Sep

9

Rebuild of Evangelion!?

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Gainax is out to destroy our lives again and leave us in a deep state of insanity. Not that Evangelion hasn’t done enough damage by raising a legion of otakus chanting Rei Ayanami’s name like an anthem. Having studied the otaku culture well (remember Otaku no Video?), they got to squeeze out a lot from their best effort yet.

From next year to 2008, there will be four new films coming out for Eva. It’s called “Rebuild of Evangelion.” Where does this go and how it will come about? Well, according to sources, the films will tell the story once more of Evangelion but not in the same breath and depth of the previously released Eva films. Hence, the fans won’t be troubled again by the same things that have troubled us before. For this set of films, a new story is going to be given to fans. I honestly don’t know how else they could expand the world of Evangelion, but I have firm faith in Hideaki Anno and Gainax to come up with something brilliant. How funny that it’s only now that Anno actually found his work “Interesting.” I think it does take 10 years to detach yourself to a project and really see the beauty in it. Ahhhh~~ I can’t believe it’s been ten years. It just feels like it was yesterday that I cried.

Sep

8

Obata breaks the law with… a knife!?

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Apparently, Takeshi Obata, the lovely artist for the uber popular Death Note manga and Hikaru no Go, was arrested last wednesday after having been caught with an 8 cm knife in his car. He was actually stopped for not having his car lights on. It turns out in Japan, people are not allowed to hold a knife with a blade longer than 6 cm. Obata reasons that it was for camping, but he was still arrested by the police.

Shounen Jump has released that they aren’t pulling out the books that have been published for Obata unless there is a viable reason for his arrest. Nippon TV, who will be showing the animated episodes of Death Note, hasn’t given comments yet with regards to this arrest.

In all honesty, I think it’s silly, but a run in with the law is a run in with the law. I am half amused with this current turn of events. But I must add, thank GOD he’s not drawing for a manga now else I’d be so devastated to miss a week of his drawing. In fact, I quite miss him already. I hope things sort out for Obata-sensei. I mean, he should be able pay the fine of thirty thousand yen, right?

Source: MDN