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The '''Red Cross Book''' ('''RCB''') is the unofficial name of a Japanese pamphlet that was sold in movie theaters at the time of the film's release.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/neon-genesis-evangelion-special-edition-movies-box-set_article_77113.html|title=Neon Genesis Evangelion: Special Edition Movies Box Set|author=Moure, Dani|publisher=Mania|date=2001-03-21|accessdate=2011-01-01|quote=...the data here is translated from the "Red Cross Book", a source of oodles of information made for sale as the programme book for the movie in Japanese cinemas. It's extremely comprehensive and it's a good way of presenting the data}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animefringe.com/magazine/02.08/reviews/1/|title=Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth DVD|publisher=Animefringe|date=August 2002|accessdate=2011-01-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aintitcool.com/node/10883?q=node/10883|publisher=Ain't it Cool News|date=2001-11-28|title=AICN Anime Report|accessdate=2011-03-30}}</ref> The book is printed on [[ISO 216#A, B, C comparison|A-4]] sized paper, with the cover consisting of the [[St George's Cross]] over a black background and the film's title printed on it.
The '''Red Cross Book''' ('''RCB''') is the unofficial name of a Japanese pamphlet that was sold in movie theaters at the time of the film's release.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/neon-genesis-evangelion-special-edition-movies-box-set_article_77113.html|title=Neon Genesis Evangelion: Special Edition Movies Box Set|author=Moure, Dani|publisher=Mania|date=2001-03-21|accessdate=2011-01-01|quote=...the data here is translated from the "Red Cross Book", a source of oodles of information made for sale as the programme book for the movie in Japanese cinemas. It's extremely comprehensive and it's a good way of presenting the data}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animefringe.com/magazine/02.08/reviews/1/|title=Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth DVD|publisher=Animefringe|date=August 2002|accessdate=2011-01-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aintitcool.com/node/10883?q=node/10883|publisher=Ain't it Cool News|date=2001-11-28|title=AICN Anime Report|accessdate=2011-03-30}}</ref> The book is printed on [[ISO 216#A, B, C comparison|A-4]] sized paper, with the cover consisting of the [[St George's Cross]] over a black background and the film's title printed on it.


The book is essentially a canon [[glossary]], authored by Gainax and various members of both the ''Evangelion'' TV series and film staff, of many of the terms used in the TV series, manga, and the two films to introduce the film's history. It also includes an interview with Tsurumaki, a listing of voice actors and brief essays written by them on their respective characters, short biographical sketches, commentary on the TV series and production of the movies, and a "Notes" section covering the setting of the films. Translations of RCB material beyond the US DVD extras are available online.<ref>http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2002-07-23</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.animefringe.com/magazine/01.01/feature/2/index.php3|title=The Top 25 Must-Visit Anime Websites|publisher=Animefringe}}</ref>
The book is essentially a canon [[glossary]], authored by Gainax and various members of both the ''Evangelion'' TV series and film staff, of many of the terms used in the TV series, manga, and the two films to introduce the film's history. It also includes an interview with Tsurumaki, a listing of voice actors and brief essays written by them on their respective characters, short biographical sketches, commentary on the TV series and production of the movies, and a "Notes" section covering the setting of the films.


==See also==
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The End of Evangelion
Theatrical release poster
Directed byEpisode 25':
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Episode 26':
Hideaki Anno
Written byHideaki Anno
Produced byMitsuhisa Ishikawa
StarringMegumi Ogata
Megumi Hayashibara
Yuko Miyamura
Kotono Mitsuishi
CinematographyHisao Shirai
Edited bySachiko Miki
Music byShiro Sagisu
Production
companies
Distributed byToei Company, Ltd.
Release date
  • July 19, 1997 (1997-07-19)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryTemplate:Film Japan
LanguageJapanese

The End of Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版 Air/まごころを、君に, Shin Seiki Evangerion Gekijō-ban: Air/Magokoro o, Kimi ni) is a 1997 Japanese animated film written and directed by Hideaki Anno along with Kazuya Tsurumaki; it ended the anime releases in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise until the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy remakes were announced in 2006.

The film is divided into two approximately 45-minute episodes: Episode 25': Love is Destructive ("Air" in the Japanese version) and Episode 26':ONE MORE FINAL: I need you (My Purest Heart for You (まごころを、君に, Magokoro o, kimi ni) in the Japanese version). They can be considered as either an alternate ending to the popular animated series Neon Genesis Evangelion or a more detailed, "real world" account of the series' original ending in episodes 25 and 26, which takes place almost completely in the minds of the main characters (the style being largely shaped by time and budget restraints).[1] Gainax originally proposed to title it Evangelion: Rebirth 2.[2]

Plot

Episode 25':"Love is Destructive"

Shinji Ikari, still distraught over the death of Kaworu Nagisa, pleads for help from an unconscious Asuka Langley Soryu. He accidentally dislodges her hospital gown to reveal her body, and he chooses to masturbate in response. Seele, with the threat of the elimination of the Angels and Gendo Ikari's treachery obvious, orders the JSSDF forces to initiate a large-scale assault on Nerv. The JSSDF soldiers invade Nerv's facilities and kill all Nerv personnel; top priority is given to the execution of the Eva pilots and the capture of the Evangelions. Misato Katsuragi rescues Shinji to have him pilot Unit 01, and is able to bring Shinji to the EVA's bay doors. However, she is mortally wounded in the process. She persuades Shinji to keep going and pilot the EVA one more time. Misato kisses Shinji, and forces him into the elevator before collapsing from her wounds. With her last breaths, Misato wonders if Kaji believes she has done the right thing.

Asuka is hidden away in the sunken Unit 02, which she is able to reactivate under the threat of death and understanding her mother's soul has been bonded to the Evangelion all along. Asuka engages the JSSDF attack force's aircraft and ground vehicles but her Eva's external power cable is severed during the battle. The JSSDF then launch the "mass-production" EVAs against her. She initially seems to cripple the mass-production EVAs before her internal power is depleted, but the mass-production EVAs reactive despite their considerable injuries and resume tearing the defenseless Unit 02 apart. Shinji was unable to join the battle after he finds that his EVA is covered in Bakelite, making it impossible for him to enter it. However, the EVA's bond to Shinji allows the EVA to break through the Bakelite on its own, allowing Shinji to enter the EVA and join the battle, but realizes he is too late as the mass-production EVAs carry Asuka's EVA in a crippled state. Shinji screams in horror as the Human Instrumentality Project begins.

Episode 26': "ONE MORE FINAL: I Need You"

File:The End of Evangelion shot.jpg
Lilith/Rei looks to the sky, pulled by the Earth's gravity, and cradles the Egg of Lilith which absorbed the souls of all human beings.

While Nerv collapses, Gendo Ikari brings Rei Ayanami to the chamber holding Lilith, but finds that Ritsuko Akagi is waiting for them. After attempting to reprogram the MAGI to stop Gendo, she finds that one of the MAGI, Casper, has betrayed her. Gendo kills Ritsuko and attempts to implement his own version of Instrumentality/Third Impact to reunite with his wife by merging the embryonic Adam, bonded to his right hand, with Rei, the current vessel of Lilith's soul whose body is the giant in the same room. However, Rei takes over the process and reunites with Lilith, who finally regains her soul, and creates a planet-wide Anti-AT Field, negating the AT-Fields of humanity and causing their bodies to dissolve into LCL.[clarification needed] The souls of humanity are absorbed into the Egg of Lilith, a giant dark sphere cradled by Lilith/Rei, as she grows into enormous size.

As the souls form a single, complemented existence, Lilith/Rei gives control of the process to Shinji. Shinji's emotional sufferings and loneliness prompt him to accept this new form, believing that there could never be happiness in the real world. However, he later realizes, after a series of mental journeys and monologues, that it is necessary to live with others, and that to live life is to experience joy as well as pain. Third Impact is rejected and Lilith/Rei decays and dies, releasing the Anti-AT Field and allowing separate beings to potentially come back into existence. Asuka and Shinji are rematerialized from the sea of LCL together on a beach looking out on the severed head of Lilith/Rei and the apocalyptic landscape.

Production

The ambiguous and unclear meaning of the TV series' ending left many viewers and critics confused and unsatisfied.[3] The final two episodes were possibly the most controversial segments of an already controversial series[4] and were received as flawed and incomplete by many.[5] However, Anno and assistant director Kazuya Tsurumaki defended the artistic integrity of the finale.[6][7]

Gainax launched the project to create a film ending for the series in 1997, first releasing Death and Rebirth as a highly condensed character-based recap and re-edit of the TV series (Death) and the first half of the new ending (Rebirth, which was originally intended to be the full ending, but could not be finished due to budget and time constraints). The project was completed later in the year and released as The End of Evangelion.Episode 25': Air, uses the original script intended for episode 25 of the original series and forms roughly 2/3 of the previous film, Rebirth.

Among the images used in the film are of some of the hate-mail and death threats (including graffiti on Gainax's headquarters) as well as letters of praise sent to Anno.[8][9]

During the recording of the final scene, Megumi Ogata became overwhelmed with emotion and strangled voice actress Yuko Miyamura.[10]

Localization

The script for the film's English dub was written by Amanda Winn Lee (who also served as ADR director and producer for the dub) based on a translation by Sachuchi Ushida and Mari Kamada.[11] The voice cast was made up primarily of voice actors reprising their roles from ADV Films' dub of the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, with several supporting roles recast on account of the original actors being unavailable or difficult to locate. To accommodate voice actors living in different parts of the country, the dub was recorded in three different studios, in Los Angeles, Houston and New York City.[12]

Several creative changes were made to the English audio track of the film, including the addition of at least one line of dialogue that was not present in the Japanese script and the alteration of several sound effects. Though some fans criticized one or more of these decisions, Lee, who was responsible for producing the effects, explained why she felt them to be appropriate within the context of their respective scenes. The translation has received some criticism from fans as well, with certain translation choices (such as the use of strong profanity in several scenes) seen as overly liberal, as well as a major mistranslation of a significant line of exposition by Misato to Shinji regarding the relationship between Adam and Lilith.[13]

In discussing the film's English dub, Mike Crandol of Anime News Network determined that "the remarkably strong performances of the main cast overshadow the weaker voice work present", though he criticized the script for being "slightly hammy" in parts. In particular, Crandol praised the final exchange between Spike Spencer (Shinji) and Allison Keith's (Misato) characters as "one of the most beautiful vocal performances to ever grace an anime". [14]

Music

The soundtrack of The End of Evangelion was composed by Shiro Sagisu. The film prominently features selections of Johann Sebastian Bach's music throughout the movie. Episode 25' has the Japanese title Air, being named after the Air on the G String which is played during the episode. Among the other pieces included are Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major (I. Prélude), Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (transcribed for piano and later played again with string instruments in the end credits), and Pachelbel's Canon.

Among the other insert songs are "Komm, süsser Tod" (Come, Sweet Death), an upbeat song in which the singer describes their motivations for suicide (which appears in the film at the beginning of Instrumentality), and "THANATOS -If I Can't Be Yours", which is played in both the end credits and the credits to episode 25' (the song is based around "THANATOS", a background music piece used in the series).

Release

The End of Evangelion was first released on Laserdisc in Japan. It also included the first release of the video versions of Episodes 21-24. The film was split up into two 40-minute episodes with brief intros (similar to episode 22), edited credits (for each episode instead of credits for both between the two), redone eyecatcher-textboards (showing "Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode..." instead of "The End of Evangelion Episode...") and a next-episode-preview section in Episode 25. The episodic version of the film was on the last two discs of the Laserdisc release of the series (Genesis 0:13 and 0:14 respectively), each containing 2 episodes (the original TV episodes and the new End of Evangelion episodes respectively), although the film was also released in its original cinematic form on VHS, Laserdisc, and later DVD. The script was serialized in 4 issues of Dragon Magazine from August 1997 to January 1998.

The DVD release also remixed the film's audio no less than three times according to the packaging. It featured a 6.1 DTS, a 5.1 Dolby, as well as a new stereo track downmixed from the 6.1 in both languages. The original stereo is not included. It is unknown if the subtitled VHS included the original or the remix stereo.

The End of Evangelion: Renewal

A new version of The End of Evangelion was released on June 25, 2003 in Japan by Starchild and King Records as part of the Renewal of Evangelion box set (which compiled "new digitally remastered versions of the 26 TV show episodes, 4 remade-for-Laserdisc episodes, and 3 theatrical features" as well as "a bonus disc with never-before-seen material").[15]

This version of the film conjoins the "recap" film Evangelion: Death with End, omitting the Rebirth segment from the first film, and added a new live-action scene with Megumi Hayashibara, Yūko Miyamura, and Kotono Mitsuishi portraying their characters from the series, ten years after the events of Evangelion. In this continuity, Shinji does not exist and Asuka has a sexual relationship with Toji Suzuhara. The sequence ends with Shinji's voice saying, "This isn't it, I am not here," proving it is a false reality seen through his eyes.

Manga Entertainment stated in 2006 that it was "ironing out the contracts" to release the Renewal versions of Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion, with the hope of being able to release them in the United States within the next year, though this has yet to occur.[16] Reportedly, Manga Entertainment no longer holds the overseas license for the movies.[17]

Reception

The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for 1997 and the Japan Academy Prize for "Biggest Public Sensation of the Year";[18] and was given the "Special Audience Choice Award" by the 1997 Animation Kobe[19]. EX.org ranked the film in 1999 as the fifth best 'All-Time Show' (with the TV series at #2).[20]

In Japan between its release and October 1997, The End of Evangelion grossed 1.45 billion yen.[21] Mangaka Nobuhiro Watsuki wrote:

A little while ago, I finally saw the theatrical version of Evangelion (I'm writing this in August). It was obvious that the people who created it didn't love the story or the characters, so I'm a little disappointed. But the dramatization, the movement, and the editing were superb. When the story led into the self-improvement seminar, I was nearly fooled for an instant. I don't know if most people enjoyed it, but as a writer, I was able to take home something from it.[22]

Newtype USA reviewed the film as a "saga of bamboozlement". It also criticized the film's "more biblical overtones, teen melo-drama and bad parenting" and that "for some frustrated viewers, these DVDs might bring on the '4th impact' hurling these DVDs against the wall."[23] Manga Entertainment CEO Marvin Gleicher criticized the Newtype review as "biased and disrespectful" and a "facile and vapid" product of "ignorance and lack of research".[24]

Many reviews focused on the audio-visual production; Light and Sound editorialized that "narrative coherence seems a lesser concern to the film-makers than the launching of a sustained audio-visual assault. The kaleidoscopic imagery momentarily topples into live action for the baffling climax...",[25] an assessment echoed by critic Mark Schilling.[26] Mike Crandol of Anime News Network gave the film an overall passing grade and described it as "a visual marvel". He described the DVD release as "a mixed bag", expressing displeasure over the "unremarkable" video presentation and overall lack of extra material.[27] David Uzumeri of Comics Alliance summarized the film as "a dark, brutal, psychedelic orgy of sex and violence that culminated in the mass extinction of humanity set to an optimistic J-pop song with lyrics about suicide." Uzumeri also stated that the "themes of [Neon Genesis Evangelion] criticizing the audience for being spineless and lost in a fantasy world were cranked up to eleven, as the protagonist Shinji basically watches everybody die around him due to his refusal to make any effort whatsoever to engage with other people."[28]

Independent filmmaker Patrick Meaney described the film as "an avant garde masterpiece", noting that "it violates virtually every rule of traditional film storytelling" and in particular praising the Instrumentality sequence as "astonishing" and "unlike anything else [he's] ever seen."[29]

In an article for Slant Magazine, writer Michael Peterson remarked that "it was not until the End of Evangelion film that Anno's visual strengths as a director really stood out". He observed that "Anno, like David Lynch, possesses a skill at framing his shots, and using the attendant color, to create visual compositions that stand out not only as beautiful in the story's context, but also as individual images, a painterly quality that he then applies back to the work. When Anno frames an image, the power of that specific image becomes a tool that he can later refer back to for an instantaneous emotional and intellectual response." [30]

Carlos Ross of Them Anime Reviews compared the tone of the film to The Blair Witch Project in that it deconstructed the series while "cashing in" on it. He was especially critical of the film's entire second half by saying:

The second half of the movie is so incoherent and obtuse that it completely loses the mainstream audience (and in fact, virtually any audience) this series has attracted before. It goes beyond art film and beyond anime. And in doing so, it goes beyond the audience's capability to understand and be entertained, which defeats the purpose of something labeled as entertainment."[31]

Schilling reviewed the film as more than a deconstruction, but an attempt at unification of mediums:

"Despite the large cast of characters, decades-spanning story, and a profusion of twenty-first-century jargon, much of it borrowed from early Christian sources, the film is essentially a Power Rangers episode writ large: i.e., super-teens piloting big, powerful machines and saving the world from monsters. We've seen it all before. What we haven't seen, however, is the way the film zaps back and forth through time, slams through narrative shifts and flashes explanatory text, in billboard-sized Chinese characters, at mind-bending speed. It's a hyper-charged phantasmagoria that defies easy comprehension, while exerting a hypnotic fascination. Watching, one becomes part of the film's multimedia data stream.
Shinseiki Evangelion is looking forward, toward an integration of all popular media - television, manga, movies, and video games - into new forms in which distinctions between real and virtual, viewer and viewed, man and machine, become blurred and finally cease to matter. O Brave New World, that has such animation in it."[32]

Chris Beveridge of Mania.com described the film as "work[ing] on so many levels", but cautions that it is not meant to be watched without having seen the rest of the series.[33]

Patrick Macias of TokyoScope ranked it one of his 10 greatest films of all time,[34] and the best anime movie of the 1990s;[35] CUT film magazine ranked it third on its list of the top 30 best anime films of all time.[36]

Interpretation

In the film's final scene, Shinji and Asuka have separated themselves from the collective human existence, apparently alone in the post-Third Impact world. Shinji tries to strangle Asuka, but stops and breaks down in tears after she touches his face in the same manner that his mother did during Instrumentality. Their interactions display a wide range of positive and negative emotions. The world is irreversibly changed, however, and what happens afterwards is not revealed.

During the English translation of the film, Manga Entertainment originally translated Asuka's closing line, "気持ち悪い。" ("Kimochi warui."), as "How disgusting." According to an episode of the Japanese anime show Anime Yawa aired March 31, 2005 on NHK's satellite TV, the final line was initially written as "I'd never want to be killed by you of all men, absolutely not!" or "I'll never let you kill me." ("Anta nankani korosareru nowa mappira yo!") but Anno was dissatisfied with Miyamura's renditions of this line.[37] Eventually Anno asked her a question which described what he was going for with this scene:

"Concerning the final line we adopted, I'm not sure whether I should say about it in fact. At last Anno asked me 'Miyamura, just imagine you are sleeping in your bed and a stranger sneaks into your room. He can rape you anytime as you are asleep but he doesn't. Instead, he masturbates looking at you, when you wake up and know what he did to you. What do you think you would say?' I had been thinking he was a strange man, but at that moment I felt disgusting. So I told him that I thought 'Disgusting.' And then he sighed and said, 'I thought as much.'"[38]

Tiffany Grant, Asuka's English dub voice actress, made the following statement:

"The most widely circulated translation of the last line of EoE [End of Evangelion] is "I feel sick," but Amanda Winn Lee (Rei Ayanami's English voice actor and director of End of Evangelion) said she asked several translators, and she felt "disgusting" was the most accurate adaptation. You could say she is disgusted with/sick of the situation or with Shinji himself. My favorite explanation though, is this one: My husband, Matt Greenfield, directed the TV series and is very familiar with the whole Eva franchise. Matt has said that although (Eva creator) Hideaki Anno seems to change his mind frequently about what various things mean in Eva, Anno once said that Asuka's comment about feeling "sick" was a reference to morning sickness. Now THAT gives ya something to think about, doesn't it! Of course, Anno is quite passionate about the idea that every person should decide for him or herself what Eva means to them."[39]

Some state that, despite the somber ending the results of Instrumentality are not permanent. Both Rei and Yui comfort Shinji and tell him that people can restore themselves to physical existence if they want to, depending on the strength within their hearts. It is suggested that Asuka is one of the first persons to manifest herself back into reality. Another Evangelion trading card explains:[40]

"In the sea of LCL, Shinji wished for a world with other people. He desired to meet them again, even if it meant he would be hurt and betrayed. And just as he had hoped / wanted, Asuka was present in the new world. Only Asuka was there beside him. The girl whom he had hurt, and who had been hurt by him. But even so, she was the one he had hoped/wished for...."

It has been debated whether The End of Evangelion is intended to enlarge and retell episodes 25 and 26 or to completely replace the TV ending with a different one. Some believe that The End of Evangelion is an alternate ending to the series, perhaps created to please those fans who were displeased with the TV series' ending. Tsurumaki said he felt the series was complete as it was.[41]

Red Cross Book

The Red Cross Book (RCB) is the unofficial name of a Japanese pamphlet that was sold in movie theaters at the time of the film's release.[42][43][44] The book is printed on A-4 sized paper, with the cover consisting of the St George's Cross over a black background and the film's title printed on it.

The book is essentially a canon glossary, authored by Gainax and various members of both the Evangelion TV series and film staff, of many of the terms used in the TV series, manga, and the two films to introduce the film's history. It also includes an interview with Tsurumaki, a listing of voice actors and brief essays written by them on their respective characters, short biographical sketches, commentary on the TV series and production of the movies, and a "Notes" section covering the setting of the films.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The End of Evangelion: Production". EvaOtaku.com. 1998-02-20. Retrieved 2006-09-03.
  2. ^ News Briefs. Ex.org. Retrieved on 2010-12-28.
  3. ^ "The kaleidoscopic imagery momentarily topples into live action for the baffling climax, which alternates Disneyesque bromides ("Truth lies in your heart") with metaphysical blather ("So long as the earth, sun and moon exist, everything will be alright.")." Sight and Sound (2003)
  4. ^ "The stunning originality of these final episodes cannot be overstated … the series deals with these elements in breathtakingly creative ways to create a unique and memorable vision of inner and outer collapse, and, perhaps, renewal. It should be noted that many viewers were outraged by the two final episodes. Expecting a more conventional end-of-the-world scenario, fans were baffled and indignant that, instead of outward explosions and satisfying combat, the cataclysmic struggle occurred wholly in the character's mind." "In these last two episodes the machines have literally stopped, and both characters and viewers are left with no recourse but to confront their/our own flawed humanity in all its desperation and insecurities without the technological armor of the typical sf text." pg 427 and pg 428 respectively of Napier 2002
  5. ^ "The End of Evangelion: Commentary". EvaOtaku.com. 1998-02-20.
  6. ^ "Lately due to the ending of episodes #25 and #26, some people started watching Evangelion. They were not anime fans. In fact many of them are females and they tell me that they really enjoyed episode #25, objectively. Most anime fans are furious. I understand their anger. I can't help laughing when hard-core anime fans say that we did a very lousy job, with intentional negligence. No we didn't. No staff members did a lousy job. In fact, every member at Gainax gave more energy than anybody can imagine. I feel sad that those fans couldn't see our efforts. Personally I think the original TV ending we showed ended up beautifully." Hideaki Anno, Protoculture Addicts 43
  7. ^ "My opinion was, 'Why don't we show them the entire process including our breakdown." You know — make it a work that shows everything including our inability to create a satisfactory product. I figured that, "In 10 years or so, if we look back on something that we made while we were drunk out of our minds, we wouldn't feel bad even if the quality wasn't so good.'
    Q: Really?" "KT – So, no matter what the final form, I feel it was great just being able to make it to the end of the TV series. " Tsurumaki interview, RCB
  8. ^ "Death Threats Transcribed" - (Detailed transcription of the letters appearing in The End of Evangelion)
  9. ^ "Anno Hideaki allegedly created the two episodes contained here in response to death threats from fans dissatisfied with the original conclusion to his anime sci-fi saga." Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, M.L., Sight and Sound, vol 13, issue 4, April 2003; pg 59
  10. ^ "Rocking the Boat". Akadot Retail. Archived from the original on June 23, 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
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  13. ^ Reviews - Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth. Animefringe. Retrieved on 2010-12-28.
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  15. ^ "Neon Genesis Evangelion: Renewal of Evangelion DVD-BOX". Mania. 2003-06-25. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  16. ^ "SDCC: Manga Entertainment Announces A New Co-Pro; Talks "Karas," "Eva" And "GitS"". Toon Zone. 2006-07-22. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  17. ^ Sargento Soma - ANNCast. Anime News Network (2009-11-06). Retrieved on 2010-12-28.
  18. ^ Carl Horn, "My Empire of Dirt" (2002), for Viz Communications
  19. ^ http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20000712142501/http://www.gainax.co.jp/special/evamovie/kobe-e.html
  20. ^ Press. EX. Retrieved on 2010-12-28.
  21. ^ December 1997 NewType, p.90
  22. ^ Act 147, Rurouni Kenshin volume 17, ISBN 1-59116-876-7
  23. ^ Newtype USA issue 1 pg 157
  24. ^ "Manga Criticizes Newtype". Anime News Network. 2002-11-08. Retrieved 2010-08-22.
  25. ^ Light and Sound 2003
  26. ^ "[EoE] throws so much visual and narrative data at its audience, including titles zapping by at almost subliminal speed, that total comprehension is all but impossible. The experience is similar to watching a kid play a Final Fantasy video game at warp speed or flipping through a Shonen Jump comic in a blur". Contemporary Japanese Film review, Mark Schilling, ISBN 0-8348-0415-8, pg 334
  27. ^ Crandol, Mike (September 24, 2002). "Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
  28. ^ "Alan Moore x Hideaki Anno: Their Failed Assassinations of Their Genres". Comicsalliance.com. 2011-01-17. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
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  32. ^ Contemporary Japanese Film 1999
  33. ^ Beveridge, Chris (September 30, 2002). "Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion". Mania.com. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
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  35. ^ "TokyoScope's Patrick Macias found them magnificent bastards, actually, judging The End of Evangelion the most important anime film of the past decade and a considerably more progressive work than that year's other cel-phenom, Princess Mononoke." http://web.archive.org/web/20060822225929/www.pulp-mag.com/archives/6.03/flcl.shtml
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