Cage Of Eden / Eden No Ori Review

The story of this manga starts with students travelling on a plane until suddenly it crashes and they find themselves on a seemingly stranded, unmapped island. There are a lot of animals which should have been extinct for centuries and so begins Sengoku Akiras and his classmates journey through mysteries and threats of the island.

Art of the series can be considered as good, or even very good, the art also improves along the way like every manga that has been going on for a while. The extinct animals have been drawn beautifully based on their real designs. The battle scenes and the flow of the art works very well with the story.

Characters of this series in my opinion are a bit more seinen-like than shonen, even though the manga was published in a shonen magazine. That basically means that there aren't overly exaggerated characters whose only job is to either irritate or amuse the reader, but most of the characters manage to be somewhat normal compared to shonen characters in general. There are more good than bad characters in the series, main character Sengoku Akira belongs to the first mentioned group. There's also visible (emotional) growth aspect to most if not all of the characters which is always a good thing.

Story of Cage of Eden is pretty good. Only "pretty" good since it begins very strongly and then the quality dropped for several dozens of chapters during which I felt a bit too bored because of the lack of interesting things happening. There certainly was action and some happenings, but the author picked up on the mystery part a bit later on the series, which is in my books an essential thing in these kinds of mangas. I have to praise the story because it was made beautifully with long sight: from beginning to the end the author had a clear view of what he aims to do and manages to knot the loose ends admirably. The mystery part of this manga is its strength and at the same time a slight weakness:it's intriguing but some may say that it doesn't deliver well enough, but in my opinion it's definitely worth the read.