I'm glad you found the material interesting, SSD! Like Bagheera said, the translations are a bit old now. I've been meaning to update them or add to the site, but haven't had the time recently. The books certainly contain some striking passages!

airman4#719730 wrote:How many total sales for 3.33 now ?

Current Japanese total is 577,786 (176,834 DVD/400,952 BD).
Last sales update was mid-February, so that number is probably pretty close to the final tally.

Here are scans of a few pages from 別冊宝島５３　精神病を知る本. This is the only candidate I know of for being Anno's "psychology book." The book went through a few later editions, which I haven't seen. However, as the original 別冊宝島 edition, it is most likely to be the one Anno used. The pages ...

Here's an attempt at reading some of the writing. I can't quite make out some parts of the Shinji/Kaworu scenes, but they don't seem to contain anything unusual. http://i.minus.com/iQcSX7NCpPd0k.jpg ２－３着分の制服―一着はＴＶ版＃２６の劇中劇のやつでよろしく。 2-3 sets of uniforms - make one of them the one from the ...

TMBounty_Hunter#688816 wrote:I'd guess that's the latest and most accurate number for the BDs

They have the latest DVD number as well, so I updated the OP.

pwhodges#687138 wrote:Are those figures Japan only or international? - in which case Q has barely started outside Japan (and won't until next year in English-speaking countries).

Japan only.

Here's my attempt to work out/confirm NME's DVD/BD sales so far. I have used the latest entry I could find for each release. Some of the releases re-charted when 3.33 was first released. Note that this page has a lower figure for 1.01/1.11 (579,077) and a slightly different figure fo...

There is an amazing album linked in the comments where Eva fan Org Sun has filtered out the original storyboards from the film footage. The images Minna no Eva Fan couldn't make out are also visible.

Here are some comments from Utada on the song. The first comment comes from the liner notes to the DVD single [ source ]: 「桜流し」とは、桜を散らせてしまう無情の雨や、桜が雨や水に流されていく様子を表現した、古くから伝わる日本の言葉です。庵野秀明監督から「ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:Q」のテーマソングのオファーを頂いた時「もしも表現者であるならば、この震災から目をそむけて作品を作ることは決してできない」という彼の言葉に共感し、引き受けました。私は「死ぬこと」「生きること」「喪...

Meanwhile, on the previous page Listening again, it's clearly not in Rei's voice. Not sure what I was thinking. ^^; The piano imagery isn't related to Shinji or Kaworu this time. The piano is shown being played by the man with long hair and glasses whom the video is about (is that S...

Hayashibara's narration is a Japanese translation of the English lyrics from the "Peaceful Times" song.

Thinking again about concurrency between 25 + 25': If we take the original intent to be something like: Episode 25*: "Battle with the Eva Series" Episode 26*: "Shinji looks into the lives of others" Then it makes sense that 25 might have combined the concept of 26* with the b...

For whatever it's worth, Renewal/Platinum booklets mention 25' and 26' are remakes of 25 and 26. So in my mind (concurrency viewpoints aside) , I think this new information means 25*, 25 & 25' are different methods of telling the same episode/story while 26 & 26'...

This wasn't translation issue, I was just baffled what the hell Ikuni could mean with being out of reach even when/because he has cell phone Ah, I think that part was just a very small misreading. 当時幾原さんはケータイを 持 ってなくて、 待 ってるときもそのせいで連絡が取れないと言われ、「絶対気難しい人だ！”僕は時間に縛られるのはキライなんだよね”とか言う人だ！」って思ったんですけど（笑...

Wow! It was really good ^^

Though I do wonder what he exactly means with 趣味で遊びのところもあるし/ Sometimes it's play according to my interests . Since context is thought provoking material I guess Anno is saying Eva's more metaphysical rambles and moments of waxing poetical that ain't strictly about psychology/introspecti...

That's an odd criss-cross between continuities, though. EoE 25 was the originally intended, but EoTV 25 was not. EoTV 26 was the intended ending, but EoE 26 wasn't. I took it to mean that the planned 25 was skipped, and so the planned 26 became TV 25+26 (otherwise TV 25 is unaccounted f...

It sounds to me more like Leliel took on the role of Shinji (just as Arael and Armisael took on the roles of Asuka and Rei respectively) because Tsurumaki didn't want the Angels speaking Japanese directly. I think you're right. Now that I think of it, Oguro in his later commentary m...

In other words, the opposite is confirmed -- the conversation really is between Shinji and himself, because Tsurumaki forbade the original idea? And because of that, the concept of the introspective scenes was born? :lol: Here's another, much older, comment by Anno on the scene, slightly differ...

Oh wow, there's some good stuff in there. So the conversation in 16 is confirmed to be between Shinji and Leliel (vs. Shinji and himself or Shinji and Yui) Anno's comment is a bit fragmentary, but comparing it with what I recall from other sources, Anno is saying that 16 was going t...