Hideaki Anno rebuilt his own landmark series from the frame up for Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, a 2007 Japanese science-fiction feature that reopens the story of NERV and its teenage pilots for a new generation of viewers.
What is Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone about?
Angels, towering entities of unknown origin, keep descending on a fortified Tokyo-3, and NERV exists to meet them. Shinji Ikari, a withdrawn teenager summoned by his estranged father, is handed the controls of an Evangelion unit and pushed into combat before he has any idea what the machine actually is. Around him, fellow pilots and NERV officers each carry their own reasons for staying inside an organization whose stated mission and hidden agenda do not obviously match. The film compresses and redraws the opening arc of the original 1990s series, trading some of that show's television pacing for denser, more immediate action sequences and a visual palette built for the big screen. Motives stay murky by design: what NERV tells its pilots, what its leadership actually wants, and what the Angels represent are questions the film raises rather than settles, in keeping with a franchise that has always preferred unease to explanation.
About the cast
Megumi Ogata returns as Shinji, with Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi, and Yuriko Yamaguchi reprising key roles from the original cast alongside Akira Ishida, Fumihiko Tachiki, Motomu Kiyokawa, and Miki Nagasawa. The continuity of voice talent across more than a decade is part of what gives this rebuild its particular texture for longtime followers of the franchise.
Context & significance
You Are (Not) Alone is the first entry in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy, the project Anno launched to revisit and eventually diverge from his 1990s series with contemporary animation techniques. Released in Japan in 2007, it arrived as both a reintroduction for new audiences and a recalibration for a director returning to material that had shaped an entire generation of anime. The mecha and psychological-drama genres it draws on remain closely associated with Anno's work, and this film is frequently the entry point recommended to newcomers before the denser sequels that follow it.
Watching Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone on Ktime
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone streams on K-Time with a free account login, no separate purchase required to start watching. Both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles are available, so viewers can choose the option that suits them, all inside a Farsi-language interface built for the Iranian diaspora.