Cage of Eden
| A lot of people have been confused and rather annoyed at the abrupt ending so I will do my best to lay out what I believe is what the mangaka was thinking. I believe this is the most plausible ending but please bear in mind that there will be holes. This cannot be avoided because of the rushed ending but even so, this is the most plausible interpretation I believe the mangaka was drawing upon. For my explanation, it'd be easiest if I draw a timeline and include the supporting evidence. Bear with me. There's a lot to cover. :)
Some other theories and issues:
That about sums it up. Thanks for bearing with me. This is what I believe to be the most complete, concrete and realistic storyline. Any questions, I'll try my best to answer. Now it's your turn to go back to your mangalist and change that rating to something it deserves. It truly was a good read. :) |
| I don't get what you're trying to say since you just basically summarized the whole story and gave us a debunked theory that you could find on the Cage of Eden Wikipedia page |
| Signature removed. Bro, can you please follow the signature rules? How many times do I have to tell you, 300kb MAX. You know we don't have the server space for your giant ass gifs. Site & Forum Guidelines (read them dumbass). |
| Exactly my point. Reading in the comments of the last chapter discussion post, a lot of people didn't like it because they couldn't understand it, probably because they followed while it was serialising and forgot parts. Anyway, what you said is true, it is a summary but I've included additional info to backup the summary so it may be easier to understand why happened, so those in the future who are confused may get an insight on what happened and not rage quit over the ending. This is the main purpose basically. By the way, I never checked Wikipedia, just wrote my explanation from what I read in the manga. I don't claim my explanation is perfect so feel free to add or take away parts. Think of it as a community written explanation :p I'll update the explanation with your suggestions so those in the future who are confused may have at least an understanding and grasp of the manga. Thanks for your contribution! |
EscapadeProDec 11, 2014 6:29 AM
| yo i expected something like " the mangaka fell dead ill thats why the ending is rushed wierd shiit" I only kept reading because I always thought that on the manga page of the 3rd point u made, it looks like a crab hand between sengoku and the girl . |
| I agree with EscapadePro's explanation. And I disagree with the theory that it was all a mother's dream about her son. Nowhere did the mangaka said that. There was a scene of her lying on her death bed dreaming about her son having adventures on the island. So what? She spent her whole adult life building that place and thinking about her son, so naturally she would entertain romantic ideas of her son having adventures on that island. I don't understand how anyone can just conclude that the entire story was a dream. That whole death bed scene was just a plot device that makes the readers want to reach out to the character (Akira's mom) and tell her: Your son IS having adventures on that island! Uwah! The shock wave in the plane, the black space, the date on the stone monument in the "school building", the pictures of the "dead" and everything else pointed to the time leap explanation. In fact, the mangaka said so by showing us the years that passed in Japan after the disappearance of the plane. He was telling us how the island came to be and how many years have passed since then. That fit in with the time leap theory the island survivors were talking about when they found the dated stone monument. I only wish there was a Season 2. I want to find out what's going on in mainland Japan. And how the survivors will adapt to mainstream society. A pity that they will never see their loved ones again. Also, I was hoping to find Zaji alive again. Like what they did for Kouhei. As for the Kouhei and Hades pair... Perhaps it would be better for them to stay on that island. Kouhei, with his mental issues and abnormal strength, has no place in a modern and peaceful Japan. Let's say Japan is still normal and they all return. Kouhei will very likely end up murdering some human one day and end up getting the death sentence anyway. He's abnormally strong, but they are going to have guns in modern Japan. |
| I think it was ending 2 because the island was built for scientific advances as well as a memorial site after all. |
| Pretty much this. I don't undertsand why people have a hard time understanding the ending. It was even predictable: Miina's Memorial, 50 years old supercomputers and cloning devices. Everything was heading towards "we are in the distanr futue" scenario. |
| The ending was explained thanks to Mina... but the manga was still rushed and certain things here and there weren't exactly explained... and definitely it could've been better. |
| I really don't know why a certain reader don't understand the ending, to me, it was simple. They got into space time rift and landing into raika island. like seriously, someone mentiion they're clone. how the fck they're clone when they in plane with their memories from the past still there. |
| So finally just finished this Manga. Ending fairly straightforward but really sad for Akira's mother. Mangka already established that clarvoyance exists so it's likely that his mother had in some way seen the future thinking it to be a mere dream. At the beginning they knew exactly where on the map the plane had lost contact but there was no island in their time. It's likely they built the island on that spot as last known location but it was made clear that the plane was never found. The mother either assumed the plane was somewhere under the ocean where she built the island or again she used clarvoyance without realising it. Most likely they are 100's of years in the future and something has happened to the human race probably caused by the spread of the biohazard. Can only hope the mangaka does a sequal. The name of the Manga would be different cause no longer trapped in Eden. |
EscapadePro said: Some other theories and issues: [list=1] [*]Kouhei and Hades- where are they? It's clearly explained why we don't see them again. In the battle against the Chimera (the lion), we see Hades and Kouhei in the trap down below defeating the Ox monster and saving Yuki. Yuki asks Kouhei to join them but Kouhei declines saying he's killed too many and can't face everyone. He also mentions that he is "fine as a shadow." After that, we never see Hades and Kouhei again. During those four years on the island, Kouhei most likely found out where they were living but of course didn't approach them. Possible endings: 1. He escapes by boat with Hades 2. He stays on the island. 3. Both of them are killed (unlikely though with his supersaiyan strength) Teckmeister said: As for the Kouhei and Hades pair... Perhaps it would be better for them to stay on that island. Kouhei, with his mental issues and abnormal strength, has no place in a modern and peaceful Japan. Let's say Japan is still normal and they all return. Kouhei will very likely end up murdering some human one day and end up getting the death sentence anyway. He's abnormally strong, but they are going to have guns in modern Japan. this might be a little late and old for the topic but i want to share some of my thoughts as well :D for kouhei and hades whereabouts i think they were on the boat as well before they set sail you can see class pres yuki arranging her stuff not sure if it really was her but next to her inside a room you can see there are two people's shadow assuming that thing on the ground beside the other shadow is hades mask that could still be wrong though cuz judging by the shadow's shape as they have some women chest shape they could be just other girls already on board but if it's really them then the one who probably let them slip in was yuki since she is the only one who knew about kouhei being alive. |
toshiro002Nov 16, 2016 12:46 AM
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| There is three interpretation to the ending of this Manga. First - You could consider that it was all just a memorial for everyone that died in the "crash", and they built a lot "monuments" to remember them by, like the obelisk for Mina's, the central building that resembled the school and the memorial inside, and then we have Sengoku's mother having her dream with them on the island, which could be interpreted and it was all her dream. But, I don't believe this one since it wasn't too straightforward and we still had those chapters after her having the dream, with the kids a little older. If we didn't have these chapters after Sengoku's mother dream, then this would be a lot more plausible. Second - Mina's grandfather was a very powerful person, very well known and with connections everywhere. It's not hard to assume he tried everything possible to know what happened to his only family. With it, he could have even reached the conclusion of the "time travel" since we all know that there were people with premonitions powers in that world. With it, he invented a way to build an island where the crash happened as a way to help where the plane would crash and give all of them a way to survive. He manages to "invent" a purpose in that location as a top-secret DNA facility to get enough funds to build the island way he wanted, but since he was old, he had to find someone to carry his convictions and then he found Sengoku's mother. Maybe he shared what he knew with her, and that was enough to convince her to give her all for the project. Third - The grandfather just got a little crazy and obsessed with leaving as big as a memorial he could have ever made for his only family, and he also convinced Sengoku's mother to do the same for her son, since she was practically lost anyways and didn't have anyone else too. So, they joined hands to make the biggest memorial they could ever do. The fact that they time traveled and ended up on the island was just a coincidence that saved them, even though 2/3 of the people in the plane died. If it weren't in the island in the first place and they all crashed in the water there are two possibilities, one they would be all dead if they did time traveled and ended up in the water, since there wouldn't be any rescue team, or if they didn't time travelled and ended up in the water, they might have survived if the rescue team got to them fast enough which I doubt it would happen. ---------------- The one I believe the most is the third one. It was just a coincidence, that their families decided to make the island as a memorial which ended up saving a grand part of them. |
XadowMonzterMar 17, 2019 3:11 PM
Eden123 said: Kinda ironic. The island was built by the mother because of her dreaming her son, sengoku, living and having adventures on yhe idland with his friends. But the island is the sole reason more than half of the plane's passengers die(if we assume those we didnt see died). not really bcus that island gives them food and shelter, bcus if theres no island in there remember it is artificially created so that means it will only be a sea then that means they will stranded or drowned either way will die, so she did save her so.. |
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| An adaptation would make justice for this series. It's really underrated. |
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