Talk:List of Neon Genesis Evangelion episodes

message: What level of detail do we want to go into with regard to the episode summaries? I was planning on rewatching the series (sooner or later), and so it wouldn't be hard for me to do some nice detailed plot summaries - but I don't want to bother with all the writing if people are just going to remove them or hack them down to 2 or 3 sentences while screaming "Cruft!". --Gwern  (contribs) 18:12 28 January 2007 (GMT)
My goal in creating this page was, ultimately, to make individual articles on each episode, once the guide had been firmly established.  Evangelion was one of the most popular and influential animes of all time, and there is a wealth of detail within each episode, so I think this is justifiable.  However, I was going to wait a while just to make sure the "smoke had cleared", as it were, and no one was going to delete the new episode guide I wrote up (in a hurry, might I had) out of hand.  Hey, if the half hour animated tv show "The Simpsons" gets to have individual episode articles, so does Evangelion.  All is in preparation for the eventual Live Action Movie Trilogy and Rebuild of Evangelion, which will spark renewed interest in the story.  --Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici 20:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Detail

message: At long last, each episode has its very own picture. Not to sound artsy-fartsy, but I tried to find ones which best illustrate the episodes in question. This meant both refurbishing some pictures (correcting aspect ratio, etc.) and taking new ones. This took a long-ass time to do, but it was kind of fun, and I even found a place for some of the most defining/classic shots in the series, like the rather creepy image of Naoko's chalk outline. Coming up, I'll work on correcting lots of stuff in the episode descriptions themselves, but it is 1:29 A.M. where I live (U.S. Central Time) and I am going to bed. Tony Myers 07:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They're great; might play around with them a bit (the pics don't show any of the Angels, but I think a pic of Eva 03 would be good; hey you know what would be a great shot?  Right after Eva 01 is reactivated with the dummy plug, and Eva 01 and Eva 03 both have their hands around each others throats and are trying to strange each other. Otherwise fine.  Now my true motive and hidden agenda is revealed:  tomorrow I'm going to write up a full episode guide.  --Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici 11:07, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I had thought about that too (and actually, some of them do show the Angels featured in the episode). It's a nice "action" shot, but in the end and for the purposes of a one-shot-per-episode episode guide, I felt that the fight against EVA-03/Bardiel was secondary to Shinji's conflict; he's at the seat of a horrible power, one with the potential to end a human life, and has no control over it. Similarly, I didn't want to have a picture of EVA-00 holding the positron rifle or tossing the Lance of Longinus in Episode 22, because ultimately the episode is about Asuka. I'm not trying to project my interpretation of the show; I'm just focusing on the directly observable plot elements. On the Angel (Neon Genesis Evangelion) page, however, there's a pretty nice shot of EVA-03 strangling EVA-01 with its stretched-out arms. As for the episode guide, I'll let you go ahead with that, and I'll gladly proofread/revise it when you're done. Tony Myers 20:19, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, I really liked the Eva 03 strangling Eva 01 pic, that's why I added it back, and I thought it was hard to tell what the entry plug image was, but then again its kind of smaller and hard to see when sized down that small (only closeups really work) so I guess it would be best not to reuse it.  --Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici 04:02, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I may decide to replace the "01's hand clutching the entry plug" with something similar to the picture you suggested, but for the time being I'd prefer it be left as is. For one thing, the above-usual quality of the "strangling" picture suggests that it came from a promotional image (however much its resemblance to a similar image from the episode) instead of a real screencap. I'm sorry if my reasoning seems rash, and I admit that I overreacted to your edit, but it isn't my wish to get into an edit war with you over this kind of thing. I'll look into whether a screencap of the strangling scene would be workable. Also, as for the pic from End with the mass-produced Evangelion that you asked about, I can make a wallpaper-ready version. What are the dimensions of your computer display? Tony Myers 06:22, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh no everything's fine.  Standard 800x600.  In other news, I have gone off the deep end and am growing a Gendo beard.  They've got to cast that live action movie sometime...--Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici 07:31, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't need sleep! I have Evangelion! 

message: I request a minor spelling edit at the episode description of episode 16 "Splitting of the Breast". The word 'nanomters' should be 'nanometers'. I know really minor but every good correction helps in bettering wikipedia. ;)
MisteryX 09:27, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The correction asked for by Mistery X has been made. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 18:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection edit 

message: The Japanese names and ADV translations for each episode should probably be incorporated into their respective articles.  Agree/disagree?. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 16:41, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree entirely.  Xenofan 29A 04:35, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Can anyone explain why the English and Japanese episode titles are completely different? (If you're watching the DVDs with Japanese text translation subtitles, the Japanese title is translated at the beginning but the English version appears in the Act 2 start bumper.) {edit} And yes, I'm aware that it's not unique to this series, as witness the divergent Japanese and English titles in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episodes. Lee M (talk) 04:25, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Episode names 

message: First, is it Nerv or NERV? From the movie (Rebuild 1.0) I'd say, it's "NERV". I haven't found any support of the mixed case "Nerv"... So I'd say it'll be all-caps NERV. I think it compares well with RAID, which isn't spelled "Raid" either. Except of course that a RAID is real and NERV isn't. Rebuild 1.0 shows two different "NERV" logos: one (the old one) on the floor opening up to reveal the elevator shaft near 16:02, and another one near 05:53 (for reference, the N2 bomb explodes at 03:12).
Second, "A.T. Field"? I doubt it. Not as ubiqitous as NERV, but "AT Field" is on-screen more than once, mostly in the CGI parts (Rebuild again). WP:MOS regulations make that an "AT field" with small 'f'. Right? - Sources: "AT FIELD" in CGI at 19:12 (22 seconds after EVA-01 crashes into the angel's AT field), but "A.T. FIELD" in the CGI before Ramiel's attack. However, the latter CGI is bogus, as it says, "TARGET OBJECT STATIONARY" while Ramiel is clearly moving. Which disqualifies that CGI from being a 'reliable source'...
EVA or Eva? I'm unsure about that one. Eva is (among other languages) the German name of Eve, but a CGI sequence about 15:00 into Rebuild 1.0 shows the "Cage : 07 EVA-01" spelling. So, while stemming from "Eva", "EVA" may still be the in-universe 'official' spelling.
Tokyo 3 is spelled "TOKYO-III", for example on the buildings, in "TOKYO-III STANDARD STRUCTURE" during the fight against the 5th angel (Shamshel), when EVA-01 is hit by Shamshel's whips.
IMO, the spelling in the NG:E articles should be, NERV, AT field, and Tokyo-III. - ¡Ouch! (hurt me / more pain) 09:35, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nerv or NERV? "A.T. Field"? "EVA"? "Tokyo 3"? Spelling issues 

message: does anyone know the run time for these episodes? how long are they? thanks. skakEL 18:25, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: TV shows that air for a half hour generally have a runtime of 23 minutes or so. NGE is one of these. —Frungi (talk) 00:00, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Run times 

message: What is the source for End of Evangelion being the "correct" ending of the series as opposed to simply an alternate ending? If there is a source, it should be added, otherwise the wording should be changed as "correct" implies the original ending was somehow "incorrect."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.142.1.10 (talk) 22:03, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is EoE the "Correct" ending? 

message: With Eva's release on Netflix, they decided to use a direct translation of the Japanese titles for the episode names, instead of ADV's English titles. The translations vary slightly from what was already on the page (Netflix seems to have gone for a more literal translation). I updated the transcriptions to the more "official" (Netflix released) translations, but the edit was reverted... thoughts? Weebasenji (talk) 05:34, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  English translated transcriptions 

message: I just realized that this article doesn't have a home media section. Maybe if we can get some sources for the VHS, Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-Ray releases for Japan, North America, the British Isles and Australasia, we can also make this a featured list. Thoughts? Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 05:50, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: See Neon_Genesis_Evangelion#Releases.  This is just the list of episodes article here.  Dream Focus 14:13, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought such episode lists have home media releases there. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 17:29, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I've seen the lists in both locations. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:12, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Home media? 

message: Should the "One More Final" really be considered part of the title? In the original episode 26 instead of saying "Episode 26: Take care of yourself" it says "Finale: Take care of yourself" so seemingly the One More Final(e) fulfills much the same function here A Self Called Nowhere (talk) 02:26, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  One More Final: I need you 

message: Title. The template containing almost all the original episodes is too large to be able to load to edit in at least my browser. If someone else can load it, could you change the article that "The Day Tokyo-3 Stood Still" links to to the new, actual article instead of a recursive redirect? ~User:Roi.Frvr 16:36, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template not working