The Notenki Memoirs

By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004 in Merchandise, News.

There’s a very promising book being published next May called “The Notenki Memoirs: Studio Gainax And The Men Who Created Evangelion”. It looks to include quite a bit of inside info on the company and the Eva phenomenon, and a lot of what went on behind the scenes that has never been allowed into the […]

Manga and other Amusements

By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, December 15th, 2004 in Manga, Merchandise, Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga).

Eva Manga Volume 9 on shelves That’s right, its been due out for some time now, and it should now be available in local book stores, and available for order online. This volume is either good or bad, depending on whether you’ve enjoyed Sadamoto’s take on Eva. Volume 9 is one of the volumes that […]

Platinum Volume 1 missing dialogue.

By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, December 8th, 2004 in Merchandise, News.

While searching for info on Platinum Volume 4 on Anime On DVD, I came across this. Apparently, the English dialogue track of episode 3 is missing some lines of dialogue just before Shinji goes into battle against the fourth Angel Shamshel. The line “Why am I piloting this thing again, even though my father’s not […]

Cutie Honey is my latest “guilty pleasure”

By The Eva Monkey on Thursday, December 2nd, 2004 in Mildly Evangelion.

As you may know, after Evangelion Hideaki Anno got into the habit of jumping back and forth between animation and live action film making. After The End of Evangelion, he went on to make Love and Pop, his first and possibly most distinctive live action work. He returned to animation to make His and Her […]