Evangelion is one of the most influential and revered anime series ever created, with a fan base that continues to grow with each passing year. If you’re someone looking to jump in for the very first time, things can become rather daunting quickly, especially once you start looking at all of the titles.
With an original series, a reboot, and a recap, there's plenty to discover in the iconic sci-fi anime. To help you get started, I put together my recommended watch order for the full franchise. Prepare to get in the robot and experience the world of Evangelion.
At a Glance: How to Watch Evangelion in Order
Neon Genesis Evangelion (series)
The End of Evangelion
Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone
Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance
Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo
Evangelion: 3.0+1.11 Thrice Upon a Time
If you have all of Eva lined out in front of you, here's a quick look at our recommended watch order. For more information on the series and its development, scroll on.
What Is Evangelion?
Neon Genesis Evangelion first began as a manga series in December 1994. The anime premiered in October 1995 and aired on TV until March 1996. The series was both created and written by Hideaki Anno, with production occurring at Studio Gainax. Following the TV anime, Evangelion became incredibly popular, resulting in the development of The End of Evangelion to provide an alternate ending to the series.
Things would end here for most anime series, but Evangelion is anything but that. Hideaki Anno established Studio Khara in 2006 to retell the story of Neon Genesis Evangelion through four films referred to as the Rebuild of Evangelion. This retelling spanned 14 years in total, with the final film releasing in March 2021.
Beyond anime, Evangelion has expanded into numerous areas around Japan, including pachinko machines, exclusive merchandise lines, and much more. If you’re aiming to immerse yourself in Eva for the first time, the anime is the best place to do so.
Which Evangelion Anime Should You Watch First?
While there are three different places you can realistically start from, the only anime you should consider starting with is the original: Neon Genesis Evangelion. This was the first entry in the series, and as such, it’s the best place to start overall. The 26-episode anime serves as the basis for both Evangelion: Death(True)² and a large portion of the Rebuild, and is a necessary watch before The End of Evangelion.
Where to Watch the Evangelion Anime
The original Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, the Evangelion: Death(True)² recap film, and The End of Evangelion are all available on Netflix to watch in the United States. The Rebuild of Evangelion, however, is streaming on Amazon Prime.
If you’re someone who enjoys purchasing anime on Blu-ray, the Crunchyroll Store has the original series and films, plus the Rebuild available for purchase. Distributor GKIDS is currently rereleasing the first two films in the Rebuild series, so those are available for pre-order right now.
The Best Evangelion Series Watch Order
1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
As outlined, Neon Genesis Evangelion is the best entry point for Eva. The 26-episode anime marked a bold and impactful take on the prominent mecha genre, exploring deep themes of depression, individuality, religion, and even the concept of evolution.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is one of the most influential anime ever created. Famously, the anime faced huge production issues that led to Anno and the staff behind the series abandoning some aspects of the narrative to ensure episodes came out on time.
2. The End of Evangelion
The End of Evangelion is the ultimate conclusion that wraps up the original TV anime in a new way. Originally released in Japan in 1997, this film replaces the last two episodes of the anime with entirely new material that reimagines the climax of the series in a new way. The cinematic approach to film allowed for bigger fights, bolder ideas, and a larger impact to the viewer. To this day, The End of Evangelion is highly revered as one of the best anime films ever created.
3. Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone
Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone marked the beginning of a new project, the Rebuild of Evangelion. This first film is quite faithful to the original series, bringing better animation and a more streamlined narrative to offer new viewers a chance to enter the world of Evangelion for the first time. Evangelion: 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone specifically follows the events of the first six episodes of the series.
4. Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance
The Third Impact looms, and it's up to Shinji and the others to stop it. The second film in the Rebuild of Evangelion was much bolder than the first, bringing signficant changes across the board compared to the original series. New 3DCG technology previously not available was also implemented in this film. One major change was the introduction of Mari Illustrious Makinami, who while only appearing briefly in this film, would play a key role in the latter two Rebuild projects.
5. Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo
Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo is the beginning of a completely new ending for Evangelion, offering a narrative that is almost entirely detached from the original series. The beginning of the film is set a whole 14 years after the end of Evangelion: 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance, and there are numerous new characters and fights that occur throughout. While the first two Rebuild films set the stage, Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo is where this project began to stand as a complete reimagining.
6. Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time
Finally, Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time acts as the ultimate conclusion to the Rebuild of Evangelion. It may have taken 9 years to release, but the wait was more than worth it. The film sits at 154 minutes, acting as one of the longest animated films ever produced. Thrice Upon a Time puts a fitting bow on the franchise as a whole, featuring incredible fights, satisfying character progression, and a hopeful message that will stay with viewers long after the credits roll.
The Future of Evangelion
With the Rebuild of Evangelion complete, it’s unlikely that Hideaki Anno will create any further entries in the series. The release of Evangelion: 3.0+1.11 Thrice Upon a Time was promoted with the slogan "Bye-bye, all of Evangelion" on posters, indicating that this is the end for the franchise. Instead, the future of Evangelion will likely consist of more collaborations, merchandise, and releases of the existing anime. As such, there’s no reason to wait around to watch the anime for the first time; get started and experience one of the industry’s best!
Noah Hunter is a freelance writer and reviewer with a passion for games and technology. He co-founded Final Weapon, an outlet focused on nonsense-free Japanese gaming (in 2019) and has contributed to various publishers writing about the medium.
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In fact, in putting together this top 10, every entry was Final Fantasy themed, from characters to Surge Foils worth hundreds.
With that in mind, we’ve put together the top 10 below, covering Final Fantasy, Edge of Eternities, Tarkir: Dragonstorm, Aetherdrift, and Innistrad Remastered.
Here’s the top 10 for each, thanks to data from TCGPlayer.
Final Fantasy
According to TCGPlayer, the top-selling Final Fantasy cards are as follows:
Many of those Borderless Surge Foil variants have been commanding a fair amount of value on the secondary market, but Starting Town popping up near the top is a nice surprise.
Edge of Eternities
The next most popular set at the time of writing (and the most recent), Edge of Eternities shows there’s plenty of appetite for Magic’s own characters and stories.
The set before Final Fantasy might feel as though it’s been swept under the rug, but anyone looking for dragons will find a lot to like. And yet, the top 10 most popular cards include multiple versions of the same four cards.
Magic’s power-sliding set is still proving pretty popular, with the top 10 cards according to TCGPlayer data including lands, sorceries, and that all-important Aetherspark.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.
Magic: The Gathering has been running for literal decades, and while reprints will always keep making harder-to-find cards a little easier to collect, there are some cards so rare that they become almost like urban legend.
There are cards worth thousands, for example, but there are also cards worth millions, from wild serialized, one-of-a-kind prints like The One Ring (famously purchased by Post Malone) to cards like Time Walk, which were so powerful they’ve been banned.
Below, you’ll find some of the priciest cards around, marking some of the rarest in the game’s history.
Magic: The Gathering’s Rarest Cards Of All Time
10 - Time Walk (Alpha)
A card from the game’s Alpha Edition, Time Walk has sold for around $25,000 and offered an extra turn for a measly two mana, meaning it was banned pretty swiftly.
It’s not legal in any format, but for collectors it’s a piece of Magic history regardless, forming part of the ‘Power 9’ (more on those shortly).
9 - Euroakus
A card so rare that TCGPlayer doesn’t have it, Euroakus was a Heroes of the Realm card awarded to Wizards’ European Team in 2020.
Heroes of the Realm cards are given to Wizards employees, with their name printed. As Wargamer explains, one of these Euroakus cards was sold for $25,200 in 2022, but the name was blurred out.
8 - Phoenix Heart
Phoenix Heart might not be legal (it doesn’t actually have an effect), but it’s very sweet. Richard Garfield, creator of Magic: The Gathering, has the card printed to celebrate his wedding to Koni Kim and send it out among the wedding invites.
It’s previously sold for $27,500, which is even better than an open bar at a wedding if you ask us.
7 - Splendid Genesis
Richard Garfield commemorated the birth of his first child with this neat card. Splendid Genesis reads, “Shuffle all cards in the game together and deal them into three decks. The game continues with a new player.”
Naturally, it serves no gameplay purpose, but it’s a wholesome card that still fetched around $72,000 at auction in 2022. Only 110 were printed.
6 - Timetwister
Remember when we mentioned the ‘Power 9’ earlier? Here’s another, and yes, it’s banned.
Timetwister puts your hand, library, and graveyard together and lets you draw another hand of seven cards. Essentially resetting your deck (and your opponents) while leaving the board state as it is - a neat trick, and one that someone paid $84,000 for.
5 - Lord of the Pit
Demon decks are all the rage these days, but Lord of the Pit was one of the first. It’s a 7/7 with Flying and Trample that does damage to its owner unless they sacrifice a creature.
There are five ‘Moxes’ included in the ‘Power 9’ (scroll down for the full list), and while the effect of adding a single mana may seem a little tame, it’s a powerful ramp in the early turns.
It’s been sold for $108,000 in the past, but we can’t find it on TCGPlayer. Instead, a newer version (which taps for any color but requires multiple artifacts be in play) is available instead. It’ll cost you $160, mind.
3 - Autographed Black Lotus
The iconic Black Lotus pops up on this list twice, with an autographed version signed by its illustrator, Christopher Rush, going for around $511k.
And yet, Post Malone claims to have bought a similarly signed one for $800k, and that brings us nicely to…
2 - One of One Ring
While some purists felt the chase of a single ‘one of one’ version of The One Ring made the game of Magic more of a sideshow to a Willy Wonka-esque spectacle, it’s become legendary.
The card was found and sold to Post Malone for around $2 million, although there have been suggestions it was higher than $2.5 million. You can buy one of the more commonly available ones for your collection for around $70 if you’re keen.
1 - Black Lotus
The only card that’s sold for more than the ‘One of One Ring’ is a Black Lotus card in pristine condition, sans autograph.
A private buyer snapped up a Pristine 10 graded version of the iconic card for $3 million in 2024, making this the most expensive Magic: The Gathering card. You can buy a ‘moderately played’ version right now for $79k.
Can You Still Pack The Rarest Magic: The Gathering Cards?
Sure, you could, but your chances are astronomically low. Many of the cards on this list haven't been printed for years, and while there are still valuable cards to find in packs (we've got a rundown of the most valuable ones in Edge of Eternities), you'd have to find a super dusty old pack to get some of the cards on this page.
That makes the secondary market the only option for collectors.
Magic: The Gathering's Power 9 Explained
We’ve referred to the ‘Power 9’ in this list a few times, so here’s every entry, and their effects.
Black Lotus
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
The Mox: Emerald, Jet, Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire
Add 1 [color] mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Ancestral Recall
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Timetwister
Set Timetwister aside in a new graveyard pile. Shuffle your hand, library, and graveyard together into a new library and draw a new hand of seven cards, leaving all cards in play where they are; opponent must do the same.
Time Walk
Take an extra turn after this one.
The Power 9 were found in the Alpha, Beta, and Unlimited sets of Magic: The Gathering.
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.
Good things come to those who wait. Rooted heavily in Chinese folklore, the whizbang, action-packed Ne Zha 2 welcomes newcomers into a dense and often juvenile initial hour, which can be a chore to sit through. But then, practically on a dime, it switches gears for its final 80-something minutes, swapping its toilet humor for mythological spectacle on a brain-breakingly enormous scale. The nearly two-and-a-half hour runtime might be intimidating for a kids’ film, but this transformation is worth your patience: Stick it out and Ne Zha 2 will show you things you’ve probably never seen before, or even imagined possible.
The 2019 original Ne Zha is (there’s no polite way to say this) a fart comedy for babies with some supernatural battles on the side, and Ne Zha 2 starts out the same way. At first, its vivid 3D animation is geared towards endless gags about belly flab and bodily fluids, in scenes that last a painfully long time, and are bookended confusingly nondescript reaction shots. Ironically, this deceptively relaxed pace is in service of a million-mile-an-hour plot, centering on an often unpleasant-looking protagonist: Ne Zha, a Taoist deity re-imagined as a fiery, magical imp with a menacing grin and distracting bags under his eyes. The story picks up where the first movie left off, after the adolescent Ne Zha and his rival-turned-bestie – the graceful, cool-as-ice Ao Bing – sacrificed their physical bodies to save Ne Zha’s village in the Chentang Pass.
Now their screwball, pot-bellied master Taiyi Zhenren tries to re-forge new avatars for them using a magical lotus – one of several bits of Chinese myth explained faster than any outsider can comprehend. Things go awry, leading to the amusing comedic predicament of Ne Zha having to share his temporary form with Ao Bing’s wandering spirit. (This introduction also teases a spiffy character re-design for Ne Zha down the line).
Before long, the last movie’s scheming villain – the lanky, stuttering Shen Gongbao – attacks Chentang Pass once more, throwing us breathlessly back into a familiar plot. Only this time, Gongbao has an enslaved army of godlike dragon kings in tow, whose imaginative powers include magical claws that can pierce through space itself and create portals to eye-popping fiery locations and put countless innocents at risk of visually spectacular volcanic doom.
Things go awry, leading to an amusing comedic predicament.
As a Herculean quest to restore Ao Bing’s physical form and fight back kicks off, pristine white castles in the clouds play host to both resplendent jade birds soaring through the air and eye-rolling slapstick gags. These tonal paradoxes gradually mount alongside a story that becomes purely expositional, given the English dialogue’s clunky and all-too-literal translations. It feels, at times, like reading a AI-translated Wiki on Investiture of the Gods – the 16th century novel on which Ne Zha 2 is loosely based – while also having to dodge invasive pop-ups joking about barf and pee. But, as Ne Zha’s journey continues – and as he and Ao Bing struggle to share one body – hidden complexity comes to light. The angelic immortals, who speak of maintaining the order of various castes and sects, send Ne Zha to fight demonic entities whose only crimes appear to be causing a nuisance (not unlike Ne Zha himself). In fact, these demons usually take the form of adorable, anthropomorphic animals, signaling to even the youngest viewers in the audience that something in this heavenly hierarchy is amiss.
And then, as though a switch were suddenly flipped, the second of Ne Zha’s trials becomes both physically and emotionally super-charged, and it feels as though an entirely different team of storytellers had taken the reins. The action – a mix of ‘70s-style wuxia and supernatural spell-casting – is colorful and electric, at times literally. The characters, once broad archetypes aimed at explaining the plot, begin to suffer unimaginable anguish as Ne Zha 2’s cutesy façade becomes genuinely nightmarish, evoking real-life massacres and even the horrors of first-century Pompeii. You know, typical kids’ movie stuff.
This head-spinning shift in tone is accompanied by fitting character transformations, as the once Dennis the Menace-like Ne Zha is forced to contend with a more complicated adult world and the onslaught of difficult emotions bursting from within, threatening to shatter his fragile avatar. The sequel goes very quickly from facile to furious, taking shape as a humongus revenge saga steeped in betrayal and conspiracy as its characters search for the nuances within aesthetic extremes. With climax after climax, its action scenes become awe-inspiring, as thousands (if not millions) of either human or reptilian soldiers – some are both, in the vein of Final Fantasy – do battle in the sky and at sea, creating breathtaking vistas of glowing light against psychedelic landscapes.
Although most setups extend to characters announcing special abilities as soon as they become relevant (one of the many influences from Japanese anime), the result is often mesmerizing, between elemental sky battles and the emergence of as many extra limbs as are necessary to fire glowing arrows from magical wooden bows. You might recognize the specter of Akira Toriyama’s landmark Anime Dragon Ball Z from time to time; this marks the completion of a cultural ouroboros, since Toriyama originally borrowed from Chinese epics like Journey to the West, which also featured Ne Zha.
Not since The Lord of the Rings has any movie truly captured the enormous, religious scope of epic fantasy on screen. (That Ne Zha 2 is already the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time, with a $2.2 billion box office take, will come as no surprise once you see it reach its gargantuan final form.) What’s more, these escalations reframe the comedy too, preventing scenes from grinding to a halt for the sake of crass caricature and ensuring that all gags are firmly grounded in action and character first.
All the while, the storytellers never lose sight of dramatic moments, especially those between a fearful Ne Zha (voiced by Crystal Lee in the English dub) and his warrior parents (Michelle Yeoh, Vincent Rodriguez III) as his coming-of-age saga becomes not only about facing the cruelty of the adult world, but recognizing the injustice of its status quo – which Ne Zha and the other heroes seek to incinerate at the root. In an especially pleasant surprise, after an hour’s worth of clunky dialogue, this theme of rebellion culminates in the most rousing line in any recent English-language dub: Lee’s applause-worthy delivery of “If I can’t be who I am, I’ll just have to change the world!” at a pivotal moment.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter’s “well-placed source close to the production,” Rose-Marsh “was brought in sometime in late June to read sides from 1995’s GoldenEye, presumably for just-hired director Denis Villeneuve. He might also have tackled pages from the script Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight is said to be whipping up for Bond 26. Whatever the material, Rambling’s source claims Rose-Marsh was given just one piece of direction before the test cameras rolled: Don’t impersonate a previous Bond.”
Rose-Marsh, 37, has appeared in the films Wolves of War and Krays: Code of Silence and in the TV series Chloe, The Outlaws, and Yr Amgueddfa. He’s a graduate of BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology.
“In recent years, the actor has undergone a physical transformation, becoming leaner and more angular — changes that fans say align him with the modern interpretation of Bond,” Somerset Live notes.
Of course, just because Rose-Marsh may have screen-tested for the role doesn't mean he will ultimately play James Bond. He could end up with a different role or not cast in the film at all.
WalesOnline reported in 2021 that Rose-Marsh quit his call center job shortly before landing his role in the Welsh-language series Yr Amgueddfa. He landed most of his roles during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"One thing that is funny is that a lot of the roles I seem to be getting at the moment are as some kind of tough guy or gangster, and for those who know me in real life they know it couldn't be further from the kind of person that I am,” Rose-Marsh told the site.
"I guess it's just my face, as people do seem to think I look a bit menacing which is why I'm getting cast as a bad guy quite a lot. It does make us laugh but I promise I'm a really nice guy in reality.”
If you’re curious about Scott Rose-Marsh’s acting skills or what his voice sounds like then you can watch this proof of concept scene from You, Me and the Ex.
Ryan Reynolds is set to reprise his role as Deadpool for the next Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) team-up movie, Avengers: Doomsday.
Details on Reynolds’ highly anticipated involvement in the next Avengers movie come from The Hollywood Reporter. It’s one of the many Deadpool crossovers Marvel fans have waited decades to see come to fruition, though the site's sources say fans shouldn’t expect him to actually join the Avengers team quite yet.
Fans have wondered if the Merc with a Mouth would show up for Avengers: Doomsday since Marvel debuted its chair-focused cast announcement video earlier this year. Speculation that Deadpool could show up then caught fire when Reynolds teased his return just a few days ago.
It’s not much of a surprise to see Reynolds continue his run as Deadpool for Avengers: Doomsday. His portrayal of the potty-mouthed anti-hero made an official jump to the MCU with 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine. That’s thanks to some multiverse shenanigans that saw him slicing through alternate universes with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine.
Deadpool spent much of the buddy comedy hoping to one day join the Avengers team. Even if he won’t become an official Avenger, it seems like he may get a chance to meet Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, Pedro Pascal’s Mister Fantastic, or even Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom when Avengers: Doomsday comes to theaters December 18, 2026. If we're lucky, we'll also finally find out why a glimpse into another reality showed Thor crying over Deadpool on a battlefield.
Marvel Studios has shared a lot about its next big-budget Avengers film, but it's clear there are so many surprises left to be revealed. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness star Xochitl Gomez is one name heavily rumored to make an appearance, though her inclusion hasn't been officially confirmed quite yet. We've also yet to learn how The Fantastic Four might find their way to the MCU universe fans have grown to know and love over the last 17 years.
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