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is a Japanese animated television series, begun in 1995, directed and written by Hideaki Anno, and produced by Gainax. It takes place in 2015, fifteen years after the catastrophic Second Impact, reportedly caused by a meteor strike, which wiped out half of Earth's population and tilted its axis. Just as humanity is finishing its recovery from this disaster, Tokyo-3 began suffering attacks by strange monsters referred to as Angels. Conventional weapons are useless against the Angels, and the only known defense against them are the biomechanical mecha created by the paramilitary organization NERV, the Evangelions (Evas).

Although the series starts as a regular mecha anime, the focus tends to shift from action to flashbacks and analyses of the primary characters, particularly the main character Shinji Ikari. The creator/director, Hideaki Anno, suffered from a long period of depression prior to creating Evangelion; much of the show is based on his own experiences in dealing with depression and in psychoanalytic theory he learned from his psychotherapy. As a result, characters in the anime display a variety of mood disorders and problems with emotional health, especially depression, trauma, and separation anxiety disorder.

The television series aired in Japan from 1995 to 1996, ran for 26 episodes, and was released on VHS and DVD in North America and the UK by ADV Films. The show premiered on Adult Swim on Thursday, October 20, 2005, although it had been previously debuted in the United States on KTEH, a PBS station located in San Jose, California. The first two episodes were also shown once on Toonami, albeit in a highly edited form. The unedited / DVD versions are recommended only for ages 15 and up due to scenes of violence, emotional trauma, and sexual themes.

Composition

Evangelion consists of 26 television episodes which were first aired on TV Tokyo from October 4, 1995, to March 27, 1996, and was followed by two movies: Death and Rebirth and The End of Evangelion, each first screened in 1997. Death and Rebirth is essentially a highly condensed re-edit of the series (Death) plus the first half of The End of Evangelion (Rebirth), while The End of Evangelion is a fully developed extension to the end of episode 24, intended as an alternate presentation of the series ending. The two movies were subsequently re-edited and re-released as a single movie, Revival of Evangelion (1998). Two additional DVDs, subtitled Genesis Reborn and Resurrection, were released. They contain both the original and director's cut of the final six episodes of the series.

International versions

USA

In the United States, the television series debuted on VHS in 1997 and on DVD in 2000 by ADV Films, while the movies are distributed by Manga Entertainment. Most of the voice actors used in the English dubbed versions are the same in each version. The series was one of a small number of anime to have the honor of being broadcast on San Francisco Bay Area PBS member station KTEH (in Japanese with English subtitles,) and has also been broadcast on The Anime Network. The first two episodes were aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami block as part of a special called "Giant Robot Week" in 2003 (albeit in very heavily edited forms which, among other edits, hid Misato's mass consumption of beer and omitted the character Pen-Pen altogether). The entire series began airing on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block Thursday nights at 12:30 am. starting October 20, 2005. Reruns of previous episodes are shown on Saturday nights at 1:00 am. Unlike the show's run on Toonami, there are very few edits to most of the episodes - most edits are instances of profanity (though they are handled differently - words are bleeped, rather than being muted or replaced with a different word).

UK

In the United Kingdom, the show and its accompanying films were released on VHS and DVD by ADV Films and Manga Entertainment's UK divisions and has aired on the UK's Sci-Fi Channel along with Martian Successor Nadesico and Blue Gender during the Summer of 2002 and finished its run in the January of 2003. Later Evangelion and Nadesico were repeated on the channel. In these showings the show had no edits to the episode's content but occasionally sped up the ending in favor of airing the next episode preview alongside the ending theme. This ended around episode 16 when the block that aired the two shows was canceled and the shows themselves moved to 5 am.

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