 The film titles, in contrast to the normal katakana spelling of , replace the and characters with the obsolete character and the infrequently used katakana , respectively.The change is purely a stylistic one, as there is no change in pronunciation and all appearances of the Latin spelling of "Evangelion" remain the same.The final film reverts to the original katakana spelling, but adds to the title; as it is written in katakana and not kanji, the meaning of "shin" is ambiguous and it can be alternatively translated as either , , or even something else entirely.