Eden of the East - Q & A

[Solace]

This thread is for those of you with questions about the Eden of the East (Higashi no Eden) anime. There are many questions that don't need a whole thread to discuss them. A simple practical answer straight from the anime without any speculation can solve these connundrums. If someone has such a question about Eden of the East which can be solved by answering with facts from an official source, then please ask that question here.

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[hamstar]

Spoiler for episode 3 content:

what does NEET stand for? Is it a movement, a group of people or?? I dont think it was explained at all yet. Anyone have the facts?

[BetoJR]

NEET is commonly used as an acronym for Not in Employment, Education or Training. As in, someone who does nothing with his/her life.

Not really anime-related, by the way.

[Raiga]

Originally Posted by hamstar

Spoiler for episode 3 content:

what does NEET stand for? Is it a movement, a group of people or?? I dont think it was explained at all yet. Anyone have the facts?

Pretty common term in Japan.

EDIT: Ack, beaten to the punch by seconds.

[hamstar]

Originally Posted by BetoJR

NEET is commonly used as an acronym for Not in Employment, Education or Training. As in, someone who does nothing with his/her life.

Not really anime-related, by the way.

wow thanks, perfect answer for me. Another one:

Spoiler for episode 3 again:

What is a 'supporter' ?

[Ottocycle]

The detective says that the Supporter will come to kill any Selecao who has finished his duty of using up the money in the phone. The Supporter is a member among them who also has the phone, and seems to have that additional duty as well.

But...

Spoiler:

The official site says that the Supporter only kills those who use the phone 'wrongly', whatever that means. It probably pertains to the purpose of changing the country for the better though.

[MeoTwister5]

Actually it's even questionable to say if a Supporter is an actual member of this organization. Detective Kondo was killed by his wife, even though indications point to him texting his mistress rather than his wife. It's as if his his wife was let on to his schemes, or more likely the message was redirected to his wife by the organization in order to push her off the edge and finally kill him. Whatever then, suffice to say a Supporter of some form will kill the Nobelesse. What's not really clear for me is the Supporter comes when the money itself is exhausted in whatever way, or if only used up in a manner not for the sake of the organization's goals, which I assume is for the sake of the country.

If anything, Kondo seemed desperate to gain more cash. He probably knew that he would die if he used up the money not for the reasons he was supposed to, and he clearly squandered practically every Yen for his own ends.

[Ottocycle]

Originally Posted by MeoTwister5

What's not really clear for me is the Supporter comes when the money itself is exhausted in whatever way, or if only used up in a manner not for the sake of the organization's goals, which I assume is for the sake of the country.

From how I see it, the information the official site has let on so far is more of a guiding nature, asking leading questions and giving facts to let the viewers connect the dots, and what has been revealed on it so far has come true in the episodes in some form or another. So it might be my bias, but I'd tend to believe what it says, TBH.

So yeah, the site does say what it says, explicitly, that "the Supporter will kill whoever uses up the money wrongly".

[Mystique]

Originally Posted by hamstar

wow thanks, perfect answer for me. Another one:

Spoiler for episode 3 again:

What is a 'supporter' ?

I can answer that for ya as officially confirmed by the team (they've more or less given the entire story in terms of keywords and characters away for this series on the website, all in Japanese though, so I assume most jp fans know the deal already)
Or I can PM you the official definition, although they are teases about it, I guess that leaves room for any plot twists they plan to through in there.
By ep 4 or 5, you'll probably gain as much info as was given if the next week preview is anything to go by, so wait a little?

edit:
Since it is a Q&A - it's meant to be defined with 'hard facts' then here you go.

Spoiler for Supporter:

Supporters are Selecao with the duty to eradicate those who abuse the use of the Noblesse mobiles. Mixed in among the twelve Selecao happens to be one Supporter; however no one knows who it could be.

*points up to humbug*
As he said, the jp website is a guide of sorts as they are being teases but it makes things clearer since all basic conceptions of the series are definied.

On an amusing note, couldn't help but think of the laughing man as well as a few other GITS cameo moments too.

[lilkirby]

what kind of bike is this?

[Mystique]

Originally Posted by lilkirby

what kind of bike is this?

From the Juiz website, it's known as a ビックスクーター (Bick Scooter)?

The picture links of the models are here:

As for more info on the specific model, prices and stuff, I would need to dig around a few websites and will update this post if I find anything, but most likely it's a general term used in Japan with many different brands and models of "Bick Scooters" that you can buy online.

[Mafty-Navue]

The bike is Honda FORZA
It's a 248 cc scooter (I envy japanese people, they got nice bikes )
The price is around ¥651,000〜¥824,250. Takizawa got the yellow color which is ￥693,000~￥761,250 (tax already included )
Found it while looking at honda japan websites

Here's the link if you're interested:

http://www.honda.co.jp/FORZA/

I actually though Akira's bike was Yamaha before I saw it on Honda

[hyperviper]

Okay, I'm really getting hooked into this anime but let me get some things straight...

There's only 11 episodes? Is that right? Or is there like a 2nd season? Cuz it just sounds so short if it's just 11 episodes.

[izmosmolnar]

Yes, it is only eleven episodes currently, and sometimes this year a (probably) 1,5 hour long movie will come out to fully finish the series.
Of course I have no idea, how both of those are going to be finished, and whether it is feasible to do a second cour too, but I certainly hope, the story might give some room to a possibility of a second "season".
Albeit seeing things realistically, I'd say it's not going to happen though.

[hyperviper]

I heard the movie will be real-time tho...based on the anime instead of a continuation.

[Kazu-kun]

Originally Posted by hyperviper

I heard the movie will be real-time tho...based on the anime instead of a continuation.

Interesting. Where did you hear that?

[Arsanii]

=O Was Eden of the East made into a Korean drama before? I think I've heard of the name somewhere...

[izmosmolnar]

I'm not entirely sure, but I'd imagine you might confuse it with the 1952 novel East of Eden. My assumption being is, that they indeed made a Korean live series adaptation of the novel in 2008, and according to the creators it's a drama.
And as far as I can tell from reading the plot summary on the wiki page, it doesn't have any relation with the anime Eden of the East.

[lilkirby]

Originally Posted by Mafty-Navue

The bike is Honda FORZA
It's a 248 cc scooter (I envy japanese people, they got nice bikes )
The price is around ¥651,000〜¥824,250. Takizawa got the yellow color which is ￥693,000~￥761,250 (tax already included )
Found it while looking at honda japan websites

Here's the link if you're interested:

http://www.honda.co.jp/FORZA/

I actually though Akira's bike was Yamaha before I saw it on Honda

OMG ty a bit less 10 g in canada. god this a fucking awesome scooter

[Mystique]

Originally Posted by Arsanii

=O Was Eden of the East made into a Korean drama before? I think I've heard of the name somewhere...

As mentioned before the East of Eden novel and film is about, but this is purely an original story from the mind of the GITS director Kamiyama Kenji.

The series was announced in 2008's 23rd issue of Hakusensha's Young Animal manga magazine, denoting Kamiyama's involvement as creator, director and writer and Umino's involvement as character designer

The difference being the titles
East of Eden (EoE) = Korean drama, Western book and movie.
Eden of the East (EotE) = Current Japanese anime series