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NEWS: Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Film Delayed Due to COVID-19 Concerns

I suppose, but I think it's quite telling that Anno would rather work on Shin Godzilla.

With all the delays, does ANYONE care if this film releases anymore?!?

I would much rather get an authorized Blu ray release of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series with the original English dub plus the compilation films AND End of Evangelion than wait for the last of the reimagined quartet films by this point.

The delays killed most of the interest in the film series aside from questionable screenwriting.

At this point, I want to see it released so that maybe, just maybe we might get something fresh out of Anno.

Punch Drunk Marc wrote:

Wasnt one of the movies (possibly this one) delayed because Anno worked on Shin Godzilla?

I suppose, but I think it's quite telling that Anno would rather work on Shin Godzilla.

I'd have more respect for him if he first completed this Rebuild project, finally ending his new Evangelion story once and for all, and then moved on to other types of productions, rather than simply dragging it out and pretending that's normal.

I'm pretty sure I recall Anno saying in an interview that working on Eva was so psychologically taxing for him he decided to take on Shin Godzilla to freshen up and recharge. Megumi Ogata (Shinji's VA) has also mentioned how much voicing Shinji affected her mental health. I'd rather wait a while longer to see a movie than have its creators destroy their mental health to put it out faster, but maybe that's just me.

Are movie theaters in Japan even open right now? During the national state of emergency, with quarantine and all? What exactly they should do beside delaying it? This is a theatrical realese not Netflix. Nobody in their right mind would go risking themselves of getting fined or infected for a movie.

CrowLia wrote:

I'm pretty sure I recall Anno saying in an interview that working on Eva was so psychologically taxing for him he decided to take on Shin Godzilla to freshen up and recharge. Megumi Ogata (Shinji's VA) has also mentioned how much voicing Shinji affected her mental health. I'd rather wait a while longer to see a movie than have its creators destroy their mental health to put it out faster, but maybe that's just me.

I would like to read that interview for myself.

As far as we know, nobody forced Hideaki Anno to come back to Evangelion in the first place. He made that decision by himself and even wrote, way back at the start of this project, a very ambitious declaration about his intentions.

…after [Eva 3.0] was released, I was broken. I fell into what’s called a depressive state, the natural result of having spent six years grinding down my soul making Eva again.

If Hideaki Anno needed to take a short break or go to therapy, there's been plenty of time to do that.

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…after [Eva 3.0] was released, I was broken. I fell into what’s called a depressive state, the natural result of having spent six years grinding down my soul making Eva again.

He also says that it was thanks to his wife and friends that he was able to "remain in this world" (that's his words), possibly implying he had suicidal thoughts.

In that same post, he says that, at the time, he was feeling that he needed to work on something else that wasn't Eva or he wouldn't be able to keep going forward and that's when he was approached by Toho with the Shin Godzilla project.

As we all know, all brains work the same way, deep depression can be easily solved by just going for a bit of therapy, and after you've quickly fixed that little insignificant problem, you can just go back to do the thing that got you into that state to begin with right away.

Seriously, how entitled can you be that you'd slam down an artist for prioritizing his mental health -possibly his own life- over getting you your movie faster.