Evangelion Original Continuity
Begin with the 26-episode television series, then continue through Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion without mixing Rebuild events into the original branch.
Television series
The television series establishes the pilots, NERV, Angels, Instrumentality, and the emotional vocabulary that the original films revisit. Use the episode directory for scene-level Reacts and the series review for the complete argument.
Original theatrical ending
Death & Rebirth reorganizes television material and previews the theatrical conclusion. The End of Evangelion gives the external catastrophe and interior collapse their feature-length form. They belong beside the series, not inside the Rebuild timeline.
The original continuity route keeps broadcast order visible: television Episodes 1–26 first, then the original theatrical material. Death & Rebirth is approached as recap, reorganization, and bridge; The End of Evangelion is approached as a feature conclusion that converses with the television ending rather than erasing it.
Use episode Reacts for scene-level analysis and the long reviews for structure, consequence, and the competing forms of interior and external apocalypse.
The branch order stays visible on every connected review and directory.