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Glossary Part 4
Translation by Patrick Yip
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Secondly, the FAQ of "What is 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 IV
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[Souryu.Asuka.Langley]
Second Children. Dedicated pilot of EVA-02. Nationality
is USA, despite
being one fourth Japanese and one fourth German. Having
a high degree of
intelligence, she graduated from university at 14. At
the early stage of
real battles, she boasted a higher Synch-rate than
Third Children etc.
The suicide of her mother led her to grow into a
character of extreme
agressiveness. She could only keep her mental balance
by making outward
noises about her own excellence.
Birthday: December 4. Bloodtype: O. Age: 14
(PY: happy birthday Asuka!! -- don't want Tom to do
it again :-)
[Souryu.Kyouko.Zeppelin]
The real mother of Soryu.Asuka.Langley. She fell into
mental breakdown in
an accident during an experiment. Afterwards, she
became a person who lived
in her own world, so much so that she committed
suicide. Her soul was used
as the core of EVA-02.
[Dummy Plug]
A virtual Entry Plug which was developed for starting
and using EVA without
the pilot. Even though it has a copy of the personal
pattern of the
Children, the digitization of the soul is impossible.
Thus the Dummy Plug
can only serve to simulate the thought pattern. The
Dummy Plug prepared by
NERV had the copy of the personal pattern of First
Children (Ayanami Rei).
On the other hand, the Dummy Plug prepared by SEELE
used the personal
pattern of the Fifth Children (Nagisa Kaworu).
[Neo-Tokyo-2]
The new capital city of Japan. Built in the old Nagano
prefecture to
replace the old Tokyo. Construction started in 2001 and
it acquired all the
functionalities suited for a capital in 2003. In 2005
the second capital
relocation plan was agreed, and it was planned that the
capital would be
moved to Neo-Tokyo-3, still under construction then.
By the way, old Tokyo was annihilated by the new bomb
dropped one week
after the Second Impact. Again, the construction of
Neo-Tokyo-2 was decided
by the Provisional Government of Japan.
In ep.25 "Air", when Hyouga mentioned
"the second Tokyo", he meant this
Neo-Tokyo-2 as well as the government of Japan which
was located there.
[Neo-Tokyo-3]
Although in public it was circulated as the new capital
city that would
replace Neo-Tokyo-2, it is in fact a fortress city for
ambushing the
Angels, which was built with the expectation of Angels
coming to attack it.
But then the ambush combat force is the EVA. The city
mainly serves the
function of supply and support. Armed buildings --
supporting facilities
which are made to look like ordinary buildings -- stood
inside the city
like forests. Inside the buildings are the discharge
outlets of EVA,
electricity supply, replenishment of weapon and
ammunition and supporting
guns. There are also many ambush weapons installed
around the city.
Spreaded below the city is the wide and big Geo-Front.
Located at its
centre is the headquarter of the Secret Agency NERV.
In ep.25, the city was first attacked by the Strategic
Self-Defence Force,
and then EVA-series were thrown into the attack. This
annihilated all the
combat strength of the city except for EVA-01.
[Single-Form] (Tantai)
The objective of the Human Complementation Plan is the
induced artificial
evolution of human into "an organism which lives
as a total single-form".
This "single-form" means a life form which
ends as a single individual. And
this term is used to distinguish with "community
form", which is life form
formed by a multiple of individuals.
[Fruit of Wisdom] (CHIE no
MI)
The "thing" that is held by human. The
product of this wisdom seems to be
"Science", which is praised by Gendou as
"the power of human" but ridiculed
by Fuyutsuki as what "caused the Second
Impact". Both EVA and the Human
Complementation Plan are all the products of this
wisdom.
From Genesis of the Old Testament of Bible, it was said
that at the centre
of the Garden of Eden beside the Tree of Life, there
was a Tree of Wisdom
-- a Tree that knows good and evil. Human disobeyed the
order of God and
ate its fruit. As a result God banished human from the
Garden of Eden and
imposed many constraints of freedom on human. If that
is the case, does it
mean that human got wisdom in exchange for banishment
from the Garden?
[Children]
The persons picked by Marduk, the consultative body
directly under the
Human Complementation Committee, (in fact NERV is
Marduk) who can pilot
EVA. According to the order of being chosen, the
persons are called First,
Second, Third etc. What is common to all of them is
that they are all young
boys and girls who do not have mothers.
By the way, the candidates of Children are grouped in
Class 2-A of the
First Municipal Junior High of Neo-Tokyo-3.
[Rite of Passage] (TSUUKAGIREI)
A ritual ceremony performed when a person changes his
identity in the
society and acquires new responsibilites. It is a
declaration to outside
about the personal change in a social sense. It is also
a prayer for safe
and peace to come with the change. In ep.25
"Air", members of SEELE comment
that the Human Complementation Plan is "the Rite
of Passage aimed to bring
new vigour to human which has become blocked-out"
[Destrado]
In ep.26, when Hyouga checks on the status of EVA-01,
he confirms that the
Destrado of the pilot -- Ikari Shinji -- is getting
physical (PY: or un-metaphysical, material).
Destrado is, according to the theory advocated by
E.Weiss, the energy of
the self-destructive impulse. It is the antonym of
Libido. Its meaning is
different from the energy of "Instinct of
Death", advocated by P.Federn,
the master of Moltedor-Weiss.
[Secret Agency NERV] (TOKUMUKIKAN
NERV)
An extra-legel organisation which aims at pushing the
Human Complementation
Plan. It was organised by moving the whole GEHIRN, the
investigation body
for the same plan, into this new body. The headquarter
is located at
Neo-Tokyo-3. It is also an international body with
branches in Germany and
USA etc. Although to outsiders it is an organisation
directly under UN, in
fact UN has absolutely no influence over it. It is
under the command of
SEELE. Holding several Evangelion, the General-Purpose
Humanoid
Decisive-Battle Weapon, it possesses the only combat
force capable to
counter the Angels. However, its vulnerability to
anti-personnel combat was
fully exposed when it received attacks from the
Strategic Self-Defence
Force in ep.25 "Air".
[Nagisa Kaworu]
Fifth Children, who was sent by SEELE to NERV. However,
his real identity
was the 17th Angel. Perhaps he was an Angel which was
captured by SEELE at
his embryo stage. Different from other Angels, he has a
mind quite close to
human's. On documents his birth-date is AD2000
September 13th. In human
form he made contact with Third Children (Ikari
Shinji). Although he had
good feelings towards Shinji, he was strangled and
killed by EVA-01 piloted
by Shinji. It was he who said "Life and Death are
equivalent" and "Only one
life-form could be chosen to be given the future".
[EVA-02] (NIGOKI)
EVA-02 PRODUCTION MODEL. The first EVA in the world to
be built for real
battles. Design and manufacture of components were done
by Japan. The final
assembly and start-up experiment were done in Germany.
It went through a
real battle when it battled with the 6th Angel which
suddenly appeared
during its delivery to Japan. Afterwards, it joined in
the defence of
Neo-Tokyo-3 and assumed the responsibility of ambushing
the Angels.
Colouring is red. Dedicated pilot is Second Children --
Souryu.Asuka.Langley. Inside EVA-02 lived the soul of
Asuka's mother --
Souryu.Kyouko.Langley.
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