Manga Monday: Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Vol. 17

01/16/2017 4:22pm
The fourth and final (?) Evangelion Rebuild movie is still somewhere on the horizon…but the longest-running Evangelion manga is in your stores right now, as Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project vol. 17 hits the stands! 
Often, in manga, when a school puts on a play, it’s a shameless ploy to try to get the female and male leads to kiss. But of course, Shinji rarely even gets to show up on the cover of his own manga, so as you might expect, Class 2-A’s production of Romeo and Juliet is a shameless ploy to get Asuka and Rei to kiss. 
Can rivals who aren’t exactly good friends put on a convincing performance as two of the greatest lovers in dramatic history? Or has their rivalry been the real act all along? It’s thematic (and theatrical) ambiguity ahead as even Toji starts speaking in pentameter! P.S. Asuka complains that she wanted them to put on King Lear instead, as Romeo and Juliet is “not even his greatest tragedy.” 
—Carl Horn
Manga Editor
The fourth and final (?) Evangelion Rebuild movie is still somewhere on the horizon…but the longest-running Evangelion manga is in your stores right now, as Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project vol. 17 hits the stands! 

Often, in manga, when a school puts on a play, it’s a shameless ploy to try to get the female and male leads to kiss. But of course, Shinji rarely even gets to show up on the cover of his own manga, so as you might expect, Class 2-A’s production of Romeo and Juliet is a shameless ploy to get Asuka and Rei to kiss. 

Can rivals who aren’t exactly good friends put on a convincing performance as two of the greatest lovers in dramatic history? Or has their rivalry been the real act all along? It’s thematic (and theatrical) ambiguity ahead as even Toji starts speaking in pentameter! P.S. Asuka complains that she wanted them to put on King Lear instead, as Romeo and Juliet is “not even his greatest tragedy.” 

—Carl Horn
Manga Editor

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