[EVA] 2nd Coming??

[Noah Ramon]

>I haven't seen Gundam. I think it's a little boring.

Historically speaking, one of the most important series in the field. 
(MSG, specifically.) It does have the ability to be SWEEPING and 
EPIC, which can admittedly sap your energy.

>Anyway, great anime like Yamato and Macross cannot be "sequeled",
>because it would make fun of them. That anime will die.

Um, they already _have_ been sequeled. Look at how many Macross 
sequels (or sequeloids) were released, not including DYRL. And how 
many Yamato series were there? And how many movies?

The original work is not necessarily debased by the presence of an 
inferior sequel. C'mon, use your head - if that were true, both 
Ghostbusters and Highlander would be abandoned.

You seem to have some weird ideas separating "fine art" from 
"commercial works" from "money-grubbing". As was pointed out, the 
Sistine Chapel was work-for-hire. Hell, even the Rothko Chapel was 
commissioned. Great works of art can be commercially motivated - it's 
not inherently against the nature of art.

>Everybody knows the high quality of Eva. A sequel has to be made to be
>better to original Eva. Has any anime surpassed Eva? Escaflowne? Brain
>Powerd? Nadesico? Don't be so funny...

Define "surpassed". I'd certainly give Cowboy Bebop higher marks for 
creating a mood and sustaining it during the course of 26 episodes. 
On the other hand, I don't think there's been much since Eva that 
provokes such strong emotions (either positive or negative) in 
viewers.

And FWIW, I think a sequel is unnecessary. but I wouldn't put it past 
Gainax to make one anyway. If they smell cash on the wind, they'll 
jump at it. It's lucky that they're also pretty good artists, but 
they aren't above shilling crap as well.

>Besides, think that once the simple minds of otakus sees what they like
>(Asuka and Shinji together...puajjj), they're satisfied, and need no
>more of anime series they used to like. That's were an anime dies in the
>mind of fans. Nowadays I haven't met any DragonBall fan, because in my
>country, TV has shown it for so many years... A DragonBall fan is an
>idiotic guy, here.

Hey! What have you got against Simple Minds! Almost as good as Human League!

Seriously, though, I have no idea where you're going with this part 
of the argument. Is it that anime fandom is sheep-like, or that all 
anime series eventually fade away, or that people look down on 
Dragonball?




(and I'd also like to point out that I was in fact jesting - I'm not 
that big a fan of Simple Minds. I still like Human League, though.)
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