sound of a World War II machine gun or to reproduce the sounds of particular historical ships during the process, while for the sound of the Prog-Knife they reworked the metallic noise of a real cutter. Noguchi was assisted by Makoto Sumiya, a recording engineer from Tokyo TV Center. Filming For the realization of the segment "Sincerely Yours", it was decided to include some live-action sequences to represent Shinji's inner universe; these include footage of street lamps, trains, graffiti, and the three main female voice actors of the series, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi and Yuko Miyamura. The sequences were filmed by a crew called the Special Production Team and were optically distorted. Anno was in charge of the script and was assisted by Shinji Higuchi as the special effects director, with whom he discussed ideas and compared his opinions about every single frame of the sequences. Shinji's world was portrayed with harsher tones than the television ending, so scenes were executed using multiple overlapping or reversed rhodium glasses or sequences in three-dimensional computer graphics. One scene depicts a panorama of a city similar to Tokyo-3, produced by integrating elements in CG. Other shots were filmed in the , located in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. In the final editing staff added a shot of a cinema hall with audiences of the previous Neon Genesis Evangelion feature film, Death and Rebirth. At the end of the segment, stills depicting graffiti on the walls of the Gainax Shop, doodles, and emails apparently written by fans of the series, including the words , were inserted. The letters were created ad hoc by the staff on the basis of some emails Gainax received. According to an official pamphlet on the movie, the production of the fake e-mails simulated the hypothetical reactions of fans to reflect on the relationships that are established "between a work and its admirers". Originally, the authors had planned a longer live-action segment with a different content than the final version. The original segment revolved around the character Asuka, who would wake up in an apartment after drinking and spending the night with Toji Suzuhara, with whom she would engage in a sexual relationship. Misato Katsuragi would have been the roommate of the apartment next to hers, and Rei Ayanami, in the original series her rival, would have been her colleague and one of her senpai, experiencing a less-strained relationship. In