| 2001 News Archive | |
| 25/12/2001 | News: On Anime on DVD there's a more detailed description of the remastered first evangelion DVD, the cover was the same only because the new one wasn't done yet but there is still now official release date for this dvd. |
| 13/12/2001 | News: On Anime on DVD there's a description of the remastered first evangelion DVD compared to the original that was released, go there to check it out. |
| 08/12/2001 | News: Some old news on Anime News Network there's a report saying on rec.arts.anime.misc that Hideaki Anno Returns to Anime, he will supervise a short opening animation. The new work will be based on "AnimeTenchou" (Anime Shop Manager), about a crazy anime fan shop manager. |
| 30/11/2001 | News: Some small news I forgot about, Manga has released a DVD flyer which contains the new dates of the movies release (as stated in my previous news post) the dates are April for Death and Rebirth and July for The Evangelion movie (a.k.a End of Evangelion). From Right Stuf |
| 28/11/2001 |
Movie status: On schedule. The dates posted on web
site are "buffers" (meaning they are worst case). They are working to
get the discs out as soon as possible and Evangelion will probably be
their biggest release yet (in terms of stuff on the discs). Currently
waiting on better sound for the Japanese sound track, so it can be in
5.1 as well. Right now its in stereo. Hoping to get an interview with Anno Hideaki, but doubt that it will happen in time for the release. They will have an interview and possibly a director's commentary with Tsurumaki Kazuya. That will be done at a sound studio somewhere in Japan. This be added into the special features along with an interview and commentary by Yamaga. Special Features: Image gallery, their own version of the red cross book, interview with voice actors, behind the scenes stuff, easter eggs. Each disc will have its own set of special features and will be broken up to coordinate with each disk. The one that basically is a compilation of the whole series will have the most goodies on it. The reason that they can't use the Red Cross Book is that so many people contributed to it that it would take too long to get permission from everyone. There will be no changes to Death/Rebirth and the End of Evangelion. They are putting it all on 2 disks because they want to put so much stuff on each disc. They are considering creating a box for the discs. They haven't figured out how to do the box sets yet, whether they want to sell one disc and the box, sell both discs and box, or sell all separately. Those details are still being worked out along with the box design. Amanda Win Lee will be doing a commentary to go along and there will be an interview with Tiffany Grant. Because Evangelion has such a large fan following, Manga has been collecting input as to what to put on the discs in terms of special features. Some of those requests will get incorporated into the discs. One of the fan things they would like to put on the discs is a fan video featuring scenes from Eva put to Queens Bohemian Rhapsody. If you know who did this video, please contact keith@manga.com. |
| 27/11/2001 | News: From EML, Bochan_bird wrote this: Vol.7 of the manga tankoubon will be released on Dec. 1. The Vol.7 collectors edition with special Christmas figure will be released on Dec. 14. Amada Printing Co. will release a new set of Eva trading cards based on the "Raising Ayanami" computer game, the card images show various shots of Rei from possible game scenarios, including as a mother with small child, in a Nun's habit, etc. For more info on this game go to the Gainax site here (Japanese), you can download a trailer from there or here. There is a demo of this game also available for download as stated below in a previous news post |
| 21/11/2001 | News: On my rare visits to figures.com I found this, Diamond will be offering the much anticipated EVA 01: Matsumura Version action figure for pre-order in their December issue of Previews. Sculpted by well known Japanese artist Mr. Shinobu Matsumura, this figure has removable armor! You can remove the shoulder plates as well as change the head, revealing the organic creature hidden beneath the armor! The EVA’s left shoulder is equipped with a knife that is removable, and can be held in the right hand. Read more about it here |
| 19/11/2001 | News: From what little I understand of the Japanese Gainax site, they seem to be selling limited reproduction Evangelion cells that comes with a frame, certificate and other stuff. The only drawback to me would be the price, the cheapest 28000 yen (about $227.83 US) to the most expensive 120000 yen (about $976.40 US). Go here to find out more. |
| 16/11/2001 | News: AKA KON 2001 will be hosting an official screening of the new Neon Genises Evengelion movies! The time and day will be announced at the convention. The screening will be hosted by 3 of the North American voice actors from the cast and by the North American producer. Go to their site for more |
| 14/11/2001 | Update: With the lack of news for evangelion I'm expanding my news search but since I cant show all anime news I made a new poll to help me decide Click here or you can email me |
| 07/11/2001 | Update: A small update, just added and fixed a few links to my links page and to the flash links section also |
| 06/11/2001 | News: From the Gainax site the Groundworks of Evangelion Movie 2 will most likely be out on 18/01/2002. And a new book has come out 'DER MOND' contains a collection of the colour illustrations of Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the character designer of Evangelion, go to Anime Nation for more info |
| 03/11/2001 | News: Looks like I missed more news again, I asked Manga about if they will have included the Japanese original End of Evangelion trailer and from their replay on the Manga site it seems that they will have it. |
| 02/11/2001 | News: This is from Animenations ask John section on 'para para' music: Here's a little Real Media example of a CG 'kogal' para para dancing to a remix of Evangelion's Cruel Angel's Thesis." The video itself is not that spectacular but the music is quite interesting |
| 29/10/2001 |
News: More old news I missed: Keith from Manga has
given us the reason why the movies were delayed. From the
Manga site: What's the hold up with the Evangelions movies? The movies are a very complex project to undertake and we are moving along as quickly and safely as possible. Amanda herself has been hospitalized twice during this project and yet has still been locked in the studio for weeks at a time. This is a very sensitive project to fans and us as well so as things progress we will constantly post updates on the status of this project. This is a very big project so forgive us for being a little cautious with production. We promise to keep you all informed as things develop and dates change. |
| 27/10/2001 | News: Sorry for the lack of news updates, the following are older news I missed putting up: on Animenation it said that evangelion dead in Japan because the lack of orders for the 2002 evangelion calendar thus it was cancelled. and A new groundworks book has been released in Japan called, Groundwork of Evangelion Movie 1 based on the movies death and rebirth and bits from end of eva. Go here for more information |
| 07/10/2001 | News: On the Manga site it is said that the Evangelion movies will be released on a later date April seems to be the date for d&r release and July is the date for eoe, these date are for both dvd and vhs releases for each movie |
| 25/09/2001 | News: ADV's first DVD volume of the Evangelion TV series is currently being re-mastered to remove the digital editing of the first version disc and restore all of the original Japanese footage. This disc will be released as part of AD Vision's Evangelion DVD boxed set release. Fans that already have the Eva DVDs will be able to purchase the first "restored" DVD with the series box separately. ADV also confirmed plans for a "normal" and "premium" version Evangelion DVD boxed set, with the "premium" version being more expensive. From Anime on DVD |
| 24/09/2001; | News: More news about the upcoming movie release, the release dates are still the same Jan(vhs) Mar(dvd). Dvd extras include dub outtakes, character bios, some (not all) of the info from the red cross booklet. Packaging going to be a double-disc case, to accomidate the large booklet to be included with the movie. Audio English 5.1 for sure, Manga is trying to get Japanese 5.1. And Manga is trying to arrange an interview with director Hideaki Anno, it will be done 3rd week in Oct. An interesting note about the dub, Tristan MacAvery said that those who have seen a certain scene involving Shinji at the beginning of End of Evangelion will probably get a kick out of the dub version. For more information go to Anime on DVD website |
| 04/09/2001 | News: Art Asylum's founder, Digger, announced that he would once again be brandishing his sculpting tools, this time on a project sure to please Neon Genesis Evangelion fans: the Angel Sachiel, Action Figure for Kaiyodo. This figure will join Kaiyodo's large assortment of Neon Genesis Evangelion toys, including the upcoming Eva-01 Test Type: Matsumura Version and the pilot of the Red Eva 02 unit Asuka Langley. Info from UMJAMS |
| 22/08/2001 |
News: It look's like the issue about overlays in
the Evangelion movies might not be true.
Go here to see what Keith from Manga Entertainment had to say about
it, and the release date for the movies on DVD is now March. According to Madman Entertainment the final Neon Genesis Evangelion - Collection 8 DVD's cover will be different in Australia than the ones in the US. Instead of Misato on the cover they will be using the picture of Shinji on the chair on top of the world. Go to Madman Entertainment for more info. |
| 21/08/2001 |
News: Unfortunately Manga Entertainment confirmed
at the Wizard World convention in Chicago that the special edition
American release of the 2 disc set Shin Seiki Evangelion movies will
contain digital overlays, same thing that was done to the Evangelion
series on DVD by AD Vision. Furthermore, the DVD version of the movies
will be copy protected with Macrovision encoding. Macrovision encoding
reportedly does have a detrimental effect on DVD image quality. The full version of the RCB will not be released because Mange could't license the whole thing because it was written by many different people besides Gainax. But on a happier note the Dubbing for the movies have been completed and they are working on the Subs. Information from Anime Nation and Anime on DVD |
| 16/08/2001 |
News: Studio Ironcat has also licensed American
publication rights to the three Japanese Groundwork of Evangelion
illustration books and is currently working on translating them. and AD Vision has confirmed that the first DVD volume of Evangelion will be re-mastered and re-released sometime in the future, presumably to correct the poor image quality and remove the digital overlay editing present in the current existing DVD release. A new cover to Evangelion DVD 2 will also be produced so that all of the DVD covers match. From Anime Nation |
| 08/08/2001 | Update: Since I made this site I've only updated the menus systems but haven't updated the context of it, so I will do it now. It might take some time but better than doing nothing, Any comments/suggestions welcome either email me or leave a comment in my poll. |
| 25/07/2001 | Update: I have added some pics from the Eva movies in flash only (go to either movie section and it will be there). But it is still under construction, currently theirs only a couple of pics but more will be on the way and I have rewritten the movies summaries of eoe and death |
| 24/07/2001 | News: The Evangelion movies release date has been changed from October 2001 to December 2001 for VHS and January 2002 for the DVD's. Information from Anime on DVD click to read |
| 18/07/2001 | A demo for the game Neon Genesis Evangelion -Ayanami raising project which you can play (It is all in Japanese and only download if your system supports it) Click Here Thanks to Jeranon a member of the madman forum for the link |
| 09/07/2001 | According to Amanda Winn-Lee, director (and voice actress) of the Evangelion movies, production will begin in two weeks. Info from Anime news network |
| 08/07/2001 | My banners page have been updated, removed some older ones and made 2 new banners. Click Here to see |
| 23/06/2001 | Animenet.com is hosting a Contest, the winners gets a copy of Evangelion DVD Collection 0:8 ends July 8th at Midnight, Click here for more info |
| 17/06/2001 | Links page updated broken links are gone and added new Bubblegum Crisis links |
| 09/06/2001 | Kaiyodo and Diamond have teamed up to make those dreams of glow-in-the-dark Eva figures a reality. Yes, that's right, at San Diego and Wizard World Chicago. Neon Genesis Evangelion EVA Unit 01 Glow-in-the-Dark will be exclusive to those cons. The first Angel Adam will come blister carded marked with a Comic Con Exclusive Sticker. Once again only 2001 figures will be produced. Click here for more info |
| 06/06/2001 | Today is Shinji Ikari's birthday, His official birth date is the 6th of June 2001. Which is also the same day that his Japanese Voice Actress (Ogata Megumi) birthday falls on. |
| 22/05/2001 | Update: Made another new the intro but this one is big so skip it if don't like waiting it to load |
| 01/05/2001 | News: Kaiyodo a Japanese toy and model manufacturer has revealed early photos of new action figures of prototype Evangelion full action Matsumura Version Unit 01 and full action Unit 05 action figures. click here |
| 20/04/2001 | Today is my sites 1st birthday and to celebrate updated the flash part of this site all new enjoy |
| 13/04/2001 | News: Manga has confirmed the release of the Evangelion movies on uncut subtitled and dubbed VHS and DVD for October 31st |
| 10/04/2001 | More News on the release of the Evangelion movies on DVD from Amanda Winn Lee (who does Rei's voice) Click Here to go to madman. |
| 07/04/2001 | My sites 1st birthday is coming soon to celebrate I'v made a new flash menu and will be release on the day (20th). Any other Comments and suggestions welcome |
| 24/03/2001 | According to a post by Amanda Winn Lee (who does Rei's voice) on madman board The Eva movies will be released on DVD by Manga at the end of this year Click Here to see it. |
| 22/03/2001 | New Evangelion CD titled Evangelion: Birth of Rei Ayanami coming out on March 30 which is Rei's birthday. Go Here to see the cover and a sample of what's on the CD |
| 06/03/2001 | Gainax has announced Neon Genesis Evangelion -Ayanami raising project, a simulation game featuring its popular character, Rei Ayanami. release on May 18th, with a retail price of 8800 yen. Click here for a trailer clip or go here (English) or here (Japanese) for more info (the low quality clip can be found on these sites) |
| 21/02/2001 | Neon Genesis Evangelion Second Impact DVD Box Set Vol. 2 Out Now but only in Japan Click here |
| 16/02/2001 | New Evangelion CD titled Evangelion: Birth of Rei Ayanami coming out on March 30 which is Rei's birthday. more info go to Animenation |
| 16/02/2001 | Evangelion's third DVD release date 10/04/2001 in Australia Click here to go to Madman Entertainment |
