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Alright, so islands are cool.  Island survival stories could be even cooler.

Cage of Eden is not cool.  I don't think I will ever find an island survival manga I will actually enjoy fully.  :[

Our hero, Sengoku, is the most terrifying existence I have ever seen.

The Sengoku Effect, anybody who opposes him agressivly dies by some natural cause.  Whether that be a wild animal killing them, falling off a cliff, or a flash flood drowning them in less than a minute.  Point is, you screw you Sengoku, the world fucks you.

Mariya meanwhile, is probably my favorite of the core cast.  He's pessimistic and smart and does cool stuff that makes sense.  I actually don't have any complaints with this character.

My main problem though, is the stupid and predictable nature of the plot.  Which is stupid.  Now, Cage of Eden has definitely improved but the first 80 or so chapters I believe(?) is just straight up recyclation after recyclation.  Sengoku and friends meet another group of people, one or two of them will be an attractive girl and possibly a 'cool male friend'.  The rest of the group will just be...evil.  Just evil for whatever reason.  Whether that means that have a bad attitude or it just comes out of nowhere.  Either way, the majority of the group they meet will oppose Sengoku, and not be killed by Sengoku, but magically killed by sudden ineptitude and bad luck.

It was hell going through the early chapters because it was predictable, boring, and most importantly enraging when I saw cool antagonist characters JUST KILLED IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS.  They were never allowed to escape devilishly and devise their own faction, oh no.  Antagonists aren't allowed to stay alive unless they're Arita.  And admittedly, I kind of like Arita but he still needs improvement.

Like, in Arita's arc that was actually really cool.  But then they just ditch him and he's supposedly "dead" which I doubt so I hope he just shows up soon and hopefully without anymore stupid ugh.

And Suzuki, Suzuki will always be awesome.  The fighter girl that always gets the ass shots is pretty cool too.

Oh speaking of ass shots, it has an ecchi tag for a reason.  I don't like the ecchi but I'm not going to gripe that because it's part of the genre thing.  At least it's not as explicit as Battle Royale which basically has porn in it.


Cage of Eden has definitely had a boost in quality recently.  Around when Zaji dies is when the series really starts improving.  It starts focusing on new groups of characters.  There is actual character development, even if sort of poor.  People don't just die so fucking fast you don't know what's going on.  You can actually remember a character's name and what they're like.  Before then it was really difficult.

Then again even with this a lot of the characters still suck.  Two thirds of them are just fan service loads that don't help and I would say I actually only like a tenth of the characters in Sengoku's group right now.

Yarai is okay I guess.  He kind of pissed me off at first because he looks fucking ridiculous and gives the impression of acting too cool.  But he's actually a kind of nice guy with brains and brains are good.  His girl posse is pretty useless though but I've got a thing for senseis.

Anywho, when I first started reading Cage of Eden I would give it a 2/10 for having good art.  Now probably a 5/10 or 6/10 for at least slowing down the character deaths and giving the much needed development instead of just nonsense death and shit.

Wait...there's still really stupid deaths and shit but at least uuh yeah I got nothing.  A nice large group helps I guess?

Point is, the art is nice, the characters mostly suck for either being useless, unsympathetic, or insanely stupid, the plot is clearly made up on the spot (which I don't really mind as long as it's GOOD PLOT), and Suzuki is the best.  That is all there is to say on the matter.

After finding the two 9 doors we went back and found Seven and Lotus saying Clover disappeared (like Snake who was probably MURDERED) so we all split up and search the place over because we can't abandon a friend.  I split up with June a bit later on and head down the elevator to the E deck, lo and behold LOTUS IS DEAD STABBED IN THE CHEST

IT WAS SO RECENT

THEN I GET STABBED IN THE BACK AND START BLEEDING OUT

JUNPEI TURNS ON HIS BACK TO SPOT THE 'KILLER' BUT IT'S TOO LATE AND I DIE AS THE 'KILLER' GOES BACK UP THE ELEVATOR