[EVA] 13 years of Death&Rebirth: Evangelion's 13 year anniversary

[Codename V]

"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth...and taste" --
V for Vendetta graphic novel, quoting "Sympathy for the Devil"

(V looks around, at the vaunted but rarely seen by mortal eyes Eva Mailing
List; the almost Seele-like Inner Council of Eva Fandom)

"So this is what its all about? I didn't even know this place existed: I
thought it was a legend, like El Dorado or Shangri-la.  A pipe-dream,
thought up by criminal lunatics to entertain the gullible...but it's true!
Isn't it?! There really is one nerve center that controls most of the
crime on this planet, and *this* is it!" -- The Hobgoblin on breaking into
the Kingpin's lair, Spiderman TAS (season 1 episode 11)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br7XTWNnZJA

(shrug)
on to Evangelion:

Today marks the 13th anniversary of the premiere of the first episode of
the Evangelion TV series in Japan, which occurred on October 12, 1995

amazing that a single anime series can be this popular after so many
years; Gundam and such are different because they were multiple series
(albeit not always set in the same continuity) and new ones come out all
the time. And DragonBallZ or Pokemon and such just have hundreds of
episodes.

What other 26 episode series (plus a movie or two) has had such lasting
impact?

only a handful. Even Cowboy Bebop though, or Trigun, were not around for
as many years as Evangelion was; Eva is older than those by a few years.

Plus, no anime has remained so hotly debated as Evangelion. Cowboy Bebop
is a classic but its not quite as thought-provoking as Eva (though I do
enjoy the "near-Future" set design of both)

alternative thread title: "It's been 13 years, where's the Live Action
movie series?"

and do you realize, that by next year, children who were not yet born when
this series premiered, will be angsty 14 year olds whom the story still
"speaks to"?

Looking back, against all predictions a major remake of the series came
out barely over a year ago with "Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0 : You Are (Not)
Alone" in Japan, though it hasn't been released in North America nor has
an English dub licensor been announced, and the second of four movies,
"Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 : You Can (Not) Advance" has been pushed back
from a Novemberish premiere to an "early summer 2009" premiere.

And Adult Swim stopped rerunning the series last year.

Thus, we are still locked in anticipation for Evangelion to truly hit the
North American fanbase as a whole.