During the big fight with the Mass Production Evas Asuka is killed. Later on, Shinji starts Instrumentality and everyone on Earth has their souls harvested (that's the big scene with Komm playing in the background). Later, Shinji realizes that Instrumentality sucks so he reverses it (that's when Giant Naked Rei dies).
The card translation says that Shinji started to strangle Asuka because he wanted to confirm that rejection and denial exist once more. Shinji knows he can't passively wait for someone to accept him; Asuka knows that she can't keep rejecting everyone.
The ending of EoE: It's a brilliant ending and it's a happy one as well (not melancholic or depressing as some might say).
It is a sad movie positive because the sad scenes are very impactful and leave a lasting impression on the viewer, even if the ending is positive. We are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
The original show's ending and End of Evangelion are both the same. The first half of the movie shows what happens in the real world, preceding the beginning of Instrumentality. SEELE attacks NERV so that they can stop Gendo from starting his version of Instrumentality.
The original anime series, plus EoE are
canon. Then you have the Rebuilds, which are another take on the series in a different form. The manga also follows a different path from the
canon story if I am correct.
All discussions.
When instrumentality occurs, everyone ceases to exist as an individual human being, but they aren't truly dead or necessarily gone forever. They've been assimilated into a sort of collective consciousness, SEELE's “next stage of humanity” (though not quite as they or Gendo had intended).
The quickest way, which is recommended by a lot of fans, would be episodes 1-20, then 21'-24', then 25-26, then The End of Evangelion. If you have more time, I would recommend the full original series, then the Director's Cut episodes, then The End of Evangelion.
If you're talking canon, you're looking at the 26 episode anime + End of Evangelion as your source material. They're considered canon unless Anno or the show contradicts it.
The order of the films is simple enough: watch Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone, then Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance, then Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo.
In my opinion it's popularity comes from its multilayered approach. It touches upon a lot of anime tropes that are instantly reconizable, and yet it manages to tweek everything just enough to make it unique and memorable. Such tropes include: - Giant robots/giant monsters.
At the very least it's worth reading a bit see how you feel about it but I personally say it's enjoyable. I've gotten all the way to chapter 9 and I like it. It does have a bit of a different tone but it still FEELS like Evangelion. The prologue in particular I really liked.
Neon Genesis Evangelion perfectly captures that overwhelming feeling of frustrating depression. When those suffering from depression get in those states, it can feel like a pit that you can't get out of. Issues you once thought you'd passed find their way back into your head, pulling you down.
Evangelion has had multiple endings -- all offering a strange perspective on a multiverse designed to make Shinji Ikari happy.
They're worth watching just to see that new material and a lot of beautiful artwork and animation, even though the character development we love takes a backseat for the sake of the narrative and general cool factor. You might like them, you might not. I love the series and love the characters, so any Eva is great.
She replied with “disgusting”, apparently meaning that she would think she was disgusting as much as her hypothetical abuser was. Anno replied “I thought as much”, apparently with a disappointed tone in his voice, but they used the way Miyamura said “kimochi warui” in that conversation as the direction for the line.
The thing you are missing from your analysis is that after Misato kisses Shinji she says that she would give the rest of it later (a.k.a. sex). This was to push Shinji to go into Unit-01 and fight to defend NERV. Oh yes I know she offered him sex, and that'd she die soon after Shinji left her.
Kaji is killed by misato. Because of her affair with Kaji NERV questioned where her loyalties lay, so they made her kill Kaji to prove her allegiance with NERV. That was the red card mission she received.
Eventually, Ritsuko reveals that Rei is in fact part of a series of clones of Shinji's mother Yui, and in fact has three iterations throughout the series. Later in End of Evangelion, Rei joins with Lilith and starts Third Impact, relinquishing control of Instrumentality to Shinji.
No, she was not. At the beginning of the series, she only thinks to herself about who Shinji has a thing for her. She is just playing on Shinji's pubescent age and teenage innuendo given that Shinji is awkward but nevertheless a male that has been very reclusive. Misato is very much in love with Kaji.
Director Hideaki Anno famously made End of Evangelion partially because of Studio Gainax ran out of money for the Evangelion TV show's final two episodes, but also because of the fan outcry over how weird and non-conclusive those two episodes were.
Overall, we could say that The End of Evangelion is a happy ending because: It never had enough drama. People turning into LCL was never a death scene. Shinji gained enlightenment during instrumentality.
Its the story or ending that is accepted as "official."
Neon Genesis Evangelion (???????????, Shin Seiki Evangelion) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and published by Kadokawa Shoten. It began in Shōnen Ace in December 1994 and ended in November 2014. It consists of 14 volumes, each composed of several "stages" or chapters.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is a manga series by Evangelion character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. Unlike it is sometimes assumed, the manga is in fact not the original version of the story, but instead it was created as a supplemental designed to promote the TV series and was continued thanks to the series' popularity.
