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New Evangelion Anime Series in Production

The final program of the "EVANGELION:30+; 30th ANNIVERSARY OF EVANGELION" event held in Yokohama today announced that a brand-new anime series in the Evangelion franchise is in production at Studio Khara and CloverWorks.

Kazuya Tsurumaki, director of the Rebuild films and Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, helms the project alongside Toko Yatabe, who was an assistant director on Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a TimeNieR creator Yoko Taro is penning the script and series composition, and NieR composer Keiichi Okabe is providing the music.



Additional details were not revealed at the time of reporting.

The original Neon Genesis Evangelion TV anime was directed by Hideaki Anno, animated at Gainax and aired for 26 episodes from October 1995 to March 1996. Two films, Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion followed in 1997. The series eventually returned in a quartet of reimagined Rebuild of Evangelion films from Studio Khara, with the first opening in 2007 and the final, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, opening in 2021.