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NERV and SEELE Explained

NERV fights the Angels while SEELE controls the scenario behind the curtain. This guide maps the factions, leaders, money, secrets, and competing apocalypse plans.

Rei Ayanami, the Dummy System, and Manufactured Personhood

Rei Ayanami is a person living inside a replacement system. This guide explains her bodies, soul, memories, Lilith connection, dummy plugs, and the difference between access and identity.

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Review

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time closes the Rebuild continuity through Village Three, Gendo’s confession, the Anti-Universe, and Shinji’s final choice.

Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo Review

Evangelion 3.0 wakes Shinji fourteen years late and turns WILLE, Kaworu, the spears, and Fourth Impact into a brutal argument about shame, secrecy, and the fantasy of undoing harm.

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance Review

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Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance breaks the remake route through Asuka, Mari, Rei, Eva-03, Zeruel, Near Third Impact, and Shinji’s dangerous belief that love can overpower a system.

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone Review

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone rebuilds the opening six episodes into a cinematic argument about coercion, isolation, national labor, and a continuity already changing beneath Shinji.

Evangelion: Death & Rebirth Review

Evangelion: Death & Rebirth turns the television series into a musical memory trial, then delivers half of a promised theatrical ending. RaeRae reviews the recap, production history, symbolism, controversy, criticism, and current viewing route.

Evangelion Rebuild Continuity: Complete Four-Movie Guide

The complete four-film Rebuild of Evangelion route in order, with original artwork, concise movie summaries, version guidance, viewing links, and connections back to the full Evangelion hub.

Evangelion Original Continuity: Death & Rebirth and The End

EVANGELION ORIGINAL CONTINUITY Two endings, one collapse The 1995–1996 animated series builds the wound. Death & Rebirth revisits the evidence. The End of Evangelion tears open the ending from outside the characters’ heads. Evangelion HubMoviesWatch OrderSources BOTTOM LINE The movies do not replace the animated series Start with all twenty-six episodes of Evangelion. The series […]

Neon Genesis Evangelion Review

Neon Genesis Evangelion turns a robot war into a brutal study of children carrying adult systems, damaged relationships, and the terrifying cost of needing other people.

Kotono Mitsuishi: Misato Katsuragi Voice Actor Profile

Kotono Mitsuishi makes Misato Katsuragi funny, commanding, wounded, loving, and compromised across Evangelion’s original and Rebuild continuities.

Megumi Hayashibara: Rei Ayanami Voice Actor Profile

Megumi Hayashibara makes Rei Ayanami’s silence active, precise, and painfully human across Evangelion’s original anime, theatrical ending, and rebuilt continuity.

Evangelion Episodes 1–26

A complete Evangelion episode guide covering all 26 original anime episodes in order, with concise recaps, character turns, revealed lore, and links to the series and movie routes.

Evangelion World, Lore & Guides

Explore Evangelion’s organizations, Angels, Eva units, Impacts, Instrumentality, AT Fields, artifacts, and hidden systems through connected lore guides.

Evangelion

Enter Evangelion through its 26-episode series, original theatrical ending, six-film road, characters, voice cast, reviews, reactions, rants, lore, and confirmed news.

Wuxia vs. Xianxia vs. Xuanhuan: What’s the Difference?

Chinese Donghua 101 · Fantasy & Storytelling Wuxia vs. Xianxia vs. Xuanhuan: What’s the Difference? You start watching Chinese fantasy and everything seems reasonably manageable. There are swords. There are sects. People leap across rooftops. Somebody mentions qi. Fine. Then one character begins cultivating toward immortality, another survives a heavenly tribulation, somebody else opens a […]

How Chinese Web Novels & Manhua Become Donghua

Chinese Donghua 101 · Adaptation & Production How Chinese Web Novels & Manhua Become Donghua A Chinese story can begin as millions of words published chapter by chapter online, become a full-color manhua, appear again as a donghua, receive a live-action drama, spawn games and audio adaptations, and somehow collect several English titles before an […]

What Is Manhua? Manga vs. Manhwa vs. Manhua

Chinese Donghua 101 · Comics & Publishing What Is Manhua? Manga vs. Manhwa vs. Manhua Manga. Manhwa. Manhua. Three words that look close enough to make a new reader wonder whether the internet is testing them, and three enormous comics traditions that absolutely did not organize themselves for the convenience of English speakers. The beginner […]

What Is Donghua?

Chinese Donghua 101 · Start Here What Is Donghua? If somebody told you donghua means “Chinese anime,” they gave you an answer that is useful for approximately thirty seconds. It gets you into the right country, and then it starts quietly causing problems. Donghua (动画 / 動畫, dònghuà) is the ordinary Chinese word for animation. […]

Chinese Donghua

CVM Sekai · Animation Around the World Chinese Donghua Chinese animation is much bigger than the 3D cultivation epics that often introduce international viewers to it. Donghua includes animated series, films, shorts, children’s programming, fantasy, science fiction, comedy, romance, historical stories, experimental work, adaptations, and original productions created across a Chinese animation tradition that stretches […]