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At the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2026 in Anaheim, California, Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida announced there will be an Evangelion Raid series crossover in FFXIV. This is part of the 30th anniversary of the anime series. It will be a 24-person Alliance Raid series.
A few details about the Evangelion Raid series came up during the FFXIV event, though there weren’t a ton of details. There will be more than one. Khara will be supervising Square Enix’s development of them. Work currently consists of art, designs, and modeling. Eva-01 showed up in the teaser image for it. The tentative name for these fights is Ghosts of Desire, but that could change. The matches will cover all tiers. The future Fan Fests in Berlin in July 2026 and Tokyo in October 2026 will offer more details. That’s also when we could end up seeing the first footage and art from the fights.
You can see the full day one Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2026 Anaheim, California live stream below.
Final Fantasy XIV is available for the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC, the new expansion FFXIV Evercold debuts in January 2027, and the Evangelion Raid series is in development. The Neon Genesis Evangelion anime is on Netflix, and the rebuild movies are on Amazon.
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