Films like Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden.

Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden (2009) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured animation / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost (2010) poster
1. Eden of the East Movie II: Paradise Lost2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Inception (2010) poster
2. Inception2010

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Crusade in Jeans (2006) poster
3. Crusade in Jeans2006

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a clean studio craft.

Case Closed: Zero the Enforcer (2018) poster
4. Case Closed: Zero the Enforcer2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

Project Almanac (2015) poster
5. Project Almanac2015

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem (2006) poster
6. Detective Conan: The Private Eyes' Requiem2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

The Box (2009) poster
7. The Box2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark (2007) poster
8. Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark2007

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence (2011) poster
9. Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008) poster
10. 20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

The Forgotten (2004) poster
11. The Forgotten2004

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009) poster
12. 20th Century Boys 3: Redemption2009

Keeps the dense, packed storytelling and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

These are Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden’s neighbours — where are yours?

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