To motivate proceedings, in the words of assistant director of Evangelion
Kazuya Tsurumaki:
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"There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice."
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With the Rebuld of Evangelion, now is a real chance for Anno to dump more esoteric material into the show. But why stop at Christian symbols? Hell, Christian countries will be watching this, so we're going to need something far more cliquey. This game is not privy to Anno, and thus, to serve as an open-access resource, we can now reveal the GAINAX officially endorsed step-by-step guide to send hype exploding across continents and dimensions. This is the canonical procedure used by Anno to create Rebuild, and can be applied to the creation of any piece of animation. A bespoke, complex variable is introduced:
Hypeability. Watch how this baby flies through the roof!
Step One
Roll a dice. Leech ideas from:
1. Evangelical Christians (
+ 1 hypeability)
2. Kabbalah (
+ 2 hypeability)
3. Theravada Buddhism (
+ 2 hypeability)
4. Voodoo (
+ 3 hypeability)
5. Rastafari movement (
+ 4 hypeability)
6. Islamic extremists (
+ 100 hypeability)
Step Two
Flip a coin. Quote extensively from:
Heads: Friedrich Schiller (
+ 1 hypeability)
Tails: Mahatma Gandhi (
+ 1000 hypeability)
Step Three
Flip a pancake. What type of music to use? :
Pancake rotates once: Classical (
+1 hypeability)
Rotates twice: Celtic (
+ 7 hypeability)
Rotates 100 times: Phil Collins (
- 70000 hypeability)
Lands on floor: Traditional bhangra (
+ 300 hypeability)
Step Four
Think of a number between 1 and 5. Get characters to psychoanalyse with:
1. Sexual theories of Freud (
+ 1 hypeability)
2. Spiritual theories of Jung (
+ 2 hypeability)
3. Power theories of Adler (
+ 20 hypeability)
4. Psychodynamics of Melanie Klein (
+ 300 hypeability)
5. Opinions of your next-door neighbour (
+ 50000 hypeability)
Step Five
Ask someone to pick a number from 1-4. Include an estoric scene, possibly pointing to a deeper meaning.
1. Parallel scene to Misato kissing Shinji (
+ 5000 hypeability)
2. Naked people floating in water-type substance (
+ 50000 hypeability)
3. Whole universe falling apart as an allusion to a return to unity. This is a banker as a billion philosophies touch on the idea of unity (
+ 300000 hypeability)
4. Naked Rei sitting on top of naked Shinji (
+ 1,000,000,000 hypeability)
Step Six
Hold a press conference. Criticize at least two of:
1. Otakus (
+ 2 hypeability)
2. State of the anime industry (
+ 3 hypeability)
3. Hideaki Anno (
+ 5 hypeability)
4. George Bush/Tony Blair (
+ 1 hypeability)
5. Shallowness of mass entertainment (
+ 3 hypeability)
Now that you have the whole world dribbling at your feet, you can give a new meaning to "easy pickings". Using the hype-profit equation:
Profit ($) = (hypeability*500)^1000
Congratulations! Watch as legions of new fans latch onto your hooks and analyse your work in a desperate search for secret messages.
Add esoteric material to increase hype today!
