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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 5:41:38 AM No.212637715
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>what is the meaning of evangelion

are any of you capable of explaining this shit
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 5:45:31 AM No.212637771
yea but you have to watch the anime, the ova, and rebuild, when you are done comeback
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Anonymous Israel
7/11/2025, 5:47:46 AM No.212637809
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>>212637715 (OP)
it doesnt have a meaning it's a character driven show its about 3 fucked up teenagers resolving their fucked-upness
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Anonymous Australia
7/11/2025, 5:51:16 AM No.212637862
The hedgehogs dilemma, we want to be close to others, but in being close to them we hurt them, and they hurt us. So we can either run away from others, and be alone, or we can get in the fucking robot Shinji. Every character in Evangelion is broken, and through their interactions with others, they become even more broken all in different ways. Throughout the story their forced or voluntary interactions begin to cascade:

Auska's front of being perfect and headstrong breaks down as people see her for what she truely is. Not being able to face the world, where people see her that way, she begins beating her self up, until she is effectively a shell.

Shinji doesn't know what a healthy relationship is, nor a healthy outlook on how to be a human in society, and throughout the story tries different roles, until he realizes he is no one.

Rei is hot AF.

Or you want a rundown of the pseudo religious stuff in it?
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 5:52:58 AM No.212637882
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>>212637771
>>212637809
>>212637862
is it ok if I just watch the end of evangelion movie?
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 5:54:35 AM No.212637915
>>212637715 (OP)
How did this shit remain so popular? It really wasnt that great, can we talk about something else?
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Anonymous Israel
7/11/2025, 5:55:58 AM No.212637938
>>212637882
no you need to watch the anime and then end of evangelion

iirc the story is basically they ran out of money and basically half assed the last episodes. and after they got some money they made end of evangelion to finish the show properly. the show + EoE is the entire package.
Anonymous India
7/11/2025, 5:56:32 AM No.212637949
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>>212637715 (OP)
Tldw:
Based rei leaving it to the people to choose themselves
Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 5:56:45 AM No.212637952
>>212637771
the characters are whatever, their development is mostly a backdrop, shinji is a little more fleshed out because this arc has to do with the narrative, the rest are dressing, i mean rei is replaced at least once in every segment so not really, hedgehog dilema is misato's diagnosis but ofc she is a character too so she's very flaw in her own ways

>>212637715 (OP)
okay so hereis the breakdown, it's going to take a while because it's all from memory and not fresh and the idea is you've seen everything i've mentioned, just be patient as i type everything out, it won't take long since i won't go into detail
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Anonymous Australia
7/11/2025, 5:58:48 AM No.212637977
>>212637882
If you like pretty pictures? Yeah. You'll probably be able to extrapolate some stuff, but the end of eva is heavily into the pseudo-religious stuff.

If you want just the main story path, watch episode 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 15-24, then End of Eva.

Don't watch, Evangelion: Death (True)2. It's too quick.

But it's gorgeous so you should just watch all of it
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:06:28 AM No.212638092
>>212637882
no, you'll miss at least 2/3 of the story

>>212637952
ok here we go...........

story is set in a different universe because it's 1999 and tokyo is already nuked into the oceans

there were a group of aliens who had seeded life all over the universe because they were going extinct, they created 2 type seeds, seed of adam (that had the fruit of life/overwhelming power) and seed of lilith (fruit of wisdom, use to technology and so forth) only one is suppose to land on a planet, each had a spear with them just in case seed of another type landed on the same planet, it will suppress the growth of the seeds because having 2 seeds will be too overwhelming

a seed of lilith lands on earth below tokyo (it's the black moon, i think it's in the tv series, it's shown in the eoe at least), it contained lilith but a secret cabal, seele had gotten to her and used her spear to impale her
later seed of adam lands in antarctica, it is also interrupted, his spear is ejected into space orbiting the moon

this is the backdrop before the first episode

continued...
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:12:45 AM No.212638213
>>212637977
>>212638092
so what is the absolute minimum I'd need to watch to get the full story?? there's a movie recap that covers the anime right?
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:22:31 AM No.212638381
>>212638092
the story of the anime happens, shinji achieve instrumentality he remakes the world, ofc he does it wrong because he couldn't let go of the present, eoe begins with seele attacking nerv using mass produced eva units, the n2 engine allows 01 initiate thirdo impacto allowing shinji to choose the fate of the world again
he does it right this time, kind of, this is rebuilt, it is SEQUENTIAL okay? you cannot pick and choose which timeline to follow, nagisa clearly knows shinji he clearly knows he has all this crap to do, he is not sure but he knows if he lived all the other empty caskets beside him (containing his past selves) failed
rebuilt is slightly different because shinji became a little open to people, shinji learned a little from eoe, asuka isn't the psychological wreck she was rei has slight change to her too, she isn't as clingy to gendou, it's all pretty clear these characters at the start of rebuilt are tamer,
then it's mari, mari is from shinji's mom days, she has very close relationship to fuyutsuki as if they know each other but that's not possible mari just arrived from america, ofc mari isn't 14, she is unable to age just like shinji, too much time in lcl, mari talkes like she will save shinji not nagisa
blah blah blah story beats happen shinji's down time is even more harrowing, he doesn't eat he doesn't say anything everyone is fed up with him, they just leave him be, we get to the last episode gendou goes into null-zone and shinji follows behind, sent there by mari herself, they have a heart to heart and gendou accepts he is a terrible father etc
cut the ending, everyone gets surprise endings because they have to break the cycle you cannot focus on the past, open yourself to pain and suffering, and don't wallow in self-pity, good story 10/10
Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:28:20 AM No.212638479
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>>212638213
anime + eoe movie + 4 rebuild movies
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:28:44 AM No.212638486
>>212638479
i don't want to fucking watch the anime
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:30:07 AM No.212638515
>>212638486
yea... you can't do that
just forget about it altogether
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:31:16 AM No.212638534
>>212638515
I tried to watch the anime and it's boring as fuck and it sucks
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Anonymous Israel
7/11/2025, 6:31:59 AM No.212638543
>>212638213
anime + EoE
you can just watch the anime but the ending is kinda rushed/half assed. watch the anime and then EoE thats the whole story
Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:32:34 AM No.212638554
>>212638534
just watch gurren lagen that's probably better for you, people like evangelion because they LOVE the anime, it's sacred
Anonymous Brazil
7/11/2025, 6:33:34 AM No.212638574
>>212638534
Then why waste time at all
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:34:06 AM No.212638583
>>212638574
because I want to understand the philosophy
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Anonymous India
7/11/2025, 6:34:29 AM No.212638590
>>212638534
Truke because the director don't throw everything on your face , and baits you into non existent romance .
Anonymous Argentina
7/11/2025, 6:35:24 AM No.212638604
>>212637715 (OP)
>>what is the meaning of evangelion
Is esoteric in general.
Somethingsomethingsomething individuality vs plurality, equalty vs singularity.

Lilith is the female, and the female is dark, she comes from.the black egg and she produces many, a vessel (water)
Adam is the male, it is bright, it is that which is preserved in time, it comes from the white egg and produces longevity, it irradiates.

You actually would need to be relatively familiar with esoterism to pick some of the references made.
Adam is made of light, because the oldest things tend to radiate outwards.
As they radiate outwards they become many, and as they become many they become less singular, and more entropic.
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:35:40 AM No.212638609
>>212637915
Recommend stuff that was better.
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Anonymous Brazil
7/11/2025, 6:35:56 AM No.212638615
>>212638583
It's just a cartoon.
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Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:37:36 AM No.212638640
>>212638609
logh
Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:37:39 AM No.212638642
>>212638609
Akame ga kill
Black Lagoon
Rin:Daughters of Mnemosyne
Kokkoku
Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:38:14 AM No.212638658
>>212638615
if it was just a cartoon would it have this much staying power? it's clearly powerful and influential
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Anonymous Brazil
7/11/2025, 6:40:25 AM No.212638698
>>212638658
People just want to jerk off to Asuka
Anonymous Argentina
7/11/2025, 6:43:16 AM No.212638748
>>212638604

Also part of what rei does when it unifies with lilith is dissolving the barriers that give individuality.
Everything comes to be an uniform vessel, everything distribhtes evenly.
Where the male is an irradiator and sigular because that which is sigular has more gradient.
The female is a receptacle and infinite space, because the space can absorb and bear as much as possible.

The rest is just shinji being a faggot and the dilemma of whatever is worth -being- as in a individual, where it means a degree of pain and suffering involved. To not be is easier. That which is purely individual always gives but never receives, think jesus.
I dont remember a lot of it, there is also some references to rebis and other alchemical stuff
Anonymous Poland
7/11/2025, 6:45:31 AM No.212638784
International?
>>212638658
american mind can't comprehend that something can be popular and not that good
Anonymous United States
7/11/2025, 6:48:25 AM No.212638841
>>212638658
staying power is actually not the story or the meaning

anno is a pretty good director if he isn't in his self-pity phase, if you want a taste of his style just watch shin godzilla 2016 and shin ultraman 2022, live action movies, pretty good
Anonymous Finland
7/11/2025, 6:48:43 AM No.212638846
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>>212637715 (OP)
Human relationships mean you both hurt each other but they can also feel good.
If you hate yourself and think your life is meaningless, seeking love and acceptance from other people won't give you any permanent happiness or meaning, only something that is fleeting.
We can ultimately choose, or at least try to choose, how we perceive the world around us and the world changes based on how we look at it.
Anonymous France
7/11/2025, 7:39:42 AM No.212639660
>>212638534
ADHD zoomzoom lmao
Anonymous Bangladesh
7/11/2025, 7:49:07 AM No.212639778
>>212637715 (OP)
All that cryptic shit is only there because it looked cool o algo
The message is very simple, to stop running away from real life because there'd be hardships.
>>212638534
Based
Fuck jap miseryslop. Same thing with Oyasumi PunPun. If you didn't stop thinking they're the greatest thing ever after reaching 18, you're actually retarded.
Anonymous Romania
7/11/2025, 9:58:40 AM No.212641896
>>212637715 (OP)
Pen Pen is best girl.