Current Events > Nobody told me the Evangelion manga was better than the anime

(+) Yeah! (+)

It maintains all the same themes and ideas without the complete indulgence in misery the anime falls into.

Also the ending is a thousand times better without changing much, with the exception of the Orange Jello scene. <~<
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Boobies tho
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Cruel Angel's Thesis tho
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The Eva manga is a piece of fanfiction created by one of the animators that was pissed that his ship didn't sail. It's the pettiest piece of official Eva media in existence.
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The manga ending is weird.
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Wait what I thought that was a racist YouTube chick...

Oh that was evalion or something IIRC.
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AlisLandale posted...

Orange Jello scene.

Explain?
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That's because it took forever to finish and people forgot it existed.
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s0nicfan posted...

The Eva manga is a piece of fanfiction created by one of the animators that was pissed that his ship didn't sail. It's the pettiest piece of official Eva media in existence.

Explain?
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If the last two books aren't stills of people clapping it ain't Eva.
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I just looked it up and I can see why most don't know about it. It started in 1994 and finished in 2013!
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Cookie Bag posted...

AlisLandale posted...

Orange Jello scene.

Explain?

Just without Komm Susser Todd the scene isnt nearly as great >~>
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snesmaster40 posted...

I just looked it up and I can see why most don't know about it. It started in 1994 and finished in 2013!

I wonder what took it so long?
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Carlbertomfg posted...

If the last two books aren't stills of people clapping it ain't Eva.

Congratulations
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frozenshock posted...

s0nicfan posted...

The Eva manga is a piece of fanfiction created by one of the animators that was pissed that his ship didn't sail. It's the pettiest piece of official Eva media in existence.

Explain?

The manga is written by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, who was a design director for the anime. He's stated before in interviews that he originally designed Shinji to be like Asuka and when they decided to make Shinji a boy, created Asuka as a pair with him, only creating Rei later. That's pretty clear in the manga, where Asuka is not only more obviously paired up with Shinji, but the manga basically ends with them being the official pairing.

Sadamoto was also quoted in an interview saying he was unhappy with the anime's ending because it wasn't obvious enough, and that he wanted it to have a happy ending.

Sadamoto comments that "the [Evangelion] animation never actually gives people an 'answer.' It's more of a feeling of 'figure out the rest of the story for yourself.' I think that the manga will begin to differ from the anime. I really like clear, straightforward stories, so even if it seems a little immature, that's the direction I'd like to work toward."

But how will the comic end? "That's a difficult question, because I don't know how I'm going to end it yet," Sadamoto told NEWTYPE. "I want to give it a happy ending... but what's happy? The movie ended happily in its own way. There is nothing significant in human life from the time you are born to the moment you die, and in between, we can't say we've lived if we don't enjoy life. Shinji's life is, and will be, hard, but he's lived, and that in itself is a happy ending."

The rest is, admittedly, extrapolation on my part. Rei was never part of his original concepts but something Anno asked him to create. The anime makes it fairly ambiguous who Shinji prefers, thus the endless shipping wars between fans. We know Sadamoto wasn't happy with the ending, and so the manga diverges heavily to favor his original pairing to remove the ambiguity.
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AlisLandale posted...

Cookie Bag posted...

AlisLandale posted...

Orange Jello scene.

Explain?

Just without Komm Susser Todd the scene isnt nearly as great >~>

I watched the end of infinity war synced to that

Then it added in a clip at the end of Spidey saying asuka's last line

I laughed
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Solar_Crimson posted...

snesmaster40 posted...

I just looked it up and I can see why most don't know about it. It started in 1994 and finished in 2013!

I wonder what took it so long?

Apparently, it's because he was working on other projects.
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