Just read an article in Spanish on Eva:
https://www.caninomag.es/20-anos-de-impacto-recordando-evangelion/#utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitter_publicacion
While I generally liked it, it seems in some cases the author just assumed stuff (for example writing that Anno's only contribution to the Rebuilds are the scripts).
Two things that I'm not sure I've heard before were Kunihiko Ikuhara being considered as the show's director in early stages and Evangelion being originally conceived as a film or an OVA.
Does anybody know more about this?
Was Ikuhara supposed to direct the show at one point?
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Was Ikuhara supposed to direct the show at one point?
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Re: Was Ikuhara supposed to direct the show at one point?
Anno did indeed want his friend Ikuni to work on the series. It's long been known that Ayanami Rei was named for Hino Rei as an enticement.
As it is, Ikuhara's one known suggestion, that the series end with Rei being pregnant (as a jab at the waifufags), didn't happen, and we just got an Ikuhara expy instead.
As it is, Ikuhara's one known suggestion, that the series end with Rei being pregnant (as a jab at the waifufags), didn't happen, and we just got an Ikuhara expy instead.
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Re: Was Ikuhara supposed to direct the show at one point?
I‘d actually be interested to see how that would happen and play out, and the differences in the story that could result from it.
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Re: Was Ikuhara supposed to direct the show at one point?
As it is, Ikuhara's one known suggestion, that the series end with Rei being pregnant
That rings a bell actually.
But it doesn't sound like he was supposed to direct the entire thing.
Shinji: "Sooner or later I'll be betrayed... And they'll leave me. Still... I want to meet them again, because I believe my feelings at that time were real."
Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
Hayashida: "As game developers, our work is special. All of us here can put smiles on very many people's faces with our work."
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Ryuko: "I'm gonna knock ya on your asses!"
-Asuka: THINK IN GERMAN!!! -Shinji: Öh... Baumkuchen...
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Re: Was Ikuhara supposed to direct the show at one point?
Depending how you interpret GNR, you might say that did indeed happen in EoE, as symbolically giving birth to the amalgamation of HIP, or the souls of the Returners.
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