Johnny, the protagonist, shatters the racial stereotypes of an intruding police officer.
If I was asked to summarise Eden of the East, I’d go: “A conversation in an Alfred Hitchcock movie with someone farting in the background out of the blue and another person shouting “Johnny!” and stripping off his clothes and running around the screen.” Yes, I am disappointed by it. Like Kaiba, it’s a show which didn’t realise its full potential. Unlike Kaiba, it’s a major cocktease.
Points of contention:
- Starts off with much intrigue and innueundo. Show is established be an attempt at bringing plots back to anime.
- Innueundo wins the spotlight 90% of the time.
- Johnny makes every character seem trivial and digs the show deeper into a unescapable ravine of plotstrings with untied ends.
- Tributes to Google, movies and communcation technology appear but do not play a bigger role than being just acknowledgements of existence.
- Show ends without answers and with a bunch of Johnnys colliding with enemy Johnnys.
Conclusion:
- Show throws away substance and puts Johnnys in the forefront. Having a bigger Johnny than your enemy wins the day. Show is also a poorly veiled attempt at coaxing audience into watching planned sequel material.
Doggone it.
PS. For a more interesting discussion regarding Johnnyworld, check out Wabisabi’s blog.
