The disks themselves are dark blue and come in Evangelion themed cases with the Unit-01 case containing the Netflix dub, and the Unit-02 case containing the ADV Dub. As shown in the comparison list above, both the Classic English dub discs (5 in total) as well as The End of Evangelion video format version (which was on its own disc) are not included in the standard edition release. Many of the tropes are still there, and on the surface, the show does appear to be about giant robots battling kaiju from space. Despite the number of episodes per disc, the series runs at a consistently high bit rate, so there are few compression artifacts to note.

Evangelion has been interpreted and re-interpreted and RE-RE interpreted over the course of the last twenty years, with each frame and shot of the movie being picked apart and explained in great detail, and now that the series and movies have been bumped up to High Definition, even more conversations and discussions are waiting to be had in the forum that is the anime fandom. com is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Pay4Later Limited, trading as Deko, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 728646). Much of this was down to how Hideaki Anno merged elements of Ultraman with Space Runaway Ideon, but outside of Japan these references went over the heads of many. After passively allowing himself to be pulled one way or the other all throughout the series, Shinji finally recognizes that his own worth isn’t dependent on anyone else. A 90-minute film, consists of two halves to replace the final two TV episodes, it has lost none of it's power to shock audiences as it had done twenty-five years ago.Also, like the Netflix version, it doesn’t include the cover of “Fly Me to the Moon” over the end credits, which is incredibly controversial for many fans. The mythology around the creator, Hideaki Anno, who clearly had some kind of mental breakdown during the production, is used to shore up the alleged depth of the work. But it’s simply not the pinnacle of the artform—that would clearly be something from Studio Ghibli or Satoshi Kon.

It’s probably one of the most well known shows around, and I’m not even going to get into doing a deep dive on the series…at least not yet anyway. This standard edition Blu-ray contains the complete NEON GENESIS EVANGELION TV series, plus the films EVANGELION:DEATH (TRUE)² and THE END OF EVANGELION. Because then came the mass production for western mainstream audience, the CGI fests, the lower budgets, Pokemon and it's clones, the "100 different characters fighting each other with their random silly powers" such as Naruto and it's countless clones, etc.From the athletic mecha designs by Ikuto Yamashita to the more thoughtful and believable drama of kids grappling with the horrors of kaiju combat, Evangelion was and still is a special anime.