Archive for June, 2005

Over a year ago, I (with the support of my minions over at the AnimeNation Eva Forum) started an audacious ‘Fan-Geeks Commentary Project’ for this convoluted anime. Eager to employ tons of unused bandwidth (and get some additional site content, I imagine ;;>), Monkey stepped in to provide some badly-needed industrial-strength hosting. It was well [...]

The scanlation group AT Translations has released the first stage of the new Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku Manga. For those unfamiliar with the Ikusei Keikaku series, lets delve into it a bit shall we? Ikusei Keikaku means something along the lines of “Raising Project”, and is a series of games that are based around the [...]

I recently became aware of the fact that there is such a thing as a “doujinshi” fighter. A doujinshi fighter being a fighting game that is fan produced, often featuring the characters of a particular anime series. A good example of a doujinshi fighter would be Melty Blood, a doujinshi fighter prdominately featuring characters from [...]

Newtype: What’s evolved in the world of animation these 20 last years? Anno Hideaki: The first time I encountered Newtype, I was working for Gainax on the pilot film for Wings of Honneamise. I had the occasion to read it in the studio. In the beginning, I had a hard time determining the principal subject [...]

Hey, kids! Monkey insisted on imbuing me with more power, so here I am with a little bit of “news”. I recently got my grimy meat hooks on the NGE dating sim, “Iron Maiden 2nd”, more commonly known as “Girlfriend of Steel 2″. And, while it was an exponential waste of time, it has yielded [...]

Over the last couple of years, I’ve seen a number of groups state their intention to create an Evangelion mod for a PC FPS. Most notably EvaMod and Evarena. It’s good to see that Evarena finally succeeded in getting their project to demo phase, and it looks pretty good. Good enough that I’m dissapointed that [...]

This past weekend there was a Neon Genesis Evangelion musical at Animazement. It was written by Phil Lee and directed by Heather Walker, and was performed by the Carolina Otaku Uprising. There are extensive photos of the performance on A Fan’s View, if you happen to be interested. Further info such as cast, crew, script, [...]