[EVA] No Manga Stage This Month / Some comments by Sadamoto

[Anuraag Agrawal]

No manga stage this month, but the rumored 100 page digest was included.  It
has some messages from Gainax staff to Sadamoto and his responses, summaries
of the 12 volumes, a preview (rehash) of volume 12 stage 77 (genocide) and a
few poorly drawn Eva parody mangas.  I wouldn't mind translating some of
them, except they look like they'd be pretty boring without the actual pages
in front of you...  Looking at Sadamoto's comments, we can probably expect
the hiatus to continue for a few months while he works on Rebuild.

Some rough translations of a selection of the Ganiax staff comments (many of
the questions are in handwriting and too hard for me to read...)

Hideaki Anno: Hurry and finish.  Good luck.
Sadamoto: After finishing up volume 12, I'll have to start working on
Rebuild, so wait just a little bit...

Hiroyuki Imaishi: Speaking of the Eva manga, when I first entered the
company, since I had been drawing for a Dojin magazine, I helped out as an
assistant for one day.  I still remember how utterly unusable my work then
was.  I'm really sorry about that. orz
Sadamoto: I can't even remember that assistant thing at all.  I'm looking
forward to your next project and cheering you on.

Kazuhiro Takamura: Congrats on the release of volume 12.  Before becoming an
animator, and even now, I've been studying the girls you draw, in particular
the lines of their body.  That line which seems to flow from back to hip, as
much as I try to copy it, I can't seem to be able to.  I wonder if that's
because I just suck, or maybe I don't have enough pervertedness yet.  Thanks
for giving me that nickname "earl of orgasms".
Sadamoto: Follow your own "way of the moe-anime".  Bore into that hard disk
of yours full of porn with your drill lol (ed: euphemism?)

Mine Yoshizaki: Sadamoto-sensei, I was waiting! Congratulations on your new
release.  With this, there's one more "something".  I'm a huge fan of
Evangelion, of Eva, and I love all of Nerv staff, umbilical cables,
missiles, black holes in the moon, somewhat lacking ceremony drawings,
everyone at Gainax, and also Sadamoto-san.  But I'm not gay, so don't worry.
 What I love the most is the AT field!
Sadamoto: There was already one more "something" (ed: not sure what they're
referring to, could be some bet along the lines of "one figure for every
volume you release")  By the way, I went to the ZELE (marked with the
pronunciation ze-ru ed: the same as SEELE) beauty parlor you recommended,
and the staff there corrected me saying it's pronounced zeru (ed: not
ze-ru). lol

--AA