Also now that I think of it, at this stage Kaji is unaware of the nature of the Marduk Institute's Child Selection process, meaning he is unaware of the resident pilot's mother-soul in their Evas. Indeed calling Shinji a back-up pilot for the Adam Sample collection trip without sending Unit-01 with...

Episode 17: 038 (replying to Ursus): There's a bit of a missed horror opportunity that we're never shown Nerv's core warehouse of fridged mommies. Ritsuko's line here would make more sense if Nerv was showing ethical restraint and keeping the cores unstuffed until the last moment, at which point th...

Apologies all if this has been well-answered in the past; I tried using the search function and apparently wasn't specific enough in what I was looking for. In Episode 08, Gendou tells Kaji that Shinji was sent as a back-up pilot. Gendou could obviously be lying here, either about Shinji being a bac...

Watching either cut of the associated documentary (the shorter one was on Japanese TV, or the two-parter on Amazon Prime from which the image & subtitles that I posted was taken) will tell you all you need to know about the approval process. There comes a point where someone is in a pos...

Indeed, the whole thing felt hollow; old Anno's preoccupations don't overlap with mine in the same way that the original did, and this iteration of the characters are alienating, leaving the movie with none of EoE's emotional weight. Rating say 5/10 to be generous. I find myself agreeing mostly wit...