Bridging the gap between man and God didn’t work so well for Victor Frankenstein, but that won’t stop the folks at NERV in GAINAX’s Shinseiki Evangelion (or here in the US, Neon Genesis Evangelion) from trying their hand at it.
Story Intro
Commander Ikari and his defense-department corporation NERV lead a battle against invading aliens with large robots controlled by fourteen year olds, children born the last time the aliens attacked. Rei (quiet and unemotional), Shinji (Ikari’s shy son), and Asuka (spoiled rotten) pilot these huge “Eva” bio-mechanical robots, at the command and care of Misato and Ritsuko, among others. While the show has plenty of action in each episode, the relationships between the various characters and the feelings brought out by battle and unknown forces really takes the center stage.
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How is it that I had the blog on auto-pilot shortly before the convention, and it’s been quiet ever since? I still have plenty of former pages to repost with updated info, but figured I’d have at least a few “teaser” shots to post. They can’t all be “Favorites” reposts, though some like the following will foreshadow some of them to come. ^_^
Eva Unit 02 and Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion
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From some of the anime staff behind Serial Experiments Lain and at times including similar sort of “other-worldly” seffects, Boogiepop Phantom is coming to get you.
Story Intro
Five years ago, a series of disappearances and murders took place, affecting a group of people surrounding a high school in different ways. An urban legend began as well: that strange feeling of being watched on dark evening streets just might be Boogiepop Phantom coming for you.
Like the classic Kurosawa film Rashomon, each episode follows a different character’s point of view of the events, which links their stories and different styles into one story arc across twelve episodes. At times an episode will show a scene and bring about assumptions in the viewer, then another episode will show things from another character’s point of view that collapses any preconception about the same scene.
Created by celebrated manga-ka Yoshitoshi ABe, Serial Experiments Lain (or simply Lain) opens up a world of science-based philosophy and history of both the real and alternate sort.
Story Intro
The show follows a shy junior-high-school girl as her world is shocked after receiving an email from a recently-deceased friend. Intrigued by the timing, and part of the message itself, Lain gets a new “Navi” online computer and begins upgrading it for better access to the “Wired”, the world of the Internet. She then comes to be often confused with another Lain, an extroverted, take-no-pity girl who looks, but certainly doesn’t act, just like her.
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While the blog is on auto-pilot for a while, as we convention staff are in the mad-dash final week before Sakura-Con, I’m also playing catch-up for older review/recommendation entries here porting them to the blog.
In the meantime, here’s a brief glimpse into such a final-prep week: stuffing the Bags-O-Swag that members receive when they pick up their pre-registered badges or register at the door.
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