Evangelion shinji ikari raising project manga

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Shinji IkariвЂ™s personality is a direct result of his Mom вЂњdyingвЂќ and his Father being a generally abusive asshole, both of which were the result of the Instrumentality plot. Why is that? ItвЂ™s because, at least for Evangelion, the characters are fundamentally tied into the narrative of canon. Even something as batshit crazy as Shinji And Warhammer 40k, which stars characters who are wildly OOC compared to their canonical counterparts, tries to maintain many of the fundamental dynamics or over-arching superstructure from the show. Most, like HERZ or (my personal all-time-favorite) Taking Sights distort or deviate from canon, rather than throw it away completely. Almost all Evangelion fanfiction avoids going Pure AU. Which got me thinking about which media adapt well to AU format. (Warning: review and extended essay about what makes an AU work beneath the break.) But Rising is such an AU that itвЂ™s all-but-impossible to gel with the canonical source material. Now, anyone whoвЂ™s read my fanfiction knows that I appreciate a good AU. In this universe, Shinji and Asuka are longtime friends, the Ikaris are a happy family, Rei is a distant relation of ShinjiвЂ™s, and there are no Angels or apocalypses to be found. The Shinji Ikari Rising Project takes place in an alternate universe (AU), ostensibly glimpsed in the surrealist final episodes of the 90s anime.

Now that IвЂ™m in a (marginally) better headspace, and can safely explore the edges of Evangelion (the EoE, if youвЂ™ll pardon the joke) without falling into a depressive spiral, I decided to actually power through my bГЄte noire of Evangelion spin-offs. I must have skimmed the first few pages a dozen times, always putting it back because it didnвЂ™t feel right.

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Yet one thing I almost religiously avoided was The Shinji Ikari Rising Project, a Gainax-authorized manga series by Osamu Takahashi. I went through FFN, AFF, AO3, Wattpad, then down the rabbit hole of individual fan sites, all the way back to bloody Gopher servers. Like refreshing-FFN-several-times-a-day addicted. Back in the day, I was really into Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfiction.

Evangelion shinji ikari raising project manga