Neon Genesis Evangelion

Evangelion is my favorite anime of all, I've watched it in 1998 or 1999 and so far nothing compares to it in my opinion.

www.sega.co.jp, since you just watched the show, a good material to understand a bit more of EVA is the Red Croos Book, a book distributed to the first people to watch End of Evangelion in Japan, it countains a lot of explanations. To be honest I haven't read all of it but a friend of mine which also loves Evangelion read it all and said it is a must for Evangelion fans.

If you want it, I'll put a link here for this book.


And I'd like opinion of you guys on something, I have the Chinese DVD version of Evangelion, the quality is fairly good, but recently was released the Platinum Box of Evangelion, and it isn't as much expensive as I expected it ot be, so I'm thinking on buying it. It's a bit pricy for me 'cause I don't live in USA, I would just like to ask for those of you who have it if it is worth it ?
I heard it has 4 extras stuff, and I'd like to hear about hte quality of image and sound ....

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by aku

GO FOR IT! The images where massivly cleaned up and it is in 5.1 jap and english
DeepdiscountDVD or check at best buy i thin it was like 48+tax there(cant find it online)...It comes with alot of special features, and i mean ALOT! it comes with the series, and like 5 hours of bonus stuff(now i believe each dvd has ~5 mins of the op/ed cuts, in that 5 hours) but anyway, and ep 21-24 are the DIRECTOR'S CUT EDITION! you can watch it normal or with the director's cut animation if i do recall correctly. and for those who have not seen the directos cuts let me tell you O.O WATCH IT NOW!!!! there's some stuff that you missed that will pretty much blow your mind...well i thought so anyway...some of the scenes where in Death_True^2(the US Death and Rebirth release), but not all of them...

That's probably what I needed to hear.
I saw it at eBay for about US$60.00, I don't have much choices of places to buy since I don't live in USA, and some of the sellers will ship it worldwide.

The Red Cross Book answers a few questions that are left in the end of the anime and the movies. I don't know about you, but I find the ending of End of Evangelion to be much better than the regular one.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

Who do you think would make the best match for Shinji: Misato, Rei or Asuka?
Here's my thought:

Spoiler:

Misato, even though the age diffenece is great, she has the least conditional love for Shinji. Asuka is too demanding and Rei is too distant. Misato really cares about Shinji (as seen in a few episodes where she breaks out crying when she thinks Shinji won't come back) and supports most of decisions all the way. She was the first person in the series to really branch out to Shinji and it shows how much she loves him (even though Kaji was her primary romantic concern throughout most of the series until his death.

Count me in

Spoiler:

I simply loved that scene in EoE where Misato after saving Shinji's life grabs and kisses him.
There's no match better than Misato for Shinji

Originally Posted by MrSatan

i bought mine on amazon(actually i bought 2 sets) for 96 dollars, and i choose free shipping, each set is for 48 dollars, but i have to note something:

This is indeed the platinum edition, which is awesome, but there is NO extras at all, only some trailers on disc one, thats it, nothing else.
the thin case collection, is condensed in 6 discs, ep 1-26 in first 5 DVDs and in the last one are the 4 directors cut episodes 21-22-23-24, but as i said no extras.
if you want the platinum extras, you will have to buy the individual volumes, which are like 20 bucks each, and there are 7 volumes.
pick according to your needs.

Double Post:
oh BTW the lowest price that i saw was in bestbuy website, for something like 32 dollars, its an excellent price.
Yesterday 11:32 AM

Thanks fro the tip.
The thing is that buying from a person (instead of a company) may have its advantages for me, because where I live if I buy something that cost less than US$50.00 from a person I don't have to pay importation taxes, and these taxes are above 30% I think ... So unless I get a very cheaper price at Amazon or BestBuy, it comes cheaper to buy from a person.
Anyway, I'll wait a bit more, since my credit card is about to arrive this week I'll have time to see which of the choices are better.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Spatula

Is it just me, or did I get quite horny after that scene?

FAP FAP FAP. LOLOLOL

Spoiler:

It's just me

It isn't just you.
That's one of the moments I loved the most watching Evangelion.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Lukage

You do know that

Spoiler:

when she blows up, you see Rei for a second

?

Just making sure.

Are you sure ?
I'll try slow motioning the scene in DVD.
And if it is so, what's that supposed to mean ... ?

I was speaking idiomatically.

I am a fan of the Evangelion anime but I have to say, I hated the manga.
When Evamgelion manga was licensed in my country I was all happy but after reading it ... it was such a let down.
I'm not trying to start a fight between what's better, manga or anime. But I didn't have the feeling the manga was lacking something there is in the anime.
To be honest, most of the time, I find animes to be better than their manga counterparts, with a few exceptions. So maybe, as I am more inclined to like animes, I didn't like this manga.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?