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  • This trailer made me want to see EVA. Very effective.

  • One of the greatest television series of all time.

  • This is so boss.

  • Excelente!!!!

  • So here's what I basically do: I show this trailer to my friends- and then tell them to give their best guess as to what the storyline is.

    They never do come close at all...

  • Thanks to this trailer, I came across the best anime tv show ever made.

  • Epic

  • I became aware of this show when I was a kid. It was on a VHS of "Destroy all Monsters!" as one of the anime trailers; the other being "Battle Angel."

    I even saw part of the first (I think) episode when it premiered on Toonami.

  • This reveals nothing about the series except that it features explosions, screaming children and vaguely judo-christian mumbo-jumbo.

    In other words, it tells us just about everything.

  • @Harashawful Too bad there isn't a trailer for NGE that can prepare the viewer for the mindfuck shift with the last two episodes. I saw the series in its entirety over 8 years ago and I am still at a loss for words.

  • MOTHER PUSSBUCKETS 0:22

  • Thanks to this series, I will never hear Ode to Joy the same way ever again. XD

  • @lildragongirl19 And thanks to this series, I will never hear "Here Comes the Sun" the same way again: watch?v=KlW8lFTMRWk

  • i have this on my Destroy All Monsters VHS. this, some terrible looking live-action film, and Battle Angel Alita

  • Honest opinion (I haven't watched either of these) Full Metal Alchemist or Evangelion???

  • @KineticRuler Evangelion as it's an absolute cult classic then watch FMA, both of these animes I would strongly recommend (be warned though, a lot of people were very angry with the ending to Evangelion. Personally I loved it but you have been warned.)

  • @KineticRuler I've watched both just recently and ... it's Evangelion the series + End of Evangelion. It stands far above anything I ever saw. Full Metal Alchemist is good but Evangelion is exeptional, one of it's kind. I cannot describe it any better. You just have to see it and try to understand it, really :) World would be a better place if everybody could see it just once i think :)

  • Beethoven +Manga Sci.Fi. How more awesome can something be ?!

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  • when i was little,i ordered a godzille movie from hollywood video and had a trailer for this and i was like *-*..now that i found out what the trailer was for im now a fan of evangelion

  • @crackbone117666 Same here!

  • @crackbone117666 hey which godzilla movie was that on, i may have that one and i have been trying to find out which one

  • @kingzilladonx Godzilla destroy all monster's..it was on vhs when i saw it and the trailer's made me an osumtoin that the tape was from the 90's

  • @crackbone117666 Funny, that's EXACTLY how I found out about NGE too. I was reaal young, rented Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters and saw this trailer along with Battle Angel Alita. Crazy what you remember huh?

  • Ahhh ha ha....Yeah, this is the trailer that got me to check this out back in the day. Nothing like explosions and Ode to Joy to grab the attention.

  • Freude schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium.... Great Music!

  • Not pictured here: Enough angst and neuroses to sink a ship.

  • why aren't there more trailers like this

  • Alright. This series isn't perfect, or a masterpiece, or anything like that. It's also not awful. I enjoyed it, but I don't see why everyone either loves or hates it with every fiber of their being. I guess the ending (both TV and Movie) was pretty weird, but I thought the writing was good and the animation was nice, and it made me feel for the characters and everything else that a standard anime should do, but it wasn't an artistic masterpiece, or the Citizen Kane of anime. It also wasn't an a

  • @TheRealBurninator Considering it has the most interpretive symbolism and hence stimulates the most thought I have ever seen in an anime, as well as utilizing a few of the highest forms of musical art at a few points in the series, as well as having animation that is not an eyesore...I cannot imagine what you would call the "Citizen Kane" of anime if not this, allowing that 95% of the bulk of anime is complete trash. Something else in the 5%, I hope.

  • I remember seeing this trailer on Godzilla Vs. All Monsters. Still holds up after all these years. 3/29, You Can (Not) Advance!

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  • After watching End of Eva I often wonder if humanity really did succeed or if they failed.

  • That quote at the beginning, and indeed the whole trailer, gives me chills. I don't think a quote more relevant to EVA exists.

  • I fav a western DVD trailer for EVA...2 weeks max and its gone. japanese could be a bit nationalistic, stiff, insecure, but aside from other good traits, they're not so greedy as FUCk to pull this down to coz' it's "theirs"

  • Still the best trailer for EVA.

  • is this movie good? all i see is explosions and gunshots, with a kid being the main character of the movie....

  • @xxxCRAZYLOVExxx 's not a movie, its a series. There is a series of 4 movies (Rebuild Of Evangelion) which is up to the second one but this trailers is for the original TV series. Just throw 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' into wiki and alll will be...well ok, most will be explained

  • @xxxCRAZYLOVExxx All those explosions are the sounds of people's minds being blown after being exposed to the brilliance that is EVA. This series is easily my fav anime series of all time, closely followed by Dogs, so yes, FUCK YES, it's worth watching. Just skip the last two episodes in favor of watching End of Evangelion, because they ran out of money when making the series so it's basically rehashed footage and a scrambled effort to not leave the series hanging.

  • @scatteredstraw i tried watching the movie, but i was bored, it wasnt interesting, so i have my doubts

  • @xxxCRAZYLOVExxx Ah, but see, the magic of television is that not everybody has to, or does, like it. So if you found it boring, no problem! :) Each to one's own.

  • @xxxCRAZYLOVExxx : Try watching the actual series now.

  • Ode to Joy: making things epic since 1824.

  • god, I wish we could get a higher quality version of this. At least 480p.

  • I saw this a long time ago on a VHS of some movie I don't remember, and was instantly enthralled by it, and it stuck in my mind over the years. Many years later I got into anime, eventually discovered EVA, and even then it took me three viewings of the series to make the connection with this trailer, and seeing it again makes me happy because I realise that even when I was ten years old I had good taste in anime.

  • @Jahoobano same experience word for word, i first saw it on a godzilla VHS tape

  • Is this show good?

  • @GWiifanboy Well, objectively speaking it's got some problems, some of them more obvious than others. But, yes. Holy shit yes! It's my favorite anime of all time, and probably my favorite television program of all time. It's an engaging and sometimes soul crushing character study of its young Byronic heroes, framed by a deconstruction of the giant robot genre, critiquing by metaphor Japanese society and exploring the philosophy of human relations. Plus some meaningless Christian symbolism.

  • @NemoMentisson You, I often find this random and twisted Judeo-Christian symbolism in anime, interesting for some reason. And this is coming from an atheist.

  • @Achenar12 Sorry, I meant it was meaningless as religious symbolism (we have Anno and Sadamoto's word that they used Judeo-Christian symbols because they were mysterious and cool), but I didn't mean to imply that it was uninteresting, or that there aren't aspects of it that can be analyzed on a more meta level.

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  • best trailer in anime history

  • this anime can be loved, hated or whatever, but none can deny it's the most important serial anime in 90's, the one that ended an era in animation and opened another... denying this it's wrong, not cause "I say so", it's a fact...

  • @UglyGodLoki I propose that this is untrue, and that Evangelion is only the SECOND most important serial anime of the 1990s, the first being Pokemon. Which is much more widely disliked among adult audiences, but probable more influential, especially in regard to the international market.

  • Love the trailer shame the series isn't as awesome.

  • Seriously, anyone debating whether or not they should watch this anime should get off the fence and watch it.

    You won't be sorry.

  • I remember watchign this in 97 I was like "Best Anime Ever!!" i watched it and I was like "BEST ANIME EVER!" so yeah...

  • they allways take the ''right'' music for these animes XD

  • Im looking for this video..... yeah.......veeeeery good!!!

  • 1:04

    Um...spoiler alert?

  • yoo what is the name of the song they use? i know its german, i think

  • IT ODE TO JOY YOU DID KNOW THAT FUCK!

  • could've been the greatest anime ever. now it's just one of the most significant, most motivating show ever. READ THE MANGA!!!

  • Does anyone know the specific recording of Ode to Joy used in this trailer?

  • it's track #7

    and the part in the trailer is about 12 min & 20 sec in...

    enjoy.

  • wow, you're right. thanks.

    although the khinsider links seem dead. I had to download it from megaupload.

  • no prob

  • downloads

    khinsider

    game-soundtracks

    album

    neon-genesis-evangelion-additi­on

  • This is so epic

    i love this show.

  • Massive spoiler at the end of this video.

  • @Nat4Brendan how can we know that its a spoiler if people like me dont even know what the hell is the trailer about. lol love u up the ass.

  • a trailer for a character driven show has less than 5 seconds of characters in it....Misleading much?

  • its nothing but action scenes, it completely ignores the beuty of evangelion, when you see this you expect the show to have a lot of action when it isn't about mecha fights, its about learning to comunicate, the trailer isn't bad, it just isn't right for evangelion, the same can be said for Funimations trailer for 1.0

  • Actually it was about moody kids and moody people in general. If you watched Eva and all you got were "giant robots vs. aliens OMG SWEET!" then you missed the point pretty hardcore.

  • I think at some point people got so obsessed with the bad theology and the imagined depth of the series that they started failing to notice the forest for the trees.

  • Oddly enough that's both true and false. People have over-analyzed this series to death but that's not to say there isn't a lot of depth and philosophy to it.

    Interestingly enough, the people who are the furthest off are the ones making all the religious comparisons. Evangelion is to Christianity what Stargate is to Egyptian mythology.

  • Stargate is real.

  • So are The Jetsons.

  • It's good to understand one another.

  • @MightyNeonFraa Yeah i dont get it cant we just have a good maybe a little bit of meaning mecha anime with fighting and small humor and be happy

  • Yes it was

  • worse they just wemoed out alot

  • it's a clever trailer, lure them in with epic action and score and give them exactly what they don't expect.

  • the beginning is quoting from Acts 5:38-39

  • does anyone know the exact recording of ode to joy used in this trailer? it's amazing.

  • was there any trailer that aired in japan?

  • i never ever watched the show but this trailer is badass

  • the show is much better

  • Looks cool.

  • This IS a different Ode to Joy. Its tempo is much quicker than usually played. It would be nice to find this version rather than any other, though its difficult to find the full song (if one even exists). (I prefer this version over any other being played.

  • There is a version I have by the Beecham Choral Society and the tempo is about the same as this one. The CD is called Favorites from the classics volume 5: Beethoven.

  • rebuild es una gran remstarizacion a esta serie que marco epoca. sin duda muy merecida

  • omg took me some years to notice dead misato there

  • This trailer was awesomely incomprehensible. You really have no clue what's going on if you've never even heard of the series before.

    Afterward, you look back and realize the homage they were playing to the OP. And grin at how one of "look at hands" scenes was included at the end.

  • Well you're correct about the homage. I edited this trailer when I worked at ADV long time ago. the inspiration for the edit revolved around the music, and luckily we had sound effects track as well that made it alot better. i forget where the titles originated from or if they were taken from something. But definitely one the best if not THE best trailers i ever edited. i kinda wanted the wtf is this show about aspect, its raw in your face eva energy and thats what makes it great

  • @floozyspeak

    I first saw this trailer probably 10 or 12 years ago attached to an old Godzilla: Destroy all Monster VHS. I thought it looked so cool I went to the mall a week later and bought the first volume of the series on VHS. I've been a devout EVA fan ever since. Really amazing work.

  • I think this version of ode to joy might be different.

  • betobhen ??? name song plis. . .!!!

  • Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

  • @DTSavaria

    It's been hard to find this out, but I've done my research and as best as I can tell, this is from a performance conducted by Alexander Rahbari, which is quite significant, I think.

  • @DTSavaria by the london phil harmonic

  • Tee hee hee...this puts a big simle on my face Everytime <3....

  • name song. . . plis- - -

  • dude..its ode to joy..O.o

  • rofl the spoiler filled subliminal images near the end.

  • iloveitiloveitiloveit

  • If this doesn't make people want to watch Eva, I don't know what will.

  • I can't find the trailer with audio (Do you love me? Do you really love me?) anywhere. I love that trailer and yet I don't want to have to pop in Samurai X just to see it :P Anyone have a link to it?

  • Best show ever

  • This is the best trailer ever!

  • Such a good trailer to a revolutionary series

  • Didnt they use this track for death and rebirth lol

  • The series makes references to biblical elements, and this song about the Greek afterlife goes well with the story.

  • I saw this on an old copy of Samurai Shodown on VHS...the white tape. This was one of my favorite trailers of ANY movie, not juat anime!

  • Lol the samurai showdown white tape. We have that one. it's easy to find in our bin full of vhs tapes because well it sticks out

  • This is probably the best trailer for the best anime ever made.

  • @squeakyraisin Your damn fucking strait it is! No mother fucken doubt......

  • I have this on my Destroy All Monsters! video tape

  • DAM for the WIN!

  • Man, I thought I was the only person that had Destroy All Monsters! Watching this trailer made me watch Evangelion, one of the best decisions I've ever made in my life.

    Kudos to you, brother!

  • Same here, I remeber buying Destroy All Monsters back when I was like 10 and I saw this trailer and thats what got me into Evangelion. Thank you Godzilla for getting me into my favorite mech-anime!

  • whoa! that's so weird, that's how I got into it also. I wasn't able to find out anything about this show for years. I was so stoked to find it when I was like 15 years old.

  • Does anyone know the name of the song ?

  • It's in the video description. Ode to Joy. More specifically it is the fourth movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

  • @DTSavaria

    and even more specifically, if my research is correct, this is the piece as conducted by Alexander Rahbari. It is available on the CD "Evangelion: Addition"

  • it's also the melody to a hymn called "joyful joyful we adore thee"

  • @DufourN how the hell dont you know ode to joy!!?????

  • i agree with the previous comments, thanx for posting this XD!

  • Why is this so hard to find?

  • i love evangelion! i was trying to find this for ages!

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