Evangelion 3.33 release date revealed by FUNimation at New York Comic Con
By The Eva Monkey on Monday, October 12th, 2015
FUNimation announced Saturday at its industry panel at New York Comic Con that it will be releasing Evangelion 3.33 to home video February 2nd, 2016. Exact details are forthcoming, however it appears that it will be sold as a Blu-ray/DVD combo. It would seem that this is it, finally, after nearly two full years of delays. You may recall that in the past, FUNimation had announced a release date of February 18th, 2014, only to retract that information a few days later. Evangelion 3.33 has since been elusive, to the frustration of many fans, with some claiming they were giving up on FUNimation’s release in favor of other methods, both legitimate, and not.
The reason behind all of this is still somewhat vague. The short is that the English dub that was released to theaters in early 2014 was not well received, to the point that some amount of the dub was reworked. FUNimation was said to have worked closely with khara to do the film justice, and that khara was contributing a subtitle track of their own. Beyond that, nothing truly satisfactory was ever shared publicly to explain or justify such a long delay. Whatever the reason, it’s a relief to finally have something definite.
Sources:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/anncast/2015-10-02/.93694
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2015-10-02/funimation-aims-to-release-evangelion-3.33-in-early-2016/.93709
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/daily-briefs/2015-10-10/funimation-evangelion-3.33-blu-ray-dvd-slated-for-february-2-2016/.94064
https://www.reddit.com/r/evangelion/comments/3o9ozs/2216_finally/