The Essential Evangelion Chronicle: Side B

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So they made the movie “End of Evangelion” that’s a parallel ending showing all the action and crazy shit happening while Shinji is… thinking about his life or some shit like that. On October 3, 2020, North American anime distributor GKIDS announced it had licensed the original TV series, Death (True)² and The End of Evangelion for home video, theatrical, and digital download release with an Ultimate Edition to be released in 2021, making this the first Blu-ray release of the franchise in North America.

Tracks by Kotono Mitsuishi [63] [64] and Masami Okui are used in several scenes of the series, usually as background music or on Shinji's Digital Audio Tape player.For the new release, Chris Bellman of Barney Grand Mastering remastered the original tracks in Los Angeles. The Evangelions have been likened to the golem of Jewish folklore, [46] and their visual design resembles the traditional depictions of oni, Japanese demons or ogres. Under the direction of Toshimichi Ōtsuki, a representative of King Records and one of the producers of the series, " A Cruel Angel's Thesis" was composed as the series' opening theme song. Film, manga, home video, and other products in the Evangelion franchise have achieved record sales in Japanese markets and strong sales in overseas markets, with related goods selling over ¥150 billion by 2007 and Evangelion pachinko machines generating ¥700 billion by 2015.

Azuma Hiroki has said that the original Evangelion story was "too close to reality" from Anno's point of view. In addition to Sagisu's original compositions, the soundtrack also includes classical music, [30] such as Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite for Cello Solo No. Shinji witnesses United Nations forces battling an Angel, one of a race of monstrous beings whose awakening was foretold in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The End of Evangelion won first place in 1998, [187] making Neon Genesis Evangelion the first anime franchise to win three consecutive first place awards.

Hands full of dreams') [77] and "Fushigina yoru"不思議な夜 ( Mysterious nights), [78] rom Gyuu, the singer's first album, were used. He is later forced to fight Evangelion Unit-03, who has become infected, and its pilot, his friend and classmate Toji Suzuhara, becomes incapacitated and permanently disabled. Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed. Not only does El Shaddai—the name of which features the secondary title Ascension of the Metatron—feature a variety of gameplay types and level styles, but it borrows from a number of aesthetic influences. Miyakawa and several fans have also noted similarities between Sagisu's work and the music of the anime Space Battleship Yamato, [20] with which it shares the instrumentation of strings, horns, rhythm section and percussion.

Evangelions can be outfitted with several different sets of additional equipment depending of the mission, some are for support and some are for offensive tactics. Neon Genesis Evangelion II was released by Starchild on 16 February 1996, [156] [157] and re-released in a second edition on 22 December 2004.

Instead of naming the album after the Japanese name of the series, Toshimichi Ōtsuki of King Records chose the international title of the series, Neon Genesis.