The TV

26 half-hour episodes, Oct95-Mar96 on TV Tokyo

Planning and Story         GAINAX
Screenplay and Direction   Anno Hideaki
Character Designs          Sadamoto Yoshiyuki
Mechanical Designs         Yamashita Ikuto/Anno Hideaki
Associate Directors        Tsurumaki Kazuya/Masayuki
Music                      Sagisu Shiroo

1996 TV series - 26 episodes. The last two are particularly introspective and don't provide much of a closure for the series. They are director Hideaki Anno's personal vision of Evangelion

The LaserDisc

Neon Genesis EVANGELION, created by Anno Hideaki, mad genius of the anime industry. The Director is remaking large portions of the latter part of the series as part of its laserdisc release. The final episode in particular is completely different from the original TV ending  OAV series - 2 episodes. Another version of the last two TV episodes. Created in response to fan disappointment/confusion over the original closing episodes.

Release Dates for "NEON GENESIS EVANGELION" LD/Videocassette Vols. 13 & 14

Release dates have been set for Vols. 13 & 14 of the "NEON GENESIS EVANGELION" LD and videocassette series. Vol. 13 will come out Aug. 12, 1998, and Vol. 14 will follow on Sept. 9, 1998. These releases will combine the last two episodes of the original TV series version with their counterparts in "THE END OF EVANGELION". Vol. 13 contains TV episode 25, "The Ending World-Do You Love Me?", and episode 25' from the movie version, "Air-Love Is Destructive", while Vol. 14 contains the final TV episode, "The Beast That Shouted Love/I At the Heart of the World-Take Care of Yourself", and "One More Final" from the movie version, "For You, My Heart and Soul-I Need You". Note that in the LD releases, the TV series episodes will be in CAV, and the theatrical versions in CLV.

 "NEON GENESIS EVANGELION Genesis 0:13"
 On Sale Aug. 12, 1998

 "NEON GENESIS EVANGELION Genesis 0:14"
 On Sale Sept. 9, 1998

 Released byKing Records (Japanese-Only website
 LD: 5631Yen each (plus tax)
 VIDEO: 5146Yen each (plus tax)

The Movie - Death and Rebirth

Even after the new finale on laserdisc, Anno Hideaki's Evangelion will still not be finished. Just as Shinji took a first step into a new world at the series's end, the decision has been made to seek out bigger and better things, and produce an original theatrical film. The movie version of "Neon Genesis Evangelion" premiered on March 15, 1997. The release is in the form of a double-feature. EVANGELION: DEATH is composed of a digest of the first 24 episodes of the TV series, and EVANGELION: REBIRTH contains the answers to the various mysteries which the TV series failed to resolve.

Anno Hideaki: It was my intent to conclude "Neon Genesis Evangelion" with this Spring's movie, but the story expanded far beyond the vision I had when we began production, and we went vastly over the planned running length and frames of animation. Even now we are hard at work. With the backing and support of Kadokawa Shoten and Toei, the forthcoming "Death and Rebirth" will be presented as "End of Part One" of the story. I wanted to leave as few loose ends as possible, and in any case I wished to avoid rushing the work to fit the schedule. I intend to make the most of the chance that this second, Summer release will give me. The "Rebirth" portion of "Death and Rebirth" will be entirely new, and "Death" will have approx. 30 minutes of new or remade footage. I hope you enjoy them.

The Movie - The End Of Evangelion

The End Of Evangelion, Japanese title Neon Genesis Evangelion The Movie: Air/My Pure Heart For Your, slated for release this Summer [1997] , is schedule to run approx. 70 minutes, over 40 of which will be new footage added to "Rebirth".

"NEON GENESIS EVANGELION"  The Movies--The Rerelease
 

The Evangelion Movies Return to the Big Screen The two much talked-about Evangelion movies are going to be re-released as a single feature! And the DEATH segment is being renamed "EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)", and will be re-edited by director Masayuki. (Dec. 3, 1997)

The highly popular "NEON GENESIS EVANGELION" movies will be rereleased in March of 1998, as a single feature. The format will comprise "EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)", the DEATH segment of the Sping 1997 movie "DEATH AND REBIRTH", re-edited by director Masayuki, and "THE END OF EVANGELION". [This rerelease will be called "REVIVAL OF EVANGELION"]

"REVIVAL OF EVANGELION" Theatrical Screening Concludes

The popular theatrical re-release of the Evangelion movies, under the title "REVIVAL OF EVANGELION", ended as of April 24.

NEW (10-05-1999)

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION

For Eva fans who felt they were left with far too many unanswered questions at the end of the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, the long wait will soon be over! Manga Entertainment announced at Anime Expo '99 that it has picked up the rights to release all three Evangelion movies: Death, Rebirth and The End of Evangelion. Following in the tradition of Ghost in the Shell, Perfect Blue and the company's upcoming release of X: The Movie, Manga plans a theatrical release for the Evangelion films and, due to fan requests, is looking into the possibility of retaining the voice-actors that starred in A.D.V. Films English dub of the Evangelion TV series. No firm release dates have yet been set, but the film has tentatively been scheduled for a 2000 theatrical release.