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“Evangelion pilots skip mecha duty, playing video games instead of fighting alien invaders.”
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Legend of the Piko Piko Middle School Students
新世紀エヴァンゲリオン ピコピコ中学生伝説
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Seinen
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Evangelion pilots skip mecha duty, playing video games instead of fighting alien invaders.
Mysterious invaders are threatening Earth...so recruit a group of elite schoolkids to play video games that secretly train them for the real fight that lies ahead! Does this plan sound familiar? Well, they'd better get a new plan, because the elite schoolkids are Shinji, Rei, Asuka, and Kaworu, and they're too busy playing games to ever get in the fricking robot! (Source: Dark Horse Comics)
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- 8 “This manga's sense of humor is exactly the same as my sense of humor. I went into this thinking that it was going to be pretty lame, but I like reading Evangelion spin-off manga, so I figured it...”
- 8 “Overall a great parody manga for those who want to see the classic Evangelion characters in amusing situations, but still in what is nominally their original context (i.e. still training to defeat...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 70 × 5 ch × vol
- Total read 9h 20m approx
- Published Apr 2014 – Aug 2018
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M39883 catalog