## Years of Death & Rebirth: Eva's ##th anniversary

[V]

Today marks the 13th anniversary of the premiere of the first episode of the Evangelion TV series in Japan, which occurred on October 12, 1995

amazing that a single anime series can be this popular after so many years; Gundam and such are different because they were multiple series (albeit not always set in the same continuity) and new ones come out all the time. And DragonBallZ or Pokemon and such just have hundreds of episodes.

What other 26 episode series (plus a movie or two) has had such lasting impact?

only a handful. Even Cowboy Bebop though, or Trigun, were not around for as many years as Evangelion was; Eva is older than those by a few years.

Plus, no anime has remained so hotly debated as Evangelion. Cowboy Bebop is a classic but its not quite as thought-provoking as Eva (though I do enjoy the "near-Future" set design of both)

alternative thread title: "It's been 13 years, where's the Live Action movie series?"

and do you realize, that by next year, children who were not yet born when this series premiered, will be angsty 14 year olds whom the story still "speaks to"?

Looking back, against all predictions a major remake of the series came out barely over a year ago with "Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0 : You Are (Not) Alone" in Japan, though it hasn't been released in North America nor has an English dub licensor been announced, and the second of four movies, "Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 : You Can (Not) Advance" has been pushed back from a Novemberish premiere to an "early summer 2009" premiere.

And Adult Swim stopped rerunning the series last year.

Thus, we are still locked in anticipation for Evangelion to truly hit the North American fanbase as a whole.

In the words of Hari Seldon, 13 years have been completed: 987 years of The Plan lay stretched out before you. Until the next Crisis, goodbye"

[IrkenEvangelion]

I guess all I can say is Congratulations! To who? I don't know. But the way I see we need to go out and reach people for Evangelion.

[NAveryW]

Wow, that means that the first episode of NGE premiered on the same day I first watched the last episode of Mahoromatic and irrevocably messed myself up. What are the odds of that happening?

One in three hundred sixty-five.

[V]

I guess all I can say is Congratulations! To who? I don't know. But the way I see we need to go out and reach people for Evangelion.

You mean those idiots that watched it off Adult Swim, and don't know all of the fansubbing in-jokes that we do? Ha! That'll be the day.

Next thing you know, you'll be saying that Eva's butchered and highly censored airing during "Giant Robot Week" on Toonami in early 2003, actually succeeded in introducing quote "new" fans to the series! :)

No, sir, its the fans like us that got it on old VHS tapes who are the real fans who "get" it; in the words of Stephen Colbert, we come from a long line of "it-getters" :)

[CorporalChaos]

Evangelion is exactly the same because it has multiple box sets and video games (albeit not always set in the same continuity) and new ones come out all the time.

Yeah, I fix'd that for you. ;)

Anyway, happy 13th, Evangelion, and congratulations. People still remember you fondly.

[V]

....what about the new Director's Cut scenes and then End of Eva? do you realize how many people haven't seen those?

and of course, it's my philosophy of "if it hasn't aired on North American television, it's still technically "new material" which really holds even for End of Eva in a sense.

But seriously...I mean Renewal didn't come out THAT long ago....or rather

yes, stuff from the original series did stop in 2003ish, but by then there were rumblings of live-action projects, and then word of Rebuild came out 2 years later

so really there's always been an "Evangelion project" out in the "greater franchise", just not for the original series

[Zaiku]

I feel rather upset that I haven't been here for the early years, in fact I only got into it at the start of this year. But that just goes to show that people are STILL getting into Eva, and that it is spreading its fanbase. Thank you Anno, for these thirteen years of win.

[V]

Update: wasn't October 12 it was October 4th; I was going by the site updates.

Well, no one else made an anniversary thread before this....

(shrug)

[Mr. Tines]

We had a 10th anniversary thread, but it would take some excavation.

[V]

We had a 10th anniversary thread, but it would take some excavation.

I wasn't around on October 4th, 2005. Indeed, I hate not yet seen the series on Adult Swim because it premiered several weeks later.

[The Eva Monkey]

By the by, where did this mysterious October 12th come from?

[V]

By the by, where did this mysterious October 12th come from?

yes thanks for pointing that out; I already explained in my second post that its really Oct 4th, but seeing as there was no previous anniversary thread, here we are

[CorporalChaos]

Of course, the 12th is the 13th Anniversary of the 2nd episode. At least its a date not pulled out of V's ass.

[mrpanda]

Of course, the 12th is the 13th Anniversary of the 2nd episode. At least its a date not pulled out of V's ass.

QFTW

[V]

Of course, the 12th is the 13th Anniversary of the 2nd episode. At least its a date not pulled out of V's ass.

QFTW

for the 3rd time, I have already acknowledged that the anniversary was last Oct 4th, but stress that no one made an anniversary thread then, and we have one now

[The Eva Monkey]

By the by, where did this mysterious October 12th come from?

yes thanks for pointing that out; I already explained in my second post that its really Oct 4th, but seeing as there was no previous anniversary thread, here we are

Y HALO THAR. UR NOT LISTENING SO LET ME CLARIFY 4 U.

I saw that in your FOURTH post that you corrected yourself, but that's not what I was getting at, V. What I was asking is where you got October 12th from? What site updates are you referring to?

PLZ K THNX BAI.

[V]

oh srry; I think I was confusing it with the date of Second Impact which was the 13th. I honestly don't know now why I said 12th.

[Zaiku]

What I find exciting is that the twentieth anniversary is in 2015, we can make so many in-universe jokes about the third impact. Yes, we'll just have such a merry old time.

[Dartz]

What I find exciting is that the twentieth anniversary is in 2015, we can make so many in-universe jokes about the third impact. Yes, we'll just have such a merry old time.

If aliens dont arrive and erase us from existance tomorrow for being a bunch of uncivilised savages who are a threat to the galaxy due to our LHC that is. Apparently, Paddy Power has stopped taking bets on that at odds of 12,000/1... which is better than you being struck by lightning.

Or we all just dont give up in the meantime and get real lives' Either way is cool.

EDIT: Correction, thats William Hill with Odds of 1000/1

[The Eva Monkey]

What I find exciting is that the twentieth anniversary is in 2015, we can make so many in-universe jokes about the third impact. Yes, we'll just have such a merry old time.

We're gonna party like it's 1999.

You know I'll be there.