Rebuild: The Real End of Evangelion

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[@michellemahar9030]

It feels like the creator of the series grew and so did his creation. I personally loved the ending because it chooses to show how love and connections matter. It shows that there are many continuities and that they all need to happen for the characters to grow.

[@swedhgemoni8092]

I'm sorry, that isn't called "growing up" - it's just bad plot, deus ex machina and a way to insult all the readers and fans who made this series the cult classic it is. I cannot believe what it's creator did purely out of spite. This is worse than what happened to Pokémon when they removed Misty because her voice actress left.

[@lcke8380]

damn it's like you kept being the same edgy boy who likes this "underground" anime Evangelion, while everyone, including Hideaki Anno decided it was time to grow up.

[@swedhgemoni8092]

@@lcke8380 I'm sorry you see it this way but the Rebuild was so sloppy that it had to shoehorn an entirely new character into the story to even begin to edge the plot towards a favourable conclusion. And mind you, Mari had very little overall interaction with Shinji through the films but kept moving the plot in the background. Plus the five Adams theory makes very little canonical sense and even lore hunters struggle to make heads or tails out of it. The vast divergence from the original storyline also did it no favours, only confusing the fandom, new or old (if I was a first-time watcher, I'd be unable to grasp any of the train wreck it was from the second film onwards). TLDR; plot was bad and incomprehensible, adding Mari was a mistake and the lore breaks it's own established rules.

[@JezOnYT88]

I took away from the rebuild, Shinji went back at the end of Evangelion and tried to redo the ending. Hence the similar scenes in the Rebuild movies.

[@jasiahreed-davis6862]

This is actually a theory that floats in the community because their is a giant blood stain on the moon and in the rebuilds seele know way more than they should and another point to this is shinjis drive he’s way more driven “to do the right thing” in the rebuilds and another thing to mention is gendo he has back up plans and schedules he up holds for literal fucin near- impacts in the rebuilds he manipulates them happening so masterfully and simple

[@harrisondansie9542]

I'm happy the algorithm recommended this to me just now. I can tell this is a work from the heart. I binged the entirety of NGE last summer in a couple of weeks. I just wanted to experience one of the great classics of anime, but more and more, largely thanks to people like you making vidoes like these, that Eva means so much more. Thank you for showing me that!

[@CookieMan-yy6lu]

Many people say it but this person is really underrated, he has an amazing opinion on things and explains it very well, please keep making these videos

[@mobpsy1526]

Yoko Taro said my favorite game Nier Automata borrowed heavily from Eva, which made me watch this masterpiece again after watching and not understanding it as a kid. Then I realized my previous favorite game Xenogears borrowed even more from Eva. Holy moly Anno is a legend.

[@ZUCC1N]

There's a problem with Yoko Taro saying anything in that he loves trolling. Nier Automata has crossover with Evangelion but deals a lot more with the contemplation of deciding your reason to live and how to live from the perspective of existentialist philosophy and how all previous philosophers have failed to truly derive a good answer to what meaning there is to life through that. Max Derrat actually only today published a video on this topic, but also i recently finished replaying automata and I am working on my own video on the topic that will tackle similar but different parts of the game in that context. I guess its the same outcome but different methods, but I don't personally believe that is ""borrowing"" from Evangelion. in terms of the Xenogears part i also hold a similar regard for it, Nier Automata and Xenogears are my favorite games of all time, but i also feel it's a bit naive to state it borrowed from Eva. Xenogears was in Tetsuya Takahashi's mind for years before it came out, he proposed it to be Final Fantasy 7 at the time that was in planning but it was rejected. that proposal was apparently even more ambitious and deep than what we got on Gnosticism and psychoanalysis. It less it borrowed from Evangelion and more they drew from basically the exact same wells of themes and knowledge, it's just Evangelion got a bit of a head start so was released earlier, and got far more regard especially considering how Xenogears turned out. I'll also recommend The State of the Arc podcast for Xenogears (and I'm currently working through their Automata series as well) who broke down Xenogear's history and the story, themes and philosophy in a run time that was longer than my actual playtime of basically 100%ing game. I also want to make something on Xenogears but i feel it would take a while with how deep i want to go on what is my favorite game ever, but i just hope more people can know about it, and with the resurgence of HD 2D, square enix might broker a deal with Takahashi on something... but that's just what i think.

[@mobpsy1526]

@@ZUCC1N When I watched some Eve summaries and 3.0+1.0 in the past days, I immediatly had thoughts like: hey SEELE is like the Gazel ministry in Xeno and Krelian is pretty much Gendo because he pretends to work for Gazel but wants his own goal for all human souls to go with the wave existence (instrumentality project) because he wants to end suffering but also is personally hurt that Elly never loved him, again very much like Gendo. I agree with you that Takahashi had his idea for years and he has the same inspirations as Eve (childhoods end ie.), but some major plot points and even personal motivations of the villain Krelian are sooo close to Eve. Even the end conclusion of Xeno is basically the same, Fei convinces the wave existence/Krelian that being a flawed human is ok and they stop the instrumentality for Fei, just like Ayanami with similar godlike powers decides to stop it for Shinji. On Nier, I felt a bit funny too when I thought about Yorha being NERVE and the 3 main characters are loosely like the 3 mains in Eve, + again the ending is very similar. But yes, Yoko is basically creating his own philosophical work as a game with so many original elements that it feels much broader and deeper than Eve to me. So here my mind was much less "wtf" compared to Xeno.

[@ZUCC1N]

they certainly have crossover a lot i wont deny that. on the topic of the krelian and solaris stuff, that had aspects of it based of the book "Childhood's End" by Arthur C Clarke about aliens basically coming to earth and just watching humans for a bit in their ships akin to how Solaris roams around in the game. also indirectly tied to nier since that's literally the name of ending D lmao, so if you haven't heard of it highly recommend reading it.

[@sameoldluck]

beautiful sentiment in this ♥️

[@ki11aqueen5]

I’m with you on hating shinji from EOE. To me EOE is an alternate ending to evangelion. The reasons I think this is because the instrumentality project in EOE is far different and more nihilistic compared to the television show. Another reason is that shinji is a completely different character from the TV show. The hospital scene, and him choking asuka really made me hate the movie TBH. Like I just genuinely think Shinji would never do any of those things Idk the instrumentality project in the television series was better IMO because it actually helped Shinji move on and be happy with himself. Unlike whatever the ending in EOE is supposed to be. The rebuild series made me fall in love with Shinji as a character again, it’s so relatable and I love it. the rebuild series is MY end of evangelion.

[@ZUCC1N]

I recommend my end of Evangelion video then if you haven't seen it

[@TimSchmorton]

great video, really enjoyed it! very well made!

[@georgiedagreek2734]

Great outlook my man, always go forward 😊😊 respect

[@today.9703]

amazing vid bro rlly deserve more subs

[@sourlab]

The main problem i have with the rebuilds is that they're great movies ! Just not great evangelion ones But i gotta be honest , this actually helped the last movie a ton . Plus this vid made it even better and ay it is also what Anno wanted , and i respect that .

[@jbaldsing]

Be interested in hearing your perspective on other movies, like classic Hollywood movies for example. You've got an interesting take on things.

[@ZUCC1N]

admittedly my one hole has always been holywood films, since for most of my formative years of getting into media analysis i tended to steer away from it. its something i'm trying to amend now BUT i think there is still 1 topic i could go over in my current state... but no spoilers about that but, just know this did make me devise a new video idea.

[@jbaldsing]

It's quite special though that this series that came out when I was in high school and had huge effects on me too has had similar effects on younger generations. Let's hope it continues this way because it's a very cool classic series.

[@guy7934]

im gonna subscribe now, I really like your style. dont change

[@ZUCC1N]

I am willing to inform you i don't intend to change my style, and perhaps even my next video might deconstruct why i think it works... but I'll leave the specifics of that a mystery for now

[@nightmonkey6457]

I don’t know what to say but I do know I enjoyed and relate to Eva and this sentiment

[@TheRitva26]

As an asushin shipper the last rebuild movie was a travesty

[@ssjcybersonic9255]

Congratulations.👏

[@shawnjackson3764]

I like watching Evangelion, but I can never recall what happens story wise.

[@luie_2577]

Real

[@LearningGabriel]

In spite of this analysis being quite good. . . . . . Doesn’t really change the fact that 4.0 is pretty much a terrible film.

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

That one anime made to sell toys that also has shinji in a bunch of episodes is the real evangelion lol

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

0:07 alright brother im curious what is this

[@ZUCC1N]

Wonderful everyday, held as one of the most impactful visual novels ever created, but also one that is incredibly disturbing in what it tackles and shows. the steam release contains only the first chapter out of 7 which spoilers i guess for how the game is structured is a generic yuri visual novel with one of the routes leading you into the rest of the game, well if you patch the rest of the game in. they had to do this cause steam does that for eroges, not letting explicit sexual content on the platform but also just probably wouldn't let the rest be on the store frontfor more than that reason too. at that point the actual game begins and to be honest is probably a lot for many people, but certainly tackles high level philosophical topics and how the desire to be happy can be foiled by the reality of life. i to be honest want to create a series on it chapter by chapter but it would most likely require me to do a play by play slowly explaining and building up the story as it goes, as i think its a goated message but you have to go through some really disturbing stuff to get there, so i think there is some value in also just going through it to explain it, and then only i have to bleach my eyes when i have to watch a dog do something that even the official patch dodges in putting back in. but that sort of thing would take a WHILE so its a long term goal, maybe when im able to slow my production down and make longer videos if i feel like it but rn gonna stick to my shorter sweet videos.

[@user-ez2bc4nz4i]

I wanted a new evangelion movie or a series

[@DaftPunkSkittle]

why more ? Its okay to end a story

[@user-ez2bc4nz4i]

@@DaftPunkSkittle its just to good

[@Isaac7even]

What do you think of chainsaw man?

[@ZUCC1N]

I own all of Tatsuki Fujimoto's english translated works because of chainsaw man if that answers your question. Elaborating further might rob me of future ideas, you know keep my cards close to my chest.

[@ivan_d_feets4495]

Gonna be honest, i came in to this video thinking it would be meh, and left rlly liking it

[@ZUCC1N]

thanks man, i hope you stick around, considering you have a very nice profile picture which I'm not hinting at anything right now by saying that :)

[@meowsca]

@@ZUCC1Nbro was hinting

[@shauqiharris2772]

Shinji did nothing wrong.

[@kahnadah]

Dub sucks. There, I said it. I feel better.

[@ZUCC1N]

I have my criticisms of the dub for rebuild specially how stuff got censored and flattened but you got anything to say about the actual video my man? Or did you just wanna say that?

[@bhendri31]

Nah, EoE's ending was perfect as is. Eva's full of anger and sadness, as is EoE...until the very end. Just the touch of kindness Asuka showed Shinji was enough. Rebuilds gutted Asuka and Rei's characters, shoved in a pointless fanservice pilot, utterly destroyed the mother's soul-Eva-child pilot connection and replaced it with NOTHING, reducing the Evas to monsters that fight other monsters, and ended with Shinji skipping to adulthood lead by the bland fanservice pilot with whom he had no chemistry. "Metanarrative" is an excuse for shallow, sloppy writing, compared to the original. Anno put his heart and soul into the original NGE and EoE. The Rebuilds were nothing more than a product.

[@ZUCC1N]

A product that by the end reflects Anno's real life experience. The real in the title isn't just me thinking it's the definitive end but also the ending that in literal terms has shinji and the characters become ""real"" by moving on from the series. I acknowledge in the video 1.0 and 2.0 are inferior versions of the original but if you really write off the rest of the series for that initial problem you miss out on all the obvious anger and stress anno put in the later films. You are entitled to your opinion, rebuild has enough discourse where the ending is just agreeing to disagree, but it's clear 3.0 and 3.0+1.0 also has Anno's heart and soul in it

[@bhendri31]

@@ZUCC1N 3.0 was a dumpster fire, it did not have his heart in it. Maybe parts of 4.0. Def not all of it. It could do without the disgusting Michael Bay action diarrhea. Oh, they literally become real? That idea wasn't impressive or interesting. It was obvious Anno just wanted the movie over with.

[@cartooncatboy3009]

@@bhendri31💀

[@thomasdeen2099]

bro was watching recreation of argon exodus evangelists :skull:

[@bhendri31]

@@thomasdeen2099 wat