MatrixRefugee wrote:At the risk of sounding like an utter n00b (even though I am one), do I dare ask what "THAT BOARD" is??

A place where the laws of both God and men, can find no purchase.

The "pattern blue" thing has nothing to do with actual blood (nor do humans have "pattern red") it's based off a cheesy old Japanese scifi movie which Anno, as a total neeerd along with the other Gainax boys, thought was a classic the plot is something like that aroun...

I really hate it when people change quotes and say "fixed". er...background, that's because I've been to boards where people do it all the time but like, insert racial slurs and pron and stuff, then other people were dumb enough to not understand that they were joking (shrug...

Reichu wrote:No, but when news comes out, it will almost inevitably get posted with great haste. (We have people who haunt the Japanese blogs.)

which blogs?

...you mean as one volume, or when the initial "Stages" came out?

humans and Angels are a dichotomy between the Fruit of Knowledge and the Fruit of Life, each created by a Seed of Life (Lilith or Adam, respectively) which were in turn created by the 2001 monolith guys, "the First Ancestral Race" Yes, this means that there are other inhabited plan...

judging from how Carl gives user numbers as of August 2008, I seriously think he just slipped in this reference at the last minute in Octoberish of last year. my how things change

the manga series is infamously slow to come out; volume 11 (well, the uncollected chapters that make it up) were released in Japan MANY years ago

and really, anyone that really cared about them got the scanlation or import already

not exactly earth-shattering that its coming out now

one step closer to a 40 meter tall Evangelion toy

Episode 24 = On Air Version: Contains preview for Episode 25 (The World Ending/Do You Love Me?) Episode 24' = "Director's Cut": Contains preview for Episode 25' (Air/Love is Destructive) And the preview is shown right after the credits... so these *weren't*...

now I've been meaning to ask this: that's the "next episode preview" that aired live on TV in Japan in the initial run....? BUT....it was not included on the DVD version's "next episode preview" for either English OR Japanese release? (i.e. the Renewal episode 24&...

IrkenEvangelion wrote:I can get a scan in 12 hours, or someone can copy it word for word if they have it on them right now.

why sir, you are a gentleman in dark times

I've actually been lurking for three days since I first read about this site in the essay in the back of Volume 11 of the manga, which I just recently got my hands on. But I took the plunge and am ready to get my feet wet. if at all possible, can you please verbatim copy the relevant part of th...

no one says "Cheerio"

....okay finally saw Anime Insider issue in store; it was in fan-mail, and AI just stated the obvious: ADV is running low on cash and FUNimation has more cash than the other companies at this point.

Mr. Tines wrote:The Japanese equivalent of Platinum included a set of animatic rushes for what would have been episode 25, from which this iconic image is taken
http://www.stevegilham.com/nge/Ep25Air-Splat.jpg

Do you have any more of these? (i.e. the ones of the MP Eva fight?)

In response to your question, I don't live in Italy, I live in the UK... I was just interested in the booklets provided in that boxset. Those booklets were scanned and are floating around online in answer to your question, I am unsure if "Perfect" ever had a DVD release, nonetheless, ...

you always assume that there is only one "Codename V"....

this is the sound I make when I'm not laughing

there are basically two versions released internationally (outside Japan) by ADV the original VHS tape version was the "Perfect" version This has been utterly supplanted by the "Platinum" version (which I believe was released in 2003. The problem is that the TV show w...