Evangelion.....

[Ralph Wiggum]

Well, Evangelion was clearly more of a ?one off? series compared to something like Gundam which spans multiple character/story/event arcs and thus introduce new designs and merchandise. So not surprising we don?t see much in terms of variety in the merchandise.

[drifand]

Thats not what I mean, I mean this design as grown outdated. You can only change so much for any EVA unit. Is just down to die hard fans who still in love with the design continues to buy and support (nothing wrong there). Do we see a new Eva 01 unit? Not exactly, the Evangelion designs are only regenerating based on the basic construction and this is what I mean "you can only do so much with it". Gundam is a lot different, the mech changes with significant amount of design changes. Its also not contained by the bio mechanical design unlike Eva is. I hope that clears it up.

[Magnus]

There?s a bit of furore among the fans as the Netflix series has been redubbed with an entirely new cast. I understand theres going to be the inevitable comparison with the original cast, but I heard that they were allegedly given false hopes of being a part of the re-dub.

In addition there has been some changes to the translation, which apparently was supposed to be closer/direct to the Japanese translation but doesn?t make actual sense in English. For example the pilots are individually referred to as ?children? ie ?Third Children, Second Children? rather than ?Third Child or Second Child?. Some changes also impact the emotional conveyance but I guess thats up to each person to interpret.

When word that Netflix had acquired the licence first broke, Spike Spencer (original English Shinji), Tiffany Grant (original English Asuka), and Amanda Winn-Lee (original English Rei) expressed their interest in reprising their roles. Winn-Lee and Grant were eventually allowed to audition, but this seems to have been just a token gesture, and both were bound by NDAs until the series was actually released on Netflix. According to one of the voice directors (who also plays Misato), Khara selected the cast.

Yep, the new subtitle and dub scripts have proven to be quite contentious. They seem to emphasise fidelity to the original Japanese at the expense of localisation to English, so some word and phrase selections sound strange to a native English speaker. The Child vs. Children one you mentioned is a notorious example - the original Japanese script literally uses the English word 'Children' to refer to even a singular pilot. Matt Greenfield, who wrote the original English script in 1996, recalled that he fought with Gainax to allow him to change this to 'Child' since it makes no grammatical sense in English and they were vetting his scripts.

Well, Evangelion was clearly more of a ?one off? series compared to something like Gundam which spans multiple character/story/event arcs and thus introduce new designs and merchandise. So not surprising we don?t see much in terms of variety in the merchandise.

Thats not what I mean, I mean this design as grown outdated. You can only change so much for any EVA unit. Is just down to die hard fans who still in love with the design continues to buy and support (nothing wrong there). Do we see a new Eva 01 unit? Not exactly, the Evangelion designs are only regenerating based on the basic construction and this is what I mean "you can only do so much with it". Gundam is a lot different, the mech changes with significant amount of design changes. Its also not contained by the bio mechanical design unlike Eva is. I hope that clears it up.

There have been quite a few detail changes to the Evas over the years - the most marked being the Anima designs, which the new Bandai Metal Build figures seem to be inspired by, but the basic shape has stayed the same, probably to keep that distinctive Eva look.