http://www.gainax.co.jp/anime/eva/news.html#new051214 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, [...]
Archive for December, 2005
Evangelion Character Design Contest
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005Eva Store Opened
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005http://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.
Sunday, December 18th, 2005This 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 schenanigans. [...]
The Four Barons of Hell
Saturday, December 10th, 2005While 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
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005This 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
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005I’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 [...]