Classified Informations: F.A.R. - First Ancestral Race
The entities thought to have created the Angels. The specifics of their intention are still unclear.
They were the first extraterrestrial intelligence. The humanoid species, referred to as the FAR (First Ancestral Race), started to spread Seeds of Life throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. As of yet, we do not know their motives or for what they were aiming.
It is becoming evident that multiple Seeds were disseminated. Eventually, by force of sheer bad luck, two accidentally landed on the same planet: Adam of the White Moon, and Lilith of the Black Moon.
Within a carrier known as a “Moon”, the First Ancestral Race fabricated a perfect cavity (also referred to as a “Moon”), at which point the Seed, or “Progenitor Entity”, would be placed inside and sent out into space. That was their technology, and, from the perspective of Angels, humans, and others, they might be called gods.
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For my forty-third Evangelion book review, here is Newtype Film Book: Neon Genesis Evangelion #9, published by Kadokawa Shoten. It is part of a series of books devoted to recapping the Evangelion story by using full color images from the anime, accompanied by some text… there’s dialogue from the scenes being shown, and sometimes little descriptions or explanations are also provided. I’m more interested in collecting new artwork of the Eva characters rather than small screenshots from the anime, so I only bought the ninth volume, which starts with episode 23 and goes all the way to the end of the TV series (this book uses the original versions of episodes 23 and 24, not the Directors’ Cut versions). Oh, and this book also comes with a removable dust jacket, although the artwork hidden underneath is simply a gray version of the cover art.
This book is not available in English or French, but there are plenty of pictures, and if you’re familiar with the Evangelion TV series then you already know the dialogue anyway. However, if you can read Japanese, you’ll find that the additional descriptions have a few interesting tidbits. For example, were you wondering what Misato was really offering when she tried to touch Shinji in episode 23? Or were you wondering how Shinji’s heart was reacting to Kaworu’s words in episode 24? I will get into that later in this review! But first, to give you an idea of what this book is like, here’s a page from the episode 23 section:
Keep reading for the rest of the book review, plus a few more pictures!
