Neon Genesis Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion Special Collector's Edition The Bestselling Manga Version of Japan's Most Controversial Anime Series! Not simply a retelling of the Japanese animation series, this manga is co-creator Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's subtly diverging interpretation-sure to intrigue new and old fans alike-of the Evangelion characters and story. Vol. 1 The human race nearly ended with the millennium: in 2000 A.D., a top-secret encounter between an Antarctic expedition and an entity code-named the "Angel" triggered a global catastrophe. Now, in 2015, the Angels have returned, and Shinji Ikari, a fourteen-year-old child of the new Earth, is summoned to the super-technological city of Tokyo-3 by his long-estranged father, the supreme commander of the clandestine United Nations research organization NERV. To match the fearsome power of the Angels, NERV has constructed a biomechanical weapon code-named "Evangelion"-a monster to be piloted by the unwitting Shinji! One of the founding members of Gainax, Japan's most progressive anime studio, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto was the character designer and an animation director for their 1987 film, Royal Space Force: the Wings of Honneamise and their hit 1990 television show Nadia: the Secret of Blue Water. Neon Genesis Evangelion is Sadamoto's first full-length manga work. Is This Book Backwards? No, this really is the back cover (not the front cover)! The Special Collector's Edition of the Neon Genesis Evangelion graphic novel preserves the original right-to-left orientation of the artwork, just as it was drawn and printed in Japan. To begin reading, please turn this book around and open it from the other side. Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 1 contains special bonus commentary on the series, provided by Evangelion director Hideaki Anno and mechanical designer Ikuto Yamashita, that is not available in Viz's monthly Evangelion comic!Sadamoto, Yoshiyuki is the author of 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' with ISBN 9781569313251 and ISBN 1569313253.