If you loved Cutie Honey, try EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)²

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)²

1998 · dir. Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Masayuki, Tensai Okamura, Seiji Mizushima, Masahiko Otsuka, Hiroyuki Ishido, Shoichi Masuo, Naoyasu Habu, Tetsuya Watanabe, Minoru Ohara, Tsuyoshi Kaga, Ken Ando, Akira Takamura, Keiichi Sugiyama

What they share

Both films are directed by Hideaki Anno, and they sit in Action territory. If that's the register that drew you to Cutie Honey, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)² is

You're a quartet of teens piloting bio-mechs in a war for humanity. But the trauma runs deep, and the Angels keep coming. Director Anno remixes the anime into something like a haunted, abstract recap. It lingers, a question mark.

If you loved Cutie Honey, try EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)²

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EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)²

What they share

What EVANGELION: DEATH (TRUE)² is

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