Here's to an awesome Spring 2009 anime!
Eden of the East was the most amazing show I’ve seen all season. There was just something amazingly captivating about it without all the annoyances of the other shows that I dropped. It wasn’t an annoying bulk of moe, it wasn’t mindless fanservice there for no reason what so ever and while it was still not all “clear” it was clear that it wasn’t trying to be multiple genres at once. I don’t know there was just something refreshing about it, or maybe it’s because it airs during a time catered for an audience like me.
The episode introduces us to Akira and Saki who are in Washington D.C. Akira has forgotten who he is and why he’s in America but with his super high tech cell phone he finds out that he may have been a terrorist before he got his mind wiped. He grabs a random passport from his stash & burns the rest. He ends up going back to Japan with Saki who is on a college graduation trip to NYC but took a slight turn into DC because she wanted to see the “center of the world”. The episode concludes with them seeing major explosions in Tokyo on the news tv at the airport.
Rofl best scene ever. XD
I think the most exciting thing for me was the fact that the whole episode took place in America. I mean this is what Japanese must feel like when they watch an anime. They go “oh this is in my hometown” or “oh I’ve been here once!” When I watch anime to me its the “stereotypical Japanese town” whether its real or fictional. I never think of it otherwise. However watching this I was like “hey it’s DC!” and “lol the random taxi driver” and the “fat police lady who likes to look at Japanese weenies.” 
Hearing the English spoken was really great especially when the English was actually spoken by those fluent in English rather than Japanese trying to speak Engrish. The other note is that unlike honey & clover, there was action and stuff rather than annoying sappyness and obviously a potential for some romance along the way. (Die Hagu!! 
)
Overall this was a great start to the show. No other anime this season has hooked me so quickly to make me want to watch more of the series. I’m definitely looking forward to watching and possibly blogging the rest of it.
jpmeyer
Hinano
OMG, an anime you LIKE?!?!
By: DS on April 9, 2009
at 6:51 pm
I am with you on Hagu-hate, and the preview for this show has me excited for EotE. This might even make up for how disappointed I was at Shangri-La.
You weren’t hooked by Queen’s Blade? =3
By: Kabitzin on April 9, 2009
at 6:54 pm
haha, I totally agree with you.
I got hooked when Saki tried to throw the coin in the fountain, for some reason I found it to be kind of sweet instead of annoying.
The setting and the well spoken English was very refreshing. The voice acting and animation where great. And unlike other times I liked the two main characters right away. Overall, this episode was great and it didn’t disappoint and I’m also looking forward to watching the rest.
By: Scheris on April 9, 2009
at 7:20 pm
I’ll Give it a shot maybe It can hook me like it did with u xD
By: OnyxSyaoran on April 9, 2009
at 7:33 pm
Just love that he’s dropped his pants numerous times in one episode! LOL
By: Kaijin on April 9, 2009
at 7:46 pm
It’s been a long long time, since I’ve seen you positive about a new series! XD Hopefully this one doesn’t disappoint later on, as it’s for now the most interesting series of the season.
By: Tess on April 9, 2009
at 9:27 pm
Morita was charming, Ayu+Hagu (OMG SAORI HAYAMI *_*) was charming, the rofl scene was rofl, the animation was slick, I recognized the DC stuff and I even recognized the stuff Japanese people recognized when they go to the Mall:
1. Black people (esp. if they are trying to talk to you)
2. Squirrels
3. The memorials and the wide skyline
Which are also the three first things you see in this show.
By: omo on April 9, 2009
at 10:52 pm
DROP THE PANTS! >_> especially in front of the police. Do tourists in the US really do that? :3
By: Di Gi Kazune on April 9, 2009
at 11:45 pm
I’ve been looking forward to this! I like how the character designs are cute but not moeblob.
By: i.k on April 10, 2009
at 5:11 am
@di gi kazune
Yes, all the time.
By: jpmeyer on April 10, 2009
at 7:30 am
MUST WATCH!
By: ewok on April 10, 2009
at 12:30 pm
LOL. So all it took for you to like a series is a setting in USA and some random butt cheek air time? :p
By: 7 on April 10, 2009
at 4:31 pm
Goddamn stereotypes.
Also, Saki sucks IMO.
By: omisyth on April 10, 2009
at 4:34 pm
Yes, the anime Saki sucks cock, I’m glad you agree!
By: Hinano on April 10, 2009
at 4:52 pm
This was such a relief. I was expecting Engrish on the levels of Regios, but it seems like they actually got English speakers to do those lines.
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at 5:43 pm
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at 7:28 pm
Saki on DC is like Hinano in Tokyo
Waaai!
By: ewok on April 10, 2009
at 11:01 pm
Edit: Hinano, what places in Tokyo would you like to visit?
By: ewok on April 10, 2009
at 11:03 pm
I have no idea ewok, I think we’ll start planning out Japan trip sometime later this year and buy a guide book or something xD
By: Hinano on April 11, 2009
at 10:14 am
might be due to the realistic things about this anime?? cause anime arnt suppose to be realistic
By: padfoot135 on April 11, 2009
at 12:34 pm
Even Saki’s english was better than the crap on Regios.
The only thing I didn’t get was, how all the Americans could respond to all the Japanese. Face it, if this happened in the US the Americans would all look puzzled and say something like “No hablo” and yes I know that’s Spanish.
By: JohnG on April 11, 2009
at 3:51 pm
Yea haha but I guess they didn’t wanna focus on the whole “lets have language differences” thing XD
By: Hinano on April 11, 2009
at 4:02 pm
due to how many cultures of people are in America.
on average, an American would indeed try to understand someone who spoke a different language. And even get what the person is trying to say, if that person was indicating something.
By: unicogirl on April 12, 2009
at 6:08 am
Just browsing blogs and saw yours. I have been wondering about this anime as I’m looking to start watching something new. I liked reading your comments and I will give it a try as I was trying to find someone who had seen it and what he/she thought about it.
Incidentally – your comment about Japanese speakers speaking English made me smile. I think I saw an anime once with a supposedly Australian English comment and that was so far from Aussie English. I don’t think that the accent is easy to put on to begin with and to think that someone was trying to put it when his first language isn’t even English was sort of funny.
By: May on April 12, 2009
at 11:31 am
I finally watched this episode!
Finally a show that hooks me right away! This was so awesome! Big expectations from me.
By: algelic on April 15, 2009
at 7:16 pm
I watched the 2 released episodes, and man this is great!
It´s a bit different from the others, so it´s more interesting to watch too : )
By: Ipe on April 17, 2009
at 8:11 pm