Amazon UK and HMV (which somehow still exists...) also have 3.0 + 1.0 available to pre-order, in Blu Ray and DVD, as well as a Steel Book blu ray version. The HMV site shows them with plain white covers with the title in the Rebuild font (like the 3.0 release with blue background) while the steel bo...

I think some of the God/Devil language used for Eva 01 is probably a bit of inspiration from Mazinger Z. In the first volume of the Mazinger manga (I’m 90% sure this volume in particular was referenced by one of the Eva staff) Mazinger is described as ‘will it be an Angel that saves humanity? Or a d...

I’ve always had the belief the Mark.04s were basically messed up pseudo-Failures of Infinity caused by Unit 04’s explosion during it’s test.

Fittingly I just watched Atragon (1963) and am 98% certain Ramiel's choral voice sound effect is clipped from the opening vocal note of the OST piece 'Prayer of the Mu Empire'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ2hE05VC-8

I remember Szmitten had also mentioned Tsurumaki's IP were "taken from him" and he was currently only linked to Eva, I guess the IPs didn't transfer to Khara but I never looked into that. There was an interview with Anno I read a couple of years ago about how he’d tried to buy the remaini...

Semi related but Ramiel’s famous choral ‘haaaaa’ noise had been used before in the original Gundam (1979) for Lalah Sune’s Elmeth, but watching through Ultraseven (1967) recently the same sound effect was used for a spaceship (I’ll have to look through some episode descriptions and find the exact ep...

It’ll be the 8th in Japan in a few hours. Time to go through the rollercoaster of avoiding all (-46h) spoilers while trying to learn what Project Shin Evangelion is.

Final guess: around 6 mins 30

Still kind of wild that the Blu Ray’s release is a week away and we still have no idea, other than a ballpark estimate from the back to back film screening, what it’s runtime is.

Am I the only one that faintly sees the blue smudge as some sort of "ghost hand" grabbing Eve-02's forearm (the curled thumb nearer to 02's wrist)? The blue smudge could be (like) the blue goo tendrils the Mark 09 uses to try and hijack the Wunder. Here it could have been grabbing 02's ar...

It could be anything from a Until You Come to Me length music video without dialogue where everything is told through visuals, to a Paris AVANT length sequence. Something I hadn't considered is the storage capacity of blu rays. Someone who unlike me isn't tech incompetent could weigh in but Thrice i...

If you look at the base of the cross you can see it ending in another Eva/FOI torso.

If you zoom in it looks like FoI given the slight translucency. If it was Eva 01 the horn would possibly be visible (unless maybe the heads completely slumped forward). Also the arms look like they’re still attached to the coreified Earth, like the Eva is being formed/pulled out of the core like Str...

I feel almost certain that’s Midori. not her mom. Her clothes look like something a slice of life character would wear and I think character design can make exact age hard to tell. Like in Q/Thrice Sakura’s probably in her early twenties (and is visibly older to Shinji, hence his confusion when she ...

If you compare the shot of the N3I rings from orbit before Kaworu throws Cassius down and compare it to a map of the wider Hakone region, the rings have a diameter of something like 10-15 kilometres, with the cruciform cracks across the surface extending much further.

BernardoCairo#938648 wrote:
Thailand looks great, though. EOE vibes.

Oh yeah, that outline is the Gulf of Thailand seen upside down.

If I was to guess it maybe does take place 46 hours prior to Q, except this is an as yet unseen framing device to depict (in flashback) whatever post-N31/end of 2.0 events are going on. Would guess the girl is Midori. Her shirt is the same colour as her plug suit in the Paris sequence. Some parts of...

I wouldn’t say humans were created in the Geofront. The themes of evolution running through Eva and the section on Lilith in the Classified Information implies there’s a sort of pre-programmed evolution going on, that Lilith releasing the primordial soup of LCL will inevitably develop into Lilin to ...

It was pointed out somewhere that the halo above the Mark. 06 during the flashback is Lilith sized, and from the size of Lilith’s head the body continued to grow several sizes after severance. Random thoughts strung together but I’m thinking that the Mark 06 was intended by SEELE to be a replacement...

I think the Wunder was there during 3I solely because Kaji had probably stolen it, or had it brought to NERV HQ under Commander Nagisa in preparation for founding WILLE. All of Ritsuko’s dialogue about the other NHG ships during the Calvary battle implies the ships are recently finished and ‘shouldn...