Both are familiar, straight-forward fantasy tales about rambunctious kids being raised by unlikely parents elevated in their execution. Eden is reminiscent of The Mandalorian-not only in theme and subject matter, but in its relationship between content and form. When it comes to plot, Eden is not trying to do anything incredibly complex or new. If you’re looking for a more straight-forward science fiction parable about the best and worst parts of humanity as explored through some heartwarming human-robot relationships, then Eden might be your jam. If you’re going into Eden hoping for a chill, low-stakes story about two farming robots raising their human daughter in an apple orchard, then this show probably isn’t for you.
Because this story is only two hours in total (and really can and probably should be watched as a feature film), there isn’t much time to linger. The anime, which comes from Qubic Pictures and was produced and created by Justin Leach, is much more plot-driven than its trailer suggests, quickly intensifying from a slice-of-life science fiction to a climate apocalypse story about the value (or not) of humanity. When a pair of apple-harvesting robots, A37 and E92, find a human baby, Sara, they go against the rules of Eden-3, where they live, to follow their nature: to protect and care for this tiny human, even when everything they have ever been told about humanity has been framed in our species’ capacity for destruction. These robots spend their days growing apples, an act driven by their initial creation by and for humans. In Eden, Netflix’s new Japanese-language original anime, we get a clever twist on the old convention: Here, humans disappeared 1,000 years prior, and Earth is populated by a few settlements of robots. The concept of the last or only human is a classic science fiction set-up, one we most often see in the post-apocalyptic genre, which often sees a human wandering a dystopian landscape, in search for meaning and connection in a grim reality.
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