Evangelion - The Final Countdown (original, 1998)

This was the original Neon Genesis Evangelion music video done to Europe - The Final Countdown. I created it around 1998 for an AMV competition (Katsukon, I believe). I'm thrilled to see several people have taken it on themselves to re-edit and remaster this video! It took MANY hours to source and record the footage with a Miro Video DC-30 from VHS source.

Apologies for the admittedly low quality of the video... the only surviving copy I have at this time is a 50 MB AVI in Intel Indeo video.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• evangelion
• amv
• final countdown

[helenshki]

This is the first AMV I ever saw, and it's still the best. I don't even remember how I downloaded it, or why, because I didn't see Evangelion until about ten years later, but man. It's just that epic.

[Dodgemanthe]

god i love the classic AMv's this one still owns when i first saw it i was like wtf is this anime? I MUST OWN IT!!! lol

[tranktal]

Sir, this is probably the first AMV I ever saw and THE reason I started watching anime and reading mangas. A friend showed it to me in 1999 and I played the file again and again on the Ham radio club computer and sound system. Thank you for making it since it opened up a whole new field of artistic creation and eventually a whole new hobby and lots of hours staffing at conventions. Thank you for uploading this. Thank you youtube for allowing the file to be up here. It is an honor.

[SailorDeath]

wow rogue, I'd been a LONG time since we last saw each other, I thought you vanished.

[mechers2]

Man, last time I looked for this vid online it was nowhere to be found. I forget where I even found it originally. So glad it's had a revival. Still a killer vid!

[ieorlich]

man, if you are really really the original maker....then just let me say 2 words i have wanted to say to you so long time ago

....THANK YOU!....really THANK YOU....

for one of the best AMV i have ever seen!

PD: i saw this video around 1999 with an other 2 videos: Engel - RAMMSTEIN and Children - ROBERT MILES.

"Times where ppl do greats (probably best) AMVs with so hard work on it"

[Chucuriman]

excelent

[ATG913]

This takes me back.

[SuperElotesLocos]

I remember this video!! I still have it on a CD with other videos, more Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Rurouni Kenshin, Excel Saga... oh, man... good times, really good times :D

Thanks for upload it :D

[trueKorvus]

I remember seeing this back in '99. The first AMV I ever saw! It's still as epic as I remember. Thanks for this, it was a big inspiration to me at the time and could be the catalyst for why I work in the media now.