Offical Neon Genesis Evangelion Info/Update Thread

[Xtempo]

the english licensing for the song would have many hoops to go through. it would deal with King Records/Starchild besides Kara and Gainax.

[BigOnAnime]

Whoever gets the BD rights will lead to their pros and cons.

FUNi=Given when happened to 3.33, yeah... Could give it a bad PE, or a good PE with lousy disc art even by NGE standards.

Aniplex=Unlikely to happen as NGE is NOT an Aniplex show, it's old, and not super shiny and new. They'd gimp us on extras, both physical and on-disc, and it would go OOP within 2-3 years, and the series would never see the light of day ever again. Also we have yet to see how a non-Aniplex show looks from them. Wait and see how God Eater looks when/if they release it, that's from Bandai Visual. Aniplex Japan had absolutely no involvement with the series in Japan.

Sentai=Could mess up the video quality, could have severe subtitle errors like usual if they don't re-use the ADV subs. Would probably do a very neat CE, especially given how they treated the original series as ADV (See: Platinum singles). Would allow us to get the on-disc extras ADV owns the rights to, such as this easter egg.

[Show spoiler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGMuaXIlckU

Honestly between these options, for the NGE BD release I'd want most, I'd go with Sentai, hoping they don't **** it up and give it a CE worthy of NGE's greatness.

[Naiera]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Aniplex=Unlikely to happen as NGE is NOT an Aniplex show, it's old, and not super shiny and new.

It's Eva. Any rules you can think of don't apply. It's a license to print money.

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Honestly between these options, for the NGE BD release I'd want most, I'd go with Sentai, hoping they don't **** it up and give it a CE worthy of NGE's greatness.

Seriously? You'd rather have it bitrate-starved, banding-laden and with some nicely boosted brightness?

That's just silly. Don't let your illogical hatred of Aniplex cloud your judgment. The core product is what matters. Only Aniplex would maintain the quality of the Japanese release.

[BigOnAnime]

Originally Posted by Naiera

It's Eva. Any rules you can think of don't apply. It's a license to print money.

Rules? More like how Aniplex USA has operated since they first released the Gurren Lagann movies back in 2010. If it's not an Aniplex series, they want nothing to do with it. Except for God Eater*, they have never gotten a non-Aniplex series. If it's old, they want nothing to do with it. They publicly admitted old=no interest on ANNCast a while back. If they've already said no to Rurouni Kenshin, what makes you think they'll say "Yes" to Eva, despite the popularity difference and difference in show length?

The only exceptions AoA has ever made to older titles have been Gurren Lagann, Bakemonogatari (Which was a few years old at the time), the Rurouni Kenshin BD's (As AoJ was doing them), R.O.D (As AoJ had recently done it), and Baccano! (Same as R.O.D).

*The only reason AoA managed to get God Eater when Aniplex Japan wasn't involved was because of Anime Consortium Japan (AKA Daisuki) being on the production committee. Had ACJ not been on the production committee, it would have most likely found its way to FUNi through Bandai Visual.

Seriously? You'd rather have it bitrate-starved, banding-laden and with some nicely boosted brightness?

That's just silly. Don't let your illogical hatred of Aniplex cloud your judgment. The core product is what matters. Only Aniplex would maintain the quality of the Japanese release.

No, but given how important that series is to those from ADV that are at Sentai, there's a decent chance they may try harder. While Sentai's track record isn't great, they have put out some good discs before.

As for the claim only Aniplex could maintain the quality, we don't know that. Until we see how God Eater looks, we won't know as we don't know how they're going to handle it if they release it. They may just get Bang Zoom! (Who does their DVD's) to author it. It's not an Aniplex series, so they can't just easily ask Aniplex Japan to author it like normal.

My dislike for AoA (Which is more than "It's too expensive, I can't buy it, I can't buy it!"-this is the least of my problems with them) is not clouding my judgement. I just have to simply compare what's on the JP site of any given title for the release and compare it to what AoA is doing for their release. Missing physical and on-disc extras is a very common sight, has been for quite some time, and if they somehow got Eva, they'd gimp it too. Given how NGE is one of my all-time favorite series that I could buy multiple times (I already own it twice-Holiday Edition and thinpak, and I plan to get the Platinum singles with artbox for the packaging and booklets), both the physical and on-disc extras are a pretty big deal to me. I'm still hoping we eventually get those extras from the JP Platinum release that I heard we never got.

For me not only is the actual show important, but also things like packaging and extras. Sentai is the best choice for the latter for NGE, especially since again we would be able to get the extras ADV owns.

[Girls With Guns]

... but then we'd get those fugly yellow subs...

[BigOnAnime]

Personally I'm not too bothered by them, but yeah.

[Naiera]

Those are quite big

I'd been watching other things (RahXephon ) for a while, so they seemed quite big when I put on Snafu the other day.

[Snarfs]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

For me not only is the actual show important, but also things like packaging and extras. Sentai is the best choice for the latter for NGE, especially since again we would be able to get the extras ADV owns.

That's a pretty big deal to me as well. Those extras really are pretty fantastic and they show the passion that adv, and specifically matt greenfield, had for the show.

[El Capitan]

Amazon now shows Evangelion 3.33 will be released Feb 2, 2016!

[Asuras]

Originally Posted by El Capitan

Amazon now shows Evangelion 3.33 will be released Feb 2, 2016!

Old news, the date was announced a month ago :P

[prophetic]

Originally Posted by Asuras

Old news, the date was announced a month ago :P

Not only that, but this is the wrong thread for that information. Neon Genesis Evangelion is the TV series, not the New Theatrical Edition.

[pikagreg]

Any tips for finding non-bootlegs for the movies? I ended up finding a nice Platinum set for the series but the movies come in pretty generic cases. The only thing I can see is some came with posters though idk if those were being faked as well. I also noticed some had a slip case to house both films.

I stayed away from this set for awhile after seeing how well-done some of the fakes were for the thinpack release. Any help would be appreciated!

[svenge]

Originally Posted by pikagreg

Any tips for finding non-bootlegs for the movies? I ended up finding a nice Platinum set for the series but the movies come in pretty generic cases. The only thing I can see is some came with posters though idk if those were being faked as well. I also noticed some had a slip case to house both films.

I stayed away from this set for awhile after seeing how well-done some of the fakes were for the thinpack release. Any help would be appreciated!

There aren't any known high-end bootlegs of D&R and EoE on the level the Platinum Complete thinpak box has been plagued with. The fakes on the market are all quite obvious and look nothing like the legit copies.

There are only three SKUs of legit Evangelion releases in the US, namely the stand-alone singles of D&R + EoE and a box set containing both DVDs in separate cases inside a slipbox. The DVDs did originally come with folded posters, but the lack of them in a given auction listing isn't a warning sign as many people hung them on walls and such.

Below are images of the DVD covers in question, sorted for your convenience.

Fakes:

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Legit:

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[Takeshi666]

The TV series is available in Japan on blu-ray - or at least there's one coming - and considering how popular the title is in the US, I can't imagine an American release being too far off.

Personally, I just hope for a UK release - and not because of the region code.

[Naiera]

Did you even read any of this thread?

The Japanese Blu-ray release came out a while ago and many of us bought it.

The consensus on the US release is that it's years away.

[ps3bd_owner]

Originally Posted by Takeshi666

Personally, I just hope for a UK release - and not because of the region code.

If a UK company is to handle it then I'd hope Anime Ltd to be the one. Manga UK releases are just so disappointing that I'd rather import from US.

[pikagreg]

I am hoping for a sexy Korean box set to match GitS lol. Are the Manga sets really that bad? I only have the Platinum large box set for the series.

[insomniac013]

Originally Posted by Naiera

Those are quite big

I'd been watching other things (RahXephon ) for a while, so they seemed quite big when I put on Snafu the other day.

I freaking hate Sentai's subs. I was watching Nadia the other day and they cover like half the freaking screen! (4:3 doesn't help)

[Takeshi666]

Originally Posted by Naiera

Did you even read any of this thread?

Of course not.

Does it have subs then?

[BigOnAnime]

Originally Posted by Takeshi666

Of course not.

Does it have subs then?

Nope, nor the English dub.