The Evangelion Style
By The Eva Monkey on Sunday, April 3rd, 2005
Over the years, I’ve collected quite a lot of books on Evangelion. From various incarnations of the manga, to script books, groundwork books, film books, storyboard books, and various guides and art collections. But none of them have made me envious of the ability to read and comprehend the Japanese language as this book has. I’m one who desires to see informative analysis of the Evangelion series in print in the English language. Seeing, and even owning, a book with critical analysis in a language I can’t comprehend is like taunting a monkey with a banana from behind bars or a glass plate.
This book is absolutely amazing, and includes a number of interesting articles on various aspects of the Evangelion series. The English headers and imagery contained within allow a non-Japanese speaker to follow the basic idea of each section of this book, but beyond the basic thought, there’s not much more for an English speaker to get out of it. It is a simply amazing book, both in terms of its content and its design, but it is something casual fans might want to overlook due to it content being in Japanese. However, for the hardcore fans who like collecting various oddities (like myself) this might be an interesting book to pick up and flip through.
