Evangelion: 2.22 - You Can (Not) Advance.

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Movie
German title Evangelion: 2.22 - You Can (Not) Advance.
Original title Evangelion Shin-Gekijoban: Ha
Evangelion 2.0 logo.jpg
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese , English
Publishing year 2009
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Hideaki Anno (executive),
Kazuya Tsurumaki ,
Masayuki
script Hideaki Anno
production Toshimichi Otsuki
music Shirō Sagisu
cut Hiroshi Okuda
synchronization

Evangelion: 2.22 - You Can (Not) Advance. ( Jap. ヴァンゲリヲン新劇場版ヱ:破 Evangelion Shin-Gekijōban: Ha ., Dt "Evangelion New Theatrical Version: midsection / break") is the second film in the series Rebuild of Evangelion to Anime - TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion .

The film continues the plot of the first film Evangelion: 1.01 - You Are (Not) Alone. based on episodes 8 to 19 of the television series, but sometimes deviates very significantly from the events established there.

action

At NERV's Bethania base in the Arctic , Mari Illustrious Makinami fights the third angel with the makeshift Evangelion unit 05. She is finally able to defeat her opponent, but EVA-05 is destroyed by an explosion triggered immediately after the fall of the third angel. Mari herself can get to safety with the Evangelion's pilot capsule.

In Japan, Shinji Ikari and his father Gendō visit the grave of Shinji's mother Yui together. When Shinji and Misato Katsuragi, who accompanied him to the meeting, are on their way back to Neo Tokyo-3, they find themselves in the middle of the fight against the seventh angel, who approaches the city. Asuka Langley Shikinami, the second child who has just arrived from Europe, is deployed against the angel with the Evangelion unit 02 and can apparently defeat him effortlessly. After the fight, Kaji Ryoji, who also recently arrived in Neo Tokyo-3, hands Gendō Ikari and his deputy Kōzō Fuyutsuki the key that Nebuchadnezzar had brought with him from the Bethania base , which is said to be able to open the gateway to the perfection of mankind to open.

Some time later, Gendō Ikari and Fuyutsuki go to the Tabgha lunar base to see SEELE's progress in the construction of the mysterious EVA Mark.06. While waiting for permission to land their space shuttle, they encounter Kaworu Nagisa, the designated pilot of Unit 06, who sits on a finger of the Evangelion in free space without a protective spacesuit.

While Commander Ikari is absent, the eighth angel approaches from space and threatens to fall on the NERV headquarters like a bomb. Misato develops a strategy according to which all three children with their evangelions should come against the angel and stop him. Although Asuka is convinced that she can defeat the angel on her own, the angel can only be destroyed through the cooperation of all three pilots. However, during the fight, EVA-00 and EVA-01 are significantly damaged.

When a NERV branch in the USA was completely destroyed some time later during a test run of the Evangelion prototype unit 04, the EVA-03, also built in North America, was brought to Japan to be activated for the first time with Asuka as the pilot. It turns out that the unity was taken over by the ninth angel. Shinji is supposed to destroy the runaway EVA-03 with the now repaired unit 01, but refuses because he doesn't want to endanger Asuka. His father Gendō then had the so-called dummy plug system activated, with which Shinji's Evangelion can be remotely controlled from the NERV headquarters. EVA-01 shreds the taken over Evangelion-03 and crushes its pilot capsule. Asuka survives seriously injured. After this experience, Shinji wants to leave NERV and Neo Tokyo-3 and never control an Evangelion again.

Soon after, the tenth angel approaches. Mari, who also secretly arrived in Japan some time ago, hijacks EVA-02 and confronts the attacker with him. When the Evangelion, badly damaged, threatens to succumb to the angel, Rei comes to his aid with the EVA-00, which is not yet fully operational. She tries to destroy the angel at close range with an N2 missile, but fails. Shinji, who has sought refuge in a nearby shelter, witnesses EVA-00 being assimilated by the angel. He decides to control unit 01 again to save Rei. Together with his Evangelion, which has refused to reactivate it with the dummy plug system, Shinji can finally defeat the angel. With his determination to save Rei, Shinji enables EVA-01 to break free from the bonds that were supposed to keep his true powers in check and transform himself into a higher, godlike living being. Shinji can free Rei from the angel's core; she, Shinji and the Evangelion merge and thus set the Third Impact in motion.

After the end credits of the film, Kaworu Nagisa descends from the sky in EVA Mark.06 and pierces EVA-01 with a lance; the Evangelion transforms back into its original form and the Third Impact is averted for the time being. Kaworu explains that this time he will make Shinji happy.

Production and publication

The film was produced under the direction of Hideaki Anno by Studio Khara , which he founded specifically for the production of the film series Rebuild of Evangelion . Anno, who also wrote the script for the film, directed it, assisted by Kazuya Tsurumaki and Masayuki . As with the television series and the previous film , the characters were designed by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto , who also drew the manga .

The film premiered in Japanese cinemas on June 27, 2009; it was shown in around 120 cinemas on the first weekend. This version of the film was subtitled Evangelion: 2.0 - You Can (Not) Advance. The German premiere took place on November 6, 2009 as part of the Asia Film Festival in Munich, where the film was shown in Japanese with English subtitles.

A revised version called Evangelion: 2.22 - You Can (Not) Advance. was released in Japan on May 26, 2010 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc . In German-speaking countries, this version of the film was released on September 17, 2010 by Universum Anime on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. This version was shown for the first time on German-speaking television on July 22, 2012 by the Super RTL broadcaster , but without credits and the following action scene. The rerun on August 4, 2012 did not show the credits, but the following plot scene.

synchronization

The German language version of the film was created by the Berlin dubbing studio Deutsche Synchron . For the most part, the speakers already used in the previous film were hired again. An exception is Uli Krohm (Kōzō Fuyutsuki), who replaces Hans-Werner Bussinger , who died in September 2009 .

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Shinji Ikari Megumi Ogata Hannes Maurer
Asuka Langley Shikinami Yūko Miyamura Julia digit
Ritsuko Akagi Yuriko Yamaguchi Peggy Sander
Gendo Ikari Fumihiko Tachiki Erich Rauker
Kōzō Fuyutsuki Motomu Kiyokawa Uli Krohm
Tōji Suzuhara Tomokazu Seki Julien Haggége
Kensuke Aida Tetsuya Iwanaga Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Lorenz Kiel Mugihito Horst lamp
Rei Ayanami Megumi Hayashibara Samia Little Elk
Misato Katsuragi Kotono Mitsuishi Gundi Eberhard
Mari Illustrious Makinami Maaya Sakamoto Jennifer White

music

The music for the film was composed by Shirō Sagisu . In addition to the new epic pieces, he draws on well-known music themes from the television series and also uses his work on Kare Kano again. The soundtrack was released on July 8, 2009 as a single CD with 36 tracks from the film and as a double CD, which also contains 23 uncut song versions.

The title in the credits is Beautiful World -PLANiTb Acoustica Mix- by Hikaru Utada .

reception

In Japan, the film grossed over 500 million yen in the first two days. It was seen by a total of 2.9 million moviegoers and grossed 4 billion yen, making it 8th in the 2009 year-end evaluation.

For Evangelion: 2.22 - You Can (Not) Advance. The distributor King Records reported 450,000 pre-orders for the Blu-ray and 350,000 for the DVD version. On the day of publication alone, 124,000 DVDs and 195,000 Blu-rays were sold, displacing the previous record holder Michael Jackson's This Is It with 122,000 Blu-rays on the first day.

A large number of drafts and stills of the film were exhibited at the Proto Anime Cut exhibition , which took place from January 21 to March 6, 2011 at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin . A European tour is planned for spring 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The naming of the first three parts of the film series follows the three-part division in the Nō theater: the beginning Jo , the middle part Ha “break” and the end Kyū “acceleration”
  2. ↑ a b Evangelion: 2.0 Opens at # 1 with 512 Million Yen. Anime News Network, June 29, 2009, accessed June 29, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Evangelion: 2.0 - You can (not) advance. at the Asia Filmfest. AniSearch.de, October 3, 2009, accessed September 20, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Schedule of the Asia Film Festival 2009 in Munich ( PDF file; 77 KB ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.asiafilmfest.de
  5. Jump up ↑ Release dates of Evangelion 2.22 - You Can (Not) Advance DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Universe Anime, accessed September 5, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Super RTL: "Evangelion", Ghibli and other films. OtakuTimes.de, March 30, 2012, accessed July 22, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Evangelion film data: 2.0 - You Can (Not) Advance. Anime News Network, accessed September 19, 2010 .
  8. ↑ a b Eva: 2.22 Sells 124,000 DVDs, 195,000 BDs on Tuesday. Anime News Network, May 26, 2010, accessed August 25, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Proto Anime Cut - Berlin. les jardins des pilotes, January 26, 2011, accessed September 5, 2012 .
  10. ↑ ベ ル リ ン 『Proto Anime Cut』 展 に 庵 野 秀 明 が 出品 . Khara, January 21, 2011, accessed July 23, 2016 (Japanese).

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