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Neon Genesis Evangelion is coming to Netflix
- Thread starter BrokenFiction
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Its been a super long time since Ive seen the show but I thought Kawrou makes some mention of what is actually in the basement of nerv to shinji in episode 24. I could be way off though.
That's technically not Netflix putting that out. That's Disney.
Point is Netflix is not themselves a physical media publisher.
But they won't stop others from publishing, even shows that are "Netflix exclusive". Just like Castlevania I mentioned.
Eva would still need to find a physical publisher.
The Target-exclusive Stranger Things box sets seem to be solely published by Netflix.
Any confirmation yet one whether this is the HD remaster? The clips they posted look pretty crumby.
This video is in the OP, they're clearly using the HD remastered source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13nSISwxrY4
There's no way they'd pay the gajillion dollars required to license this and use some crummy DVD master.
Seems to be. Though with Target handling distribution (and manufacturing?) it doesn't seem like Netflix actually has the manufacturing + supply chain you'd expect from a real publisher.
I'm sure Netflix can do anything they want to. There's just no reason to think they're our saviour for a physical release at this point.
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I can't see why Netflix would want to get involved in that mess at all. They'd have to pay another hefty licensee for the rights to release it on home media, then pay for the manufacture/warehousing/distribution - doesn't seem like it would mesh with their business model.
Hard to say if they've been stupid or just extremely arrogant. When you have a property as potent as Evangelion (that's still generating money on a regular basis) you can just sit and wait for someone to pay your ridiculous license fee.
Probably cost too much for any distributor to care. The US I'm taking about. I think it's come out in other regions.
I'd certainly like to do some sort of episode by episode analysis when it releases on netflix
Same club as the Dawn of the Dead 1978 rights holder..... grrrr....
An excuse to post some original production material I have, damn I love evangelion.
Damn I like that tsundere Asuka
Studio Khara won all the rights to Evangelion from Gainax, didn't they? It could be they're being really tight-fisted with the rights due to how it was handled in the '90s.
They're really lucky that the reputation of the show has kept knowledge of it alive, because it's usually a terrible idea to just take a show off the market completely for over a decade. Entire generations have grown up with no legal/affordable way to watch it.
I'm sort of surprised Aniplex didn't snatch it up and then release it for incredibly high prices like they've done for other shows, but maybe they couldn't get it either.
Funimation did get the Rebuild films so I always expected they'd get the full series. I wouldn't be surprised if they had tried before.
Maybe I'm optimistic, but I like to think they gave the worldwide license for streaming because they want to drum up again interest in NGE, because the 4.0 movie will come soon.
(hah hah who I'm kidding).
(hah hah who I'm kidding).
Aniplex only releases shows that they own/produce as far as I know.
I don't believe it's quite that simple? What I do know is that Gainax has to pay royalities to Studio Khara for any works that Hideki Anno originally worked on at Gainax. I assume it's a complex relationship?
Gainax is a pretty "unique" company. One that's unrecognisable now from what it was in its prime. Looking at their website, they don't have any page for EVA, just a mention, and they don't have any merch for it either.
K, maybe the old cannucks here can answer this: Did we actually get this series on TV at some point, or was it all home video? Because I'm drawing a blank on how I would have watched this show when I was a young kid.
My understanding is that the complication with the original Eva TV series licensing in the US is that ADV (who originally licensed and released it) went bankrupt and turned into basically a shell company clinging onto the Eva license for dear life and trying to get a Hollywood adaptation made, eventually trying to sue Gainax themselves for the sake of securing the rights. Maybe they finally gave up the ghost.
An excuse to post some original production material I have, damn I love evangelion.
These could be framed, and hung as nice art.
I don't think so. YTV, Teletoon, and Space were wildly grabbing all the TV rights they could at the time, but I don't remember it being one of them. (Related below, I don't think ADV gave out TV rights for anything.) Personally, I rented them from a comic shop the next town over.
So it's a Harmony Gold situation.
The idea of a spear with the power to slay a god is as old as storytelling. Irish mythology has about half a dozen of them!
Evangelion simply took the mythical concept and added some extra sci-fi (that is, the spear actually being
a failsafe device designed to shut down a wayward terraforming system
I thought
it is designed to shut down one terraforming system when two such systems land on the same planet. Lilith comes after Adam, yet her spear is missing so the one from Adam got activated instead.
I was of the impression the rights holders were always willing to talk to people about licensing the original series and films, but their asking price has prevented any deals being done since ADV and Manga last released it on DVD.
Netflix obviously thinks it's a worthwhile addition and can afford to cough up. I doubt this deal will change anything on the home video release unless a distributor also decides it's worth the cost to license the home video rights. It's actually quite surprising that nobody thought it was worth the cost to release a HD remastered Blu-ray though...
Pretty sure the Evangelion's Tree of Life scrolls up the screen after that image, before the title comes on.
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It's just an image of a Seraph - most probably representing Lucifer - since it has twelve wings, same as Unit 01 later in the intro.
Most of the Eva "lore" doesn't really add up, including the number of "angels", but that itself makes sense when you consider that it's basically
humans trying to decipher the workings of alien technology millions of years more advanced than they are. Especially if you consider the implication that the Kabbalah is effectively ancient humans misinterpretating an instruction manual XD
Indeed.
And by extension somehow humans are the 18th, I think
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Y'all better get your [cross]es together!
It seems like Netflix will be re-dubbing the series and as of now the original voice cast have not been approached for it
Really hope Netflix brings them back.
Really hope Netflix brings them back.
An excuse to post some original production material I have, damn I love evangelion.
EXCUSE THE FUCK OUT OF ME
That last one wow amazing
I have never seen this; I have always wanted to watch this; if they had to cancel Daredevil for this, fine by me.
Total Neon virgin here. What am I in for?
Also, Netflix, please get Robotech and my life will be complete.
Total Neon virgin here. What am I in for?
Also, Netflix, please get Robotech and my life will be complete.
It's...maybe best to go in blind. It's a trip, Anno is an auteur, and it's influence is hard to overstate.
Nice. I have stayed away from spoilers for years because I knew one day I get around to watching it.
Also I blame my phone's autocorrect for that it's/its confusion.
you know, im actually pretty pumped for a rewatch. i dont know if my fiancee has ever watched it, so maybe we'll flip through it together.
i do love it, and it was a huge part of my youth. i grew my hair long and kept it that way for awhile specifically because of Kaji, and i met my first love because her screen name at the time was a reference to Misato.
i do love it, and it was a huge part of my youth. i grew my hair long and kept it that way for awhile specifically because of Kaji, and i met my first love because her screen name at the time was a reference to Misato.
lol
I'm pretty fucking excited for this. I still remember my first watch of Cowboy Bebop. Ho, boy, was that amazing.
