[EVA] The Funimation Dub

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Gwern Branwen wrote:
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>> Also, in the Eva production timeline in the Collectors BoxSet, Anno proposed the first in-house draft of "Evangelion" to Gainax for consideration on September 20, 1993 -- over two years before the start of the series. The Series Plan (2nd draft) and plot/synopsis of all 26 episodes was submitted on January 5 of the following year (1994), and for the most part "fixed" (in-house) the following month on February 4.  The Planning Draft for external distribution was completed in April of that same year -- a year and a half before the start of the series.
>> Production work for Ep.1 ws completed in April 1995, and Ep.2 in May 1995, but the opening and ending sequences were not finished until September.
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> (Kaworu thread people: note also the date of the OP/ED completion. As
> I said, the storyboard description doesn't push Kaworu back past
> September 1995, after a lot of episodes had been made or planned out.)
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I'm slightly confused here. When was the original plot drafted? The one 
from the Newtype Collection. Was it as far back as 1993?