Neon Genesis Evangelion starts streaming on the Criterion Channel on September 1, the service says. That puts Hideaki Anno’s landmark 1995 anime series on a platform most people probably think of first for arthouse films and world cinema.
Criterion says the full original TV-era set is coming over: all 26 episodes, The End of Evangelion, and Evangelion: Death (True)². It’ll be available with the original Japanese audio and subtitles, plus the “Classic” English dub. That last part matters, since this is the first official streaming release for that older dub after Netflix’s 2019 release went with a newer dub and translation that split the fanbase.
It also makes sense for Criterion’s anime catalog, which has been getting deeper already. The service includes Ghost in the Shell, Paprika, and films by Makoto Shinkai, and adding Evangelion makes the point pretty clearly: Neon Genesis Evangelion now has a secure place in film history, not just anime history.
If you’ve never watched Neon Genesis Evangelion, or just want a reason to go back, this is a good one. You’re getting a psychologically heavy, visually daring landmark that helped pull apart the mecha genre, left its mark on anime, games, and sci-fi, brought in more than $16 billion by some estimates, and is widely credited with helping jolt the anime industry back to life in the mid-1990s.
You can watch Neon Genesis Evangelion on the Criterion Channel starting September 1. So far, neither Hideaki Anno nor Studio Khara has made a public statement about the release.
Author: Hadaza Marizen Crisostomo
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