The Nerv Logos

shinhito · Postby **shinhito** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:30 am

I just recently watched Rebuild 1.0, and I noticed the new Nerv logo. But I was curious that the older one appeared numerous times. At first I thought it was just an accident because the older logo appeared on small things in the background.

But then the older logo appeared on one of the Eva launch tubes, quite large. As well as other places.

I guess I was just wondering if there was any special significance to this. Because if they went through the trouble of designing a whole new logo, why not use it to replace the older one.

Maybe you guys caught the significance of this?

shito · Postby **shito** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:38 am

what would be cool is if they'd use the old one that was never used, "NEO EATH OF RETARN VERERASION TEAM". lol

and i dunno... maybe they felt nostalgic about the old one? or were too lazy to place the new one in some scenes.

Postby **Sachi** » Fri May 09, 2008 12:45 am

I love the old one. I'm glad they kept it in there, even just a little bit.

Zeak · Postby **Zeak** » Sun May 11, 2008 5:39 am

Still they used it in so many good ways and its realy made a differance in some areas giving them a little lift.

NAveryW · Postby **NAveryW** » Sun May 11, 2008 10:04 am

shito wrote:what would be cool is if they'd use the old one that was never used, "NEO EATH OF RETARN VERERASION TEAM".

Eh? I thought that was just supposed to be what NERV was initially an acronym for. Is there an image anywhere of what that primordial logo looked like?

shito · Postby **shito** » Sun May 11, 2008 1:19 pm

it's in 100% Newtype... can't find any picture on the web now. basically its the classic nerv logo with that legend instead of the "god's in his heaven..."
in the same page there's another nerv logos that were never used

NAveryW · Postby **NAveryW** » Thu May 15, 2008 8:01 am

Does anyone have any idea what "VERERASION" might be a corruption of?

shinhito · Postby **shinhito** » Thu May 15, 2008 4:57 pm

From an aesthetic stand-point, I have to say I much prefer the older, original NERV logo.

I do like the newer version when the background apple is holographic, it makes much more sense than the "flat" version.

This "flat" version is ugly as all hell. It might have been okay had hey not included that weird apple crap. Because I do like the fonts on both of these. It seems much more inline with the futuristic feeling of NERV.

Wevangeliwon · Postby **Wevangeliwon** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:34 am

I prefer the old NERV Logo, personally, but I also like the new NERV logo.

YouTube · Postby **Reichu** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:17 am

There's also a full figleaf graphic that I've sighted on a building (retracting during the "preparation for Shamshel" part) and train ("Shinji brooding" segment). Figure that one out.

Old thread on the new Nerv logo, for whatever it's worth.

evaunit13 · Postby **evaunit13** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:38 pm

don't know if this has been discussed but on the envelope that Rei takes a pill out of the nerv logo is the nge one, i don't know if this is the first time it's been used in rebuild

hmm

schismatics · Postby **schismatics** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:40 pm

It was used in 1.0. If you look around you'll catch it every now and then.

evaunit13 · Postby **evaunit13** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:41 pm

guess i should watch 1.0 then

NAveryW · Postby **NAveryW** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:42 pm

evaunit13 wrote:guess i should watch 1.0 then

That's pretty much imperative.

JimmyWolk · Postby **JimmyWolk** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:18 pm

Actually, it's not entirely the old one. The "V" is a bit scewed.
Unless this was already before Rebuild, but I only noticed the "odd V" version recently...

YouTube · Postby **Reichu** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:19 pm

JimmyWolk wrote:Actually, it's not entirely the old one. The "V" is a bit scewed.

Mapped to distorted envelope.

JimmyWolk · Postby **JimmyWolk** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:47 pm

Reichu wrote:
JimmyWolk wrote:Actually, it's not entirely the old one. The "V" is a bit scewed.

Mapped to distorted envelope.

Huh? I'm not referring to this particular one, if that's what you mean (in fact, I can't really recognize it here). But there are at least two versions of the old NERV logo: One with a V that's straight up like the other letters, with the effect of it being hidden by the leaf to a large extend, and one with the V a bit skewed to the left to make it more visible (it goes parallel to the leaf).
As said, I'm not sure if the latter version came with Rebuild in particular, as I only noticed it recently myself when searching for the logo.

ed: Old old, New old (not the best for comparison, since it's not a straight on view, but I think one can make out the difference)

MugwumpHasNoLiver · Postby **MugwumpHasNoLiver** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:18 pm

I don't get it either. After checking the wiki, the thing that I found most interesting was they changed the new logo back to the old one several times in between 1.01 and 1.11.

They actually went out of their way to alter the film to incorporate the old logo more. Why!?

Postby **Mr. Tines** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:58 am

MugwumpHasNoLiver wrote:alter the film to incorporate the old logo more. Why!?

I wouldn't put it past the power of focus groups.

Duskbyday · Postby **Duskbyday** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:39 am

The old logo is kinda more simple but bold which I love while the new logo is good but I don't like it very much. Maybe because it may take some time getting used to but...

I love Seele's new logo however.

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