I don't know how I feel about this. Love me some Eva, love me some Yoko Taro, but why can't we just let things be? Can you really top the original series? Why not have Taro make some NEW property, or something?
That being said, I didnt really even like the Eva Tetrachy (and especially what they did to Asuka's character in it), so I am probably not the person to ask!
At least it is new and not just a remake where Shinji is gay, Rei is a tranny, Misato gets BLACKED and the Angels are actually all peaceful refugees coming to bring Japan the gifts of cultural diversity and authentic ethnic food.
Shinji isn't really gay, he's a broken-down teenager who strayed into the gay under mindbreaking psychological pressure. Also his canon pairing is Asuka. Mari if you go with the rebuilds
I'm gonna piggyback with this too. Also to note that Karou may have given Shinji the friendship and compassion he's always wanted but Karou is a Angel and used Shinji to break through NERV just like any other Angel would. Karou is a spy that used compassion to achieve his goals, a master manipulator at the end of the day.
The answer is of course: Because it will make money.
They could try making a new series with different characters, but then people aren't going to be as interested because it's not what they already know they like.
Probably another mistake to do this (the Rebuilds being the first mistake...). Anno is on record saying that he wants Evangelion to be like Gundam, but Eva is obviously a one and done story. You could tell postapocalyptic stories set in the aftermath, but they wouldn't uphold the Eva brand (existential crises in modernity, depressed teenagers, giant robots).
Also for someone who famously cared so much about the story that he raged at his audience for not getting it, kind of weird to move in a commercializing direction.
As far as Yoko Taro, I don't know if anything about Nier suggests he would be good at writing an Evangelion story, but Evangelion without Anno probably isn't Evangelion just like Lucas is the only one that can write real Star Wars.
Anno is the definition of washed-up. Hates his audience, hates being chained to Evangelion that he basically tried to sabotage it with Rebuild, but knows that it's the only thing keeping him relevant.
Have you played through Drakengard 1-3? Shit's DARK, really dark, and understanding why the world of Automata is the way it is through playing the Drakengard games has made me understand how messed up Yoko Taro can be.
The games are a bit esoteric (and I wish they'd get re-released for current gen), but if you just want to understand his way of thinking, it's worth it
Episode I has the podrace and the Darth Maul duel and those are right up there with the best of Star Wars. II is a little saggy in the middle, but it's far from trash. The Battle of Geonosis was sick.
A film critic weighs in on the haptic vs. optic cinema discourse in 1977:
"When you have a film that's 90 percent special effects...you might just as well be watching an animated cartoon, because finally all those special effects begin to look totally unreal. You are looking for something that looks like flesh and blood there. You have three lousy actors in the main roles who don't contribute much flesh and blood, you have ghastly dialogue, terrible plotting, miserable characterization, which also do not contribute flesh and blood."
If you're not the kind of person who "gets" Star Wars, this isn't exactly wrong. What happened in the late 90s and 2000s is that Gen X critics--while they had grandfathered in the Star Wars films from their childhoods as good movies--in fact no longer "got" Star Wars at all, if they ever really did. That's why their analysis of the prequels sounded indistinguishable from this. It's also why Lucas would get ruthlessly mocked for making straightforward statements trying to explain it: "Dialogue is a sound effect," "It's based on a Saturday matinee serial from the 1930s," "It's like poetry, it rhymes," etc.
It's also why people were and are so eager to recast a movie like The Empire Strikes Back as some sort of gritty, dialogue-driven, psychological drama made for adults, a description which bears such little relation to the movie as it actually exists that it's hard to believe it could be sustained in people's minds even after so many ostensible viewings.
Honestly the last manga of his I read was absolute utter garbage. Don't even remember the name but the MC died in chapter one for le epic twist. I sure hope this will be better.
Maybe it'll cover the timeskip between 2 and 3. I dunno if it could do well enough to salvage Rebuild from "utter dogshit status" but there would be plenty of ground to cover.
I don't know how I feel about this. Love me some Eva, love me some Yoko Taro, but why can't we just let things be? Can you really top the original series? Why not have Taro make some NEW property, or something?
That being said, I didnt really even like the Eva Tetrachy (and especially what they did to Asuka's character in it), so I am probably not the person to ask!
At least it is new and not just a remake where Shinji is gay, Rei is a tranny, Misato gets BLACKED and the Angels are actually all peaceful refugees coming to bring Japan the gifts of cultural diversity and authentic ethnic food.
Shinji is gay tho.
Shinji isn't really gay, he's a broken-down teenager who strayed into the gay under mindbreaking psychological pressure. Also his canon pairing is Asuka. Mari if you go with the rebuilds
I'm gonna piggyback with this too. Also to note that Karou may have given Shinji the friendship and compassion he's always wanted but Karou is a Angel and used Shinji to break through NERV just like any other Angel would. Karou is a spy that used compassion to achieve his goals, a master manipulator at the end of the day.
Oy vey...
The answer is of course: Because it will make money.
They could try making a new series with different characters, but then people aren't going to be as interested because it's not what they already know they like.
Probably another mistake to do this (the Rebuilds being the first mistake...). Anno is on record saying that he wants Evangelion to be like Gundam, but Eva is obviously a one and done story. You could tell postapocalyptic stories set in the aftermath, but they wouldn't uphold the Eva brand (existential crises in modernity, depressed teenagers, giant robots).
Also for someone who famously cared so much about the story that he raged at his audience for not getting it, kind of weird to move in a commercializing direction.
As far as Yoko Taro, I don't know if anything about Nier suggests he would be good at writing an Evangelion story, but Evangelion without Anno probably isn't Evangelion just like Lucas is the only one that can write real Star Wars.
Anno is the definition of washed-up. Hates his audience, hates being chained to Evangelion that he basically tried to sabotage it with Rebuild, but knows that it's the only thing keeping him relevant.
u/Adamrises needs to come back from his monthslong sabbatical. He laid some pretty acidic critiques on the Rebuilds.
Have you played through Drakengard 1-3? Shit's DARK, really dark, and understanding why the world of Automata is the way it is through playing the Drakengard games has made me understand how messed up Yoko Taro can be.
The games are a bit esoteric (and I wish they'd get re-released for current gen), but if you just want to understand his way of thinking, it's worth it
No I haven't - I don't doubt they're dark, interesting stories, but Anno's brand of dark is pretty specific to Anno.
Episodes I and II were shit and you know it.
Episode I has the podrace and the Darth Maul duel and those are right up there with the best of Star Wars. II is a little saggy in the middle, but it's far from trash. The Battle of Geonosis was sick.
Pure spectacle, zero substance.
There is actually a wealth of careful visual symbolism in the prequels, overshadowed by their excesses.
This post is also quite trenchant:
A little overstated, but worth considering.
This will go about as well as the FLCL remake.
Yoko Taro is pretty based, this sounds promising but like with everything "trust, but verify"
Honestly the last manga of his I read was absolute utter garbage. Don't even remember the name but the MC died in chapter one for le epic twist. I sure hope this will be better.
During the presentation, they showed the logo for the fourth Rebuild movie, "Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time," with the letters TV on the end.
Don't be surprised if this ends up just being a re-telling of the fourth Rebuild movie.
Especially since this opens up the possibility that they'll change that movie's ending.
I absolutely adore Evangelion, I owe the series a debt I can never repay, but I'm being cautious here.
Maybe it'll cover the timeskip between 2 and 3. I dunno if it could do well enough to salvage Rebuild from "utter dogshit status" but there would be plenty of ground to cover.
Remember when shit had a beginning, middle and end?
Wasn't the entire point of 4th Rebuild movie to say good bye and finally move on?
Sounds interesting, but it's always wait and see.