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* [[Acting for Two]]: Notably, [[Megumi Hayashibara]] voices Rei, Yui and Unit-01 (...and Pen-Pen). The trope is employed very deliberately in the case of the first three, seeing how they all share a connection.

* [[Anime First]]: An odd example. The [[Manga]] ran for almost a year before the series began, but it was made specifically for promoting the anime.

** The majority of the characters in the ''Evangelion'' dub have been recast at some point, but likely the most infamous case was that of Hyuga in ''Death & Rebirth'' and ''The End of Evangelion'', wherein he was replaced by a ''black man'' who sounded nothing like the previous voice whatsoever. What makes it even worse is that he [[Wild Mass Guessing|might]] have been cast out of ''spite'' by [[Manga Entertainment]], who pulled the license for ''The End of Evangelion'' out from [[ADV Films]], since Matt Greenfield, the former voice of Hyuga, was the co-founder.

** An eerie case for Kensuke in the English dub. [[Greg Ayres]] had a role in the original series as Kowaru Nagisa as well!

** It's even worse in the Spanish dub. Only Shinji retains a single voice actor through the franchise, while the rest of characters have at least two or three, and often ''very'' different sounding among them. Asuka and Kaworu, who have a different VA in almost every medium of the franchise, are the worst examples.

** The French dub does not fare much better. Only Shinji and Misato retain their voice actors through the majority of the franchise, with ''The End of Evangelion'' shuffling up most of the cast and ''1.0'' recasting everyone. Fortunately, a decent chunk of the original cast (including the aforementiond two) return for the later films.

** More generally, [http://wiki.evageeks.org/Resources:Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_Proposal_%28Translation%29 the original proposal for Evangelion] has been translated. Fans are particularly curious about the "Ruins of Arqa". Also, some have pointed to similarities with ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]''. Finally, the humanoid angel (likely a Kaworu prototype) was initially described as having a cat; this is [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] considering the manga, and was probably a [[Shout-Out]].

** The live-action movie (see [[Development Hell]] above).

* [[Word of God]]: Anno has issued a few surprising or controversial statements about ''Evangelion'', for example his quip that it [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|shouldn't]] [[Wild Mass Guessing|be]] analyzed because it was just "a scream" on his part.

* [[Writing by the Seat of Your Pants]]: Downplayed. The series does by and large follow the plot as it was outlined in the original first draft proposal, with the first half or so being more or less beat-for-beat to the outline. But a case of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] with the Aum Shinrikyo cult's terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway leading to much of the script having to be scrapped and Anno being in heavily treatment for his clinical depression, meant that the show starts seriously deviating from said proposal around Episode 16 and forwards.

* Many of the characters were named after various WWII-era naval vessels, most often aircraft carriers. ''Katsuragi'', ''Akagi'', and ''Soryu'' were all aircraft carriers; the ''Akagi'' led the attack on Pearl Harbor. ''Ayanami'' and ''Fuyutsuki'' were destroyers; ''Fuyutsuki'' rescued survivors from the great ''Yamato'' when she was sunk near Okinawa in 1945. ''Kirishima'' and ''Hyuga'' were battleships that were part of the fleet which attacked Pearl Harbor. ''Ibuki'', ''Maya'' and ''Aoba'' are names of heavy cruisers; the ''Ibuki'' existed only on paper, it was never built. The ''Hyuga'' is another warship. ''Langley'' is also the name of two American aircraft carriers, and the ''Graf Zeppelin'' is the name of an uncompleted Nazi-German aircraft carrier.

** Similarly, Ikari means "anchor."

** And then repeated use of Nein (No) and Tod (Death).