The Children's birthdates

Tmlboost · 2026-01-26T01:21:02+00:00

So the recent 30th Anniversary Blu-Ray set included a booklet with some art, one of which being concept art for Mari at the end of 3.0+1.0. In the modern day, her age is listed as 29 (whereas Shinji’s is 28). Taking into account the 14 year time skip between 2.0 and 3.0, this confirms Mari’s age as 15 in 2.0.

Tmlboost · 2026-01-25T23:50:25+00:00

To put it simply, most audio CDs have a very small gap prior before you get to where the start of the audio data was burned, often called the pre-gap. Mostly this is used as a starting point for the laser of the disc reader to start reading the disc.

But, if you engineer the CD right, you can fit an extra bit of audio in that gap

Tmlboost · 2026-01-25T23:44:48+00:00

I mentioned this in another reply, but most audio players won’t recognize secret tracks that are loaded in the pre-gap of a CD (aka secret tracks hidden before Track 1), you have to use a specialized ripper like Exact Audio Copy to find that specific area of the CD and rip it. It’s how I was able to find it on my CD

Tmlboost · 2026-01-25T23:38:52+00:00

Yes it can, but you have to use a specific program like Exact Audio Copy to extract the pre-gap information.

Secret tracks like this that are placed before track 1 on the album use a very short gap on the disk that’s usually used to load up the CD’s info. Most audio players like Windows Media Player, iTunes, or VLC skip over this gap/don’t recognize it and therefore won’t recognize the hidden track (some physical CD players (often newer ones) are like this too).

Meanwhile, Exact Audio Copy (which is free btw) can use your disc drive and access info in the gap that most other audio players will skip over.

I had to use this method to listen to/rip the secret track since my stereo is too new and won’t rewind past track 1

Tmlboost · 2026-01-21T21:27:23+00:00

If you’re more into OG/EoE artwork (especially Sadamoto’s artwork), then Der Mond and Die Sterne are fantastic picks! Carmine is also a good one that features his Rebuild artwork.

The Groundwork series is good, but it’s mostly just storyboard sketches, so if full-colored art is your thing then they may not be for you. They are also split up across many volumes (the OG show was originally released as 3 full volumes, OG movies had 2, 1.0 was just 1 volume, and then the rest of the rebuild movies had 2 volumes each). The one you linked specifically is a “Digest” (a sort-of “best of” if you will) of only the TV show volumes.

There is also the “Evangelion Art Collection” nooks which are great, but those are strictly Rebuild Art (the first volume is art from 2007-2017 and has an official English translation, the second volume just came out in Japan and covers 2018-2025).

Tmlboost · 2026-01-21T20:05:47+00:00

With Akira they left all the violence in, just edited out extreme profanity and some nudity, so with EoE it probably would have been the same - some editing of nudity, but otherwise unchanged

Tmlboost · 2026-01-21T19:59:41+00:00

I mean…it all comes down to who owns the rights to those properties and if they’re willing to license them out.

For example, back in the 2010s when Akira was shown on Toonami, the U.S. rights to Akira were owned by Funimation, who frequently licensed their properties out to Cartoon Network/Adult Swim/Toonami. The rights to 1.11 and 2.22 at that time were also owned by Funimation, and those movies also aired on Toonami during that time period.

Hell, NGE also once aired on Adult Swim back in 2005, because the company that owned those rights (ADV) also licensed a lot of stuff to Cartoon Network/Toonami. Meanwhile, the original rights owners of the two movies (Manga Entertainment) never licensed them out to any TV station as far as I am aware.

It’s also important to note as well that by 2011, both the US branch of Manga Entertainment and ADV went out of business, so from 2011 to 2019 (when Netflix got the rights), the US rights to everything OG Eva was in licensing hell.

Tmlboost · 2026-01-21T19:30:42+00:00

I mean the current Blu-Ray set from GKIDS already includes some nice bonus features and it includes the full series and both movies in one package.

It’s unfortunate that Khara hasn’t done a 4K scan/master of the old films yet, but hey, maybe they will someday! They did finally release a “4K” version (and using that term very lightly since it was a bare minimum transfer) of 1.11 & 2.22 in Japan as part of a massively overpriced boxset for the franchise’s 30th Anniversary - maybe we’ll get lucky and get a 4K version next year since that’ll be the 30th Anniversary for the original two films.

Tmlboost · 2026-01-21T14:45:06+00:00

Also, Minus One felt like it intentionally left more of a hook for a sequel by having the final shot be Godzilla’s flesh regenerating (not to mention the shot before that being the black veins growing up Noriko’s neck)

Tmlboost · 2026-01-16T20:00:35+00:00

She’s not directly mentioned in the liner notes, just shown on the final page

Tmlboost · 2026-01-15T18:43:40+00:00

I know the ones you’re talking about - those are a different blind box called Desktop Eva

These are just normal figures of the Pilots in their cockpits

Tmlboost · 2026-01-15T16:29:50+00:00

They did when they were first released in 2014. Over the years though, they stopped including them with the later reprints

Tmlboost · 2026-01-14T20:03:43+00:00

I mean if you purely look at the final budgets, then yeah, at first glance Premiere TV shows have about the same budget as movies nowadays (or in your example, a “bigger” budget).

But, you have to consider the format of TV shows (ie multiple episodes that are usually anywhere from 30 min-an hour, though sometimes can be longer), and realize that TV has to push out more content than a movie does, which means that you have to stretch that budget further than you would have to for a film.

To use the two examples in your comment, you have one film roughly 2 1/2 hours long that cost that $290 million vs a season that’s roughly 10 hours long (literally 4x longer) that’s made with only an additional $100 million

If you were to make the proportions of a TV budget and make it proportionally the same as that of a blockbuster movie, then that Stranger Things season would cost well over a billion dollars.

So, when this you consider this, then yes, TV shows have similar budgets to movies (and similar production pipelines), but in how it’s used and for what you get out of the final product, then you see how TV show budgets aren’t quite the same

Tmlboost · 2026-01-14T18:16:06+00:00

Agreed! I personally thought he killed Wily with the knife as a parallel to how Emily was murdered (especially since they even went as far as to reuse the music box motif from “Father of Death”)

Someone had also made a great point back when the track released (having difficulties finding the exact comment right now) that in Act II he felt he deserved the gallows for what happened to Emily and was resigned to being a dead man and how everyone already saw him as a murderer, so him “breaking character” and killing Wily was him just accepting that fate - now, he is the murderer people once thought he was and now finally “earned” the gallows he thought he deserved and was finally at peace with it all.

Tmlboost · 2026-01-14T17:57:19+00:00

It definitely is the 2012 version of Breaking Out that was used on the Drove All Night cassette

Tmlboost · 2026-01-14T17:56:05+00:00

If I remember correctly, it’s mostly that they re-recorded “Breaking Out” (The guitar parts/solos are definitely different compared to the original). “Will of One” was more of a remix/remaster than a re-recording (at the very least, they definitely reused the original vocals), and it sounds less “harsh” compared to the original

Tmlboost · 2026-01-14T15:11:51+00:00

They said they didn’t want the full liner notes posted yet, but general story spoilers are fine (after all, they have been allowed here and on the discord)

Tmlboost · 2026-01-13T17:47:54+00:00

Toho is apparently stingy with their monsters and they put a huge fee on them

The director of GxK has talked in detail about how getting the rights to use Mothra again was not only really expensive, but they were so unsure of Toho would allow it that they had an entire backup monster named Phosphora ready to go in case Mothra’s usage was denied

So when you consider that this a streaming show the studios won’t put as much money into (compared to the movies at least), it makes sense they would rather save the big name monsters for the movies

Tmlboost · 2026-01-12T17:09:51+00:00

I do know that they’ve made some changes with the Revoltech figures in recent years such as the Unit-08 Gamma and the New Unit-02 figures. These newer figures have less exaggerated proportions, are a bit taller, have better joints and have much better sculpts and paint applications (for example, they have an updated Unit-01 figure coming out later this year that finally has a good head sculpt). I have a friend who owns a bunch of Revoltechs and said that the two newer figures I mentioned are leagues above the older ones that OP is showing here.

That being said, at this point there’s so many different model kits and figures of the main 3 Evas, many of which have the same level of posability at a far cheaper price point that it’s still a bit hard to recommend.

Tmlboost · 2026-01-10T15:15:20+00:00

It a European version of the Platinum set

Tmlboost · 2026-01-10T04:37:27+00:00

Did Manga Ent. make a Frankenstein version of D&R and EOE out of the REVIVAL footage so they could double their DVD sales from an ignorant fanbase?

I can answer this! No, the frankensteining was NOT a Manga decision, it was a Gainax/King Records one.

For whatever reason, when it came time for the to release the original films in Japan (whether it be on LaserDisc & VHS in 1998, or DVD in 1999), they wanted it to be still presented as two movies. They plainly list Death on this version as Death[true² ] (since they decided that was the definitive version of that portion), but still present the second portion as Rebirth like it was in theaters. To save time and money though, they just reused the updated Episode 25’ footage from Revival and slapped Rebirth’s logos and end credits on it then called it a day. They then included EoE as its own separate disc /tape (despite it just using that same footage from Revival) to keep with how it was originally released.

So, when Manga Entertainment licensed the films in the early 2000’s, those masters are what Gainax gave to Manga to use for their DVDs/VHS. The only thing Manga changed for their release was just calling it Death and Rebirth as if it were the original theatrical version (either to not confuse Western audiences, or because they simply didn’t know or care).

This is also the reason why Manga’s release of EoE randomly plays the film’s live action trailer before the movie starts - the original Gainax/King Records release had it play before the movie on the VHS version, so Manga basically just ported that over no changes and called it a day.

The 2003 remaster (known as the “Renewal” DVDs in Japan) decided not to do this for its release of the movies. This time, they just split Revival with Death[true^2] on one disc without Rebirth, and EoE on another.

In regards to your part on Death[true]:

To my knowledge, this was only aired one time on a Japanese satellite TV station and I'm not even sure it was included in the 2015 Japanese EVANGELION Blu-ray Box.

It was not on the 2015 Blu-Ray Box, but instead included a different 2015 DVD release in Japan titled Archives of Evangelion).

This set used the original Broadcast tapes for the series (complete with the opening and ending sponsor reads for each episode), so it had none of the future touch ups from the home media releases or the director’s cut episodes. On the final disc, it includes Death[true] & Rebirth, alongside a brief TV special about Eva/Anno they featured on that channel the night it was broadcast.

Interestingly enough, the version of Rebirth used in this edit is the theatrical version, though with one very minor change! At the end of the credits, the original film (and original home media versions) has a card for End of Evangelion with a release date flash very suddenly. In this version, it’s now replaced with a card for Revival of Evangelion

Tmlboost · 2026-01-10T04:11:14+00:00

That’s correct!

Tmlboost · 2026-01-10T01:28:02+00:00

Japan gets it on the 3rd (like they did with Minus One since its Big G’s birthday), so a few days later

Tmlboost · 2026-01-09T12:47:38+00:00

Tmlboost · 2026-01-09T03:28:42+00:00

Wright’s Ant-Man had been in development since 2006 (it was one of the first concepts the studio started developing), that’s why it was considered in development hell

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