of solving those and you find yourself reading till past midnight. Most of the mysteries were solved.

As the group of teenagers grows you hope that everyone survives and that they get along. With every new obstacle, they encounter you, you worry for the characters and you feel with them.

I really like the art style.

Ok i see a lot of Reviews who are going for all or nothing.
In my point of view this is just wrong. This Manga has a lot of nice Moments and also a lot of trash Moments. But lets start first with the Story.

Story:
The Story is not very new for everyone who has watched "Lost". But it is still not totally bad. The protagonist is with his class on an airplane crash. But everyone of them survived (lol rly... everyone in this plane). After that they are on an island that shouldn't exist. And on top of that there are a lot of extincted animals who want to kill them all. Well not the best place to life. But the story is the most time very well written. You want to know the most what is going to happend next or how will they survive this. But the story goes all the time on and they start to clearing the mysteries from the island. And the most of it fit very good together. Until the last 10 or 15 Chapters. Cause man the Manga was cancelles so it must finished. What was in my eyes very bad. So the anime starts great and go on very good. It makes you addicted to it and than... Well the last Chapters are made of giant plotholes and stupid supernatural things. Because all the time supernatural things are explained with sience. Ok not how it would be in real but when you dont know that much you will believe it. But the last chapters... puuh. There have a lot of supernatural stuff and it seems very stupid. And all at all the ending is very bad so i can only give 7 points. I think with a fully completed end with... 20 or 30 more chapters it would be perfect.
SO 7 Points.

Art:
The art is nothing very special. I have see a lot who was worse but also a lot who was better. A big problem for me was, that sometimes Characters looked very similar to me. Like rion (the female protagonist) and Yuki. They are so similar sometimes i even get confused. But there are also some epick moments at all at all it is not that bad. Oh but i forget. Sometimes the horro parts were at the kind of art very good. I rly liked it. Now only from the art. So i give it 6 points.

Charaters:
The Charakters are also not that good. The Protagonist is a bit too good. He is brave and clever and very strong... well a little bit too strong i think. Then we have there the mister perfect "I kill everybody" guy Yarai who rly killed a horde of carzy apes with some coins. He flipped them so hard and hurt them o.O
Also we habe the genius who cant do eanything than explain and get good ideas. And know a lot.
Oh and have i said, that there are only like 2 girls who can actually do something. And no it is not the female protagonist. It is Maya and the other is Aya. Well and i dont even know the names of the other girls. Oh we have there the future looking girl who never use her abillitys usefull even when they are... somehow working. As you see the charakters are not that good. But some of them are very good made and at some moments between the charakters I rly liked the Charakterplay. I think the best Charakter was Kouhei Arita.
SPOILER!!!!
Who get after killed the pilot in hatred insane and also had very strong mental problems because of a demage to his head.He tried to calm down and just move on but he went slightly insane and started to murder everyone. Even when he get in the end abnormal powers who are just stupid i liked him.
SPOILER!!!!

And the other Charakter i rly liked was Hades. And yeah we know nothing about him but i still liked him. I would rly love to know more about him but the thing that we know nothing is very interesting. We dont even know if he appeared with all the others from the plane even when it is the most logical thing.

So 6 Points for the Charakters because not the worst but way too low.

Enjoyment:
The enjoyment is great. Even the Horror moments. I must say i am a person who HATES horror. But in this Manga it was great for me. So even wen u dont like it you can risk a look. On the other hand when you expact very high horro i think you will be disappointed. But this Manga had a great enjoyment all in all. Because there is always a new problem that they must solve to survive. The one time it is a great animal who is attacking them, the next time a disease and the next time it is a evil guy who wants to kill them all. The Manga goes on the most time and pull you all the time with. I wanted to always read the new chapter and see what happend. And even when there are just riduculus scenes like beating a gigant 3 meter tall tiger with a pair of keys to death it is very cool.

So 9 Points fot the enjoyment.

Overall:
Overall this is a great Manga. It has a very bad Charakterdesign but when this is not very eccential for you you can just ignore it. The story is very good until the end. When u hate bad endings who are ruin the manga you should defenitly not read it. When it is ok for you you should totally read it. Because of the ending the the poorly designed charakters i mus give some points away but the manga is very good a enjoyment so my points are 8.

Sry for the bad english. Not my natural language. I hope you could understand me.

I enjoyed the first arc, which focused a lot on the survival of the group on the plane in a foreign land, in the wild. It had some similarities with lord of the flies, but with a larger range of people. I also appreciate the art, both the characters and the things they encounter are very nicely drawn.
However, as the manga went on I found myself enjoying it less. The story became less about the survival of a group and more about strange goings on, and human nature itself. Which while being interesting topics, they weren't particularly well-shown here. I also found some of the later characters far less believable.
However, these things would have been fine, if the ending had not been so awful. I have never been so disappointed with the ending of anything in my life. It was terrible, and very obviously rushed.
While I would have recommended Eden no Ori when I began reading it, I can understand why it lost a lot of fans as it went on, and this is probably what led to such a disappointing ending. I probably wouldn't recommend it having read it through.

From what I saw - the manga was a decent read, up until the ending. Considering how half assed the ending was, it had me reflect on what exactly I had read. I typically read these things for enjoyment, and despite it being fairly similar to things like “lost” or “Jurassic Park”, I still enjoyed it. It had good potential throughout the story, although toward the ending it began to slack. I don’t usually say this, but the ending was awful. I understand the sense of mystery the author most likely wanted to convey, but there’s a limit. Very little of what the reader actually wants to find out is never disclosed or shown. Personally I enjoyed reading in the beginning - so much so I expected an amazing ending; although was I got was just more mystery rather than closure. Multple loose ends as well. 5/10.

A 21st century Japanese apocalypse/horror (or more accurately, "no hope") manga; your first thought? Tits. Your second? Ass. This is the drawbacks to all those fan services, those juicy, bouncing, voluptuous drawbacks. Something about the end of the world or death, and women (who's "accessories" make her fit more on a farm in montana than an urban Japanese environment), make the Japanese (and probably tons of Americans) scream MOAR!!! Does this honestly make sense? If the world ended, wouldn't small girls with washboards survive better? So shouldn't all horror apocalypse stories star creepy old lolicons and doll-size girls instead of reckless selfless and otheradjective-less guys and his herd of cows?

These were some of my first thoughts when I read the synopsis for Cage of Eden; When in the first chapter, the guys are watching a video of their classmates in swimsuits. I thought, this is just another fan service filled action, adventure, comedy, romance, horror manga.

And man, was i wrong.

It was strange to think that I read a manga, where the Male:Female ratio was 3:2, and not 1:20. It was strange that even though the main girl has tits, she shows them ONLY when she bathes (BLASPHEMY!!). I'm going to make comparisons to Highschool of the Dead, not only because of the similarity of the story's feel, but because they counter each other in so many ways, and in the end, i still like CoE better.

Plot: Cage of Eden blends a good amount of action, adventure, and horror. Comedy and romance are the bench players, chilling out, rooting for the team, and every once in awhile they come out and play. CoE blends these genres very well and there are good timings of romance and comedy. When HSotD characters are surrounded by zombies, their first thought is "Will so&so fuck me if i save her?". HSotD had too much melodrama. It made me think, people are fighting for their lives and your trying to figure out which pair of breasts likes who? Cage of Eden focuses on survival, and only throws comedy/romance in when completely necessary and in times when everything is fine or when it fits. My favorite element of CoE; however, is the horror. When your surrounded by zombies, but there's a military force somewhere, it offers some sanctuary. CoE doesn't excel because it's on an island with tons of extinct monsters, it excels because of several scenes that just tell you, "it's fucking useless, you'll die here".

*Mild Spoiler, but a spoiler nonetheless*
The only signs of salvation CoE every offers, are often shut-down immediately. Settlements of people often go from normal, to insanely dangerous in several chapters. One of the most horrifying moments was very early on, when the protagonists and several other students try to sail to safety. The protagonists are betrayed and kicked off the boat where they return to the island. The others sail to a 10 ft rock, tricked by a mirage that caused them to believe it was an island. They are then eaten by a extinct sea monster. Not that scary?

Spoiler End

CoE isn't BOO horror, it's that creeping horror. It's like watching a slasher flick; everybody knows the killer, but what can you do? CoE gives that feeling, that you can't escape, you'll never be safe, only death is salvation

The story is a blend of plot and character driven arcs, with only one big goal in mind for our protagonists: Survival. There aren't any outstanding characters, but each character has something to offer to the groups overall survival. None are sitting eye candy, they all work, and there isn't a character i feel you can call a waste of space. Arcs are interesting and are filled with mystery. There are some good twists to the plot, which simply add to the terror.

Art: I had a hard time believing the synopsis when i read it. The characters look fragile and Yuyu hakusho-ish, but unlike Yuyu, most people who died weren't highschool girls/boys who were eaten and stomped and brutally murdered. I can best compare it to happy tree friends, characters are simple and very shojo looking, only to get fucking chomped on as a midnight snack. Animals look great and detailed as well as death sequences. I can't tell if the animals that show up are real or not, but the author definitely did his research.

A great series altogether, action is around every corner as well as horrifying deaths or monsters. Not alot of fan service, but fan service is either something you look for or don't care about. I found the amount here is satisfactory without it turning into full on porn. Cage of Eden proves that putting a body and brain behind those tits can still make a series great.

Story: 9
Art: 9
Character: 8
Enjoyment: 10
Overall: 9

Go read it bitches

Cage of Eden isn't a great manga. If you're looking for a piece of art that will stay with you, this isn't it. That said, it can be an enjoyable manga, depending on your expectations. If you expect fanservice, look elsewhere. The art is thoroughly mediocre all the way through, and none of the fights or characters look believable or realistic. This is especially true of the 'monsters' on the island where the main characters are stranded. Many of them look like modern animals with extra parts taped on. If you're looking for a thrilling story with good drama and exciting pacing, read Monster instead. But if you're bored, you don't mind fanservice, and you're looking for a survival story that doesn't get into boring lurches, this is your manga. Unlike some better manga, Cage of Eden stays consistently mediocre all the way through. It's not great- but it's usually entertaining. Like fast food, Cage of Eden is meant to be consumed quickly, so that sloppy art and repetitive story lines don't get in the way of enjoyment.

What would you do if you somehow survived a plane crash on your way back from a school trip and land on an island not even registered on the map, with extinct animals roaming about and doing as they please? You have to survive and figure out how to get back home, but how? Well who knows, maybe this manga has your answer.

To be completely honest, when I first started reading Cage of Eden, I was like "Oh boy, another lame manga... Oh well, kills time." Later after reading it, I found I started to like it. Maybe because of how suspenseful the story was, or because of all the boobs and panty shots there were, either way, it became my favorite.
I reread the first few chapters, and found that I had not paid attention to any of the little things in the beginning. Later in the volumes, the little things I never noticed came back to become huge things. But as for the plot of the story, it could be better.
There's not much to say about this manga, I kind of already said it in the first paragraph. Anyways, the manga is full of mystery and suspense, and starts off all happy and full of life, but it gets dark quick.

I recommend this manga to those who like action/adventure manga, but I wouldn't recommend this to those who don't like ecchi, because there is a lot of ecchi in this manga.

Cage of Eden is something you’d get by tossing Lost, Jurassic Park, and Battle Royale into a cheap blender, with heaps of fanservice seasoning on top of it. Reading the manga is kind of similar to devouring greasy junk food; instantly gratifying, but insubstantial and probably left you mostly unfulfilled by the end. That last bit is particularly significant.

The premise is an instant sell for lovers of roller-coaster suspense story: an airplane carrying a high-school class crash landed on a mysterious island in the middle of nowhere. But, that's not all: before long, the main protagonist has to round up his missing friends, encounter the island's less than friendly inhabitants in the form of various grotesque beast creatures, deal with various people's psychological breakdowns, and figure out the big mystery behind the exact circumstances of their predicament. It's an inelegant mish-mash of the franchises I've mentioned before, while the fanservice (both the violent and lewd nature) could get hilariously over the top: nothing depicted the manga's tone better than the panel where a big wolf thingy devours someone's crippled body, while on the foreground there's a huge pantyshot of a terrified girl.And yet, I'd be lying if I say Cage of Eden isn't an engrossing read. The psychological/emotional level is mostly skin-deep, but the main cast of characters is likable enough to root for, and Yoshinobu Yamada really excels in stringing a series of cliffhangers one after another and a pile of intriguing mysteries on top of each other...

This, unfortunately, brings us to by far the Cage of Eden's biggest flaw. Normally, I don't like spoiling or even hinting a mystery/suspense series too much, but in this case it felt absolutely imperative for a potential reader to know what they're getting into. So, here goes: Cage of Eden's ending is wildly unsatisfying, left a lot of plot threads unresolved, answered the central mystery in a baffling manner, and in general displayed a shocking lack of long-term planning.Some series could get away or even enhanced by an open and ambiguous ending, but something like CoE really has no business playing "the journey mattered more than the destination" card. A lack of proper resolution is a death knell to a series so reliant on clifhangers, and as it is, most readers would soldier through 21-volume worth of constant build-ups and excessive fanservice hoping for a big pay-off that doesn't exist.

A bit of a shame, really. Cage of Eden is trashy as hell, but most of the times it's a fun and exciting kind of trashy. It deserves a better closing, at the very least, and I could only wonder if perhaps too much energy is spent on drawing all the boobs instead of, you know, making a plot outline.

Everything about this chapter is good. Surviving, friendship,love,horror, adventure everything you want in a single packet. Everything was going awesome untill last two chapters. I hate to say it but last two chapters brought down this manga rating from 10 to 7.
So many questions were unanswered,so many mysterious were unrevealed.
Though I heard it was the publisher who dropped the manga which forced mangaka to rush the ending.I think it could have been more awesome,more suspending, more unrevealing in the end of the manga if it were going in the same pace it was started.

Over all I loved this manga.

Art - 10 The Drawing styles are great and updated, one of the best arts i read on manga, really good!

Character - 10 Even though some of the characters are just normal , The Major Characters are really unique for me i love there way of doing things, their attitudes and emotions all of them matured....I LOVE SENGOKU'S BRAVERY, LEADERSHIP,STRENGTH and WITS..althoug i would have loved it more if there was more romance between them ( AKIRA

Here's the situation: A girl you like has been dragged underwater by a giant alligator-whale thing. By the time you dive down there and pull it's whiskers off to save her, she's passed out from no air, her lungs are full of water, and she's got some minor bite marks since this alligator thing decided it didn't want to bite too hard. You drag her to shore. You have a decision, stop the minor bleeding, or perform CPR and try and get her breathing again. What do you do?

"Oh man, she's bleeding and she's not breathing! Should I try and stop the bleeding or do CPR???!?"

Yup. Our main character actually had to ASK himself that question. That just about sums up how miserable our main character is. Anyway, on to the review.

STORY - 6: As far as the story goes, I really liked the premise. Think Lost, but with dinosaurs. Does that sound kinda cool? Hell yea. Is it executed well? Of course it isn't. In Lost, the plane crashes, everyone's injured, people are dead, everyone's upset and panicking and then people take control and everyone calms down and tries to salvage the situation. That's a good representation of what should happen. In this... we aren't so lucky. Here, we have the typical anime/manga over reactions.

Small spoiler: The pilot says "oh hey, sorry, but the radio is actually broken. Told ya guys it wasn't to avoid a panic"... and then he immediately gets stabbed with a knife. But wait, nobody actually SAW who stabbed the pilot, despite everyone looking at the pilot.

Another small spoiler: A ten-year-old girl has taken over as the leader of a large group of adults. A group of adults who are kidnapping women in order to have sex with them. Why is this ten year old girl in charge? Why is she condoning this? No idea, I stopped reading at this point.

The point to take away from this is that it was a very cool concept that has had an absolutely terrible execution. The concept scores an 8/10 from me, the actual plot gets like a 4.

ART - The art is fair. Nothing groundbreaking, but it's not garbage. There is quite a bit of boob and panty shots though, so if you're in need ot panty shots from girls on a deserted island, this is for you.

Characters - There isn't much to say here. The characters are just poorly designed, and they suffer even more from the over dramatization of the "panic" that has taken over the survivors. The Main Character, as I've shown at the top of this review, is an idiot. He's also consistently getting himself and his group into terrible situations. Get kidnapped and strung up over a cliff? Check. Get entire group to consume poisonous berries that cause immediate severe hemorrhaging? Check. Charge a wolf as large as a truck because you want to jump on it's mouth like you would an aligator? Check. He's just an imbecile. The only redeeming character i've seen so far is the "Nerd" with his laptop.

(side rant: that laptop, let's talk about that. As of chapter 21, it has been in constant use without getting a charge, has been trampled on by giant wild animals, and has been dropped in the ocean. I don't know what brand it is, or who made it, but i want one).

Enjoyment - Honestly? I'm sure some people will enjoy this. If you don't want to nitpick at everything, and are alright with constant deus ex machina saving the day, you might love this.

Overall? I'd give this a 5. Nothing particularly terrible about it, but I think the author was more concerned with looking up the scientific names of these animals and giving information about them to the reader, than he was about developing his characters and his plot.

I have got to say by far this is one of the best manga that I have read. This is better then Bleach in and maybe Naruto in terms of its story. I put off reading this manga because of the cover page and it did not look so interesting but once I start reading it I can't stop. For those that have seen the US TV series Lost they may feel a sort of likeness to this and maybe the Asian film Battle Royal ( a bit).

The only sort of bad this I would say is that sometimes the art can drop in quality but mostly it is top notch and suits the storyline.

Now it starts of with kids getting on a plane to return home from a trip. The plane passengers consists of many people totalling to 300. During their flight they experience turbulence and the plane suddenly starts to dive. The plane has crashed and everybody is in a panic because there are weird creatures roaming and attacking the people. People dying off leading which heightens their human instincts for self defence, killing others to survive, sexual scenes and just going crazy. You start to see people veering of from the group to start their own personal group. Here is where it all starts for their survival and to discover the secrets of the land. You are presented with two main characters who are school kids and many enemies who are kids and adults. They strive to stick together and keep sane while trekking this unknown land and defending against the monstrous animals.

You have great characters who play their part very well from both the evil and good side. There is quite a bit fan service for the public and a few horny boys. The story is so interesting and engrossing that you don't want to stop. You feel like beating the bad guys yourselves and cheering for the good guys.

Hopefully you have understood my passion and once you start reading you won't be able to stop. I can't wait for the latest chapters...

I will try to be as objetive as i can (sorry for my english):
This story has somethings in common with Lost (if you liked lost you should read this manga), the first thing in common is that the story take place in a strange island and it start with a plane accident.
The characters are really magnific, all the characters has his/her own point of viuw and a diferents sense of humor, that make all the characters well defined and makes easier to the readers to love some of them.

There are two things that i dont like of this manga (POSIVILITY OF SOFT SPOILER):
- The stroy do not tell us how end Hades or who really is.
- How did the accident took place (if you have riden you will understand what im talking about)


9/10 Because the characters and the story are so great

While there are not many chapters available in English yet, one must understand the slow pace of this manga. Characterization is not yet prominent until later on in the story, when it becomes absolutely necessary to take note of. The ideals concern basic survival and understanding, and only after you understand how to survive can you understand who you're really surviving with.

As a whole, this story could use some work, but since it's only at chapter fifty or so at the moment, there is plenty of time to see what happens later. As of right now, it's a decent enough story with enough death and craziness to disturb anyone to a small degree.

The art is fairly mediocre, and the artist seems to cut a few corners on the people themselves. Large boobs, fairly plain faces, and musculature is non-descriptive. However, the artistry of the animals roaming through the island is quite detailed, and one can definitely tell of the grace or majesty of each beast. The artist is quite decent at using his artistry to demonstrate stressful scenes throughout the manga, and I do find myself a little anxious to see what happens next at times.

As a whole, I rate this a 6/10, as there is a long way to go before I can really know how this manga rates.

i do not want to give away any spoilers but at the time i was looking for a manga similar to HSOTD (its just plain awesome) when i came across Cage of Eden. Personally, its nothing like i had imagined. The story seems to be going no where and every chapter repeats the same thing old thing!!!!
But if you liked the USA drama LOST, you may like this!! but this manga just doesnt seem to progress at all!! Although the art of creatures is good!

Cage of Eden is a mixed bag of seemingly ever extending ambitious mysteries and tiresome shounen tropes at every turn.

From what I understand this series got axed and it's good to take this into consideration when evaluating it. Regardless, cons are cons no matter the cause.

+ Story is initially interesting. You are presented with a huge mystery and action-packed sequences from the very get go.
+ Art seems fine, though a tad generic. Especially girls and middle-aged men(also known as 'ossan') are hard to tell apart.
+ Science bits about various natural phenomena and extinct animals are actually interesting(though I have confirmed some of the theories presented in this series to be debatable).

+/- Fan-service is plastered all over this like grease; even someone as insensitive as me started to feel slightly overwhelmed. I see this manga is listed as 'ecchi' here and that's what it truly is.

- Shounen tropes, too much is simply too much. Once you get into the 'flow' of the author, you can start predicting a lot of things. You'll know when a character is about to die; you'll know when someone is about to get attacked; you'll know when a chapter is about to end in a cliffhanger. Despite being a mystery manga there are very few surprises; everything is foreshadowed, creating a feeling that the author is constantly holding you by the hand. This is not a good thing.
- Character development is abysmal. Most of the characters are like NPC's; completely meaningless unless the MC needs them for something. The character developments that do happen mostly involve deaths that don't really make you feel anything because that character was not that essential to begin with.
You will also probably notice that most deaths involve males as the women are too busy joining MC's harem.
- Despite tons of ecchi content prepare yourself for teeth-grinding frustration as the MC and his #1 wife candidate repeatedly flirt with each other and tease the readers about some potential development- before finally returning back to square one. Repeat this enough times and I was ready to skip these sequences.
It's like watching Ash on his eternal never-ending adventure in the Pokemon titles.
- The series got axed as I mentioned before and as a result the ending is a hot mess. Prepare to the fact that many of the mysteries will remain forever unresolved. Reading this to the very end left me with just an empty, unsatisfied feeling.

Thank you for reading my thoughts.

When i do a review it's because i have things i want to get out for me. I invested a lot of time into this manga since it's 21 volumes.

There are various things i didn't enjoy from this manga.

The most important: If part of your interest to read this manga is to check out the ecchi, let me tell you calling this ecchi is an insult to the genre. If you are going to draw people naked why delete the nipples? you take the luxury to draw voluptuous women for the cover but the most you show inside is a panty and a bra.
The "ecchi" is scarse, WEAK AS FUCK, literally just because you show a fully clothed female from a lower angle and she has big tits you can call that ecchi? that is cheap and effortless. And on top of that when there is something it's nothing the author hasn't shown before. So it's repetitive.
Terrible, terrible ecchi on those terms.

Don't expect to identify with any of this characters because the are pathetic.
This is common sense. If you google "lost in island show" you are probably going to get a ton of shows ,maybe you watched a few or know a few. What is the biggest threat in those shows? THE PEOPLE.
The whole school wakes up on an island without rules. What is the first thing the protagonist and his group do? trust absoutely and without question in the word of complete strangers they just met 1 minute ago. And because of that bad things happen.
Why does that bother me? first, it shows lack of common sense. Second, it's a repeated case throughout the manga. Like this group of kids have amnesia and are stupid.

Akira the protagonist is as big of a pussy as Rito from To love ru, this guy can't look a female showing interest for him to the face without blushing, or being oblivious. A curious case for this manga, since the author was so invested in painting him as a pervert watching secret recordings of his female classmates in bikinis and lewding over them but when it's time for action he suddenly becomes the biggest homosexual.

The weak females constantly slow down the group and cause unnecessary bad situations. Like i said before the author puts the characters in situations that lack common sense. In many ways this happens repeteadly.
Maybe if it didn't have this kind of things the ending wouldn't have been rushed.

I didn't like the fate suffered from actual useful characters compared to the fate of the worst scum characers.

It has a rushed open ending.

Wouldn't read again.

I don't really write reviews, but I thought this manga needed it. Overall this manga wasn't that bad. The idea of the manga was very unique and original and thought the graphics and characters were very nice and the plot twist at the end was mind blowing. But If I had to say something about this manga it would be like a race. It was slow in the beginning, but it picked up quite nicely and then it was getting really really good until you reached the ending. It felt like it was going really well and all of a sudden you trip before the finish line and lose the race, That feeling of disappointment is exactly like the ending of this manga in my opinion or maybe more like the feeling of falling off a cliff. I was going to give it a 9/10 half way through, but after that train wreck of an ending 6/10 it is. I expected a more epic ending or something. I don't know if the manga was getting cancelled (probably was), but I felt the author really rushed the ending. There were a lot of unanswered questions and it would have been nice to see a few more chapters explaining things and built up to a more elaborate ending. I doubt there's going to be a continuation of this manga so warning to readers already reading or future readers, all those questions you think you'll have answered at the end of the manga and expectations for a epic ending..yeah it's not going to happen and when you're like "really that's it, all they did was....." at the end with frustration yeah I can totally sympathize with you. If I had to recommend this to someone, I still would but I'd say it had a *flip the computer over the table in anger* ending and would read with your own risk of disappointment.

I really don't like when people are writing reviews by the truckload after only reading the first dozen or so chapters of the manga. And considering the age (and the scores) of the reviews currently present on the site, all of them seems to be from the time when only the first half of the manga was available. That explains all the 9s and 10s. Heck, I would've give it a 9 or 10 around the 30th or 40th chapter. But after the strong start the quality only goes down until the end, which is quite honestly the worst trainwreck of an ending I've seen in a long while. So, let's get started.

Story - 3 (Poor)
The set up is good. A bunch of high-schoolers stranded up on a strange, mysterious and quite hostile island. Add together the first season of Lost and the Lord of Flies and you get the early chapters of Eden no Ori. Awesome? Yes. Promising? Yes. The problem is, that the manga never really fulfils this promise. In the early chapters there's no real story to speak of: our heroes move from one place to another trying to survive, while constantly expanding the settings and the characters. However, this becomes kind of stale soon enough: in every arc, the manga introduces a bunch of characters, some good guys and a greater number of douches (yes, it's that easy to distinguish). By the end of the arc, the good guys usually survive and join up with the protagonist team (and becoming insignificant almost instantly), while the baddies get eaten by something nasty. Rinse and repeat for around a hundred chapters. There are a few surprises along the way, but what keeps you reading is the number of mysteries piling up. You want answers. You want explanations and conclusion for the also increasing number of plot-threads. And this is why I gave such a low score: you'll get NONE of these. The explanations come in a form of science, that does not work that way. Some plot-threads get completely forgotten (Hades for one). And as for conclusion, the last few chapters were supposed to be the big reveal, putting everything to place and explaining all the mysteries. Supposed is the keyword here: they explain nothing. They just add to the number of question marks. The entire conclusion is illogical, rushed and nonsensical in general. I could rage on for pages why and how, but I don't want to give away any specific spoilers, so I refrain from doing so. Now add complete asspull plotwists, cardboard cut-out, cartoonishly evil bad-guys, ridiculous monsters, science defying the laws of nature, abundant fan-service and the fact that all of this is played 100% straight; so you are supposed to take everything here seriously, when some parts would be just too stupid even for a parody, and you get the reason behind the score given for this segment.

Art - 8 (Very Good)
Ok, I admit that this is not my field of expertise. I'm a writer, but I couldn't draw anything to save my life. So maybe I go too easy on the manga in this aspect, but I loved the art. The ancient mammals really came through as fearsome animals. The surroundings are also really atmospheric, sometimes downright eerie. My only serious complaint would be that while the main characters are well-drawn, some of the sidecast (especially the guys who are only around for one arc) are not so, and sometimes I got them mixed up. But with this huge cast, that's forgiveable I guess.

Charactrer(s) - 4 (Decent)

Decent, although barely. The characters are flat and never really get any development. They're go through this typical shounen change: shit happens, and they are suddenly either become complete jerks, or heroes. Now, in the first part, this isn't too much of a problem, since it's somewhat compensated by the number of characters getting introduced constantly. However around the time when the survival part ends and the evil doc comes into the picture, the constant flow of new charactes stop and the manga focuses on the already existing team. And this is where it becomes painfully obvious, that beyond the little background info shared in their own arcs, there's nothing else going for any of the characters. The relationship between them is just as stale, as the characters themselves. Take the "romance" between the protagonist and his main love interest. Both of them are donkans. Yay. At one point, while protecting Rion's (supposedly) unconscious body, Akira literally shouted this in one of the antagonists' face: "This is my woman! Got a problem with that?!" And even this didn't pushed their relationship even an inch forward. No comment.

Enjoyment: 5 (Mediocre)

Well, on an average at least. The survival part is friggin' awesome, I loved every chapter of it. After that, as the story was becoming more and more idiotic and I lost interest. In the last few chapters the only "enjoyment" I got was awkwardly laughing between facepalms. So starts out as 10, ends as 1, thus on average 5.

Overall: 6 (Overall)
It's a real shame what has this manga become in the end. When it started it had some much potential, showed so much promise. Hell, it easily could have been a timeless classic. But as time and chapters passed by, it descended lower and lower in the abyss of asspull and bad writing. I could still kinda-sorta recommend it as long as you don't have any expectations. It's awesome in the beginning and even later it's still kind of fun for a while.