Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Eden of the East Movie 1 - The King of Eden

it was a superb movie in my opinion, although there wasnt much actions in the movie (there wasnt much too in the series)the plot development was great, and so was the climax. it was really a good continuation to the series itself.

so heres a brief summary, there are quite an amount of details in the movie, including all the Selecaos names and numbers and the things they did, so it'll be quite a brief one :)

[WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!]

Saki goes off to New York to find Akira with the message Akira had left her with his own Selecao phone, that he was waiting at the place where they had first met. Due to the language barrier, Saki was dropped off by the taxi at an unknown place where her luggage turns out to be full of weapons and was immediately suspected by the people around her. Saki turns away and ran past two policemen who had intended to stop Saki but had to go and assist elsewhere when a vehicle had crashed nearby. Way before Saki had went to New York, she had followed the message left behind by Akira and went to Washington to find him. She goes off to the place where she first saw Akira and also the place where Akira had stayed but was still unable to find him. Saki continues to return there, in hope of searching for Akira. Meanwhile, Eden of the East has expanded their own system and after the missile incident, more and more people are starting to use the system and it was revealed that Hirasawa had commercialised Eden of the East in hope of finding Akira as well, since they all know that they owed him one for saving everyone. Due to the NEET's photos during the missile incident, Akira's pose of pointing his hand and aiming the missile was printed on shirts and accessories and he was given the name Air King.
Saki however, feels that the message Akira had left her might have some hidden meaning and goes off to New York, while the team realises that Juiz had changed Akira's name and had labeled him as another son of the prime minister, and that Akira could be somewhere in New York. It was all the result of Akira asking Juiz to make him King. So it now returns to the time at the start and Saki had went to Ground Zero where she had a photo of Akira and her taken. Akira then appeared behind her and grabbed her away after throwing a pistol that Saki had due to the incident at the taxi. It was revealed too that a Selecao had used Juiz to changed Saki's luggage as well. Saki turns to Akira, although he labels himself as another name, and asks him for help on retrieving Akira's Selecao phone and her passport which she left in the taxi after all the mess. Akira however does not remember Saki at all, which was due to his memory wipe but had decided to help her find her belongings. On the way, Saki tells Akira that she was looking for a friend of hers and the things had belonged to that particular friend. It however does not spark off any old memories that Akira had. The phone and passport was safely returned to Saki with Akira's help and Saki tells him the truth that the person she was looking for was him all along. Akira does not seem to believe it but his judgement starts to waver when Saki shows her a photo of Akira and her with the background of Ground Zero. Akira later brings her to his place but was nearly injured with No.6's wierd requests to Juiz in helping him make a film about the two of them. Saki and Akira then took shelter at a cinema where Akira tells her about the message he was left with himself and had found this cinema. He seems to have lost most memories but had kept those regarding movies and it was too, due to that, he was able to locate Saki. Kuroha had also been secretly helping Saki and Akira in escaping from the plans of the other Selecaos and wanted to see him as the King and thus supported him. Pants did went to find the others in Japan where he had upgraded the Eden's server but when they discover that the logs of the Selecaos are mysteriously disappearing, he knew that they were secretly watched and had the others to silently disable their mobile phones which was bugged. Some Selecao had placed Eden of the East under investigation and Akira's identity was slowly changed to that of the minister's son. Hirasawa then decides to shut the Eden system down to provide more time before Akira's identity is entirely converted and Kasuga then suggests that they move their headquarters to another place that has the old Eden system in it. Saki and Akira had went to a theme park but was ambushed by another Selecao who had intended to capture them but the two of them had escaped with the help from Kuroha. In the car, Kuroha tells them that the minister's wife would like to meet with Akira and she herself would want to see Akira being the King. Before the prepared plane takes off back to Japan, Kuroha discovers that No.1 had shot a missile, Akira was also puzzled about the coordinates of the target and when Kuroha realises that the target was Juiz itself for No.12, which was a trailer carrying the Juiz for that particular Selecao. The other trailers were also targeted, and No.2's trailer was also shot down, resulting in him being unable to use Juiz anymore but he was soon visited by Yuuki who reveals to him that he had broken his own phone to prevent himself from being tracked by No.1. Kuroha knows that the other trailers are targeted and had used Juiz one last time to move her own trailer in front of the others and was wiped out instead. By losing her own Juiz, Kuroha then allows Saki to board the plane with Akira and asks her to assist Akira in whatever way she can as she herself is unable to do so. Before Akira leaves, he bids farewell to Kuroha and leaves with Saki to Japan.

... it was supposed to be brief ._. oh well, so now No.1's eliminating the other selecao's, not by taking their life but destroying 'their' Juiz instead. So it seems there is a different Juiz under each Selecao and that the trailers each contain their Juiz... which means No.1 now knows where Juiz is. great plot development yeah :D So Akira really did wipe out his memory again at the end of the anime series and was separated, only leaving his selecao phone behind with Saki. will be looking forward to the 2nd movie too, the 1st is just great! XD

P.S. dang i feel like somehow it isnt going to be a happy ending to this series D: