Additional versions

Since the song's initial release, many artists have covered the song. Heavy metal cover bands Animetal

Animetal

was a Japanese novelty heavy metal band who specialized in metal covers of theme songs from classic and modern Japanese anime and tokusatsu television series....

 and EIZO Japan included the track on their albums Animetal Marathon V

Animetal Marathon V

is the fifth full length album by Japanese heavy metal band Animetal. Prior to the release of this album, guitarist She-Ja left the band. He was replaced by Syu, who has worked with metal bands Galneryus and Aushvitz. Animetal Marathon V marks the band's first release under their current label VAP....

and EIZO Japan 2 respectively. Versions by cast members Megumi Hayashibara

Megumi Hayashibara

is a Japanese voice actress, singer, radio personality, and lyricist from Tokyo. She is currently affiliated with Aksent. Her nicknames include: Megu-san, Megu-nee, Bara-san, Kakka, and Daijin...

 (Rei Ayanami

Rei Ayanami

is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, a Japanese anime from Gainax. She is the First Child and pilot of the Evangelion Unit 00....

), Yuko Miyamura

Yuko Miyamura

' is a Japanese voice actress, actress, J-pop singer and director of audiography. Her married name is ', although she still works under her maiden name. Miyamura was born in Kobe, and graduated from the theater division of the Tōhō Gakuen College of Drama and Music. Her pet name is '...

 (Asuka Langley Soryu

Asuka Langley Soryu

is a 14-year old fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. Within the series, she is designated as the Second Child and the pilot of the Evangelion Unit 02...

), Kotono Mitsuishi

Kotono Mitsuishi

is a prolific Japanese voice actor from Tokyo. As a young girl, Mitsuishi lived in Nagareyama, Chiba. Mitsuishi graduated from high school in 1986, and entered the Katsuta Voice Actor's Academy. While attending the academy, she began working part time as an elevator girl in the Sunshine 60 building...

 (Misato Katsuragi

Misato Katsuragi

is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise created by Hideaki Anno. She is the operations director at Nerv, initially with the rank of captain; she is later promoted to major. In Rebuild of Evangelion Misato's rank is lieutenant colonel...

), and Megumi Ogata

Megumi Ogata

is a female seiyū and singer from the Tokyo Metropolitan area. As a singer, she goes by the name em:óu. She attended Tōkai University, but left due to lack of interest. She is also best known for voicing Sailor Uranus, Kurama and Shinji Ikari....

 (Shinji Ikari

Shinji Ikari

is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise created by Hideaki Anno. The protagonist of the series , he is the Third Child and pilots the Evangelion Unit 01...

) exist on various soundtracks and solo albums from the voice actors. Masami Okui

Masami Okui

is a Rock/Pop/Anison singer who was born in Itami, Hyōgo, Japan. She began her professional musical career at age 21 as a concert backup singer.From almost the very beginning of her career, Masami has sung themes for anime TV and movies...

 included a cover on her cover album Masami Kobushi

Masami Kobushi

-Information:*To commemorate her 10th anniversary since her first debut in 1993, Masami Okui sang self-cover version of 10 famous anime songs.*It was first released on 1 May 2003 as a limited release and became very rare after a while...

, and otaku

Otaku

is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manga or video games.- Etymology :Otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another's house or family , which is also used as an honorific second-person pronoun...

 tarento

Tarento

is a Japanese rendering of the English word "talent" and is used as a catch-all term for mass media personalities who regularly appear on television. Detractors of the phenomenon have referred to it in an English sense as "famous just for being famous" because many that fall into this career line...

 Shoko Nakagawa

Shoko Nakagawa

is a Japanese idol, tarento, actress, voice actress, illustrator, and singer. She is best known as the presenter of Pokémon Sunday. She is the daughter of Katsuhiko Nakagawa, a celebrity in Japan in the 1980s....

 has a cover version on her first anime theme cover album Shoko-tan Cover: Anison ni Koi o Shite.. A trance

Trance music

Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...

 remix is included on the Exit Trance

Exit Trance

Exit Trance is a compilation series released in Japan specializing in the Japanese J-Trance genre, a niche sub genre of J-Pop. The most prominent influence of J-Trance is to be found in Trance added to this are elements from Rave, Drum and bass and Speed core....

 album Exit Trance Presents R25 Speed Anime Trance Best 2, sung by "MAKI". Australian Hardcore DJ, S3RL has produced a track entitled "Neon Genesis" which contains samples of the original song.

Dancemania

Several dance cover remixes have appeared on the Dancemania

Dancemania

Dancemania is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially eurodance. Despite its tracks have been made by various musicians from all over the world mainly from the European continent, the albums have been released exclusively in Japan.The...

compilations.

• Shihori version

Dancemania Summer Story 2008

Wa-euro Best

Best of Wa-euro Best

Dancemania Summer Story 2009 (Techno Mix)

• Nuts version

Nuts versions have appeared on the Speed

Dancemania Speed

Dancemania Speed is a sub-series of Toshiba EMI's Dancemania compilation series. This series features faster, further remixed versions of recordings from previously released Dancemania albums or faster remixed covers of various famous songs...

series.

Anime Speed

Anime Speed

Anime Speed is a megamix compilation album of Dancemanias Speed series, released by EMI Music Japan in 2005. The album features uptempo cover remixes of popular theme songs for various anime works such as Dragon Ball Z, Slam Dunk and Neon Genesis Evangelion...

Anime Speed Newtype Edition (Quiqman Mix)

Happy Speed (Quiqman Mix)

Himetra Speed (Quiqman Mix)

• Mint version

Himetra Best

Himetra Anime*Mix

• Diana Gross (a.k.a. Kahori Fujiwara) version

Hime Trance 3 (Club Mix)