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Are you sad, upset and looking for answers? If you do not finish Evangelion with the final movie, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, you will leave confused, depressed, and irritated. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 has the perfect ending for all the pain, disgust, and trauma you suffer watching this series. Let me start by saying the robot fighting is not what Evangelion is actually about. The first layer of the Evangelion onion is that everything in Evangelion is a representation of the directors mental battles. All the characters represent a part of the directors personality traits. For example Shinji represents his self-hatred, social anxiety, and his urge to run away from responsibilities. Asuka represents the directors fierce pride and mirrors the side of him that demanded perfection and va…
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If the ending of Evangelion left me confused, this movie somehow made me even more confused but in a way I actually loved.
The movie takes the ideas from the series and presents them in a much more intense and cinematic way. What I liked most is how deeply it focuses on Shinji, Asuka, Rei and their emotional struggles. Nobody feels completely good or bad, and their decisions are often messy and painfully human.
The animation is incredible, and the atmosphere can feel genuinely unsettling without relying only on action. The music and visuals also make the whole experience feel much bigger than a normal anime movie.
It definitely isn't an easy watch, and I still don't think I understand every single detail. But emotionally, it hit me much harder than I expected. It's strange, uncomfortabl…
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Well, this is more like it now, isn't it? I'll confidently assume that in order to watch this, you've seen the original Neon Genesis Evangelion and ended up here as the direct sequel. So you're aware that this is essentially an alternate ending that properly wraps things up. To me, this is the proper conclusion to this legendary epic! No disrespect to the original ending, it has the right to exist, but this actually gives closure to it all and wraps up the story in true. So to get the full Evangelion experience, you must see this!
Firstly, on a technical level this knocks it out of the park! I already loved the oldschool traditional animation of Eva with how smooth and expressive it is, along with the amazing background work. But this here is a step above even that! Character moments are…
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This was nothing short of an amazing work of fiction. Shinji x Asuka dynamic is so well written and in this movie, we see them at their absolute peak. evangelion really peaks here with its main theme of escapism.I think Shinji's character is essentially built around the contradiction between wanting human connection and being afraid of it. He desperately wants to be understood and accepted, but he's also terrified of rejection and the pain that comes from getting close to others. Instrumentality represents an escape from that contradiction. if the boundaries between people disappear, then loneliness and rejection disappear as well. However, genuine connection also becomes impossible because there is no longer a meaningful distinction between people. Shinji ultimately has to choose whether…
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This is it. Like, this is what I was waiting for. I honestly think I made a good call to watch this at home than in a theater for my first time cause I think I would’ve caused a scene from how beautiful this is. This is up there as one of my favorite works of art ever created. It truly felt like one big painting of pain, suffering, sadness, and even breathtaking of a world falling to despair but also beauty? The third impact might be the most horrifying but also the most beautiful thing to have graced my eyes and even my ears with that amazing song that is played while it is going on, how do humans even make something like this. That son of a bitch Hideaki Anno knew that what he was making was pure cinema. Pretty much making a well rounded film and story even though it’s the finale to sho…
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The World Doesn't End When You're Afraid of It
End of Evangelion takes everything the series built and pushes it to its most extreme conclusion — and Shinji's conclusion is to erase the problem entirely. Merge everyone into one. No more people, no more pain.
It's understandable. But it's still just running away.
What the film gets right is that it never pretends the world isn't hard. It is. People are complicated, relationships are messy, and sometimes everything feels like too much. But Instrumentality isn't an answer to that — it's the refusal to look for one. Not everyone out there means you harm. There are people who can actually help you find your footing, if you let them.
The ending puts Shinji back in a broken world with no promises attached, and that feels honest. Life doesn't ha…
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The true conclusion of a landmark: Evangelion in its rawest and most complete form
Shinseiki Evangelion Movie: Air/Magokoro wo, Kimi ni is not just an alternate ending; for many, it's the definitive conclusion to one of the most influential works in Japanese animation. While the original anime opted for an introspective and highly abstract conclusion, this film delivers a more concrete resolution to the events, without abandoning the psychological and philosophical density that defines Evangelion.
The narrative here is intense, uncomfortable, and at times brutal. The film aims to close the arcs of the characters and the world, but it does so in a challenging way, demanding attention and interpretation from the viewer. There are no easy answers: the story remains laden with symbolism, exi…
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I don't know man. This shit is like watching LiveLeak dashcam footage. People talk about it like it's some generational work of art and it is just baffling to me. This is a lot closer to an alleyway time machine schematic an old schizophrenic homeless guy drew in his own shit. It's just scene after scene of the most delusional bullshit happening back to back to back, like it's just trying to confuse and shock you. Every scene is just like "what the fuck was that" or "why the hell did they leave that in" or "why is misato a pedophile now" all just to end and resolve nothing. I seriously believe that this is parody, like its trying to fool a bunch of pretentious art students into writing their dissertations on it and making them dig around for meaning where there is none. Which is honestly a…
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Incredible movie...
Despite its brevity (only an hour and a half), the absorbing commitment to watching it makes it seem like it lasted several hours.
A sidequel that completely changes the perception of the ending of an anime series.
It explains an indescribable number of aspects, but leaves many things unsaid.
The animation is at an incredible level of quality, again like in anime, each frame could be a standalone uncommon painting.
The musics and sound effects are unforgettable, and the abstract nature of certain scenes and animation only increases the impact for a viewer.
The plot is also surprising and has shocking moments (the iconic Misato kiss scene and hospital scene).
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As someone who loves the original Evangelion series and the Rebuild series. I understand that the story is overcomplicated, the fans are pretentious and annoying, however ever since i finished the original series, i didn't like the last 2 episodes of the series. However I disliked this Movie even moreso, i understand that it's point is to portray depraved and confused characters, the most weird controversial scenes, including the ending of Evangelion are mostly from this movie. i liked shinji's character in the series, i kind of liked misato's character, but this movie made understanding her even more complicated and confusing.
i really want to put this in the 'Not Recommended' option, however to the people who can stomach weird and disturbing endings, you might like this, this doesn't ha…
Read at the sourceGabrielBruzzi
The memory of the widespread hatred for Shinji Ikari contains a profound truth, we only condemned in him what we had already hated, and suppressed, within ourselves.
The initial revulsion directed at him was not born of his failings, but of a shared, unacknowledged vulnerability. We condemned his self-doubt and his impulse to retreat traits we diligently suppress beneath the rigid armor of our adult façades. His palpable, agonizing reluctance became a despised mirror, reflecting the deep, uncomfortable truth that our own hard-won competence is often just a thin shield over an enduring, childlike fear of engagement. Thus, the initial hatred was merely the pain of seeing our unresolved inner conflict given agonizingly raw expression.
The contempt aimed at Shinji was never about his inabili…
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In my opinion better than the 26 episode show.
It makes every bit of Evangelion more clear and allows you to understand the portraited world way better.
After watching the show, go watch TEoE and come back to rewatch the show to understand it perfectly (or close to perfect).
The lore goes deeper, clears so many thinks out and in general makes the story more pleasant and the characters development wasier to see/view. I will definitely have to come back and rewatch the 26 episodes and I won't be like "man that's weird" anymore but more likely "damn, EoE told me so much lore that everything in this show makes sense".
Evangelion is a series which you need to watch in full to understand it, unlike other anime where you understand it's story, lore and plot straight away.
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"The End of Evangelion" replaces the romanticism and positivity of the last two episodes of the series with a much angrier, more expository, and raw approach that the anime could never have imagined. Perhaps that's why there's a colossal ambition to portray Shinji as the most disgusting person ever here.
Anno seeks to maintain the thesis he defended on March 20, 1996, but here it's enhanced by a curious meta-narrative about his own audience; what stands out is a direct commentary on the public, composed of mercy but exponentially accusatory. Such curiosity was already present in the series, but less obvious and cruel.
The experimental editing and intimate framing of episodes 24 and 25 give way to the scatological explosion of the Third Impact. There is still room for inner reflecti…
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finally rewatched the End of Evangelion, which believe it or not, I was deathly terrified of rewatching because of how emotional this movie makes me. So I built up the emotional courage to rewatch this movie and, it 100% is still a masterpiece, as I remembered it.
This movie is one of, it not the most imaginative movies ever made. Every single visual in this movie is so eye-popping, the animation and detail upgrade is immaculate, the cinematography is perfect, everybody looks so lively and so full of soul. The soundtrack is incredible, I could go on about this movie for its visuals and audio, but I think you understand it.
The real question is, does this movie serve as an amazing conclusion to the narrative of Neon Genesis Evangelion? And the answer is: is the pope catholic? The movie m…
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Μy Favorite Anime , the themes , the symbolism , the tone of the series , the characters , everything in this show means a lot to me , I was in high school when I watched it , it resonated with me , what Hideaki Anno felt before and during the production of this show , was very clear inside the show , he opened his heart and Evangelion is the window to see what is inside , it is , without a doubt , a masterpiece , something that divided the history of the Anime market in two eras , the before Evangelion , and the after Evangelion, it influenced so much , not only anime , but animation in general, it unlocked expression, it carved the way for experimentation , and it showed the world that you can make a great animated story about mature psychological topics ,you can make your characters fee…
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I fully just... can't even describe what I just experienced. It's like a full tidal wave of action, philosophy, psychological horror, and pure mind f*** all reigned into one gloriously assembled parade.
I fully just had to sit in my chair, listen to the minimal ambience around me, and physically process what had just occured. If you like psychological media, give this a watch (after the first season of Evangelion). It needs to be experienced.
Even writing this, I am reeling from my mind to what end I have been changed, torn from viewing this. I see the frames each one a pure pinprick to the corners of your psyche, and I wonder what in God's name just happened.
I loved this if you couldn't already tell, 10/10.
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"But there is this big war trying to like basically destroy humanity, because humanity has free will, and there is a decision to which level we want to go to. We have free will, so evil is allowed to come in and contend—not just good. And the elites themselves—believe their racing using human technology to try to take our best minds and build some type of breakaway civilization, where they’re going merge with machines, transcend, and break away from the failed species of this man, which is kind of like a false transmission, because they’re thinking what they are is ugly and bad, projecting it onto themselves, instead of believing, no, it’s a human test about building us up. And so..."
-Alexander Emerick Jones
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No idea what this was, for starters this is an ending to the series not a standalone movie.(Incase you haven't seen the series)
For any normal person looking for a quick review, whatever they started smoking at the end of the anime still hadn't worn off when they wrote this movie. There will be no real answers, or enjoyable plot, just ego stroking for the writers. (they did a real self insert at the start IYKYK)
I feel any reviewer that gave it a positive review should be required to explain the entirety of the plot, with drives, character arcs, setups and payoffs. IMO you should be able to summarize the fundamental lesson/focus/struggle in 1-2 sentences for a show to be good/focused. It would probably take pages to try to explain what was going on, and as a viewer I took away nothing w…
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From the first moment of the film, the theme was present in every scene. The pace is fast, and the Events escalate in a way that makes you unable to close your eyes. You feel like you're inside a real nightmare, full of chaos, fate, and an imminent apocalypse.
Their contributions helped confront disasters in painful and surprising ways, and they are all truly the same within them, whether through weakness or strength. Shinji reaches a difficult psychological state, trying to understand himself, the people around him, and decides to change the world.
The film, at its climax, takes him to a stage where he confronts himself. It gives him a choice between an ideal world without pain, where everyone is united, with no separations and no completion... or a real world full of exhaustion, but wi…
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The End of Evangelion is quite literally what the last two episodes of the series might have been. When the TV series ended on a note of abstract visuals and highfalutin' philosophies that left me more confused than gratified, this movie can deliver actual closure without losing that psychological bite Evangelion is renowned for. It's not a comfortable watch by any means, but compared to the series finale, this seemed much more grounded and fascinating. The film actually gives us the epic showdown we've been promised, with the same mix of human drama and larger-than-life situation that made the show so good in the first place.
What struck me most is how even-handed the film feels. It still delves into the psyches of the characters and all the somber themes of loneliness, fear, and identit…
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