History Trivia / NeonGenesisEvangelion

* EndOfAnEra: ''Evangelion'' firmly killed the notion that anime appealing to a wide teenager and adult audience were viable only in OVA form. It also ended the "kodomo" era of the mecha genre (as there was declining interest in mecha from the tween and younger teen audiences who overwhelmingly switched to [[FightingSeries battle shounen]] series by the late 1990s) and ushered in a second otaku era, with a noticeably more "anything goes" era, a looser definition of what exactly can be mecha and more serious themes being explored once again, to an extent not seen in the genre since the peak of the [[RealRobotGenre real robot]] boom in the early 1980s.

** The TV series and first two films were originally owned by Gainax, but when Anno formed Khara, the studios jointly owned the rights to the series. That was until 2014 when Khara eventually bought out Gainax's rights after a legal battle between the two entities.

** The series was also redubbed into Spanish (Latin and European), French, German, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese for the Netflix release. The European Spanish cast is completely different like the English ones. There was only one reprisal in German and Italian, and two in French. Latin America (Mexico/Brazil) had the most reprisals, mostly from the Animax dub of ''Renewal''.

** Donald Reignoux, the French voice for Shinji, disliked his work on the first French dub of the original TV series and refused to work for Chinkel (VSI's French studio) for years. He admitted he had a terrible time during the dub's recording sessions and refused to work at Chinkel for decades. He has since come to accept the role, and finally returned as Shinji in 2.0 and 3.0.

*** Despite Donald Reignoux and Laurence Bréheret [[RoleReprise coming back to voice Shinji and Misato]] for the French dub, everyone else was replaced.

*** In the Italian dub, everyone else suffered the same fate as the other dubs, [[RoleReprise except for]] Oliviero Dinelli, who voiced Kozo Fuyutsuki in every incarnation of the ''Evangelion'' series. Interestingly enough, a couple other actors from the original series returned for this dub as different characters. For example, Creator/DomitillaDAmico, the original voice for the younger Asuka, returned here as Misato. However, most of the original cast [[TheOriginalDarrin returned]] for the Prime Video release of ''Rebuild''.

*** The French dub brings back Donald Reignoux and Laurence Bréheret as Shinji and Misato, respectively. They are notably the only surviving original cast members to make a return.
*** The Italian dub has Oliviero Dinelli once again returning as Kozo Fuyutsuki.

* IKnewIt: For Netflix's English dub:
** Quite a few people predicted that Creator/CarrieKeranen and Creator/JohnnyYongBosch would voice Misato and Toji. They were right.
** Many fans have also correctly guessed the dub would be recorded at VSI's Los Angeles studio.

* As an interesting note for both Latin American and Spaniard viewers, ''Evangelion'' is, to this date, the only Creator/StudioGainax series dubbed to Spanish and Portuguese respectively, at least for Latin American viewers. Spaniards are a bit more luckier, as they got ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'' and ''Anime/OtakuNoVideo'' first, through only ''Nadia'' got a dub there. Also, for both Latin Americans and Spaniards alike, this is also the first Creator/StudioKhara work (not including ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'') dubbed in that language, now that they own the rights of the franchise.

** The kanji for "baka!".