Dark Horse Gets Eva: Shinji Ikari Raising Project Manga

At Anime Expo 2008, on Saturday, Dark Horse Panel announced that they will publish the english version of the Shinji Ikari Raising Project Manga. You can read the news from ANN as well. I will quote the news…

At its Anime Expo panel on Saturday, the North American publisher Dark Horse Comics has announced that it has acquired Shin Seiki Evangelion: Ikari Shinji Ikusei Keikaku (Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project), Osamu Takahashi’s manga based on an Evangelion game spinoff. The game has the player “raising” Shinji Ikari, the main character of the Evangelion science-fiction franchise, and determining what path his life will take. (Before Evangelion, Gainax developed the Princess Maker franchise in which the player raises a girl to adulthood.) The manga version adapts the game storyline, particularly its school sequences. The manga has been running in Kadokawa Shoten’s Monthly Shonen Ace magazine — the same magazine that serializes Yoshiyuki Sadamoto’s main Evangelion manga — since June of 2005, and five compiled volumes have been published in Japan. Dark Horse will start the manga in late spring or early summer of 2009.

so basically, that means another Eva manga will hit the english speaking community and thats good news. I like the EVA manga and their spinoffs as well, and Angelic Days was cool also. We will see great scenes like the ones below and it will be very interesting to see Shinji`s harem in action….and believe me, there are LOTS of fanservice here too. Drawings are very good and I like the story and interaction of the characters here….This manga cant get here pretty fast…