[EVA] The End of Evangelion DVD

[Peter Svensson]

My EoE DVD review...

Menus: Look pretty, but the design is off in some places. However, there is 
an issue with the disc not accepting my

Cover Art: While a great image, it isn't a good cover. The insert image, 
while obviously created from inshow material, is better IMHO.

Audio: I've known for over a year now that Manga was really big on getting 
5.1 sound for EoE. I mean really big. Realize that the R1 DVD has better 
audio than the R2. A lot of time, and money went into those 6(!) audio 
tracks. I'm disappointed that this is where the majority of money went, but 
not surprised.

Video: Nice. Eva can't get that much better.

The translation: Okay, I'm listing the mistakes.
"New Century Evangelion" - Someone didn't get the memo from Gainax... The 
show's title in English is Neon Genesis Evangelion.

The whole Adam/Lillith line. Bochan, have you given your stuff to Madman 
Entertainment? They might be able to use it for their DVD release of the EVA 
films...

"The Beast at the heart of the world." - The episode title for Episode 26 
(original) is mistranslated during the whole second it flashes on screen. 
(I'm going through the film completely for my audio commentary. I'm still 
working on it...) Should be "The Beast that cried Love at the heart of the 
World" Incredibly petty, but still...

"My Pure Heart for you" The title "Sincerely Yours" is used on the insert.

The Fan Mail. Only the last one is translated, which kinda changes the 
meaning of the images. There are about as many positive messages there as 
negative ones.

It's better overall than ADV's translation, but not as good as 
Bochan_Bird's.

The Dub: A few major issues. Everyone is Christian all of a sudden. "Sweet 
Jesus!" "Jesus Christ!" "Goddamn!" They're Japanese. They wouldn't use 
Christian swearing. The main cast is pretty much at the same level they were 
in the TV series. Acceptable. I'll do a more indepth dub cast review, but 
suffice it to say that I feel it does justice to the film. It could have 
been a lot better, but it isn't terrible.

Other stuff: This is the theatrical cut. (Which while it has a better credit 
structure and eyecatches, loses the surrealness involving Asuka's "spoken" 
line, and the next episode preview, which is pretty much a test run for the 
ED for Karekano.) One of my fears, that the dub would digtially add Allison 
Keith, Amanda Winn Lee and Tiffany Grant to the Live Action sequence didn't 
happen, mostly because it would have been too expensive, but because Amanda 
Winn Lee didn't know that the voice actors played the parts in the live 
action sequence. (She talked about how she heard a rumor and couldn't get 
confirmation. Apparently looking at the credits of the film eluded her...)

But I Digress. It's an okay DVD. I haven't have had any major problems with 
my disc on the two players I've tried it on. More to come.

Peter Svensson | http://www.comicboards.com/manga

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