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Neon Genesis Evangelion Free Ebook FREENEON GENESIS EVANGELION EBOOK Yoshiyuki Sadamoto | 176 pages | 05 May 2004 | Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc | 9781591163909 | English | San Francisco, United States Neon Genesis Evangelion Wiki New Century Evangelioncommonly referred to as Neon Genesis Evangelionis a Japanese anime series, created by Gainaxthat began in October It gained international renown and won several animation awards, and was the start of the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. The term "Evangelion" is in relation to the ancient Greek term for "good messenger" or "good news". The name was chosen in part for its religious symbolism, as well as for the fact that Hideaki Anno said he liked the word "Evangelion" because it "sound[ed] complicated". The Evangelion series revolves around the organization NERV, using large mechas called Evangelions to combat monstrous beings called Angels. While the initial episodes focus largely on religious symbols and specific references to the Bible, the later episodes tend to go deeper into the psyches of the characters, where it is learned that many of them have deep-seated emotional and mental issues. Through the exploration of these issues, the show begins to question reality and the existences therein. Much of the series's content was based on Hideaki Anno's own clinical depression. The story of Neon Genesis Evangelion primarily begins in with the " Second Impact ", a global cataclysm which almost completely destroyed Antarctica and led to the deaths of half the human population of Earth. The Impact is believed by the public at large and even most of NERV to have been the impact of a meteorite landing in Antarctica, causing devastating tsunamis and a change in the Earth's axial tilt leading to global climate change and subsequent geopolitical unrest, nuclear war such as the nuking of Tokyoand general economic distress. Later, Second Impact is revealed to be the result of contact with and experimentation on the first of what are collectively dubbed the Angels : Adam. The experiments were sponsored by the mysterious organization SEELEand carried out by the research organization Gehirn. In the yearGehirn had accomplished a number of its scientific and engineering goals and corporately changed into the paramilitary organization NERV which is headquartered in Tokyo-3a militarized civilian city located on one of the last dry sections of Japan; NERV's central mission is to locate the remaining Angels predicted by SEELE, Neon Genesis Evangelion to Neon Genesis Evangelion them. However, NERV has its own secret agenda, as directed by its Machiavellian commander Gendo Ikari : the Neon Genesis Evangelion Instrumentality Projectwhich, according to Gendo in episode 25, is the task of uniting all human minds into one global spiritual entity. Associated with NERV is the Marduk Institute, which has the task of selecting the pilots for the Evas, the most capable being children conceived after the Second Impact 14 year-olds. The institute consists of Commander Ikari, and NERV's chief scientist Neon Genesis Evangelion Akagi ; supporting the two are companies which are all Neon Genesis Evangelion to be ghost companies. As the first episode opens in the yearTokyo-3 is being attacked by the third Angel. Conventional weapons prove ineffective, largely due to its projected force field called an AT Field. NERV takes command of the battles, and is able to intercept and defeat the Neon Genesis Evangelion using the Evangelions, biomechanical mecha previously developed in secret by Gehirn inside the underground GeoFront ; the Geofront is located underneath Tokyo Not knowing why his father summoned him, Shinji Ikaria year-old boy arrives in Tokyo-3 just as the Third Angel attacks the city. He and Rei Ayanami battle the successive advances of the Angels Neon Genesis Evangelion and are later joined by Asuka Langley Soryuthe pilot of Unit Each Eva has its own designated pilot Unit—Rei, Unit—Shinji, Unit—Asuka, and subsequently Unit— Toji Suzuharaand operates by synchronizing the pilot's soul and the human soul inside the Eva via the enigmatic liquid substance known as LCL. In the context of Evangeliona "soul" refers to an individual's conscious existence, mental structure, and identity, rather than a more conventional "supernatural" entity. Surrounded by LCL, the pilot's nervous system, mind, and Neon Genesis Evangelion join with the Eva's controls, allowing the Eva to be controlled by the pilot's thoughts and actions. The higher a pilot's synchronization ratio, the better the pilot can control the Eva and fight more Neon Genesis Evangelion. While Ritsuko mentions at the series' beginning that the Evas do have some biological components to them, the extent of this is not immediately apparent. Unit is connected to Yui IkariGendo's wife, and Shinji's mother, since it absorbed her body and soul in a failed experiment, as shown in episodes 16 and Rei herself is suspected to Neon Genesis Evangelion a partial clone of Yui, and is known to harbor the soul of Liliththe second Angel. It is finally revealed, towards the end of the series, that the Evas are not really "robots" but are actually cloned Angels Units 00, 02, 03, and 04 are made from Adam, and 01 is made from Lilith onto which mechanical components are incorporated as a means of restraint and control. This control is not perfect, as various units are shown over the course of the series driving into " berserker " mode, in which they can act of their own will, independent of any artificial power input. Along with the battles against the Angels, the central characters struggle to overcome their personal issues and personality conflicts, which factor heavily into the events of the series and its eventual conclusion. Throughout the series, many of the main characters constantly have to cope with several social and emotional problems: characters are unwillingly forced to confront socially complex and challenging situations; unresolved sexual tensions grow between numerous characters; injuries, deaths, and defeats cause blows to their Neon Genesis Evangelion and previously steady relationships begin to falter. Its purpose is to force the completion of human evolution, and thereby save it from destroying itself. To Neon Genesis Evangelion so, they plan to break down the AT fields that separate individual humans, and in doing so, reducing all humans to LCLwhich is revealed to be the "primordial soup", the fundamental composite of human beings. All LCL would then be united into a supreme being, the next stage of humanity, ending all conflict, loneliness and pain brought about by individual existence. In the last two episodes the second set inGendo and Rei initiate the Human Instrumentality Project, forcing several characters especially Shinji [3] to face their doubts and fears and examine their self-worth, with sequences that "suggest animated schizophrenia". The introduction implies that this same process took Neon Genesis Evangelion for everyone. In MarchGainax had begun planning and production of an anime movie called Aoki Uru Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was to be a sequel to Oritsu Uchugun set 50 years later so as to be easier to pitch to investors [6] which, like Oritsuwould follow a group of fighter Neon Genesis Evangelion. Production would eventually cease in July a full-length anime movie was just beyond Gainax's financial ability — many of its core businesses were shutting down or producing minimal amounts of money:. We'd pulled out of Wonder Festival [a "flea market for garage kits"] and garage kit making altogether. We weren't taking on Neon Genesis Evangelion subcontracting work for anime production. We did continue to make PC games — Akai had seen to Neon Genesis Evangelion — but there wasn't a lot of work tossed our way. With mere pennies coming in, we were having a hard enough time just paying everyone's salaries. Finally the order came down for us to halt production on Aoki Uru. We were simply incapable of taking the project any further. He would work out numerous plans and projects, both on his own initiative and in collaboration with others, but they all fell through, and in the end, Anno's idle days were dotted with Neon Genesis Evangelion that he imploded by design. In the midst of all this, one project, a feature film entitled Blue Urufinally took shape and animation production began, only to be shut down due to circumstances beyond his Neon Genesis Evangelion. With the failure of the project, Anno, who had been slated from the beginning to direct Aoki Uruwas freed up. Unsurprisingly, elements of Aoki Uru were incorporated into the nascent Evangelion :. The same theme was carried over into Evangelionbut I think it was something more than just transposing one show's theme onto another …" [10]. The original early plotline for Evangelion remained relatively stable through development, although later episodes appear to have changed dramatically from the fluid and uncertain early conceptions; for example, originally there were 28 Angels Neon Genesis Evangelion not 17, and the climax would deal with the defeat of the final 12 Angels and not with the operation of the Human Instrumentality Project. As well, Kaworu Nagisa's initial design was a schoolboy who could switch to an "Angel form", accompanied by a pet cat. Production was by no means placid. After several episodes were produced, Evangelion began to be shown: the first episode aired 4 Octoberlong after originally planned. Initially ignored although received positively by those Gainax fans invited to early screeningsviewership grew slowly and largely by word of mouth. Episode 16 marked a distinct shift that would characterize the second half of Evangelion as being more psychological than action or adventure. I didn't mind it. The schedule was an utter disaster and the number of cels plummeted, so there were some places where unfortunately the quality suffered.
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