I really expected Eden to be good. After all, it carries the name Eden, that's the promised neverland, that's Vinland. It should tell an intriguing story about finding the promised land, right? Unfortunately, this show is just the most clique anime ever, like a 80s novel that's lost in the space of time.
Eden follows the story of the time 1000 year after human's extinction. Why they're extincted, we don't know. Wars? Nature's Wrath? Pollution? What we do know is that now earth is the inhabited by robots, somehow with human emotions. One day, a pair of 'farmer robot' find a little girl in a steel cocoon, instead of handing her over to their boss as human is determined as harmful by them, they hides and grows her up like real parents. There our story begins.
The main problem with these kinds of story is that, they're mopped down to only six episodes. Imagining the beautiful and interesting after-apocalypse world we never get to explored because the story is too focus on its main plot and the time to build other things is just simply non-existent. And even so, the story is too large to tell in just the span of half a season. What's the solutions? They 'briliantly' overused tropes to help the story move forward. Annoying kids that don't ever listen to their parents? Check. The comical villain who is bad for the sake of being bad? Check. And so many more... it will be spoilers if i mentioned more so I'll leave it at that.
Every characters in this anime are flat cookie-cutter board and unmemorable. Their logics of action is flawed. They make this anime so boring to watch.
And don't get me started about the CGI, well to be honest, this looks better than most of what they're putting out but still look very unnatural. In some frames, if you pauses, you will find the model of our main character is kinda mopped. The music is just average.
Overall, another flop by Netflix. They should concentrate more on the story of what they're putting out and stop doing so much CGI unless it's tremendously improved. 6eps/season only works with drama format on television. Don't do it here. That's all I can review about this show.
