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For my thirty-third Evangelion book review, here is Evangelion Ten Zuroku (Evangelion Exhibition Picture Record).  This amazing large-format book features some of the art from an exhibition that was at the Matsuya Ginza building in August 2013 and then toured to other locations.  The pages mostly consist of production sketches from the New Theatrical Edition (AKA “Rebuild”), however the final section has some stuff from the Evangelion TV series and manga.

This book is not available in English or French, but it has plenty of illustrations… really, really nice illustrations!  (There actually is some French poetry in the book, though, which I will translate later in this review.)  Although most of the drawings have just a little bit of color or are entirely in black-and-white, there are a few full color pictures as well, such as this image of the Eva pilots in their plugsuits:

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For my sixty-ninth Evangelion book review, here is Eva Extra 04. The first three issues of Eva Extra were free magazines to promote the Evangelion: 2.0 movie, and then the fourth magazine (shown above) was sold in Japanese theaters when the movie came out. Eva Extra 04 collects some of the material from the first three issues and also includes more art, plus it comes with additional goodies and is all packaged in a plastic slipcase and folder. I’ll show you some of that stuff later in this review.

By the way, there were more issues of Eva Extra after 04, to promote stuff such as the Evangelion: 2.22 DVD/Blu-ray, and the Evangelion: 3.0 movie. Some of them were magazines, and some of them were videos instead… and nowadays Eva Extra is a mobile app that has content from the previous issues plus keeps adding new stuff in order to promote the upcoming Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0 movie. Times sure have changed! Anyway, even if you already have the mobile app, hopefully you will still enjoy this review to see what the physical magazine and included goodies are like.

This magazine is not available in English or French (although there are a few bits of English text here and there), but there are plenty of pictures. Most of the illustrations are in full color, and there are a few sketches as well. Eva Extra 04 starts with foldout pages of Asuka, Rei, and Mari, all drawn by Kazuya Tsurumaki. Here is what the Asuka page looks like:

Keep reading for the rest of the book review, plus a few more pictures… actually, more than just a few pictures.  This post is going to be image-heavy!

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Various pages of Neon Genesis Evangelion figurines taken from the Animedia Yearbook ‘97-’98 Anime Mono Catalog. Scanned from my personal collection.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) scans

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Comic Box 1997 End of Evangelion Issue - Archive Scan

Comic Box was a magazine in Japan launched in, from what I can gather, 1982. It was a bit of an ‘alt” magazine - it has an imprint, Comic Box Jr, which focused on doujinshi for example - and would cover anything anime-adjacent, including western films. The October 1997 release of the magazine was dedicated to the release of the End of Evangelion film, and to answering the question “what was the phenomenon called Evangelion?”. Towards that end it features fan submissions, art, comics, essays, all talking about what Eva meant to them. Some are serious, some are fully comedic, way way more than I expected are erotic, and overall it is a time capsule of how the anime community was thinking about Evangelion when EoE came out. The magazine dissolved in 1998 from what I can tell, so this was one of its last releases - you can still see its absolutely vintage website here! Complete with dashing chibi cat gif.

I discovered this magazine through japanese anime/manga archivist-in-residence ehoba on twitter, who provided photos and rough summaries of some of the pages. They are just camera photos of an open magazine though, not scans, and not at all complete. I hunted around for a while to find a scanned version, messaged ehoba and a few others, posted on forums like Evageeks, and drew total blanks. I couldn’t find any listings of it online, so I set the quest aside…until I was placing another order for some artbooks for import and decide to check Yahoo Auctions Japan and lo and behold, there is was! It arrived this week.

So that image above is not one pulled from the internet - I have scanned the entire Evangelion segment of Comic Box - October 1997 issue. I am a neophyte scanner & image editor, these aren’t gonna be amazing or anything, but while I hope to make a more polished version I wanted to share the drafts now. I really aspire to translate it, but of course I don’t speak Japanese, so I am going to see how far working with some people I know and brute-forcing with AI would go. If you are interested or know someone who would be, definitely reach out! 100% would crowdsource this. If someone already scanned and translated this, also let me know, I would groan heavily and curse my google skills but i’d rather it be available and know, and not waste time.

Below will be some reduced-down PNG’s of the magazine to fit Tumblr image limits with Ehoba’s notes and a few of my own attached to them. A link to the full images as a singular PDF is on the Internet Archive [Here]

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★ COLLECTION ARCHIVE ★

Evangelion:333 You Can (Not) Redo (2014) Blu-Ray DVD guidebook

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Credit if you’d like to repost ! :)

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Assorted Evangelion Rebuild concept art locations, tech, occult stuff etc.

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Misato Katsuragi art piece taken from the Newtype Art Gallery, included in the April 1998 issue of Newtype Magazine. Illustrated by Kazu. Scanned from my personal collection.

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ニュータイプ 2023年5月号　ー　シン・エヴァンゲリオン劇場版　「ありがとう」のその先に　イラスト＆メッセージfromスタッフ

Newtype Issue May 2023 - Evangelion:3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time - After the "Thank You" - Illustrations and messages from the staff

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One advice about Tumblr quality, I believe that if you copy n paste the post link to your browser, you’ll be able to save the pictures in full quality

MARI & KAWORU artworks made by studio Khara (I think Gainax as well? I forgot)

If anyone knows who actually drew this please tell me, I can’t find a thing or two for some reason x.x

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MARI & KAWORU artworks made by studio Khara (I think Gainax as well? I forgot)

If anyone knows who actually drew this please tell me, I can’t find a thing or two for some reason x.x

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COSMIC BLUE

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Neon Genesis evangelion 2011 calendar

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What happened to my Tumblr??? I don’t remember the quality being this bad wtf

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION SOUNDTRACK 25th ANNIVERSARY BOX (by Various Artists)

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RADIO EVA 15TH ANNIVERSARY

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RADIO EVA 15TH ANNIVERSARY

Later when radio eva posts all the characters separated I’ll post it here as well :)