Why I (Sorta) Reject Evangelion’s New Ending

[@GeekOuter]

QUICK DISCLAIMER: as you may notice at the end of this video, there's a section that goes mute for a few seconds. That's because I did a quick music edit using the beggining of One Last Kiss. Despite this video being alright for months (just flagged for demonetization), for some reason the bots decided to block it unless I took the audio out. Go figure.

[@arthurcoser]

Evangelion was the first manga I ever bought, holds a special place in my heart. Really liked your analysis of the different endings. Great video!

[@NecroKoopa]

Awesome content in a funny and light format. Congratz!

[@red_cosplay]

11:18 Shrink: Madness Combat Gendo is not real, he can't hurt you Madness Combat Gendo:

[@regulus32leo92]

very nice video when are you releasing another one?!

[@Necrow_Productions]

I agree with all of this! One note for me though is that Rei and her story in Thrive Upon a Time broke my heart!

[@rnagrg]

Fenomenal, que análise bem feita! E a qualidade do vídeo tá simplesmente fantástica, parabéns!

[@eduardoqueirozperes655]

Thank you for the deep analysis. I love to watch good youtube videos about series I've never watched, and this is the first I've watched about Evangelion. It was great! The thematics about the choice to 'erase our individualities to end suffering' is a really deep one, long debated in philosophy and religion. I'm glad to listen about it here :)

[@larissamarin4804]

Awesome video! Can you make one for Demon Slayer? 😁

[@eduardoqueirozperes655]

BTW, aren't the two endings somehow compatible? For example, by our very limitations relations are possibles, and those relations are the field where our flaws make manifest. However, love is also manifested on those relations and it allows us to transcend whatever suffering comes from all that. The only difference would be that, instead of framing love as an emerging possibility from our flawed nature, it is framed as an emerging possibility from our **limited** natured, which is also the source of our flaws. As you said, the difference is subtle, but probably important.

[@regulus32leo92]

please do a video on your take on the events portrayed in "João Gênesis Evankléber: Você (não) é fiel"

[@DoomResetR]

it feels like escapism 'cause that ending was all about escapism. Shinji literally rewrote reality getting rid off his problems to a sanitized world an idealistic caricature of reality, and this "happy ending" was given to us during times when human selfishness and stupidity were shown to be the main motivation and will of most of humanity, so yeahh frankly naive and the original message is way better 'cause it's optimistic nihilism, the only answer (for now) to a meaningless existence.

[@anothernerdontheinternet]

Hey a year later but... I just wanted to give my opinion and say i left with the exact opposite message/impression. It was not escapism, it was criticizing escapism just like the original, the entire story from the Rebuilds was not real, that was the escapism, that is why the last shot of 3.0+1.0 seems just like real life footage, cause Shinji left the fake world he lived in and moved into reality, that is why they also destroy the Evas before leaving that other world, because Evas do not exist in real life. You have to think of the context the Rebuilds were made in to understand how the themes and messages in it allign with and actually build off from the original's. Evangelion was always a story about accepting reality and criticizing escapism, it's fanbase did the opposite of what the series was telling them and indulged in escapism through Evangelion and proceeded to obsess over the series for years after it ended, that is why the characters have not aged even after 15 years, that is why the Evas need to be destroyed, that is why you see a scene of the characters watching footage from the original, that is why it is all implied to be a loop, why Asuka is now a clone, etc. It is all criticizing the fanbase's escapist tendencies and the unwanted impact Evangelion had in modern Otaku culture and the anime industry, it is all done through metaphors and symbolism and the entire narrative is metatextual and might not make sense if looked at surface level. But it never contradicts the message of the original, Shinji destroying the Evas, ending up with Mari instead of Rei or Asuka (who are both clones now and it is meant to represent the fact that they are not real and just generic "waifus" from a certain archetype) and leaving for the real world is meant to tell the audience to do that as well, start living in reality and leave Evangelion behind, to bravely move towards the realistic and tangible despite all the hardships we might face with the hope of one day finding true real happiness and mature.

[@thatjosiahburns]

An interesting view but to be honest this is a #PACKWATCH 🔥🔥🔥🤣🤣😭RipBozo🤣🤣🥶💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥moment ngl. Subscribed in the hope that you'll do something cool in the future.

[@danielsodre9229]

Lovely, but you know nothing GeekOut guy, NOthing (kkk just kidding

[@zmbo7806]

Jeez, how many endings are there?

[@GeekOuter]

There's the original anime series ending (which I don't really count, personally, but still), The End of Evangelion movie (which is the ending that was originally planned, but they couldn't make it in the series due to time/budget constraints) and the ending to the Rebuild movies that I talk about in this video. So three.

[@victorvalencia5822]

​@@GeekOuter Count the manga one as well, there's 4 as total.

[@GeekOuter]

@@victorvalencia5822 Oh, right, there's that one as well.

[@_fiiifo]

Talk about one piece please