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Featuring Optimus Prime/Convoy colored like the EVA-01!
Rough translation of the story:
The Angels are invading. Breaking a long silence, the mysterious life-forms known as the Angels suddenly appear. The weapons the UN forces gather together in retaliation can't even scratch them. In the end, they turn to the secret agency, NERV, to manage the anti-Angel strategy.
With Neo-Tokyo 3 in their sights, the Angels slowly advance upon the city...but suddenly a spaceship comes hurtling down from the sky above the Angels: Sky Lynx! Out of the ship emerges warriors of the far-off planet Cybertron. They've come to investigate after noticing an unusual energy reading.
"We can't let a disaster like the Second Impact occur on this planet."
"What?! What are these monsters?!"
The shocked Cybertron Convoy sets its sights on an enemy much bigger than themselves.
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Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
2014/04/24 22:50:00
Subject: Re:Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
Please tell me there's more. Pretty please tell me there are at least enough pages covering the original evas and Shinji dying an horrible and slow death.
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"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
2014/04/24 22:50:37
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
TheDraconicLord wrote:Please tell me there's more. Pretty please tell me there are at least enough pages covering the original evas and Shinji dying an horrible and slow death.
That's the entirety of what exists for now. There's speculation that it may be an ad/preview for an upcoming Masterpiece Optimus Prime repaint(the Convoy/Optimus in the picture is very specifically based on the recent MP-10 mold).
CthuluIsSpy wrote:Is this for real?
Not sure if this is awesome or awful...
It's for real in that that page actually exists. As for if anything else will be done for it, no clue yet.
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
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2014/04/24 23:00:50
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
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2014/04/24 23:55:42
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
Aren't Augobots really tiny compared to the EVA suits?
Poor ignorant guardsmen, it be but one of many of the great miracles of the Emperor! The Emperor is magic, like Harry Potter, but more magic! A most real and true SPACE WIZARD! And for the last time... I'm not a space plumber.
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You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
2014/04/25 10:12:19
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
whitedragon wrote: This is hardly the strangest of crossovers to come out of Japan.
It's hardly the strangest crossover for Transformers.
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
2014/04/25 13:31:31
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
whitedragon wrote: This is hardly the strangest of crossovers to come out of Japan.
It's hardly the strangest crossover for Transformers.
Turns out Cobra is in control of the Angels.
This looks like a job for the Lone Gunmen!
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
2014/04/25 13:47:25
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
But it IS a thing. It's issue 4 of X-Files Conspiracy. The whole point is this series of crossovers with IDW properties. The other issues have them crossover with Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters, and the Crow.
Basically, they did this instead of Infection 3(Infection was universe hoping zombies, 2 was universe hoping Lovecraftian horrors and featured a return of the steampunk Transformers Elseworld).
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You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
2014/04/25 21:38:56
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
You should be able to find Conspiracy in comic stores still, it just started a couple months ago.
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
2014/04/26 12:07:45
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
Especially when they encroach on the sanctity of Evangelion and what it means to all the fans who have taken it to heart and judge it with their most honest feelings. Leave good enough alone and put Evangelion to rest. Well, maybe in 1997. Too late now. Evangelion is and will continue to be a honey pot for normies and other secondaries.
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2014/04/26 15:27:20
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
Especially when they encroach on the sanctity of Evangelion and what it means to all the fans who have taken it to heart and judge it with their most honest feelings. Leave good enough alone and put Evangelion to rest. Well, maybe in 1997. Too late now. Evangelion is and will continue to be a honey pot for normies and other secondaries.
Your kidding right? Evangelion was meant as both a joke and insult to people who like to look at meaning when there is none.
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2014/04/27 12:23:41
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
I can't find the quotes right now(but will update when I do), but the series is a reflection of Anno's own depression at the time he made it. In addition, all the imagery and symbols/emblems in the series were put in because he thought they looked cool, not because they're representative of any meaning in the show.
Kazuya Tsurumaki wrote:There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.
Hideaki Anno wrote:"Evangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself."
I disagree that it's meant as an insult to those who look for meaning in shows, as Anno has stated that looking for meaning was part of the whole point of the show.
Hideaki Anno wrote: "Evangelion is like a puzzle, you know. Any person can see it and give his/her own answer. In other words, we're offering viewers to think by themselves, so that each person can imagine his/her own world. We will never offer the answers, even in the theatrical version. As for many Evangelion viewers, they may expect us to provide the 'all-about Eva' manuals, but there is no such thing. Don't expect to get answers by someone. Don't expect to be catered to all the time. We all have to find our own answers."
So the true answer is: there IS no meaning beyond that which we give it and see for ourselves, which is the reason it became so popular(and part of the reason the end was so controversial that Anno received death threats over "ruining" the show).
This is also rather interesting as a glimpse into the why of NGE:
Hideaki Anno wrote:One of the distinctive features of Studio Ghibli's works is that, even if there are obsessive actions, there are things which appear to have not forfeited their goal. Forfeiting one's goal leads to despair, and is a sickness that can prove fatal. I wonder if Miya-san and his people are familiar with that feeling of despair. Perhaps they don't want to show that anguish to other people. I think they specifically don't want to display the negative things called self-loathing and complexes to others. That's why Studio Ghibli's works can't show anything but superficial happiness and a reproduction of reality with all the dirty things omitted. A fiction that imitates reality, and nothing more than a single dream. I suppose that is the governance of entertainment. And I think that that is one of the reasons that Studio Ghibli's works are safely watchable, brand name creations.
I have no intention of denying that. All of Studio Ghibli's works are top level creations. But, I can't help but feel that something is missing. This is because, although the technique is there, I can no longer feel "blood", the "blood" that is surely flowing within everyone. I wonder when that happened? Studio Ghibli's works have, for me, become things that doesn't possess the image of "Anime", but rather of the so-called Japanese cinema, in other words, the Japanese movies that have now lost all their energy. That may be the reason that I feel that something is missing.
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You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
2014/04/27 12:38:22
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
I would not debate that at all, but I would like a reference so I can make my own opinion.
Even if it was created to mean nothing, the viewer's interpretation of it means more than the intent of the work, I think. Certain people have strong opinions about it and really don't like seeing their opinions trivialized by crossovers and spoofs.
edit; Thanks!
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2014/04/27 12:57:24
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
Captain Fantastic wrote: Certain people have strong opinions about it and really don't like seeing their opinions trivialized by crossovers and spoofs.
The thing about spoofs is that Gainax itself is very well known for spoofing NGE. They even state that the vast majority of their shows(even the sillier ones like FLCL) are basically "What if Shinji had been raised differently?"
So getting upset about spoofing EVA is like getting upset that Gainax created anything else after the show was made.
As for crossovers, that's practically canon: Anno has stated that the EVAs are based on the God Warrior from Nausicaa and he intended for them to be basically what they would have looked like if it had been allowed to be reborn fully before being used.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I believe a lot of Hotsauceman1's statement comes from this article, too:
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Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
2014/04/27 13:45:16
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
Captain Fantastic wrote: Even if it was created to mean nothing, the viewer's interpretation of it means more than the intent of the work, I think. Certain people have strong opinions about it and really don't like seeing their opinions trivialized by crossovers and spoofs.
So you're basically saying Evangelion is religion?
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2014/04/27 19:31:15
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
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Oh god, someone mentioned Evangelion on Dakka, here comes the shitstorm...
Get over to EvaGeeks forums, you lot. I'll be waiting for you.
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2014/05/02 15:47:25
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
Both the Evangelion Store and TakaraTomy Mall will be carrying exclusive products for the line.
You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
2014/05/08 14:11:26
Subject: Evangelion/Transformers Crossover, New Optimus Eva Pictures!
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You know you're really doing something when you can make strangers hate you over the Internet. - Mauleed
Just remember folks. Panic. Panic all the time. It's the only way to survive, other than just being mindful, of course-but geez, that's so friggin' boring. - Aegis Grimm
Hallowed is the All Pie The Before Times: A Place That Celebrates The World That Was
2014/05/08 15:21:11
Subject: Re:Evangelion/Transformers Crossover From Japanese Hobby Magazine
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