Evangelion Detective Manga Licensed? Really?
By The Eva Monkey on Friday, February 22nd, 2013
To quote Simon Tam, “This must be what going mad feels like”. Apparently in late September of last year, Dark Horse Manga, in a bid to own ALL THE THINGS, licensed Shinji Ikari Detective Diary. I am just finding out about this now. Why on earth did no one tell me this? Or did no one care to pay attention or say anything about it at the time? This manga is not scraping the bottom of the barrel. No, that would be too insensitive to the barrel, and everything that came out of it, including both Angelic Days, where they stumble upon the Geofront and Nerv headquarters by exploring a spooky sewer tunnel, as well as Ikari Shinji Raising Project, where they… wait… what was that one about? All I remember is a lot of panty and crotch shots. Oh well.
Shinji Ikari Detective Diary is probably the loosest, most painfully idiotic thing I have ever heard about, and it somehow made it to two volumes. The firm statement I made in many an Evangelion panel was that it was so terrible, no one bothered to raw scan it, let alone to translate it, so I cannot even fathom how anyone thought it was a good idea to license it, especially in this economy. Grain of salt: I haven’t actually ready it, however I’ve looked through the scans, and trust this one LiveJournal user’s assessment. Yes, I had to go to LiveJournal to get information or a review about this thing. That’s when you know shit got real.
I don’t see any information available for the release. And I regret the fact that, despite my reservations, I will most likely purchase it when it comes out. Because, you know, my Evangelion shelf clearly doesn’t have enough shit on it yet.