News &: Updates
Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Author: Aaron Clark
I was poking around the internet last night, entering into Google various terms like
evangelion,
article,
interview, and
hideaki anno. And usually, given enough time between Google searches, something interesting is bound to show up. Last night was no exception, as I came across an article about anonymous group suicide in Japan entitled
"Let's Die Together" by upcoming writer David Samuels. I found the subject of the article itself an interesting read, but that in and of itself is not why I read the lengthy editorial. Midway through the article, Samuels interviews none other than Hideaki Anno, who provides commentary on Evangelion and today's Japanese society. The article doesn't explicitly blame Evangelion for the rise of anonymous group suicide, but does use it as an iconic example of what has led Japan to become what Anno describes as "a
country of children". There are a number of interesting thoughts, comments, and realizations about Japan and otaku culture that I feel many fans of Japanese pop culture would find of interest, depressing as it may be. The article has sparked commentary from a number of other bloggers on the net, through whom I discovered Samuels' article.
Labels: Hideaki Anno
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Posted: Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Author: Aaron Clark
I know you're probably thinking, "What's going on?", and let me assure you, everything is just fine and dandy. But it's probably a good idea to lay a few things out for regular visitors and forum members. First of all, I'm not happy with the present condition of the site, and even less happy with how I've shelved the site due to college over the past few years. You may have heard that I've recently graduated from the Visual Arts program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. And while I'm in that awkward transition between school and the real world, school was the reason why I neglected a number of my interests, hobbies, and personal pursuits. And as school is finished for me (for the time being), I have no excuse not to pick things back up again. A few entries back, I wrote about the mention that this site had in the supplementary article in volume 10 of the Evangelion manga. And to be perfectly honest, part of me doesn't feel like the site deserved that mention. I've been somewhat of an absent webmaster, and an absent forum administrator. That being said, I intend to systematically go through the site, throwing out certain content that is inconsistant, incomplete, or just plain absent. I'm also intending to integrate a few new features, a new design, and new content which I've collected. In short, everything has been taken down for the time being, but content will resurface periodically as I review, revise, or repurpose it. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions for the future of this site, feel free to email me at
theevamonkey@evamonkey.com, or to PM me on the
forum, which is always available to you.
And if you have any trouble registering, please send me an email, we've had to respond to the problem with spambots by turning account activation to admin only. It makes it easier for us if you mention Evangelion in your interests so that we know you're not a spambot.
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Word is out that Kadokawa has published volume 11 of the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga, as well as volume 3 of the Shinji Ikari Ikusei Keikaku manga. You can import either of these titles, or you can read the translations or scanlations available here on the site. And for those of you who don't obsessively collect manga in a language you don't understand, you might be interested to know that Angelic Days volume 5 is out a little earlier than I previously reported. And finally, AT-Translations has released stage 5 of the Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku manga. You can download it via their downloads page. Happy reading!