Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997)

• Year: 1997
• Released: 15 Mar 1997
• Country: Japan
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169880/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/neon_genesis_evangelion_death_rebirth
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Japanese
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Animation, Action, Drama
• Runtime: 101 min
• Writer: Hideaki Anno, Akio Satsukawa
• Director: Hideaki Anno, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki
• Cast: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura
• Keywords: surrealism, mecha, giant robot, piloted robot, anime,

7.2/10

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth Storyline

The Evangelion saga from TV is artfully recounted, with some additional scenes, in part one see: “Shin Seiki Evangelion” (1995) Part two starts immediately afterward, where the NERV organization has outlived its usefulness. The shadowy covenant of SEELE launches an all-out commando assault against the ill-defended headquarters. Asuka, semi-comatose, is placed in her EVA for safety, while Misato and company struggle to find Shinji and Rei before they’re assasinated by SEELE’s forces.—SpaceToast

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A Good Re-cap…if you’ve actually seen the series

The series itself is a true masterpiece, I spoiled it by watching “The End of Evagelion” first, do NOT do that. “Death & Rebirth” is a good re-cap if you’ve seen all but the last 2 eps. It’s a bit back and fourth but overall it erases any confusion. Again, this series is beautiful, it’s not just ‘robots’ fighting monsters it’s SO much more…they are NOT robots… DO NOT pass this series up! It’s an experience.

Not necessary

If you’re going to see the series and the End of Evangelion, you’re wasting your time here. This DVD contains a short overview of the series, followed by the first bit of The End of Evangelion. If you don’t want to sit through the series (shame on you), you’ll want to see the first half of this before watching the End of Evangelion, but otherwise it’s not really worth the money.

What a promotional package!

“Evangelion – Death & Rebirth” is, obviously, a film of two parts. “Death” is a futile attempt to stuff the content of the first 24 episodes of the “Evangelion” TV series into a running time of just under an hour. It succeeds in getting the very bare-bones of the plot in, but leaves out all of the subtler moments, the moments of psychological drama, and the fully-realized character developments that helped to make the TV series so popular to begin with. The few minutes of animation made help fill up this immense loss fails miserably.

But it does its job. And its job is to promote “The End of Evangelion”. It is virtually impossible to watch “EoE” without some significant background knowledge of the TV series, and that is exactly what “Death” does.

“Rebirth” is, essentially, the first few minutes of “EoE”, there for the sole purpose of whetting the appetites of audiences all over Japan for the initial release of “EoE”. But since “EoE” has since been released, what’s the point of keeping “Rebirth” around, anyway?

As far as promotional packages go, this is one brilliant piece of marketing. But viewers expecting to be thoroughly blown away by “Evangelion” are best off watching the TV series and then “EoE” (all in one sitting is NOT recommended, due to the sheer length of it all). “Death & Rebirth” has served its purpose, and now is no longer needed.