Husk of Eden is in itself, a war story that has very untypical setting. The whole cause and reason for these conflicts are vague and uncertain, we rarely see or hear any motives of the higher-ups for the whole situation, and the story is traced through the eyes of many foot soldiers, usually in their teens. This work, however, is masterful in one thing, the genuine portrayal of these young people's psyche, their emotions and thought as they go through the motions of being soldiers in a war that they hardly find sense in themselves to wage. As they live inthis reality, they do get close and attached to their fellow soldiers, and bit by bit, they do share their life stories, as their melancholic thoughts of the past mixes up with their anxieties of their current lifestyle.

The focus of the story is clearly, the portrayal of the mental state of the people who are forced in the reality, in which war is the only option for resolving the conflict. In this world, teenagers are being recruited out of desperation, to protect the sacred city with the symbolic name of El Dorado. In fact, the story is imbued with a lot of religious symbolism, starting from the character's names, and the fact that this is war, which suppousedly is being led for religious reasons. There is mystery surrounding it's importance and origin, but the orders are absolute, the protection of the holy city, despite the costs of life.

The ambience of this manga is one of somberness and one of tragedy. A lot of personal fates are destroyed, families ruined and lives forfeited, all for this one grand cause that has zero to no personal significance for any of the combatants. They are drafted to join the fray either for their own personal reasons, which they try to justify through their months spent in patrolling, skirmishes and recuperating from the traumatic experience they're witnessing on a daily basis. Despite the fact they're guarding holy site, there is nothing that signifies their dignification - they live, die or try to exist in the boundaries between these two absolutes, fighting for a cause that's never theirs and suffering on their own.