Sailor Star Dust wrote:Seems like it was somewhat planned in advance, what with a white naked Rei in 23', Eva Unit 01 with wings in the OP, Misato and Ritsuko's death in 25, the Next Episode Preview for "Air" after 24' (from the tv-released version of End of Eva or whatever the hell it's acutal name is.) etc...)
Episodes #21 thru #26 (that includes the NPC episodes) were only released to video AFTER EoE hit theatres, so two of those anticipatory factors don't work, in a sense.
Rei due to her mysteriousness
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