Gainax launched a project to create a movie ending for the series in 1997. Graffiti spray painted on Gainax Headquarters front wall: "Tenchuu" (Divine retribution) "Ikari rape-man" image was included in The End of Evangelion. After the seriesĮ-mail response to Evangelion: Death and Rebirth: "Anno, I'll kill you!!! Anno, I'll kill you!!!. It is a story of fear, where someone who must face indefinite solitude fears reaching out to others, but still wants to try. It is a story of will a story of moving forward, if only just a little. It is a story where the main character witnesses many horrors with his own eyes, but still tries to stand up again. Similarly, Evangelion properties consistently focus on a number of themes and dilemmas, as discussed by Anno: Įva is a story that repeats. The series established a number of distinctive features of future works in the franchise: a stock set of distinctive characters such as Shinji Ikari, Asuka Langley Soryu, Rei Ayanami, Toji Suzuhara, and others such as Misato Katsuragi (for a complete list, see here) a number of philosophical, psychological, and religious themes and an idiosyncratic vocabulary of symbols and allusions drawing heavily on Christian and Kabbalistic symbolism, Buddhist beliefs, and the Japanese otaku subculture. The anime succeeded wildly beyond expectation and has spawned countless derivative works and imitators. The series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 19.
It was later aired across Japan by the anime satellite television network, Animax. The anime consists of 26 television episodes which were first aired on the terrestrial TV Tokyo network from October 4, 1995, to March 27, 1996. The manga was intended to raise interest for the anime (directed by Hideaki Anno with character designs by Sadamoto), which was in development at that point and was intended to be Gainax's next major anime release. The manga, written by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, debuted in the February 1995 issue of Shonen Ace (published in December 1994) and is still running as of 2010. The franchise's central works, both titled Neon Genesis Evangelion, are an anime and a manga serial, both of which follow the same storyline, although with numerous minor differences between them.
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