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REVIEW: Cage of Eden GN 6




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Stark700



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:20 pm Reply with quote
Pretty solid review.

I'm hoping this will get an anime adaptation someday with the recent amount of news being announced. This volume was enjoyable for me anyways.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 2:21 pm Reply with quote
You guys aren't going to believe this but for all the unusual things that are in "Cage of Eden,"this was the most unusual. One of the characters while discussing wolves began discussing a guy named Ernest Thompson Seton. PBS did something on him for it's "Nature" series. He was an English-born Canadian and later American naturalist and hunter. He tracked one especially elusive wolf called Lobo.
He wrote a lot of stories about wolves and other animals that later became very popular. The stories were later done as an anime series in Japan. He also helped to found the Boy Scouts and was one of the first environmentalists. He's honored in both New Mexico and Toronto for his contributions to human knowledge about wildlife. I'm amazed that the manga artist knew about this guy. For the most part,he's not as well known today as he was in his heyday.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:43 pm Reply with quote
Snomaster1 wrote:
One of the characters while discussing wolves began discussing a guy named Ernest Thompson Seton. PBS did something on him for it's "Nature" series. He was an English-born Canadian and later American naturalist and hunter. He tracked one especially elusive wolf called Lobo.
He wrote a lot of stories about wolves and other animals that later became very popular... I'm amazed that the manga artist knew about this guy. For the most part,he's not as well known today as he was in his heyday.


That's a good point, Sno. Lobo's story was also used as the basis for a Disney film in the early 1960s. There were a few authors who wrote similarly if you're interested in that kind of writing - James Oliver Curwood's Nomads of the North (Curwood was from the States but wrote primarily about the Canadian north) is about a dog and a bear surviving together and is really pretty wonderful (and totally out of print), and Thornton W. Burgess was one of the fathers of the animal genre in children's literature. I'd have been more surprised if Curwood got a mention, but I hadn't even registered that Seton's was surprising - hazards of being a bibliophile, I suppose. Smile

Honestly, I'm waiting for Richard Connell to get a mention - I'm 90% positive that this series is somehow going to turn into his short story "The Most Dangerous Game." (Especially after finishing volume 7 - spoiler[the way that every possible escape or place that could provide an overview of the island is somehow blocked feels highly suspicious to me.]
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:04 pm Reply with quote
Everyone who is reading this manga needs to KEEP reading. The story just gets more and more amazing, and the official English language release is about to get to some BIG plot twists coming in the upcoming volumes.

I hope Cage of Eden never gets an anime (don't pelt me with tomatoes please there is a legitimate reason for this). The producers could never get a cohesive story based on this manga into 12 to 13 episodes in my opinion. This manga is pretty niche to get a full 25 or 26 episodes and it would be a full on miracle for the production to get so popular to get 52 episodes.

Examples of manga that should be animated 2.0 style ala FMA: Brotherhood and more faithfully ala Hellsing Ultimate in my personal wonderland of idealism would be Rosario to Vampire and Claymore. Both these manga are amazing compared to what the animation crew did with having to truncate the manga's overarching plots.
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