By Jonathan Clements. On a distant, desiccated planet wistfully named Eden, colonists George (Yosuke Kubozuka) and Romi (Rie Miyazawa) play at being Adam and Eve. They have a long road ahead of them if they are to ever terraform the planet and make it truly habitable for human life. For now, they are obliged to […]
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