("Puchi" is just how the French word "petite" is transcribed into katakana. So it's "Petite Eva", presumably referring to how the characters are all "chibi".)

Perhaps you could start the conversation by sharing your own thoughts on the matter.

There's no slice-of-life Evangelion anime.

Had there been no pandemic, I would be in Japan right now. Instead, I've been chilling at home (same old, same old), keeping myself occupied with creative writing and Eva analysis. Buds and I are finding so many new connections in Jo, Ha, and Q at such a consistent pace (NTE is insanely intertextual...

First of all, "the FAR had both Fruits" is not known with any certainty. Many people believe they did, and if you want to go that direction that's your prerogative of course, but just know that this is neither stated nor implied anywhere, to my knowledge. (If this is still written on the w...

there hasn't been an ounce of anything regarding introspection or any sort of psychoanalysis of the Rebuild characters. Not quite true. Shinji still rides the "hell train" a couple of times. The long psychoanalytical monologues were a bit of novelty in NGE -- crazy art house stuff in a Ja...

I did use an automatic translate plugin, so I could be wrong, but the "issue form" of the book is listed as a picture book. Could this encylopedia just be rough sketches of earlier Rebuild films, or something else? All it's saying is that the format is an illustrated reference book. Since...

TOPIC. In addition to not using Eva threads to argue about COVID-19 (we have the whole rest of the Internet for that), please don't let this thread just devolve into "any tidbit of news is an opportunity to speculate about the release date". This thread is already general enough, being a ...

It seems strange to me that the same man who explicitly said "You will never get answers from us" allows something that can explain stuff that he managed to stay secret for 13-14 years (yup, is that long guys). There's no reason I can see to think the book will explain anything. Basically...

Welp, that encyclopedia will become obsolete within months.

The "Rebuild of Evangelion 2.22" feature has a lot of footage for the chase sequence, and directly shows that most of the hand-drawn key frames were replaced with CGI models. There are some exceptions, like the low angle shot of Eva-00 running, Eva-01 bounding over the hill (originally fro...

Giving toothy Mark.09 a break so I can dandy it up with Sanson from Nadia.

Father Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element as well. I really need to see more of Holm's work. RIP, my good man.

the EVAs go from 3D to 2D a few times. "A few times" is kind of an understatement. With reference to Evas only (not Angels)... =Jo= Eva-01 in cage / launch: mostly CGI Eva-01 after launch / 4th Angel battle: hand-drawn Sortie & battle against 5th Angel: mostly hand-drawn Eva-00 flashb...

Mari says that 4444C is a "fake Angel" that's using the 44As as decoys. Make of that what you will... (Transcripts of the dialogue are easy to find now, so if there's any specific lines you want me to check later, I can.)

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In every official tie-in that I'm aware of, Rei is simply called a "copy" of Yui. This is the same wording that's used for the relationship between the Evas and Adam. This "copy" idea is present right in the original show: Naoko observes immediately that Rei is a dead ringer for ...

What state are we in that the Evas could all be 2D in 1995 Talk about "apples and oranges". I invite you to compare how much the Evas are actually moving in NGE to how much they're moving in NTE. Except that a lot of the things that look handdrawn are actually CG, and you really can't see...

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Well, look at that... Right there in plain sight... These two places are not the same. In Jo, Shinji is in one of the towns to the east of Hakone. (Not many options, since Hakone is so close to the ocean.) The locale depicted in the poster is in Ube, Yamaguchi, which is nowhere near Hakone. (Railwa...