Eva Monkey, a site dedicated to the intellectual pursuit of all things Eva, thinks enough of ReDeath to include it on its “guide to the world of Evangelion”.

Click here and scroll to the bottom.

I perked up in my chair when I read this line, “Sometimes confused as an official part of the Evangelion series…”

Just read that Ernest Lehman, the man who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, has passed away.

What does this have to do with Fanboy Bebop? Keanu and Ash are both fans of the movie, as revealed by that they both felt like quoting Cary Grant (“What’s a man supposed to do without his clothes for 20 minutes?” “Yeah, and in all the right places too.”) before having sex with Ripley.

No doubt they’ll be firing up the DVD today in tribute.

Things have been awful quiet since the premiere of Evangelion ReDeath ReDux, which is something we hope to put a stop to starting now.

Some big news to report, as we’ve hinted on the forum, is that ECCH will no longer be Studio Sokodei’s next project. Without spending too much time on the reasons why, we realized that what looked good on paper didn’t turn out so well when we tried to shape it into something meeting our standards. Rather than force ourselves to make a video we weren’t enjoying very much, we decided to shelve it.

So what will be the next project then? Well don’t worry, we’re not lacking in ideas over here (in fact, part of the reason we moved away from ECCH was due to how much more interested we became in the new prospects that emerged). We haven’t made a firm decision yet, but we’ll be sure to report it as soon as we do. I guess I can drop a hint though: the two leading candidates have aired on the Cartoon Network.

For the immediate future, the plan is to make this site something good and to finish the mastering of Fanboy Bebop and Nescaflowne to DVD.

I’ve fixed some issues with the Studio Sokodei homepage as per Andrew’s request. Things are moving along quite nicely; Andrew has even started posting and modifying pages. All in all, this website is becoming quite nice to edit.

Figured I’d put something up while we figure out what we want to do. Each of the pages for our individual works now has a little basic info (date and location of premiere, primary source footage and runtime) and the title screen. We’re thinking about posting the scripts for each one at some point, maybe some trivia kinda stuff, if you have any ideas about what you want to see here (other than the most obvious) let us know in the forum.