Mr. Tines wrote:Ornette wrote:Darius wrote:Mr. Sadamoto is one of the founding members of Eva..
He is? Where did you read that?
He was involved in drawing character concepts; and the first manga stages predated the anime, soo...
Yes, the stage 1 release in Shounen Ace predated the airing of the first episode, but the TV show quickly passed the manga as far as what point they were at in the story.
But was curious about how much creative participation Sadamoto actually HAD in the TV show. He's not credited for anything except character design. I haven't seen anything official concerning this. If you meant "designed the characters" = "founding member", then that's fine, but it's the "designed the characters" = "canon", that I'm not sure about.