the union of the original angels adam and lilith triggers the third impact aka the human instrumentality project. gendo had adam embedded in his hand, and rei was made from lilith's dna; this would've theoretically allowed gendo to control the course of the third impact so he could be reunited with yui. of course, what ends up happening is rei rejects gendo bc he sucks ass and instead unites with shinji and unit 01. the world ends and everyone sees the person they love the most before they turn into goo/lcl and are joined with the universal consciousness in the black moon cradled by rei, who at this point, being gigantic and having a thousand wings, is basically lilith. shinji falls through the dreamscape of his own unconscious, as documented in episodes 25 and 26 and in the second half of end of evangelion, the result of which is that he decides that even though existing as a human being isolated from the universal consciousness is extremely painful and full of misunderstanding and loneliness, he loved everybody so much he wanted to see them again (this decision also likely hinges on the conclusion of episode 26, where shinji realizes he's capable of loving himself)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
it all returns to nothingit all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
basically
― clouds, Monday, 22 July 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
basically the end of evangelion is shinji's mom giving him a big existential hug
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link
the show ends with him being like "i love everyone" and then the end of evangelion ends with him choking asuka on the shore of a hellscape beach of an lcl sea which i found a little jarring
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
altho thank you for that post with the plot rundown it's very succinct, don't know how i would've gone about trying to summarize that ending
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, July 22, 2019 10:03 AM (fifty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
pobody's nerfect
actually: i think shinji's separation from the mass of human consciousness was traumatic, all that isolation came rushing back at him, like being born again. that his violence is met with care and concern instead of hostility reduces him to tears. and then asuka's all "kimochi warui" about it. the ending is v ambiguous and hard to read tbh, i don't blame you
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
gendo had adam embedded in his hand
I had to read up on a lot of the literal plot details afterwards, and had completely missed this. The moment where Rei absorbs Adam is also kind of awkward and obscure. Fortunately, I don't think the precise lore is really essential to see what's happening to Shinji.
― jmm, Monday, 22 July 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
man End of Evangelion is a good-ass movie
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
it's the greatest animated movie ever made
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
The moment where Rei absorbs Adam is also kind of awkward and obscure
there's a lot of stuff in end of eva that occurs so quickly only a few frames of animation are expended on it. one of these is rei stealing gendo's entire arm. another is: if you watch asuka's "i don't want to die" scene very slowly, you'll see she has a pretty vivid vision of her own eyeless corpse full of maggots
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
I'm glad someone else asked what was going on, makes me feel less stupid.
But what's with seminal anime and their oblique/opaque storytelling? I read a synopsis on FLCL and it had a surprisingly coherent plot.
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
i have no idea but i love it. flcl's plot is so straightforward lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
btw i'm glad more people have seen end of evangelion, the movie that confirms that asuka is the best character in the show
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
my fave character is misato i think
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 July 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
she is also the best character
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
cough cough pen pen cough cough
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 22 July 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
rebuild of evangelion any good?
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 July 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
yes! the first movie is almost indistinguishable from the first six episodes of the show but the other two movies get real wild, especially 3.0. however one of the more disappointing aspects of the rebuilds is that the fan service is even more obnoxious and gross than it is in the series, though this problem is also pretty isolated to 2.0
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
hey I did it
The Saturday Morning Memorial Animated Series Poll: nominations
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 26 July 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
I looked up a watch order to try to figure out whether I needed to see Evangelion Death (True)2, and a random blog suggested watching the series through ep 24, then End of Evangelion, then returning to the series and watching 25-26. I just finished ep 23, so I could do that--should I?
― rob, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
I'd suggest finishing the series first, then watching EoE. That's the order in which they were originally produced. That blog was probably suggesting doing it the other way around with the idea that it might make more narrative sense, but I think it's more interesting to stick to the actual history.
I haven't watched Death (True)2, but my understanding is that it's entirely redundant once you've seen the series and film.
― jmm, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
yeah watch 25-26 first. eoe is way more cathartic after
you do not need to watch death unless you’d like to see a few of the scenes from the series with better animation and the four children performing as a string quartet
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
death used to have a few scenes that were exclusive to it (gendo and fuyutski’s conversation over the second impact footage) but they were since incorporated into the director’s cuts of episodes 22-24
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
the sequencing is different (partially chronologically partially segmented by character) & the tug of the editing adds to the experiencing of rewatching eoe afterwards imo
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
but first go yeah just do the series & eoe
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
thank you all! tbh I'm not sure why I'm fretting over this as I already feel like I just need to rewatch the whole thing pretty soon lol
― rob, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Netflix has these director's cuts?
― maffew12, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
the director's cuts are the only versions of those episodes available on netflix yes
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
string quartet though.... hmmmThanks ^^
― maffew12, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJdgErAfiRQ
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 9 August 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
2 great tastes that taste great together
― Mordy, Friday, 9 August 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
animated series voting is open!
The New Adventures of ILXor: The Animated Series Poll voting and campaigning thread
I dunno if there's other threads I should bump, I'm fairly confident it has garnered the requisite attention
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 9 August 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
https://nicchiban.nichegamer.com/2019/12/taiwanese-politician-campaigned-as-evangelions-asuka/
― Mordy, Monday, 30 December 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
wow
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 30 December 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
xpost to Cosplay gone... good
― Nhex, Monday, 30 December 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
Anno published a lengthy article yesterday about the clusterfuck that is Gainaxmost pertinent to this thread: Gainax got into such financial difficulty that childhood friend & Gainax president Yamaga asked Anno for a 100 million yen loan in 2014, Anno gave him it interest free & with no conditions in exchange for all Eva rights (which probably explains the Netflix deal). Yamaga then started ghosting Anno over the loan repayments, sold off properties like Gunbuster without telling Anno, created shell companies, sold off production materials etc. Anno eventually sued them.more here https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-12-30/hideaki-anno-details-his-falling-out-with-gainax/.154892
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 30 December 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
I am rewatching Evangelion bcz i'm showing it to my friend for the first time and he is so hooked, there's a bunch of stuff I'm noticing that I either forgot or didn't notice before, I can't wait to watch EoE and then the Rebuilds (which I've seen once before)
**REBUILD MOVIE SPOILERS** do we all support the theory that the rebuilds are part of a time loop?
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 17 February 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
the rebuild movies are obviously set in the remade post-end of eva world to me but that might as well be a time loop
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 17 February 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link
the final rebuild movie is coming out the day after my birthday this year :D
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 17 February 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
Have we all watched the first ten mins of 3.0+1.0?
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
i haven't! idk if i want to
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
i def don't want to yet
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 17 February 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
no spoilers, but I did watch it and now I have many more questions
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
oh that means it's good
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 03:46 (four years ago) link
hi Stevie D :)
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 04:07 (four years ago) link
hellooooo!!!
god it's amazing that I've seen this in its entirety 3 times now and I'm still confused
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
3.0+1.0 delayed again :( :( :(
new English title revealed as (lol) Thrice Upon a Time
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-04-17/evangelion-3.0-1.0-film-delayed-due-to-covid-19-concerns/.158693
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
Thrice Upon a Time
haha
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
if it gets delayed til next year i'll be so sad but it's prob the only thing that makes sense
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link