Neon Genesis Evangelion Directors Cut

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[Eva-jyqupur]

I think the original has a lot more details that I prefer over the cut.

[wildonionchase]

Director’s Cut version of these clips look a lot more like what End of Eva’s art style is like.

[JodaroKujo]

Oh that’s cool knowing Netflix uses directors cut version
Yet still USES THE CENSORED BROADCAST OF HERITAGE FOR THE FUTURE

[_ykei]

omg. good to know I watched the directors cit without knowing it was the directors cut

[ytsejam]

Something about the original elevator seems much more 80s sci fi. But the DC graveyard looks cooler

[itskevinjustkevin]

Only trouble is, finding the original broadcast is gonna be like trying to find a schrodinger's needle in a haystack

[plate.armour_]

both versions are excellent in their own ways

[lc]

The memory dissonance is real with OA vs DC. If you remember watching it on bootlegs VHS tapes and then rewatching it on DVD later, you might find yourself, like me, having memories that you think it's not real. I might be one of the fortunately, or unfortunate few that experienced the series in dissonance. I watched the bootlegs VHS of it, not even the entire series, only a few episodes. Then I get to watch the series on DVD later. After that, I watched it on YouTube, at the time where I would open 3 tabs so I can watch part 1 while part 2 and 3 is loading, but the uploaded version was the VHS, which made me think my DVD experience was somehow a lie. Only when 1.0 was released and I get the blue ray collection did it dawn on me that there's the original air version which was the VHS, and the DVD director's cut version. I thought I had some sort of memory disorder and dreamed up different scenes of the show.

[connornge]

the directors cut is a lot more polished but i think i prefer the artstyle of the original

[AmbroseCadwell]

Good video; not the uploader's fault but the comments make it obvious there's still a lot of misinfo cooked up by the early american fandom that's circulating as accepted fact after all these years.

The "Director's Cuts" are only called that in the west and were assembled by Masayuki (going by the credits) not Hideaki Anno the director. In Japan, they're called the "Home Video Versions" and there are "Home Video Versions" of episodes 25' and 26' as well (basically End of Evangelion split into its two halves, with normal credits / next episode preview / silver eyecatch at the start like 22').

There was the series first, then Death and Rebirth. They made new scenes for Death that help set up the plot of End of Evangelion since it's so full of new lore that isn't in the original series yet needs to be shown for End of Evangelion to make sense (like Adam being melded into Gendo's hand). Then there was EoE, then as they were releasing the series on home video for the first time they retroactively inserted the new scenes created for Death into longer cuts of episodes 21-24 for the "Home Video Versions" along with some new-new scenes. This is where the "Home Video Versions" of EoE were also released. Meanwhile (as is better-known) the original cuts & series ending got labelled the "On-Air Versions" (basically, imperfect English for 'Broadcast Version') and also included on these releases. This cleanly split into two ways of watching Evangelion at home - episodes 1-20, and then either the TV ending 21-26 or the film ending 21'-26'.

Then Death got re-cut a couple of times with minor changes, first as Death(true) for a TV broadcast, then as Death(true)2 to be screened before EoE in its celebratory theatrical re-run in 1998. Very minor changes but just worth mentioning to explain where the confusing extra titles come from.

When the series got released in the west, they renamed the Home Video Versions the "Director's Cuts" of 21-24, kept the "On-Air" label for the shorter versions, didn't bother releasing the "Home Video Versions" of EoE and only released the movie format version. This muddled things up something proper in the west and it's stuck ever since.

So it's not that the "Director's Cuts" are the "definitive" or "superior" versions of the episodes (though they did use the opportunity to redraw some shots they thought looked mid) but just a part of a different proposition for the ending of the series, along with the movie.

[birupiru]

This makes a lot more sense knowing that the cemetery of the EVAs is where Yui disappeared, when it's all crowded with lots of EVAs it wasn't so clear but now I perfectly understand that part though.

[Emerardo]

I like the artstyle on the left more tbh

[Alskdjfhghc]

Original: Character Models
Directors cut: Environment

[nazzzzz]

1:02 this scene is really scare in director's cut even more than the original broadcasting

[Johnnybomb]

I'm guessing the Director's Cut was animated "in-house" by Gainex, and the TV series episodes were handled by multiple studios depending on episode? This just pure speculation on my part, but I do know that it was very common for Anime back then to do that, especially for long-running series due to lower production costs. Dragon Ball is the perfect example of this, and the unfortunate result of multiple studios having completely different designs for characters that didn't match up.

[mielthesquid]

Rei II looks like Rei III which is very odd. You can see they "improved" some design but it feels off most of the time.

[slope]

oh wait wtf, I think I watched directors cut in netflix because I remember 0:58

[maxw]

The “kokoroi” echoing has a greater effect overall, should have kept it.

[VoidPaul]

The only thing I like of the Netflix version, is that it has de Director's Cuts instead of the original versions

[Archimedes.]

Ok so which is which lmao
Also director's cut refers to Death&Rebirth/Laserdisc version?
Or are there other releases of it too?