Random Musings - Cause Evangelion Re-Creations Are Sexy… September 6
News has been circulating around about the new Evangelion films that Anime News Service has a translation for:
The title for the new film series is “Evangelion Shin Gekijou Ban”, it will consist of 4 parts with the first part arriving in Japanese theaters in early summer, 2007. Staff include General Supervisor: Hideaki Anno, Director: Tsurumaki Kazuya , Character Design: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Mecha Design: Ikuto Yamashita, Animation Production: Khara (Color) Studio. The scenario of the 1st part will be written by Hideaki Anno with storyboard by Shinji Higuchi. Key points of a supposed interview which may or may not appear in the forthcoming edition of Newtype attributed to Toshimichi Ohtsuki of King Records have also been circulating. According to that information:
-The content is quite different though the time base of the story is the same as the original TV series.
- It will be a remake, however, it is not a re-creation but a “new work”.
- The approach will be different than what Tomino-san did with the Gundam Z New Translation films, there will apparantly be a large amount of new material.
- Even if the TV series has not be seen, the viewer will be able to enjoy it. Though the content becomes easy, it is not redundant to those already familiar with the series.
- The technique that purposely scatters difficult words and phrases will not be used any longer.
- As an antithesis to current animation industry segments. It is an attitude on the production side to pull the act in the age that started from Eva.
There are some sketchy pictures floating around, but I dug up some decent scans (courtesy of an uploader at ranobe.com):
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What do I think? Well I wasn’t ever a huge fan of the Evangelion series, though it is one of the very first animes I’ve seen. It’ll be interesting to see what they decide to change in terms of the overall story and if the ending is radically different.
*Chi* at 1:05 pm on September 6th, 2006
Interesting. I was also never interested very much in NGE (sold my DVDs some time ago)
since I didn’t like the ending (also the one in the movies) and it got too depressing for me.
However the character design (based on the psacho analysis of Sigmund Freud) is very interesting. I’m looking forward to it since I hope to see a bit more fun^^
tunemeister at 1:18 pm on September 6th, 2006
thats all fine and well but please tell me the animation will be top notch, because the animation of the original is so far out of date by the standards of today that I hope they use the new standards and not rehash like some of the gundum series.
Clamp-X at 1:36 pm on September 6th, 2006
I hated this series due to shitty annoying characters, i’ll give this “new work” a try once its out. ~_~
sinistral at 1:37 pm on September 6th, 2006
Wow.. definitely looking forward to it.
Nobunaga at 1:43 pm on September 6th, 2006
I think that mr. Anno wants milk out more money of his creation, but it is rather interesting with this new Evangelion.
Within a year will ADV Films acquire the rights and produce hoards of DVD´s for example “Evangelion: The movie” and later on “Evangelion: The ultimate movie edition” and just screw with everybody to earn money.
Evangelion is fine a great series with a good endning, but making more is just soo wrong.
dojikyo at 1:44 pm on September 6th, 2006
Neon Geon Evangelion was a good series but pretty overrated.
I mildy interested in the idea of a remake. Hopefully the animation quality will improved to keep up with the times and the pacing of the story won’t be as bad.
DaveJS at 2:02 pm on September 6th, 2006
I hope this turns out to be a good venture, and not a complete mess
-Z- at 2:17 pm on September 6th, 2006
it’s evangelion. how could it be anything but a complete mess? and you know what? gainax will make tons of cash off it anyway.
mikemil828 at 2:50 pm on September 6th, 2006
Evangelion Shin Gekijou Ban: Because End of Evangelion just wasn’t bad enough
anamesis at 3:00 pm on September 6th, 2006
evangelion was a complete mess…its charactars are all emotional wrecks so unless they pretty much change shinji’s charactar its not gonna get more than good animation quality in the pro’s section……ill watch it notheless cause i just have too lol >
alexkme at 3:01 pm on September 6th, 2006
I liked the series quite a bit. Although they made it unnecessarily obtuse sometimes. I definitely liked the focus on the people behind the mecha and Shinji’s personal development. Hope they do a good job!
Geta at 3:10 pm on September 6th, 2006
Sweet, I didn’t dislike the movie as most of you apparently did. Watch it with an open mind fellas and you wont be disapointed :p
Renegade334 at 3:23 pm on September 6th, 2006
Well, it’s true that Eva is the only durable money-making series GAINAX ever made so it’s understandable for them to ‘milk their favorite cow’. However I guess that the decision by Anno to take it up again might have also been supported by the fact that he expressed his regret that the series didn’t end how he wanted to and that it was rushed due to pressing deadlines, a quite harrassing audience and the fact that he himself was still wallowing in his depression period. Since he might have cured himself from his gloominess, it might be interesting to see how this will turn out to be since those four-Eva-movies rumor has already been making its way around for a few months.
As an Eva fan (it was the first anime series I ever watched in its entirety as well as the first one I ever owned in the form of DVDs and mangas, and it still has its little place in my heart), I’m pretty interested in seeing how Anno will re-work his series, especially since the ending left pretty much no basis for a sequel and only had the promise of a quite bleak future. Hopefully we won’t get the downpour of angst at the end and perhaps the happy ending the characters deserved, although, I guess, Eva wouldn’t be Eva without tat oppressing darkness.
I’ll be sure to keep in touch with this. Although I’m quite conservative (I nearly barfed when I saw the character and mecha designs for that Weta Workshops live action movie project) and prone to say, ‘leave Eva as it is, your eff-ing profanators’, I’m still curious and eager to see more of this quite intricate and myserious (some answers were still left unanswered, after all) series.
waffo at 3:51 pm on September 6th, 2006
So… whatever happened to the rumors of a live-action NGE anyway?
Renegade334 at 4:13 pm on September 6th, 2006
Pfff…dunno, maybe they let it die. But, thing is, the artwork is there. There’s no doubt about it.
- http://features.cgsociety.org/story.php?story_id=1901
EDIT: okay, it’s been stalled. Confirmed.
- http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y131/CentralDogma/P6290154.jpg
Hudson at 4:18 pm on September 6th, 2006
If history has tought us anything is that the ending to this will either suck, or not make any since and suck.
Xellos-_^ at 4:39 pm on September 6th, 2006
I am wondering how much Rei fan service we see this time around
Despite this show being over 10 years, Rei still get a large amount H-Doujin base on her 
Kensama at 5:20 pm on September 6th, 2006
I agree with everyone Eva was a mess but I really want to see a real ending,even if it’s a sad or screwed up one.
One thing that bothers me is the part about “The technique that purposely scatters difficult words and phrases will not be used any longer” I hope it dosent change the feel to the show. Most of the big words were very dramatic and made a strong impact.
asdf at 5:33 pm on September 6th, 2006
HOSPITAL SCENE BABY !!!!
EVAN at 6:03 pm on September 6th, 2006
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG I GOTTA SEE THIS
Evangelion anime is like one of the best…you people probably dislike it cause you couldn’t understand the problem (too complex maybe?). Such an awesome anime and very unique. Not like some cliche animes like most recent ones.