Retronauts Episode 189: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Added 2018-12-17 14:00:02 +0000 UTCThe news that Neon Genesis Evangelion—the landmark anime that changed everything—will finally become available for worldwide streaming next year prompted us to sit down and talk about the show. This episode came together at the absolute last minute, so it's extremely off-the-cuff... as you'll discover for yourself. It's also totally crammed with spoilers, too. It's a rambling discussion that goes everywhere... except the directions I wanted it to. You may or may not find this whole thing frustrating, especially given how light the game-specific conversation turned out to be. But it wouldn't really be an Eva podcast if it weren't a chaotic, confusing mess that mercilessly wears down the audience, now would it? — Jeremy
Description: You mustn't run away… from this episode! Classic sci-fi anime Neon Genesis Evangelion is coming to Netflix soon, and Wes Fenlon and Henry Gilbert join Jeremy Parish and Bob Mackey to explore the show, its legacy, and (of course) its video game tie-ins.
Comments
I thought it was Moloch, not Marduk, that was the child-sacrifice demanding evil god?
Nemo
2019-04-07 03:37:42 +0000 UTCLoved it. Jeremy, for what it's worth the Beetle Saturn/Retroarch emulator makes a large amount of the catalog playable at a good speed. You know, should you want to play a Japanese visual novel.
Travers Travers
2018-12-18 23:02:59 +0000 UTCIt was a riff on the “next episode” teaser in Eva episodes... where I directly lifted the Works teaser music from.
Jeremy Parish
2018-12-18 12:11:26 +0000 UTCCan't speak for anyone who hasn't seen the series before but as someone who watched Eva on VHS back in the 90s and was forever emotionally scarred by it, this was a delightful episode.
Kormakur Gardarsson
2018-12-18 08:26:33 +0000 UTCAlso, I need to stop posting comments before I listen to the entire podcast.
littleterr0r
2018-12-18 04:27:19 +0000 UTCBtw, I looked the Works style preview at the end there.
littleterr0r
2018-12-18 04:26:33 +0000 UTCPLEASE do the evangelion series you mentioned wanting to do. That would make my year!
Chris Rowland
2018-12-18 04:22:59 +0000 UTCWe recorded a Final Fantasy VII episode the next day and mentioned the D-Type equipment! Because we forgot to mention it here.
Retronauts
2018-12-18 00:01:11 +0000 UTCAs a Sega Saturn owner / Evangelion fan in high school, I got Evangelion Digital Card Library game. It was a series of mini games based off the show where you won cards with anime cut scenes and advertisements for Eva merchandise. I think it is solid, all things considered, and is definitely worth a play in you are an Eva fan. Also, on an unrelated note you can find the D-Type equipment from Magma Diver in the colosseum museum in FF7. Anyway, thank you for the fun episode.
Matthew Salisbury
2018-12-17 22:07:50 +0000 UTCI picked up the Japanese N64 game at the PRGE swap meet a few years ago and that one is mostly action and can easily be played by speakers of any language. The same can't be said for the Sega Saturn game that I own. Also, I have that box set so that's wild to hear how expensive it's gotten.
littleterr0r
2018-12-17 20:38:09 +0000 UTCSo stoked for this!
littleterr0r
2018-12-17 20:24:10 +0000 UTC
