Evangelion Character Design Contest

By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 in News.

Gainax is holding a character design contest through January 20th for a new character in an upcoming cell phone game. The character will be in the same class as Shinji, Asuka, Rei, and the others, and will be along the same lines as characters like Mana Kirishima and Megumi Yamagishi. I don’t know specifics, whether […]

Eva Store Opened

By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 in Merchandise, News.

http://www.evastore.jp/ Gainax has formally opened an online Eva store, with quite a thuggin spash screen I might add. It would be nice if it had an English version, or if there was instruction for english speakers to order. Perhaps in time. You’ll find some interesting stuff, such as the new Sachiel, Lilith, and Zeruel girls. […]

Ahh… winter.

By The Eva Monkey on Sunday, December 18th, 2005 in Manga.

This winter break has been in the making for quite some time now. I’ve been unable to work actively on Eva Monkey over this fall semester. But as of about 7 o’clock yesterday, I was free of academia. So, what does the next month and a half call for? Lots of anime and internet shenanigans. […]

The Four Barons of Hell

By The Eva Monkey on Saturday, December 10th, 2005 in Rumors.

While on Otaku Generation, I was reminded of the now (hopefully) firmly debunked notion of the Evangelions being based on the four “barons of hell”. For those of you not familiar with this, let me break it down for you. The idea is that there are four demons/devils in some Christian biblical/apocryphal text that are […]

Eva Monkey on Otaku Generation

By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, December 7th, 2005 in Podcasts.

This week, I was a guest on the Otaku Generation weekly podcast. It was an enjoyable experience. Among other things, we discussed my own involvement in the Evangelion fan scene, as well as some of the usual fare of Evangelion discussion. For many of you, you’ve heard much of this from me in the past, […]

Platinum Edition Booklets

By The Eva Monkey on Tuesday, December 6th, 2005 in Platinum.

I’ve felt compelled recently to do a little site work, so I put together a page for the Platinum Edition Booklets that the forums members assisted me in transcripting some months back. They have a lot of interesting information in them, so if you didn’t purchase the separate Platinum DVDs or simply don’t feel like […]