Trivia / Going Another Way

Trivia in Going Another Way:

• Bonus Material:
  • Besides the story notes, the PDF-Version sports scene pictures and actual bonus material, becoming this.
  • There even is a bonus story, called Impact Day. It can be read here and also is available in the PDF-version.
• Doorstopper: Clocks in at over 450,000 words. Interestingly, the original version had 70,000 words less.
• Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: There also is a PDF-version of the story, which not only has superior formatting, but also contains countless scene pictures (either staight from the source, manipulated or totally original). It however is only avaiable by request.
• Schedule Slip: That was very common when the story was written. Up until Chapter 17, the update schedule was brisk - though quality suffered from it. It slowed down considerably after that chapter.
• Shown Their Work: For Misato's and Kaji's wedding, the author worked really hard to get as much information possible about Shinto weddings, so that there wouldn't be cultural ignorance at work. The amount of work does show.
• Throw It In!:
  • Happened a lot due to the author only having the basic story outlined, filling it with the details on the go. At the beginning, the author not even had a plan how to finish it, though that changed after a few chapters.
  • Hearing the thoughts of the Angels was a spur of the moment decision. There was no plan what it would result in.
• Updated Re-release: The REVIVAL-Edition is a massive update of the whole story. It did start with a desire to fix the wonky grammar and escalated into rewriting a big part of the story, due to how unhappy the author was with the rush job. The end result is a much better read that also is much longer than the original story.
• What Could Have Been: Thanks to the highly chaotic creation process of the story - up until the fifth chapter the author didn't even have a plan where to go with the story - a lot of things were in flux with the story and changes were frequent.
  • There originally were next to no chapters between Angel battles. Tribun realized quickly that it made any kind of meaningful character interaction next to impossible and axed that plan directly after the Shamshel battle.
  • The whole triangle thing between Shinji, Rei and Asuka was supposed to be much more drawn-out, but the author then realized that it wouldn't work with the new personalities Shinji and Rei sported, so he decided to make it collide in the crash we know now.
  • Neither Mana nor Mayumi were in the original plans... when a plan actually was made.