Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18899 in VHS
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Number of discs: 8

Amazon.co.uk Review
The new 5.1 surround sound remix for Hideaki Anno's watershed Neon Genesis Evangelion works most effectively in the battles with the Angels, and these episodes offer two epic combat sequences. In episode 6, Shinji tackles Ramiel, the Fifth Angel, using a special rifle that requires all the electrical power in Japan. The eerily quiet scenes of the darkening archipelago contrast sharply with the furious energy beam attacks that follow. The arrival of arrogant, temperamental Third Child Asuka Sohryu makes life even more miserable for Shinji. In episode 9, he and Asuka use a perfectly coordinated combination of gymnastic and dance movements to defeat Israfel, the Seventh Angel. As the remixed episodes contain no new footage, they're really for viewers who've installed a 5.1 system, but who don't already have this landmark series.----Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Evolves towards greatness
What a strange series.

Not strange in the way that all anime is strange, due to the Japanese' peculiar sense of humour, but strange in how the quality of the stories change so much throughout the series.

A few years ago a friend lent me Neon Genesis Evangelion - The End Of Evangelion, which is an alternative ending to this series. I absolutely loved it even though I had to piece together what was going on because I hadn't seen the series.

So I watched and waited as the series was released a DVD at a time until this box set came out.

The first episode had most of the characters I remembered and some glimpses of teen angst and of the creativity of the End of Evangelion but mostly it was just sub-standard anime.

That seems to be the trend over the first half of the series. Glimpses of a more interesting underbelly disguised by a flashy and fairly uninteresting exterior.

However, I stuggled through those episodes... then came episode 16 (I think). It starts with a 10 minute summary of everything that has gone before (which is all it needs really) and from then on the series is infintely more interesting.

The robot fights are less important, the cheesy comedy takes a back seat and the teen angst, the religious parallels and the existential musings come to the fore. This is the stuff I bought the series for.

And it's great. It all builds up and builds up until all the angel fighting is done and the fighting within the characters takes centre stage. The last two episodes are sublime - creative and profound.

I can't wait to watch the End of Evangelion again now.

here at last
well it's finally arrived in the most convenient and good looking format available

no longer will you have to put up with those region one DVD box sets you can import

So far as the discs go there's nothing here you couldn't get before, this is merely a good looking good value package (check out the penpen pic on the bottom of the box)

Sound Issue. THEY LIE!
First off... Brilliant series, I can not praise it highly enough.

I only have one gripe with this box set, and it's a big one. The review here claiming 5.1 dolby surround is false, I dont know if they reviewer had a crossed wire or something, But these disks are Dolby Digital 2.0. This Does not have 5.1 or DTS support! The 5.1 is on the new soon to be released disks in feb, 'The Platinum Collection'.

Anyway, that was a huge kick in the balls for me... And I just wanted you warn you, to good customers, of this little 'mistake' in the Amazon review.
Once again, top class, fantastic, beautiful and great anime though.