Episode 41: Shinji, It's Been Twelve Months... (01 Angel Attack, and 02 The Beast)

ADV Films

The series was distributed in North America and Europe by ADV Films.[126] The thirteen English VHS tapes, released from August 20, 1996, to July  7, 1998, contained two episodes each and were released using the same  "Genesis 0:(volume number)" titling convention as the first Japanese  home video release. Two laserdisc collections were released as Collection 1 Deluxe Edition[127] and Collection 2 Deluxe Edition,[128] containing episodes one to four and five to eight, respectively. The first DVD release by ADV Films was the eight-disk Perfect Collection in 2002, containing the original installments.[121] In 2004, ADV released two DVD compilations titled Neon Genesis Evangelion: Resurrection and Neon Genesis: Reborn, encompassing the directors' cuts of episodes from the twenty-first to the twenty-fourth.[121] In the same year, the Platinum Edition release was announced by ADV in 2004,[129] consisting of seven DVDs[130] released between July 27, 2004, and April 19, 2005.[131] The Platinum Edition contained the original twenty-six episodes and the four "Director's cut" versions[132] of episodes from the twenty-first to the twenty-fourth. A six-disc version of the Platinum Edition, the Platinum Complete Edition, was released on November 22, 2005, and omitted several extras included in other versions, including commentary and trailers.[133] A seven-disc Platinum Perfect Collection tin case version was released on November 27, 2007, and included the extras that were omitted from the Platinum Complete Edition.[134][135] On November 18, 2008, a seven-disc Holiday Edition DVD was released; this would be the final DVD release of the series from ADV Films.[136] In late November 2011, it was announced the series was going out of print.[1