Postscript

 

Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA, Volume 4 contains chapters serialized in Dengeki Hobby Magazine from September 2011 to July 2012.

I had to be careful with Yomotsu Hirasaka because of the tragic Tohoku earthquake. I had a lot of mixed feelings about that. If a story isn’t planned to be elaborate, then you should advance it as fast as you can. That way, at the very least, it won’t be boring. But I have to admit that the story felt stale during the first act because the plot didn’t advance until the second act. Even I got irritated at it during editing. But I had to wait until things had calmed down in the real world before I could send giants rampaging around Hakone again. My current editor chewed my ear out because they thought it was supposed to end after the manga segment.

The next volume is the last, and that is when ANIMA will end. I have to say, Shinji and Eva-01 warp around way too much.

 

—Ikuto Yamashita,
Evangelion Mecha Designer