Gendo's hand thru Rei's breast, like so much of what we see in EoE, serves as a call-back or reference to something that happened in previously in the series, in this case Shinji's groping Rei's breast in #05. Note that while Shinji's behavior was just inadvertent pseudo-sexual h...

Somebody needs to provide a link to Shin-Seiki's (I think) analysis of (I think) Ritsuko's interrogation scene that reveals that Ritsuko was infatuated/in love with Gendo even as a teenager when she first met him. In fact, her crush on Gendo is partly why she hated her mothe...

Misato (OFF): Ritsuko must be thinking I'm pretty disgusting right about now. Kaji (OFF): Indulging our carnal desires is more realistic as humans. We can fool them a little. Watch the scene. It's not that hard to figure out. Tho there is an element of trolling the audience:...

Wow! Shin-seiki's first big new theory in a long time, but it was certainly worth the wait. I consider this solved to the point where it needs to be a Theory and Analysis article on the Wiki. I'll start one up shortly, unless Shin-seiki wants to do the honors himself. My Wiki-fu is pretty w...

I Evangelion is like a puzzle, you know... Well, I believe I've finally resolved the mystery of the infamous 'unheard line' that Gendo utters to Ritsuko in ep25' (Air) of EoE: "Akagi Ritsuko-kun, honto ni... _ _ _" (Ritsuko Akagi, truly... _ _ _), to which ...

Specifically, I'm referring to EVA-00 turning into Giant Naked Rei ™ just prior to self destruction. My DVD has the old death scene. Was there a version of Death and Rebirth with the new cut of the EVA-00 self destruct? No: (from the Death Filmbook) http://i42.tinypic.com/f1wfop.jpg htt...

I was referring to the finished movie. I don't know where the excised LA sequence falls in terms of priority. Yeah, that was a nit-picking comment anyway, so I don't know why I bothered. The "cupping" motif is used on and off throughout NGE. GNR didn't even restrict her use of...

And then there's the live action sequence, but... Yeah... But anyway, aside from Shinji, the only other people who crop up during all this are Rei, Asuka, and Misato. Isn't Toji in the live action sequence as Asuka's boyfriend? my brain back-tracked to whatever invisible thing Rei 3 see...

Sailor Star Dust#354454 wrote: and Rei 3 seems to be cupping something.

...in imitation of Lilith cupping her hands around the Black Moon, would be my guess.

Due to time-travel Rei it's entirely possible that everyone who shows up or is tanged was still alive (even if just barely, like Misato and Ritsuko seeing her just before they go) when they were collected. The various LCL pools the Reis are seen standing over may very well have been ali...

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/04/24/lawson-opens-tokyo-3-evangelion-convenience-store/
I know, sankakushit, but just imagine of all the useless Eva junk you could load up with at this place.

:asuka_miffed: ...didn't realize how foolish I was when I said... never mind. Another question I would like to ask Anno: During EoE, before "Episode 26'" started, there was a message from Anno. Who were the 5 women that he thanked? The seiyuus for Shinji, Rei, Asuka, Misato, and R...

I'd like to know why Misato is so dense in #24. Ritsuko tells her flat out that 'that boy' is the Final Messenger, and a minute later, when Kaworu makes his move, she's like, "WTF?! An Angel? That Boy?"

thewayneiac#349251 wrote:It's a beer can! It looks like she's nearby and just had a tall cold one.

A rather bold interpretation of that little detail, IMO. I figure it just means Misato's legacy to the world = one cross pendant, and lots of empty beer cans...

Typically when dialogue is given in a story, you accept it as truth until otherwise proven wrong (unless, of course, it's sarcasm or an obvious lie). Further, both Rei/Kaworu and Yui play a sort of omniscient role in EoE and become symbols of guidance for Shinji and all of mankind; when...

So is Japan. In episode 06 when we see the lights going out all over the country, the landscape seemed pretty unchanged. I think it's just safe to say that we don't apply common sense to what gets flooded and what doesn't after a semi-apocalyptic cataclysm. Quite. In #08 we see a city h...

Yes, she is. As a narrative exposition device, Ritsuko's word must be taken as 100% reliable unless she is explicitly contradicted. If we don't, what little knowledge we do have of Evangelion is lost to unreliability. We might as well say "Well, everyone was lying or wrong, and it turn...

I agree with the notion that the injuries on the victims of 2I are simply that of what you would expect the general injuries of survivors and victims of hurricanes, or other natural disasters. There did appear to be a lot of debris flying, and infrastructures failing, so it should be no surprise th...

But then why choose to never mention or directly allude to them in any way, ever, at any point during the series? With an entire 13 hours to tell a story, I'm sure Anno could have fit them in somewhere. The plain fact is that NGE is a mess, and Anno had more story that he wanted to tell than he...