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Evangelion themed intros to NTV’s “Friday Road Show”

Ornette — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:18:36 +0000

Not news but this is a neat little video found on the internet.

Japan’s NTV has a weekend movie slot called “Friday Road Show” (金曜ロードショー) that usually have different animated intro/openings. Here is one featuring the Angels from the new Evangelion movies (and Rei). On August 26, the Friday Road Show broadcasted a TV version of Evangelion 2.0 as well as 1.01 back in 2009.

Here’s the one from July 2009, the 1.01 broadcast’s intro:

Other (non-Evangelion related) openings from the “Friday Road Show”.

Evangelion Exhibition in Miyabi – Pictures

Ornette — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:02:05 +0000

Lots of pictures posted on evafan‘s Livedoor blog from the Neon Genesis Evangelion Exhibition at Shotaro Ishinomori Furusato Kinenkan museum in Miyagi Prefecture. The exhibition will run until October 23rd and features both the original TV series as well as the new theatrical edition (Rebuild).

Eva-01 and the Lance at the entrance

Production Drawings, Story Boards, and Scripts

The Rei Ayanami Fender Guitar

Diorama of the inside of the Geofront

Pictures were from the evafan blog, click below to see more pictures from the exhibition.

Evafan Livedoor blog: Day 1, Day 2
More pics at Chie’s “lead a happy life” blog
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Operation Yashima Website

Ornette — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:12:49 +0000

In an effort to reduce strain on Japan’s damaged power grid, the Tokyo Electric Power Company asked people to conserve electricity during peak hours. The effort has gained momentum and was unofficially dubbed “Operation Yashima” after Misato’s plan to defeat the angel Ramiel. Now there’s a website for the campaign based on designs inspired from Evangelion. There are information updates on the site (such as projected power consumption), live twitter feeds, some fancy images and even a wiki.

Extra Curricular Lesson with Hideaki Anno

Ornette — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:36:56 +0000

Sometime in 1999, after Neon Genesis Evangelion finished and during the pre-production of KareKano, Evangelion’s directory Hideaki Anno appeared on a TV show on N.H.K. called “Welcome Back for an Extracurricular Lesson, Sempai!”, which features Japanese celebrities revisiting their old stomping grounds and teaches a class in their old primary school. In this episode, Anno returns to Ube, a factory town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, to teach kids about animation.

Along the way, he talks a bit about himself, about Evangelion, about art, and about the town he grew up in. This is particularly interesting when one considers that he has just come from a dark time in his life, especially right after the success/controversy caused by Evangelion. One of the first things he admits in the show is how he is deathly afraid of children, as he is about to walk into a classroom filled with them and meeting them for the first time. From time to time, it seems like Anno is being quick with his replies to questions, yet sometimes it’s clear that he’s enjoying himself.

Here’s are some random screenshots of the episode.

Anno meets the kids

When Anno shows up to the school and meets the kids, he gets to see what the kids had been working on before his arrival; pictures and descriptions of what the kids thought Anno was like, with greatly varying degrees of accuracy. This was a pretty fun segment.

Anno and his parents

At some point, the class is divided into groups and one group goes to see Anno’s parents to interview them. They show some of his paintings and pictures when he was young, and apparently, he doesn’t like insects.

Some of Anno's childhood friends

Another group has gone to meet with some of Anno’s childhood friends to interview them. Anno liked to draw manga a lot when he was a kid, no big surprises there.

A panning shot of Ube, Anno's hometown

Later, as we see various parts of Ube, Anno talks about his hometown, about the recession, and what it was like when he was a kid. He also mentions how he loves the telephone poles and wires (not surprised).

Anno messing around

Near the end of the episode, Anno seems pretty relaxed. All the students are putting together their final animations, which will later be strung together in one continuous reel, and in the background, Anno is playing around on one of the camera dollies.

Sorry, this has taken so long to post (it’s been like 3 years). Unofficially coordinating with people on the internet that all have full-time jobs sometimes yields these long waits. Most of the people who already knew about this was able to find a copy of it from somewhere or another, but over the course of nitpicking, re-encodes, re-translations, re-timing the subtitles, trying to put together video offerings on this site, and finally getting tired of it all and just putting it on the internet, we have for you 2 copies of what was released on DVD via Animeplay magazine. One is a softsubbed MKV with x264 video (624×480), vorbis 2 channel audio, SRT subtitles (new translation) and the original VOB subtitles that appeared on the DVD. The other is a hardsubbed AVI with XviD video and mp3 2 channel audio. You can download them directly from this site or use a torrent.

x264/vorbis MKV DDL, torrent
XviD/mp3 AVI DDL, torrent
Also check out Justin Sevakis’ Buried Treasure post about this episode

Live Action Evangelion Still Alive?

Ornette — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:52:01 +0000

From an Anime News Network Podcast, Joseph Chou, producer of Halo Legends, Appleseed: Ex Machina, and billed as the producer for the Live Action Evangelion Movie, says that the anime adaptation is still “very active”. Chou says it’s possible that the project may even start moving forward by next year, after a lot of paper work has been resolved, and that the reason the project was at a stand still was because of the anime market crash. Chou said “the reason it stopped in its tracks was not because [John Ledford, co-founder of A.D. Vision and ADV Films] wasn’t paying attention to it … he actually amassed a considerable amount of money, financing, for the film … but then I think he just needed to stop, because the whole market was falling apart at that time,” and as a result the movie “fell on the wayside.”, although Ledford is still part of the project.

This could mean good news for people who were hoping for a live action adaptation. But for most, they’re probably not going to hold their breath until it starts moving forward again.

Eva Episodes on Xbox Live Marketplace

ZapX — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:49:02 +0000

It seems ADV Films and Anime Network, its digital media affiliate, have been adding various anime titles to Xbox Live. Today, ADV made the 26 TV episodes of Evangelion available on Xbox Live Marketplace. The episodes are 160 points. Looks like only the English dub is available, so sorry, sub people. Anyway, if you want to have Eva on your Xbox and prefer the dub, here’s your chance.

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