I mean if you've watched 24 episodes why forgo the last remaining two? The background audio is of Thanatos (Short Version). Ristuko hits the self-destruct switch. The End of Evangelion (00:16:46) Episode 25' Credits (Video only) The ED sequence after 25' consists of credits for 'Air'.

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 1 Dubbed
Evangelion Episode 24
Evangelion Ep 25
Evangelion Episode 25 Air

Evangelion Movies

Author:MDWigs
Source:MDWigs' Musings
Dated: 2002

There are three separateEvangelion movies. 'Evangelion: Death and Rebirth', 'The End ofEvangelion', 'Revival of Evangelion'. Each are desribed in turn, along withany variations of them that exist. Only the Japanese Releases are detailed here.

Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
Premiered March 19, 1997

Evangelion is a roller coaster of emotional distress that will take you to the limits of sanity. Neon Genesis Evangelion - Season 1, Episode 25: Do you love me?

A few weeks after the conclusion of the Evangelion TV series air in Japan, it wasdecided that two movies would be made for spring and summer of 1997. Gainax said that thefirst one would be a sum-up of the series, while the second would be an 'OriginalStory'.

Eventually it was decided that the first movie, called 'Evangelion: Death andRebirth', would consist of two parts, Evangelion: Death and Evangelion: Rebirth. Ofthese two parts Evangelion: Death was designed to be a re-cap of the series whileEvangelion: Rebrith was planned to be the new Evangelion Episodes 25 and 26. Howeverbecause of schedule problems (yet again), Gainax announced that 'Evangelion:Rebirth' would only be the beginning of the new ending.

Evangelion: Death

'Evangelion: Death' was directed by Masayuki, and is a digest of the first 24episodes of the TV series. It is 60 minutes long, approximately 40 minutes consisting of'old' footage from the TV series and the other 20 comprised of new footage. Mostof this new footage had been produced for the Japanese Video release of Genesis 0:11 andGenesis 0:12 (which contain episode 21 to 24). At the time of Evangelion: Death's releaseGenesis 0:11 and Genesis 0:12 had not been released.

Evangelion: Death (True)
Screened on the 2 January, 1998 on the Japanese Satellite TV Vhannel WoWoW this version ofEvangelion: Death was re-edited personally by Masayuki. It appears that Masayuki reallydidn't want to include all the excepts of the new scenes from episode 21 to 24 becuase heremoved some of them from this new version of Evangelion: Death.

Both Evangelion: Death (True) and Evangelion: Rebirth were screened at this time, butno changes were made to Evangelion: Rebirth.

Evangelion Death (True)^2
In March 1998 they released Revival of Evangelion which contained yet another verison ofDeath, titled 'Evangelion : Death (True)²'. This was an improved version of'Evangelion : Death' which was edited personally by Masayuki again in which onlyminor changes were made to the music and sound.

Evangelion: Rebirth

First premiered March 19, 1997 with the release of Evangelion: Death & Rebirth andalso screened again on the 2 January, 1998 along with Evangelion: Death (True),Evangelion: Rebirth contained completely new footage. It was originally supposed tocontain the entireity of the new episodes 25 and 26 and be a complete conclusion, howeverbecuase of production issues it was decided to make it only the first two thirds of thefirst part of the final conclusion, with the actual ending, The End of Evangelion, beingreleased later that year.

The End of Evangelion
The End of Evangelion first premiered in Japanese theatres on July 19, 1997, 4 monthsafter the realease of Evangelion: Death & Rebrith. This second movie was designed tobe the complete new ending. It was originally titled 'Evangelion: Rebirth II'however they finally decided on the (in my opinion much better) name of 'The End ofEvangelion'.

The End of Evangelion consists of two parts, Episode 25': Air and Episode 26': Magokoroo, Kimi ni. These two 'episodes' are designed as replacements or alternativesfor the original episodes 25 and 26 and the apostrophes are used to denote that they arethe movie versions of those episodes. These episodes continue stright on from where thelast scene of episode 24 left off. The End of Evangelion was created as a remake of thelast two TV episodes and so the TV episode format is used within them, with each episodehaving its out subtitle and eyecatch scene.

Episode 25': Air
The title of this episode is 'Dai 25 Wa: Air' (25th Episode: Air) and has theeyecatch 'Episode 25' Love is destructive.' The first two thirds of this episodehad already been shown in part in Evangelion: Rebirth. However about one quarter of thisrepeated part from Evangelion: Rebirth was filmed again or remade to improve the quality.A few scenes were added in to this repeated part that were not in Rebirth at all and alsonew musical tracks were slected for this repeated part with Rebirth. So even thoughEpisode 25': Air does repeat for the first two thirds footage shown in Evangelion:Rebirth, there are a number of changes.

The script for Episode 25' 'Air' is based on the original script for episode25 which had been completed during the TV series production. Beuase of production issuesthis script wasn't used in the TV episode 25 but was kept and used as a base for the movieEpisode 25'.

Episode 26': Magokoro o, Kimi ni

The title for this episode is 'Dai 26 Wa: Magokoro o, Kimi ni' (26th Episode:Sincerely Yours - My Pure Heart For You) and has the eyecatch 'One More Final I needyou.'.

In contrast to Episode 25': Air, the script for this episode was based on the'inner world' one of the original Episode 26, however it was expanded on to addmuch more 'real world' story information and dramatic content. All off thefootage for this episode is new, none of it at all being shown in Evangelion: Rebirth.

The End of Evangelion: Theatrical release Vs. Video release

The End of Evangelion was released in video in two parts in Japan.

'Genesis 0:13' featured episode 25 and episode 25' and 'Genesis0:14' featured episode 26 and episode 26'. For their Video release the episodecontained within 'The End of Evangelion' were altered slightly to be more inform with the video style of episode. Below is a list of the changes between the Videoversion of each episode and the Theatrical Version.

The Video Version of Episode 25':

Eye catch: 'Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode: 25' Love is destructive.'
Credits for just episode 25 are shown at the end to the song 'Thanatos - If I Can'tBe Yours - (Short Version)'
At the end of the episode there is a preview of the next episode.

The Video Version of Episode 26':

Title screen: 'Neon Genesis Evangelion'
In the kitchen scene Asuka's 'Iya' (No) is written on the screen, we don't hearit.
Eye catch: 'Neon Genesis Evangelion One More Final: I need you.'
The caption at the conclusion of the episode says simply 'End'
Credits for just episode 26' are shown at the end to a string version of 'Jesusbleibet meine Freude'

The Theatrical Version of Episode 25':

Eye catch: 'The End of Evangelion Episode:25' Love is destructive.'
Credits for both episodes 25' and 26' are shown at the end of episode 25 to the song'Thanatos - If I Can't Be Yours'
There is no preview of the next episode.

The Theatrical Version of Episode 26':

Title screen: 'The End of Evangelion'
In the kitchen scene Asuka's 'Iya' (liar) is said and not written on the screen.
Eye catch: 'The End of Evangelion One More Final: I need you.'
The caption at the conclusion of the episode says 'End of the movie'
There are no ending credits, just a black screen.

Revival of Evangelion
March 7, 1998

Revival of Evangelion was the third Neon Genesis Evangelion movie to be released inJapan.

Revival is ultimately the 'final vision' of GAINAX and Anno Hideaki. Itcombines parts of the first two movies, Evangelion: Death and Rebirth and The End ofEvangelion, into one long production. Revival is how the Eva movies were supposed to bereleased if GAINAX didn't have all the money and scheduling problems it did. It is a'complete' ending, 'This is the ending you were asking for'.

Revival of Evangelion is was released in Japan on March 7, 1998 and it contains thefollowing:

Evangelion: Death (True)²
Episode 25': Air
Episode 26': Magokoro o, Kimi ni

This is basically just Evangelion: Death (True)² plus The End of Evangelion. Itcontains no 'original' Evangelion: Death, no Evangelion: Rebirth and no newscenes.

Evangelion Episode 25