The tweet was captioned, "sorry but this is not ok (right is from the new netflix eva script)." The post received more than 25,000 likes and 11,000 retweets in less than one week (shown below). In the clip, lines of one character proclaiming their love for another were changed from "it means I love you" in the original release to "it means I like you" for Netflix. That day, Twitter user tweeted a side-by-side comparison of a piece of a dialogue from the series.
On June 21st, 2019, the series premiered on Netflix. The site's critical consensus reads, " Neon Genesis Evangelion, both a cultural touchstone for Japan and an uncompromising auteurist vision by creator Hideaki Anno, doubles as an enthralling apex for the mecha anime genre and as a harrowing exploration of depression - making for a wholly singular epic about angels and inner demons." Subtitle Issues On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the series has a 100% fresh rating (based on 26 critical reviews. Within 24 hours, the video accumulated upwards of 219,000 views and 2,100 comments. On November 26th, 2018, the Netflix YouTube channel released the official trailer for the upcoming release of the series Neon Genesis Evangelion on the video streaming platform (shown below). The series also spawned a number of manga series, books, and video games based off the series. The first three films of this tetralogy were released in 2007, 20, respectively, while the fourth film will be released in 2020. Though the show's creator departed from Studio Gainax some time after these films were made, he would later return with his new studio, Khara, to produce Rebuild of Evangelion, an alternate retelling of the series.
In the following years, the show became a huge success and a major turning point for the then-struggling Studio Gainax, leading onto the creation of two feature films, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion, both of which were released in 1997.
Animated by Tatsunoko Productions and Gainax, and co-produced by TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems, Neon Genesis Evangelion ran as a 26-episode anime series from October 1995 to March 1996 on TV Tokyo.