Neon Genesis Evangelion Gets Brand New Anime Penned by Nier Automata's Yoko Taro

Cult classical anime Neon Genesis Evangelion is getting a marque caller series, with Nier manager Yoko Taro liable for the series' creation and screenplay. It is presently being co-produced by archetypal Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara.

The quality was announced earlier today, astatine the extremity of the Evangelion:30+ 30th Anniversary of Evangelion event, a three-day agelong festival held successful Yokohama, Japan to observe 3 decades of the franchise that featured exhibitions, speech amusement sessions, an Evangelion kabuki adaptation, and a marque caller 15-minute abbreviated featuring Asuka Langley. The lawsuit was a culmination of assorted day projects held passim the past year.

Joining Yoko Taro connected the caller Neon Genesis Evangelion bid volition beryllium 2 directors: Kazuya Tsurumaki (who antecedently helmed the Rebuild of Evangelion movies) and Toko Yatabe (who was a cardinal animator connected Rebuild, amongst others).

Prolific composer Keiichi Okabe, who has worked connected the Nier, Drakengard and Tekken games, volition beryllium providing the music. The caller amusement volition beryllium produced by archetypal series’ manager Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara and CloverWorks.

Although crippled details person yet to beryllium revealed, the authoritative announcement emphasizes that it volition beryllium a wholly caller series. Over connected X, Yoko Taro retweeted Studio Khara’s post, commenting: "It's been announced! I’ll bash my best!"

The archetypal Neon Genesis Evangelion anime TV bid ran from 1995 to 1996, becoming a large deed not lone successful Japan but besides overseas. The 1997 movie The End of Evangelion served up an alternate ending to the series. Between 2007 and 2021, the Rebuild of Evangelion bid of 4 movies were released. This retelling of the archetypal TV bid was highly popular, with the past movie Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time surpassing 10 cardinal yen successful Japanese container bureau revenue.

Studio Gainax, the workplace down the archetypal anime was liquidated successful December past year, aft a bid of scandals, positive ineligible battles with Studio Khara — thing that Anno himself termed a "truly disappointing end."

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.