History
The Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise was created after a meeting between Hideaki Anno and King Records in 1993. Although the anime of the same name was conceived first, the manga was released before the TV series. The plan was to boost public interest in the upcoming TV series while it was still under production. Due to severe production delays on the TV series, it ultimately aired a full 10 months after the manga first appeared in Shōnen Ace.
When the series finally premiered in October 1995, Sadamoto's manga storyline (which would later become volumes 1 to 3) had reached the battle against the cube Angel Ramiel, corresponding to episodes 5 and 6 of the TV series. The TV series soon rapidly outpaced the manga, to the point that the chapters comprising volume 4 (which included the introduction of Asuka, corresponding to TV episode 8) were not released until over a year after the TV series had finished airing. Sadamoto would continue to have a slow production schedule on the manga as he divided his time between other projects, releasing a new volume (out of an initially planned twelve) at a rate of roughly one every year and a half.
While the manga has been running for more than 15 years, only 13 volumes have been published. The reason for this is that while the ostensible publishing schedule was one "stage" a month in Shōnen Ace, Sadamoto's actual publication schedule has been irregular. For example, between the publication in Japan of volume 4 and volume 5, two years elapsed.
In 2008, it was announced that the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga was approaching its conclusion. In July 2009, it was moved to a new Shoten seinen magazine, Young Ace. It was published there until the January 2010 issue, when Sadamoto stopped writing the manga, putting the publication on hiatus in order to work on the latest Rebuild of Evangelion film. The December 2010 issue of Young Ace announced that the manga would resume that 'winter' (early 2011); the April 2011 issue announced the next stage would be published April 4, 2011.
On February 12, 2012, half of the 90th Stage was published, retelling the Third Impact as seen around halfway into Episode 26' from The End of Evangelion. This was reportedly to be the final chapter. On May 2, 2012, Kadokawa Shoten announced that the 13th volume of the manga will be released on November 2, 2012; ANN noted that "neither Sadamoto nor Kadokawa has confirmed that the 13th manga volume is still the final one."
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