Episode 05 - Beyond Rei’s Heart (レイ、心のむこうに)
By the swimming pool
This scene highlights Rei’s odd personality and her inability to communicate with her female classmates. She’s shown sitting by the swimming pool while the other girls cheer their classmates on. No significant changes.
Looking at Rei
When Shinji is on Eva-01 doing a synchronisation test, he saw Rei (the pilot of Eva-00) alighting her Evangelion while Gendo approahces from behind. I love the futuristic effect in the remake scene where they have a neon green circle focused on Rei.
Rei talks to Gendo
Shinji was disturbed when he realises that Rei can converse well with his father (Gendo) while he couldn’t. Note the better shading and shadows on Rei’s face and neck in the remake stillshot.
At Rei’s apartment
One of my personal favourite scene - the curtain draws open and as sunlight filters through the opening, reflects off the glass (scientifically speaking, it’s a beaker) and into the ‘camera’. Very quaint, isn’t it? They’ve added volume markings on the beaker this time round.
Approach sequence of the 5th Angel
The 5th Angel, Ramiel, appears over the Pacific Ocean and moves towards Tokyo-3. In the remake they’ve lengthened the approach sequence as well as beautified Ramiel, which includes adding glaring reflections off it’s octahedral body (absent in the original anime stillshot).
5th Angel’s energy beam generation
The producers dumped the original version and went ahead with the new one. I absolutely adore the new 3D effect! Note: for some unknown reason, the film labels angel Ramiel as the 6th angel instead of the 5th in the original anime and manga.
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April 24th, 2008 at 1:04 am
It is One of my favourites which include Naruto too … Watch it 3 years ago … “The new edition”
The only regret is cannot really get the ending of the anime, even after watching it twice … “Haha …”
Really hope can watch it again …
U ever watch Gundam Series ?
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April 24th, 2008 at 6:12 am
I never really got into evangelion - I was more into sakura wars - and even gundam wing to a certain extent!
I’m gettin gback into my anime atm though - watching cardcaptor sakura and sailor moon atm! vintage stuff!
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April 24th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Beautiful changes. They’ve 2000-ified an ancient anime! The drawings are definitely better though I don’t like the green accent on the 01. It makes it look like a cheap toy from a vending machine. I also don’t like the change in Lilith’s mask. I mean, isn’t her mask the logo of the organization?! It takes away from the meaning of the logo then! -__-;;
I’ve watched NGE so many time I think I’ll skip on the rebuilt versions. Maybe I’ll watch the final movie if there will be changes in the ending.
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April 24th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
@Eric: Yay! I actually enjoyed the Naruto anime too, but the filler episodes bored me because the anime was catching up with the manga’s publishing. It just puzzles me that why so many animes have to get progressively darker… like how Sasuke turned to Orochimaru for power, and how the storyline starts to wrap around psychological hardships of the Evangelion pilots. The ‘new edition’ that you’re mentioned - are you referring to the director’s cut? They’ve included a lot of bonus scenes from Episode 21 to 24 for the director’s cut. Oh and for the ending of NGE, do you mean the original Episodes 25 and 26 or the later version of the film (Evangelion: Death and Rebirth)? The old one is very confusing (and disappointing as well)… the later version suits the context of the anime better
I am yet to watch Gundam, but I heard it’s awesome!
@Han: Cardcaptor Sakura! One of the greatest animes around, but sadly I couldn’t find a friend who has it (so I can get from them instead of using my crappy Internet connection to download it). I’ve watched Sailormoon when I was a kid, but mom banned me from it later because she thought that it’ll make me… girlish / unmasculine. Whatever
@Ivy: “They’ve 2000-ified an ancient anime!” - Well said! They’ve redrawn the scenes and make them even better. For now, we don’t have to settle for odd shapes of the characters’ faces finally (the body shape and facial structures of the characters change subtly among different episodes). Yea I don’t quite get the reason why they’ve traded the good ol’ purple for a helluva neon green on Unit01! And the neon green makes Unit01 glow in the dark, which makes it a better target for the Angels, heh. For the same thing, I’m appalled by the change in Lilith’s mask. I heard that they’ve now used that design for SEELE’s new logo instead. Have you seen the new NERV logo? It’s the same old one but have an inverted apple in the background. Rebuild of Evangelion 4.0 is speculated to have an alternate ending (or a continuity to the last two episodes of the anime)… now I’m looking forward to that!
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April 25th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Wow, Lilith looks freaky!
Note to self: Do not look at eerie things after having two days of nightmares. =P
My brother used to be into NGE. He was more of the anime person out of the both of us! However, I have sat down and watched some eps with him and.. well, I still am not an anime person, but I am not the person who disses those who are.
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April 25th, 2008 at 2:49 am
the camera in the Toji and Kensuke screen shot also looks more modern! spot the differences game
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April 25th, 2008 at 11:51 am
@Id: Yea Lilith does look a little freaky, but it’ll be freakier in the original anime episode because it has seven eyes (that got me stunned a little when I first saw Lilith). I didn’t watch any animes besides Naruto (and stopped when they started releasing the filler episodes - I find them a little boring) before being introduced to NGE by my ex-roommate. He was watching halfway through the series when I knew about it, so after that I rewatched the entire thing 3 times
but that doesn’t make me an otaku! Haha. I don’t go great lenghts to participate in cosplay events or stock up huge amounts of NGE memorabilia. Anyway for the WP2.5 thing, you’re welcome! The new features are really exciting, although a little inconvenient to new WP users because the old admin layout is almost completely scrapped.
@lix: Yes! It has larger lenses this time, and has a more metallic feeling to it. In the original anime, his camera looks like, no offence, a piece of cheap plastic
lol!
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April 26th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Haha … Me watching long time ago which borrow from a friend …
I think should be the latest one … About the detail … Sorry I really forgotten.
I am plan to get myself a copy of the whole set later but not so soon … May be next year …
The Gundam series, the latest one is “00″ … Just finish watching it last few weeks which consist 25 episodes for the part 1 … Part 2 will only start in end of this year …
Totally recommended …!
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April 26th, 2008 at 2:43 am
I never knew that NGE had a remake of it!! I gotta go and download it now too!
I most definitely agree… it was such a huge hit because of the psychological state of each child’s sufferings. Though I am disappointed the Rebuild doesn’t have Asuka, as she doesn’t come in until many episodes afterwards anyhow. Thanks for sharing this!
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April 26th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
@Eric: Same here! I didn’t have the NGE DVD with me, so I borrowed it from a friend (and ripped it into my harddisk, in case I needed it later). Since I had the Director’s Cut version, I’m not intending to purchase a collector’s copy for the original anime, but I would love to wait for all the 4 promised Rebuild of Evangelion films to be released, purchase the whole DVD set
heh.
@Destiny: Same here! I only got to know about it a month ago when I was searching Youtube for NGE when a whole list of new trailers came out. But I spent another month finding where to download the movie! The one I’ve downloaded is a camera rip from a Japan cinema with no subtitles. But since I’ve watched the original anime version, I know more or less what they’re talking about
teehee. The first film doesn’t have Asuke because she only appears after Episode 8 (?) and the first film only covers the first six episodes of the anime. I love Asuka because she’s very noisy and brings some life into the anime 
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April 27th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
wow, those changes are awesome. and I never watched this anime. I watched Naruto for like 2 years but I stopped because I had my SPM examinations. I wish I could start watching Naruto back! isk..isk..isk…
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April 28th, 2008 at 11:34 am
@Aisyah: Yep! They’ve redrawn everything, which justifies the need for a remake. I’ve watched Naruto for 2+ years too, but gave up along the way as I got busier towards the end of my college studies. Now I’m so out of touch with Naruto, I couldn’t muster enough interest to continue. How sad
April 28th, 2008 at 1:56 am
hey teddy
i am also an eva-lover!
though i haven’t watched the movie yet
i’ll have to when summer comes around!
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April 28th, 2008 at 11:36 am
@tina: High-five!!!
teehee. The film is relatively new, and I think there’s no reputable subtitle release yet (for non-Japanese-speaking audience). You’ll have to wait a little now, but I think it’ll be done by summer!
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