Evangelion: a journal (spoilers!)

Useless fact: I was just watching "One Hour Photo", and theres a part where the kid mentions an Evangelion figure. What makes this kind of sad/funny is not that I noticed it, but that I immidiately recognized the figure as Unit 05.

It dosen't use its sword to "kill bad guys", it is the bad guy.

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Originally posted by Sharpshooter005 Useless fact: I was just watching "One Hour Photo", and theres a part where the kid mentions an Evangelion figure. What makes this kind of sad/funny is not that I noticed it, but that I immidiately recognized the figure as Unit 05. It dosen't use its sword to "kill bad guys", it is the bad guy.

Robin Williams is actually an anime fan, which is kind of wierd.

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Originally posted by BethMcBeth Iam just a little curious I was trying to get into this series a little while back but I kept confussing all of the titles and order in which the volumes and the movie go in, I think when I was looking thorugh a bunch of them they were fan subbed versios as well but Iam not sure. Iam just wondering if someone can point me in a direction where I can get all of them or at least the whole series and then the movie together so I don't have to buy all the volumes by themselves. And so I can watch them all at once too. Thanks a bunch! -Beth

I don't know about where's the best place to buy them. They recently released "Platinum" versions of the 26 episodes in 7 DVD's - I think with cleaned up animation and Dolby surround stereo, along with some director's commentary and other stuff (anybody know?)

Anywho, as far as I understand, I watched all 26 episodes first. Then I watched the two "movies" produced by Manga Entertainment. The first one - Death and Rebirth - features two 1 to 1 1/2 hour "movies."

I say "movies" because the first one - Death - is just a compilation of the television episodes #1-24. I can't imagine watching this without seeing the episodes because it cuts really fast - 12 hours into an hour or two. But it's a nice recap of the highlights.

Then the "Rebirth" section is the first part of the alternate ending that replaces episodes 25 & 26. This ends with a sort of "to be cont'd" that leads into the second DVD by Manga Entertainment: "End of Evangelion."

(Actually the "End" DVD I watched also had "Rebirth" on first, then it showed "End," the final hour or so long episode.)

I don't know if they're going to do Platinum versions of these two OVAs. Since they were produced by a different company (Manga), they may not. Or, since they're not, this might provide a hint on the "true" ending that Anno preferred - the original in episodes #25 & 26. (Or maybe I'm just all wrong!)

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I don't know if they're going to do Platinum versions of these two OVAs. Since they were produced by a different company (Manga), they may not. Or, since they're not, this might provide a hint on the "true" ending that Anno preferred - the original in episodes #25 & 26. (Or maybe I'm just all wrong!)

Manga entertainment is having a rerelease of the Eva movies one box set for about $40. it comes out late july.

OF course, the really really good set to get is the one Gainax released after their remastering efforts. It has the whole TV series in origional and reedited forms, plus the movies and some of the soundtracks. The box is constructed to look like a SEELE monolith floating in LCL. It's pretty cool to see. I was hoping that would come stateside, but with different companies holding the release rights to eva stuff here it's douptful the box set will come.