City of Amnesia

So yeah. There's going to be this chibi Eva show. (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-08-06/petit-eva-super-deformed-series-to-be-made-into-video)

I lol'd incredulously.

That's like making chibi Higurashi (which I am watching, incidentally, so yeah, relevance). It does not compute.
War.

Wat.

My brain just broke.

How do you take an extremely emo series like Evangelion and cute it down? I mean, even Angelic Days may have been going too far.

In any case, it sounds extremely generic, and probably no good. I bet you ten buck that it will be a smashing success, just by coasting on the Eva's 'legendary status.'

It's almost like Gundam SEED.
It's crap, but it says Gundam, so people will buy the hell out of it.

Just like pretty much everything Star Trek in the past 12 years or so.

Hey, Enterprise was cool.
War.

I didn't know it was possible to milk a series this much...

Pish. I've watched Dragon Ball, so I know it's very easy.
War.

Mega Man.

Mario.
War.

Final Fantasy

Mobile Suit Gundam.

In all seriousness though...Eva just isn't something that seems like it would be easily made chibi...it's too emo.

Pokemon *shudder* everytime a new batch of new pokemon comes out, it's like tradition to start a series for it and another set of pokemon cards....why?

Papa needs a new Gulfstream IV, that's why.

Luxury model.
War.

Mega Man.
Pokemon
Final Fantasy
Mario.


Point taken...

So um.....when does it come out?

Never, we pray. "Welcome to Lodoss Island" was cooler.
War.

I wouldn't mind watching it just for the sake that i can poke fun at it later on some eva forum.

Guess since I started this mess, I better keep up with it.

More details on Petit Eva ~Evangelion@School~. (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-08-08/petit-eva-computer-graphics-video-details-revealed)

The thing is, I know Angelic Days is godawful and the writer should be sent in front of a firing squad, but for some fucking reason, I still read it. God, I need help...
Peace.

I've never actually read it. Maybe if I stumbled across it online I might waste my time on it, but actually purchasing it seems a waste to me. It can't be that much worse than Evangelion itself, can it?

Don't worry, i did too.  :B

Nerv School?? I can imagine who the principle is (Gendou):

Teacher Misato: Shinji, you were talking in class, go see the principle!
Shinji: NNOOOOOO!!! Anything but that!

Yes, yes it is worse. Because one of the very few good things about Evangelion were the Evas...

...yeah, I think I've only seen the Evas like twice through five volumes. Its like a rogue episode of Degrassi, except with Japanese school children and much more depressing and annoying.

Oh, and I haven't bought a single volume of this. The original Evangelion manga I admit too, but no. I'm not as far gone as finding actually bought this with actually money.
Peace.

Every time they add another tentacle to the sprawling Eva franchise, the original one loses more and more worth.  ??)

The original one had worth, Baker?
War.

A teeny bit, yes.

People nowadays are so caught up in the "It's Cool to Hate Evangelion Rabidly!" thing that I can't stand it, even though I'll admit that I probably would not appreciate the show that much anymore. However, I do owe it a lot of personal things, such as how it helped introduce me to a new world of anime, friends, and experiences.

I hated Eva long before it was cool to hate on it, thank you. Everything from the crappy robots that look like an NBA styled mecha going through massive 'roid rage to the consistent whiny natures of the major characters to the utter lack of true resolution to the plot or even some consistent backstory. The entire series is worth less than s-Cry-ed or 4Kids One Piece.
War.

To be fair, I tend to think that Paradigm is one of the few corners of the internet where it is actually cool to hate Eva. If you were to do it on a major anime forum, you'd probably get a muttering agreement from a minority, and then get run out as a witch by the rest. Personally I went into Eva expecting to be blown away, and mostly it was just kind of disappointing. There were aspects of Evangelion I did like, like the Mech designs. I also liked the character of Asuka up until they turned her into a gibbering wreck with a horrible haunting past. I liked the symbology until I learned it was just tossed about willy-nilly without any actual understanding or proper placement.

I think I would have enjoyed it more if it had caught me when I was younger.

It's not terrible, or even bad for that matter, just far too overrated for it's own good.

This is exactly what I mean.

It was great when I was a freshman in high school, but prolly not anymore. And we all know that there are way, way worse animes out there, no matter what.

Those are right hard to come upon, yes.
War.

I'm going out on a limb here but,I think this forum can unanimously agree that Pilot Candidate is worse than Evangelion by a long shot.

Oh my God. Pilot Candidate was so bad it made me want to injure things.
It was just so...ugh. Everything about it was dumb

Two words.

Mind. Rape.

More Eva eh? But this time chibi? yeah, sounds stupid. I've always hated Eva, so meh.


Yeah, that show was a joke. The charecter designs and the awful CG where enough for me to stop watching after episode 1.

I never *hated* Eva. I just never got what all the hype was about. Then again, I only saw up until that episode where Asuka defeated the Angel using Iowa-class battleships. Which was a ridiculously bad-ass fight. But I know how at the end it turns into a big psychological essay which may or may not have been entirely inside of Shinji's head, and all of the Christianity symbolism was pretty much just pulled out of their asses because it sounded cool.

also mind rape.

I think this says it all:
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s81/GalateaKusanagi/ThirdImpact.jpg)

I've just grown to assume the entire show was a really roundabout advertisment for tang.

edit: And if anything I'd say what we're seeing now is a backlash to a precieved backlash. Look you can slice it however you want, it wasn't deep, it was muddled and incomprehensible because anno was just popping xanax and going "SCREW YOU MAN YOU DON'T GET MY ART"

Hence the death threats and such. I do like how he added those in End of Evangelion though. If I ever get any death threats (probably from the comic geeks and art-house film haters), I'll have to do something like that as well.

Also, Hideki Anno is NOT Andy Warhol. I'm just sayin'.
Peace.

If he was, the soup can would have had some bizzare talmudic reference assigned to it

YOU PILOT THE CAMPBELLS CAN TO STOP THIRD IMPACT...

...AND MARILYN MONROE IS YOUR MOTHER/CLONE/LOVE INTEREST.
Peace.

Maybe this deserves its own thread but i've seen a few pics of the live-action evangelion movie Weta-digital wants to make in the coming years (the dudes who did lord of the rings, king kong with peter jackson). Anyone else heard of this?

I remember this from a few years ago, but that was the last I heard of it...a few years ago. I think it's in development hell.

Wel of course since they probably have other projects to complete first (like the Halo movie!)
Would anymore have a problem if i put some pictures of it up or should i make a thread for it?

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Lindsay Lohan as Asuka.

She was made for that role... I don't which was made for who, Lohan or Soryhu. But one of them was made exactly for the other.
Peace.

I agree to that and that's what everyone else is saying, it's a very ood match.
Rei however would be a dificult one since movie stars with blue hair don't really exist (yet)
Oh yeah everybody's dream/nightmare: Daniel Radcliff as Shinji (DO NOT WANT!)

Stop with the Radcliffe already, people.

And how is that "an odd match"? There the same person, except one pilots an Eva and the other snorts coke, and even that I'm sure the other one as done that by now too.
Peace.

Ahahahaha..this reminds me of the people saying they'd raise hell if they didn't actually cast a german actress as asuka (which, again, nine our plan MUST come to pass..).

This movie if it gets made is going to be such a disaster on all levels, it's going to be hilarious

Sorry Nine, typing error, 'ood' is supposed to be 'good'. Me very sorry