Death and Rebirth

No, not us.
But it is nice to be back – happy new year to everybody!

Tonight, Monday 5 Jan 09, from 1am (i.e. Tuesday morning), our friends at SBS are showing the cult Japanese anime Neon Genesis Evangelion”: Death and Rebirth.

Evangelion: Death, the first part of the film, is a digest of clips from the first 24 episodes of the TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion) (1995). It covers the fight against the invading giant robots known as Angels. The only defence against them is the NERV organisation’s EVAs, giant biomechanical robots piloted by humans.

Evangelion: Rebirth reveals why humanity and the Angels cannot co-exist: the Angels were not aliens but failed attempts by the organisation SEELE (German for “soul”) to move humanity onto a higher plane of evolution by subsuming all individual souls into one giant soul – a plan known as the Human Instrumentality Project.

It’s dubbed into English.