Editors' Note

Two thousand eight saw the release of Evangelion: 1.01, Hideaki Anno's opening story arc in [End Page 345] his remake of Neon Genesis Evangelion. The original series, first released in 1995, has become a major force in anime for directors, who needed to deal with the implicit challenges posed by Eva, and for fans, for whom it provided an endlessly fascinating opportunity for exegesis and interpretation. Events like the new Eva are not common, and so, wanting to provide different opinions about Anno's new work, we asked three reviewers to comment. Was it worth it to remake a classic, and what, if anything, is genuinely new about Eva 1.01? Here are their reviews.