Congratulations 👏
Really glad that this isn’t directed by either Tsurumaki or Anno. Otherwise, I’d be a bit bummed that they’re spending more time on Evangelion again.
A 13 minute short is kind of an interesting choice of format. I wonder whether this will be “canon” or if it will be intentionally out of universe with it’s own story.
The last short they did (-48 hours?) was ok but kind of didn’t make a clear point about why it was made. I’ll be curious if this director can make good use of the short 13 minute timespan.
-48 Hours was meant to tell a little about the events after Rebuild 3.0 and before Rebuild 3.0 + 1.0.
Yes, I get the narrative part of it. But I also felt it was shallow compared to the broader themes of Evangelion as a whole. Like, Midori as a character, why is she important and what’s the point in seeing her perspective? Why is it worth talking about her at all? Granted, it might be worth re-watching, but it felt mostly like it was “filling space” that didn’t need to be filled. I do understand that I was probably one of the few people who really enjoyed 3.0 because of it’s disconnected continuity as it felt like it was trying to say something about evangelion and story telling in general (you can shuffle the pieces around, or even completely change the context, but the story would still be the same because the themes of the characters are consistent.) I was never sold on them needing to get into “what happened before 3.0” so I may just not be the target audience.
Personally, I do wish that Envangelion Rebuilds had been more faithful as a retelling of the show, with a second set of movies or tv shows following the 3.0 branch. I like 3.0, but I also like the original story equally as well, and wish both could have been given proper theatrical spotlight.
They didn’t need to explain anything, but its more Evangelion content and I certainly won’t be complaining about that!
One of the major points of Evangelion is that not everything has a true in-lore explanation. Sometimes stuff is there just because Anno thought it was cool. Maybe khara just wanted to be creative and make -48, and didn’t feel a particular need to explain everything because they didn’t care or felt it wasn’t important enough to need an explanation for whatever they were wanting to do.
I thought Anno was done with Eva
