Oh, Anno is just dragging out the dead horse to beat, we'll never get another ballin' Eva again-
Screenplay by Yoko Taro
Directors: Kazuya Tsurumaki & Toko Yatabe
Music: Keiichi Okabe (He did the music for the Nier & Drakenguard series, and Automata)
Animation Production: CloverWorks x Khara
I have no idea what to expect. I only played Nier: Automata, but admittedly it was pretty dang good. The only misgivings I might have stem from how Tsurumaki handled GQuuuuuuX, but to be fair G-Quacks wasn't written by Yoko motherfucking Taro so, y'know.
Yeah. Knew they wouldn't let it not continue. Too much money left in it. Really didn't like what the films did, but maybe a series will be better if they have an overall plan for the story (probably not).
It's not as if this is necessarily worse than other stuff that gets 7 back-to-back seasons of anime, but it's not boding well for the industry to need to endlessly turn to older stuff instead of making something whole-cloth new. Anno and Khara could probably do whatever they wanted since they likely have the funds and talent (or at least the industry cache to acquire talent) to do whatever they want. We could finally get Uru In Blue or something, but whatever. Maybe it'll be like Star Wars and we'll get an Andor out of it sometimes where people are forced to slip their desired art into the skin of these industry titans.
Also, does anyone know what's up with how so few of the Eva games have been fan-translated? It's like 3-4 of them out of like 10 serious ones that you'd think one of the biggest anime series would have fans who'd want to translate the stuff like they do other smaller series. We've never had a series game/VN released in English about Eva, either (not counting that one phone gacha thing).
I JUST played some Battle Orchestra a few days ago and looked - there's an abandoned patch from 2015 if you want to try. Looks like it got some menu stuff translated at least
The PS2 or the PSP version? I can find a translation page for the PSP version that doesn't have any download links. Although I can do without menu translation stuff in most games, honestly. That's usually the easy part to navigate without speaking Japanese.
Ah, I didnt actually check, but I think you might have found the same thing I was talking about.