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available only through the Internet Archive (provided one knows the page's original URL), the manuscripts have been archived here. A full translation into English is not yet available, although a translation/summary of select scenes in episode 26' was done by Olivier Hague in 2000.
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.
- Misato goes to Shinji's room and says something to him after her scene at the lake.
- 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
Pending a full translation of the screenplay, translations of various passages are included here. All local translations are done by Reichu. More by Olivier Hague may be found archived at MDWigs' site.
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.
Footnotes
External Links
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Mysteries @ The Internet Archive. Retrieved 4/19/2009.
- MDWigs' Musings: EoE Live Sequence and Alternate Endings. Retrieved 4/19/2009.
