[EVA] Manga continuation - Stage 54

[zio Gilgamesh]

First of all, thanks 1000 to Bochan_bird for the translation-description to
stage 54 :-)
much appreciated on this side, both for the thing itself as for the inner
quality.

now, the usual silly zG's comments:

[Hitori]
> Ack!  This cannot happen as the only
> couple that should be supported is
> Asuka and Shinji.

Whenever did "holding hands" automatically mean "being a couple" :-) ?

[Widya]
> I always interpret this image
> (which, even unseen, sounds like to me to be
> recreating the image from the same episode
> in the anime) as Jesus carrying
> the cross to Golgoltha.

I like your vision. Not saying the image actually meaning that, none of us
;-) yet I do like it.

[dennisud]
> the manga seems to be more "Real"
> and consequently much more interesting!

So far the manga looks to me like sort of a "second draft" to Eva. Trying to
adjust what was -say- wrong with the first one. Not talking of quality, that
goes with personal taste :-) just talking about the plot and how they
developed it this second time. They had the "after the event" knowledge to
do it.
Say they showed the Dead Sea Scrolls :-) and other stuff on the shito side.
And we get to see deeper and clearer inside characters and their
relationships: these new Shinji+Rei scenes fully explain why she did what
she did in the end.
That's the sort of things a writer does while revising his work. Then my
impression.
Again, no quality involved. I like both the anime and the manga. Of course,
I'd add to the anime those new scenes we have on paper if I were the
powerful and full-o-money producer :-D

After these needless lines, comes the silly question: who wrote it? I mean
the script to the manga. Sadamoto all alone, addin' and cuttin' wherever I
liked to? I know I must be the only one who ignores if, when, what and how
did Mr. Anno had to do with this script :-) Is he just the plot writer and
then supervisor (e.g.: "now show Shinji and Rei getting closer during the
story" and afterwards "right, I like the way you put it/wrong, do it again")
or what?

thanks
zio Gil

"Och, stop that crap like 'everyone's a bit weird'... nothing but a
commonplace.
I AM weird. You guys gonna have just one scanty paranoia each."
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