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 Glossary : Part 2

Translation by Patrick Yip

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     Secondly, the FAQ of "What is RCB?"
    
     Cover of RCB
     THE RED CROSS BOOK (aka RCB) -- the final(?) canon of Evangelion
     translated by Patrick Yip ([email protected]) 1997/10/19
    
     The Red Cross Book (referred to as RCB onwards) is the pamphlet sold
     in the cinema to those who came to see the movie "the End of
     Evangelion". It cost 800 yen. The book is A-4 in size and landscape in
     orientation. The cover is pitch black with a red Georgian cross
     superimposed on it, hence the name "Red Cross Book" On the cross, the
     words "THE END OF EVANGELION" was printed, in thin, match-like manner.
     What makes this book particularly special and meaningful to all EVA
     fans is that, for the first time, we hear the voice from Gainax about
     why and how the movies were made. We also know a great deal about the
     answers to some of the most discussed after mysteries in the anime.
     The "commentary" "glossary" and "production notes" are three parts
     that are most informative. I shall strive to translate these three
     sections so that all the EVA fans could know the latest update of the
     "official" answers to the EVA mysteries (real-life or anime :-)


     In the Glossary of the RCB, the words beginning with English alphabet
     come first, followed by words beginning with Japanese characters,
     which are arranged in the conventional order (a,i,u,e,o,ka,ki,ku...and
     so on)
    
     GLOSSARY PART II
     ================
    
     [Ibuki Maya]
    
     Second Lieutenant. Belonged to the First Section of the Bureau of
     Techonology in NERV HQ, she is responsible for tasks like the monitoring
     of the Synchronisation Rate of EVA pilots and the gathering and analysis
     of EVA-related data. She respects very much Dr.Akagi Ritsuko, her
     immediate superior. For personal character, it is said that she is
     fastidious, but honest and sincere.
    
     Birthday July 11. Bloodtype A. Age 24
    
    
     [Secret Dead Sea Scrolls] (URA SHIKAI BUNSHO)
    
     A document that seems to be used by Seele for the direction of their
     actions. Following what was recorded in "Secret Dead Sea Scrolls",
     Seele built EVA and fought the battles against the Angels. It seems
     that this same document also recorded all invading Angels.
    
     By the way, the "Dead Sea Scrolls" as exists in real life was dug out
     from a cave near the Dead Sea of Israel in 1947. Its contents include
     the "Old Testament" of Bible and its acryophaea.
    
    
     [Entry Plug]
    
     A capsule-shaped cockpit inside which the EVA pilot sits. EVA is started
     by the insertion of such plug into its back neck (the same applies to the
     virtual entry plug -- dummy plug). In emergency the plug can be ejected
     and becomes an evacuation capsule. The plug is equipped with parachute
     and ejection rocket for this purpose.
    
    
     [Evangelion]
    
     The formal name is "General-purpose Humanoid Decisive Combat Weapon -
     Artificial Human (Android) Evangelion" [Hanyou Ninkei Kessen Heiki -
     Jinzou Ningen Evangerion]. In order to implement the Human
     Complementation Project, 14 years of time and astronomical amount of
     money were used to build Evangelion. Being able to deploy A.T.Field as
     well as neutralize it, it is the only weapon that human have to counter
     the Angels. It takes its power from electricity and without external
     supply it can maintain only 5 minutes of activity. Thus usually it takes
     the electrical power it needs throught Umbilical Cable. (EVA from EVA-05
     onwards does not need this cable because it has the S^2 Engine)
    
     Originally EVA does not have soul. To have a soul in EVA, EVA-01 had
     the soul of Ikari Yui living in it.
    
     The origin of the name "EVA" was thought to derive from EVA, the wife of
     Adam, from the "Old Testament" of Bible, and "Evangel", the English for
     the gospel.
    
    
     [Evangelion mass-produced model (EVA series)]  (Evangerion RYOUSANKI)
    
     The nine EVA (EVA-05 to EVA-13) built at different NERV branches.
     Different from the existing EVA's, these EVA's are under the command
     of SEELE, not NERV. Since they have S^2 Engine mounted, they have
     infinite active duration, and thus do not need Umbilical Cables.
     They also have foldable wings which enable them to fly. In order to
     start the Human Complementation Project, SEELE throw them into their
     battle against NERV, and as a group they destroy EVA-02.
    
    
     [Kaji Ryouji]
    
     Belonged to the Special Surveillance Department of the Secret Agency
     NERV. He also belonged to the Investigation Department of the Internal
     Ministry of the Government of Japan. Taking orders from SEELE, he
     infiltrated in NERV to find out its secrets. He arrived at Japan from
     the Germany branch of NERV, together with the Second Children and EVA-02.
     He quitted from the Germany branch, and without going back, stayed and
     worked in NERV HQ. Katsuragi Misato used to be his lover in his
     student years but later seperated from each other. They resumed their
     relationship after Kaji came back to Japan. Because of his own
     curiosity, he made enemies and was consequently killed by gunfire. He
     left the product of all his investigation to Misato.
    
     Birthday June 17. Bloodtype A.
    
    
     [Katsuragi Misato]
    
     Rank: Major. Belonged to the first section of military operation bureau of
     the tactical miliatry operations department in NERV HQ. She is also the the
     leader of the military operations headquarter, responsible for the military
     command of EVA's. She was saved by her father, whom she hated, from the
     Second Impact. The fact that as a result she lost her father damaged her
     mentally and this manifested externally as a long period of agnosia (loss
     of speech). She sees the image of her father in the pendant of cross that
     she wears. While she is inside NERV, she always keeps a weary suspicion
     feeling towards the behaviour of Commander Ikari. With the information left
     by her lover Kaji Ryouji, she pursued after the truth on her own.
    
     Birthday: December 8. Bloodtype A. Age 29
    
    
     [Gaf's Room]  (Gabu no HEYA)
    
     A word spoken by Fuyutsuki in ep.26. He said that the opening of Gaf's Room
     has the same meaning as the start of the world as well as the opening of
     the door of the finale. When this door is open, the surface of the Earth
     turns to LCL, human can no longer keep intact their physical forms as
     individuals but return to LCL form. At TV ep.21, Ritsuko also mentioned
     the Gaf's Room.
    
    
     [Keel Lorentz]
    
     The chairman of the Committee of Human Complementation, also the director
     of SEELE. His body is totally machine from backbone down. He gave
     instructions of direct occupation of the secret agency NERV, so as to
     start complementation with EVA-01.
    
    
     [Black Moon] (KUROki TSUKI)
    
     The word used by SEELE to describe the egg of Lilith, the source of life.
     In ep.26, when Human Complementation Plan started, we know that the huge
     underground cavity underneath Neo-Tokyo-3 which later became Geo-Front
     is in fact the "Black Moon".
    
    
     [Community/Colony]  (GUNTAI)
    
     Misato used this word when she said that human are "a colony of worthless"
     from the point of view from the Complementation Plan. For colony, it
     originally means a group of individual organism linked to each other, each
     of them can produce new individuals by splitting or budding. Each
     individual organism within a colony can live as its own independently.
    
    
     [Third Impact]
    
     A large-scale catatstrophe following the First (Giant) Impact and the
     Second Impact, as foreseen by human. It had been said that this would
     be started by from alien Angels who came into contact with Adam stored
     underground beneath Neo-Tokyo-3, and therefore EVA and NERV were
     there to protect this from happening. However, the truth is that they
     were there precisely to start the Third Impact, the real objective
     being the Human Complementation Plan.
    
    
     [Third Children]
    
     It means Ikari Shinji -- The third suitable person chosen by the
     Marduk organisation. Without training, he managed to start up
     EVA-01, which had been ridiculed as "09 system" because of its
     0.000000001% start-up probability , and surprised all those
     involved. Afterwards, he became the dedicated pilot of EVA-01 and
     stayed in Neo-Tokyo-3. Having a higher Synch-ratio than other
     Children, he often becomes the core force in battles against
     Angels.
    
    
     [Geo-Front]
    
     A big underground city buried deep underground below Neo-Tokyo-3.
     This was built using an pre-existing spherical cavity (though
     most of it had been under earth and dust at first). Its ceiling was
     almost totally destroyed when in ep.25 the Strategic Self-Defence Force
     mounted their attack against NERV, and Geo-Front became exposed to
     outside.
    
     NERV HQ is located at the centre of Geo-Front, and is surrounded by
     big forests and underground lakes. The many high-rising buildings
     that hang upside-down on the top part of Geo-Front are the "Celing
     City (Tenjou Toushi)". It looks exactly the same as Neo-Tokyo-3 that
     sits above it, and is used to accomodate the sunken buildings of
     Neo-Tokyo-3 when an Angel comes to attack.
    
     After the start of the Human Complementation Plan, we know that this cavity
     is actually the egg of Lilith -- the "Black Moon".
    
    
     [Angels] (SHITO)
    
     Some lifeforms originated from the source of lifeform which is called
     "Lilith". It could be any size or shape: a big octahedral, a form as
     small as the size of bacteria, or even a shadow which has no tangible
     form. Borrowing the words from Fuyutsuki's dialogue in ep.26, it
     seems that "Angels" got the "Fruit of Life" whereas human got the
     "Fruit of Intelligence". It can be said that "Angels" is just another
     form of human, with the same probability of appearance as human.
     Human is thus the 18th Angel.


 

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