Squid of Man

Unless you're a liar, Neon Genesis made no fucking sense whatsoever. All that business with the chair in space and every second kid in the school becoming pilots? Completely lost on me.

Luckily, it had awesome, giant robots piloted by weird young kids, so I still loved it. I now stand to love it a whole lot more.

Hideaki Anno, who wrote the TV series, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Ikuto Yamashita, the design team, are on board for four feature-length movies that will re-tell the Evangelion story from a "more comprehensible" point of view.

Apparantly, these remakes will "feature all new animation and will eschew some of the more esoteric techniques used in the original series such as the interspersing and scattering of difficult words and text phrases in the animation".

Which is good news for everyone. Especially those of us who like seeing giant robots punch the shit out things. The first of the four films will hit Japanese theatres in late 2007, so expect dodgy DVDs to be available in Chinatown by Christmas that year.

[via ICv2]