Online Evangelion communities

AnimeNation Forums (ANF): The popular anime-centered forum community of www.animenation.com. Over the years, its "Evangelion" subforum has been a great place to talk Evangelion and was, during its Golden Age (possibly starting Summer 2003), arguably the best NGE community on the Internet. It saw the birth of the Commentary Project, and the vast amount of discussion that has been generated there (or by the associated people, in general) acts as the heart and foundation of everything FGC.

The "good ol' days" appeared to be officially over towards the end of August 2005, when commentator thewayneiac began to mourn the forum's death. Aside from an intense spike in activity at the beginning of 2006 -- in large part due to Reichu briefly going off her nut, but we won't talk about that... -- nothing much has really happened. A lot of old favorites have either vanished, gone irregular, or become lurkers. Many of those who were "left behind" ended up taking their business over to EMF -- which wasn't a terribly big step. Not that ANF doesn't still have "its uses".

Due to the ANF admins' big thing for pruning, years of awesome material has been either Sent To The Next Dimension or is currently in the lineup, thus necessitating a makeshift archive (to which more will be added over time).