Last Minute Update
By The Eva Monkey on Monday, April 12th, 2004
So, I was sitting at my desk last night, a few minutes shy of midnight, playing Dr. Mario and listening to Digitally Imported European Trance. And I thought to myself…. oh yeah…. tommorow’s monday…. I have to do an update. So…. this is actually only going to be a brief update. Mostly just stuff I’ve found here and there.
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I found these on the Kadokawa Website, the one on the left is the cover of the ninth volume of the manga, being released in Japan, the one on the right is apparently a licensed doujinshi being released. I’m not quite sure what it is, but it is apparently a licensed product, it most likely was made without involvement from Gainax, so its not canon in any way.
I found the following link and blurb on #1 Superstar and I’m quite pleased by the support.
Eva Monkey
It’s so hard to find great and informative sites about Evangelion these days and Eva Monkey, The Ultimate Evangelion Resource Site is one of those rare gems that is full of content and everything else you can possibly want in an EVA site. I hope all of you take a look at it. Plus it updates more than any other EVA site I’ve been to.
It seems that Kojiro Abe finally put a page on his site for his Gollum commentary on the Live Action Project, so if you ever had any doubts as to who did it, there you go.
I found something that you may or not be inclined to read over in its entirety, but nevertheless ought to read in order to get a little bit of perspective on how Evangelion has been received by the religious community, from religious, to EXTREMELY religious. I would advise you to read over some of the responses, I can’t find the original article the emails are in response to, but you get a good feel for it from this page. You may notice a few familiar names and handles, particularly Brendan Jameison (Eva Otaku, Studio Kanzen, Stray Radio) and Patrick Purcell (Studio Kanzen, Stray Radio). I would suggest not getting to worked over some of what is said on this page, as some of it is quite “ignorant” particularly on the part of the web site’s author. I was quite saddened to see Evangelion referred to as a medium of Satan’s corruption of youth, as well as the way the author praised those that agreed with him, and condemmed those that thought otherwise. Take this with a grain of salt, it can be tough to stomach.
While we’re reading some interesting stuff, I’d also like to point out that Bakelite is snazzy, the Lance of Longinus is interesting, and penguins are awesome.
I also wrote out Hikari’s character description, and there’s also a little tidbit of info on the Live Action Project over at TrivialBeing.