The film is out in Japan now, and I am deeply enjoying myself. Lots of things I nailed in my preliminary translations, and lots of details I can catch now that I can freeze-frame things!

That could very well be it, because they did give us the big, complicated lines in Hindi. It's not a language I'm familiar with, so all I can judge on is the brief scenes they showed in the PV. It does raise the question of if they tried to pick what they thought were the best representative scenes ...

Amazon's multi-language Evangelion experience Warning: the last bit contains potential spoilers! Damn, French Shinji is sexy. Listening to that whole track, I'd be most interested to hear the entire film in German after hearing Kaworu speak. Chinese sounds like it kind of nailed Asuka, so I'd be cu...

Wow, Donut's back. There's a name I haven't heard in a goodly while! Things are different and things are quiet. You're joining in the calm before the potential storm.

I wonder how large a rule Unit 01 played in the actual Third Impact. If Unit 01 played a major role, then anybody not in the know might assume that after Shinji triggered N3I, he finished off the job in 3I proper.

"This is the Dream, Beyond Belief" is certainly not wasted, it appears during one of the biggest climaxes of the entire film! And regarding the Mark.07 Evas, I certainly don't think they're wasted. They get their screentime, they get some cool moments, and then the movie is done with them....

Well, it ain't bad. If that's a preview of the quality we're getting, looks like they're favoring to-the-letter accuracy over fidelity.

Is there an indication that Anno intended to cover the events of the entire timeskip (or at least the most important bits), or just the events up to Third Impact? I'm not sure. It doesn't show up in any materials I've seen. This doesn't mean they aren't out there, but nobody's posted anything to th...

These tweets are written so fragmentedly that I can't imagine translating them appropriately without wasting an entire afternoon. I'll give you the cliffsnotes: ⋅ The actors would get their scripts the night before dubbing without any visuals, just black words on a white page. Anno said, &...

I'll do a full translation of those tweets tomorrow.

Let's go through it bit by bit: ⋅  "Nerv personnel captured" A boat with planes - basically confirmed. They eventually returned & made a rebellion which Kaji & Kaworu covertly supported while pretending to work for SEELE ⋅ Gendo & Fuyu with Donkey - basical...

So 3.0 preview at the end of 2.0 is indeed still canon. I think the most we can say with certainty is that certain events we see in the 3.0 preview align with what we now know happened during the 14-year timeskip. Whether or not the entire preview is canon, nobody has said this yet. It may be possi...

Isn't Rei Q (VI) from an early lot of Ayanami types? Asuka said something along these lines at the end of Q. Asuka calls Rei Q 初期ロット, "the first/early lot/batch", so that would be correct. Fuyutsuki references an Advanced Ayanami Series later, so that's a possible source of the distinctio...

As far as I can tell, it's less that the preview is canon and more that we now have confirmation from Anno himself that there was a plan for a movie that detailed what happened during the 14 years Shinji was sleeping. That statement, combined with Anno's explanation of certain key events that happen...

So when you say "Gendo uses SEELE, another battle occurs, starts Third Impact", do you mean that Gendo uses SEELE, then there's a battle, then Gendo starts Third Impact, or that Gendo used SEELE, then there was a battle and Third Impact happens somehow? The Japanese says that Gendo uses/u...

Heck, I'm 24 now. One more year and I'll be a full decade older than I was when I joined the forums, and boy have I changed. Nice to know I have a permanent record of how I conducted myself on the internet as a foolish, impressionable teenager...



Thanks for the birthday wishes!

YES, I KNEW IT! I told you guys that the 3.0 preview was a discarded plan for the actual movie, but did you listen? NO! You just acted like the preview was supposed to be some weird mindscrew and that 3.0's story was planned from the beginning! So there, I was right! How do you feel now? :wink: We'...

Hot damn, they did it! I had my doubts, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see Evangelion 3.0+1.0 do this well. I'm sure everyone at Khara feels that this is a very nice feather to have in their caps.

A lovely artist going by the name of canthor made this avatar for me. I briefly had a job as a teaching assistant at an elementary school, and the kids loved my curly hair to the point where they started calling me "Mister Sheep". When I told canthor this story, they whipped up this avatar...

Maybe it's harsh but I feel like people who don't rewatch the first three films before seeing it deserve to be lost. Like, do they even Eva? It's one thing to watch all three films before going to see Shin, it's another entirely to have the specific bits that Anno wants to have in your head fresh a...