I confess to having gleaned this from ANN. I just have to ask, though...."what th-?"

I have always assumed that what was considered "God" in the NGE universe is much as "He" is in much mystical thought: an impersonal force that just happened to put everything together and really has no bearing on things. Therefore, Adam and Lilith founding humanity occurs more na...

Heh...this reminds me of the time I asked my mother to get something out of my room while I was away at college, and the next time I came home she asked if I was getting into the occult or something. I laughed and said no...she had seen my Death/Rebirth movie book, saw the Japanese text inside with ...

I won't buy a thinpack release again. I waited for Azumanga Daioh, and I got stripped down menus with little to no extras or liners. Had I thought of this, I'd have bought the individual DVDs and the art box when Right Stuf had them on sale for $10 each...and I've have even gotten the pi...

Dubs aren't inherently evil, though the Eva dubs could have been better. When it comes to arguing in-depth points about anything, the most authoritative texts are original transcriptions recorded in the original language.

Wasn't Shinji's whole class candidates for use in Project E under the designation of "Fourth Children"? Rei, Asuka, and Shinji weren't picked randomly out of a pool, but neither was Kaworu, and he came after the seemingly randomly chosen Toji. Rather than calling Rei, for examp...

As trivial as it may seem to mention, Asuka's troubles began with an absentee, nutty-as-a-fruitcake mother while growing up. Witnessing her suicide and being raised in a home where she knew she was unloved didn't help. Her only option was to forget all that and become a self-made woman, whic...

1. I haven't seen the episode in question for several months, but there are several types of vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft in the series. IIRC, this one looked like a B2 plane, but that's not conclusive until I go home and actually look at it. However, this simple ass...

Thanks for the correction

The term used of Paul in his epistles to describe the preaching of Christ and in the Septuagint as a translation of "good news" in general is euangelion . From the Online Etymology Dictionary : O.E. godspel "good news," from god "good" + spel "story, message,"...

I liked both the original and theatrical ending...which are really the same things, just told differently. In the same vein as the plot of the show, they "complemented" each other.

I googled "absolute terror light of soul" and came up with this in the results. Interesting little mindjob, this. No scholastic references, but sort of an interesting take.

Reminds me of a Mad Magazine cartoon once, which described the differences between an Orthodox Jew and a "Reformed" Jew as being belief in Christ :D "The Wandering Jew" was just another instance of how certain people attempted to project guilt over a single event upon an entire r...

Zero? I'm a poet and didn't know it. in my opinion Shinji is the hero just because he destroyed the world doesn't make him bad. Look, he didn't destroy the world on purposed he was used as a said "weapon" to destroy it but it wasn't he's fault afterall he didn't...

I've never been a part of an anime-centric online community. What have seen is, frankly, disturbing to my inner peace, which is why I've always been somewhat discriminating about where I spend my time on "teh innerweb". Of course, this comes from someone who spent five years admini...

I'd never heard about it until it was recommended to me. Back when Toonami started up on Cartoon Network, they were running old Robotech reruns. Heading to the local comic shop, I was checking to see if they were available on video anywhere. There I was told that the latest and greatest thing al...

I always assumed that the bad thing he did to Asuka was in trying to give her a pearl necklace while she was comatose. As for her being pregnant...that's got to be among the most ridiculous things I've ever heard concerning Evangelion. And given the sheer quantity of poppycock that's bee...

For the record, I've quite enjoyed the less convoluted style of the manga as well as the somewhat altered portrayals of such characters as Shinji. Yes, it's more of the same, yet it is different enough to maintain my interest. In volume 9, we're already fighting Armisael...I see volume 1...

It's posts like that which make me want to go home and make some Evangelion-themed "pwn3d" images....