Sibadu's Station

    In not so distance future Virtual Reality become one with Information and Telecomuncation Technology, all comes in one gadget call "Glasses", yes its a glasses that can give you every thing you can do with PC nowadays when you put it on, but more than that it can also reflect the vision of real live of your surrounding area even with yourself as a data, this live data call "the Space", sounds to good to be true, well this is what you gonna get if you watch anime called Dennou Coil.

    "In this place you don't need anything, neither the pain, nor the anguish of becoming an adult"(Miss Michiko, Dennou Coil)

    The story focus on a group of 10 years old kids on Dekoku City, the girl named Yuuko Okonogi (Yasako) just move in and found many differences of the Space in the city which is actually her birth place. On this city they are not just using the Glasses as a chit chat tools, but more than that you can play wargame, spy, or even more powerfull gadget can manipulate the Space itself. I forgot to tell that they also can have cyberpet its the new era of Tamagocthi that on the Space you can feel it with your hand just like real animal. Back to the city, there are places on the Space that so-called "Obselete Space" which is the area that have unstable data that have to be re-formated by the local cyber-adiminstrator that always patrol around the city day and night. On the Obselete Space there are stones that you can build magic paper/tag to do almost anything with the Space depend on the stone type, this tag is actually forbidden and can be erase by the admin if you get hit by its laser beam.

    "People are connected through narrow paths. Even if sometimes they lose sight of them...There's no doubt they're connected"(Yuko Okonogi,Dennou Coil)

Yasako with her new friends having an unforgettable adventures with helluva mysteries on the Space around the city, the existence of encoder, illegal, the other side, miss michiko and many other oddity that they tried to find the answer on each episodes, which lead to surprising facts behind it and in the end you might expect they gives gentle advice to anyone who begin to doubt on reality.

"In the direction where you feel the pain, there's an exit!"(Yuko Amasawa, Dennou Coil)

The future is wild, maybe is the rigth word for Eden:it's an endless world, one of the best manga I've ever read created by Hiroaki Endo. The best impression I get from this manga is what so-called multi-genre story, it start with sci-fi mystery followed by sadistic action which make it not suitable for underage even the main character is a 12 years old boy accompany by a humanoid robot that can act as a deadly weapon. The story keep flowing like life itself, the boy grow-up naturally with attitude shaped from all his expiriences along the story, gang-war, world conspiracy, human-robot interaction, any story you name it they have it, even there is a scene that shows explicit adultry act.


The mangaka try to achieve the same vibe as Akira and Ghost in the Shell, I would guess that he try to mix both masterpieces with the story that closely reflected world nowadays. If you always hunger for high detail illustration, man-robot interaction, total shooting action, etc then you will love Eden.

"For someone who doesn't believe in anything, the strictness of mathematic is a synonym of certainty"(Sophia, Eden, Hiroaki Endo, 1998)

-Sibadu