Here’s the new, mini teaser for Evangelion 3.0+1.0, which was just confirmed for a release year in 2020. It features Mari, having more fun than she probably ought to.
More teasers have been promised until the end of August, so hopefully this is just one out of many!
Khara’s official website and Evangelion’s official website have just updated with the news. What’s more, Yahoo! Japan is concurrently reporting the same thing.
Khara also promises to run trailer(s) for the movie until the end of August. They just shared this groundwork image from the movie:
We have a year now!
Stills of a cat, breast, and eye from End of Evangelion. The breast presumably belongs to adult film actress Maiko Yūki, who was popular at the time and credited on the film by name.
According to the original proposal/draft for Neon Genesis Evangelion (furnished in 1993, nearly two years before Eva would be first broadcasted), twelve of the most powerful Angels were positioned to attack the Earth all at once, completely obliterating the United States of America in the process. This was planned for Episode 24. Makes you think.
Moreover, the drafts feature two characters/concepts that were eventually scrapped for NGE: a character named “Conrad Lawrence” and “the ancient ruins of Arka”. Conrad is described as a 67 year old UN member and “Human Complementary Plan” executive - probably an early prototype of Kiel Lorenz, seeing as he is named after the same Nazi doctor. As to who or what Akra is, no one knows, except that Akra is mentioned in the manuscript Legend of the Jews.
so, shouwa genroku rakugo shinjuu - if like me you were impressed with the evangelion seiyuus and the compelling performance they brought to their roles, rakugo features a whopping 5 members of the evangelion cast - in fact i don’t think i’ve seen an anime feature so many evangelion seiyuus together. what’s more, the entire main cast is made up entirely of evangelion seiyuu:
kikuhiko by akira ishida (kaworu), sukeroku by koichi yamadera (kaji), miyokichi by megumi hayashibara (rei and yui and pen pen), and yotaro by seki tomokazu (toji)
outstanding cast aside, the show is incredible, embroiling itself with showa-era history, storytelling, and adult drama involving a salient gay romance between two rakugo performers. watch it!
recurring visual imagery: head shake + disbelief
neon genesis evangelion, dir. hideaki anno (1995)
end of evangelion, dir. hideaki anno (1997)
recurring visual imagery: mother + draping
neon genesis evangelion, dir. hideaki anno (1995)
evangelion (and its manga series) were committed to realism to the extent that family members actually looked biologically related - in general, this is difficult to achieve in any animation medium, where stylistic convention can contribute to same face syndrome.
shinji is a perfect composite of gendo and yui’s features, but in a natural, effortless way - he’s not a random synthesis of “gendo’s eyes” and “yui’s chin” or whatever. rei looks like a young yui, but again the facsimile isn’t forced - it’s just enough to color naoko immediately suspicious, but not enough to arose suspicion from everyone everywhere. ritsuko and naoko share the same power brow and pointed chin - the show even went out of its way to explain ritsuko’s blonde hair as a result of repeated hair coloring, a slight of authenticity not often broached in anime. in the manga, kaji and his younger brother look so alike yet apart, and you can easily pick them out from a crowd of other nameless kids - this is really impressive, considering the medium.
rebuild isn’t interested in having relatives’ looks cohere. sakura and toji don’t look related - which is especially heinous considering toji’s looks are so pronounced and iconíqq (flat chin, dark skin... compared to sakura’s boringly petite and pale features) anno is on record saying his only goal for sakura was for her to be “cute”, so maybe he thought he couldn’t succeed if she looked too much like toji. trash.
the second half of end of evangelion is titled “magokoro, wo kimi ni” which is the japanese title of the movie charly (1968), which of course, is the film adaption of the 60s sci-fi book flowers for algernon. (par the course for anno; episode 26′s title “the beast that shouted ai at the heart of the world” is taken from the 60s sci-fi harlan ellison novel of the same name, and the final episode of nadia is named after the 70s sci-fi novel inherit the stars by james p. hogan.)
magokoro, wo kimi ni translates into “my purest heart for you”. for those who’ve read the book, flowers for algernon ends with charlie’s dying wish to alice kinnian - that she water his flowers and place them on algernon’s grave. we can probably trace the inspiration from kaji’s dying wish of misato - that she water his flowers - to flowers for algernon as well. (it’s worth noting the book saw immense popularity with japanese audiences, so much that it was adapted into two stage plays in 1987 and 1990, and a j-drama in 2015.)
in my conversations with people regarding evangelion’s anti-semitism, initially they’ll have no idea what i’m talking about only to be horrified and bewildered by how far its reach extends in this show. it’s good practice to be aware/cognizant of certain recycled narratives that nearly always indicate nazi-ism.
it’s impossible to extricate evangelion from the anti-semitism it trafficks in - we have keel lorenz, whose name is an unclever amalgamation of a categorically jewish first name and the surname of the infamous nazi doctor anno named him after, who heads a shadowy, undercover cabal whose influence precedes governments, military, and even alien beings (sound familiar?) much of NGE borrows from the protocols of the elders of zion: seele exploits and is guided by the dead sea scrolls, an ancient jewish text, while simultaneously carrying out apocalyptic charges against unsuspecting innocents. the imagery linked to them by association - the hebrew tree of life, or the judeo-masonic eyes, are borrowed from kabbalahistic myth and tradition.
the stereotypic hooked noses. i wonder where they found this trope.
there is the strange, curious trend on part of anti-semites to insist many nazis were secretly jewish themselves, or otherwise approximate-to-jewry in some form or fashion (think of the obsession with tracing hitler to remote jewish ancestry). one only has to search “keel the wandering jew” to get a glimpse. there is of course, no shortage in characters who are 1) nazi jews or 2) jews influenced by nazis in anti-semitic media. anno clearly drew MUCH inspiration from this canon of thought, and made no effort to hide its influence on him.
