--Eden* They were only two,on the planet--that was the story of Earth's last love affair.
The story of the distant future.
The sudden appearance of a huge energy pile near Mars known in later times as the 'Broken Star'.
Under the influence of the energy dump, the Earth began to experience climate anomalies and crustal shifts.
The world was devastated as wars and acts of terrorism erupted everywhere.
The Earth was gradually being desolated, with less than a hundred years to go before the end of the world.
In order to avoid death, the dignitaries of various countries proposed that
two programs would be implemented to save the human race.
The first was to establish a "Unified Government of Earth".
The second was to implement the Felix Program.
They prioritized the completion of the Earth's extraction, and set out a course of sacrifice to accomplish the greater good.
Mandatory reorganization of talents. Military suppression of nations and groups that impede the establishment of a world government.
Additionally, overwhelming force is used to suppress all problems due to race, religion, food, and energy.
They solved the plan, which could not have been realized within a hundred years, by creating superhumans who could make the realization of the plan possible - "Felix", a new human being who was genetically modified and gained superior intelligence and an almost immortal body.
The next 99 years passed by -
There was a young girl of Felix who was active as a central member of the Earth Exodus Project.
Dedicating everything she had to offer as a human to research and finishing her work, she stayed on an empty Earth, eager to live out the rest of her life smoothly.
Then there was the young man sent to her by the Unification Army.
His job is to guard the young girl, as well as, detain her freedom.
The story begins with an encounter between the 2.
The small story between the planet that burned out everything and the maiden.
I think I've done everything I was supposed to do,
Even if I'm not around anymore, the "Planet Escape Program" can still be completed.
But I still have a little bit of my life left,
there's still a little bit of ......
--what else am I going to do with the rest of my life?
--I want to walk on this planet again.
Even if this world is about to end,
I will wait on this planet for the end of days to come.
The end of days has begun.
-Where does Shion's mind want to go?
Where has it been lost?
Probably Shion herself wasn't sure.
Even if she knew, there's no wind that could make her fly ......
In that case, if there's no wind blowing over, then I'll ...... The island where the 703 Research Institute is located is located on an isolated island in the far sea, developed by the Unification Army's Immigrant Ship Research Institute. It was originally the residence of Dr. Zenyokuji, the father of Felix, and was built by the aristocrat Dr. Zenyokuji to pursue the elegance of his living space. After the death of Dr. Makyoji, the institute was placed under the management of the Unification Army, and has now become the center of immigrant ship development, with Shion as its main focus.
In addition, Shion's existence is a top secret, and for security reasons, it is only registered as a research institute of the Immigrant Ship Engine Development Department (even within the Unification Army, Aster's location is classified information except for some of the non-commissioned officers).
In addition to the Yokan in the center of the island, there are helicopter and vehicle hangars, ammunition facilities and training facilities in the west. In the east, there is a communications and radar facility. Liberation and Redemption
The story of "eden*" can be divided into two parts, "The Island Part" and "The Hometown Part", depending on the stage. In the opening scene of the island chapter, Ryo Haruna, who has completed his years of combat duty and his comrades have gone their separate ways after his unit was disbanded, thought he would spend his last days on Earth at a training school for non-commissioned officers. But a paper appointment has completely changed his estimation of his life's future.
An isolated island that no one even knows about, an extremely secret mission. In charge of coming to pick him up for his appointment is Warrant Officer Ravi, a beautiful, playful-talking officer who appears to take a keen interest in Ryo. As Ryo walked into the isolated island's research institute, it felt more like a Victorian mansion to him. Warrant Officer Ravi also disappeared like the wind after landing, leading Ryo to the Commander was a young woman named Erika who claimed to work as a maid, for some reason she was also interested in Ryo, Ryo also felt a sense of déjà vu and nostalgia in Erika's smile.
Major Naoto Inaba, the top military officer of the Orphaned Island Institute, is both familiar and unfamiliar to Ryo, as it was Inaba who took Natsume's sister away from her seven years ago, giving the teenage Ryo his first glimpse of his own powerlessness. But at the time, Inaba didn't seem all that willing to carry out this mission, and he gave Ryo a business card of his own on his way out - "Do you want to see your sister again? Then go and join the Unified Army's unit at the bottom of the mountain, it's the only way!" --Ryo still remembers Major Inaba's expression of anger at that moment out of sheer helplessness, but he never understood where the Major got that anger from, just as he couldn't understand how the brilliant and well-built Inaba had only risen from lieutenant to major in seven years. At the end of the day, Ryo then remembered to ask for the details of the mission, and Major Inaba said cryptically, "This used to be the hub of spacecraft development, which means 'she' is here."
For Ryo, guarding Shion was far too rare compared to his past military career. Most of the time Ryo and Ravi spent their shifts guarding the door to Shion's room, sometimes Erika would invite them to drink the black tea she brewed; occasionally Major Inaba would visit Ryo's room to drop off an envelope containing information about the person to be eliminated. As the days passed peacefully, Ryo felt his former sharpness fading, while something in a corner of his mind was waking up, and it all had to do with Erika, who kept approaching him. Guardian and Future
The strongest FEL Ⅸ, the goddess who saves mankind - Shion. She never shows her face, and only lives in the mouth and ears of the people and reverence. Soldiers who have served in the isolated island for more than ten years may not get the chance to see Shiyin's true face, but what is the real situation? A young girl who has been confined to an unnamed island for a hundred years has had her life's freedom taken from her for the sake of a way out for all of mankind. Now that Earth's plan to get out is nearly complete, and Shion has so little life left to live, there are already those who are counting on her final value.
Thankfully, she has the help of Erika and Major Inaba, as well as Ryo's determination. Shion's wish to spend the last days of her life on the dying Earth is finally realized. With Erika's promise and Major Inaba's encouragement, and not wanting to make the same mistake of losing his sister, Ryo takes Shion's hand and returns to the mountain hut in his hometown. In the place where they had spent the best time with their sister, Ryo and Shion began a life of seclusion like a paradise. As the days pass by, Ryo focuses on protecting and caring for Shiyin, while Shiyin enjoys the joys of life in this picturesque idyll like never before. At that moment, an unexpected visitor intruded into their lives.
The intruder is a female reporter named Tano Moyo. She is obsessed with Shion and has been tracking down everything about her. Her arrival sends ripples through Ryo and Shion's seemingly peaceful life. First of all, how did she find this hidden mountain hut? Following Ryo's question, Makoto brings new news from the outside world: Major Inaba, who helped Ryo and Shion escape from the island, has been court-martialed and sentenced to death, and is being executed; and Ravi, who fought Ryo to the death during the escape and finally chose to let go of him, has been promoted to second lieutenant to lead the covert search and seizure of the troops who are looking for Shion. However, she does not take any effective action, and she tells Makiya what Major Inaba told her before he died about the possible whereabouts of Ryo and Shion.
At the same time, Makoto's arrival also made Shion, who had been immersed in her own ideal life, see the reality that her hundred years of life were numbered, and that Ryo, like Makoto, still had a long life ahead of him, and that he, who had stayed with her on the soon-to-be-destroyed Earth, was doomed to have no future at all. Realizing that she is a burden to Ryo, Shion decides to let Ryo and Makoto leave together on the last spacecraft.
"I don't want you to die!"
"I've lived up to this point for all of them, but now, I'm only asking you to be the only one, and I just want you to live, Ryo!"
In front of Shion's tears, Ryo looked back on the days he had spent with Shion as so peaceful and beautiful, maybe he really had completed his atonement for the past, maybe he really should have fulfilled Shion's last wish and chosen the future ...... But was that really good enough? In a moment of confusion, Erika woke Ryo up in a dream - have you really not missed any of your true thoughts? Have you really seen it all? Face Shion with all your heart! The boy will respond with his whole heart!
It's not about sympathy, it's not about making up for the past, and it's not about finding a replacement for each other. Ryo and Shion just wanted to be together with pure intensity, because they cherished each other so much, knew each other so well, and loved each other so much. As Makoto said, she was again so in love with the silent, harmonized and natural connection between Ryo and Shion, like everything needs air.
--Finally, Makyo left alone with notes full of information about Shion. As the final spacecraft lifted off, the vast Earth became a world for the two of them, and the curtain fell on the last love in the paradise near dusk. There is no past, and there will be no future, they only love each other in this moment.
At sunset, the tiny girl fell asleep beside her lover with a smile on her face. The young man, on the other hand, carries their eternal memories with him and continues the time of the two of them -- I believe that many players who have played this game are looking at this work with a sense of disappointment afterward, the male protagonist's indifference but has something to bear, and the female protagonist's simplicity but heavenly talent. Although these two roles in reality is impossible to exist, after all, this is only a love theme sci-fi background of the game. But the impact of the text and graphics is unspeakable.
It has to be said that the Japanese are impeccable in their use of emotions such as remorse, regret, despair, and bitterness. But in today's eyes, it's probably just as well that they all start with a little bit of beautiful happiness at the beginning, giving the reader a feeling of "ah, this kind of simple and pure happiness," and then when the reader gets deeper into it, thinking that everything should be as normal as it should be, it takes away everything that you fantasized about.
For example, the feeling created at the end of "Angel beats" (天使的心跳), where what should have been such a happy environment disappears in just a moment. Then leaving behind a scene where everyone spent time together in the first place.
Human nature can often be synthesized. Someone else expects a result, and you can expect yet another. Yet in eden, even Shion's death became a predetermined ending from the start, but there were always people who held on to the idea that a miracle might happen and insisted on seeing the end, and ended up crying their eyes out. But that's just for those regular readers, since every person has a different level of sensibility and a different way of thinking. So Shion's death isn't so much about the despondency this game brings, but the days Ryo spends after Shion's death. Try to fantasize about what happens next: what if, for example, the Earth is not destroyed as predicted? Ryo is the only one left on the entire planet, visiting the grave day after day, looking at anything in the room to remember the tiny her. Try to imagine it, imagine that person if it was yourself.
Of course, as mentioned before, everyone is sentimental to a different degree and thinks differently. Some people can't think this deep, but there's no doubt that this work is a classic, and I'm afraid the only thing that's puzzling is why it's not officially animated.