Throughout the show, the Hedgehog’s Dilemma is shown as a repeating theme, in layman’s terms, “The closer two hedgehogs become, the more the chances of hurting each other.” Some say it’s better to interact with people at the risk of being rejected than to live your life in loneliness. But what if it...

In spite of, and I quote the creator himself, "worldview drenched in pessimism", that saturates the atmosphere of the original series, I can't help but find it somewhat avant garde to hear something such as ANIMATE VOICE CASSETTE 04; The Shinji and Asuka edition. It was almost as if the ch...

For those of you who might know, I have had a traumatic experience with the anime known as Evangelion, and furthermore, with its own fandom on Discord. But more than that, my life has also been plagued by those who have pigeonholed me into a life of conformity and mental regression; forced to confor...

During the span of one year, I decided to exchange letters between Tiffany Grant and I discussing our thoughts about the overall series. For posterity's sake, I decided to compile our letters together in an album. For the sake of her privacy I have blacked out any sensitive information about the bot...

Also, I could make the argument that, as foreboding and godlike his archetype of the Nietzchian Ubermench is, it's just that. In Jungian, terms, a persona, similar to how Asuka's aggressive, rebellious, and disrespectful persona masks her true self, or how Shinji's passive, complacent, and indecisiv...

In NGE and EOE Gendo was a perfect representation of Nietzschean Ubermensch archetype: a man not bound by religious or societal moral norms. A person who, who can create his own morals, or follow existing ones, but only if it benefits him and his goals. A man with a strong vision of the future, and...

And then there's manga Gendo, of which his sole desire is to become a God. He is so much more cruel, callous and foreboding in Sadamato's interpretation, at the cost of him having less depth. The manga Gendo, what he lacks in subtlety he makes up for in aggression. In one interview with Hideaki Ann...

Gendo Ikari, the Mastermind, The Conspirator, the Puppeteer behind all things in NERV, is not only one of the worst father figures in the whole of anime next to Fullmetal Alchemist's The Father, but is also one of the most compelling if not one of the most horrifying villains in all of fiction, This...