s01e26 — Take Care of Yourself

It is important to emphasize that I watched Eva somewhere in my thirtieth anime, on the one hand, the brain was ready, on the other hand, I had not seen much yet. And it was love!!! More than one anime has not put such a number of memorable frames in my head! I will never forget the feeling that I experienced with Shinji when Eva-01 began to wring his hands, and he felt it. I felt it! I felt the fear of losing my arm, losing my life. I will never forget those rare replicas of Rey and the story of her origin. I will never forget the sadness and pain of Misato's experiences. Forever this "live" fur will be my favorite! And the fact that it was Asuka who laid my hatred for tsunera xDDDD will never fade away. It's funny that the "aroma of filerni" was present in several episodes, but then I abruptly switched to my love for Rei and Kaoru, so the series went in one breath. I also really liked the last series - this is what I'm so looking forward to from anime: "Figure yourself out by listening to people/I will feel the philosophy of the complications of the modern world." All the experiments were already going so-so, I laughed at Petit Eva ~ Evangelion@School~, but there is nothing special about it. And then came the movies… With a huge budget, an amazing concentration of the plot (with a complete weathering of "flavor F") and a new, original sequel. I had goosebumps from watching it, I was ready to bless Japan on my knees. Of course, it all sounds very pretentious, but when I watch the third movie, I'm sure I'll get up.

I also watched Eva about 30 anime. And, unfortunately, the impression is absolutely the opposite of the comment above.
From the very first episode, I was incredibly annoyed by the main character with his whining ("I don't want to be a pilot (((", "My father doesn't love me (((", "I hate myself ((("). And then the two heroines began to hang their template characters. Perhaps at that time such characters were not boring to the viewer, but now they are sick of tsundere, kundera and others.
I was expecting something grandiose from the anime, which is rightfully considered a classic, the plot and characters of which cling and make you really worry.
What I got: a bunch of template characters, whining in each episode about and without, questions that were never answered, hints of deep philosophy and religion.
I don't like this kind of pseudo-philosophy at all (who am I? Should I be a pilot? should I hate myself?), I don't like the idea that a person creates god or believes that he is god himself, usually this is shown very dull and one-sided.
And what is the bottom line in the end? Yes, somehow in nothing. I didn't see the charm and grandeur that everyone is talking about. She left to be sad.

Good anime. Everything was very beautifully done, the plot is interesting. But the last two episodes are a brain drain. This pseudo-philosophy is just heating up. It feels like the authors didn't know how to finish the anime and decided to take LSD.

I agree with the commentators above, the ending really turned out to be somewhat sophisticated. On the other hand, the anime is really good and with an interesting plot. Sometimes some characters were outraged, I was worried to tears for some, but it was worth watching to the end.

Anime absorbed more and more with each episode and sank deeper into the soul. But somewhere after the 2nd half of the series, it began to press and depress more and more, and it all only intensified towards the finale.
The final itself, I think, did not leave anyone indifferent.
Perhaps the creators wanted to encourage the viewer to philosophical reflections, but it was more and more like an ordinary psychedelic. Which kind of ended with a conclusion, but 2 series of preparation and cooking in this boiler, in my opinion, are unnecessary. After all, it all came down to the banal "I can".
There is another possible third outcome that it was necessary to look and carefully analyze everything that was said and then everything would be more understandable, and not just abstract (which I am a master at) during the viewing. Well, I'll leave this idea for the future.

Bravo! Shinji finally figured himself out!

The last two episodes are just amazing!

..As a result, the initially good story about combat biorobots, about the destruction of the world and a Big Secret Conspiracy were reduced to the standard problems of a typical teenager. Of course it's fucking philosophy, you can't say anything. I'm giving it a deuce, and that's mostly because of the potentially good storyline. Shamefully they leaked the money, it's a pity.

Simply
Without words

Great anime with great characters, which leaves food for thought afterwards. Be sure to watch the alternative ending "The End of Evangelion".

Of course, the director has the balls to change the narrative style to decomposition and postmodernity in the last two episodes. The budget shortage is more pronounced than we would like. But fakin is brave.

I've been trampling on these last two episodes, I'm not against this, but in a separate genre, and not when something like that was done out of what you liked.
Honestly, I was shocked by the leaked ending, which didn't fit in with what was happening, and he was freaking out, and he needed to find himself, and he was lost in Eve, but damn, what was that? It's a complete mess.
Later, I read that the author, based on observing the rating, thought of something there and started it, for me this is direct evidence that when you create, you do not need to focus on the reaction of the public.
In conclusion, I want to say that Evangelion is one of the highest quality anime, especially good at working on the characters, about those moments with the dissonance of consciousness during the battle, something with something, but the ending! Your mother =/

Basically, I expected something like this when I read that this series was created after the author's long-term depression. These two episodes feel like a kind of message for him and for those who saw themselves in these characters.

But if we consider this as a continuation of the main plot, then it's not entirely clear what happened. All of humanity has died and now all people are part of something whole? And now everyone is facing their real selves and simultaneously searching for themselves? Why didn't this happen right after the last angel was killed? In general, there are a lot of questions, apparently, you need to watch more movies to figure it out.

The first 24 episodes are gorgeous. I empathized with each character. Asuka, Shinji, Rei, Misato... Even Shinji's father. I am quite happy with the viewing.
I will review the last two series again, a little later, in order to fully understand them and assess the depth of the author's message.
And of course, you need to watch more movies.

The anti-angel cannon is with me Evangelion

I knew that at some point, Gainex ran out of budget, and they had to finish the series with felt-tip pens, since not the entire last episode was done like that, but only some moments, although it's amazing how they even managed to animate several scenes like that.

a very decent anime, but not for everyone, the anime ended up being kind of psychedelic or something

Simple human truths create our lives.

Here is the final. Conflicting feelings, however.

First, the audience is bombarded with dynamics and impressive action films of Eves and Angels, and then, at the end, psychedelics with philosophical arguments about the hardships of existence are thrown into the whirlpool....Well, it's not bad, of course, if you don't take into account the fact that the brain is just a little nut in the skull. 🤪😂
But I rather liked it than the other way around...

This anime has a lot of advantages, but also enough disadvantages:
+ interesting characters and their storylines
+ colorful battles and simply gorgeous detailing of Evangelions and Angels, which caused me awe (it's good that such a thing is not observed in life, because fiction is scary, but what would happen if such an alien Angel invasion happened on our Earth now???We would all be finished!)
+ the main character Shinji.Of all the characters, I liked him the most...Asuka and Ray were very annoying at times, although in recent episodes I felt sorry for them too.

- the plot swings - at first everything goes a little boring and drawn out, you don't understand why you're being shown this or that event, and then they put all the depth and message into the last five episodes and you sit there, stunned, trying to digest the information you've received.
This is a global disadvantage for me, just one, but very significant.

I hope that watching the full-length anime Evangelion will bring a little clarity and understanding of the plot, I really hope that I will be able to find answers to the questions that arose while watching the anime.At least more extensive and detailed answers, yes...

wow. I'm still in shock because of such an incredible portrayal of the characters' feelings
, it was very hard to watch.

There's still food for thought....a lot, I still can't digest how it all comes out, the same Rei, the same Asuka, the unusual ending, it's a little unclear, you can understand how a depressed person feels and why and how he always blames himself and how difficult it really is
However, it's a pity that the most action-packed thing in terms of thinking was left and compressed for the last couple of episodes, when some missions were stretched over a couple of episodes, I didn't have enough time to realize everything during these episodes, and I sat stuck in the wall after the series for 20 minutes hph

I had very high expectations from watching, and I delayed watching for a long time due to my lack of desire to eat glass, but now the time has come. So what? The thing is iconic, but somewhat strange. The characters' injuries and their development are very well shown, which is very cool in this regard. In terms of the plot... It's more metaphorical, and there seemed to be a lot of holes, and I didn't get any clear explanations about the nature of Angels, Rei, or the reasons for Shinji's father's actions. The ending is good precisely as an interpretation of the perception of life by a person in deep depression, and the episode with school is a variant of Shinji's reality without a shortage of the necessary neurotransmitters in the brain.
In principle, I'm happy, I've had enough of glass, but it doesn't seem to be the cult "Parasite: the Doctrine of life" that I liked much more at the time, the plot is more logical there. Although I will review the last episodes in an attempt to get out of my own depression.
PS. At the moment when Eva-01 devoured the Angel, I screamed. because the infamous Attack of the Titans looks like one endless reference to Evangelion (giants, devouring, 3 walls and 3 versions of Tokyo, 3 main characters, the similarities of Eren with Asuka, Armin with Shinji and Mikasa with Rei, and Dad is a cunning beetle included)

Now I understand what Sam Esmail was inspired by for the last season of Mr. Robot. And not only for the latter

Endless tsukiyomi
I need to watch movies, otherwise such a "merger" of people, which is not a merger, but wandering in my fantasies and dreams, is nonsense for me. It's wonderful, of course, that the characters find themselves in these fantasies, deal with their problems, understand what they want, but in the end, these are still fantasies. Why don't everyone just get drunk? Why is the transition to such a state led by some person who thinks something of himself? It's not clear to me. Well, I repeat, I need to watch some movies.

Two words - bad trip

It's a heavy anime, I liked it.

sorry, but after Mr. Robot and the attack, it's too hard to bear (

Ufff. I read somewhere that the creator created this anime to get out of depression. And in the end, he drove me into it.…

if anything, such a slightly crumpled ending is due to budget constraints, and the canonical ending is the film The End of Evangelion

I am delighted with such psychological portraits of characters!

On the one hand, I agree with those who say that it looks like some kind of parish, on the other hand, any parish is a loud stream of consciousness, a new reality. Shinji denies hopelessness, denies himself, denies emptiness, but he also always understands that it is in ourselves and there is no escape from it. The introspection of such a plan cannot be described in words, especially in such a way that you are understood, but the author managed to create a picture that was most holistically felt by those who had experienced it themselves. It's fascinating that everything ended on a positive note, I think it's far from reality. But as the ending told us, reality is the perception of truth in our head :) Anyway, thanks. We are not alone in our loneliness.

For me, the canon is The End of Evangelion, I don't like series 25 and 26, but sooooo much like for the parallel universe, I wanted such an anime.

Despite the fact that the last two episodes forced me to go through a psychological meat grinder, it was worth it! It was a heavy anime, and at some points I wanted to turn everything off, run away, and scream. I will remember this masterpiece for a long time.
But in terms of the ending, I still don't understand how it ended. Has humanity been destroyed? Has Shinji gone crazy? Did they win? So many mysteries, so many riddles! It's a cult thing, but it's a little weird.

The ending turned out to be quite good and understandable, despite the fact that some plot lines were simply thrown out. The series is really interesting. The only thing that's really outdated is the "boy shouldn't/you're a boy" wailing. I do not regret that I decided to get acquainted with the classics right now, being a junior, it is not surprising that the first episodes made little sense to me then.

"As many people as there are opinions" - Ryoji Kaji.

Great psychedelic anime

I don't think there are any words that can accurately describe what I saw. I watched Eva for the first time a year ago, and after episodes 25 and 26, I had some questions.:"What the fuck did I see? Why does everyone like Evangelion so much? Why do the last episodes look like the ravings of a madman?", But returning to it, I can say with confidence that this is the best damn thing I've watched. These series, having a meager budget, are the apogee of the entire work as a whole. One can feel all the hopelessness of Shinji, who, having learned the betrayal of his father, became disillusioned with people, ceases to need connections with them. He has never heard words of affection, and as soon as he hears them from the 5th child, he immediately has to get rid of him. Asuka, who just wanted love from her distraught mother, but she didn't see the difference between her and the doll. Rei, who doesn't understand who she is all the time, has no desires except to obey Gendo, no goals except to obey Gendo and the life that belongs to Gendo. The very idea of a single consciousness is amazing. For some, this is hell, where there will be no place for individuality, and for others, paradise, because loneliness will cease to exist.

It's a little hard to watch the anime series of the 95th year in 2021. Now everything is rushing around, everyone is in a hurry, the content is getting shorter, ticks and short tracks. Keeping your attention and interest in Evangelion is still a challenge. Some scenes last a very long time, which is difficult to find somewhere because of the lack of timing. But these long scenes added realism and made the characters more alive. Nevertheless, the desire to understand what people were talking about when discussing Evangelion was stronger. In the end, it's definitely not a waste of time for me. I liked the series itself. Of course, I wouldn't understand much without an explanatory team, but it's enough to read fan reviews and watch the YouTube video "How to (almost) understand Evangelion" to learn more about the director and his feelings. This adds integrity to the piece.
I didn't really understand whether it was worth wasting time on feature films, so I spoilt them a bit, and I got tired of this story. But now I understand that I will watch them with some pleasure when I want to return to Evangelion. Moreover, everything has already come out and there is no need to wait, as the fans were waiting for.

I first caught a glimpse of Evangelion on TV at 5 a.m. when I was 7-8 years old. I wildly liked robot fights, interesting drawing (a clear difference from Soviet cartoons, which my parents stuffed me with, and American ones, which I myself liked to watch back in 2004), but I couldn't continue watching this anime at 5 in the morning, because the TV was in the parents' room, who were either asleep or we were going to work. As a result, I gave up, but pleasant memories remained of those 2-3 episodes that I managed to check out. And now, after almost 18 years, I decided to watch it in full, although I postponed it for a long time for various reasons. And I was disappointed. I'm used to other genres, different narrative speed, and it's like I'm overcome by ADHD while watching - I can't just watch, I need to do something while watching, otherwise I just want to turn off the anime. Probably, for its time, Evangelion is really a genius or just a good work, but it didn't go to me. Not now. Although, I'm glad for the pleasant memories from my childhood. At the moment, the anime has not been watched yet, now it is on 15 episodes. I don't know if I'll watch it, because there are more important things to do than watching something that is difficult to watch.

Well, it was a normal TV series, but in recent episodes it has descended to some kind of senseless psychological nonsense of failed teenagers.

Until the realization...

Self-respect. They despise Shinji for his addiction. He'll easily do whatever he's told to do to earn a little respect. And it's short-lived, because that's how he defines it. It's like he's trying to hold water in his palms.

Selfdeception. Is everything so deceptive if he sees it that way, if he created it that way? Who defines self-deception? Others cannot do this because they do not know the train of thought and the reason for the person's actions. In this episode, all the sounding voices belong to Shinji. He blames himself for this deception.
The reality he created, where you are, he gives himself the task of escaping from pain.

There must be obstacles and limitations, otherwise you cannot choose the path when everything is possible, there is a high chance that you will not be able to do anything because of confusion.

"Only consciousness separates reality from the truth"
"Only you can change the truth because it is yours"

An unexpected happy ending

I look at Shinji and I see myself, but I'm not Eva's pilot and I'm not even a boy anymore... sad. The anime is good, 10/10 even despite the small budget of the last two episodes

I've always heard that Evangelion is an anime classic, it's a must-watch, it makes an incredible amount of sense
, and what do I get in the end? the first 15 episodes, which do not reflect the great philosophy, and then I see "angelic" psychotherapy, although for me, with the characters and their traumas, everything was immediately obvious.
Yes, this anime is a storehouse of all sorts of clever thoughts, but living in 2022 we have already heard these truths a hundred times, and they do not seem to us something INCREDIBLE, just a statement of facts
, it's probably worth watching "The End of Evangelion" and rebilds, but does it make sense? And will something change?
maybe someday I'll review the anime and maybe I'll understand something that I didn't understand before, but now....there's nothing to discuss
here, and actually, the incomprehensible ending: why Shinji? What's wrong with half the characters?
It's a very confusing message, of course, but there's something to it.

I think this anime is good, but not by 5/5!
The music here is very cool, it's opening and ending, which are pleasant to the ears and do not want to skip, as well as the soundtrack itself inside the anime. There are also many interesting characters here, most of all I liked the tandem of Misato-san Hikari Shinji.
It wasn't always interesting to watch the series, the angels themselves were poorly served. They abruptly appeared in the series and were killed at the very last second, and it's absolutely not interesting, it's hard to worry when you first see this angel, who was there every time before.
My opinion is 3/5 ( Write in the comments maybe you disagree with something )

Probably everyone has heard about Evangelion. But much fewer people were able to watch it, despite the laudatory reviews of the deepest deep meaning.

After the first episodes, it becomes clear that the constant nagging of the Shinji schoolboy is hard to endure not only for the viewer, but also for most of the characters who had the misfortune to encounter him on their way of life and depend on him.

To be honest, if it weren't for the abundance of confident statements in the comments to the series on various platforms that promised to correct the situation after 10-15 episodes, I would have stopped this torment myself, as well as some of my friends and acquaintances. But by trusting anonymous, I didn't regret it.

In the second half of the series, the plot shifts from Shinji and the other pilots and begins to reveal the nuances of the world around them, and at the same time draw adult characters in more detail. The picture of the world begins to come together, and it becomes obvious that all these bellows, angels, and so on are just a beautiful wrapper for a story about trying to find yourself and your place in society. Love and fear, friendship and duty — the abundance of choices facing the characters is the main theme of the series. It is these artistic techniques for illustrating the inner experiences of the characters that will then be much better implemented in FLCL.

It's a pity that by the end of the series, the project had completely run out of money, although a demonstration of what is happening in Shinji's inner world would, in my opinion, be quite a sufficient conclusion for this story.

I think this is the kind of movie that needs to be watched under a certain condition. Then it will cut through to the bones and gut you from the inside out. It was during this period of my life that Evangelion caught my eye. After watching the last episode, I fell out of reality for a few days. It's been a long time since then, but I'm still afraid to review or even touch the series.

To everyone who was able to get to the last episode, I send a big handful of warmth and support. You did it❤

It's a pity for the time spent, over-digested feces

This is a brilliant anime. I'm not alone.

I have been studying Evangelion for many years. I watched every frame, looked backwards, watched without sound, without video, watched on two screens at the same time, watched with maximum contrast, watched in Japan, with a Japanese friend, watched at night, in the afternoon, in the morning, in the evening.
It took 2,000 hours. But I figured it out.
Evangelion is another harem mech without a plot.

I noticed from the last episodes and the End of Evangelion some kind of derealization and a feeling of "I kind of understood, but I didn't understand anything at all."

When you watch Evangelion for a long time, Evangelion starts watching you.…

We didn't have enough completeness. The first half of the anime was developed by the plot, ent, and then scored. They saved a lot on animation. The last 2 episodes are loaded with a ton of existential questions, I couldn't concentrate on one thing. I would understand if they pushed through one thought at the end, and then every 5 seconds a new thought. Why?
I'll watch the extra episodes now, maybe they'll finish the norms there

I can probably call Evangelion my favorite anime. it relaxes the soul and perception so much. no worries, just a beautiful picture, pleasant voice acting and drawn characters with too real problems, with all the unreality of the situation, of course,
not an anime, but a trip to a psychologist.

I liked the manga better. There, the ending is clearer and the plot develops faster. And the story of Gendo's hand is revealed. I'm going to reread it.

What ended the anime is the truth. After lying for a year and a half in severe depression with self-loathing. After changing a number of antidepressants, which were like dead gadgets, I wanted to hang myself with a cord from a vacuum cleaner or jump into a lake with a backpack full of bricks. It all ended with a strong-willed decision. Waking up in tears, he said to himself: I don't have to suffer. The world is beautiful, beautiful. I got up and went to get a job, made new friends, and never came back to it. If I had been congratulated at this moment of rebirth, it would have been epic.
It's amazing that they were able to show this accurately enough. 👏👏👏

It was a pity there was no bumble, at the end of two episodes, the dealer does not pick up the phone. But my nervous system was shaken. Cool anime everything was going well, aske disrespecting beat out with her high CSV. 7 out of 10

I watched Eva in chunks as a child, like many people, but in my head she got mixed up with some other fur and as a result she didn't stick in my memory at all. In principle, it is probably better to watch it at a conscious age, because life experience and everything read / viewed still greatly expands the optics and allows you to see what is happening from different angles. You watch and think, "children's cartoon haha."

There are moments of Laura that have puzzled me. For example, I wanted details about angels, but on the other hand, it is clear why this is not the case: religious texts are also stingy in this regard.
The episodes are strangely edited in places. As I understand it, this is due to a problem with financing. Hence the change in the drawing for the finale, although the visual solution is original and works for character development and does not allow you to be distracted by the details.

The serial ending is quite uplifting. It feels like after a psychotherapy session, when you were led by the handle to the epiphany "it turns out you can't hate yourself, wow." Such simple things are not always obvious to a depressed person.
"The End of Evangelion," as far as I'm concerned, is still the real ending, not these last episodes. They're more likely to be somewhere in the middle of the timeline, just like Shinji's introspection process.

Eva is not only a deconstruction of the genre and complex characters in a religious and philosophical wrapper, but also a discussion about loneliness, the inability to fully understand another person and the need to accept this fact as a given.

Cool, it came to me, I consider Gestalt closed from childhood.

I'm afraid of myself. I'm afraid that people will hate me.
It feels like I'm gradually ceasing to exist.

I rather liked it than not. It's a pity that because of the budget that ended (I wonder what they spent it on? probably for the dance of two Eves from episode 9), instead of an exciting ending with an explanation of the lore of this world in the last two episodes, we got a session with a psychotherapist with new age music (cool, I don't argue). I'm going to take a break and watch feature films, hopefully there will be some answers.

I've been pushing myself for a long time to watch this, classic TV. I threw tk many times, the first 8 episodes were uninteresting and monotonous. but I decided to finish watching it for the sake of the blond guy I saw on the posters.. There was too little of it. I can't put more than 3/5, although I understand perfectly well that this anime has sunk into the soul of a lot of people, it didn't make any impression on me.

Someone explain to people already that the last episodes of the original and its are not different canons, but an alternative view of the Compliment events caused by budget shortages and Anno's vision
Expressions in the spirit of "some kind of bad trip, for me its canon" make me almost physically hurt

This is the most unusual ending I've seen.

Eh, but they didn't get the spear...

I just want to watch the last two episodes and suffer

If you think about it like that, the original 26 episodes, the End of Evangelion, as well as the new rebirths are the same message, the same religious stuff, only presented in completely different ways.
I actually went to Eva for a long time and after watching the entire franchise, I can say that I am 100% satisfied. Yes, Shinji was infuriating in places, but his insanity is justified. Asuka was infuriating, but her insanity was justified. Only Ray and the waifa of the Misato series didn't bother. In general, a very interesting series, which should be viewed with the fact that, perhaps, later you will have to go and put the plot together on the Internet.
9 out of 10 of which +2 definitely go for Misato, especially at the end of Evangelion.

I'll have to review it

the last 2 episodes have spoiled the impression of the title. I wasn't thrilled before, but what kind of shit is this

I didn't understand what was going on in the last episode. But I liked it.

It's a very difficult anime to watch. He touches on many mental problems and the Bible. There's a lot to think about or find yourself in a character. The last two episodes are the toughest of the entire anime. Most of all, the quote that made me think is: "All you do is sit and wait for someone to make you happy! But this is fake happiness!"

0 out of 10. And I don't care if they kick me.

WHO. ARE. THE ANGELS