Gallery 1

The Official Pictures

(1)Volume 12 VHS cover


(1) This adorable photo is the actual cover of Volume 12 of Evangelion. Up until this point, ADVision had used the original Japanese laserdisc cover pictures with a different background as the American release cover art. When they reached Volume 12, instead of using this picture, they took a very strange screen capture of Rei standing in LCL. I had always wondered why that picture looked out of place, and now I know. Why did ADV do this? Well, according to Mr. Matt Greenfield, head of ADV, when they released volumes 11-13 in the US, Gainax hadn't yet chosen the images for their own LD and VHS covers. So, ADV had to make up their own. It's sad, though, isn't it? I believe that if this had been the cover picture in America, there would be a lot less debate about Anno's intentions for Shinji and Kaworu's relationship.




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