For 30 years, Neon Genesis Evangelion has been steadfastly resisting any attempt to explain or summarize not just what the anime series is about overall but also its fundamental plot, thanks to creator Hideaki Anno’s constant revisions, retellings, and retcons. To honor this maddening legacy, GKids is re-releasing Evangelion‘s two alternate ending movies, Evangelion:Death (True)² & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion, in theaters for two nights only. The original anime series, which aired for 26 episodes between 1995 and 1996, follows Shinji Ikari, a teenager who is recruited by a shadowy organization called Nerv to pilot a giant mech and fight beings known as Angels. The series’ last two episodes were famously confounding, leading to demand for an alternate ending. That’s what Evangelion:Death (True)² & Rebirth and The End of Evangelion attempt to provide. Evangelion:Death (True)² & Rebirth, according to a GKids press release, is “composed of Evangelion:Death, a compilation of episodes 1-24 out of the original 26 episode series, as well as Evangelion:Rebirth, a portion of the alternative ending of episode 25, ‘Air.'” Rebirth also forms the first part of The End of Evangelion, which was originally released in theaters just four months after Rebirth.