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Dark Horse to Release Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse in August

ZapX — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:15:42 +0000

Dark Horse Comics will begin selling Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse (Gauken Datenroku), which ran in Kadokawa’s Monthly Asuka magazine from 2007-2009, on August 11th of this year. The manga is a retelling of Eva as a shoujo supernatural school story.

“Shinji Ikari’s parents are gone, and he lives with his legal guardian, Ryoji Kaji, while attending the private NERV Academy. But no one ever told Shinji about its secrets . . . or that he’d find his fellow students Kaworu, Rei, and Asuka out on the streets late at night—fighting with sword, spear, and whip against an enemy that looks very human, but who Kaworu insists are beings called the Angels . . .”

Dark Horse also solicits the Shinji Ikari Raising Project manga.

100 Page Evangelion Digest, Young Ace vol. 9

Ornette — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:12:15 +0000

The latest issue of Young Ace, volume 9, contains the rumored 100 page digest “Evangelion Extra Issue”. The digest contains some parody mangas, summaries of the 12 volumes of Sadamoto’s Evangelion manga, a preview of stage 77 of the manga, and, probably the most interesting, some message from Gainax staff to Sadamoto and his responses.

Anuraag Agrawal at the english-language evangelion mailing list, has graciously provided translations of some of these messages:

Hideaki Anno: Hurry and finish. Good luck.

Sadamoto: After finishing up volume 12, I’ll have to start working on
Rebuild, so wait just a little bit…

Hiroyuki Imaishi: Speaking of the Eva manga, when I first entered the company, since I had been drawing for a Dojin magazine, I helped out as an assistant for one day. I still remember how utterly unusable my work then was. I’m really sorry about that. orz

Sadamoto: I can’t even remember that assistant thing at all. I’m looking forward to your next project and cheering you on.

Kazuhiro Takamura: Congrats on the release of volume 12. Before becoming an animator, and even now, I’ve been studying the girls you draw, in particular the lines of their body. That line which seems to flow from back to hip, as much as I try to copy it, I can’t seem to be able to. I wonder if that’s because I just suck, or maybe I don’t have enough pervertedness yet. Thanks for giving me that nickname “earl of orgasms”.

Sadamoto: Follow your own “way of the moe-anime”. Bore into that hard disk
of yours full of porn with your drill lol (ed: euphemism?)

Mine Yoshizaki: Sadamoto-sensei, I was waiting! Congratulations on your new release. With this, there’s one more “something”. I’m a huge fan of Evangelion, of Eva, and I love all of Nerv staff, umbilical cables, missiles, black holes in the moon, somewhat lacking ceremony drawings, everyone at Gainax, and also Sadamoto-san. But I’m not gay, so don’t worry. What I love the most is the AT field!

Sadamoto: There was already one more “something” (ed: not sure what they’re referring to, could be some bet along the lines of “one figure for every volume you release”) By the way, I went to the ZELE (marked with the pronunciation ze-ru ed: the same as SEELE) beauty parlor you recommended, and the staff there corrected me saying it’s pronounced zeru (ed: not ze-ru). lol

Okay, maybe not super interesting but probably better than the parody mangas. “Earl of orgasms”? (“orz” is a Japanese emoticon for bowing on your knees in apology)

New Evangelion Spinoff Manga

ObsessiveMathsFreak — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:27:34 +0000

A new Evangelion manga spinoff series is being serialised in the Japanese shōjo magazine Asuka. The series is titled Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari’s Detective Journal and puts Shinji in the role of the “detective”; or perhaps it’s something more akin to Encyclopedia Brown, only with Tokyo-3′s most clueless resident in the lead role.

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Since Asuka is a shōjo magazine, you can bet that Kaworu will be making an appearance, and the promotional materials seem to bear this out. Perhaps the series will take a Holmes-Watson approach?

Moyoco manga about Hideaki Anno

SailorStarDust — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:31:56 +0000

Manga about Anno

To celebrate Moyoco Anno’s 20 year anniversary of writing manga, a manga book about her husband Hideaki Anno has been released.

The book, roughly translated as “Unsupervised Director Report” is said to contain insider information about Anno and is currently available for purchase through Amazon Japan’s website. It’s priced at ￥840 ($8.97).

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Sadamoto’s manga to return in July

Reichu — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:54:25 +0000

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto last treated Eva fans to a chapter of his manga adaptation around October 2007, and, after an unusually long procrastination cycle, it looks as though there just might still be hope.

According to a flyer packed with newly-released volumes of the Shinji Ikari Raising Project and Gakuen Datenroku manga, the Evangelion manga will pick up in July ’09, in the debut issue of Kadokawa Shoten’s new magazine Young Ace. The manga had previously been serialized, since its inception in 1994, in Kadokawa Shoten’s Shounen Ace. Watch for it!

Source: Eva Kinkyuu News by way of Anime News Network