Neon Genesis Evangelion: Classified Information Translated by Reichu of AnimeNation Text File compiled by sheaman Modified by Reichu "The PlayStation 2 game "Neon Genesis Evangelion(s) 2" was released in lieu with the Renewal of Evangelion project in 2003. The game itself is just a "world simulator" based on the series, but it was hyped on the basis of containing the answers to some of NGE's most perplexing mysteries. These "answers" are apparently a set of unlockable data files, "Classified Information" (Kimitsu Jouhou), isolated from the actual gameplay. As Anno- kantoku himself was interviewed extensively by the creators of the game, this information is considered second-tier canon, i.e., "trustworthy unless in conflict with the show itself"." - Reichu Original sources used can be found here: http://homepage3.nifty.com/mana/eva2kimitsu.html http://www.evacommentary.org/omake/nge2_kimitsu.txt http://www.animenation.net/forums/showthread.php?t=188682 NOTE: This is the *first draft* of my translation (with the exception of some revisions incorporated into the first five sections). A more refined and accurate one will be released at my website, www.evacommentary.org, at some point in the near future. Please update your files at that time, and direct anyone still citing the old translation to do the same. --Reichu (2006/08/22) --- Contents Data files are included for the following categories: 1. The Development of Eva 2. Eva Unit 01 3. The Second Children 4. Yui Ikari 5. Gendo Ikari 6. Special Agency Nerv 7. Marduk Institute 8. Gendo's Ambitions 9. The History of Nerv 10. Contents of the Human Instrumentality Project 11. Gehirn 12. Seele 13. A.T. Field 14. S2 Engine 15. Angel 16. Adam 17. Dead Sea Scrolls 18. First Ancestral Race 19. The Second Angel 20. Second Impact 21. Third Impact 22. The Spear of Longinus 23. Dummy Plug 24. Geofront Each heading has four individual files, labeled according to -- judging from context -- "security level". Level 1: Publicly Released Information Level 2: Generally Recognized Information Level 3: Confidential Information Level 4: In-Depth Information However, for ease of referencing specific files, we'll simply designate these A, B, C, and D. Ergo, the In-Depth Information file for "First Ancestral Race" would be, in shorthand, "18-D". Since the journey of 24 x 4 data files has to begin somewhere, I'll start off by giving you what I've cooked up for the first three categories. More will come as energies permit. Please remember that I am overworked and unpaid. Ergo, unless you give me lots of money or something, "goodiness will come as it will". === Beginning of Document === 1. The Development of Eva (Eva no Kouzou) A. Publicly Released Information The multipurpose humanoid decisive battle weapons developed by Nerv for use in combat against the Angels. They operate on electric power supplied via cable. The internal battery is only good for 5 minutes. B. Generally Recognized Information Clonally regenerated from the 1st Angel, who was discovered at the South Pole in the year 2000. In that sense, the Evas have the same common mechanisms as the Angels. One example is the A.T. Field, which can manipulate a physical domain. Evas differ from Angels in that they lack both S2 Engines and souls. C. Confidential Information An Eva is a vessel for a soul that has abandoned human form, and a magnification of the ego, i.e., the embodiment of a large human being. Attempts were made to operate Evas, but souls were not placed within them, and the entry of a soul was essential. The soul that enters an Eva is called a pilot. However, it takes more than a pilot to make Eva move. Perhaps the pilot cannot properly utilize the Eva's capabilities. D. In-Depth Information A unit called a core is used to eliminate the discrepancies in Eva, a human being with the body of a god and a soul. The soul of the pilot's mother, which is placed within the core, acts as a medium and makes piloting possible. Due to difficulties encountered in the development of EVA-00, the core's system is poorly constructed, and she falls behind in performance capacity as a result. Another reason for her inferiority is that EVA-00's pilot, Rei, does not have a mother. --- 2. Eva Unit 01 (Eva Shogouki) A. Publicly Released Information The pilot is the Third Children, Shinji Ikari. This is the Evangelion Test Type. B. Generally Recognized Information In the course of EVA-01's development, Shinji's mother, Yui Ikari, became the test subject for a Contact Experiment at her own request. She carried out the experiment with EVA-01 in 2004, but not without losing her life. C. Confidential Information Normally, in order for the pilot to link with the Eva's core, the soul of the pilot's mother must be contained within. In the case of EVA-01, it is Yui's soul. D. In-Depth Information As Gendo has already exhibited signs of treachery, his son's status as the pilot of EVA-01 is, in Seele's eyes, particularly dangerous. This is because Seele believe that the immortal soul should come into existence only on their terms. However, Gendo has his own plans for attaining divinity, which he hopes to fulfill using EVA-01. --- 3. The Second Children A. Publicly Released Information Asuka Langley Soryu is the pilot of Eva Unit 02. Although her nationality is American, she is 1/4 German and 1/4 Japanese. She graduated from a German university at the age of fourteen. B. Generally Recognized Information Asuka's mother, Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu, carried out the Contact Experiment with an Eva. As a result, she fell prey to a mental illness so severe that she could no longer recognize her own daughter. C. Confidential Information Not long after her mother's Contact Experiment with the Eva, Asuka was selected by the Marduk Institute to be the pilot of EVA-02. D. In-Depth Information When Asuka's mother carried out the experiment with the Eva's core, only part of her soul -- the maternal component that loves her daughter above all else -- remained within Eva Unit 02. This is the reason why she could not recognize her daughter. --- 4. Yui Ikari A. Publicly Released Information The mother of Shinji Ikari, and Gendo's wife. She was 27 years old at the time of her death in 2004. B. Generally Recognized Information Yui Ikari was a brilliant genetic engineer and an authority in her field. In the year 2004, she performed the Contact Experiment on EVA-01 (who was under development) and allegedly died during it. C. Confidential Information By becoming the test subject for the Contact Experiment, Yui's soul was made to inhabit EVA-01. Shinji also became the pilot of EVA-01 because Yui's soul dwells within. D. In-Depth Information Yui is the daughter of an influential member of Seele, and, accordingly, was in the position of being able to understand their plans. Gendo, knowing this, became acquainted with her. --- 5. Gendo Ikari A. Publicly Released Information Commander in Chief of Nerv and Shinji Ikari's father. A cool-headed personality who will use any means necessary to achieve his goals. His subordinates find him somewhat difficult to deal with. B. Generally Recognized Information Served the formerly existing entity, Gehirn, as the chief of the Artificial Evolution Laboratory. He employs his gift for manipulating information and concealing his handiwork in order to actively acquire funding for Nerv's administration. C. Confidential Information Married Yui Ikari, who has connections with Seele, so that he could become a member himself. He held consecutive posts as the Executive Chief of Operations (among other things) for Project E, the Human Instrumentality Project, and Nerv. Not long after he became a member of Seele, he went to the South Pole to be an auditor for the Katsuragi Investigation Team. D. In-Depth Information Gendo's goals, like Seele's, are the annihilation of the Angels and the Human Instrumentality Project -- but, for him, this means reuniting with the deceased Yui. He is constantly on his toes so as not to betray the treachery he has in mind. Seele keep a close eye on him and issue threats as needed. --- 6. Special Agency Nerv A. Publicly Released Information A special agency under the direct supervision of the United Nations. Its objectives are to investigate, study, and eliminate the Angels. Nerv's headquarters are in Tokyo-3, the 1st and 2nd Branches are in America, and the 3rd Branch is in Germany. B. Generally Recognized Information The relationship between the government and Nerv leaves much to be desired, as the former believe that Nerv are responsible for the coming of the Angels. The Human Instrumentality Committee, a small organization within the UN, holds approval authority over Nerv's budget. C. Confidential Information One of Nerv's goals is to annihilate the Angels, but they are also aiming for the evolution of humanity -- in other words, the path to divinity. Eva is the key to achieving both goals. D. In-Depth Information Nerv Headquarters was constructed inside the Black Moon containing Lilith. The Angels are all heading for Nerv H.Q. so that they can make contact with Lilith, the white giant in Terminal Dogma. They were aiming for her from the start, not Adam. --- 7. Marduk Institute A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information An advisory body under the direct supervision of the Human Instrumentality Committee, established for the purpose of selecting Eva pilots. It operates secretly, and the truth behind the organization is unclear. C. Confidential Information The Marduk Institute is comprised of 108 associated companies, all dummies; in essence, the organization does not exist. Reports filed from the Marduk Institute to Nerv are, in truth, being prepared within Nerv itself. D. In-Depth Information The selection of candidates by the Marduk Institute is considered a necessary ruse. This is so that it is not outwardly apparent that Gendo is choosing candidates at his own discretion. --- 8. Gendo's Ambitions A. Publicly Released Information As commander in chief of Special Agency Nerv, his objective is to prevent Third Impact by eliminating the Angels. B. Generally Recognized Information He is focused on carrying both the eradication of the Angels and the Human Instrumentality Project through to their completion. C. Confidential Information While Gendo maintains the pretense of striving for the Path to Divinity, his actual goal is to be reunited with the deceased Yui. Because this has been the only thing on his mind, Gendo invests a great deal of concern into EVA-01, through whom he is attempting to open up the Path. D. In-Depth Information Seele have been making preparations for a divinity handled as they see fit. Gendo, opposingly, has been forwarding his own plans in the shadows, with the aim of creating his personal vision of divinity. By fusing with the partially- restored remnant of Adam, and then via fusion with Rei (i.e., Lilith), Gendo hopes to achieve fusion with EVA-01 (reunion with Yui). --- 9. The History of Nerv A. Publicly Released Information A special affairs agency under the direct supervision of the United Nations, formed in the year 2010. Its goals are the investigation, research, and annihilation of the objects known as Angels. B. Generally Recognized Information Nerv is an executive body that embodies Seele's objectives and is their most important organization. Unlike Gehirn in its time, Nerv is semi-public. As a result of Second Impact, Seele underwent a rather radical transformation and began to vehemently drive their plans forward. Somehow, the miracle of divinity actually existed, and Adam, a being who was essentially a god incarnate, was also real. C. Confidential Information The discovery of Adam created a firm conviction and propelled Seele forward. Several projects were simultaneously enacted around the time of Second Impact (both before and after): The excavation of the Black Moon (i.e., Hakone) and the discovery of Lilith; the founding of the Artificial Evolution Laboratory and the subsequent formulation of Gehirn; the dissemination of the Human Limitation Theory; the establishment of the Human Instrumentality Committee; and the development of a world led by the United Nations, who would keep vigil over the battles with the Angels. Additionally, there is the plan to revive Adam, Project E. (In the Bible, the one made from Adam's rib was called Eva.) The Evas are being undertaken as a series, something still currently underway. D. In-Depth Information The Human Instrumentality Committee is, fundamentally, nothing but a small council within the United Nations. However, as a subordinate body of Seele, it effectively has the world in the palm of its hand. This committee was established on the basis of the Human Limitation Theory. As it was charged with the study of how to surmount the underlying problem, the committee was allowed to have an independent research agency: the Artificial Evolution Laboratory. The Artificial Evolution Laboratory came to possess the remnants of Adam, at which point it experienced intervention by the more powerful Seele. They tightened the structural framework and transformed it into the secret agency Gehirn, an auxilliary institution under their jurisdiction. Gehirn was a preparatory organization and became the foundation of its successor, Nerv. And, then, Nerv itself was created. --- 10. Details of the Human Instrumentality Project A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information Nerv's three big projects are Project E, the Adam Project, and the Human Instrumentality Project. Seele regards the latter as the one of the utmost importance. C. Confidential Information The Human Instrumentality Project is a plan aimed at divinity. The Evas are absolutely essential to Seele, for they are the sole key that can open the Path to Divinity. This is because they were copied from Adam, she who is nearest to a god. As yet, the Evas are surely insufficient in number. However, as long as that part was somehow accomplished, people thought that they could procure gods, or, at least, entities very nearly so. That is also Seele's gospel: opening the Path to Divinity by complementing the part that people are missing. If people gathered up the gods, what would happen? They thought that they could become a god themselves. D. In-Depth Information While the Angels were being engaged in battle, people were also making and advancing the plan for the path that leads to divinity. The first step is the completion of Eva -- the body of a god and throne of a soul -- via the installation of an S2 Engine. The interfusion of souls follows. Afterwards, our final natural enemy, the Spear of Longinus security device, is annihilated. Thus, that which is nearly divine, or perhaps a god in and of itself, is brought to completion, and, with the Spear gone, cannot be destroyed by anyone. Seele's intention for this man-made god is to guide the elite (themselves) to a nearly divine place. --- 11. Gehirn A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information One might call this research organization Nerv's predecessor. It was dismantled in 2010, the same year that Naoko Akagi completed the Magi System. With the exception of her, Gehirn's personnel were transferred over to Nerv, the executive agency for all of the projects. C. Confidential Information "Gehirn" is Seele's secret agency designation for the Artificial Evolution Laboratory. The Artificial Evolution Laboratory was a public organization recognized by the United Nations. On the surface, its goal was the research of artificial evolution. D. In-Depth Information Gehirn's objective was the Adam revival project (Project E). This actually entailed making copies of her -- in other words, creating the Evas. And, as they approached the execution, the organization's style was scaled up and Nerv was formed.* --- 12. Seele A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information A secret society that puppets Nerv from the shadows towards the fulfillment of the Human Instrumentality Project. Nerv's financial backing comes almost entirely from them. C. Confidential Information An esoteric secret society born during the medieval Dark Ages and, originally, a religious order. Slowly but surely, they extended their influence, until at last they crushed the final forces of opposition in the mid-20th century and became a latent power with covert rule over human society. D. In-Depth Information Upon acquiring the Secret Dead Sea Scrolls, Seele turned once again to a creed that, up until then, they had considered naught but the pipe dreams of their ancestors. By putting the miracle of divinity, in the form of prophecy, within their sights, they restored the faith. Their dogma is the Path to Adam Kadmon -- that is, the approaching of a divinity both ageless and undying. --- 13. A.T. Field A. Publicly Released Information An absolute physical barrier only the Angels and Evas are capable of generating. No conventional weapon on the face of the Earth is capable of penetrating an Angel's A.T. Field. Evas neutralize the Angels' A.T. Fields while engaged in combat. B. Generally Recognized Information Humans also have A.T. Fields, but, lacking the shear power of the Angels', they cannot affect the physical world. C. Confidential Information The throne of the soul is the body, and the A.T. Field is what determines it. The A.T. Field, or ego (self), is the wall of the heart that separates one person from another. People are people because they think of themselves as people. D. In-Depth Information The maximum extent of an A.T. Field's expansion is an ego without restriction (that is to say, a god). Before this can happen, a person's ego collapses and he reverts to LCL. --- 14. S2 Engine A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information The "Super Solenoid Engine" is the Angels' source of limitless motive energy. It is thought that this gives the Angels abilities such as self-regeneration and metamorphosis that, for living creatures, go beyond the bounds of common sense. C. Confidential Information The S2 Engine Theory was advocated by Dr. Katsuragi. As the world is formed with spirals, the engine acquires energy from its shape, which is the same as DNA. From here, the S2 Engine was being envisioned as an energy source that would attempt to procure helical energy -- in other words, an inexhaustible supply.* D. In-Depth Information The Fruit of Life. This is the one thing that an Eva requires in order to gain an existence equal to that of Adam. --- 15. Angel A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information The unidentified enemy of humankind, transcending the concepts of living and nonliving. Conventional weaponry is no match for their overwhelming offensive power. The target of their invasions is Nerv Headquarters in the Geofront below Tokyo-3. C. Confidential Information Angels are, indeed, lifeforms that were born from Adam. Humanity, on the other hand, originated from Lilith. Compared to organisms born from Lilith, the Angels are predisposed towards enormous size and individualistic existences. Adam-based life should be thriving on Earth, as it is the life that originally germinated there. D. In-Depth Information Two Seeds of Life cannot exist on one planet, and, therefore, one of them is excluded. As recorded in the Secret Dead Sea Scrolls, Adam-based life took part in a contest of survival, putting the stakes on their own existence. Some of them were trying to access Lilith and reset all life, some of them had nothing in mind, and some were trying to recover their progenitor Adam. The Angels -- Adam-based life -- became active under their respective tactics for survival and success. --- 16. Adam A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information The First Angel. The white giant crucified in Terminal Dogma. C. Confidential Information The entity, a progenitor of life, implanted into Earth by the First Ancestral Race. She was discovered at the South Pole by the Katsuragi Team, but, during the investigation, she blew apart and degenerated due to her S^2 Engine artificially going out of control. D. In-Depth Information There hasn't been a soul within Adam. At the time of Second Impact, her body was torn apart, and her soul flew off somewhere as a result. It was later recovered by Seele and incarnated, taking the form called Kaworu Nagisa. Because the Evas are a part of Kaworu's own body, he can manipulate them freely. However, he cannot go into them, for the reason that there are souls (the pilots' mothers) within the bodies. --- 17. Dead Sea Scrolls A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information The prophetic text in which the times of the Angels' appearances are recorded. C. Confidential Information Seele possess a vast amount of wealth, and, consequently, they had one face as a patron foundation of the arts and research. The Artificial Evolution Laboratory, Gehirn, etc., were funded entirely by Seele. Perhaps because of their origins as a religious organization, Seele often managed the funding support for investigations into the relics of their own faith. Among these, something was excavated that marked a significant turning point for both Seele and humankind: The Secret Dead Sea Scrolls. D. In-Depth Information The Secret Dead Sea Scrolls are a scripture written by the First Ancestral Race, a manual regarding the Seed of Life (Progenitor Entity) and the usage of the Spear of Longinus security device, possibly while applying a scheme at the time of use to a religious group's own doctrines. They are written prophecy, in so far as they remain active even in the current day according to a design of the past. Until then, Seele had only fragmentary knowledge of the scrolls' contents and existence, but they had never imagined that the scrolls might actually exist, contain meaningful prophecies, and turn up in near-perfect condition. They were sent to headquarters promptly, upon which the actual truth was skewed and immediately covered up. The parts of little consequence, later released to the public, were called the Dead Sea Scrolls, whereas what Seele made off with were dubbed the Secret Dead Sea Scrolls. --- 18. First Ancestral Race A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information The entities thought to have created the Angels. The specifics of their intention are unclear. C. Confidential Information They were the first extraterrestrial intelligence. The humanoid species, referred to as the 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. D. In-Depth Information Within a carrier known as a "Moon", the First Ancestral Race fabricated a perfect cavity (also 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. --- 19. The Second Angel A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information The Second Angel, known as Lilith. She came from the moon that carried the Black Moon (the former became Earth's satellite). Giant, or First, Impact was caused by the contact between the Moon and Earth. C. Confidential Information The white giant crucified in Terminal Dogma, who bore life such as monkeys and dolphins, and, as the final form, Lilim -- that is, humankind. In addition, the LCL liquid is the body fluid of Lilith. D. In-Depth Information Lilith had no soul. Moreover, her soul has been residing within Rei. Many copies of Rei's body were made, but that is the reason why only one of Rei herself can exist at any given time. Even though Rei was copied from Yui's flesh, this was not the case for her soul. --- 20. Second Impact A. Publicly Released Information On September 13, 2000, a giant meteorite descended upon the South Pole. A huge explosion resulted, melting the ice and generating massive tidal waves, which in turn caused the sea level to rise several tens of meters. Collectively, more than 2 billion people on the islands of the Southern Hemisphere died. The energy from the explosion knocked the Earth off its axis, producing climate change on a global scale; Japan became a country of perpetual summer. Many places around the world suffered drought, flooding, volcanic eruptions, abnormal weather patterns, and other calamities as a result of this Second Impact. Economic panic and civil war erupted in every nation. B. Generally Recognized Information Mankind discovered a human lifeform, designated the first Angel, at the South Pole. During the investigation, a giant explosion occurred for reasons unknown. The well-publicized theory that it was caused by a giant meteorite is the product of rigged intelligence. C. Confidential Information Adam, the First Angel -- and the cause of Second Impact -- was discovered by the Katsuragi Investigation Team at the South Pole. It was courtesy of Seele's funding that the Katsuragi Team discovered the White Moon, which contained Adam and the Spear of Longinus. D. In-Depth Information (Revised) The other Seed of Life, Adam, was awakened by humankind. The Katsuragi Investigation Team frantically attempted to reseal her using the Spear of Longinus, but failed. Ultimately, through the phenomenon of the S2 Engine apparently going into overdrive by artificial means (details are vague due to the team's complete annihilation), it became that only an absolute catastrophe -- the resetting of all life due to the disappearance of A.T. Fields, and the construction of an ecosystem with an Adam base -- was prevented. This is called the Second Impact. The incident blew Adam completely apart. --- 21. Third Impact A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information Nerv's personnel are told that, if an Angel were to come into contact with Adam (the white giant in Terminal Dogma), an explosion of similar magnitude to Second Impact will occur. In actuality, the Human Instrumentality Project would be set in motion. C. Confidential Information It is thought that Third Impact will occur if an Angel comes in contact with either Lilith (in Terminal Dogma) or Adam. D. In-Depth Information The alleged reality of Third Impact is that humans will lose their personal boundaries, dissolving as a result. Life will arrive at its terminus (although it is unclear what such an end entails), and A.T. Fields will be lost, rendering the preservation of human form impossible. --- 22. The Spear of Longinus A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information It was found in the White Moon with Adam at the South Pole. In essence, the Spear of Longinus is a security device that comes as a set with a Seed of Life. C. Confidential Information It is a spear which has a will and is a type of lifeform capable of moving by itself. This is an item close to a god and thus able to put a Seed of Life (Progenitor Entity), who holds the power of eternal life, into suspended animation, and this is the reason why the Seed of Life (Progenitor Entity) does not reach god-status. The First Ancestral Race prepared this as a counter- measure in the event that a Seed of Life (Progenitor Entity) did not follow their own goals. It is thought that a Spear acting as Lilith's counterpart was separated from her by the shock at the time of First Impact. This Spear has yet to be found. There is a chance that it may have been destroyed. D. In-Depth Information For the purpose of opening the Path to Divinity, Gendo and Seele brought Lilith's growth to a point just before the final stage, and to temporarily delay this they are having Nerv transport the Spear of Longinus that was paired with Adam. --- 23. Dummy Plug A. Publicly Released Information Data unavailable. B. Generally Recognized Information An entry plug developed for use with the Dummy System. Even if no pilot is present, it can activate an Eva by making her think that a pilot is there. C. Confidential Information A copy of a personality is made in the Dummy Plug, but a soul cannot be copied. Why can't it be done, or how would it be done? As far as the technology branches of Seele and Nerv are concerned, it is a theme of research integral to seeking out the Path to God, and study into how to deal with the problem has spanned many years. Examples of failure include Yui and Asuka's mother. The Dummy Plug is something that came about in the midst of that research. D. In-Depth Information The Dummy System is an artificial soul that was developed at the end of the research. In terms of functionality, however, the Dummy System was severely subpar: Although it could make Eva activate, that was the limit of its capacity. --- 24. Geofront A. Publicly Released Information The facilities for Nerv Headquarters were constructed in a mysterious, giant, underground space existing beneath Tokyo-3. It is a hemispherical cavity with a diameter of 6 km and a height of 0.9 km, but 89% of it is currently buried. Sunlight is sent in by optical fibers from a light-condensing block on the surface, maintaining a level of brightness comparable to that on the surface. Although Nerv facilities are nearly the only things being constructed, there are also evacuation shelters for civilians. B. Generally Recognized Information In addition to the Geofront where Nerv Headquarters is located, there was one at the South Pole. Moreover, the First Angel, designated "Adam", was discovered within it. C. Confidential Information The Geofronts' true identities are the "Black Moon", where Nerv Headquarters is located, and the "White Moon" at the South Pole. Lilith is in the Black Moon, and Adam is in the White. D. In-Depth Information Initially, the White Moon -- containing Adam -- fell to Earth. The Black Moon, which originally should have gone to a different solar system, was captured by Earth's gravity, and, after it crashed into the Earth's surface and bounced, it became a satellite orbiting the planet. It left behind only its ruins and remained in the heavens, and Lilith, the Seed that the Black Moon had carried, was implanted into Earth. Lilith's landing site is believed to have been in the vicinity of what is now called the South Pole, but it was later moved by tectonic plates, ultimately as far as the Hakone region of Japan. That site is the giant cavern of Hakone, and the future Nerv Headquarters would be constructed here. === End of Official Text, Beginning of Reichu's Footnotes === Footnotes by Reichu NOTE: Sheaman only collected what I designated as "footnotes" here. In the original thread at AnimeNations, I followed up on many translation issues, rendering many of the concerns expressed in my notes moot. There is also a hefty amount of group discussion in the NGE2 CI thread regarding the meaning and implications of this information. --- Footnotes for 1~3 General: "Eva" is treated as a regular Japanese noun, so we get all of the vagueries involved. When a specific Eva is referenced, that makes deciding upon an English wording much easier. Depending on whim, I use articles and inflection ("an Eva", "Evas", etc.), but, othertimes, I use "Eva", unadorned and unchanged, in a general sense. "Here we can see Eva in her natural habitat..." 1-B: "One example is the A.T. Field, which..." is a bit I'm having trouble articulating. It involves "affecting / having influence on / manipulating" + "physical field/realm/space", with a pesky particle that is, according to Barrett (@AnimeLyrics.com), "demonstrating that ATFields have influence over something you might not expect (physical space), as well as on other unstated things that you would expect (like for example, physical objects)". I'm going to get my head around this, one way or the other! Regarding this "(those who are) clonally regenerated from..." ("...o moto ni clone saisei shita mono de aru") business... Barrett suggested that this simply be abbreviated to "cloned from", but, before I do that, I want to make sure that there isn't any nuance that would be lost. It does sound a bit dodgy as it currently stands, I'll give you that. 1-C: "Ego" is 'jiga', the "sense of self" in psychoanalysis. 1-D: Not sure what they mean by "eliminating discrepancies" and all that. 2-D: "Kami. Kami is the word that I hate." "Immortal soul" is "kami no tamashii"; this could be translated in a number of ways, such as "soul of god", with interpretational allowances made for those pesky articles and plurals that don't exist in Japanese. (Or, in the latter case, not usually.) Keep this in mind. However, I went with what rockthing cooked up, because I thought it sounded nice. (Nice and Seele...) Gendo's "divinity", similarly, makes references to achieving the status of that all- ambiguous "kami" ("kami ni shiyou to kuwadatete iru"). Whatever the hell it means in NGE, immortality seems to be involved, but the specifics still need to be worked out. Curse you, Anno, throwing these annoying words at us! (This isn't the only one that irks me to the Seventh Layer of Hell.) --- Footnotes for 4~7 6-C. The "evolution of humanity" is, here, equated to the "path to divinity". It's literally worded with an "equals" sign: jinrui no shinkou = kami e no michi. (The latter part ought to look familiar by now.) The NGE2 stuff does this a lot. The second sentence is actually two, but I can't figure on anything that doesn't sound long and Engrishy. ("The achievement of both goals will be carried out due to a single key's existence. And that is Eva." Ewwww.) 6-D. I have some questions about "from the start" (hajime kara) and if there is anything "implied, but unspoken" about it. Currently investigating that, along with one other bit. Entry shall be thoroughly rewritten after that. 7-D. "Candidate", here, is tekininsha 適格者, "an eligible or qualified person". Tekininsha is used interchangeably with the word "Children". --- Footnotes for 8 8-C. "Path to Divinity" is my new "official translation" for kami e no michi, that thing that Gendo mentions to Fuyutsuki in #21, "which no one has ever achieved!" Sounds much better, IMO, than "path to godhood" ? eewww ? and it seems to involve the same degree of vaguery as the Japanese original. 8-D: Gendo is attempting to create kami. (Dear gawd, not that thing again.) I used "divinity" again because it is nice and vague -- although the current wording is somewhat dodgy. He could potentially be trying to create a "god", or even "gods". No specification is provided. Also, there must be a more aesthetic alternative to using "fusing"/"fusion" three times in the same sentence... :shakes fist at that yuugou: Speaking of that sentence, the Rei-Lilith part is actually phrased as bluntly as "Rei = Lilith". (As before, the "=" indicates an equivalent relationship between the two components.) Not like this is news or anything. --- Footnotes for 9 9-B: "Essentially a god incarnate" seems to be something along the lines of, "the closest to a god (in the flesh) we're ever going to get, so we'll just call Adam a 'god' and be done with it". ;) But literally, it's something so hideous I won't speak of it unless asked. --- Footnotes for 10 10-A: Why can't they all be this easy? :snicker: 10-B: The language in this entry is somewhat difficult to decipher, and most of the results I've seen seem somewhat "off". The translation I use here makes sense in- context and seems to work "within the words". 10-C: In the words of the great Slappy the Squirrel, "Somebody shoot me." "As yet, the Evas are surely insufficient in number..." (Mada tarinai mono koso ikutsuka aru ga...): For something so short, this part has been a bit of trouble. Explaining why is difficult, but, essentially, it seems to be saying that something (mono) -- one of those horrible "general-purpose" Japanese nouns*, either referring back to the Evas or talking about as-yet-unmentioned "things" -- is insufficient, isn't enough, is falling short, etc., by a few. Once the grammar processed, the first thing that popped into my head was the line, "While fewer than planned, we'll have to make do" (#26') -- an insufficient number of Evas, as far as Seele were concerned. (We know that they were planning for more than nine of their own "Eva Series".) Even so, other folks have gotten different results; for example, roxfan at AnimeLyrics got, "There are some things still missing". :dizzy: At the moment, I'm going with "fan-geek intuition", although I might be wrong, since dodgy things in the sentence remain... "...as long as that part was somehow accomplished..." (sono bubun sae dou ni ka sureba...): What the hell is "that part" (sono bubun)? You got me. roxfan suggested that it "probably refers to making of the 'key', the Eva." I'm not sure if that would falsify the translation I chose for the preceding section or not. Could "that part" be referring to the opening of the Path to Divinity instead? This is all very confusing. :dabs at blood running out of ears with a tissue: "... people thought that they could procure gods, or, at least, entities very nearly so." ("...hito wa kami ka, arui wa sore ni kagiri naku chikai sonzai te ni ireru koto ga dekiru to omowareta.") This is the sentence from Hell, I tell you! "Chigoku ga hate shinai!" Mmkay, "procure gods"... Basically, "acquire / get their grimy meathooks on / etc. kami". This feels terribly ambiguous to me, but I figured that, with all of the "Adam = one close to a god, Evas = copied from Adam" crap earlier, creating Evas would thus be a way of procuring "gods, or at least the next best thing". But, then, the Evas are just a means to another end, aren't they? So, like, people acquire kami so that they can attain kami for themselves, or some blather like that... So, what kami are we actually talking about here? What stage of kami "acquisition" are we in? :sticks head into bucket of water: And, oh yeah, "entities" is just sonzai, and that essentially means "existence" / "being". (And sometimes it sounds incredibly lame if you translate it directly.) I'm still not quite sure how this sonzai crap works, but they do seem to use it in the sense of "entity" (whatever the hell that means) now and again. "I AM THE ENTITY WHO IS YOUR MOTHER!!!" But we might not be talking about the Evas here after all, but some other kami-type sonzai instead. Ugh. "That is also Seele's gospel": The "that is" (sore wa) part is floating at the beginning of the sentence and I'm not quite sure what the hell it's doing. But I'm guessing it's referring back to something (those goddam sore, you love to torment me) as being "Seele's doctrine / creed / dogma / gospel / whatever" (Seele no kyougi). (I used "gospel" to be cute.) I need to ask about this sentence. Things feel dodgy. "If people gathered up the gods, what would happen?" (Hito wa kami o hirottara, nani o suru ka.) Okay, I dunno if it's actually plural "gods". Japanese sucks like that. But the verb here is sort of weird... (Hirou -- you can see what my buddies Excite and SpaceAlc say about it, although the latter probably won't be particularly useful if you can't read the Japanese that provides context for each example. ) Of all of the definitions, "to collect / gather" seems to be the only one that could make any sense. "If people gathered / collected kami..." -- but what could that mean? If it's for the purpose of complementing what they're missing, as the context seems to imply... As far as this geek can tell, "gods", plural, seems to be the best choice. Call it ... "woman's intuition", just because I'm a woman and I can use that cliche as an excuse whenever I can't think of anything better. I use "god" singular for what people (hito) are to become in consideration of Seele's scenario, which was in favor of the Big Happy Hive Mind. I guess that's being equated to kami here -- a "god", "divinity", whatever. Now do you see why I hate this section? * Actually, two different general-purpose nouns -- homophones of one another -- so it really sucks when they don't use the kanji. I might add, the entire bloody CI (!!!) is guilty of this particular sin. (Although maybe it's on purpose. "You and your goddam ambiguities, making my life difficult...! :shakes fist: ) 10-D: Um... maybe later. Typing up the ones for (C) really sucked the life force outta me. Like a Metroid. If there's anything you have any particular questions about, please shoot. The questions. Or me, if you're feeling particularly merciful. Nothing too heavy, though -- I still have a lot of work to do, and that will be difficult if I'm mortally wounded. --- Footnotes for 11 & 12 11-D: Does that third sentence sound dodgy? Yes it does! I need to check some things... :sigh: 12-C: I'm actually not sure if they're talking about the Dark Ages specifically... The only definition for the used kanji compound (暗黒期) I can find is "eclipse period". Uh... come again? Eclipse period of the middle ages? Does that make sense to anyone? Also, for some reason, part of this entry was giving me "Star Wars" flashbacks. Yeah, I know how pointless that was. And... does "latent power" sound funny? Footnotes for 13 & 14 14-C. "As the world is formed with spirals" (sekai wa neji de dekite ori) is the best I can currently muster for the part in question, which doesn't really make much sense to me. Still asking around. --- Footnotes for 15 15-C. Here they use two different verbs that can mean "to be born" (literally or metaphorically) for Adam and Lilith's offspring. For the former, it's umareru -- as in, Adam kara umareta seimei -- but, for the latter, it's tanjou suru (Lilith kara tanjou shita no wa jinrui). I'm not sure what the difference in nuance is. Third sentence is an annoying one; the second half doesn't seen to lend itself to literal interpretation, or, possibly, I just suck. The last sentence has been rearranged a little for fluency, but the information is the same. The "germination" (the verb mebuku, "to bud, come into bud, put forth buds") part seems to be making a metaphorical play on Adam's "Seed" title. --- Footnotes for 16. 16-C. "...by the First Ancestral Race...": To elaborate, "ni yotte" is "according to, due to, because of, by (means) of, depending on, etc." As we'll see later, it just seems to mean that they're ultimately responsible for Adam being there, but not actively "implanting" Adam into Earth themselves. The word used for "implanted" here is chakushou, "implantation", e.g., an ovum into the uterine wall. (I vaguely recall you making a comment like, "Mother Earth, indeed", Steve, but I can't find the original ATM.) The bit about being discovered by the Katsuragi Team raises some questions... "Blew apart" is barabara no nikuhen to natte. Barabara 'describes' scattering, dispersal, the condition of being in pieces, and such like, and nikuhen literally means "chunk/piece of meat". (~ to naru = to become ~.) rockthing's take was "torn to pieces". It seems like an idiomatic thing that doesn't translate literally, in any case, but I haven't gone around and asked about it. "Degenerated" is taika shita, and could also be "retrogressed". Seems to refer rather transparently to the bit about Adam being reduced to an egg (#25'). "Artificially going out of control" is jin'i bousou, "artificial" + "out of control". (Come on. If you don't know bousou, Yui-sama is disappointed!) Sometimes you might hear me just say "artificial overdrive", since it's shorter and it sounds cool. 16-D. The first sentence is plain past tense, actually, but I take it that with this first sentence they're talking about post-2I Adam, and I made it "hasn't been" since it sounds less awkward and seems to fit the context. "Recovered" can also be "collected". "Incarnated": This one is interesting. It's the word for "incarnation" (juniku) modified into a passive verb, and commonly (not sure about exclusively) used in association with that Jahshua Ha Mashiyach, er, I mean, Jesus Christ fellow. We're not supposed to trust Wikipedia and all, but it still has a handy summary on the "incarnation" concept, and it mentions the word's original meaning of "enfleshing" ("wrapping in flesh", as the Japanese entry puts it). The "Jesus Parallel" implied with this one word (not that it's anything particularly new and astounding) takes some liberties, of course. (You know... "God" being physical, "God" being female, "Jesus" being immaculately conceived within "God" by a meddling mortal, and... various other things people don't necessarily buy into. :bravely runs away: ) Having trouble articulating the last part of the third sentence (...kore wa Nagisa Kaworu to iu katachi ni naru). "...this takes the form called Kaworu Nagisa" is what I'm literally getting, but that obviously sounds dodgy... What is "this", first of all? Adam's soul? The part about 'Eva being a part of Kaworu's body" is problematic ATM -- I'm rather uncertain as to the handling of the sentence's opener, "Kaworu ni shite mireba...". I would need to look into that before you try reading too deeply into this sentence. No gender-specific wording is used, but I still suffered through considerable emotional trauma to give you the pronoun "he" anyway. It was, truly, the most difficult part of providing something for this entry. :cackle: --- Footnotes for 17. 17-D. This first sentence is long and convoluted (to someone of my own stature, anyway). With regards to the first part ("Ura Shikai Bunsho wa, Daiichi Shiso Minzoku ga Seimei no Tane (Shigen no Sonzai) to, hoan souchi de aru Longinus no Yari no tsukaikata o shisushita manual..."), the status of plurals is ambiguous. Do the Scrolls describe all Seeds of Life (and Spears), or just the ones that they're packed up with? Assuming that both Adam and Lilith have their own Scrolls, is this sentence referring to both of them collectively, or the ones that were discovered first (Adam's)? I also dunno if the "manual" part is supposed to be referring to the Seimei no Tane (Seed of Life) together with the Spear; the Japanese word order and grammatical structure is confuzzling me. There's stuff about Seeds (one or more) written in them thar Scrolls, it says that much. I'm not sure what the bit about "applying (a) scheme [plan, etc.] at the time of use" is supposed to mean. Having trouble with this one. "They are written prophecy...": Another iffy one. Just FYI, "design" is an artistic rendition of the same word as "scheme" in the previous sentence (hokakusho). In a future draft, I'll hopefully feel inspired such that I can use the same word both times. By the "actual truth being skewed", we are, of course, talking about jouhou sousa, "manipulation of information", "intelligence rigging", "PR spin", or, as ADV had Fuyutsuki phrase it, "blatant massaging". "Ato ni kouhyou sareta juuyou de nai mono o Shinkai Bunsho, Seele ga mochisatta mono o, Ura Shinkai Bunsho to iu. ": I did ask the folks at AnimeLyrics about this one, after being bothered to tears by the tenuous nature of my transration and suspicions that rockthing's had its problems, as well. Still boggled about why FAR documents would be linked to the Dead Sea region in the first place, and the apparent implications that the released portions are the real-life DSS -- uh, what? --- Footnotes for 18. 18-D. "Also a moon" (kore mo tsuki): Literally "this is also (a) moon". :shrug: Don't look at me. "Others": Ambiguous. It reads, "shito ya jinrui kara sureba...", the separator ya being a particle that connects items in an incomplete list. "I like eating broccoli, bratwurst, and stuff." The ya implies the existence of "others", but it doesn't specify who. "...from the perspective of Angels, humans, and others, they might be called gods" ("...shito ya jinrui kara sureba, karera wa kami tomo ieru)": Hmm. Reminds me of Rei's lines, "Are people something created by kami-sama? Are people something created by people?" Maybe I'm just imagining things. :P --- Footnotes for 19. 19-B. Kuroi Tsuki o hakobu, tsuki (chikyuu no eisei to natta) kara kita.: This sentence (the second) seems to be more literally, "She came from the moon (that became [achieved the state of being] Earth's satellite) that carried the Black Moon." Uhhh... okay. 19-C. Terminal Dogma ni haritsuke ni sarete iru shiroi kyojin de ari, saru ya iruka, saishuu keitai to shite Lilim, sunawachi jinrui o umidashita.: The arrangement and structure of the second phrase here is a bit convoluted to me, and I came up with two possibilities. I went to the Animelyrics form to pop a quick questions anyway, so I threw this one in, too, for the hell of it: "Is this saying that monkeys, dolphins, humans, and those implied by ya are all 'Lilim' and that the examples mentioned are 'final/ultimate forms' (but humankind is foremost among them), or that monkeys, dolphins, etc., are life born from Lilith, but Lilim=humanity is the final form?" The latter is the one I was leaning towards, and that seemed to be the conclusion. It's interesting, though, that of all Lilith-based life, the only ones besides humans that are mentioned by name are 'advanced' ones like monkeys (alternatively 'apes', which are a totally different thing; not sure which one to use here yet) and dolphins. (Hey, where are the parrots and crows?!? MAMMALIAN BIAS!!!) 19-D. I dunno why the first sentence is in past tense. I need the learn the technicalities of these things. Initially had trouble with the third sentence. (Rei no nikutai no copy wa ikura demo tsukureta ga, Rei sonomono ga tsune ni ittai shika sonzai shienakatta no wa kono tame de aru.) My initial take was sort of dodgy, primarily in that I went with the wrong ittai. This version incorporates the correction, along with 'suggestions' M_Ryuuji @ AnimeLyrics made by posting a translation with no real explanation. Oh well -- I understand the sentence now, so whatever works. In the fourth sentence, I'm not sure if we just want to stick to the straight "Yui's body" ("flesh" sounded nice here, and it's the "fleshly" word for body, nikutai). --- Footnotes for 20 & 21. 20-A. Pretty straightforward stuff (unlike most of the CI). Had to rearrange things in many cases to avoid Engrish and utilize English synonyms heavily to skirt the repetitive language of the original. Some other liberties, too, but none of any consequence, I should think. Retains the information conveyed, if all went well, which is what matters. 20-B. I went against my own political leanings and used the term "mankind" here for jinrui (humanity, humankind, the human race, H. sapiens, "semi-evolved simians", whatever). The only reason for this is because lopping off the "hu-" made the sentence flow better, due to its proximity to the "human" rendered from the ningen (another Japanese "human" word -- I think I have only the vaguest of inklings about what the actual difference in nuance between jinrui and ningen is) in ningen no seimeitai ("human lifeform"). For some reason, they use the term saisho no shito (saisho no = "first", from a general term meaning "onset" or "beginning") here instead of the usual "dai ichi shito" (dai + ichi = ordinal for "first"). 20-D. Uhhh... This one was really muthaf00king hard. You might be able to tell from that reeeeally long third sentence (bless you, roxfan), which I feel too cerebrally exhausted to attempt to break down via careful rewrite right now. Please ask questions if you have them. Thank you. 21-B. I'm actually wondering if my English grammar here is technically correct. 21-C. I'm a bit unclear on how a couple of the grammatical elements here work; I'll ask about them if I have opportunity. But at least from what I could figure, there were only a couple of changes I decided to make to rockthing's take. ["Third impact will occur if an Angels comes into contact with either Lilith (in Terminal Dogma) or Adam."] 21-D. Literally something like, "It's said that the true nature of Third Impact is..." (Eeewww. But I'm actually not sure which one is better. ) "Life" here is seimei, in the sense of things that are alive ("a respect for all life"), not a person's life ("my life sucks"). "Terminus" and "end" are the same word, shuumatsu. --- Footnotes for 22 Have you noticed how much longer the footnotes are than what they accompany? BTW, if you want to see what sort of pain goes into this stuff, look here (http://www.animelyrics.com/forum/topic_show.pl?tid=23758;pg=1). 22-B. The specifics for the wording of the second sentence are ambiguous. Are they just reiterating the part about it being found with Adam ("as a set") with "(the) Seed of Life", referring specifically back to Adam, or are they telling us that every Seed comes paired up with her own "security device"? "Security device" is hoan souchi. Excite (http://www.excite.co.jp/dictionary/japanese_english/?search=保安&match=beginswith&block=65799&offset=1244) defines hoan as "the preservation [maintenance] of public peace [security]". 22-C. Just so you know, this entry is kind of a bitch. The implications of "will" (ishi) are, according to Barret (@ A-L), "the ability to think for itself, make decisions, and act on them, or what we call 'free will'." My oh my. "Kore wa kami ni chikai = fushi no chikara o motta seimei no tane (shigen no sonzai) ugoki o teishi saseru koto ga dekiru item de ari, seimei no tani (shigen no sonzai ga kami ni oyobanai, sono riyuu de mo aru." We're getting this "close to a god" stuff again. Originally I'd thought that it was referring to "Seed of Life" (since they referred to Adam and the Evas as "close to gods" earlier), but Lothe @ A-L (who's been providing a lot of help, bless vis soul) helped me get past my preconceptions and break down the ginormous sentence properly. (Everything between "kami ni chikai =" and "item" is one, long modifier for the latter.) "Put... into suspended animation" is literally "stop/suspend the movement/ workings of ...", just FYI. It seemed to flow a bit better... but you can take from it what you will. The headaches begin when we start dealing with the provided reason why the Spear does this, seimei no tane ... ga kami ni oyabanai. I initially took this as being "(because) a Seed of Life doesn't amount to / isn't cut out to be / falls short of a god". Somewhat obviously, I had the Duel of the Seeds stuck in my head, with the one who "falls short" getting KO'd. Without knowing the full context (perhaps not a bad thing), Lothe commented, "It seems to say that 'the fact that the Seed of Life is not a god [lit. does not equal/amount to a god] is also for that reason.' But I'm not sure which reason that is. (Is the Seed of Life not a god *because* this 'item' is close to a god? That doesn't make much sense to me, but maybe you're in a better position to tell." To that, I said, "Ah, I think I might get it... Another entry says, 'In essence, the Spear of Longinus is a security device that comes as a set with a Seed of Life.' Perhaps the passage above is saying that the Spear of Longinus is able to act as a security device in times of conflict between Seeds of Life only because they're not full-fledged 'gods', and are thus subordinate to the Spear's power." Barret chipped in, "I think you've ... got the wrong nuance of oyabu [oyabanai = negative form]. It means in this case to 'reach God/attain god-like status'. So, 'this is the reason why the Seed of Life never reaches God-status' (because the Longinus Spear has free will, comes to the decision when the Seed of Life is getting too close to becoming god, and uses its power to stop it.)" Hmm... Well, I think I'm sort of torn on this one... Discuss. "The First Ancestral Race prepared this as a counter-measure in the event that a Seed of Life (Progenitor Entity) did not follow their own goals." Perhaps "the Seeds of Life" would be better here? Well, just remember that the original Japanese carries no article and doesn't specify plural or singular. "It is thought that a Spear, acting as Lilith's counterpart..." The "acting as" part might be unnecessary. I used "a Spear" here because they say "this Spear" (kono yari) one sentence later, so it seemed justified. The verbs here exist to annoy. The agent, (lit.) "(the) shock at the time of First Impact", 'apparently' caused the Spear to nukeru and then hanarebanare ni naru "from Lilith". The former has a certain painful level of ambiguity to it, at least if you're a n00b and you have no idea what you're doing; see e.g. Excite (http://www.excite.co.jp/dictionary/japanese_english/?search=抜け&match=beginswith&block=64575&offset=532). The latter essentially means, according to SpaceAlc, "get separated, be dispersed, drift apart". (Incidentally, the contextual examples there spoke of people being separated: separated relatives, long-distance marriage, twins separated at birth, split family, etc.) Lothe said, " My impression is that in this sentence, nukeru is used in the sense of 'fall out'. (Nuku means "extract" or "pull out", but here the yari ga nukeru, rather than having someone act on the Spear.) [Intransitive verb versus transitive verb, apparently.] The problem is that it's difficult to work both 'extracted'/'fall out (of)" and "separated (from)" into the same sentence here, since they have the same cause and so would be redundant and unnatural." The two verbs do seem to be expressing distinctly separate ideas, however: (1) Spear gets "extracted" from its owner, (2) It flies off asunder to who-knows- where. Two levels of "separation", the local one and then the long-distance one. So how could they both be expressed in English without things sounding really stupid?? And, oh yes. I said, "Nukeru piqued my curiosities, however, because I wasn't particularly certain as to its exact 'behavior' here. I sort of took it from the entire context that Lilith and the Spear's separation was a matter of mere happenstance, but, due to newbitude, I wanted to ask whether or not implications on the part of nukeru that the Spear takes off 'of its own accord' could be feasibly eliminated or not." Lothe: "I think it can (mild guess alert). My description of nuku/nukeru above is either correct or backwards (I'm guessing nuku is vi and nukeru is vt), but either way it seems clear that the separation is caused by the shock (shougeki)." Should at least get the vi/vt straightened out. 22-D. I still have some questions about this one... But I'll give you what I have anyway. The sentence structure has been rearranged somewhat for your own safety; if you want the more literal take, I can provide later. Lilith no zoushoku, which I put down as "Lilith's growth", is a difficult one to gauge. You can look at some contextual examples (http://www2.alc.co.jp/ejr/index.php?word_in=%91%9D%90B&word_in2=%82%A0%82%A2%82%A4%82%A6%82%A8&word_in3=PVawEWi72JXCKoa0Je) at SpaceAlc's Eijiro (although you might not be able to read half of it...). Adam to set ni natte ita Longinus no yari: Both rockthing and Lothe @ A-L interpreted this as meaning that the Spear is being transported "as a set with Adam", but it seems to me like it's saying, "the Spear of Longinus that formed a set / was paired up with Adam" (referring to its intrinsic status). I should ask before committing to this, but if this interpretation was correct, I think it would be referring to the Spear that the Katsuragi Team found with Adam ("as a set") in the White Moon -- although it doesn't necessarily belong to her. But, again, don't go hogwild with this one until I ask. --- Footnotes for 23 23-D: "In terms of functionality..." (Tada kinouteki ni wa oohabateki ni otori, Eva o ugokasu to iu teido no kinou shika motoserarenakatta: This sentence wasn't tackled by rockthing, for some reason. It literally goes something like (according to Lothe), "But it [the Dummy System] was functionally extremely poor, only having enough functionality to make the Eva move." I.e., " the Dummy System had an amount (/limit, teido) of function that was enough to make the Eva move, but it had only (shika) that much function." I reworded things somewhat with the hope that the meaning would be more clear, but if you have any suggestions for improvement... There may be a nuance missing in the second half -- I've asked a question about how the passive causative verb here (motaserarenakatta) is working, just to be sure. --- === End of Document ===