I'm guessing they calculate they can keep people on edge and anxious if we are still speculating all the time.

You mean as in ''More people need to contribute to the commentary'' or ''People need to work on getting the project forward''? Because if it's the latter, then I'm open to helping in whatever way I can. Both, I suppose. At the moment these projects are just kinda frozen. If you want you, I can send...

Let people have fun, Bloc-kun-io.

And on a completely unrelated matter, does your wish to breathe some more life into EvaGeeks mean there's potential for the Commentary Project to get going once again? It's interesting to read, but it's updated at such a slow pace and only the first 7 episodes have been done. Now with Shin being re...

I just bought the original VHS edition of End of Eva. In the box, there was the Storyboard collection book. Neither Last A nor Last B is there. Nobody would find them there. This is effectively a leak, first encountered in a Japanese website. It's an internal production document, not a released sup...

Thanks, this is interesting information. I've heard conflicting sources on Funimation owning the licence for all four movies or just each movie individually. Of course, even though Khara seems dissatisfied at them, there's not really a viable alternative to distribute their movie internationally, or...

Reichu#897013 wrote:Why would a dub need to reproduce a purely visual detail?

Uhh, I think I got kinda confused and meant to refer to that part in EoE specifically as well as the creative liberties they took with the "mmmphs".

It's a shame this sort of detail is rarely reproduced in dubs. I remember the ADV dub had a bunch of "naughty naughty" moans in that scene and it completely breaks things. In EoE, too, Miyamura gave Asuka an exasperated tone confronting Shinji that just gives a *hint* of heartbreak and dis...

Is there any possibility that Netflix casted a transgender voice actor for Shinji’s role because they wanted to suggest that Shinji was trans? Netflix didn't make the show. The recast was done by Khara, the people who did create it, through blind auditions . That is to say, they didn't even know if...

"Shinji is Nadia" gets overplayed a bit. Asuka uses Nadia's character design the same way and one basically never hears about it. Nadia herself is "genben" in the first place, also, since Anno based her off himself. The "genben" elements of Eva, which are part of the b...

HAH! CALLED IT!

Even if we disconsider Yamashita's previous allusions, this is a twist tons of us have already speculated about, of course. It *wonderfully* drives home the point of Shinji again being wrong when he assumes he's the only person with problems in the world.

13. powerful star trek technobabble energy Oh, I miss that from the first episodes. Reimember how Ritsuko says something about the MAGI agreeing or disagreeing and making recommendations and more than once about how they have a 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001% chance of succeeding? I wish t...

I'm surprised that this interview only came to light now despite being over 20 years old. Not everything out there is even that relevant, even if it is well known. This and other interviews are already mentioned and/or referenced in the wiki and/or gwern's. This is mildly related to Eva but hardly ...

This is mentioned in gwern's archive (and indirectly from the Kaibunsho) as: 1996/06/10: Animage (Anime Magazine) July issue includes a dialog between Director Anno and Yuko Miyamura (Asuka voice actress) in which Anno again criticizes anime fans (albeit tempered by self-deprecation and some jests b...

3.0 is such a mess of unbridled sexual energy. It begins with Maya reevaluating her lesbianism with that mysterious line she has, one of the three or so in the entire movie: "I can't stand young men." Why young men? Why not men in general? Or dudes? Or, if she means inexperienced people, s...

Yes. EDIT: Should have added this in beforehand instead of Xard needing to edit it in. Here are the relevant Enokido and Tsurumaki quotes from the 2.0 CRC: Furthermore, when even Tsurumaki-san, the one person I expected to support me, started saying things like “I’m an Asuka fan, and I won’t be happ...

The Wikipedia claim is unsourced, so forget that. If the interview statement does exist, I'm curious where it's from so I can look at the original wording. It's the same one from here https://forum.evageeks.org/post/895675/NGE-Ep24-Script-First-and-Second-Drafts/#895675 , but it's probably in anoth...

Though that's how I always interpreted it, unfortunately just makes Asuka in the ending feel more meaningless. I understand Sadamoto might be going for a purely thematic ending, but that essentially makes the actual story and characters meaningless because "their" world ended as did their ...

/\ this is part of the the second part of the June interview which Numbers-kun summerized here https://forum.evageeks.org/post/425333/NGE-Ep24-Script-First-and-Second-Drafts/#425333 Might I suggest to staff if maybe the relevant posts should be separated into another thread? Most people I've talked ...

Weird how this deep lore analysis was posted on the chit chat sub forum. :lol: j/k I am unfamiliar with Parano Evangelion. What is that? It's the second book of the Schizo/Parano ones. It's a collection of interviews with Anno and other Gainax staff. Sometimes it's referred to as "prano" ...