EVANGELION: 3.0 (-46h) (2024)

EVANGELION: 3.0 (-46h) is an original video animation (OVA) included as a bonus feature with the DVD and Blu-ray release of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time on 08 March 2023, the two-year anniversary of the film's initial theatrical release.^[1] It was announced on 04 October 2022 and included on a separate disc together with a video re-release of the anime short EVANGELION: 3.0 (-120 min.).^[2]

Plot[]

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 the Near 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 is 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.^[3]

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 a 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 is 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

Mechanics[]

Gallery[]

Development[]

Three new images of the OVA short were released on 13 January 2023.^[4]

It was exhibited in Shinjuku Wald 9 Theater as a special event for the Blu-ray & DVD Release Commemorative Special Night Screening on 10 March 2023 alongside Evangelion: 3.333 You Can (Not) Redo and Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time. Between each film, a special talk with Yuko Miyamura and Mariya Ise occured.^[5]

According to Hidenori Matsubara, the OVA short was completed around the end of November 2022. ^[6] He also claimed that the main key animation staff was quite young in comparison to the other projects.^[7] In the 2023 Q&A, khara staff shared that it had already been planned "quite a while" ago.^[8]

It was also exhibited in cinemas all over Japan alongside the film Shin Kamen Rider^WP starting from 17 March 2023. New sets of cards featuring illustrations of Evangelion characters were distributed for the viewers.^[9]

• Shinji Ikari x Takeshi Hongo
• Rei Ayanami x Ruriko Midorikawa
• Kaworu Nagisa x Hayato Ichimonji
• Asuka Shikinami Langley x Hiromi
• Mari Makinami Illustrious x Ichiro Midorikawa

Reception[]

Miyamura and Ise commented on the OVA short in the 08 March 2023 stage greeting. Ise was surprised for her character to receive the spotlight and how she had "such a backbone".^[10]

See Also[]

• Rebuild of EVANGELION: 3.0 (-46h)

External Links[]

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