Surprisingly little, the religious symbolism is predominantly superficial (or perhaps alluding to an older or even the original interpretation of that symbolism). It's easy to forget that christianity and other related faiths are uncommon in Japan, and the established viewpoint someone ...

Damn, supporting the Radiohead and Muse posts here. The schizophrenic aspect of these bands, and thom yorke's amazing, heart wrenching introspection makes his relation to Shinji all the more implorable. Especially Pyramid Song. I jumped in the River, what did I see? Blackout Angels swam with me...

The allusions are defiantly important (i.e. The Wall of Jericho, Angel names) but the random crosses that are stuck everywhere are in my opinion just designed to add atmosphere just like a martial arts movie is going to have a dragon somewhere and probably a Taijitu. If by dragons and the T...

I think the religious elements don't mean anything in this sense: I don't think Gainax was using them to make a statement about their own religious beliefs. I think the religious elements in Evangelion are being used in a fictional manner, so that they have meaning within the fiction--that i...

Yamaga has said that he's aware of what Anno has said and has been reported as saying concerning his emotional state; it's not a matter of dismissing the existence of these statements, or being ignorant of them. Having noted that, Yamaga is giving his personal evaluation of Anno, which again...

As ever we do need to be careful. But this interview changes my appraisal of a number of things. I had lowered my belief in a few sources because they had mentioned or alluded to an attempt or plan on Anno's part, in part because I thought I could trust Yamaga when he said (2 years after An...

This is the semi-monthly reminder alarm to keep sending in your Evangelion letters and/or fan art to [email protected], or, if you've been thinking about doing something but haven't done it, to do it. Huh-huh, I said "do it."

--Carl

Pretty much the deal with Ghibli is they need more directors than just Miyazaki & Isao Takahata. I don't know much about the inside workings of Ghibli but I do know they don't pimp out their works with heaps of profitable merchandise like other animation companies do. I sure haven't...

It's an interesting question. I would guess the challenge in considering what it means for a video game to be "art" in the sense we understand film, painting, sculpture, etc., to potentially be "art" is in the interactive nature of the video game experience. Most traditional ...

If that's the case, and anyone can get it for free, then I can see the reasoning for "Why not just go ahead and put it on the internet for free?". I'm not saying it's right to do so, but I don't think there's any harm being done. Well, of course it's also possible ...

I'm not going to argue legality, I'm just going to point out that The Notenki Memoirs isn't available through eBay, and a survey of Amazon and Barnes & Noble lists copies with a price range of $34.16 - $283.03. With shipping, the least you would be expected to pay is $40. The averag...

Why bother? That sounds about as pointless as trying to get 'electronic format' rights for everything on http://www.evamonkey.com/em_writings.php or http://www.evaotaku.com/ or http://eva.onegeek.org/ or http://wiki.evageeks.org/ . Worse, actually, because at least a lot of those materials ...

I apologize if the text from p. 192 of The Notenki Memoirs simply hasn't been transcribed yet--as it is the last page, perhaps it is coming later, but I thought I'd ask because the text from p. 191 (the production credits for the Japanese and English editions) has already been. At pr...

You could also consider Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

According to the PaSwG Twitter feed, they just finished dubbing the final episode (with the original Japanese dialogue, I mean). This may be the first time GAINAX has completed the final episode of a show more than a day before the episode was supposed to air! I just realized something, may...

Personally, I flipped over Brief making the Factory Records references in "Nothing To Room" (there's a line from 24 Hour Party People that reminds me a little of Gainax: "Factory Records are not actually a company...we are an experiment in human nature."). I actually ...

LiLi#403204 wrote:Just wanted to check something... Are submissions open to non-US residents as well?

Yes, certainly! So far we've had letters from Canada, Ireland and Greece in addition to the United States.

I just wanted to say that submissions for The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Vol. 9 and Campus Apocalypse Vol. 4 are now kicking in, so please keep your fan art and/or comments and/or photos arriving to the letters column for these two manga, "Misato's Fan Service Center." Remember, MFSC...

Thank you for the response so far! I just wanted to mention that the deadline for consideration in vol. 8 of The Shinji Ikari Raising Project is coming up soon, but there's always future volumes...:)

Thanks for the inquiries! I'm looking forward to seeing people's submissions. Here's more information: 1.) If you have a letter and/or fan art that you specifically intend for Campus Apocalypse or Shinji Ikari , please mention this and we'll do our best to place it in that partic...