I was reading Darkshaunz’s truly epic post about Evangelion today, and it really brought back some great memories. In my starting days as a fan of anime, Evangelion just absolutely blew my mind, and I eagerly bought into all the obscure references and symbolism. I’ve since become a much calmer anime fan, but in those days I was drawing fanart, writing fanfics (ZOMG!!!), buying all the CDs, memorizing the lyrics to the OP, playing that NGE computer board game, and joining mailing lists (WTF?!?!?!). I mean, to all the haters whining about how overhyped The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. If you want to talk hyped, you need to reference NGE.
When I first heard about the remakes, I wasn’t that excited, since the hype machine had been churning for so long and I’ve since become such a jaded anime fan. However, reading Darkshaunz’s very fair analysis of the series brought back some strong feelings I thought I’d left behind. Of course the potential for snarky commentary is also immeasurable…
So I can’t wait to see what happens with this reported 2007 remake. Evangelion’s base story is really a strong one that can be spun any number of ways, so how will a few years of analysis and a great budget affect this latest iteration? If you’ve got a lot of time and you felt strongly about Neon Genesis Evangelion, you really owe it to yourself to read Darkshaunz’s post.
Edit: Apparently, Google is a hater. I tried to look up information about the remake, and got this page. The message told me that only spyware and virus applications look up information about Evangelion =(.
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Kabitzin – who has written 1937 posts on Sea Slugs! Anime Blog.
One of the founders of Sea Slugs, I handle most of the blog admin tasks while wearing my I AM BOSS shirt. I like my action series well choreographed, and my romance series extra trashy. I also have a soft spot for puns.
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lol kabitzin, you wrote fanfics? You crazy crazy man.
Well, they were short parodies mostly. Not explicit, hot, yaoi love affairs involving… er, nevermind.
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You dirty Gendo/Fuyutsuki worshipper, you. and I thought I KNEW you.
Who’s read the fanfic EVA-R? Anyone?
Ah Eva fanfiction. So many memories… most of them horrible, but still. Anyone remember DJ Croft and Tom Dyron? This blog just inspired me to go look up the old Elmer Studios Evangelion self-insert MSTs and while they’re not QUITE as the height of wit I thought they were in my youth they’re still a riot.
Unfortunately the same can’t be said for all the fics I thought were wonderful, which all seem to have either dissappeared from the net forever or remain permanently unfinished. Ah well.
I read that for a while and remember it being really good! Check it out.
I read a bit of Eva-R. Lost interest pretty quick though since I found it didn’t make much sense.
It was a good essay and got my Eva motor going.
I watched Eva for the first time back in 2000 when I was 14 so I guess it was easy for me to relate with Shinji. Ha ha, I actually remember thinking “ohhh, today is the day the second impact is supposed to happen”.
Honestly though, for all the Shinji haters out there, how many of you would be all *GA GA GA, GA GA GA GAO GAI GAR* foot up the bad guy’s ass in his position? I mean, if I was in the same position now, being 20, I’d be all “Hell yes I’ll pilot your awesome, damn big robot, and I might as well wreck your ladies with multi-colored hair at the same time while I’m at it“, but most 14 year olds tend to be insecure emo-kids (I was I guess :/) so I find it’s easy to understand why he’s such a little bitch.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to the remakes and I’m crossing my fingers for a girlfriend of steel scenario.
OMG I can so remember doing all those Eva fanboy things that you mentioned. Especially the fanfic writing. Gah. But it was crazy fun and certainly puts Haruhiism into perspective.
I might go and buy the R1 DVDs.
Can’t be bothered to download it.