Today is the official screening date for the 1st of four “Rebuild of Evangelion” movies in Japanese theaters. How I wish I can just hop on a plane and fly over there today. From what I seen from the trailers, the movie is really turning out to be really good. Anyway if you haven seen the [...]
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Contains spoilers for Evangelion (what, you haven’t seen it?!) and Serial Experiments Lain. Well, I suppose my hiatus ends a few hours early today.  Here I am. I’m back! Right now, I’m basically pinch hitting for both Jeremy and Ray, who couldn’t do an audio column today…this is the fastest thing I could concoct in a [...]
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Explanation of the Vault series. This is the final Vault entry before I return from my hiatus. Originally written on July 25, 2002. Yes, folks: this is the one and only piece of fanfiction I’ve ever written. It’s an Evangelion-Serial Experiments Lain crossover fic, and it’s rather long (50 pages double spaced). So I’m only posting [...]
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Quote Anno (translated): “This is the only time and place to make the Evangelion that fits my ideal.” Anno changed the name of the project back to its original name, title simply “Evangelion.” And he created a special studio, “Color.” Just for this. In theaters on September 1st, the “Neon Genesis Evangelion New Theatrical version: Introduction” include [...]
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I'm sorry but I'd have to postpone Darker than Black 20 for a few more days. I've been wanting to do this for a while but never had the chance to do it before. However, with the new film coming out in September, I think there's no better time to do it. Evangelion was not the first anime that I watched so it wasn't something of a novelty to me in the first place. In fact, I remember being bored with the initial giant robot story. It's not until episode 4, The Hedgehog's Dilemma, that the show started to look interesting to me. Before I go further, here's the usual disclaimer: please do not go further unless you've seen the series. This includes the 26 episodes of the TV series and the 2 original movies (Death and Rebirth and The End of Evangelion).
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For my long (well, it's been a week since I post anything) absence. It's partially the cough but it's also because I've been a bit lazy. At times I wonder if I am getting bored with anime but that's clearly not the case since I'm still excited to see the upcoming Evangelion movie in Japan. I think it's mostly because none of the series that's been aired in the past few seasons really motivate me to write anything. There's nothing that makes me want to write something as soon as possible like in the past with Honey and Clover, Suzumiya Haruhi, Ouran High School Host Club, and Rozen Maiden: Ouverture. As a result, lately I feel like I have no idea what to talk about. Well, until today that is thanks to the cool screenshots from the upcoming Metal Gear Solid game. If you want more of them and the larger version, check out Kotaku. Having said that, I am not planning to retire anytime soon. I will cover the upcoming Evangelion movie since I'll be in Japan. I will even update Kongetsu again when I get there. Autumn anime series also look kind of interesting although just like other season this year, the numbers of the interesting series versus the mediocre one are quite imbalanced, with the mediocre winning. Maybe I should try writing more opinion pieces if I don't write episode reviews. That's something which I haven't done in a long time. I look back at my archive and notice that I used to talk a lot about characters and I don't do that much these days except in episode reviews. It's kind of hard to do that though when you're not as invested in the character. Anyway, that's the long drivel and I will come back tomorrow with Darker than Black 20. Yeah, I'm sure everyone is excited since it's been a week old since it was aired. Thank God for re-runs.
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With the first rebuild of Evangelion movie set to hit the theaters on 1st September, it is no surprise that this month cover of Newtype is splashed with a cool image of Unit 01. This month the freebie is a cute Lucky☆Star fan. This is a nice idea since the heat wave is hitting Japan pretty [...]
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This post contains a bunch of garage kit shots from Wonder Festival broken down by source, including items from Evangelion, various fighting games, Gurren Lagann, Kimikiss, Queen's Blade, Sengoku Rance, Rozen Maiden, and the To Heart franchises (mostly To Heart 2). Note: while this post is not tagged as [ERO], it does contain a few ero kits.
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I’m not really a huge fan of AMVs - I only like them when they’re exceptional, either really funny or really well made, and I don’t have any interest in watching mediocre AMVs. Over the years, through Anime Music Videos.org and brief viewings at cons, I’ve managed to find only a handful I thought were [...]
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The catchy chorus in the OP sounds remarkably like KOTOKO, with its distorted vocals, or is that just because everyone wants be like KOTOKO now? Could do without the engrish.I've never seen the OVA, and my decision to start watching was based pretty much on the fact that it involves flying. Flight animation is nice, better if it's reasonably detailed. I'm not expecting crazy logistics defying variable fighter missile shoot-outs, but I have no doubt there are one or two of those scenes in the pipeline.So far, there have been non-flying episodes and episodes with some test flying or simulator work, but it's pure build-up. Hopefully it builds up to something interesting. Like a thrust-vectored, logistics (and physics) defying, missile shoot-out.In the future, meat grows in conical form around a stick. Cylindrical is so uncivilized.Episode 5 of Sky Girls continues to reinforce the ranks of those who see references to Evangelion. The smoking gun will, of course, be that Otoha's Sonic Diver is a capsule for her dead brother's soul.ZEROOOO. No really, that's its name.Projectiles versus sword. Because increasing the odds of death is the honourable thing to do, as well as being a vehicle for awesomeness. Fortunately for Otoha, the flying discs aren't rigged with explosives. The OP did feature her taking down a WORM with that blade, so I guess this is expected.Gendou ViralI have nothing to add to the above.Eika's change toward a more active leadership role came across as forced. That's not to say that she is insincere, because I do think she wants everyone to do well, just not for the sake of having everyone do well. We all know she has that Ryu (Street Fighter) mindset: be the best for the sake of being the best. It's hard to see her being genuinely helpful (nice != helpful), as I do like characters who are Tall, Dark and Bishoujo, although she doesn't quite live up to the height part.Synchronization exercises for killing an Angel a demonstration? Where have I seen that…If all synchronized swimmers were this good after one training session, it'd cease to be a sport. Maybe they're just leading on the rest of us.
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