Did anyone care about the Oscars this year? Yeah, I thought not.
Meanwhile, Variety reports on the Tokyo Anime Fair’s awards. Top prize– Animation of the Year –went to Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone.
Pretty much all the other prizes went to foreign works, interestingly– from Taiwan, Poland, Iran, South Korea, and France. The exception is the two Notable Entry (Student) prize– Takashi Kato’s Clockwork City took one of the two awarded.
The Brik’s Haus blog spotted this video on YouTube, of live-action actors rushing to get a look at a giant CG EVA-01. Teaser for a live-action Evangelion flick? Or maybe it’s for a new video game? Or maybe it’s just plain cockteasery by Gainax or some particularly talented Netizen. Who knows? It’s nicely done though.
Original source: NicoNico
Alafista notes that Yahoo! Japan users (like myself) can download an Evangelion widget that will look like Rei, Asuka, Shinji, or others and like, tell time. And stuff. Or something. It’s kinda cute. But I kinda hate widgets so I just loaded it long enough to check out. I was unimpressed, but hey, at least for once it doesn’t block non-Japanese IP addresses.
A friend pointed me to this Anime Desho post regarding “predictions” for anime in the next ten years, and one commenter offered: “KyoAni remakes NGE after prying the rights from Gainax’s cold dead hands.”
So, I decided to run with the idea.
…Wheee.
Courtesy of SWFBlog, I present: Evangelion, the Genderfuck edition. Gendouko is terrifying, but Shinjiko is somehow astonishingly appropriate…
It’s amazing how much harder it is to be incessantly devoted to posting news when someone isn’t paying you a living wage to do it!
That said, it’s time to play more catchup. This time, though, just the fun/cool/weird shit. Here goes.
ComiPress has decidedly NOT taken Labor Day off, and my favorite piece of news today has got to be this: allegedly, over 1 million Japanese men are obsessed with Rei Ayanami. Now, let’s see: there are 127 million people in Japan. Assuming that the gender balance is close to even, that means that there are about 63.5 million men. 1 divided by 63.5 is 0.015, which means…1.5% of Japan is obsessed with Rei Ayanami (assuming no women are)?
Okay, honestly, the author of the column in question claims to believe that one million Japanese men are obsessed with her, and offers no hard facts to back it up. But still, wouldn’t you rather live in a country where 1.5% of men are obsessed with an emo anime character than one where 30% of the population still approves of George W. Bush?
Sorry I was a little quiet yesterday, but I’m working on a seekrit projekt. ♥ Here’s what’s up as of this morning:
Okay, I know I’m going to come across as a total know-it-all smartass, but I am amazed at how many people have fallen for Ye Olde Comick Booke Blogge’s KISS manga hoax.
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that when I first read the blurb on Manga Blog, I totally fell for it. 100%. After Courtney Love and Avril Lavigne, not to mention the fact that KISS has done comics before? Yeah, barely bat an eye.
But as soon as I looked at YOCBB’s post, skepticism set in. First off: a KISS yaoi? Weird. And then Be Beautiful actually issuing a press release to a blog? Now that’s just crazy.
Then I scrolled down and saw the picture - c’mon, people, shouldn’t any anime or manga blogger worth their salt at least be able to recognize a ’shop of some art with Shinji and Kaworu from Evangelion? Even if you haven’t seen the show…I mean, Shinji’s towl even says NERV on it. o_o
That said, I still think it was a pretty cute joke idea, so credit to YOCBB for that. ♥
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