Review: ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:序

I went down to The Cathay today to watch this movie. The translated title of this movie is, Evangelion The New Movie: Prologue. I believed most of the anime fans have already watched the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. That's right, this movie is actually a summary of events that happened in the whole 26 episodes. However, since it is impossible to cram everything into a movie, the producer has split the story into 4 movies. Moreover, an alternate ending will be presented in the last movie.

The titles of the first 3 movies are as followed:
ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:序 - Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:破 - Evangelion 2.0 Divison
ヱヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版:急

This first part of this tetralogy first depicted the first 6 episodes of the anime. The story started with Ikari Shinji entered NERV to pilot Evangelion Unit 01 and to fight off the first 3 Angels. As the story develops, he also learnt that there was another pilot that came before him, Ayanami Rei, the pilot of Evangelion Unit 00. Both of them work together to fight of the third Angel that looked like a floating diamond called, Ramiel.

Those who have watched the original anime would also like to try watching this movie, as it is animated by the new 3D CG technology and there are many new scenes and backgrounds. The feeling of watching it would definitely be different from what you have watched in the TV series. Those who love this anime will definitely fall back in love after watching this movie. The next movie will be out in Japan this year. So stay tuned!

The movie theme song is performed by:

Beautiful World by 宇多田ヒカル (Utada Hikaru)

Rating: 4/5