Time of Eve

In the near future, every household has a servant robot. Some people treat them with contempt, while others get obsessed. One day, two high school boys stumble across a mysterious café that offers a third option: talk to them, free of prejudice, or even full knowledge of who’s a robot and who’s human. Shocked and rattled by the experience, the boys find themselves learning more about the world and themselves than they ever could have imagined.

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An auteur independent work from director Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Patema Inverted, Sing a Bit of Harmony), Time of Eve is a critical darling that won the 2010 Tokyo Anime Award for Original Video Animation. This new edition contains the feature film version in English and Japanese, along with the original 6-part web series from which it was assembled.

"9.5/10! A tight and compelling story regarding human and android relationships."

- Old Man Dream, AnimeVice

"I fell in love with 'Eve No Jikan' in about five minutes flat. It made me think. It made me laugh. I just couldn't stop watching."

- Asian Movie Pulse.com

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"Five Stars! Beautifully-animated, lovingly detailed, and expertly written... a philosophical piece of science fiction... by turns, fascinating, poignant, and saddening."

- T.H.E.M. Anime Reviews

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"Within its relatively short timespan, Time of Eve manages to explore a great many existential questions."

- DoctorKev, AniTAY-Official

Blu-ray Version History

v2.0 Complete Collection (2024)

• Based on Kickstarter disc but reauthored from scratch

• Added complete web series version

• Added German, French dubs to Pale Cocoon

• Added Yoshiura interview for Pale Cocoon

• Added new 2024 Yoshiura retrospective Interview

• Added trailers for Pale Cocoon and Aquatic Language (with subtitles; included as un-subtitled easter eggs on Kickstarter disc)

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v1.0 Kickstarter Edition (2014)

• Time of Eve movie edition in Japanese and English

• Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Hebrew, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese

• Short films Aquatic Language (JPN, ENG dub), Pale Cocoon (JPN)

• Audio Commentary by director Yoshiura

• Interviews with cast members Jun Fukuyama, Rie Tanaka, Rina Sato, Kenji Nojima, and director Yoshiura

• Yoshiura Fan Q&A Video

• Opening Day and Behind the Scenes videos

• Art Galleries

• Original Theatrical Trailer

Note: Kickstarter version contained additional physical goods.

Blu-ray Disc itself was later reissued as mass-market edition.

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v1.0 - Web Version (Japanese release, 2010)

• Web series only

• In Japanese with English Subtitles