New interview with Hayashibara, as part of the newest wave of Eva Pachinko. https://www.eva-project.jp/interview/ Evangelion:BR did a translation to Portuguese, but I don't know if it was done by machine or something, will ask. https://evangelionbr.com/2024/01/08/entrevista-com-megumi-hayashibara-la...

Very cute! I love the Petit Eva style!

Manga creator and illustrator Moyoco Anno announced on Friday that her The Diary of Ochibi-san manga will have a television anime adaptation by Studio Khara, the studio headed by Moyoco Anno's husband Hideaki Anno. The 24 five-minute shorts will premiere on NHK on October 7 at 24:00 (effectively, O...

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I wouldn't be surprised if her inclusion in the ending was somewhat improvised. This might be in the Project Shin book or the Newtype issue that we didn't fully translate.

https://twitter.com/Megumi_Ogata/status/1734944660567863483?s=20 EDIT: It actually was a late launch party... https://twitter.com/sakkie68000/status/1735127026896630077 https://twitter.com/iwanagatetsuya/status/1734973910926688615/photo/1 https://twitter.com/iwanagatetsuya/status/173494707362221287...

Thanks for your help, good luck.

My pet scenario is a dense, 6 episode (30 minute each) OVA with high quality animation, with half covering a pre-NGE period (say, 2000-2005), and half covering a post-3I period, the former focusing on Gendo, Yui and Fuyu, the latter on Rei, Asuka and Gendo. Granted, I understand EoE's ending is not ...

Yeah I was just going to post, lmao. Considering how much, uhhhhhhh, eccentric dialogue ANIMA has (like Asuka giving birth to Shinji?) I guess this will become a new meme goldmine, like her voicing Rei. Presumably this was done in commemoration of Asuka's birthday, and they will release the remainin...

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Hm. I suppose it's not impossible this influenced Eva somewhat, or at least influenced something that influenced Eva, like Devilman.

I understand "couple" can mean "pair of something" and can be neutral in English, but that doesn't mean that is necessarily the case in Japanese. People, including native Japanese speakers, can interpret it in different ways and lacking authorial comment you can probably be given...

We have this general idea of Gendo as a master planner, and he had at least some involvement in Seele's overall world domination efforts. I can see how he'd be talented at administration and such, but that doesn't mean he's good as a military commander.

Thank you, Nuke, that helps. Of course, while I know translators myself they don't have forum accounts nor are they interested in going too deep into this so I just quickly asked them what they thought and they didn't want to say much.

This is a pretty established interpretation for years and one I'm particularly fond of: Gendo as a negative adult Shinji who grew up making all the wrong choices, whereas Kaj is a more positive mirror, with the same also applying to Ritsuko, Asuka and Misato respectively, as well as their relationsh...

Yeah I asked a translator and it just says "Rei and Kaworu at the station". I guess "couple" is just a machine translation artefact.

Very nice, man. Usually, people get interested in psychology or philosophy because of Eva, I remember this was even mentioned in some slice of life anime. It is hardly unsurprising to see it getting people interested in STEM though. I do remember a lot of people would get into engineering because of...

I mean, uh, Messenger is just a more literal translation of the term used in Japanese. FWIW, I remember ADV dub had it as it as "He's probably the last Angel". I checked Netflix and that isn't the case there. You might or might not know how ADV actually butted heads with Gainax over whethe...

Parabainx, Joel!

Some people think that Godzilla Minus One is "calling back" to Shin by having its protagonist played by Ryunosuke Kamiki, who played adult Shinji at the end of 3.0+1.0. Go figure. Anno did say he didn't want to make Shin Godzilla 2. Ironically, Anno himself used VAs from Sailor Moon to try...