Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku, EvaComics.com, and an Eva Half-Life Mod

By The Eva Monkey on Monday, March 15th, 2004

Evangelion/Gainax News

I don’t have much this week, there are a few things I have on the back burner, but they just aren’t ready to be posted. One thing to be aware of is that the second edition of the first volume of the Eva manga has been released by Viz. Volume eight should be out shortly, so get to a store and check it out. Also out is the second volume of the Evangelion Director’s cuts. The final volume “Genesis Reborn” is out courtesy of ADV.

The webpage for the Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku (Ikari Shinji Raising Project) has been launched by Gainax. The game will feature designs by manga artist Yonekura Kengo. Its due out in Japan this summer.

Also, Gainax has announced a new project to commemorate their 20th anniversary. The project is called “Grapple Gear”, it is unknown as to whether this project is a game, anime, manga, or other.

AMV Spotlight

I thought I’d add an AMV spotlight to the weekly update. And this week I’ve decided to spotlight a video entitled “A Beautiful Failure of a Film” by Studio Echo. It’s very rarely that a video actually surprises me, in any way, but this one did, and I was quite impressed. If you like this AMV, and you also happen to be a fan of Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstance) then I would suggest looking into “Subscriptions” as well, as I find that to be Studio Echo’s strongest AMV.

Random Stuff

Well it would appear that someone has decided to do a Eva Webcomic of sorts. I wish it were further along than it is. As of the moment, there’s three comics and a hodgepodge of fan arts and fan fiction links. Its not much, but then again the site was just launched at the beginning of March.

Something interesting I’ve become aware of recently is the EvaMod Project, which is essentially a mod for PC versions of Half-Life that provides Evangelion models, environments, and themed play modes. Aside from the basic Deathmatch mode, there is a capture the flag variation, and a species deathmatch. Future playmodes include king of the hill, defend and destroy, and some themed play modes, such as one angel versus the Nerv defenses, or the military invasion of Nerv.

Images

The full version of the following image can be found at this fan art page. I can’t tell what the page’s name is or the artist’s name, as it is a Japanese page. Also, be warned, some of the artist’s work has nudity and or slightly suggestive sexual themes. So if you don’t like that sort of thing, don’t browse around. This is the page the original appears on, and this particular gallery of images is clean.

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