Ending Evangelion

Boys will literally reinvent anime as an art medium before going to therapy 😔😔

You can do nothing but respect a man who's spent around 26 years developing a fantastical, horny, confusing, and visually stunning series with the sole purpose of telling a bunch of nerds to go touch grass.

Honestly Shinji just flirting with Mari, and acting like a normal human being was such a incredible beat to end the movie on. Like hes finally moved away from any feelings of acting like an anime character, and just being a person. Absolutely loved the ending, definitely worth the wait

How to sum up Evangelion: "Try to love yourself, then go outside and talk to other people, you fucking nerds! It'll be good for you, I promise." Thank you, Geoff. Truly.

After reading that Anno admitted that Eva is a series that happens in a loop, the catharsis of Shinji acknowledging his past incarnations choices to destroy and recreate the world he suffered in, and seeing him finally break away from his fickle thinking and go on to become an actual person with autonomy in his decision making made the rebuilds more than worth it.

I kind of expected an ending like this, but it was still extremely cathartic to watch it play out. It feels like we've been in the backseat of Anno's open-air therapy session for decades now.

The best moment of 3+1 is when Gendo starts actually explaining himself to Shinji. Where they actually bond. Where they actually learn to really care about each other, even if just for a moment.

Basically my experience with Eva: Kid me: Eva's so lame and Shinji is a wimp Adult me: Oh god--we're all Shinji Ikari.

We need a spin-off that’s just 2 and a half hours of Rei farming and learning about life.

I just love the choice to make all endings effectively canon - there's no invalidation of previous endings or plot points, just another telling of the story

I watched the original series when I was about 19, and I rewatched it 19 years later (last year) and realised I wasn’t nearly emotionally mature enough to appreciate it back then. Rewatching it with 19 years of life experience made me relate to it and connect with it on a whole other level. NGE and EoE are two of the best things I’ve ever seen, and while Rebuild didn’t reach those same heights for me, I’m glad I watched it and I like the sense of closure it delivers.

Reminder to everyone to watch the Anno documentaries which also dropped on prime. They give exactly the insight needed to confirm everything being said here. It took a couple decades, some fan service, and a couple kaiju films, but the man finally grew up.

It feels odd so see everyone’s character development wrapped up so neatly in a single film. To see them all happy. Shinji is finally able to love himself and interact with people normally, Asuka is able to find someone that really cares about her and live life without need for validation, Rei is able to create an identity for herself and live a life that makes her happy, Kaworu is able to finally end the cycle and pursue his own happiness while not getting queer erasure’d, and Mari is, well, Mari. It feels so strange that you can realistically imagine them all going on a road trip, having a movie night etc and doing normal adult friend things. Truly an outstanding goodbye to all of evangelion.

I feel like if you started EVA when you were a bit younger and had some life experiences along the way, it’ll hit even harder. I was just starting college when I watched EVA, still in a high school mindset, since then I’ve graduated, been thrown into the real world, matured, had hardships, and grown up just like Shinji. I think 3.0+1.0 was truly a masterpiece, something any adult can relate to, makes it that much more poetic when you think about where the characters were when it started, and I think all their arcs were wrapped up beautifully. Well done video.

As someone who suffers immensely from the core issues that plague the characters of Eva and what you discussed, your closing lines brought me to tears. Thank you.

In just under half an hour, he gets to the heart of Evangelion, and what it's always meant. Both for its creator and its audience. Sure, there'll be hour-long essays that say a lot more, but nothing beats the compactness, and thoroughly mature articulation of this video. Thank you Geoff.

“Signing out, from the office, in the house I’m renting” What a perfect way to end the video

One of my favorite scenes in the movie is when Mari finally called Shinji by his name instead of referring to him as "Puppy Boy", because to me it felt like she was starting to see Shinji in a new light, thus pushing their development and making the end more enjoyable.

When a man watches his creation on the danger of Otaku culture and escapism turn into the largest obsession in Otaku culture I can't imagine what he went through. To be lauded by everyone for a masterpiece but at the same time be screaming that everyone not only missed the point he was making but did exactly what he was trying to prevent. I'm not surprised that it took him so many attempts and so much time to try and figure out a way to end what in some ways must have felt like the abomination to his true dream.

End of Eva has Shinji learning the same stuff he did in the TV ending, just in a more obtuse and melancholic package. "Anywhere can be paradise if you have the will to live." -Yui Ikari, Shinji's mom, directly telling the audience the main theme of the film at the end.