Really hope Unit 01 gets to fight again. Seriously, one of the most iconic creations in all of anime and sci-fi for that matter, the destroyer of worlds, one of the very lynchpins as to the entire overarching plan and themes of the story, and now it's reduced to little more than the battery for a st...

Honestly, at this point I just want this saga to end already. It's been close to a decade since the previous film ended on one of the biggest downers ever, and every year that goes by without even a hint at when the conclusion comes out makes it even harder to swallow. Especially given that I myself...

It more has to do with the fact that Anno decided to frame Shinji's act of saving Rei as the worst possible decision he could have made, as he was basically choosing an escapist fantasy with his waifu over accepting reality by letting her die. His decision caused Third Impact to start after all, and...

I'd like to believe you guys, but given just how many rewrites and the like were involved in 3.33's production, along with Anno's re-emerged depression during its development, I can only come to the conclusion that he did indeed retcon what happened in 2.22's ending and him saving Rei did indeed lea...

Honestly, you guys haven't really done much to instill hope in me that the next film is gonna do much other than continue to crap all over characters like Rei in order to push the whole anti-escapism message the series is known for. Also, you guys all seem really, really dead set on the idea that Ka...

Pretty much. It's why I realized just how foolish I was to have ever gotten invested in Shinji and Rei's relationship in the second Rebuild saga, and why wanting the latter to have any sort of development or chance at life is completely wrongheaded.After all, Anno despises her because she represents...

Late reply, but here goes. Honestly ErgoProxy, what you said sounds eerily like the whole "let's see you do better" argument when you bring up writing fanfiction as a way for me to vent. And to be perfectly frank, said fanfic doesn't really change the fact that the actual canon work is sti...

I think Kaowru is guilt-tripping Shinji over things he probably didn't even do in order to better manipulate him into pulling the spears out of Lilith. Maybe, but the movie and the related media constantly portrays Kaworu as being such a selfless and loving figure to Shinji that I have a hard time ...

After all it's a story of a kid who was living a relatively normal life in quite a positive setting, and then he voluntarily chose to trade it for the Japanese equivalent of Mordor. Can I just say that this is precisely one of the reasons 3.33 felt so mean spirited to me, and why I have a hard time...

Split from this thread . -Reichu I'm still really surprised at how much you guys are optimistic for what will happen to Shinji in the next film. Don't get me wrong, I too want to see him find some measure of closure and peace. But this kid is responsible for an event that killed off millions of peo...

You sure about that? Cause I thought that it was agreed that Anno views Rei as a symbol for escapism, and Anno despises escapism than anything else in the world. So I wouldn't be surprised if he just drops a bridge on her and forces Shinji to be with someone else purely because Rei means choosing an...

Rei not being higher is kind of depressing to me, all things considered. Guess Anno's ploy to tear down Rei in 3.33 to get people to view her like he does (creepy and unsympathetic) while getting people to instead like the two he prefers way more and considers far more worthy of being with Shinji wo...

Honestly, I wouldn't mind seeing a late Fall release such as in November or December. Though I wouldn't be surprised if, to my chagrin, it's pushed all the way back to Summer 2021 all because of the Olympics.

Furthermore, it's necessary to see if Anno will use Shinji's guilt in a literal sense (responsibility for the death of human beings) or in a metaphorical sense for fandom, in the sense that killing humanity is Anno's way to show concretely a mistake at the public beyond the fourth wall. The catastr...

Wonder how exactly that message is gonna work though, considering just how far gone Shinji is, what with him screwing things over for billions of people. Like, what he's done and the lives lost as a result of him aren't exactly something one can just brush aside. I know you guys have speculated that...

Sooo if true, Rei in this film is basically Robocop?

What's so wrong with Homura from Madoka Magica exactly? For that matter if the audience is supposed to be placed in Shinji's shoes and he is the main character of the story and the one whose development is the most important, why wouldn't the viewer buy into the character of Kaworu, given his strong...

Yeah, I still don't know. Again, the next film has a lot of ground to cover, and Asuka's relationship with Shinji just hasn't been focused on as much over these past films, and especially not when compared to how it was built up in the original. Why waste screen time on trying to establish a romanti...

Well hey, you gotta leave things vague given that it's only a teaser for the full movie. And I'd much rather have a straightforward narrative that is well executed as oppose to something that subverts expectations at the cost of narrative cohesion. Though, I'd be lying if these first ten minutes did...

Honestly, and at the risk of being ridiculed around these here parts, I still feel that there needs to be some sort of followup and closure regarding his relationship with Rei, as that one has been one of the main cores of the Rebuild storyline, as opposed to his relationship with Asuka in the origi...