Shinseiki Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku

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Synonyms: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku, Neon Genesis Evangelion Academy: Record of Heaven's Decent, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Cronache Degli Angeli Caduti

Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン学園堕天録

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 4

Chapters: 22

Status: Finished

Published: Aug 24, 2007 to Aug 24, 2009

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Theme: School

Demographic: Shoujo

Serialization: Asuka

Authors: Min, Min (Story & Art)

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Jul 20, 2010

harrysoung

Recommended

Nobody has written a review for Neon Genesis Gakuen Datenroku yet???? What the heaaallll......

Story
All right, for the people who has already watched the original N.G.E, I have to tell you, the story isn't that great. Its the type of plots where the protagonist and his friend have to fight the antagonists in their school uniforms. Basically, the ANGELS are invading the earth and there has to be a counteract against it, so teenage students are given the job of exterminating them. They are Asuka, Rei, Shinji, and pretty boy Kaworu. Sounds like the original anime/manga eh? But the thing is, they fight with weapons in ... their school uniforms instead of huge gigantic robots. The story is enough to keep you entertained. I give it a 7/10 (Good)

Art
I must say, I enjoyed the art. Everyone looks so much sexier, especially Rei (in my opinion). Shinji also looks more handsome. Excuse me, everyone looks a whole lot better. My point being, the art is something to look forward to. 10/10 (Great) For those of you who already read the manga and is reading my review, I give the art a 10 probably because I am comparing it to the original. It really is THAT much better.

Character
FINALLY!!! Let me tell you guys this. In the original N.G.E, Shinji was the biggest crybaby retard I HAVE EVER SEEN. Everytime I saw this guy saying "No No I dont wantz 2 do it bcuz I am too short and am i am a poosy," I wanted to deck this guy in the face. I mean, he has everything right; big gigantic robot with a cool suit. But here, he has a HANDGUN. A MOTHERFCKIN HANDGUN. He looks so good with that, especially with the help of the great art. He is NOT that big of a crybaby in this manga, so you will like Shinji A LOT better. As for everyone else, Rei opens up and starts to actually have feelings for Shinji, Asuka is a tsundere to Shinji, and Kaworu is gay for Shinji and vice versa. 8/10 (Very Good)

Enjoyment
Honestly, the scanlators took too long to scanlate this, so it took me about like 4 months to actually finish reading the whole manga. I dont blame them; they have their own lives too. Im just saying that the big gap had an impact on my interest for this manga. But when I originally read it, I was so excited. So I give this a 8/10 (Very Good)

Overall
Overall, this manga is probably going to be more enjoyable to those who already watched the original NGE. Youre going to see a lot of familiarities between them, and I found that to be pretty cool. There are also many new characters in this manga, like a cute little girl who likes Shinji and her brother who hates Shinji. That guy is quite the player here. Anyway, this manga would probably take a good 45 minutes to finish (on average).

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Feb 19, 2011

Inuyoujo

Recommended

Story:

For 22 chaps (which is short of me) the story does well. It seems to end abruptly, but there's enough closure for a spin to a series to like, but you'd have to be familiar with the main story to understand some of what's going on.

What I don't like the most is it's one of those stories that "hints" a "never ending battle" type-thing. Like a "This time may be called upon us again" thing. I'm one of those people highly annoyed by that. I'm putting this here for future reader's sake, in case you're one like me.

Art:

One of the best! Everyone's design is very ...

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Apr 4, 2020

Tosutaman

Mixed Feelings

Remember reading this a year ago and feeling empty due to how disappointing it is
I actually like the concept and up for a reimagining of the anime's story but the way they did it was lack luster at best
It for one is far to short and started to feel rushed towards the half way point
The abrupt as hell ending is probably the worse part of all of this as if the auithor gave up and slapped it on
The highlight here is the art style witch i found my self drawing some of the characters in it
over all this is a missed opportunity It ...

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Nov 2, 2023

hexashadow13

Not Recommended

tl;dr: A complete mess of a spin off that is a bit fun at first due to how different it is but that becomes a slog once the novelty wears off.

This is a reimagining of the well renowned Neon Genesis Evangelion. However, it isn’t clear at all why this exists. The basic premise seems to be the same characters going through a similar plot line with a lot of the same terminology, but instead of being a futuristic mecha series it’s a urban fantasy action series, which is a pretty interesting concept. However, it feels like the mangaka completely missed the point of NGE, or ... at the minimum had absolutely no ability to recapture any of it in their own writing. The characters in this are superficial facsimiles that are essentially nonfunctional from the point of view of storytelling. For example, Shinji is still indecisive and has issues regarding his father, but the writing completely misses the point in conveying why he’s like that. The same applies to Asuka, Rei, and Kaworu, where it uses the same broad archetypes and some plot points, but fails to capture how that gave the characters depth. It tries to show them going through similar character arcs to those in NGE, but it doesn’t work at all.

The plot is complete nonsense. It seems to want to use a lot of concepts from NGE in a new context, such as NERV in this being the name of the high school the cast attends or Evas in this being weapons that children can summon in order to fight angels, with Shinji’s weapon for example being a gun. However, this is really half assed and there’s no sense of thematic cohesion to anything. The original elements of the plot line are even worse, being a bunch of random events thrown around with a terrible sense of pacing with no sense of direction, leading to a completely underwhelming conclusion. Ultimately, underneath the use of NGE elements, it isn’t clear at all what type of story the mangaka was trying to tell or why they were using NGE as a foundation to tell it. Well, I suppose I can understand why the mangaka would want to use NGE seeing how popular it is. But I don’t understand why they were allowed to use it seeing as it doesn’t really build on NGE at all.

Furthermore, the official translation is pretty bad. It’s incredibly stiff and unnatural to the point of being hard to follow at times. It also thrown in random Japanese words for no reason when using English terms would suffice, which makes it feel really amateurish. The manga is also unnecessarily text heavy, which makes these issues in the translation feel a lot more damaging than they would in most manga. Art wise this is one of the rare manga where I feel the art got worse as the manga progressed. The first volume is actually pretty good art wise, but the art in the last volume felt pretty weak. I feel part of that comes down to how the first volume has pretty good flow in terms of paneling and such while the last volume is a mess in that regard, so even if the style was pretty much the same things come across significantly better in the first volume.

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Jul 23, 2024

bergars

Not Recommended

It was just so, unbelievably nothing.

I'll begin with my struggle to even finish the manga. A short read, nothing to be scared of. Spin-off, alternate universe from the titular Evangelion franchise. Grounded in a focus for the scholarly aspects from the world, even amidst the inherent angel threat. You've got some similar struggles, you have some allusion to something bigger, and a good hook to tie it all together. I was interested in around four chapters, until I inevitably started falling asleep every chapter, and every page I read.

What happened then? Imagine a story that properly sets up stakes, an interesting world, powers, ... and baseline to what the characters do between conflicts, but then, chucks it all out because there's no time for that. The first big conflict, one which should've just challenged the characters, wasn't used to propel the story forwards, but to outright finish it. It's as if a big conflict happened at the fourth episode of a twelve episode series, only to tell you that's the ending.

What happens when you need to wrap up everything neatly with that sort of abyss of a plot? Walls of text, walls of philosophical jargon that's trying to sell you the story they couldn't set up. Loads of messages, about friendships (which never actually got any development), the resolution of internal conflict (which was revealed, and wrapped up in the same chapter), and a cosmic plot about timelines, and eternal, fruitless searches to fix grief. There's nothing here.

Yes, a spin-off can bring climaxes to characters, because of what we know from them, but the events themselves aren't even cathartic when the story is this much of a rushed mess. There's no catharsis. This manga has two different stories, one that's a nice setup for an otherwise cliché'd manga, and a bunch of epic resolution out of left field.

The art is very 2000s in a negative, dated way. The fight scenes don't have proper geography, the powers aren't clear, the world isn't clear, the anti-war message couldn't even land, since, there's nothing to land. “We aren't the bag guys, actually”. Cool point, do the whole manga about that, not five things you can't wrap up.

After all that, the manga slaps us with an out-of-nowhere, “that's it folks, the battle marches on”, like a Devilman Lady, without at least some good parts.

I can blame manga for many things. Bad writing, bad pacing, bad everything, but there's terrible manga I finish in a day, which are way longer than this one. How is it, then, the manga is 22 chapters long, and it took me over a month to complete? A boring manga, is a million times worse than just a bad manga. This was the most sleep inducing piece of fiction I've ever experienced. There's no other manga that's imprisoned me in a single page, for three times, in one day, trying to just consume the information. I couldn't for the life of me get past some walls of text without falling asleep, or changing whatever I was reading. I finished one other short manga, while I was trying to finish, THIS SHORTER MANGA.

The effort is appreciated, but that felt like fanfiction which had two options: Be abandoned forever, or wrapped up in a binge writing session, with no pauses to look at what was written at all.

2.4/10. Not worth a second of my time, but again, the manga wasn't made to spite anybody. I hope that passion goes somewhere better.

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