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  • I'm really not sure what to make of this ending.

  • i don't get it, at the end they are truly alive or no?

  • @portela132

    Both Shinji and Asuka are truly alive. ~~

  • @Zero4ph oh, so they are like adam and eva, if you look that way is in it?

  • @portela132

    Yes but not for long the results of Instrumentality are not permanent. there already be small pockets of humans reemerging around the world. ~~

  • @ngamer3k Hear me out,is it me or do you also think the rebuild is a reincarnation ,if you watch 1.0 and 2.0 you notice the water is red,and the moon is already stained with blood,and they say it feels like its happening again,not referring to the second impact.

  • @XxXpsyhcothugXxX Some people say the series is happening in cycles or something. It's most likely Anno is just throwing stuff in there as a throwback to the original series.

  • fuck my brains this is the most confusing anime i've ever watched. the anime series made me go insane its so hard to understand. i feel like having a fap now, this show is driving me crazy.

  • I have one question: other than his psychotic breakdown, why does Shinji suddenly try to strangle Asuka?

  • @Sh4d0wKat

    What, you haven't heard of the phrase, "to choke a bitch"?

  • @Kyogrerok No, actually, I haven't. I'm just curious because she seems disturbingly apathetic about being throttled.

  • @Sh4d0wKat

    Well, considering what she's been through, I'd say she was welcoming it.

  • @Kyogrerok And yet she stopped him... So now we have two mentally ill teenagers who possibly hate each other as the last humans alive. Such a depressing end... but then, if it wasn't depressing, it wouldn't bee Evangelion.

  • @Sh4d0wKat

    Shinji renounced the world where all hearts had melted into one and accepted each other unconditionally. His desire... to live with 'others' -- other hearts that would sometimes reject him, even deny him. That is why the first thing he did after coming to his senses was to place his hands around Asuka's neck. To feel the existence of an 'other'. To confirm (make sure of) rejection and denial. ~~

  • @Zero4ph Yes, but by trying to kill her? To put an end to that "other" existence, as you put it, seems a bit off with what you stated. Granted, he and Asuka didn't part on the best of terms pre-Third Impact, but even so...

  • @Sh4d0wKat

    I think Shinji apparently been alone for some time before Asuka's return, and was nearly insane from isolation, so he wasn't sure if he wanted to live anymore. When he saw Asuka he wanted to kill her because he was afraid she'd reject him again With her caress, he realizes she doesn't hate him and that she won't just reject him, and he is brought back to sanity. ~~

  • @Zero4ph And yet: "...how disgusting..."

  • @Sh4d0wKat

    it could be anything it's open to vague interpretation It's probably just a line signifying her disgust with just everything. ~~

  • @Zero4ph Hmm... I think the original line in Japanese translates to either "...you make me sick..." or "...I feel sick..." but you're right with the open interpretive nature. I wonder if Gendo and Misato and the others who were injured/killed before the 3rd Impact would be alive after being reduced to LCL and reformed.

  • @Sh4d0wKat

    There's no really explaination about the bandages it was there already in time of her return to signify that she really got injured during her fight against the Eva series also about the clothes well she was turned into a LCL in her plug suit just like Shinji in his street clothes so I guess if they have to be reborn in their clothes as well, (1/2)

  • yes "I feel Sick" as in morning sickness, well Asuka died too she is included during instrumentality so I guess Gendo,Ritsuko and Misato as well. (2/2) ~~

  • @Zero4ph When Shinji was LCL'd during Unit-01's fight with Zuriel, he was reborn naked (at least he was in the manga), so Asuka would've had to find clothes if she was in the same situation, as judging by this Shinji isn't in a helping mood. I guess whether they return depends on if they want to: Anno stated that the SEELE board-members aren't coming back, and Gendo gave up on life because his beloved Rei (as Lilith) and Yui (as Unit-01) rejected him for Shinji.

  • @Sh4d0wKat

    Ah I see I didn't know I never read the manga but still she just got back I think it impossible for her to get clothes heck even a plug suit lol, yea All living things have the ability to return to their original form... and the heart to go on living.Anywhere can be heaven as long as you have the will to live, I guess those SEELE members have no will to live they choose to stay there in the LCL and Gendo as well. ~~

  • @Zero4ph Someone had to find her clothes and bandages for her eye, but if he helped her, that wouldn't explain why they were lying side by side unless he was sleeping and she chose to lie next to him. Given his reaction to her presence, I wouldn't think it was the other way around.

  • just curious, but why do people compare magical madoka to evangelion?

  • @th3azscorpio

    Madoka - The inverse of Evangelion and the Evangelion of our decade. It's less of a comparison but more like a parallel contrast.

    Evangelion.

    Partial deconstruction of the mecha genre Christian references Psychological references to loneliness and depression.

    Madoka

    Partial deconstruction of the Mahou Shoujo genre

    Buddist references Psychological references to emotional descent.

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  • @Zero4ph well more specifically I keep hearing some people say madoka has surpassed evangelion- this sounds like too much of a overstatement to me. what do you think?

  • @th3azscorpio

    It's really matter of opinion really most people said Rahxephon got it right and much better but I wouldn't know since I haven't seen it yet there's similarities though. ~~

  • WTF! The Rebuild is so much better! Way less cryptic!

  • @Godzilla2000X Have you considered that, in fact, the cryptic nature and slower pace is why most people liked it so much in the first place?

  • So this 2 person are the survivor?

  • @ByakugenHyugaHinata

    first two persons chose to rejected instrumentality and chose to live on.

  • I still don't know what happened...

  • @gamma830

    Shinji rejected instrumentality ~~

  • I have never felt so conflicted about an end of a series in my life. The confusion about the symbolism, then watching it a second time to catch everything. Then realizing what Asuka meant by "I feel sick". On one hand I liked the ending movie, but I wasn't too sure of the result.

  • Wat the fuck that is the second time he has tried to kill her problems he's got promblems

  • @Cosplaychick The first time you saw Shinji strangling Asuka was when instrumentality had begun, and Instrumentality makes you see things that are not there, it seems, sort of akin to a dream sequence. The scene with Shinji and Asuka in the kitchen where Shinji overturns the table and strangles Asuka was not real. This however is, because it occurres after Shinji rejectes instrumentality and returns to the real world, a world where he and Asuka both possess separate forms, minds and feelings.

  • i hope the final evangelion film doesn't end on such a depressing/what the hell is gonna happen next note!

  • @BleachedFilm

    trust me it won't

  • @BleachedFilm I hope it will. That is what makes NGE a different series from the rest.

  • Shinji has a fetish for choking sexy redheads, that's why he did it.

  • Why did he kill her?

  • @xickin

    He didn't

  • @Zero4ph What do you mean he didn't? He choked the life out of her right there!

  • @xickin Then how did she talk? Voodoo magic?

  • @xickin As if the eye roll itself isn't a dead enough give away.

  • @oloompop I just don't get WHY he killed her, was it out of passion? Fear? Mercy? WHAT!?

  • @xickin

    let me rephrase that I mean he didn't kill her yes he's choking her but not to kill her.

  • @Zero4ph What do you mean???

  • @xickin

    Shinji choking Asuka in the perverse hope that she would do something to let him know that it was not the fake world that he imagined earlier.And do something, she did. Asuka did not just stay limp like she did in his mind, but rather she caressed his cheek gently.

  • @Zero4ph So that wasn't the real Asuka???

  • @xickin

    She's the real one

  • @Zero4ph SO WHY DID HE CHOKE HER

  • Funny, i tought she said: I don't feel good.

  • @rageagaintstheNWO

    Its just the same.

  • asuka: i guess its time to to start repopulating the planet...

    shinji:but..but not ready *wimp mode*

  • The "how disgusting" was merely Asuka leaning on the fourth wall.

  • @Clarinerd617

    Right

  • who heard at the end

    "how disgusting"

    i was like who said that

  • @GamerandMovieVault Asuka said it. She moves the eyes just before

  • @Tsunamigue i knewb that but the voice doesnt sound like AL soryu

  • @GamerandMovieVault

    It was Asuka Langley Soryu who said it. I'm curious if Shikinami will say it too.

  • @AkiraBrahe I never really took Death Note seriously. How is that show? I'm thinking about watching it.

  • i've seen in Japaneses TV show before that woman that was voice-acting as Asuka was guest.

    and she said in the show she was asked by Anno( directer) when creating film " how do you feel some guy was masturbating beside of your bed while you are sleeping?" and she answered to Anno "thats how disgusting" and Anno said " thats exactly what i thought "...

    so in this movie " how disgusting " is an answer about what Shinji did in the very beginning of this film.. i know its still complicated though

  • @maxisssty that actually makes a lot of sense. i for one always thought that for a little while there instrumentality was nearly achieved and everyone was becoming a single all encompassing entity inside of the massive rei/lilith angel, and shinji's will alone while his consciousness was becoming a part of the whole stopped the process. i've always thought that asuka had come out of that event knowing exactly what shinji did as she was already a part of the whole and saw what he did.

  • Dammit people! it's an anime, it has nothing to do with real life and history itself. Get your heads out of your asses already.

  • @Giroutte ahh, but this anime is a metaphor about the real life

  • @0Letten0 its an anime, Enuf said.

  • @Giroutte and 1984 is just a book

  • I never understood the ending, can anyone clarify it to me please!?

  • @Giroutte

    Shinji saying he chooses to live in this world, and that his life can have greater value means he rejects instrumentality.

  • @Giroutte I don´t think this ending was intended to be understood but was made deliberately ambiguous (the Japanese excel at that) in order to allow the fans to make their own interpretations, the alternative ending transmitted on the USA TV sucks ass and I prefer to think it was a practical joke of the producers, I forgive them anyway since for me Evangelion is so far the best anime I had ever seen, a real art masterpiece, maybe Death Note comes close but Evangelion rules

  • was there any reason why they had to cast someone who sounds like a young woody allen / kermit the frog for the voice of shinji? Kinda kills the dialogue.

  • @illuminatioracle ... Kermit the frog?...

    .. It's just easier to call you stupid..

  • Shinji Ikari was voted as the 25th most popular anime character of all time (though Rei was ranked 10th). But let me ask you guys. DO YOU WANT A REPEAT OF THIS...?

    I saw both the new movies and I think one "End of Evangelion" is enough. Why make a second?

  • @TheYuuzhan

    I'm optimistic this won't happen in Evangelion: Final (Rebuild of Evangelion)

  • I really didnt get this ending...

  • @IISgGuitaristII

    it means we humans should always choose reality over fantasy and oh trying to give some personal answers some pointless questions like "Where do we come from?" or "Are we real?"

  • @IISgGuitaristII I think the whole idea is that people feel bad because we have separate consciousnesses which causes misunderstandings and such. The angels were trying to unite all of them together to end the pain, which is why the are called angels, I guess. But Shinji decided to live as an individual despite the pain. That's why people were congratulating him. It's kinda the whole coming-of-age thing, but even in adulthood, one might ask the question "Is it really worth it?"

  • @KedViper Oh, and I heard him choking her was about him seeing if it was real. Then, I think, her saying "how disgusting" is about it being real.

  • and then there were screams of terror from millions of Evangelion fans all over the world.

  • one of the greatest dubs ever imo.

    Really good job.

  • Re: How disgusting line:

    I don't think Asuka took too kindly to being wanked over.

  • The music in this series is epic

  • @jnorth

    yea way to damn upbeat for EVA XD

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  • Yep i agree with the zero4ph (the top comments) i believe Shinji did reject Instrumentality-

    The theory behind asuka's "How disgusting" is vague since some people believe( wiki it) that the translation between the japanese and eng version could be 1 ( Asuska's eng voice artist mentions".1.Asuka feels sick- morning sickness? , this could well reflect on the adam and eve theme . 2.Asuka is disgusted by Shinji's actions or his cowardice .

  • @GiddyGherkin

    My impression is that she woke up right after the scene from the beginning in the hospital bed, and had no knowledge of everything that had transpired since the beginning of the movie. Her statement is a long delayed reaction to Shinji's first action in the movie.

  • @JeanCocteau777

    She already knew even before the final scene its during pre-instrumentality "Personal Hell train car scene" but technically that didn't really happen it was all part of Shinji's mind. ;)

  • @JeanCocteau777 Could be :) , do u perfer the original version Of NGE or the rebuild one?

  • @GiddyGherkin

    Can't say for certain, because the rebuild is only half finished. However from what I have seen so far, even though the rebuild has better animation, the slow pace of the TV series is alot more suited to these characters and their development, In My Humble Opinion.

  • i aggree with the two top thumbed comments based on what i've seen within the show He seems like any old insecure 14 year old boy who's father just happened to be createing the Eva's and had him pilot it under a false lie that his father wanted to see him, and through this experience he has met many friends and enemies and has felt what is to be true love and true sadness, true pain, true fear, true hate. all these emotions and more are too much for a boy his age. in my opinion he grew uptoquick

  • @Madara757 Not really. He's just an emo fagget.

  • @Madara757

    You really have to admire all these commentators who are referring to Shinji as an "emo fag" and whatnot. I'm sure if any of these people we're fourteen years old, living in a world that had been nearly destroyed, and were saddled with the responsibility of saving what was left, they would have responded with far greater courage and resilience, right?

  • @Zero4ph man you seem to know a lot of this lol, what was your interpretation of Shinji choking Asuka? I really don't get it.

  • @parcofantasma

    look in page 2

  • @Zero4ph thanks man

  • @xcayk its the LANCE not the spear lol

  • I tried to dance along the credit song out of confusion.

    Then I was confused about why was I dancing

  • really no point in trying to diss eva or anything cus Zero4ph is just gonna school you

  • ...what the heck? *utterly confuzzled* 

  • .... seriously.. WHAT THE HELL?!

    so it just ends like that.. now.. THAT is disgusting -.-

  • @foxiecortez

    yea that was it but there's going to be a new ending in Rebuild of Eva.

  • People looking into this way too much. Blatantly the guy just likes strangling people. And lets face it, aint no one there to stop him... Just for the kicks.

  • @Teksunai

    Nice interpretation about the ending btw its LCL and Kaworu ;)

  • @Teksunai

    lol okay

  • someone please inbox me why he was choking her, and how it ends like this please, its be forever since Ive watched this and forget everything

  • @TheCoDManSON

    'I need you.' affirms Shinji's choice to return to reality, and in doing so has separated himself from Asuka once more. His first impulse is to strangle her, to finish what he started during Instrumentality. But then he feels her caress (which is very similar to the one he received from his mother only moments before) and realizes what he's doing. He releases his grip and began to cry, the scene is there to prove "pain once again exists"

  • @Zero4ph why dont the Japanese believe in happily ever after?

    dont get me wrong. to much happy is boring.. but to many shit endings.. are depressing too..

  • @178thbattlegroup

    its very true that's why Final Fantasy XIII-2 ends in a cliffhanger

  • aliens create Adam and Lilith. then human create evangelion. so the alien is a god?

  • @blood16ful

    I'd have to say no - God isn't a creature from another planet. If he was, there would be evidence of alien technology left behind on Earth. There isn't any. Besides, what would the motivation of such aliens be in setting things up in our religions the way they are? It makes no sense and there is no evidence.

  • @Zero4ph god is almost a word. anybody can become a god. shinji is a god now or his eva is god now. the First Ancestral Race created Adam and Lilith send to earth before human was born. both of them are seef of life. religions is just fantasy. there`s many evidence. of alien created human. god is just a word.

  • @blood16ful

    sorry I thought you were asking if God is an alien okay never mind it then, anyway yea Since the First Ancestral Race are the ultimate creators of humans as well as Angels, they could be considered "gods" from the perspective of both.

  • @Zero4ph Actually....

    The confidential files (its on the evageeks wiki if you did not play the ps2 game years ago) state that the "God" or "Gods" that created Adam and Lillith and the rest of the seeds were FAR (First Ancestral Race) The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Spears of Longinus, and The White and Black Moon were all provided by them, as well as Adam and Lillith, who respectively came each in their own moons. The FAR were technically the gods of humanity. So, in NGE, God or the Gods are aliens.

  • @rszdemon

    yea thanks for the info I just misread blood16ful comment I thought he was asking if God is an alien but it was if the alien is a God.

  • @Zero4ph Your head is so narrow I couldn't find the room to put a nanite through it.

  • @Zero4ph you know the thing with the sense is the problem. who says that we as humans could possibly understand what somebody like god does or wants, let alone if he even exists. humanity always tries to understand everything by using logic. what if for example god or the making of the world are so complicated that we just cant understand it because our brains are not capable of logically understanding something like that. we always think were the most intelligent species in the entire universe.

  • @l33tnobody1337 what if we arent? what if there are things that go beyond our understanding, things we will never be able to imagine or understand? anyways lets go back to evangelion. the end how i saw it: Everybody goes insanse, A Group of old augmented psychos command some army to attack the nerv HQ, with the plan to destroy the entire world. dunno if the army knew about that plan or not. because if seele told them: hey your going to attack the nerv hq to destroy the entire world,

  • @l33tnobody1337 did they just say: Fuck Yea!? anyways, so they attack the nerv hq. meanwhile shinji faps on asukas tits, cums and walks away. asuka didnt notice cuz she was asleep or something. they put her in the eva, she wakes up, kills the seele evas but doesnt cuz they kill her. meanwhile shinjis behaving like a 5 year old. misato rescues him and dies.shinji sits inside the eva. he watches asuka die and goes: WWHHHHAAAAARGHBHJKBHJGKHJKLHK. Then he cries. again.

  • @l33tnobody1337 then everybody goes completely insane. Rei turns into a god, shinji turns into a god too. gendou kills ritsuko, shinji somehow kills gendo"u" then the entire world population turns into tomato soup. except for shinji and asuka which is suddenly alive again. everyone else is still tomato soup. shinji tries to kill asuka even tho it appears he actually loves her, oh well he propably just wanted to rape her dead body. she touches his face. he lets go of her,

  • @l33tnobody1337 she says "im feeling sick", whatever the fuck she meant with that, then they eat tomato soup, the end.

  • @l33tnobody1337

    Okay

  • I may need to watch the last 20 mins again but when the last angel spills all that red sparkly stuff out does that mean everyone has been revived, that last part went right over my head

  • @Joeldh84

    it means Shinji rejects instrumentality ;)

  • @fomalhaut86

    Shinji is a very irritating character at first as he never seems to be happy. But when you realize what a shitty world he lives in and what a shitty life he lives, you suddenly find that he has every right to be the way he is. He's just an unsure 14-year-old boy living in a world that is half-destroyed. ;)

  • @fomalhaut86

    yea technically it tells you that you should do what you decide to find your true happiness and not wait for someone else to give it to you.

  • @Zero4ph Are you also some twilight fan emo fagget? Go slice your wrists. The world we live in is no better. Our lives are no better. But, for those of us with an actual soul, strong mind and guts, we don't sit in the corner in a fetal form and sobbing about our bad luck. We go out and kick some ass, make a living and fighting to survive.

  • No, he has no right to be the way he is. All he is in the end is just some moany, spineless, selfish, emo loser with some down syndrome. That bitch Asuka has more balls than him by contrast, which is just plain sad. If this was Gurren Lagann he would've been killed by episode 1. He ain't got no fighting spirit or will or nothing. Just QQ MOAR is all he does. A lamer who'll never get anywhere in life, a loser with a capital L on his forehead.

    Purely disgusting.

  • @Foxstab I thought that was the point...

  • @dayofnightstudios If the point was to make a protagonist that any decent person hates and abhors as to never want to be like that, which only twilight emo fagget fans could sympathize/identify with, then well done.

  • @dayofnightstudios

    Despite the grim nature of the show, a key underlying theme of the story is intended to be optimistic: that despite our flaws, humans seek meaningful connections with each other and meaning to our lives, and if we can endure life's pitfalls we can find such things and better appreciate them.

  • I heard the guy that made this had issues

  • @Tokuijin

    Yes Hideaki Anno suffered from clinical depression prior to creating the series and also no Shinji didn't kill Asuka.

  • ...

    I don't get it.

  • @ihatefurrys

    Shinji saying he chooses to live in this world, and that his life can have greater value means he rejects instrumentality.

  • I wonder if Asuka holds traits of Rei now, her bandages are the same.

  • Ya probably ran out of ink too, didn't you ya bastards.

  • is rei an angel or is she the body of lillth? what about kaouro (i don't know how we spell his name) are rei and kaouro the same? are they all dead ? the third impact happened? at the ned asuka is she in the world of shinji or is she dead? is shiji a psycopath? ('cause he was strangling asuka)

  • @nmigeo The third impact indeed occurs, but its not the "destructive" one, but rather the one caused by instrumentality which allows humans to trascends and evolve to one unique being, all humanities at fields are broken and humans become lcl which unites with lilith/rei since rei was the vessel for liliths soul. Because of instrumentality, everyone can choose to either be a part of the new "being" or come back to the world as individuals, shinji choose the latter and finds asuka has indeed too

  • i watch every movie and episode of evangelion but i can't figure out what happens at the end of evangelion, why does he strangles asuka, why are they like the only survivers in this world, is this all a bad dream, did the third impact happen, i swear i could for hours about this movie, did lillith die at the end? help someone i need answers to understand and is this the final movie, episode or what ever of evangelion? DID SHIJI KILL ASUKA? are we all made out of lillith?(not in the real life)

  • @nmigeo

    okay I'll just pm it to you.

  • @nmigeo The movie is basically left for interpretation but basically, shinji was the key for the third impact, he comes back to the world rejecting to unite with the rest of the human race, then he finds asuka by his side which might mean she also rejected instrumentality and came back to life as a human, shinji then wants to feel alive by asukas rejection, he strangles her but instead asuka acknowledges her feelings and then insults him to make him feel comfort reassuring hes alive. : )

  • Wasn't there more to this ending? I thought Shinji rejected the Third Impact.....

  • @xXDre50Xx

    yes he did

  • @xXDre50Xx He did. That's why Asuka and himself are able to retain their human forms.

  • I always thought it was funny that people were genuinely confused about Shinji letting third impact happen, when the only person in his entire life to actually show him kindness without expecting something in return was an alien that his human commanders wanted him to kill.

  • i hope that the end of the new EVA (Rebuild of eva) that's coming out Fall 2012 will have the answers to this ending... BUT I DON'T WANT TO FUCKING WAIT THAT LONG!

  • @charlie111able

    Uh sorry nope the fourth and final film is promised to be an entirely new, alternate ending to the series. End of Evangelion (this) pretty much it.

  • I still laugh at that Asuska line.

  • is any1 out there thats kind enough to explain the ending in detail for me? :/

  • @OrewaOtakuDesu

    Shinji realizes that particular happiness is fake because there are no conflicts and interaction with others. Shinji was apparently the first to reject the Human Instrumentality Project, thus he rises up from the LCL in physical human form.