Tl;dr, SEELE sent Kaworu to NERV to die, deceiving him into a near-guaranteed face-off with the only thing in the world that could easily kill him. This makes sense and is one of two possibilities I see. I generally favor this one because it casts Seele as jerks. However, if Seele sent Kaworu there...

nerv bae#934726 wrote:Per the wiki, prog knifes vibrate!

There's a very brief mention in the show, at some point Shinji's class crowds around him and asks him about being an Eva pilot and he rattles off a fact about his prog knife.

This is all when Kom Susser Tod plays.

Shinji figuratively rejects other people's individual existences by choking Asuka and then explicitly rejects it in his conversation with Rei right before Rei fires up the Anti AT field. He says something along the lines of "Everyone can just die."

What nationalist sentiment is being evinced when the JSSDF goes on a horrific slaughter campaign and attempts to slaughter the characters the series has gone through pains to build up as sympathetic? Bingo. The JSSDF are ineffectual at best (ep1) and war criminals at worst (they don't just occupy N...

orcot#933742 wrote: Shinji was literally without power unable to move , I'm not sure it had any ATField

In that case the Eva's core was exposed and Zeruel was about to smash it to pieces. Similar to how Shinji has difficulty with Shamshel's core and his prog knife.

Many angels get mowed down Ramiel and Matriel being the obvious ones Matriel is the only one that gets shot to death with conventional weapons, right? They spent a whole episode describing how badass the positron weapon they used to kill Ramiel was. If they had one of those maybe they would have ha...

I have no idea where/why de-aging is coming into the discussion The dialogue in 2.0 seems to suggest that Mari passes as pilot-aged. She also refers to 'adults' as an other. If adults can pilot Evas that just opens up a whole bunch more questions than we started with, but "who can be a pilot&q...

contracted something fatal Like bothering Seele. She wouldn't even need to have Maria's memories, really, just a bit of outside information which could have come from anyone (Kaji? Maria's notes? A programmed limiting bias like the Ayanami series has?) It would be very PKD for Maria's gambit to be ...

It's the second best animated fight in the whole series, especially Shinji's expressions and the fluid, unsettling movement of Unit 01 when Yui gets going. Zeruel staring down the Senior Staff is a great high stakes moment because though you think the pilots will survive all bets are off for the bri...

...or she recover them completely at some point during the 14 years This is a neat explanation for the difference in characterization between 2.0 and 3.0. Though it undermines the idea that the character change was a natural consequence of Mari bring a healthy person who didn't spend the time skip ...

Couldn't find a topic specific to this, so here goes. Broadly speaking the way I see it: Points in favor: * Asuka refers to 'pilots' collectively rather than specifying Shikinami-type and Ayanami-type when discussing cloning * Similar name to the other two * Other characters seem to think she's the ...

Stick an S2 engine in it and attach a particle cannon to it and it could threaten an Angel, or worse, an Eva. By letting the project come to completion and then sabatoging it at the worst possible moment they did far more damage to the project then if they'd simply cut its funding.

However, he did much more "things" to Rei in NTE, and ironically he could get what is called "redemption". Should be noted that Gendo's treatment of Rei II in NTE cuts out a lot of his worst moments, so in a way he has less to atone for. In NTE he was actually going to entertain...

What the point of introducing tons of new elements if they aren't even going to bother explaining most of it. This is a general problem with Q and Shin, they don't have enough screentime to worldbuild and they don't have the previously established world of Eva to lean on that 1.0 and 2.0 did. I'm h...

implying if this was a real world event it took place right after

That was my initial reaction to the kitchen fight, I was like "is this a flashback? Oh no..."

Each of these questions could probably be an entire thread, but I'll take a stab at some of them. Also I'm thinking more of NGE here because I haven't fully processed NTE so I'm talking NGE unless otherwise noted. Also the answers are chock full of spoilers, so be warned. 1. It's occupied an inordin...

During the sequence showing disappearing Shinikami headshots on a corkboard, we're briefly shown a memo on NERV letterhead. I'm trying to use it to make sense of Shinikami's backstory. Here's what it says: Candidate has failed to meet established performance requirements. Thorough Assessment of subj...

I would have forgiven anything else, but I'll be damned if they gave her a decent fight scene to really flex. Sure she loses her big fight in EoE but it's just plain awesome. Turning into a rainbow dragon angel in Shin was neat but the fight was an uninspiring wrestling match with few dynamic moment...

It's just got so much going on... maybe it's in a dialogue with different media that I haven't consumed, no amount of western scifi prepared me for that design. I've warmed up to it a bit, it's not uncool, it's just got at least four distinct aspects to it (spaceship catamaran outrigger things with ...