#zanalysis

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“It could’ve been worse, a good game could’ve done it” - Zander Kovir Netherbrand on the speculative use of ai in producing the art for the game “Beyond the Darkness”

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Neon Genesis Evangelion ~ Ep.20 “Form of the Mind, Form of the Man” / “Weaving a story 2: Oral Stage” A segment of background audio where a female radio host lays out some pivotal key thematic subjects… That most of the time is completely missing from available subtitles (as is from the Netflix ones), or is barely audible in some dubs. This happens right after Shinji is ejected from Unit 01, and Misato is giving Ritsuko a lift.

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End of Evangelion - ep.25′ “Air / Love is destructive” The moment in which Misato Katsuragi, while transporting Shinji Ikari to Unit 01, explains the relationship and true nature behind the Second Impact, Adam, Lilith, the Angels, the Eva Series, and humanity itself.

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Personal attempt to identify the height of the NGE cast. Commentary below...

First couple of tried methods were finding distance relationships and comparing+measuring them accordingly, but the resulting size variation between the characters themselves -and the height chart- was quite frustrating (also in comparison to Misato’s canon height of 163cm).

After trying several methods in Photoshop, I realized the task could be done more accurately, and efficiently, in Adobe Illustrator. The measuring itself was done via a layered grid, proportionally applied based on the 200cm scale provided by the chart itself.

Having set the measuring system up, it was just a matter of... counting a bunch of squares for a while (the Guides helped a lot) and tallying it all up. That said, the only issue I had with the chart was that not all the characters seemed standing on the same base line; some look like they are floating a tad above--Once a character’s final height was measured, said “floating” difference was taken into account (which resulted in shorter heights overall), and then applied to the main chart. The original heights, without any sort of correction, are present in the following chart--However, notice that if one were to modify Misato’s height to the one seen in the show (163cm), the other cast members would get 10cm shorter, and the heights would no longer be aligned to the proportion and scale of the chart itself at all...

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Part of the ‘End of Evangelion’ Netflix english subtitles which had a key piece of lore info mixed up: Adam being a source of life, like Lilith is; *not* Adam coming from the source of life called Lilith. This same issue happened in older subtitles, but was fixed in later versions--Yet, it appears again in the recent Netflix ones, as evidenced. When compared, the english dub does communicate a more apt concept of what Misato is explaining at that moment in the film. Here’s the full correct subbed english version of Misato’s explanation.

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Hideaki Anno’s full commentary regarding Moyoco Anno’s semi-autobiographical manga “Insufficient Direction” (Kantoku Fuyuki Todoki), which deals with their relationship and adventures.

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Edit of a photo shared by studio khara, which showed volumes of documents related to 3.0+1.0 (name translations by Reichu). The names of Toji, Hikari, Kensuke, Asuka, Shinji and Rei are mentioned, as well as their respective heights; Kensuke has an extra annotation, which was illegible, below his height. There appear to be five more names -and silhouettes- on the right side of the photo (after Rei’s name), but these were hard to discern.

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Illustration made by Mahiro Maeda (前田 真宏) for the inauguration of the ‘Animate’ store in Bangkok (2016)--Recently used by studio khara’s second twitter account as a header.

Thanks to fellow eva fan and expert Reichu for identifying Maeda’s signature, which allowed for the finding of this piece!

Image was expanded and cleaned; detail and color restoration applied.