What more can I say? It’s one of the most brilliant shows in the modern anime era. Let’s hear from the people who played these roles.Īs for the show itself? Well, it’s Evangelion. Maybe it’s just me, but I love stuff like commentary tracks playing while I’m watching a movie or an anime. We also don’t get any commentary tracks either in English or Japanese, which is a PRODIGIOUS disappointment, especially when you consider that the old school Platinum DVD’s had commentary tracks on just about every disk from the ADR crew featuring the ADR Director Matt Greenfield and other actors and members of the production crew. Take away the 40 page artbook and give me one disk with all the music (Minus “Fly Me to the Moon” of course) and I’ll be happy. Sadly, what you don’t get with any version is a soundtrack. You also get a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff from Japan like TV commercials, Japanese Cast Auditions, Trailers and animatics. If you’re looking for the “Decimal Movies,” then you gotta hit up Funimation and Amazon Prime Video, my dudes, cause that ain’t available here. You also get Evangelion: Death (TRUE) 2 (Also known as Evangelion: Death and Rebirth) and The End of Evangelion. For those old school fans out there, this is the same as the old Platinum Release Collections that came out back in the day. I know guys, I know…Īs for what we get for the money? We get the original 26-episode series, cleaned up and remastered for Blu-Ray. Why not make it available to EVERYONE? Also, if this matters to you, “Fly Me to the Moon” is not available on any of the sets instead we get the melancholy “Rei I” piano track over the Japanese credits. And I also think it’s messed up that you must buy one of the top two tiers in order to get the “Classic” dub. And trust me, there are plenty of Evangelion fans out there who wouldn’t give this set a second look if you didn’t include the original actors. Honestly, while I appreciate the fact that they included the ADV dub, I get a little twitch in my eye though when I see the ADV Dub classified as a “Bonus” Dub. The ADV Dub (The one that includes Spike Spencer, Tiffany Grant and Amanda Winn-Lee as Shinji, Asuka, and Rei, respectively) is available on either the “Ultimate Edition” or the “Limited Collector’s Edition.” The “Complete Series” set ONLY contains the new Netflix dub (Casey Mongillo, Stephanie McKeon and Ryan Bartley). The disks themselves are dark blue and come in Evangelion themed cases with the Unit-01 case containing the Netflix dub, and the Unit-02 case containing the ADV Dub. Inside, we get a 40-page companion booklet/artbook and 8 art cards, which is the same artwork that you’ve no doubt seen on the covers of the Platinum Edition DVD’s. And let’s be real, a lot of the artwork that’s included has probably been online for public consumption for the last 20 years or more. It’s just going to collect dust on the shelf. While the “Ultimate Edition” has loads of artwork and even a 156-page artbook included with special cases for the disks, I REALLY don’t need all that. This is the mid-level Collector’s Edition set (the black one with red “Emergency” hexagon accents) which is not as bare-bones as the “Complete Series” Blu-Ray Set, but it doesn’t contain all the bells and whistles that the “Ultimate Edition” has. The things I do for this franchise.įirst things first, lets break down this packaging. I’m coming from this as someone who put down his own coinage and bought it himself, so there’s absolutely no bias here. I’m also coming from a position of someone who has owned Evangelion several times over–the original Perfect Collection DVD’s, the Platinum Edition DVD’s, the Funimation Movie releases, and the Manga Entertainment releases of the two movies. Now, full disclosure-this is my own copy of Evangelion, not a promotional copy. So lets break it down, shall we? I’m Josh, and this is my review of the Neon Genesis Evangelion Complete Series Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray set. It’s also one of the few anime that can say it has been released on just about every modern-day video media in many different collection sets including the set that we’ll be covering today. Since then, this post-apocalyptic story of a young boy’s traumatic battle against the Angels that threaten to bring about the second end of the world has been viewed by millions of fans the world over, and has no doubt acted as the gateway anime for many fans the world over. On October 4, 1995, a little known anime name Neon Genesis Evangelion hit the airwaves on TV Tokyo in Japan.
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