[EVA] Bought some Eva books.....

[Brian Shea]

>> First of all, I denounce Anno & Gainax's statement 
>> that the Eva movies are the true ending. This was 
>> said, and they were made for commercial, not artistic
>> reasons & therefore IMOO are disqualified for that 
>> reason.

> Sorry, but a little sarcasm is needed here...

> Gee, that must explain why they had to make the 
> "alternate" TV ending on such short notice after being
> censored by TV Tokyo and the PTA groups. After all, it
> wouldn't make sense to do all that work on the 
> "originally intended" ending (ie: early version of EoE
> including storyboards and some drawing work) if they 
> didn't plan for the series to end that way...

> Bochan_bird
> "Think about it"  :P
> ====================
> As a side note, Boogiepop Phantom was also affected by
> the TV Tokyo and PTA censors, although nowhere near the 
> extent that Eva was.

Cowboy Bebop too, so bad that 14 of the 26 episodes never aired on the first run.  Including the first episode and the final 8.  With all the talk about Eva's influence on the genre (although I'll admit here and now that I'm one of those who thinks it was very little), the biggest influence it had may have been the censorship atmosphere... :(


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