Neon Genesis Evangelion/Episodes

Neon Genesis Evangelion is a Japanese anime series created by Gainax. It began broadcasting in Japan on TV Tokyo on October 4, 1995 and ended on March 27, 1996. WOWOW aired the series again during 2003. The series was written and directed by Hideaki Anno and produced by Project Eva, which included TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems (NAS).

Evangelion is an apocalyptic anime in the mecha genre. It focuses on a teenage boy recruited by a paramilitary organization named NERV to control a giant cyborg called an Evangelion to fight monstrous beings known as Angels. The show takes place largely in a futuristic Tokyo years after a worldwide catastrophe. It also centers around other Evangelion pilots and members of NERV as they try to prevent another catastrophe.

The series first aired in North America on San Francisco–area PBS member station KTEH in 2000. The first two episodes first saw nationwide broadcast in dubbed format on Cartoon Network as part of Toonami's Giant Robot Week on February 24–25, 2003; both episodes were heavily edited for content. Later, the entire series aired nearly unedited on Adult Swim from October 20, 2005, to April 21, 2006.

All episodes of the series have been released on VHS and DVD in the U.S., most recently as a six-disc version of the Platinum Edition, the "Platinum Complete Edition", which was released on November 22, 2005, but has since gone out of print.

Season 1 (1995-1996)
Each episode has two titles: one is the original Japanese title, and the second is an English title that was chosen by Japanese studio Gainax itself. Most often, the official English title is not a direct translation of the Japanese title. For example, the direct translation of the Japanese title of episode 2 is "Unknown Ceilings", but the English title is "The Beast". Sometimes, however, the two titles are either similar or exactly the same, as was the case with episode 10 "Magmadiver".

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth is the first film in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise and it consists of two parts, "Death" and "Rebirth". It was released, along with the follow-up, The End of Evangelion, in response to the success of the TV series and a strong demand by fans for another ending. It has since been re-edited and re-released several times.

The End of Evangelion
The End of Evangelion is a 1997 Japanese animated science fiction film written and directed by Hideaki Anno, released as a finale for mecha-based television series Neon Genesis Evangelion.

The film is divided into two episodes, each with a separate Japanese and English title: Episode 25': "Air" / "Love is Destructive" and Episode 26': "Yours Sincerely" / "ONE MORE FINAL: I need you". They effectively replace the series' controversial final two episodes with a more "real world" account of the story's apocalyptic climax.