neon genesis evangelion

the manga is written by the series' character designer after the show was finished; it's as much of an embellishment on the original story as the rebuild movies. mostly for ppl who are already fans

was written*

ah sorry. just noticed the wiki page lacks citations regarding that so

my stock "what to do before it's on netflix" suggestion is "watch kare kano"

lol i was just thinking about kare kano today. i still have all the dvds. it's... idk if it's a great show or anything but it was very important to me in high school

i nearly owned every volume of the manga and read it to the end. it's fine, wasn't exactly worth it lol

Nice history thread by the co-screenwriter of MANDY

Isn’t this part of the Insrumentality Project https://t.co/H63duyiEp0

— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@somebadideas) November 27, 2018

that rules, thank you

guess what appears on netflix this friday

yes this great show about the end of the world

idk about you but i cannot wait to watch a remastered eoe on my goddamn television

Excited. I haven't watched it in 15 years.

any trailers yet with the new dub? I'm assuming subbed versions will also be available? right?....

nope, no trailers with any dialogue

never tried to watch anime on netflix but boy i hope the sub is available

oh wait never mind, i have, aggretsuko counts, it had multiple language options, can't see why they wouldn't do that here too

ok cool

very excited for this. planning to marathon it with pals.

fuuuuuuuuuck i wonder if i can talk my boo into this

will be watching

Twitter thread posted up here by Nhex is amazing

y'all i'm so excited

and i own two dvd copies of the show and have watched it in its entirety at least 20 times if not more

I'm even looking forward to the discourse cycle a little. It will be cool if the show finds a big new audience.

Pretty much a guarantee I think. I'm looking forward to it, too. Remains relevant (and amazing obviously...)

according to early reports: apparently streaming rights for "fly me to the moon" must be incredibly expensive

and since my cats woke me up, i watched a few scenes of the new dub. cast is completely different but misato and shinji are weirdly sorta similar-sounding to allison jaffe and spike spencer (their old adv dub actors). old anime dub fans (and power rangers fans) will recognize johnny yong bosch in the cast as touji

checked and, both sub and dub changed "love" to "like" in ep 24. ok

i’ve def read the same thing in certain fansubs. whatever it’s not like kaoru isn’t gay as hell (for an alien)

Not seen it on Netflix yet but not having 'Fly Me to the Moon' during the closing credits is kind of sad. New folk won't know what they're missing I suppose.

Here's all 26 of them btw :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTxRm9HD7lo

"seele, the seat of the soul" yeah i'm gonna have issues with this translation

Not a big anime head, but I may try this out. Unfortunately, I'm already annoyed by randos on Twitter who are like "DO NOT BINGE WATCH THIS! You must savor it like a fine wine!"

pfft i actually recommend getting through the first half as quickly as possible

i mean i love those episodes (barring "a human work" which is good character-building for misato but kinda obviously the least good episode in every other way) but the show is special for the shift halfway through

some of those translations sound wack. otoh I wonder if OG fans whine too much. everyone who's like "no Fly Me To The Moon? it's ruined!!" like...calm down, we live in a society

eva fans (and western anime fans in general) have been professional whiners since the ‘90s

I'm now honestly wondering if Netflix standards and practices deliberately toned down the adultness of that specific dialogue when they noticed how young the characters were supposed to be

cf. there were a lot of sailor moon fans who wanted the early ‘90s dic dub preserved when viz started the massive rerelease/retranslation/redubbing a few years ago and this is basically an unreasonable position

tbc "Fly Me to the Moon" is critical + one of the best parts of the show

Maybe I'll queue up the Youtube ending compilation in another window and flip to it at the end of each episode, like a normal person.

i do think it kinda sucks that “fly me to the moon” isn’t there. i hope the netflix deal portends a domestic blu-ray release

Why isn’t FMTTM the credits song

there's no official explanation from netflix but as i said upthread: probably too expensive

streaming companies tend to not pony up cash for song rights; for instance, shudder pretty much never pays for any song joe bob wants to sing during his horror marathons and he spends a lot of the show complaining about it

song rights are notoriously expensive and hard to acquire just for physical releases (cf. daria or any mtv show that incorporated contemporary popular music), i imagine licensing for streaming is even worse and probably resembles font rights in ebooks, i.e. it is something you must pay for continuously. however i am not an expert

(and am possibly full of shit)

I actually thought fly me to the moon was written for the show 🥴 gd

lmao ok i honestly love that you thought that

haha right

same :D

I'm now honestly wondering if Netflix standards and practices deliberately toned down the adultness of that specific dialogue when they noticed how young the characters were supposed to be

― Simon H., Friday, June 21, 2019 7:03 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have a refutation for this but it’s a huge spoiler and now that people are newly watching this i... don’t want to do that