[EVA] Manga Manga Manga

[Patrick Yip]

     PY @ TOKYO


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>IIRC, the first six issues of the Viz release is equivalent to the first 
>tankoubon.  I assume the next six will be equivalent to the second 
>tankoubon.
     
Wrong. As far as I can tell (I have the first three collections) there are the 
equivalent of two TV episodes in each collection. The first six issues of the 
Viz translation only cover half of the first collection.

## I take that you meant you have the Japanese manga collection (which 
## should be what I said "tankouhon").  2 TV episodes in each collection
## volume (tankouhon) of manga is about right (one episode in the TV is
## different from one episode in the manga though). 

## On the other hand, I am not sure how much in the Japanese manga tankouhon
## is covered by the first six issues of Viz translations though. The only
## impression I have of the English translation is that it is sooooo thin...
        
        I must say I am very confused by this thread. I can't really make much
sense
of what's being said 

## Actually I don't see any confusion... Even the article that you quoted
## makes a lot of sense to me, and is not contradictory to what has been
## said in this ML so far.

- for starters, I thought that the manga was already done in Japan. 

## No, the manga has not yet finished. The serialization is still undergoing
## in "Shounen ACE-A" monthly magazine.

The reason behind this is I read an article in some British magazine called 
'Manga Mania' that gives the impression that the manga was already well 
underway. Here, check it out.
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                                                        EVANGELION: The Manga
[snip]
        In the manga version, the first shot of the underwater angel attack
shows  it
drifting past the submerged hulk of the Gainax building. The character of 
Doctor Ikari is slightly more sympathetic: the Sadamoto version permits him a 
relieved smile when Shinji agrees to pilot the Evangelion. It also puts the 
early episodes back into chronological order, ditching the anime's flashback 
approach which saves Shinji's first battle until the end of episode two. 

## These are all stuff from the first "tankouhon" volume of the manga.
## And there have been four volumes published so far... The fifth volume
## has to wait until there are enough serialized episodes from ACE-A 
## magazine.

[snip]

        Sadamoto recognised early that the anime team would always have more
success
with the moving, full-colour battle scenes, and so concentrates more on the 
characters' thoughts and feelings. 

## As a digression, this was indeed a smart move by Sadamoto. Manga is almost
## always stronger in depiction of character's thoughts and feelings than
## anime.

Consequently, there is more in the manga on the psychological damage suffered 
by the pilots, and extra scenes of Shinji recuperating in the hospital. Most 
notably, there is a cycle of dream sequences in which Shinji encounters his 
mother, only to see her transform into a fearsome Evangelion machine.

## This is also stuff from the first volume of the Japanese manga. 

        The Evangelion manga remains untranslated in English, but Viz
Communications
have recently announced that they'll be bringing it out in 32-page chunks 
starting in September.
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        As you can see, the information presented in this article conflicts with
some
of the things that have been said in this thread. It also gives the impression 
that the manga is either finished or further along than it would appear to be.

## I don't any conflict. In fact, I see that this article covers only the
## content in the first volume of the Japanese manga. So we cannot tell
## whether the manga is finished from the content of the article. ON the
## other hand, the manga is still ongoing, and we'll see how events turn 
## out differently in manga. 

        Oddly enough, the main article (this one was just the sidebar), which
was
about the anime, keeps refering to Misato as a 'Burn-out case' (No Way!) and 

## "Burn-out"? Far from it, I will say.

also claims that Envangelion is "fervently anti-Christian in its stance" 
(which doesn't make much sense to me, because the whole thing is based 
on/around the Kabbalah, which I have always thought was Jewish).

## Kabbalah is Jewish, but there are lots of Christian symbols (the many
## appearances of cross-shaped objects is one example). It is easy to 
## associate the anime with Christianity. But I think the American people
## are too sensitive to the Christian symbolisms in the anime. I don't
## see any clear pro- or anti- stance towards Christianity here. 
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