Animeleague

As you may have heard, Netflix managed to secure the worldwide rights to the original Neon Genesis Evangelion - but not Funimation's English Translation of it.

In it, Rei is referred to as "the First Children" instead of "First Child."


Shinji and Asuka are the "Second Children" and "Third Children"

Text remains largely untranslated.

And the end song is not "Fly me to the Moon" - issues over licencing rights. It's one of the interim music.

I've just watched the first episode, still the same animation, just new voices reading a slightly different script.

Netflix is just awful at translation in the first place

I think the translation is Netflix' least problem as far as anime is concerned. But it still is a problem.

I i watched it all it was ok but it did not feel as connected to characters as i did with original dubbed version

from what i've heard they cut out kaworu's flirting with shinji

that kinda kills a whole slew of motivating factors and interests for shinji since he'd never had someone interested in him and always felt cast out