Preorders are now live for the Blu-ray of Evangelion: 3.0 + 1.11 Thrice Upon a Time, the fourth and final chapter in the Rebuild of Evangelion film series. You can also preorder a limited-edition 4K Blu-ray version of the film that comes with plenty of extras. Both editions release on October 17, and thanks to Amazon’s preorder price guarantee, you’ll get the lowest price offered from the time you order to release.
Evangelion 3.0+1.11: Thrice Upon a Time
The limited-edition version of Thrice Upon a Time packs in a 4K UHD disc and two Blu-ray discs, a 28-page book, a 16.5″ x 11.7″ poster, and five art cards, while the full-HD standard edition has two Blu-ray discs so that fans can own both the English and Japanese language versions of the movie. As for extras on the discs, there are messages from the staff who worked on the film, promotional reels, TV spots, and trailers.
“Shinji Ikari is still adrift after losing his will to live, but the place he arrives at teaches him what it means to hope,” reads the official synopsis for the fourth film, which probably won’t make sense unless you’ve seen the previous three movies. “Finally, the Instrumentality Project is set in motion, and he will make one last grueling stand to prevent the Final Impact.”
The Rebuild of Evangelion project is essentially a retelling of the cult-classic Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series that took years to unfold, and began in 2007 with Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone. While that film was a nearly line-for-line and shot-for-shot remake of the first six episodes of the anime series, it did deviate from the plot in subtle but noticeable ways, and the following films began to drift even further away from the source material.
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance was released in 2009 and Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, which broke free entirely from series canon, arrived in 2012. Thrice Upon a Time concluded that tale, and while it does reference the infamous End of Evangelion, it’s still wildly different from the original anime. Evangelion: Thrice Upon a Time will be released on October 17.
