Rebuild of Evangelion timeline

[DarthGendo]

Hi everybody.
An interesting find:
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I think it requires a separate thread.
Calendar shows month: February.
28 days, 28th is Wednesday.
Nearest years, when February has 28 days only and 28th is Wednesday are:
2001, 2007 and 2018.
It might be that creators just used 2007 calendar, but year 2018 tightly corresponds with the date when Yui vanished via Gendo's 14 year old plan.
That would mean pilots are older than 15 at least.
Why? Cause Shinji HAD mother, thus he was born before 2004.
OR
It's another reference of Rebuild being a continuation to the original series.

We strongly need to know Shinji's date of birth or his age and date the Second Impact has occured.

Any thoughts on the matter?

[Legendary]

Not really. Shinji could have been born 2003 or even early 2004 and still be 14.

[DarthGendo]

I meant if their birth dates are similar to original's.

[DarthGendo]

Misato clearly states SI was 15 years ago...

[Joseph the PRPD]

It's another reference of Rebuild being a continuation to the original series.

No.

[CtHuLhU]

Hi there, Darth
Here's another evidence from 1.11
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"11/13 (monday)" - so it was 2017 when Shinji came to be a pilot.

[DarthGendo]

Outstanding.
So the timeline WAS changed.

[Jinroh]

I find it incredible the amount of efforts they put in such little details.

[sephirotic]

It's important to note that this 2018 calendar is probably canon, since the original series, on episode 09, the calendar used to mark the countdown days of the join-operation with Shinji and Asuka is correctly depited as September, 2015.

Not only the years has been changed, but the arrival of Asuka too.

What is strange tough, is that unless Yui Death birthday isn't altered, this mean episode 15 in the original series would have been already march 2016, since Shinji arrival is late August, early September 2015. It seens in 2.22 that Asuka arrives at Shinji homes in the same day as his mother death birthday, unless a gap of days is hidden betwen the Eva-02 X Clockiel Scene and the night that Asuka and Shinji meets at the mansion, witch i think is rather unlikey.

It is certain that Asuka arrival is later, compared to the RELATIVE original Eva chronology (Shinji arrival interval), but if the Yui death birthday is still the same, it will be even a big mistery related to the original development of Unit 01 and all the mistery involving the 4 Adamns, 4/5 Childs or eventually a true sequel theory.

Only time will let us know.

[DarthGendo]

Someone please translate this.

[CtHuLhU]

Tokyo-3 municipal middle school no. 1
Possible list of school festivals.

[Sailor Star Dust]

I FINALLY found that source from Newtype USA 2006!

"The new story takes place in the same period as the 1995 TV series, but the plot is completely different," producer Toshimichi Otsuki elaborates. "This isn't a remake or a quick fix. It's a totally new production."

So yeah, NME taking place sometime around 2018 instead of exactly in 2015 can still work, I'd say. Perhaps they changed the year for a reason: because 2015 is just around the corner in real life, relatively speaking.

[sephirotic]

I FINALLY found that source from Newtype USA 2006!



So yeah, NME taking place sometime around 2018 instead of exactly in 2015 can still work, I'd say. Perhaps they changed the year for a reason: because 2015 is just around the corner in real life, relatively speaking.

I don´t believe that is the main reason.

Changing the on an adaptation of a futuristic sci-fi story only have meaning if its purpose is to make a convincing semi-realistic setting.

By the year eva was released the main focus of the series was the Second impact ocurring at the last year of the old millenia, it still hadn´t ocurred, still, in this new series they didn´t change the date of the second impact to a future from our current timeline (like 2012 or so), so i think the change in the timeline probably has some other meaning...

(Sequel theory! Sequel theory \o/ little troll, couldn´t resist!)

[Axell]

Maybe they just wanted to make the kids older to avoid potential complications about young girls being depicted naked, since that topic is being looked into finally.

[NAveryW]

I find it incredible the amount of efforts they put in such little details.

Still?

Maybe they just wanted to make the kids older to avoid potential complications about young girls being depicted naked, since that topic is being looked into finally.

Shinji has quite the voice for an 18 year old.

[DarthGendo]

If I remember correctly, it is said in RoE1 that Rei is 14 years old (this is an outright fabrication by NERV, but anyways...)
Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Taekmkm]

Yeah, I don't think they went the DYRL route and aged everyone.

[Legendary]

If they did age them, they're all retards. A minute into 1.11 it says that Shinji is a 2nd year Middle school student.

[arkiel]

If we're going the whole "there isn't a warp coil on deck 4F" approach to slavish accuracy of detail, I'd point out that the earthquake in Chile decreased (or increased? Whatever) the duration of a calendar day by 2.306 microseconds.

I wonder what a Second Impact would do?

DUN DUN DUNNNNN.

[DarthGendo]

Talking about little details, it is never said or hinted that SI somehow changed Earth's axis or length of the day.
If you find any references - report to the station immidiately.
Otherwise, the year is 2018.