The End of Evangelion: What is going on Here? by Sarah Myer

By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, August 20th, 2003 in Eva Monkey, Site Updates.

Today’s shout out goes to Sarah Myer for her submission entitled “The End of Evangelion: What is going on Here?”. You may know her better as the Shinji Ikari cosplayer. Some other developments are as follows: Commentary Demo: I’ll be doing a commentary demo of the first 4-6 episodes on a low tech mic as […]

Content from Anime Academy Archived

By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, August 20th, 2003 in Eva Monkey, Site Updates.

Today, mad props are given to Kain, for giving me permission to reprint content from Anime Academy, and Munky for speaking to Kain on my behalf. The content is forthcoming, and should be up soon. In the meantime, please go check out Anime Academy. I hang around there on occasion, its a great wealth of […]

The Meaning behind Evangelion by Matt Leporati

By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, August 13th, 2003 in Eva Monkey, Site Updates.

Today, I’m giving mad props to Matt Leporati for his most excellent essay entitled “The Meaning behind Evangelion”, which is as good as it is long. Also, many thanks go out to Maverick of Neon Genesis Evangelion Portal Forums for relaying Bochan_Bird’s translations of Manga Volume 8 to me.

Evangelion Panel at Otakon 2003

By The Eva Monkey on Monday, August 11th, 2003 in Conventions, Eva Monkey, Live Action Evangelion, Personal.

I just got back from Otakon, and the Evangelion panel went very well. I got somewhere in the neck of 100-150 attendees. I also managed to get onto a web design panel, that was cool too. The Eva panel was almost delayed due to the Japanese dress panel that went over time…. all the way […]

Reports from FanimeCon, Renewal of Evangelion, and the future of the Evangelion manga

By The Eva Monkey on Friday, July 4th, 2003 in Conventions, Manga, Merchandise, Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga), News.

Reports from FanimeCon by Andrew Tei, (Gundam, FLCL, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto): http://www.evamonkey.com/writings/tei-andrew-yoshiyuki-sadamoto-panel-at-fanimecon-2003.php Review of Renewal of Evangelion by Justin Emerson: http://www.evamonkey.com/writings/emerson-justin-neon-genesis-evangelion-renewal-of-evangelion-dvd-box.php And finally, a post by Carl Gustav Horn, editor of the english edition of the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga: http://www.evamonkey.com/writings/horn-carl-sadamotos-plans-for-the-future-of-the-evangelion-manga.php

Hideaki Anno enthused about Live Action Evangelion

By The Eva Monkey on Friday, July 4th, 2003 in Live Action Evangelion, News.

Anime Tourist reports from Fanime about ADV’s Live Action Eva Project: Anime-tourist.com/article.php?sid=453 This Exerpt from the July issue of Newtype USA: (Concerning the live action Evangelion project) Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno is enthused about the project, “Evangelion was created with a very Japanese sensibility,” said Anno. “In the live-action version, though, I suggested […]

I’m not losing steam

By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003 in Conventions, Eva Monkey, Personal, Site Updates.

Just as a note to anyone who might be viewing this site frequently who might have noticed that I haven’t updated in almost two weeks, I’d just like to let you know that I’m not losing steam on Eva Monkey. I had a hellishly busy work week, 8 shifts/40 hours over 5 days. And I’ve […]

Red Cross Book

By The Eva Monkey on Saturday, June 21st, 2003 in Eva Monkey, Site Updates.

Many thanks to Ben for typing up the remainder of the DVD bios for the glossaries section. I also put up a translation of the Red Cross Book, check em both out in Glossaries.

New Evangelion Essays

By The Eva Monkey on Wednesday, June 18th, 2003 in Eva Monkey, Site Updates.

Added to essays to the written statements section, one entitled “Prison of Self-consciousness: an Essay on Evangelion” and the other “A Personal Essay: Rei: Why I Find Her Beautiful”.