Evangelion: 3.0 (-46h)

EVANGELION 3.0: (-46h) is an original video animation included as a bonus with the DVD and Blu-ray release of Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, on March 08, 2023, on the two-year anniversary of the film's initial theatrical release. It was announced on October 04, 2022, included in a separate disc together with a video re-release of Evangelion 3.0 (-120 min.).

Story

Midori, Sumire and Hideki are exercising on the deck of a battleship. While doing pull-ups Midori ponders on her motivations to fight, and has a flashback to Third Impact. As Failures of Infinity emerge out of the ground, a younger Midori is attempting to flee by climbing up a hill. She looks back at the city she's fleeing from, implied to be where her family resided, and sees a Failure with a head resembling Evangelion Unit-01 emerging in the middle as it starts turning the city into core, and its head falls and is absorbed into the ground. As another Failure emerges, Midori runs away into the woods. She spends the night in a crashed NERV VTOL.

The next day she runs into a valley full of Wanderers and almost dies when one emerges right underneath her. Just in time, Mari arrives in an aircraft transporting Asuka Shikinami Langley and a Evangelion Unit 02α-EIV into the area where the survivor is.

Despite being badly damaged, missing much of the right side of its body including the entire arm, Unit 02α-EIV tries to hold off the Wanderer. Asuka notices Midori on the ground and tells her to run, but Midori gets knocked off a cliff when the Wanderer's arms and is hanging on above the coreified ground using a tree branch. As Asuka keeps struggling with the Wanderer, rainbow colored ooze sloughs off of it and causes Midori's hair to shrivel and turn pink. Midori, at great struggle, pulls herself up from the tree branch, much like she was doing in her workout session.

As the Angel inside Asuka's eye gets agitated, Unit 02α-EIV's eyes start to glow blue and Asuka strikes the Wanderer and launches it far away. A perplexed Midori watches and falls, but Asuka manages to catch her in time. She tells Midori that all of this had happened for a reason, and it's all the fault of "an idiot", telling Midori to fight on if she wants to beat him.

Back in the present, Midori talks with an exhausted Hideki and berates him for being lazy, kicking him in the shin. The camera paves to the rockets being set up for Operation US.

Characters

• Asuka Shikinami Langley
• Mari Illustrious Makinami
• Midori Kitakami
• Hideki Tama
• Sumire Nagara
• Shinji Ikari (mentioned)

Evangelions

• Evangelion Production Model-02α-EIV
• Failures of Infinity
• Evangelion Production Model-02'β

Development

Three new images were released on January 13, 2023.

It was exhibited in Shinjuku Wald 9 Theater as a special event for the Blu-ray & DVD Release Commemorative Special Night Screening on March 10, 2023, alongside Evangelion: 3.333 You Can (Not) Redo and Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.11 Thrice Upon A Time. Between each film a special talk with Yuko Miyamura and Mariya Ise will happen.

According to Hidenori Matsubara, the short was completed in around the end of November 2022. He also claims that the main key animation staff is quite young in comparison to the other projects.

Reception

Miyamura and Ise commented on the short in the March 08, 2023 stage greeting. Ise was surprised for her character to receive the spotlight and how she had "such a backbone".

External Links

• EVANGELION 3.0: (-46h) at Anime News Network

References

Episodes & Films
Television Series	Episode 01 | Episode 02 | Episode 03 | Episode 04 | Episode 05 | Episode 06 Episode 07 | Episode 08 | Episode 09 | Episode 10 | Episode 11 | Episode 12 | Episode 13 Episode 14 | Episode 15 | Episode 16 | Episode 17 | Episode 18 | Episode 19 | Episode 20 Episode 21 | Episode 22 | Episode 23 | Episode 24 | Episode 25 | Episode 26
Movies	Death | Rebirth The End of Evangelion: Episode 25' | Episode 26'
Rebuild of Evangelion	Evangelion 1.0 | Evangelion 2.0 | Evangelion 3.0 | Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.0