Technically the original version of NGE is also missing, the "TV cut" included in the HD boxsets is the reworked 2004 version cut to not feature the extra content. The real TV version was never remastered in FullHD. Also Evangelion: Death(True) and Death(True)2 are actually 2 different mov...

not having seen the conclusion as yet of course, I think on the outside looking in I would have preferred the ending have taken place kind of like a "Reunion" thing with all the characters coming back together after a few years apart in the "real world" having had time to proces...

I have it, it's just a wall of text and a poster, not really functional if you don't read Japanese.

I think in regarding to Asuka and Kaworu's relationship with Shinji there is also some degree of "having the cake and eating too". As Miyamura said in the pamphlet, there was some thoughts given to pleasing the Asuka x Shinji fans in Shin (the last "baka Shinji" and the beach sce...

They knew the choker killed someone that isn't Shinji form Q already if I'm not remembering wrong. Mari and Asuka gets update from the choker in their entry plug. At some point Asuka gets a warning from the choker stating the "owner" became the 13th angel. Later Mari also ejects the entry ...

Angels have no need to have sex, they are perfect and endless on their own, so it makes sense that Asuka "can't have sex".

The tweet Ogata retweed mentions Asuka and Rei, but the phrase Kaworu says to Shinji is indeed similar, just shorter また会えるよ (Kaworu) vs また交じり合う日まで (both songs).

The second verse is 100% a reference to Asuka, there is a direct reference in the lyrics to Kyou no Hi wa Sayounara , the song playing when Unit 03 is being destroyed by Unit 01. 今日の日はさようなら また会う日まで また会う日まで So long, farewell for today Until the day we meet again Until the day we meet again 僕は僕らしく頑張って...

The films have almost the same runtime as the series, only shorter by a couple of hours. I actually made a visualization of much runtime NGE and Rebuild allocate to each macro arc of the story https://i.imgur.com/8r3U7QT.png The main difference is clearly 2.0 being ultra compressed

2.0 would have been narrated over 3+ hours instead of 1h50m almost surely.

Mari wasn’t “tied” to Asuka after 14 years, she’d never be tied to Shinji either. Mari will be Mari seemingly forever.

" How do you feel about Shinji ending up with Mari? " https://64.media.tumblr.com/f68927a7b88640953faaabfb65de9312/tumblr_pcp0q7Fdyl1sc0ffqo7_540.gifv I have some issues with the choice of having Mari with Shinji at the end and to me they are quite substantial. The biggest one is Mari her...

I don’t quite agree with age being just a number, jail is not just a room…

pwhodges#922899 wrote:Because she's looked after him in loco parentis for a time.

And Mari could be his aunt

Kinky…

ElMariachi#922808 wrote:Oh, so you too gave up? Welcome to the spoiled club, pal!

Yeah, I had to give up yesterday. I wrote my first opinion in the General thread if you are interested.

I don't think Kaworu was very clear to Shinji in Q and I'm convinced the only thing Shinji understood of everything that Kaworu told him was "you tried to save Rei but you killed mankind, too bad". The difference between N3I and 3I is completely lost to Shinji in Q.

The whole "saving" dialogue makes more sense in context now. The idea that they wanted Shinji do anything heroic in the state he was in, with the far lesser experience he has, did certainly come off as wonky dialogue at the time & possibly weirdly 'gendered' - I actually always interp...

Regarding Mari and Asuka specifically, I also don't like the epilogue splitting them in a way. Asuka not only loses her old/new love but also her best friend for basically a lifetime. Mari is clearly far more attached to Asuka than to Shinji. I feel like the less I interpret the ending as "Shin...

I'm still catching up to the spoilers and I'm wondering if Mari's words of encouragement/motivation to Shinji at the end of Q were ever brought up again. So far I didn't read anything connected to that.

Mari is not a new beginning, she was deep in the Evangelion world far more than Shinji ever was, she knew her parents before he knew them. In universe she is connected to the old baggage of Shinji as much as every other character if not even more. The real "new beginning" for Shinji, if we...