[EVA] Evangelion Chronicle

[once at ix.netcom.com]

-----Original Message-----
>From: joedoebell <joedoebell at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Jun 26, 2006 12:47 PM
>To: "The english-language evangelion mailing list." <evangelion at eva.onegeek.org>
>Subject: Re: [EVA] Evangelion Chronicle
>
>So it's finally here: the "all about evangelion"
>[encyclopedia] that Anno said would never be written.
>
>Go Gainax.
>
>And to the person who asked if we could convince
>Gainax to sell English versions... I laugh.  Gainax is
>actually the company that killed the English portion
>of their site and refuses to deliver to the US. 
>Economically, that makes no sense.  There was plenty
>of money to be made over here selling Evangelion, and
>Evangelion merchandise.  Their prices are too high,
>and they could have charged us to more than make up
>for the shipping costs, and people here would have
>still bought from them.  But they just aren't
>interested.
>

I'm not sure if Gainax killed their site, so much as their full-time translator left the company. It should be remembered, however, that for about three years Gainax produced a bilingual site in great detail, and during the most exciting time in their studio. They were the first anime studio to speak directly to the English-language world, even providing live webcam footage of the 1995 Gainamatsuri. Gainax's support for FanimeCon in terms of attendance and having a booth in the dealer's room shows they're certainly not opposed to interacting with English-speaking fans on principle (for that matter, Gainax has attended European conventions as well). 

—C.