Talk:Neon Genesis Evangelion timeline

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Contents 1 end 2 Re: 2016 3 Rei Ayanami Birthdate (?) 4 "Mari"? 5 Dates 6 "Alternative Timeline"

[edit] end

As you can see,this article seems to end at the point where Shinji comes to Tokyo-3 and the Third Angel attacks.If anybody wishes to add the events from the complete series up to the film "End of Evangelion" (spoilers or no spoilers),feel free to do so .

Apparently it already has been. --Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici 00:38, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: 2016

Now that's what I'm talking about!

[edit] Rei Ayanami Birthdate (?)

Twice now a birthdate for Rei Ayanami was given and twice now it was removed.Is there an explanation for this?-R.G. 17:19, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

A birthdate for Rei is unspecified according to her data. In a script of episode 21, it is written that Rei looks like a 7-year-old girl but actually she is 5 years old in 2010. Therefore Rei(I) appears in 2005, which is the next year of 2004 when Yui Ikari disappears. -221.116.97.229 23:52, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

I have the #21 script, as well, and this is accurate. -Reichu 08:08, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Mari"?

Are you sure Mari was the official name for Touji's sister? I thought she was unnamed. Mari seems to be fanon, originating from the unfinished fanfiction "Evanjellydonut". --24.221.178.62 00:52, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Indeed it is fanon. Toji's imouto has no official name.

On a related note, another fanon name managed to make it into the timeline: "Akira" as the given for Dr. Katsuragi. As of now, he is just Dr. Katsuragi. (This could theoretically change if a prequel is produced, which can't be ruled out.) "Akira" is actually something I made up over at AnimeNations' "Eva" forum; I did a total double-take when someone reported that he'd made it onto Wikipedia. Suffice to say, it's been fixed. How was "Akira" ever mistaken for canon...? --Reichu 08:07, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Probably because it seems plausible and there are so many small niggling bits of information no person could be expected to know it all. --Gwern (contribs) 03:28 16 April 2007 (GMT)

[edit] Dates

All I have been able to track down is that episode 9 either happens in September or December, 2015. They show a calendar and only 2 days have a friday on the 30th (or something like that). So much of the "action arc" takes place in "late 2015".....of course, I mean just visually; they are 14 year olds, they dont' age more than one year in the story, etc. etc. Still, I do TRY to figure out the timeline, but we only get bits and pieces....doublecheck; does Shamshel appear 2 or 3 weeks after Sachiel?--Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici 03:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Seriously difficult to say. The EVA-ml FAQ seems to be trustworthy, so that might help. --Gwern (contribs) 04:12 16 April 2007 (GMT)

We should go over that extensively: it says "the calendar must be wrong, because it is August" and he doesn't explain why it is August. --Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici 16:50, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Alternative Timeline"

Where is the evidence for any of the actions in 2015 occuring in 2016? The "alterative date"s of January and March, given for four of the events.

If the original 25 and 26 are assumed to be consistent with End of Evangelion, then everything listed here as happening in 2015, really did happen in 2015. If they are assumed to be inconsistent, where is the evidence for any of the events moving to 2016? 74.61.41.118 01:59, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

As I recall, if you go through the series with a fine tooth comb, certain episodes show stuff like calendars with the day of the week which constrain events to falling on particular days; eventually it comes down to either a bunch of stuff happening in 2016 or everything finishing on the first day of 2016 (which I like since the beginning of a new year is a neat place to have things happen). --Gwern (contribs) 03:14 20 July 2007 (GMT)

It's that stray computer readouts, like specifically Maya's laptop in End of Eva, say "2015" on their date. Episode 26 (the head trip) says Instrumentality is in 2016. It doesn't really matter too much, but we can pretty much firmly date that the serie starts no later than August 2015 (based on work schedule in episode 2) and that Asuka and Shinji defeat Israfel in episode 8 on September 11, 2015 (it could have been December 11th, but then when Shinji spent 30 days in Eva 01 it would have been 2016, however the computers still read "2015"). So the whole series takes place roughly over a 5 month period. --Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici 03:25, 20 July 2007 (UTC)