Shin Eva - Official Blu-ray Release 2022!

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First look at 3.0 46H!

Blue sky with red rings?

[FelipeFritschF]

From the July 11 2021 stage greeting:

Ultimately Anno thought it would be bad for the film if the main character wouldn't appear at all and hence Q's start was changed to when Shinji "wakes up", giving birth to the lost 14 years

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There are no details for the lost 14 years but a scenario for them exists. Preview at the end of Ha is from that story.

Anno says, "I don't have any more scenes I'd like to add. I've spent half my life working toward this film, and it's filled with all the emotion I've poured into it."

There was some other quote I can't find right now but it was something like Anno telling the crew to relax because he wasn't gonna make them do more Eva anytime soon.

Evidently, he changed his mind, and -46h has been in production for about 1 and a half year. We haven't had specific statements calling it an OVA, but if they did spend this long making it, and considering the surprising variety of the scenes shown, I have to wonder how long it will be. Can we expect 20 minutes or more? 30? 60? There's also the possibility that Anno wasn't in charge for this one but instead Tsurumaki or some new other creator Anno wants to support, similarly to what happened with -120min.

[kuribo-04]

Runtime for Shin Eva remains 155min.
We're also getting our usual "Rebuild of..." bonus feature.

[Jinroh]

I didn't notice the red rings at first, but something's clearly going on in the sky. But it looks too light to be third impact...

[DantesInferno]

I didn't notice the red rings at first, but something's clearly going on in the sky. But it looks too light to be third impact...

From memory, it doesn't look that much different from the rings "dissipating" when an impact stops (as seen at the end of end of 2.0 and 3.0)

Who's the dark-haired girl? Midori before dye?

The third image is a massive nod at EoE

[ElMariachi]

Those images looks more like they are from the events just after 2.0 rather than 46h before 3.0:

• The glowing crossed littering the world in the third image are the same as when GNR tanged everyone in EoE
• The girl in the second image looks like Midori, so that could be her (meaning that the Winder has somehow access to hair dye), that could be when she was in the Village (it is noted in 3.0 that most of the bridge crew are rookies), but if it's set farther in the past that woman could be Midori's mother
• Whoever did the design of this Asuka must be a fan of Nier Automata, because if you look closely her bandage/visor covers both of her eyes! And as noted, she has her old plugsuit, bust still intact

All that plus the lantern festival illustration of a hastily patched up Unit 02 makes me think that indeed, that will be a flashback of the events between N3I and A3I.

[Blockio]

Very likely to be that, yeah

[hui43210]

There was some other quote I can't find right now but it was something like Anno telling the crew to relax because he wasn't gonna make them do more Eva anytime soon.

Evidently, he changed his mind, and -46h has been in production for about 1 and a half year. We haven't had specific statements calling it an OVA, but if they did spend this long making it, and considering the surprising variety of the scenes shown, I have to wonder how long it will be. Can we expect 20 minutes or more? 30? 60? There's also the possibility that Anno wasn't in charge for this one but instead Tsurumaki or some new other creator Anno wants to support, similarly to what happened with -120min.

I'm guessing it'll be 15 mins max, and will be pleasantly surprised if it's longer.

[2Lacissal2]

If I was to guess it maybe does take place 46 hours prior to Q, except this is an as yet unseen framing device to depict (in flashback) whatever post-N31/end of 2.0 events are going on.

Would guess the girl is Midori. Her shirt is the same colour as her plug suit in the Paris sequence.

Some parts of the body of water in the satellite photo look a bit like the outline of Lake Ashino (maybe we will finally see the fabled internment aircraft carrier!). It depends wether we are seeing a rapid, mass tanging or a slower core-ization with the Black Moon/NERV HQ as it’s epicentre.

[BernardoCairo]

Asuka screaming in an EVA
That caught me off guard for once.

Thailand looks great, though. EOE vibes.

If I was to guess it maybe does take place 46 hours prior to Q

-46h + -120min = exactly -48h (two days) before Q. That's my guess. It will end when -120min starts.

[2Lacissal2]

Thailand looks great, though. EOE vibes.

Oh yeah, that outline is the Gulf of Thailand seen upside down.

[ElMariachi]

Looking at it on a bigger screen, I'm now convinced that the woman in the second image is Midori's mother : the sky above her also has the faint red rings that we can see in the image with Asuka, which implies that both images happens around the same time. Since I highly doubt that Asuka was still wearing an intact version of her old plugsuit with what looks like a prototype version of the sealing eyepatch, nor that there an Impact-like event, 46 hours before the beginning of 3.0, the most logical explanation is that this is during the Actual Third Impact.
So that can't be Midori, since she seems to be around Sakura's age and thus should had been a child back when A3I happened (if you look closely, her clothes seems to be dirty), which leaves that woman being her mother the most plausible explanation.

Although that would contradicts Midori's claim that Shinji's N3I was responsible for her family's death, unless it's something like N3I destroyed Midori's family's house and they decided/where forced to left Tokyo-3 without Midori, leaving them outside of a protected area when A3I, so Midori decided that it was Shinji's fault. (which would also mean that her family was probably turned into FoIs and will be among those being returned at the end of Thrice)

[Konja7]

Although that would contradicts Midori's claim that Shinji's N3I was responsible for her family's death, unless it's something like N3I destroyed Midori's family's house and they decided/where forced to left Tokyo-3 without Midori, leaving them outside of a protected area when A3I, so Midori decided that it was Shinji's fault. (which would also mean that her family was probably turned into FoIs and will be among those being returned at the end of Thrice)

Well, Kaworu said N3I was the trigger for the Third Impact, which is the reason why Shinji is blamed. I guess Midori saying N3I killed their family could refer to its role as a trigger for the Third Impact.

Humans associating N3I and Third Impact could explain why they seem to have so much terror to the N3I.

[Jayfive]

Pre-timeskip stuff? Gendo, Fuyu and Donkey Bro-ventures or we riot.

I've no doubt that's a young Pinky. Eyes are the same colour. Don't think it's her mother, I think 3.0-and-onwards Midori is older than she looks.

That might be Asuka brought out of containment to get back in an Eva, possibly with some equipment that's a precusor to the DSS Choker? Also she's pinned her hair up, neat detail.

Also means we may get Asuka and Mari meeting for the first time. After Mari trashed Unit-02. If so, oh that's going to be a whole thing.

Also: Komm Susser Thai.

[ElMariachi]

Well, Kaworu said N3I was the trigger for the Third Impact, which is the reason why Shinji is blamed. I guess Midori saying N3I killed their family could refer to its role as a trigger for the Third Impact.

Humans associating N3I and Third Impact could explain why they seem to have so much terror to the N3I.

Well, if that short indeed shows us the events surrounding A3I, we might finally get what the hell Kaworu meant when he said that to Shinji, and see how stupid that reason to pin the blame on him actually is.

I've no doubt that's a young Pinky. Eyes are the same colour. Don't think it's her mother, I think 3.0-and-onwards Midori is older than she looks.

Inb4 Midori is an ex-pilot and also has the Curse of Eva.

[nerv bae]

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First look at 3.0 46H!

Holy shit

[nerv bae]

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OH GOD AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Double posting out of excitement

[ElMariachi]

Another interesting thing: the trees behind the Midori lookalike seems to be dead, or hibernating, yet Japan is supposed to be in an eternal Summer. I wonder what's up with that, did N3I killed the vegetation around Tokyo-3, or is she in a place where there are still seasons, or at least an eternal winter? (like Germany in Asuka's memories seemed to always be in winter)

Also another thing I didn't picked on immediately: Asuka's cockpit view is the old model with gaps in the vision, unlike the new ones after the timeskip that have a perfect 360° view (the only still having the old model is Unit 01 when Shinji pilots it against Gendo), which reinforce my belief that at least part of it will be a flashback of the events after 2.0.

[Giji Shinka]

I though it was going to look something like Until You Come To Me based on the fact that it doesn't have the same long production schedule as the films, so I'm pleasantly surprised.

[Jinroh]

Another interesting thing: the trees behind the Midori lookalike seems to be dead, or hibernating, yet Japan is supposed to be in an eternal Summer. I wonder what's up with that, did N3I killed the vegetation around Tokyo-3, or is she in a place where there are still seasons, or at least an eternal winter? (like Germany in Asuka's memories seemed to always be in winter)

The whole city was blown up during near third impact, the landscape probably suffered heavily. The trees on the right look like they burned.