New Evangelion anime series announced

sirijo said:
New Eva series announced....
For the record I started (and watched all of) Eva on 2025-12-20 (65 days ago) so basically if you want a revival of some classic series just persuade me to watch it. I also got into Gits recently

https://twitter.com/x/status/2025878127331647632
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Kenichi Okabe of Nier fame is doing the music too so should sound great at least
Yoko Taro is maybe the only person who could match Anno in terms of story fuckery haha
 
sirijo said:
I hope it deviates wildly and explores new space. Ideally with a largely new cast but if not with events that do not line up with any existing interpretation. Something like Shinji dies inside the Eva in the opening attack
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Didn't the light novels do something like that already?
However, new stories are fine if the characters remain who they are (at the start), and grow.
 
Should we start a dedicated thread for this Eva news? I dislike how the general news thread, which should really be restricted to very minor news stories, tends to swallow up all news stories which means they can be easily missed by people who don't check the thread daily and limits discussion. This Eva news will be one of the biggest stories of the year!

Anyway this is very intersting, if also unsurprising (Eva seems to be such a cash cow I was sure the rebuild filns wouldn't be the last we saw of it). I'm really interested in this Yoko Taro guy, I remember hearing positive things about the Nier Gestalt game years ago. Anyone here played his games? Reckon he could pull this off?

I definitely agree with the opinion above though, it really needs to have a completely fresh cast at the very least, ideally be a completely different timeline/universe all together. I wasn't a particularly big fan of the latter Rebuild films (though I'd like to rewatch them) but the one thing it delivered was a satisfying and definitive conclusion. The last thing I want to see is Shinji and Co being raked over the coals again. They need to let them go even if they clearly can't let Eva go.
 
Thanks for the thread! Anyway I was interested to read what @sirijo wants from this new series (in the other thread I bumped, sorry about that!). Personally though when I really think about it, if I'm completely honest, I'm not sure I do really want more Evangelion. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of the original series + End of Eva, but churning out more Evangelion for cash (which let's face it, is likely to be the primary motivation at this point now that Anno has already fully said everything with the show he ever wanted to) just seems untrue to (what is in my mind) the true spirit of Evangelion. Eva was surely all about upending the order of things, it was newness, the vanguard, it defined its era, and it felt like it really had something to say. Turning Evangelion into some interminable legacy franchise just seems sort of sad to me. But, if it's actually good I'll change my tune no doubt.
 
I watched something called Evangelion Broadcast 30th Anniversary Special Screening which was a camrip with subtitles and just sighed. As for a new series my attitude is "so what". NGE has never been a favorite series for me, I've always been much more into Macross, everything from Zero on. The old Macross space opera stuff-NO THANKS!
 
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