[MANGA] [NGE] How would YOU like the Manga to end?

[Otaprince]

MAJOR MANGA SPOILERS through volume 8...
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Eva the anime was so brilliant because it tied sci-fi together with a human problem: as human beings, we never seem to be able to really connect. we don't understand each other. we hurt each other. so, what if Human Instrumentality came and let us really know each other by living together in a sea of thought?

The problem is, the manga makes a bunch of changes. Kaji didn't leave Misato because they couldn't connect, he left because he was tormented by the death of his brother. Shinji gets along a lot better with Asuka and Rei. Touji is just plain dead-- but before piloting the Eva, he told the class rep that they should be friends. One of the anime's fundamental points, that humans have so much difficulty comprehending one another, is seriously changed in the manga.

That said, the ending should be one that satisfies these problems.

[Dark FireStar]

KOOL!!!! :shock: :cry:

[Otaprince]

ok, if you want specifics, an interesting ending would be a sort of take on the aborted live-action sequence to EoE, except with a happy ending... After Instrumentality, everyone returns to their bodies and the world sort of returns to normal, like Rei said that they could.

Rei is gone from this world, having become some sort of cosmic being in Instrumentality. Misato and Kaji are back together. Touji is alive and with the class rep. Shinji and Asuka... are NOT together. i mean, i know that they end up washed up on the shore at the end of EoE, but i never really saw anything fundamental in their characters to indicate that they need each other, or are right for each other. I'd say, Shinji and Asuka grow up and pursue their own lives.

[Dark FireStar]

I dont think a lot of people will agree with you on the Shinji/Asuka part. It is something Anno would do tho.

[Carl Horn]

Since the Manga still hasn't officialy ended, how would you like Sadamoto to finish it?

Eventually.

A nice Rei poster in the latest SHONEN ACE, though. All the little EVA gifts you get in the magazine instead of actual new chapters of the manga remind me of bank robbers throwing money out behind them, hoping to stop traffic long enough to make their getaway ;-)

[Reichu]

The entire landscape of the Earth was completely altered.

Really? It looks fairly normal to me, if you ignore the fact that everything is red and there is a giant head in the background.

[Nephilim]

Really? It looks fairly normal to me, if you ignore the fact that everything is red and there is a giant head in the background.

Yeah, the earth is intact, but covered in blood. It looks so cool when the eva goes flying to the space and we can see the a red earth with the blood ring arround it. Great ending.

Back on topic...
The manga should end with a happy ending, i just can't stand another "mind fuck" ending :shock:.
More action, more new scenes, more development of characters we never see, etc.

[Reichu]

Yeah, the earth is intact, but covered in blood. It looks so cool when the eva goes flying to the space and we can see the a red earth with the blood ring arround it. Great ending.

I don't think the Earth is red from 'blood' per se. The ring is blood, of course, but the Earth's red color seems to be a reference to the Red Earth Purification Ceremony. We see the Earth TURN red as all life is liquified and its souls freed:





And recall what Gendou says of Antarctica, which is a 'Dead Sea' of red:



Gendou: And yet this is a purified world, a world lacking the impurity
of the original sin.

Off topic? Of course!

The manga should end with a happy ending, i just can't stand another "mind fuck" ending :shock:.

It was happy, if you think about it the right way. ;)

More action, more new scenes, more development of characters we never see, etc.

Like Shiro Tokita? :chortle:

[Gilgamesh]

The entire landscape of the Earth was completely altered.

Really? It looks fairly normal to me, if you ignore the fact that everything is red and there is a giant head in the background.

Ah, sorry, I didn't see the trees and such in that picture. But all societal structures have pretty much collapsed. Life is still going to move along very slowly in the world post-Third Impact.

[Dark FireStar]

In the bible dosent it say that the Earth is going to be cleansed by fire? That god is going to take all his followers off the Earth and burn the sin off it? Just a thought.

[Carl Horn]

In the bible dosent it say that the Earth is going to be cleansed by fire? That god is going to take all his followers off the Earth and burn the sin off it? Just a thought.

This is why I always tell people at EVA panels in hotels to bring the Gideon that comes with their room. It's about time someone got some use out of it.

[Dark FireStar]

I used to be little bible boy back in my day (irony because im 16 lol). I was into all the bible storys and camps. Until I saw the cruption in it and when Evangelion came into the picture. I study multible religons but the bible is my main on.

[DatDude]

I think i'd like to see and ending that is not as much of a mind screw as EoE. If I could have an ending with Asuka Misato and Shinji alive with some chance at learing from their past mistakes and be happy, the would make me happy.

[houtaru]

I'd like to see a bittersweet ending that still has Asuka and Shinji alone together. This scene from EOE always cemented the idea of 'Neon Genesis' to me. Plus, it inspires hope from despair.

Just, please god, don't let the manga have the 'baloney pony' scene.

[the_seventh_child]

I'd like to see a bittersweet ending that still has Asuka and Shinji alone together. This scene from EOE always cemented the idea of 'Neon Genesis' to me. Plus, it inspires hope from despair.

yeah that would be really great..however it may be better the ending of manga not to "connect" in some way with the end of the anime..it should be something new and surprising..but still i too wish it has asuka-shinji together..

[Dark FireStar]

How 'bout if they all remain together as a single entity? Would the angels be apart of it when all the souls gather??

[Ayanami]

How 'bout if they all remain together as a single entity? Would the angels be apart of it when all the souls gather??

Good question... I have no idea.

But anyway... I think I'd kinda like to see a manga interpretation of EoE. It's not necessarily the ending I'd want, but it'd still be interesting to see the movie from Sadamoto's point of view.

[Dark FireStar]

Well any one INTELLIGENT what to anwser me LoL J/k Ayanami

[Ryo]

I think that Sadamoto has the potential of creating an entire new ending, wich would be quite intresting...

But if he doesn't, then I'd vote for EoE. Gotta be the best ending I've seen so far.

[Sectre01]

I think that Sadamoto has the potential of creating an entire new ending, wich would be quite intresting...

But if he doesn't, then I'd vote for EoE. Gotta be the best ending I've seen so far.

Agree, who doesn't like the "most main characters die in brutal ways endings".