Evangelion Watch Order

4 Oct 1995

Twenty-six episodes. A boy is told to pilot a machine to save the world, and the show slowly stops being about that at all.

15 Mar 1997

Seventy-two minutes recapping the series, then twenty-eight that became the opening of the next film. The one entry here you can skip.

19 Jul 1997

Not a sequel. An alternative version of episodes 25 and 26, made after the original ending divided everyone. It divided them further.

1 Sept 2007

The retelling begins almost shot for shot, which is the point; it is establishing what it will later break.

27 Jun 2009

New characters, new plot, and the film where the Rebuild stops being a remake.

17 Nov 2012

Opens fourteen years after the last one and refuses to explain what happened. The most alienating film in either continuity.

8 Mar 2021

Nine years later, and an ending that answers the 1997 one rather than repeating it. The longest and the calmest.