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Evangelion itself was originally planned as a further sequel to Nadia, regarding the 16 "Adams" who escaped from the destruction of the Red Noah and caused a cataclysmic event known as The Dead Sea Evaporation Incident (死海蒸発事件, Shikai Jōhatsu Jiken), but the scripts for all 26 planned episodes had to be completely rewritten when Gainax could not secure the rights to Nadia from NHK.[11]

Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga (Japanese: サルでも描けるまんが教室, Hepburn: Sarudemo Egakeru Manga Kyōshitsu), also abbreviated as Saruman (サルまん), is a Japanese instructional manga series created by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1989 to 1991, with its chapters collected in three tankōbon volumes. The manga was licensed in

Fukuda identifies the earliest appearance of the *full scene depiction* as the aforementioned 9th chapter of Saruman. However, that chapter specifically introduces the sequence as a parody of typical shōjo manga elements to demonstrate how to draw them.[7] This implies the parody appeared before any verifiable original.[1][6] The book Banana no Kawa wa Naze Suberu no ka? (Why Are Banana Peels Slippery?; Suiseisha, 2010) also speculates that Saruman was the first work to focus on this scene.[4] When Haioku emailed Kentarō Takekuma about Saruman, Takekuma replied that there was "no direct source material, it was a composite of several examples" and that "by the time Takekuma was in junior high (mid-1970s), the general recognition that this was a kind of pattern already existed."[14][12]