Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*’s Reviews > In Sekhmet's Shadow > Status Update

Hey Marc, you recommend this book so far?

John wrote: "Hey Marc, you recommend this book so far?"

It's pretty interesting. A properly adult superhero book, focused on non-supers embroiled in that world for various reasons. There's a lot of subtlety to the characters.

Evangelion was an extremely formative series for me in my teenage years and because of it I'm a sucker for any kind of sci-fi stuff where there's a much stranger supernatural element going on beneath the seemingly non-supernatural surface, so I'm definitely keeping an eye on the final review for this one.

Drace, as the author, I will just say you would /adore/ the second novel, I think.

J.D. wrote: "Drace, as the author, I will just say you would /adore/ the second novel, I think."

well damn if the author's replying to my comments i think i gotta pick this series up asap!

In many cases I would be creeped out by the author coming into comments on updates but J.D. is alright. And it's good here because I am uninitiated into Evangelion. I clearly had the wrong friends in high school.

My one recommendation if you do watch it is do your best to avoid the Netflix version and watch the pre-Netflix release via Other Means. One of the show's most iconic elements is that the song that plays over the credits is a cover of "Fly Me to the Moon" (many different covers of the song, actually - some by the singer who did the show's opening theme, some by the cast members), and Netflix didn't want to shell out for it so it's just gone and replaced with a random unrelated song from the soundtrack. It's been 7 years since Netflix got the rights to it and I'm still incredibly salty about them screwing up the soundtrack like that.

Weird it’s never shown up in my Netflix recs. Maybe it’s not licensed for Canada? VPN could solve that of course.

Yes, absolutely avoid the Netflix version. If you can, sail the high seas for a version that combines the most recent visuals with the older dub (if you want an English dub, that is. The old dub is a bit goofy but the localization writing is superb and the voice actors are iconic in their roles.)

The Netflix dub, independent of what they did to the score (not only do they remove Fly Me To The Moon from the credits, they also remove the instrumental version that plays in some scenes) is just really poor with some overly literal translations and voice actors who therefore struggle with saying the lines. There's some scene-by-scene comparisons on Youtube, I think. It's just clunky and weird.