Evangelion Chronicle
Evangelion Chronicle is a roughly 960-page encyclopedic publication on Neon Genesis Evangelion published by Sony Magazines with the endorsement of Gainax and Khara. Its contents are distributed across thirty serial, magazine-like issues that begin publication on 07/01/2006 and completed on 09/15/2007.
The thirty issues are intended to be collected and their contents reassembled into three binders. Each issue is bound with weak glue to facilitate easy removal of the pre-hole-punched leaves. All of the pages are fully labeled, so organizing them into the proper encyclopedic format is an entirely intuitive process, however time-consuming. Additional money may be spent on purchasing official Evangelion Chronicle binders (listed at 1,600円 apiece) sporting a Yoshiyuki Sadamoto illustration of Rei, although any three quality 4-cm, D-ring binders should suffice.
Chronicle has relatively little information that is strictly new, although it is a bountiful and in many ways indispensable resource for the hard-core Eva fan. As Evangelion Chronicle is an officially endorsed supplementary source, its contents are considered third-tier canon. Unfortunately, it is all in Moon-runes Japanese, and translations are elusive things.
In addition to the primary encyclopedia, The Essential Evangelion Chronicle Side A (10/25/2007) and Side B (11/26/2007) have been published. These seem to be "digest" volumes with no unique content apart from the cover art, although further confirmation is required.
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