Misato, who made the decision, replies that they both need to study anyway, and holds up their report cards, which they had hidden from her. When Shinji doesn't support her because she was expecting such result, she demands that he speak up like a man and disparage him. When she asks him where he went on his class trip, he replies that he didn't have one because of the Second Impact.īack home, Asuka is angry when she learns that the pilots can't go on the trip because they are on standby for an Angel attack. However, the Angel soon awakes and advances beyond its embryonic stage, forcing Asuka to battle Sandalphon while deep beneath the surface of the magma.Īsuka is enjoying shopping with Kaji, though he seems embarrassed when realizing she is shopping to look for swimsuits for the upcoming school trip to Okinawa. A dormant Angel, Sandalphon, is discovered in an embryonic stage nesting deep in the magma of an active volcano, and in the hopes of gaining greater insight into the Angels, Asuka is sent to capture it by lowering Unit-02 into the magma, while it wears a special giant coolant suit for protection. This release is slated to include both the ADV and VSI dubs of the series.The Evangelion pilots (save for Rei) are excited about their upcoming class trip to Okinawa Island, but they are upset to learn that they cannot leave Tokyo-3, since they have to be on standby in case of an Angel attack.
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On the 25h anniversary of Evangelion, October 3, 2020, GKIDS has announced they are releasing a Blu-Ray set of the Evangelion series and films in November 2021. The new cast, chosen by Khara themselves, is also more faithful to the original Japanese cast. On the flipside, the dub has been praised, with some finding it more natural than the old dub in addition to being more faithful. The dub has however received mixed reception, with many deriding the dub for the perceived overly literal scripting choices, most notably referring to Shinji as the "Third Children" rather than the proper grammatical "Third Child" - a decision reflecting Khara's standardization with their marketing. This has led to the Netflix release, translated by Khara themselves, containing several changes relative to the older ADV ones, which made it much more accurate to the original Japanese, fixing dozens of mistakes thanks to much closer oversight. Additionally, there is several evidence indicating they have much stricter control on new English localizations after the first dub of the Evangelion 3.0 film. It is publicly unknown how much involvement and oversight Gainax/Khara had on each dub and sub, but the director for the Netflix dub stated they made the new casting choices. This release featured a new dub recorded in Los Angeles by VSI with none of the original cast returning (though both Spike Spencer and Amanda Winn Lee said that they were allowed to audition). Netflix later acquired the streaming rights to both the series and the films on Novemand released them on June 21, 2019. The Rebuild of Evangelion film series was dubbed by Funimation, only including three voice actors from the ADV dub for Asuka, Shinji and Misato - while retaining Jon Swasey as Gendo from the Director's Cuts, and changing the rest of the cast. A positive was that ADV had since acquired a larger talent pool, so it allowed some of the poorer performances to be polished. Unfortunately not all the cast from before were available, so some changes were made to the cast (Gendō's original voice actor, Tristan MacAvery, had moved from Texas to New York in the interim) though most of the voice cast was left intact. With the remastered release of the "Renewal of Evangelion" DVD sets in Japan, and the Director's Cut of Episodes 21-24, this required ADV to go back and do vocal additions/remastering to their dub. Nonetheless, Evangelion became one of ADV's most popular titles, and one of their higher regarded dubs. Tristan MacAvery even claims the dub was transcribed from fan translations. Commentary for the English dub will often make reference to it being made on a tight budget, involved renting out space to do recordings with substandard equipment, and a good portion of the cast was played by members of the production team. The series was first dubbed by ADV Films using their Houston-based recording talent, and released straight to VHS from 1996 to 1998.