>>150313806
You're right but there's an underlying narrative around Shinji that he isn't participating in which is somewhat novel for a 90s tv show let alone an anime.
It's a violently depressing story a lot like Welcome to the NHK except Evangelion has punchy robot fights instead of an autistic retard making a shitty visual novel and trying to kill himself. It's less that is has any specific message and more that it threw a lot of shit at the wall in an artsy fartsy way and people extrapolated what they wanted out of it. I still like it thoughever.