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Title: The Evangelion Style
Format: Softback with dustjacket
Dimensions: 7.25 x 10 inches
Pages: 146
Language: Japanese
Publisher: Daisanshokan
Publication Date: May 31, 1997
ISBN: 4-04-8074-9718-9
List Price: 1500 Yen

Contents:
p.001 - Critical Art Collection: Samples From Evangelion
p.018 - "The Design Theory of EVANGELION" by Kaichiro MORIKAWA, M. Arch.
p.032 - "Sonata for EVANGELION - POP -- A Compliation of the quoted 60's motifs" by Yasutaka YOSHIMURA, M.Arch.
p.040 - "The Filmographical Structure of EVANGELION -- ANIME as Hyper Picture-Card Show" by Osamu TSUKIHASHI, M.Arch.
p.054 - "Score Analysis: the Soundtrack of EVANGELION" by Masaki MIYAKAWA, B. Eng.
p.066 - "An Extensive Note on the "RE-MIX"ing and Initializing motif in EVANGELION" by Shoko FUKUYA, B.Eng., B.Arch.
p.074 - "EVA as a Story-Weaving Machine -- a Mirage which Appeared beyond a Sea of Quotations and Recurring Substitutional Acts" by Taro IGARASHI, M.Arch.
p.080 - " Gender Studies on the Technique of EVANGELION -- a Comparative Analysis with the 'SHOHJO MANGA' Genre" by Yuya SATO, B.Sci.
p.088 - "COLLAGE CITY of the Post-Catastrophe" by Taro IGARASHI, M.Arch.
p.098 - "The Strategic Eroticism behind AYANAMI REI -- an Insight from the fin de siecle Femininity" by Yumiko YANO, B.Eng.
p.106 - "Zero-Degree Contact with EVANGELION -- a Short Introduction to the World of Human Interface" by Tomoko Sakamoto, B.Arch.
p.116 - "Placing EVANGELION in the History of Sci-Fi ANIME --The Death of 'Cosmology'" by Daichi NAKAGAWA
p.122 - "Psychopathology of the Borderline -- a Medical Note on EVANGELION" by Hiroshi DAIMON, B.Sci.
p.128 - "The Battlefield of EVANGELION Goods --a Report from the Avant-Garde" by Norihito NAKATANI, M.Arch.
p.138 - "THE EVANGELION STYLE: an Appendix" by Kaichiro MORIKAWA, M. Arch.
p.140 - SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS and ARTICLES on EVANGELION compiled by T.Igarashi
p.142 - PROFILES: CONTRIBUTORS to the VOLUME

Description:
Over the years, I've collected quite a lot of books on Evangelion.  From various incarnations of the manga, to script books, groundwork books, film books, storyboard books, and various guides and art collections.  But none of them have made me envious of the ability to read and comprehend the Japanese language as this book has.  I'm one who desires to see informative analysis of the Evangelion series in print in the English language.  Seeing, and even owning, a book with critical analysis in a language I can't comprehend is like taunting a monkey with a banana from behind bars or a glass plate.

This book is absolutely amazing, and includes a number of interesting articles on various aspects of the Evangelion series.  The English headers and imagery contained within allow a non-Japanese speaker to follow the basic idea of each section of this book, but beyond the basic thought, there's not much more for an English speaker to get out of it.  It is a simply amazing book, both in terms of its content and its design, but it is something casual fans might want to overlook due to it content being in Japanese.   However, for the hardcore fans who like collecting various oddities (like myself) this might be an interesting book to pick up and flip through.