This Friday will be a year to the day from when I posted my first anime review and, assuming nothing goes wrong between now and then, I plan on posting a retrospective on the past year. Princess Resurrection was supposed to be the last show I reviewed before Friday but as it happens I started watching Eden of the East and finished it in record time (For me anyway). Since there was still time before the retrospective and I technically watched it before the deadline I set for myself I figured I review and post this now rather than later this month.
Eden of the East is an original anime by the studio Production I.G. released in 2009 and directed by Kenji Kamiyama who also directed Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, which is one of the more celebrated anime of the last decade. It was licensed by our friends FUNimation Entertainment and brought over to North America in 2010 making it one of the more recent series I’ve reviewed. It’s also one of the shortest being only eleven episodes which undoubtedly is partly why I was able to finish it so quickly. Now I saw some ads around the internet a few months ago advertising the DVD collection but back then I couldn’t really find it at most places. So when I finally was able to see I jumped at that chance. Since I’ve obviously haven’t learned my lesson about judging a book by its cover you can probably guess where this is going.
Full review after the jump.
