Feb 24, 2026
3 min read
The news fans have been waiting for for years is here: the legendary Japanese anime is getting a new anime series.
All fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion have learned over the years, with sadness and relief, that the word "end" does not mean the end of freedom.It happened in 1996, it happened in 1997, it also happened in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy films.And now it's happened again: A new animated series, Evangelion, has been announced during the celebration of the series' thirtieth anniversary.
This news came to Yokohama, during the festival dedicated to the thirty years of the beginning of television.This was announced by the studios that own and manage the franchise Studio Khara and CloverWorks.At the moment, the official information is minimal: no synopsis, details about the number of episodes, format, platform or release date.We don't know if it will be a sequel, prequel, spin-off or something new.
But we know who will do it.And this is where things get interesting.
Alla sceneggiatura e alla composizione narrativa è stato chiamato Yoko Taro, autore di culto dietro la serie NieR e personalità tra le più eccentriche e radicali del panorama videoludico contemporaneo. Alla regia ci saranno Kazuya Tsurumaki, storico collaboratore del franchise e già regista dei film della tetralogia Rebuild of Evangelion, e Toko Yatabe, che aveva lavorato come assistant director su Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time. Le musiche, altro nome pesante, saranno firmate da Keiichi Okabe, compositore celebre proprio per le colonne sonore di NieR.
A dream team, as said, combining the inside history of Evangelion with an outside view that can be weakened - which is what Evangelion has always done best.
We already have the first teaser for the new Evangelion series.
As if the announcement wasn't enough, the first trailer for the new Evangelion animated series has also been released.It's short, mysterious, in perfect gospel style: visual suggestions, thick atmosphere, no concrete answers.
Even so, information remains minimal: no official title, no indication of plot or release date.But the fact that the project is already at a stage where it can present moving images says a lot about concreteness.
The teaser promises rather than reveals.Above all, it promises a continuation of the tone: the anxiety, the tension, the air of suspended apocalypse that has made the brand instantly recognizable even to those who can't tell Eva from Gundam.
Evangelion's cause is (still) a cult
To understand why the announcement of a new Evangelion series is such a big deal, we need to remember what Neon Genesis Evangelion was and still is.
When Neon Genesis Evangelion debuted in 1995, it wasn't just a robot anime.It was mecha, yes, but it was also (above all) a psychological excavation, a story about identity, about depression, about isolation, about the impossibility of communication.He rewrote the rules of the genre, mixing spectacular action with brutal introspection, religious symbolism and teenage vulnerability.
Over time, the franchise expanded into films, manga, video games, and the monumental tetralogy Rebuild of Evangelion, which reworked and further complicated the already notoriously multi-layered mythology.And a global, intensely loyal, almost religious fandom has grown up around Evangelion, whose cultural influence in Japan has been compared to that of Star Wars in the United States.
But Evangelion has become a cult for its conflicted relationship with many.The series constantly teeters between revelation and disappointment, between explanation and subversion of expectations.The endings - plural - are never closed;They are open.They turn each "end" into a possible beginning.
And here is probably a lie: Evangelion is not a story of Angels and Eves and apocalyptic effects.It's a story about trauma and recovery, about the idea that we can start over by changing our thoughts.Each renewal does not erase the past: it rewrites, repeats, questions it.
Yoko Taro's entry into the universe seemed inevitable.A writer obsessed with the cycle of storytelling.Retelling, Destruction, and Rebirth Yoko Taro often proclaims how much Evangelion has influenced his work.If anyone can handle a difficult story without ruining it.That person is him.
Truman Capote died in Bel Air on the day he was born in Genoa, after a long journey of self-awareness he had resigned himself to thinking was just a coincidence.Graduated in International Relations and from Holden, he worked for a long time in European institutions, writing in his spare time for L'Ultimo Uomo, Minima et Moralia, Pandora and other publications.In 2018 he joined the editorial staff of Italia, now Digital Managing Editor.He also wrote two books and some screenplays.
