Cage of Eden - Vol. 21 Ch. 184 - The Eden Effect
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This manga is probably the closest we are ever going to get to a LOST series-like manga. It has exactly the same tropes and the same problems: Too much bait(ideas) not enough meat(resolution).
The author got the notice 2 chapters ago to wrap it up because the initial boost and the great ideas seemed to die down because the MC Akira is boring. The story is basically the same thing: an escort mission. The exact same problem you had with LOST: the crew is useless, it can't make good decisions like: let's make shelters, let's look for food, let's start some kind of society, let's make weapons, etc. It keeps reusing the same ideas it did in the first arc: humans are dumb, animals are Deus Ex Machina who kill all the bad bad humans.
I think the author really wanted an anime series and I am all for that. I think a 24 episode series is much better than the manga because as it goes on, it kept losing steam. A 24 episode series can really condense the best of the manga and make a straightforward and steady story.
The author got the notice 2 chapters ago to wrap it up because the initial boost and the great ideas seemed to die down because the MC Akira is boring. The story is basically the same thing: an escort mission. The exact same problem you had with LOST: the crew is useless, it can't make good decisions like: let's make shelters, let's look for food, let's start some kind of society, let's make weapons, etc. It keeps reusing the same ideas it did in the first arc: humans are dumb, animals are Deus Ex Machina who kill all the bad bad humans.
I think the author really wanted an anime series and I am all for that. I think a 24 episode series is much better than the manga because as it goes on, it kept losing steam. A 24 episode series can really condense the best of the manga and make a straightforward and steady story.
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Man... I got some questions
It's too bad this ending was rushed, more development and less retardation throughout the manga would have helped a lot.
People are spot on when they equate this series with Lost, in just about every way.
Uh... So did the plane actually crash through time so people thought the passengers were dead and the island was just built as a memorial to them? Or are the passengers genetic reproductions and the animals were the first stage to having the tech to do that? The drive of the mother really suggests it's the latter, but the very fact that they end up on a fresh plane in the middle of an island that's literally falling apart suggests the former. Plus it's a stretch that they'd remember their lives so well if they're reproductions.
If it's the latter, 45 years have passed and the place isn't even built yet, and the lady dies before the beasts are done, how do our kids get produced/released so so long after that the place is literally falling apart. Who put them on that fresh plane in the middle of the island to all wake up at once? Where were they before that? The pyramid? It was literally buried.
If the plane crashed through time, uh, could we have gotten a little more explanation on that one? Was our hint supposed to be that the pilot said, we need to get out of here before it's too late, like he's aware this sort of bermuda-triangle time-shit happens and the trick is just to get out of it quickly?
Hey, maybe it's both, they crashed through time but the plan was to reproduce the passengers eventually but the mold destroyed the place first.
Whacky shit.
Why were some people found outside of the crashed plane? Why was the plane exterior completely undamaged? Why was the only damage to the plane the radio? These hint to genetic reproduction explanation but the facility is destroyed so...
Why were the island co-ordinates wrong? They would have built the island where they thought the plane went down right? But if they didn't do that then they built the island where they could and just wrote the co-ordinates they thought it went down at on the monument. But if the plane fall through time and the island isn't near those co-ordinates, why did it end up on the island?
Why didn't any of the world powers try to reclaim the island? If the world ended from the mold it would explain that part I guess and is actually pretty interesting as an explanation.
If it's the latter, 45 years have passed and the place isn't even built yet, and the lady dies before the beasts are done, how do our kids get produced/released so so long after that the place is literally falling apart. Who put them on that fresh plane in the middle of the island to all wake up at once? Where were they before that? The pyramid? It was literally buried.
If the plane crashed through time, uh, could we have gotten a little more explanation on that one? Was our hint supposed to be that the pilot said, we need to get out of here before it's too late, like he's aware this sort of bermuda-triangle time-shit happens and the trick is just to get out of it quickly?
Hey, maybe it's both, they crashed through time but the plan was to reproduce the passengers eventually but the mold destroyed the place first.
Whacky shit.
Why were some people found outside of the crashed plane? Why was the plane exterior completely undamaged? Why was the only damage to the plane the radio? These hint to genetic reproduction explanation but the facility is destroyed so...
Why were the island co-ordinates wrong? They would have built the island where they thought the plane went down right? But if they didn't do that then they built the island where they could and just wrote the co-ordinates they thought it went down at on the monument. But if the plane fall through time and the island isn't near those co-ordinates, why did it end up on the island?
Why didn't any of the world powers try to reclaim the island? If the world ended from the mold it would explain that part I guess and is actually pretty interesting as an explanation.
People are spot on when they equate this series with Lost, in just about every way.
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