Eden no Ori
Cage of Eden

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Cage of Eden is a gripping story of survival, friendship, discovery, and fan service.

Story:
The narrative isn't really anything all that unique. I'd say it's in similar in nature to High-rise Invasion and Suicide Island. It's your classic people trapped in a strange environment. If you've read other reviews than you are familiar with the ending that was cut short. When I read Cage of Eden, I perceived it as very much a "It's about the journey not the destination" kind of story. In the first half of the story, it's very much a "Villain of the Week" with each volume ... dealing with a new group that either joins with our main characters or are all wiped out save for some random hottie. I feel I would be remiss if I didn't mention the fan service. I personally did not find it all that gratuitous and compared to other Ecchi out there this feels really tame. Admittedly I do have a habit of starting manga and only realizing halfway through that it's an Ecchi.

Art:
I'd argue the art is a baseline good. It doesn't have all too many sprawling shots or enormous detail. The environment and creatures are all drawn well to give a sense of atmosphere and tension to the reader. I think the character designs themselves are also pretty good though a lot of the minor student characters look very similar to one another.

Character:
Be prepared because this story has a ton of characters. I found that aside from the more prominent characters there wasn't a lot of development for our massive cast. They felt one dimensional for the most part, but I didn't really dislike it all that much myself. Something I like about this manga is that when characters are no longer vital to the plot, they don't just die off or disappear. They exist in various panels and sometimes even have dialogue. This makes the group dynamic a lot more entertaining, and I found myself reminiscing about the times we met each character and the ordeals everyone went through whenever they were on screen. I found that it really made moments throughout the series feel important, accomplished, and relevant due to the number of characters who were saved from each crisis, and it also give the reader evidence that Sengoku is really the great leader everyone says he is.

Enjoyment:
I found this manga to be quite the page turner. As I said the narrative itself isn't all that special, but I personally enjoyed how the author kept things relatively fresh with each encounter with survivors and creatures being unique. There was always so much drama and for much of the series it felt like the events transpiring for our survivors never got better, until people began to unify to survive, a common theme for the manga.

Overall:
If you enjoy the survival genre, a wide cast of characters, intense action and drama, or...enjoy fan service, this is the manga to read. Despite its abrupt and lackluster ending it's still an enjoyable series throughout its 21 Volume run. Check of Cage of Eden and find yourself transported into a world of dangerous creatures, vicious humans, and skirts a plenty.

This manga near the END left me conflicted. If you're the type of person who is into the journey than the outcome of stories, then this manga is for you. The story had my full attention and always had me wondering what would happen next. I was constantly reading this manga and I could not put it down. The characters are great and although there is ecchi and a little harem going on with the mc, It does not mess up nor does it weigh down the story. The story (during the journey) is entertaining and actually good that makes you care about the characters. ...

Here is the problem with this manga, there are some plot holes and those plot holes are really aggravating. The plot holes don't show up so much during the middle of the story but more near 3/4 to the end part of the story. You start asking "wait what happened here or to that person or why". Near the end is when things become rushed and is when those questions start repeating and repeating.

The end was really disappointing and made me depressed because how could something conclude this underwhelming after being invested in these characters and having this roller coaster of emotions because of them.

This manga (because of the last few parts) left a really sour taste in my mouth that led to turbo depression.

This sucks.

Considered dropping this after 40 chapters but kept reading out of spite. Annoyed me enough to complain in a review.
The only redeeming parts of this manga are the 7/10 art and a decent concept it had. Those should be raising this to a 4/10... But they dont.

As the story and characters were horrible. Kinda weird how a plane can have so many compeletely flat characters, half of which are serial rapists, pedos, murderers or just your typical 10-14 year old superhumans.

The story consists of a few parts on repeat:
> Main group discussing the island
> A animal or a human attacks
... > Someone is killed/lost/poisoned
> MC or other main cast character makes a plan
> ???
> A bathing scene for fan service after victory (necessary to have atleast 3 in every volume)
> Repeat