Postscript

Postscript

 

All right, and that was Part Three of Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA, serialized in Dengeki Hobby Magazine from November 2010 to August 2011. It was the kind of third part that makes you say, “Hey, where is this going?”

The big earthquake hit during this period of ANIMA’s serialization, and creators of all kinds had to take a lot of different sentiments into account. Depending on the subject matter, scripts had to be rewritten. Theatrical runs were postponed. With ANIMA, I received the request to tone down the disaster elements. I’d built up an association in my mind between myths and natural disasters, and with ANIMA I had been so relentlessly destroying the Earth that the very title had come to mean cataclysm. I took a few measures to temporarily divert course—namely, setting the story somewhere that wasn’t Earth and making the battle an embodiment of the character’s internal conflict. Looking back now, I don’t know if that added depth to the story or if it only acted as a detour, but I’ll be thrilled if you come along with me to the final two volumes.

 

—Ikuto Yamashita,
Evangelion Mecha Designer