Resources:End of Evangelion Screenplays

Overview

A now-defunct Japanese fan site called "Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Mysteries" (NEON　GENESIS　EVANGELIONその秘密) posted a document they described on the front page as "the secret dialogue" (裏台詞, ura serifu) for The End of Evangelion. On closer inspection, these turned out to be screenplays for both episodes of the film, marked "For Internal [Company] Use" (社内検討用). The website, perhaps for fear of legal repercussions, does not specify where or how it obtained the documents, although they appear to be entirely authentic.

Since the fan site is currently available only through the Internet Archive (provided one knows the page's original URL), the manuscripts have been archived here.

• #25′: Door into Summer / Love is destructive (Manuscript #2, For Internal Use)
• #26′: Yours Sincerely / I need you., New Screenplay (Manuscript #6 Edit, For Internal Use)

Differences

The screenplays are fully recognizable as The End of Evangelion, although there are a large number of differences between them and the final product. A rather incomplete list:

Episode 25'

• Episode 25′ was originally entitled "Door Into Summer" (「夏への扉」, "Natsu e no Tobira") rather than "Air". (The second title, "Love is destructive.", is already present.)
• Following the operators' chat in the Command Center, Toji (in a wheelchair) and Kensuke say their farewells to Shinji. The two are being sent to Germany for reasons unknown. This scene made it to the storyboard stage before being deleted.
• Misato's monologue at the lake is slightly different. Afterwards, she goes to Shinji's room and says something to him.
• The meeting between Gendo and Seele is longer.
• After Misato reads the hacked computer file, she says, "So, that's why they need the thirteen Eva Series units" instead of "So, that's the real truth behind Second Impact".
• While in the inactive Eva-02, Asuka says, "I'm scared... Mama, help me, Mama." Kyoko's background dialogue while Asuka chants "I don't want to die..." is absent.
• Asuka says "Hitotsu" ("One") instead of "Erst" after taking down the first Eva Series unit.
• Misato's expositional speech to Shinji underwent several changes. The final version of Misato's dialogue removes some things and adds others, but overall the tone is more terse and opaque. Some of Misato's comments in the screenplay version seem to tie into Fuyutsuki and Yui's conversation in the flashback from the end of the film.

Translations

A full translation into English is not yet available. Olivier Hague translated/summarized many of the scenes towards the end of episode 26', which may be found archived at MDWigs' site. Additional scene translations by Reichu are included below. (With any luck, more will be added over time.)

Misato & Shinji: Humans & Angels

Misato:
They intend to cause Third Impact, using the Eva Series, and return all humanity to nothingness.
Fifteen years ago, your mother and others reduced the scale of Second Impact by making Adam undergo degradation.
Shinji-kun... what's made you fight up until now?

(Shinji is silent.)

Misato:
The Angels. Enigmatic, non-communicative entities. The 18th Angel remaining in the end is mankind. The Angel called Lilin, born from Lilith, [who is] like Adam.
Angels and man are fundamentally the same thing. Angels are merely another possibility for humankind: humans that cast aside human form.
People cannot live without the mothers of life -- the Sun, Earth, and Moon. But an Angel that isn't dependent on them would be a new form of life, capable of surviving the harshest conditions.
Eva was its model.
People will probably get wiped out, either way. But right now, we can't just sit back and let humanity be annihilated.
Okay? Destroy the entire Eva Series. Preventing Third Impact is the only way everyone can stay alive.

Asuka Versus Eva Series

○ Geofront
The Eva Series slowly and steadfastly encircle Eva-02.
Eva-02 brandishes its prog knife.
It stabs the knife into Eva-11's face.
The blade of the knife yields with a snap.
Sparks scattering, the blade goes into the Eva's head.
Eva-02's right hand. The next blade comes out.
Asuka: "Next!"
Eva-02 prepares to leap onto Eva-06.
However, Eva-11 restrains 02 by the arms, even as its own head gets trashed.
The cable is severed by the other Eva.
The countdown starts.
Asuka: "Tch!"
Inserts of hand-to-hand combat.
Asuka: "Dammit! They should only have internal power, too!"
Inserts of hand-to-hand combat.
Asuka: "Why are they still operational?!"
Eva-02 tears off Eva-11's head. (The vertebrae remain attached.)
Asuka: "...It can't be the S2 Engines?"
Eva-11 pursues even though its neck is broken.
Asuka: "Geez! They just don't stop! I can't even count on that idiot Shinji!"

External Links

• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Mysteries @ The Internet Archive. Retrieved 4/19/2009.
  • Episode 25′: Door Into Summer
  • Episode 26′: Sincerely Yours

• MDWigs' Musings: EoE Live Sequence and Alternate Endings. Retrieved 4/19/2009.