[Unknown Target]

It's harder to spell

[Liberator]

No, it's not.  Ayanami(sp?) is hard to spell.  If they were going to rename Asuka, why not make something vaguely german?  IIRC, she grew up in Germany.

[Unknown Target]

Umm...the original anime didn't name her something vaugely German either
They all were Japanese or Japanese-sounding names

[mikhael]

First: I'm with Venom. I hope it doesn't get made.

Second: Morons. this is a live action flick. Those drawings of the characters are for the costumes, not the characters. The actors haven't cast, so the drawings are just place holders.

Third: If you saw anything more than oh, the first three eps of Evangelion, its made very clear that the Evas are at least partially organic. Its not even a surprise.

I'll leave the anti-Evangelion ranting off this post. I will say that I liked the concept art, like the giant gun rack.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Umm...the original anime didn't name her something vaugely German either
They all were Japanese or Japanese-sounding names

Well yeah, she has an english name, not a german name
Then again, the japanese have the bad habit of using foreign words coz they sound cool, but have absolutly no knowledge on the grammar ( the cookies goes to french, these days, you often see french in animes, but, unlike with english, japanese are very bad with french, which leads to pretty funny stuff like the text in the opening of Saikano or the latest anime from... herm... some unknown studio,  with a french title (woot ) " Le portrait de petit cossette" (hargh) ).
Gotta admit Soryu Langley doesn't sound very german

[Turnsky]

well, love it or loathe it, it should be interesting to see how it goes..
(in the box office) after all, it's the final product that counts, don't it?..

[kode]

yep. I also quite recently heard something about james cameron doing a battle angel alita movie, which also could be interesting, as teh gunnm/battle angel alita manga is really really good. the ova wasn't so bad either.

[Nico]

bah, I've heard about cameron as the director for Eva, too. You can hear about anything if you don't pay attention, on the net

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Nico

 " Le portrait de petit cossette"  

The picture of little.... something?

(never was any good with French)

[Unknown Target]

Personally, I'm all for what they're doing. With Japanese animation and brilliant concepts, and America's movie muscle, the two could be a very good partnership

I doubt this will be the last anime-to-screen port we'll ever see

[Nico]

Originally posted by aldo_14


The picture of little.... something?

(never was any good with French)

Cosette ( french name, you know, like in the book by Victor Hugo? don't know the english name, in french, it's "Les Misérables" ).
Gotta admit it looks cool, tho. Very gothic.
There, a pic:

[Nico]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Personally, I'm all for what they're doing. With Japanese animation and brilliant concepts, and America's movie muscle, the two could be a very good partnership

Pb is that AMerica uses its muscles as brains too.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Nico


Cosette ( french name, you know, like in the book by Victor Hugo? don't know the english name, in french, it's "Les Misérables" ).
 

Ah, right.  Should have known/guessed that  

Book is known as "Les Misérables" in English, too BTW.

[Nico]

Oh, cool. WHile I'm at it, I have no idea what the story is, but it's supposed to be written there:

Someone cares to translate it for me? Pwetty pwease? Kamikaze?

[Gloriano]

Well I was looking about day ago something to this related

and I did find this site


http://eva.trivialbeing.net/index.php

[an0n]

I thought 'Kate' was a German name?

[kode]

what would be good with this movie is if shinji dies in twenty terrible ways in the first five minutes.

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by Nico
Oh, cool. WHile I'm at it, I have no idea what the story is, but it's supposed to be written there:

Someone cares to translate it for me? Pwetty pwease? Kamikaze?

It translates to something like this:

Nagatoshi Kurahashi, an art student, works part time at the antique store "Kourandou" and fantasizes about a fair-haired (Note: literally, it's "blonde" or "gold haired" but the former is boring and the latter is nonsense), blue-eyed girl depicted in an old piece of cut glass, enjoying secret meetings (Note: One might interpret this as "dates") with the otherworldy fantasm of a girl. However that was the beggining of a horrific tale of the two fated people bound by the grip of the "cursed container." (Note: "container" is a horribly boring word to use, but I can't think of any other replacement for "kibutsu". One could use "bottle" too, but that seems way off)

[Vilkacis]

Originally posted by Nico


Well yeah, she has an english name, not a german name
Gotta admit Soryu Langley doesn't sound very german

Isn't her full name supposed to be Asuka Soryu Langley Zeppelin? Zeppelin being her father's name, a very common one I might add

[Star Dragon]

You got the name right just add Aska in front of it though... A lng name makes her feel superior...

Aska Asuka Soryu Langley Zeppelin (AKA) *****!