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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Neon Genesis Evangelion - Manga Reviews


Because Yahoo!/Geocities is being shut down, I gotta find a place to put all of my anime/manga reviews.  Guess I can at least proofread again.

It also gives me an opportunity to bitch about capitalism online.  Perhaps Yahoo! made this move because they are losing money as they compete with better companies like Google (that should give me some Ad Sense profit...don't call me a hypocrite), but it could also be corporate greed at its worst.

In all honesty, Yahoo! has a great user friendly registry service, but to pay for webspace on the Internet?  If you cannot find that for free online, then there is at least one hedonistic douche bag involved.

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3


Stage 1: Angel Attack



The melancholy Shinji Ikari has been called to Tokyo 3 by his father for unknown reasons. While he's waiting for Capt. Misato Katsuragi to pick him up, a giant monster starts to attack. Misato seems to arrive at the nick of time, but the car is knocked over making them easy prey for the Angel (the official name for the monster). They are saved by a giant robot that helps by putting the car right side up. It also takes the pounding the two were meant to take, and is forced to retreat. Even after all of this, Shinji is still wondering why his father has called him, and what is the robot called the Evangelion that saved him.

If you discovered Evangelion through the anime like I did, you are immediately interested in the plot as we find out how down the character of Shinji was intended to be (My mistake, the manga came after the anime). Rei also plays a larger part than she does in the anime's first episode, and the humor is delivered a lot more openly. Not really more detailed than the anime, but a new way to look at Evangelion.


Stage 2: Reunion

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