Anticipation for the third chapter in Hideaki Anno and Khara's series of four Evangelion rebuild films is high, so even the quick, 30-second burst of animation that recently debuted on niconico should excite fans. Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo ( Evangelion Shin Gekijō-ban Q …Read more »
For the last ten years, Studio Ghibli (who really need no introduction, but just in case: Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro ) have been holding exhibitions at Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art. This year, the studio invited famed anime director Hideaki Anno ( …Read more »
Though the release of Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo , the latest in the series of Evangelion reboot films, is months away, the hype machine is in full swing here in Tokyo. On August 21st, toymaker Banpresto released a new series of Evangelion figurines …Read more »
Sanrio's iconic Hello Kitty brand has been the subject of many collaborative projects recently, from One Piece to J-pop supergroup AKB48. Next up: none other than Gainax and Hideaki Anno's legendary mecha anime brain-buster Neon Genesis Evangelion . The unusual collabo comes in time to …Read more »
After tonight's broadcast of Evangelion 2.0 on NTV, a very brief spot announced a fall 2012 release date for Evangelion 3.0, Rebuild of Evangelion: Q . Huh… did the wait just get easier or more difficult? You can head over to the official website to …Read more »
That combination of words up there may well be one of the strangest I've typed, but here we are at the crossroads of a very unexpected union. Grasshopper Manufacture, home to bold creative minds like No More Heroes ' Suda51, are currently developing a rhythm …Read more »
So you know that Gainax series, Neon Genesis Evangelion or something? Well then, smarty , maybe you also know about the Rebuild project of theatrical films that have been hitting the big screen, gradually reshaping that oh so familiar show into a brand new beast. …Read more »
Having seen the second Rebuild movie myself, I can definitely vouch for it, in my opinion, successfully diverging from the series proper in interesting and exciting ways. Thankfully, it won't be long now before the rest of the North American Eva fans can judge for …Read more »
Another con, another lot of scintillating acquisition announcements from reigning champeen Funimation. Seriously, there are some really good ones in this batch, as detailed below. Let's get what I would consider the "major whammies" out of the way first. As was expected but never quite …Read more »
This should come as good news for anyone that double-dipped on FUNimation's Evangelion 1.0 and 1.11 releases. The Japanese Blu-ray and DVD editions of the second in the rebuild series, Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance , will feature the longer version of the film …Read more »
I figured it's been a while since I've watched Neon Genesis Evangelion in its entirety, so going into Evangelion 1.11 would be kind of a fresh slate viewing, or at least a memory-jogging one. It turns out the former isn't actually possible, but it …Read more »
I’m really not convinced of the efficacy of the “digest version” movie adaptations of so many popular anime shows. Decades ago, they made sense; 24-hour cable TV wasn’t around, so they were used to fire interest in the stuff on TV ( Heidi ), fill …Read more »
Neon Genesis Evangelion came out at an interesting time, which is one of the reasons it has such a bizarre collection of videogame adaptations under its belt. Technically, around the time of the show's debut in 1995, some regions of the world still tolerated vaguely …Read more »
I was pretty much ready to give up on Utawarerumono after a disk or two. The amnesia man premise I could give a go, as those sometimes lead interesting places; I was able to accept that for some reason the girls have tails, and could …Read more »
It was pretty apparent from the start that FUNimation's year-end acquisition countdown was going to end in a humdinger or two, and they didn't disappoint. Though rumors were floating long before the show was over, the anime powerhouse closed out 2008 with the announcement of …Read more »
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