Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth

About Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth

Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but after production overruns Rebirth became only the first half of the first part of The End of Evangelion, with some minor differences.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth is a 1997 animation science fiction film directed by Akira Takamura and Hideaki Anno. Megumi Ogata takes the lead as Shinji Ikari (voice), Megumi Hayashibara as Rei Ayanami, Yuko Miyamura as Asuka Langley Soryu (voice), and Kotono Mitsuishi as Misato Katsuragi (voice).

It runs 101 minutes and was released in March 1997. It was produced by GAINAX and KADOKAWA Shoten. The film began as a television series.

Shelv files it under complex, philosophical, compilation, and edited from TV series. It streams on Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States. It scores 7.4 out of 10 from 525 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, Aldnoah.Zero (Re+), and EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)² make useful companions to Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth, all filed under giant robot and based on TV series.