[EVA] Eva Manga Stage 82

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

EB wrote:
> I would say that's because Sadamoto finally got a chance to plan out
> everything and see where Anno had failed in the execution/delivery, thereby
> adjusting the manga accordingly.
>
> Guess good things do come out of people taking forever to finish one ; )
>   
>
I doubt it. The manga is a noticeably shallower and more clichéd work 
than the series, and the trend of the endgame suggests to me that 
Sadamoto is by now completely at a loss as to how to end the manga in an 
appropriately "epic" fashion given just how far he has diverged from the 
main storyline, and is simply giving a carbon copy of, at least #25'. 
When he gets to #26', he will be as lost as any fan fiction writer.

Since Sadamoto is writing a Shinji/Rei centered work, with Asuka 
relegated to comic relief, and since I sincerely doubt he had the mettle 
to detonate the Big Irony Bomb(I wouldn't consider the above scene as 
counting), he has no real material—excepting Kaworu's death—to drive his 
(noticeably more confident) Shinji into a deep spiral of depression. I 
doubt then that Sadamoto really wants to make his Third Impact an 
allegory for Shinji's suicide, nor would it be appropriate to do so 
considering just how far the manga has diverged in content and theme 
from the series.

I foresee two possibilities. Firstly, Sadamoto will attempt a rather 
hackneyed and tamer retelling of the End of Evangelion, initiating Third 
Impact but changing the themes and outcomes slightly to allow for a more 
optimistic ending. Secondly, Sadamoto's Third Impact will be a far more 
contained event, with Shinji probably ending up saving the day and 
everyone _living_ happily ever after. Either way, I'm not going to be 
able to bear reading it.

I'm being awfully negative about this I know. But my opinion for some 
time is that the manga is essentially a doujinshi which happens to be 
published by someone who worked on the original show. I don't discount 
the manga as an admirable work, but I do not regard it as being anywhere 
in the same league as the series or other mangas; say, Berserk.