Whatever the case, speculation over a redub sparked commentary from the anime community well before the June 21 launch of the series - including from those involved with the late ’90s North American release. How Evangelion’s creator funneled his obsessions and depression into the legendary anime The road to Evangelion on Netflix is paved with weird bootlegs The right way to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion Polygon has reached out to Netflix for clarification on the decision to redub the series. Key roles are now voiced by Casey Mongillo (Shinji), Stephanie McKeon (Asuka), Ryan Bartley (Rei), and Keranen (Misato).Ī series of licensing snafus - complicated by legal battles between the anime studio Gainax and creator Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara, and the collapse of ADV Films, the North American distribution company behind the original dub - may have played a role in Netflix’s ultimate decision to scrap the well-known English tracks in favor of self-owned dialogue audio. The English dub was directed by Carrie Keranen and Kevin Hoffer, and written by Keranen Garcia and Oscar Garcia. Netflix provides multiple ways to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion in North America: a new subtitled version, with English, Spanish, and two Chinese sets of subs, and a redubbed version with English, Spanish, French, and German audio options. But now, the newly released episodes give the answer. Evangelion would finally be available on a major streaming platform, but would Netflix deliver the same show that global audiences embraced in the decade after its 1995 debut? Was Evangelion still Evangelion without the original subtitles, or the 1996 English translation and voice-over dub, supervised by creator Hideaki Anno himself? In the lead-up to the release, Netflix was unable to provide Polygon with a firm answer after multiple inquiries.
The announcement garnered mixed reactions. That changed last November when Netflix announced that all 26 episodes of the anime series, and the films Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death (true)² and The End of Evangelion, would arrive to the service in 2019. For years, Neon Genesis Evangelion sat in licensing limbo, leaving English-speaking fans without a legal avenue to watch the classic anime.
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