We really can’t talk about something if we don’t know about it now, can we?
What is Rebuild of Evangelion?
Rebuild of Evangelion (ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版 Evangerion Shin Gekijōban , lit. “Evangelion New Theatrical Version”) is a tetralogy of animated films which are a remake/re-imagining of the original anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. It is being produced by Studio Khara in partnership with Gainax. Hideaki Anno wrote the first movie and will be the general director and manager for the entire project. Kazuya Tsurumaki and Masayuki will direct the films, while Yoshiyuki Sadamoto will provide character designs and Ikuto Yamashita will provide mechanical designs. Shinji Higuchi and Tomoki Kyoda will provide storyboards for the first film.
In September 2006, the October edition of the Japanese anime magazine Newtype first reported that the new cinema series Rebuild of Evangelion would be released in the summer of 2007.[1] On September 9, 2006, Gainax’s official website confirmed that Rebuild of Evangelion will consist of four films. The first three films will be an alternate retelling of the anime TV series, featuring new scenes, settings, backgrounds, characters, and newly available 3D CG technology, and the fourth film will present a completely new conclusion to the story. Another stated intention of this series is for it to be much more understandable and accessible to non-fans than the original TV series and films were.
| Rebuild of Evangelion | |
| Directed by | Hideaki Anno (chief) Masayuki Kazuya Tsurumaki |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Toshimichi Otsuki Hideaki Anno |
| Written by | Hideaki Anno |
| Starring | Megumi Ogata Megumi Hayashibara Yuko Miyamura Kotono Mitsuishi |
| Music by | Shiro Sagisu |
| Cinematography | Susumu Fukushi |
| Editing by | Hirofumi Okuda |
| Studio | Studio Khara |
| Distributed by | KlockWorx and Khara (Japan) |
| Release date(s) | 2007-TBA |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Film titles
| Episode (international title) | Japanese Title | English translation | Release date in Japan | Initial Running Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone | ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版: 序 (Evangerion Shin Gekijōban: Jo) |
Evangelion New Theatrical Version: Beginning | September 1, 2007 | 98 minutes |
| Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance | ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版: 破 (Evangerion Shin Gekijōban: Ha) |
Evangelion New Theatrical Version: Breaking | June 27, 2009 | 108 minutes |
| Evangelion: 3.0 | ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版: Q Quickening (Evangerion Shin Gekijōban: Q Quickening) |
Evangelion New Theatrical Version: Q Quickening | TBA To be shown alongside Evangelion: Final |
TBA |
| Evangelion: Final | ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版: ? (Evangerion Shin Gekijōban: ?) |
Evangelion New Theatrical Version: ? | TBA To be shown alongside Evangelion: 3.0 |
TBA |
The concept of “序,破,急(jo-ha-kyū)”, which roughly corresponds to “beginning”, “middle”, and “end”, originated in classical gagaku music and is best known to describe the acts of a Nō play. In lieu of the traditional classification, the production team has chosen to represent 急(kyū, lit. bursting) the roman letter Q, for “quickening.”
The film titles, in contrast to the normal katakana spelling of Evangerion (エヴァンゲリオン?), replace the e (エ?) and o (オ?) characters with the obsolete we (ヱ?) character and the infrequently used katakana wo (ヲ?), respectively. The change is purely a stylistic one, as there is no change in pronunciation and all appearances of the Latin spelling of “Evangelion” remain the same.
As was done with episode titles in the original series, each film has an original Japanese title and a separate international title in English picked out by Khara itself.
source: wikipedia
Evangelion 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance Trailer, Fly me to the Moon – Utada Hikaru
My Opinion:
Lately I’ve been obsessing about this series again since there have been translated versions to english of Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0, 1.01 and 1.11. I watched it all, all in one sitting!
It’s taken them a good long time for a remake for this series. 10 long freakin’ years! I watched this series and was quite obsessed with it even back then. It took over quite a bit of my internet time obsessing over the next few episodes of the series. I had read up on it and found out about Evangelion’s links to religion, parenthood, the human psyche and whatnot. For me, during that time, even now I thought it was sheer genius and a lot of insanity for someone to actually come up with stuff like that and mold it into a mecha type anime. LOL.
And now Hideki’s 2nd iteration of his masterpiece, and hopefully this time, he’s not as angry as he was then when he made this series since he pretty much destroyed the world with the first one. LOL. This time maybe we’ll see more of his genius and less of his psychosis in this new version. Adding a new character and new eva’s in the loop was pretty good. I’m excited what the new twists and turns this new Evangelion series is going to do. And as always, with Eva, you’ll really never know where you’re gonna go or end up with.
and on that note, here’s a little speculative analysis from another blogger I found on youtube. Might shed some light and some wrongs…. into the mix. LOL
Speculative Analysis of Evangelion 2.0
More Evangelion 2.0 Trailers
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