By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 in Fan Art, Fandom, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
As time goes on, it amazes me how Evangelion continues to endure, now 25 years later. All works can age, and can hit arbitrary milestones that end in nice round numbers like 0 or 5, but not all maintain their cultural importance, let alone thrive. By all accounts, Studio Gainax was in real danger of […]
By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, October 4th, 2017 in Eva Monkey, Evangelion 3.0+1.0, Fandom, Rebuild of Evangelion.
A little bit over fifteen years ago, I started an ambitious little fan site called Eva Monkey that you may be familiar with. Through much of my college experience, I spent far too many late nights tinkering with code and generally trying to build the “ultimate” Evangelion fan site, neglecting my studies in the process. The […]
By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, July 25th, 2017 in AMVs, Conventions, Eva Monkey Videos, Fandom, Music, Video.
Chester Bennington, famous as the lead vocalist of Linkin Park, was found dead in his home on the morning of July 20th, 2017. His suicide came only a few months after Chris Cornell, who Bennington was close friends with, also committed suicide. Had Cornell survived, July 20th would have been his 53rd birthday. On the […]
By The Eva Monkey on Monday, February 20th, 2017 in AMVs, Cosplay, Fandom, Video.
Cosplay and AMVs are both vibrant subsets of anime fandom, and I feel like cosplay music videos (or CMVs for short) are an overlooked intersection of the two. It’s not something I seek out, but occasionally I stumble across one, and find it a refreshing break from your typical AMV that sources solely from the […]
By The Eva Monkey on Monday, July 11th, 2016 in Fandom, Music.
After spending some time with Andrew’s Evangelion Chiptune album the other day, I did some poking around on YouTube for some other substantial efforts to recreate Evangelion’s iconic themes with lo-fidelity sound chips. In particular, I came across Studio Megaane, which has done an impressive volume of chiptune renditions, with a strong preferance for mecha anime. So it […]
By The Eva Monkey on Thursday, July 31st, 2014 in Fandom, Manga, Shinji Ikari Detective Diary (manga), Video.
Linkara of Atop the Fourth Wall recently performed a live show at Anime Midwest 2014 where he covered the Shinji Ikari Detective Diary. If you’re unfamiliar with Atop the Fourth Wall, it’s a web show that covers and riffs on comics that are awful in various ways. Now, I haven’t been terribly supportive of Detective […]
By The Eva Monkey on Monday, July 14th, 2014 in Fan Art, Fandom.
I’m not a sports guy. Even the sports that I enjoy I would much rather be playing. Maybe that’s the video gamer in me at work. So I wasn’t terribly interested in the World Cup. But, somehow, the internet has found a way to make it relevant to me. As you may know, Germany won […]
By The Eva Monkey on Friday, February 14th, 2014 in Audio, Fandom, Music.
I really enjoy seeing fan-produced concept and tribute music dedicated to Evangelion. It’s interesting to see how people take a (predominantly) visual medium like animation and break it apart and reinterpret it through an aural medium like music. In this case, we have an ambient concept album called “A Human Work” by Kyle Edwards. Through […]
By The Eva Monkey on Thursday, February 13th, 2014 in Fandom, Video.
Brendan Steere, a filmmaker in New York, recently released a short pilot for a live action Evangelion webseries called Evangelion University. The show strips the Evas, Angels, and general sci-fi elements out, and re-imagines it as a 90s-era college dramedy. If someone were to pitch you that concept, you would probably be pessimistic like I […]
By The Eva Monkey on Monday, December 16th, 2013 in AMVs, Fandom, Music, Video.
I’ve been spending some of my time lately going through and organizing my Eva files, and while I was looking through my archive of AMVs, one editor stood out that I felt like highlighting. Justin Emerson, who went by ErMaC, has been out of the AMV circle for close to a decade. When he retired, […]