As you might expect, they are confusingly titled: Evangelion: 1. For their home releases, 1. For pretty heavy spoiler reasons, these must be watched after the mainline series and are mostly separate retellings of the same story. Watching Neon Genesis Evangelion in chronological order is a rough proposition. Mercifully, the first 24 episodes can be watched as normal. Then, it gets a little tricky. Series protagonist Shinji then becomes part of a major event that technically takes part during episodes 25 and 26 and also End of Evangelion.
If you want to go super in-depth with the chronological order, you can watch episodes , the first hour of End of Evangelion, then episodes 25 and 26 for a more introspective look at the main characters during a major plot beat. At the very least, it gives greater context to the utterly bewildering final two episodes of a series that, famously, ran out of steam and budget during its original run. The only skippable piece of mainline Evangelion media is a curiosity that can be found on Netflix called Evangelion: Death True 2, otherwise known as Evangelion: Death and Rebirth.
Our advice? Shinji and his friends accompany Misato to meet Eva Unit 02 and its pilot Asuka at sea. Misato's old friend Ryoji Kaji is aboard with his own agenda.
Asuka and Shinji face another Angel but it gets the upper hand. They now have six days to learn synchronized moves to destroy it completely. NERV learns of an Angel in dormant embryonic form inside a volcano. Using equipment designed for magma, Asuka is sent to retrieve it with Unit Tokyo-3 loses power just as another Angel is detected.
With Gendo and Fuyutsuki in Antarctica, a newly promoted Misato is in charge when a new Angel appears above the Earth, aiming to bomb Tokyo Ritsuko proposes writing a program to forcibly evolve Ireul to its extinction. Ritsuko, Misato and Ryoji attend a wedding and Asuka goes on a date. While in battle, Shinji and Unit 01 are engulfed in the spreading shadow of an Angel. With Unit 03 on the way, Gendo orders Ritsuko to assign a pilot to it. Unit 03 arrives from the United States, but Shinji still doesn't know who its pilot is.
Just as he's about to leave, another Angel attacks. After achieving an unheard of synchronization rate, Shinji merges with Unit While he has an out of body experience, NERV works to salvage him.
Ryoji goes missing. Asuka's synchronization ratio continues to drop, undermining her self-confidence. Determined to show her worth, she ignores orders during battle. Despite her struggles, Asuka is ordered to assist Rei in battle against Armisael. When she fails, Rei makes a desperate move in order to save Shinji. He's friendly to Shinji, but he's shrouded in mystery. The Human Instrumentality Project begins, and the souls of humanity merge.
The Eva pilots confront the nature of their existence as reality dissolves. The Human Instrumentality Project continues. Shinji must decide whether to accept a world alone, or embrace connections with others. The sudden injection of these things into a given scene is usually a function of Gendo being 10 steps ahead of anyone else, as the heroes at WILLE struggle to wrap their minds around literally hellish concepts just to keep pace.
No matter how radically Hideaki Anno diverged from the series in his Rebuild films, Evangelion as a franchise never escaped itself, and as such, the original episode anime and the film remain essential in understanding the Rebuild films. Even the subtitle of the final film, Thrice Upon a Time , seems to allude to this fact; breaking from the parentheses-laden precedent of the prior three installments while gesturing that it itself represents the third time that Hideaki Anno has attempted to end the series to date.
Despite this failure to create a work that exists separate from the original series, Evangelion 3. It is a story of will; a story of moving forward, if only just a little. It is a story of fear, where someone who must face indefinite solitude fears reaching out to others, but still wants to try. In concluding the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, Anno and Studio Khara have pushed the franchise farther ahead than it has ever gone before.
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