Thrice Upon a Time closes the rebuild tetralogy that reimagined Hideaki Anno's original series for a new generation, arriving in 2021 as the culmination of a project that began nearly fifteen years earlier.
What is Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time about?
Shinji, Asuka, and Rei emerge from the ruins left by the Fourth Impact with no working Evangelions and nowhere safe to go. They find their way to a village built by survivors in the reddened wreck of what was once Tokyo-3, a community trying to rebuild ordinary life inside a landscape that refuses to stay ordinary. Old allies have aged, grown weary, or changed sides, and the film spends real time letting Shinji sit with the guilt and fear that drove earlier chapters before turning back toward the horizon, where the shape of one final impact is gathering. The confrontation that follows is staged as much through quiet, character-focused scenes as through the mecha spectacle the series is known for.
About the cast
The voice cast returns from across the franchise's history: Megumi Ogata as Shinji, Yuko Miyamura as Asuka, Megumi Hayashibara as Rei, and Maaya Sakamoto as Mari, alongside Kotono Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Seki, and Tetsuya Iwanaga rounding out the ensemble. Many of these performers have carried these roles since the 1990s, and that history gives the reunion scenes a weight a newer cast could not supply.
Context & significance
Director Hideaki Anno built this fourth film as the closing statement of the Rebuild tetralogy, a project that reworked the original television storyline across more than a decade of production. Animation duties draw on several studios associated with the franchise, and the visual style shifts noticeably between the ruined, painterly countryside sequences and the sharper, more mechanical staging of the climactic battles. Coming after a lengthy gap between installments, the film was widely anticipated by longtime followers of the property, who had waited years to see how the story would resolve.
Watching Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time on Ktime
K-Time carries Thrice Upon a Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose the version that suits them. The page itself is free to browse; watching the film requires only a K-Time account login, alongside a paid subscription rather than any separate purchase. The Farsi-language interface makes it straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences to find their place in a long-running series and to catch up before pressing play.