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Evangelion Movies Coming This Fall

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-eva-can-beat-up-your-eva dept.

Phunky Monkey writes: "'Manga Entertainment has announced the release dates for both End of Evangelion and Death and Rebirth as October 31, 2001! They to plan to release them in subtitled and dubbed VHS tapes as well as bi-lingual DVDs for each movie.' Got this little snippet over at www.eva2000.com. Although Manga's site doesn't reflect this, I havn't seen anything more accurate than 'summer 2001' until this. " Evangelion has gotta be among the coolest series, and I'm stoked to see a movie coming. Meanwhile I'm just waiting for my copy of Eva 6 to ship.

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  1. Why is anime so expensive? by Jordy · · Score: 3

    I've always wondered why anime is so expensive. Heck, even things other than anime distributed by ADV Films (Farscape for instance) is outrageously expensive.

    I'm also curious why they put so few episodes on each DVD. Paying $18-35 for something which was broadcast for free on TV just to have to pay another $500 to get the entire story from beginning to end is silly.

    Sure a two hour movie is the same price, but it is typically a complete story, not 1% of a story leaving me with some sense of completion. I personally don't like walking away from a movie with questions about what happens next.

    All I really want is a complete set in a nice box for a single price with DVDs which are filled to capacity so I don't have to get up all the time and watch silly commercials I've watched 12 times before and some brain dead transitions between episodes which breaks the mood.

    Is that too much to ask?

    Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

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  2. Re:Death and Rebirth... ho hum. End of Eva good! by JabberWokky · · Score: 3
    There are also alot of mixed feelings in the anime community about End of Eva

    I have sat outside viewing rooms at Cons discussing the merits of End of Evangelion (particularly Purest Heart) as a cinematic tone poem. Plenty of well educated people see the final ending as an incredibly executed "thust of non-plot emotion". The montages and music are timed perfecly, the symbolism is well planned and executed; the movie stands as a great piece of Art.

    The problem is, the first part of the series was "children piloting big robots". So if you got into the series because of that, you were pretty much pissed off by End... *particularly* if you like endings that tie everything up, and everybody is happy. This does NOT finish anything plotwise, and is NOT a simple, happy ending, but it is very satifying... *if* and only if you are used to such endings. I.e., if you watch a bunch of "art films". I'm not saying it's "better than a Hollywood movie", just that it is a very different kind of movie, and will appeal to a very different crowd.

    I watched all of Eva because someone kept telling me during the beginning "Don't worry - there's more to it than this". The first time I watched it, we watched all 26 episodes, then Death and Rebirth, and then all of End of Evangelion, all back to back over the course of a long weekend (pausing only around ep. 20 to go do Rocky Horror, and then coming back to finish up). That was a great experience, and I recommend it as a way to get the whole experience.

    And yes, the DVDs suck. I have a HDTV front projection system, and the *average* VCD (legit ones, not "home made") has far better quality than Eva DVD 1. Ick.

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    Evan

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    "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
  3. What's with this? by Enonu · · Score: 3

    Every time Taco posts something about anime, I see the following types of posts:

    1. Anime is crap (no reason)
    2. Anime is crap (because they're childish cartoons)
    3. Anime is bad because it's made by the immoral Japanese.
    4. Anime isn't geek news
    5. CmdrTaco thinks he's some anime expert

    To stop this madness right now I'll reply to them all:

    1. Worthless opinion. Clarify it!
    2. You haven't watched a decent amount of anime to judge it.
    3. To the Japanese, Americans are a bunch of fat idiots who bombed then in WW2. Get off your high pedistal.
    4. The term for "anime geek" in Japanese is otaku.
    5. Taco has his strengths and weaknesses in anime as well as everybody else. Take his opinion with a grain of salt.

    Peace

  4. Death and Rebirth... ho hum. End of Eva good! by Raster+Burn · · Score: 3

    The Death and Rebirth movie is just basically a summary of the whole series. If you have Eva on DVD already, there is no reason to get Death and Rebirth. End of Eva is pretty cool though, but it seems to me to be an alternate ending to the series rather than a continuation of it. There are also alot of mixed feelings in the anime community about End of Eva, but it is worth it to see the best fight in all of Evangelion (Asuka vs. ....I wouldn't want to spoil anything!)