Casshern, Anime Mid-Atlantic, and Katsucon

By The Eva Monkey on Sunday, March 7th, 2004

I’ve made a point to not stray from Evangelion, Hideaki Anno, and Gainax, but I just want to take a moment to promote Casshern. Casshern is based on the anime Casshan: Robot Hunter from quite a while back. Its due out in Japan this summer, and it looks absolutely amazing, and I would not be surprised if it gets brought over by a distributor. So keep your eyes peeled, take a look at Casshern’s trailer on the official site, and maybe take a look at the anime available from ADV Films.

Eva Monkey stuff

I skipped last week’s update, so to make up for it I’ve got a lot of stuff to add this week.

As always, I’m stumped, my traffic jumped up to 6,000 hits a day in January, to 10,000 hits a day in February. So to anyone who reads this site with frequency, I say “Thank you”, getting a response like this from something I’ve worked so hard at is the greatest thing for me.

I’ve got an Evangelion panel confirmed for Anime Mid-Atlantic, so if you’re from that neck of the woods, take a look at the convention, and the panel as well.

The new featured site is Eva-R, a site which I have been in awe of for quite some time. It is an absolutely amazing fan work, something that I think that people ought to keep in mind as a bar of excellence. If you’ve never taken a look at Eva-R, do yourself a favor and go over there. It looks like a lot of reading, but if you get into it, then thats the beauty of it. Its not just some trite little fan fic. It is THE definitive Eva Fan Fic, in my opinion. Feel free to argue with me on that point.

New stuff archived in the Written Statements section:

And finally, I decided to update my info, as today is my 21st birthday.

Evangelion News

I’ve already posted these dates, but I would just like to bring them up again. These are release dates for the Evangelion manga in North America and Japan

March 2004 (North American edition manga)
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 1 (Viz 2nd edition)
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 8 (Viz Action Edition)

April 2004 (Japanese edition manga)
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 9 (Kadokawa Comics Limited Edition)
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 9 (Kadokawa Comics Standard Edition)

Live Action Project News

If you’ve kept up on the Live Action Project then this may not be new to you. ADV released a press statement last month stating that the second volume of the Director’s Cuts “Genesis Reborn” will have a “sneak peak” at the movie. More on that later on. Though I would like to point out an advanced sneak peak at some of the newest concept pieces available at TrivialBeing.net. And while you’re over there, check out the info coming from Matt Greenfield and Tiffany Grant.

Images

I’ve had some kind of fascination with Kaworu’s character recently, so I thought I’d post some images of him, be advised that most of this is fan art I’ve collected from the web, I’m not sure if any of these are official, as I couldn’t find any of these appearing in any of my Evangelion artbooks. This goes out to Kaworu’s number one fan. You know who you are.

Also, I’ve prepared a directory of screenshots and technical drawings from the Evangelion 2 game. Some are a little big, as I decided to not compress them at all. I figure I’d go for quality, as I have plenty of bandwidth to spare. It might choke some people’s modems, but oh well. Its just a directory, so its leech friendly. Enjoy!

Did I mention I got to meet Takeshi Honda at Katsucon? Check it out.


Honda-san drawing Asuka

The finished product

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