Talk:Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth

message: Considering that the Japanese title includes the full name of the series, I'm wondering if this article should be retitled Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth.  What do you think? Willbyr (talk | contribs) 15:25, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title? 

message: this is missing information about other versions of Evangelion: Death, for example, Evangelion: Death (true). 
revival of evangelion was only a remake of death (true)2 and added along with End of Evangelion, it was just a box set. So it's best to merge the infoboxes together instead of keeping them both separate. Also there's not much of 'individual' notabilityBread Ninja (talk) 19:37, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  just saying 

message: As title suggests, i suggest we move the article to "Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth" since there are more reliable sources know it as such. Also the dvd cover also has it as "Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth". Does anyone else habe a say in this?Lucia Black (talk) 04:09, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: if i dont get a responce within a few days. Ill probably be bold about it since it seems like i cant find any RSs that have it as "Evangelion".Lucia Black (talk) 05:05, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move article to "Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth" 

message: Adding review here.
*DVD Verdict
*DVDVision Japan
So far only two.Lucia Black (talk) 04:52, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  reviews 

message: I know the death threat and graffiti are next to the Reception section ,but can someone at least write something in the actual article about this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.131.52.204 (talk) 23:38, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Context? 

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message: I preface the following with recognition that, for novelty, the creators of the franchise intentionally gave a different name to instalments of the franchise in their western release to what would be the accurate translation of the original Japanese title. I assume this intention provides justification for putting the English-market title for each instalment in the article titles even where the original Japanese-market release is what is being discussed foremost, or the Japanese-market releases of the work as a synecdoche for all releases of the work. 
1995-1996: The TV series. The Japanese title of the series, 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, translates (liberally) to 'Gospel Of The New Century'. In the west it is titled 'Neon Genesis Evangelion'.
1997-1998: There was then a project to create an Evangelion Feature film. This project was released in several goes, at varying stages of completion, all under the banner of '新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 劇場版', which translates to 'Gospel Of The New Century: The Movie' (or 'The Feature Film' instead of 'The Movie'; take your pick). These 'several goes' are as follows:
• March 1997: A preview movie. The Japanese title, 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 劇場版 DEATH & REBIRTH シト新生, translates to 'Gospel Of The New Century: The Movie: Death And Rebirth'. Some Japanese publicity materials also feature English titles 'Evangelion:Death' and 'Evangelion:Rebirth' for the two parts. In the west it is titled 'Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth'. 
• July 1997: A movie that serves as an alternate ending to the TV series. The Japanese title, 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版Air/まごころを、君に, translates to 'Gospel Of The New Century: The Movie: Air / Sincerely Yours'. In the west it is titled 'The End Of Evangelion'. I don't know whether the title 'The End Of Evangelion' was ever used in the original Japanese release's graphics and materials but it was definitely not the primary title used e.g. in advertisment posters and announcements there, at the time or since. 
• March 1998: The final, collated version of the film. The Japanese title, 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン 劇場版 DEATH(TRUE)²/Air/まごころを、君に, translates to 'Gospel Of The New Century: The Movie: Death(True)² / Air / Sincerely Yours'. Japanese publicity materials also bear the English title 'Revival Of Evangelion'. In the west this was originally released on home video in the USA as 'Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Feature Film', but since then the convention has become to split it into two features, 'Death(True)²' and 'The End Of Evangelion' with no intermission linking them like the 'Revival' release has - this is the case on the 2019 Netflix streaming release, for example.
This can be gleaned already from the pictures used in the articles for the above. I think the articles can be amended to make the difference in titles between markets clearer since, for instance, the section on 'Revival' in the 'Death & Rebirth' article until I amended it just now suggested that 'Revival Of Evangelion' was "re-named" to 'Evangelion: The Feature Film' on its blu-ray release which is incorrect as 'Revival' was always a secondary title to distinguish that last stage of the over-arching 'Gospel Of The New Century: The Movie' project in the first place and the blu-ray set bears the name of the work in Japanese as it was originally given in Japanese upon its theatrical release. I don't own the recent 2021 USA blu-ray box set, but if this sentence was referring to that box set and not the 2015 Japanese one & the western-market title 'Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Feature Film' is being used for the collated discs, as it was never called 'Revival Of Evangelion' in the west in the first place, it is incorrect to describe the feature as being 're-named' from 'Revival' as both markets are then still using the original title given to the work in each market. I think there are examples like this in the body of each of the articles for the above that omit or conflate the Japanese/English naming conventions described above, that could be amended.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmbroseCadwell (talk • contribs) 19:59, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consistency of title translation convention across Evangelion-related articles on Wikipedia