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

[Aaron Clark]

Evangelion debuted on October 4th, V.  Where are you getting the 12th from?

--Aaron
EvaMonkey.com

> "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.
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