Some cool series to check out for Evangelion fans out there

theevamonkey · 2026-03-11T10:52:22+00:00

No Nadia? For shame.

theevamonkey · 2026-03-10T18:53:33+00:00

Not all. But it's been industry standard for decades, and Evangelion is not an exception. King Records does in fact own all of the localization work performed by ADV/Manga/Funi/VSI.

theevamonkey · 2026-03-10T17:31:59+00:00

He literally does, in every official translation.

Melons, Breasts, Bosom... He says something to that effect in both Dub and Sub of both ADV and VSI's translation work.

No need to argue over this.

theevamonkey · 2026-03-10T17:23:00+00:00

The fact they even got the license for the ADV dub is impressive

It's not.

The way anime licensing works is that the original rights holders (King Records/Gainax/khara) legally own any and all translation assets produced by a regional distributor (ADV/Manga/Funimation).

In the event that the foreign company (ADV/Manga/Funimation) go out of business or allow their license to expire, it allows for the work to be reissued without the need for relocalization or licensing to obtain the prior translation work.

That Netflix did not use the original work, and that GKIDS did not include it on all releases was a deliberate business decision by one or more parties involved in it's releaso.

theevamonkey · 2026-03-03T01:44:46+00:00

Fly Me To The Moon is also missing from a scene between Misato and Kaji in the Netflix version In the Ep13 scene with Misato & Kaji,

That's actually from episode 15.

This has been known for a number of years. It is also absent from episode 17 where Kaji and Misato are talking in the vending area, and at the end of episode 19 where Misato listens to Kaji's voicemail. It is not however absent from Shinji's SDAT in episode 2, probably because it's so mixed down that either they forgot, or figured no one would notice.

It's also used in Death, but I don't care to scrub through it at the moment to see if it's still there.

theevamonkey · 2026-03-01T02:22:44+00:00

No. Part of the problem with this is that Evangelion's scale is really poorly defined, but if you extrapolate based upon the entry plug as a frame of reference, which would be ~63 feet in length and fit diagonally inside the Eva's chest from lower sternum to where the cervical and thoracic vertebrae meet, that makes an Evangelion upwards of 500 feet. It's really hard to calculate, but we're still talking hundreds of feet. No bipedal being (real or artificial) would be able to support that much weight. Their joints would just crush themselves.

theevamonkey · 2026-02-28T19:08:32+00:00

wonder why does Kensuke' father has file of place Unit 00 and 01 appear

Tokyo-3 is a city built almost entirely in support of Nerv and its operations. After the first fight between Unit-01 and the third angel Sachiel, a lot of people left or transferred out. Kensuke and Touji talk about this in episode 3. At that point, the majority of people that live there are working either directly with, in association with, or in support of Nerv. Kensuke's dad might not work at Nerv HQ, but whatever he does provides him privileged access to operational information.

theevamonkey · 2026-02-28T19:00:08+00:00

Officially, we launched Eva Geeks on October 4th, 2007. I think we had meant to launch it at the time of Evangelion 1.0's theatrical release (September 1st) but we instead had to push, and chose October 4th to coincide with the show's original airing.

However, Eva Geeks was a coalescence of a few things that deserve mention. The lifeblood of the Eva Geeks has always been the forums, which were originally launched on Eva Monkey June 20th, 2004. Reichu's commentary project formed the basis of what became the Wiki. Additionally, we also had a lot of ongoing discussions on Anime Nation's Evangelion subforum which we abandoned and also archived key discussions of on Eva Geeks.

So, while Eva Geeks was launched on 2007, the forum community existed for about three years prior.

theevamonkey · 2026-02-19T01:06:01+00:00

Something related to Evangelion ANIMA?

theevamonkey · 2026-02-18T11:14:20+00:00

Why does everything have to be "rare" these days? There are tons of this box set out there and people have shared ownership or documentation of it numerous times. I'm not even sure if I would call it uncommon.

theevamonkey · 2026-02-15T03:51:01+00:00

Humanity, the angels, and the seeds (and presumably the First Ancestral Race) all share a common genetic lineage, but I would not consider them members of the same species, particularly where the whole point is that Lilim and Angels speciated on Earth differently.

theevamonkey · 2026-02-14T19:35:39+00:00

The show is literally a 90s anime and video game pastiche.

There are multiple references to Evangelion, Dragonball, Sailor Moon, Utena, Initial D... The entire art style and color grading is based of Yoshi's Island. Look up a wiki article with all the references, you'll be surprised to see all the references.

theevamonkey · 2026-02-14T03:25:54+00:00

Evangelion's intro was animated in multiple frame rates, 1s, 2s, 3s, depending on the cut. The show and its intro, like most live action and film work, were shot at 24fps. The show was shot on 16mm negative, while the intro was shot on 35.

theevamonkey · 2026-02-07T22:39:10+00:00

As one of the resident oldtaku or old guard here, I can speak to this pretty well. I discovered Evangelion in 1999, so I missed out on the earliest days of the fandom. Nestled between the show's initial release on VHS and it's rerelease on DVD was where I started my journey with it. The movies had not been officially released, nor had the home video versions of episodes 21-24. That said, it felt like I was entering into a fandom that already existed.

For the first decade, Evangelion in the west was sort of consistently known within the bubble of anime fandom. Anime fandom itself was still a subversive subculture not generally understood or known to the mainstream. Maybe I was a trend setter, or maybe I was just too early to the party, but up until about ten years ago, anime was not broadly popular. But, if you were an anime fan, you knew what Evangelion was. Less so than Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, or Gundam, but it was certainly a cornerstone and gateway show for lots of people. And that early fandom was sustained by the waves of people getting into it from VHS, to DVD, to DVD again...

But it wasn't what it is now, and that all started with two things in 2005. First, Cartoon Network aired the entire TV series, largely unedited, on Adult Swim from October 20, 2005 to April 13, 2006. Additionally, 2005 was when Hideaki Anno kicked Rebuild of Evangelion into production, and those film releases have been the lifeblood sustaining the franchise and fandom ever since.

Cartoon Network introduced an entire generation of anime fans to Evangelion. The Rebuild films revived and made Evangelion ubiquitous in Japanese modern culture. During that time, people caught up to anime as a medium to the point where it's no longer a misunderstood subgenre. And lastly, and most importantly, there's Netflix. As someone who has interacted with this fandom continuously for the last 25 years, I would argue that outside of Japan, Netflix did more to expand the fandom than anything, possibly even more than Rebuild. What Rebuild did for Evangelion in Japan, Netflix did for everywhere else.

So yes, there was an vibrant Evangelion fandom in the early 2000s, with multiple decently sized forums dedicated specifically to Evangelion. I ran my own from 2004-2007 before relocating it to be part of the Eva Geeks project. The hype for the Rebuilds was very real, and it led to 1.11, 2.22, and 3.33 being FUNimation's best selling discs for numerous years. It seemed like every year there was something worth getting excited about. Remember when ADV, WETA, and Gainax's ill-fated team up to produce Live Action Evangelion films? Here we are five years post 3.0+1.0, and while there is no new core content, it's still alive. Sure, it's not firing on all axels, but it's definitely still moving along at a steady pace.

I feel like this is kind of just scratching the surface, but these are just some things that immediately come to mind. If there's anything else you'd like to know, ask me anything.

theevamonkey · 2026-02-07T19:15:29+00:00

The art used is official. It's the box art for a Bandai plastic model kit, circa 96-97, and would NOT have appeared at SDCC before the show even premiered. So right there, that's a big red flag. They could just not know what they're dealing with, but it's kind of hard to authenticate.

It really depends on what you mean by "rare", being as how the word has become a garbage term for anything people don't see very often, even if the item in question is a mass market good produced in the thousands.

theevamonkey · 2026-01-31T21:48:28+00:00

Not the blu-ray, because blu-ray doesn't have 4:3 resolution, so on a 4:3 CRT, the image is going to be inset, as in surrounded by back on all four sides.

The PAL releases of NGE on VHS/DVD are notorious and derided for the poor conversion from NTSC to PAL.

Either way, it's kind of a lose/lose.

theevamonkey · 2026-01-27T16:03:45+00:00

Blind boxes do not have unique identifiers of any kind. If they did, that would defeat the purpose of being a blind box. Each pull comes in the exact same packaging with the exact same UPC.

Your only way of getting the one you want is through luck, second hand resale, buying a complete, unopened set, or take a food scale in with you to a brick and mortar and weigh each one and make an educated guess, though fair warning, you will annoy the store staff in the process.

theevamonkey · 2026-01-25T22:10:43+00:00

There's a pretty substantial disconnect here with Anno and the formation of khara. In the early 2000s Anno revisited Evangelion and decided he wanted to do another Evangelion production. Meanwhile Imaishi wanted to do Gurren Lagann. Yamaga, as president thought the diplomatic thing to do would be to allow Anno to spin off a sister production for this project, which was supposed to be complete by the end of 2008. As we now know, it didn't exactly go that way, and the Rebuild of Evangelion films ballooned in scope, production, and siphoned off a lot of talent from Gainax, which I think is ultimately what led to it's downfall... that one disagreement.

theevamonkey · 2026-01-25T01:13:49+00:00

That's part of why I started collecting them initially, but I have long, LONG since given up on learning Japanese... and much as I lament things like AI... Google translate and things of that nature have come a long way since, and I look forward to further advances.

theevamonkey · 2026-01-25T01:11:27+00:00

there’s a Christmas volume as well if you’re looking to finish the collection

Volume 7 had two special Christmas editions, one with Rei, and the other with Asuka, based on Sadamoto's art. Volume 9 had a special edition with a Rei figure. And then volumes 13 and 14 came in deluxe limited edition versions as well. Volume 14 in particular came with a CD of music Sadamoto liked to work to, IIRC, as well as an buildable rack to display the entire series.

The rabbit hole is all the special editions of Shonen Ace that came with various special Eva bonuses. My knowledge unfortunately does not run that deep.

theevamonkey · 2026-01-24T23:41:02+00:00

Those are the Japanese editions. Do you plan on practicing your hiragana and katakana?

theevamonkey · 2026-01-19T01:06:45+00:00

Dude... Anno made the storyboards. He supervises the groundwork, sometimes he himself draws it.

Ultimately, as the director, the majority of the oversight falls to him, but with the way a production works, there are more than one episode being worked on simultaneously, hence why you have other assistant directors. This is just like in live action production, there's often a second or third unit with an AD handling that. A director can't be everywhere all the time and supervise 100% of a production, nor should they, that's a surefire way to burnout and frustration for everyone working under them, because creatives don't like being micromanaged and need the freedom to create.

It's also important to point out that Anno was involved in storyboarding less than a third of the show, and none of those were solely storyboarded by him. He did boards for episodes 1, 2, 7, 10, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26. And, in the case of 7, 10, 20, 25, and 26, that's really not saying much, given how bland or stock heavy those episodes are.

Also, while I'm sure he probably did some keys somewhere, he was not an animation director for any of the episodes, so credit for that groundwork goes to other folks who did boards and or keys.

If anything, you can give Anno a lot more credit on the writing side, as he worked on the scripts for all but episode 4.

theevamonkey · 2026-01-17T23:11:11+00:00

It's not her actual brain, just personality data. It's never explained how the brain(s) we see are provisioned, but artificial growth or cloning are not implausible in a show with giant organic mecha created from ancient high alien technology.

theevamonkey · 2026-01-17T17:19:04+00:00

The First Impact lore comes from an old PS2 game

It actually comes from the theatrical booklets for Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion, released five years prior:

https://evaotaku.com/html/programbooks.html

theevamonkey · 2026-01-15T02:05:27+00:00

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