This isn't a climax. It's a held breath before one. Evangelion: 3.0 (-46h) strips away spectacle entirely to sit inside Midori's head while the world ends, watching her make the small choices that reverberate backward through the entire rebuild saga. Nothing explodes here. The devastation is quiet, deliberate, the kind that only hits if you've already given yourself over to Anno's vision completely.

Midori Kitakami is at the center of this short Evangelion OVA, a prequel set before the events of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo. It consists of new footage made for a bonus disc packaged with the Blu-ray and DVD of EVANGELION:3.0+1.11 THRICE UPON A TIME, and that release coincided with the second anniversary of the film's first theatrical run. As an entry in a mecha franchise, it falls under action and science fiction.