On October 22 an event was held at Osaka University of Arts featuring a conversation between Anno and Kazuo Koike followed by questions from the audience. Twitter user banira1ce took notes on the event, and posted some of the questions and answers to twitter, which are archived here . I have done a ...

You can hear a snippet of the song in question on Amazon Japan:

http://www.amazon.co.jp/SHIROS-SONGBOOK-Xpressions-Shiro-SAGISU/dp/B00EEUF0U2

- perhaps this is meant in the sense of how Shinji percieves him as this "dark, scrutinizing shadow". Yeah, maybe he is a kind of image of how Anno perceives society, or social authority. Anyway, since it might be awkward just to post a series of excerpts here, I created a tumblr page whe...

A couple more for the moment. The same disclaimers about the translation apply. Oizumi's question in the first excerpt refers to the fact that Anno's father is missing a leg (there's at least one other reference to it, but I can't remember if it says somewhere in the two books ho...

Presumably Lili or someone should have no trouble confirming this. This is indeed from Parano. However, it isn't "official" information, but part of the character bios written independently by the interviewers. I'm going to try translating some excerpts from Schizo/Parano, at rand...

I made a couple of corrections based on this translation, and made a few other corrections besides. It looks like English translations of this short are starting to appear.

Here's my attempt at a translation of the film. Due to the limits of my Japanese, and also to probable errors in interpretation, there will likely be mistakes, so please forgive them. I was especially unsure about the sentence beginning "なのに、僕た{...

Here's an attempt at the rest of the Kaworu scene. A couple of parts were unclear. The surface of the moon ・The far side of the moon Kaworu, naked, awakes. He appears out of a coffin. Kaworu: I know. He has awakened, and the covenant [unclear]. A Seele monolith appears. Keel: That's c...

I don't know if it was ever mentioned here, but apparently there is a draft script in the 1.0 CRC which contains this line: http://i.imgur.com/xIgfs.jpg カヲルの周辺は同じカヲルの棺だらけ。...

Thank you Reichu ^^ ミニチュア特撮とＣＧＩとの一番大きな違いは、やはり空気だと思います。空...

Here's my attempt at the Anno interview. Corrections/suggestions appreciated ^^ Edit: The whole thing is too long for a single post... I'll post the second part if/when someone replies ...! ミニチュアがなくなる危機শ...

tomfrom994#564732 wrote:Higher quality poster.
http://up3.viploader.net/anime/src/vlanime082934.jpg

Wow. Beautiful poster.

Happy birthday SSD ^__^

I think the episode with Suzuhara on the train.

Anno's lamp = 不撓不屈　ふとうふくつ　futōfukutsu (adj-na,n) inflexibility / tenacity / indomitableness This is from the festival at the Egara Tenjin shrine in Kamakura. Last year Anno drew this image for it. ...

symbv#561659 wrote:I have little to add for the translation but just want to clarify two bits of translation:

Thank you very much, symbv!!! That really cleared things up for me.

Here's my attempt at a stage translation. Thanks very, very much to Renegade334 for uploading it!! Also, thanks to Hyper Shinchan for reuploading it, since I instinctively checked TB when I saw a new stage had arrived ^^... A very emotional stage. One note is that the final kanji 'soul' ...

I agree, it's amazing ^__^ !!
The ending is incredible.
In addition to Hyper Shinchan's above suggestion, I also recommend the link he posted earlier to a long interview between Nagai and Anno: http://gettermario.dynamicforum.net/t974p15-entretien-go-nagai-hideaki-anno

Will the updates be more frequent now, or were you just lucky to find some time to squeeze this one in? A little bit of both, I think ^^ Hopefully they will become more frequent, but I won't give up on the translation. Here's my attempt at part 10 of Anno's interview. As usual, please f...

There's some mini interview with Anno towards the end, seems to be about the last scene in 2.0 from what I skimmed. That's an excerpt from the CRC interview (it actually occurs in the next section to be posted). In earlier versions of the script, Kaworu had more to say when he appea...