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  • Cool!!!!!!!***ing cool!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Neon Genesis Evangelion took my mind virginity ...

  • what kind of piano did they use to make this song? any modifications?

  • such a haunting piece ..

  • Listen to this while researching anything to do with science. Seriously. Try it.

  • This music is the main reason to feel sympathy for Rei. 

  • Who am I

    You are Rei Ayanami

    But who are you?

    Are you Rei Ayanami as well?

    Correct I am the thing that is recognized as Rei Ayanami

    We are all things recongized as Rei Ayanami

  • That's why I prefer classic music over all other genres of music. It touches soul, it makes my heart beat faster, it raises emotions... I'm 17, and while my friends listen to Lady Gaga, I enjoy classic and I'm fine with it ;)

  • @tecEErbe 厨二病乙

  • @MrOpanchu huh? english or polish please :)

  • wasnt this playing when rei 1 drove that scientist insane o.O

  • What the hell is that darknes into the depths of our soul that makes this song so ominous and sad, and yet so beautiful... rei is the most incredible figure created so far!

  • i can't belive shinji pilots eva 1 when he see's rei die slowly

  • Was wondering what this song was called. now that I know, It will be a song I listen to when Im alone, or feel alone in this big, yet small, world

  • /watch?v=yfii4vXlZ8Y

    go to this video and then start Rei's theme at around 00:20 to the Mal & Cobb video it matches pretty well

  • who am i

  • Hayao Miyazaki, Hideaki Anno, Katsuhiro Otomo, Isao Takahata, Takehiko Inoue, etc, all those guys are masters, and anything that comes from them is a masterpiece

  • @MrSchmerzen98 Don't forget Yoshiyuki Tomino

  • @ndalum75 why

  • @ultimatehedgehog50 Do you know even know who he is?

  • @ndalum75 i didn't untill i searched him on wikipedia and why should i he has fucking nothing to do with neon genesis evangelion

  • @ultimatehedgehog50 The guy was listing people who are considered master anime directors. I was merely saying he had left one out.

  • @ultimatehedgehog50 He's the director of Bebop, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest anime directors of all time. In my opinion, he's a faaaaaaar better director than Anno, who has produced exactly one good work and numerous awful ones.

  • @LaVieEnPluie So gunbuster was awful? Shit taste detected.

  • @apanst It's possible that Gunbuster was good, I haven't seen it. Perhaps my statement was rather hasty. I have seen Nadia, (Which was okay, but horribly paced) Kare Kano, (Which was just awful) and the live action Cutie Honey (Also awful).

  • @LaVieEnPluie I'm not defending any of those, only Gunbuster. And i don't think you should call yourself an anime fan untill you've watched it seeing as it influenced alot of shows you probably like (like maybe Gurren Lagann)

  • @apanst I'll be sure to check it out then! It's a six-episode OVA, correct?

  • @LaVieEnPluie Indeed, and there's the sequel Diebuster too but that one is not as good. Still watchable though.

  • @LaVieEnPluie so Anno like the George Lucas or anime then, after all how many time has he gone back to make director's cuts, re-edits, and a remake tetralogy

  • @MrSchmerzen98 Not forgetting Shinichiro Watanabe, either.

  • The problem of the today's animes is their plots. DBZ manga was nice, but the plot was still average. The tofay's animes are giving more importance only to the action, the adrenaline; and that's why Evangelion is (to me) the best, because it has a lot of emotion (at least in the first episodes) AND an excellent plot, with a psychological background. That's why I love it!

  • hermoso...

  • NGE was the most f*&^t up anime ever, even by anime standards. Definitely overhyped. Still, good music though.

  • @coturnix19 There's a reason why NGE was so messed up. Compare NGE to reality. Reality is just as fked up as NGE, it's the sad truth. NGE pretty much reflects on reality.

  • @Kashlikaro but we dont have giant robots, underground cites or aliens invading us =(

  • @TheSteampug thats It's a distorted reflection

  • @Kashlikaro yep, the end of evangelion is like watching someone have a mental breakdown, you feel like you should shy away but its so interesting and amazing as its something you have never witnessed fully before that you keep watching

  • @coturnix19

    overrhyed? Nope. this is one of the best. Overrhyed anime is like Code Geass or Bleach.

  • @Dramactica Code Geass was good fun it it's first season. It's second season was for the most part stupid and only redeemed by a fantastic ending.

  • @Dramactica Naruto too

    anyway everyone get their own taste.

  • @Exoskel2

    I don't believe in tastes. sorry.

  • @Dramactica Hell, most shonen shows in general are bad. Especially DBZ; Punches and moonbeams: the anime, I tell ya. The original Dragonball was good though; considering it actually followed suit with a plot.

  • @Dramactica

    meh, Bleach is I guess, but It's still my fave, it was y first Anime so it can't be helped.

  • This music is almost a representation of how simple and basic Rei really is in terms of emotion and humanity. She's just one or two bits of music. No more, no less. She's extremely intelligent and has so many thoughts, but has nothing to do with them.

  • shit, im floating on water, shit, there is another me, oh, it's an angel....fuck

  • damn yes..to die

  • God this theme is so depressing. Rei was always so unhappy.

  • @YomismoMega Well, yeah, but this theme was specifically about the child Rei, and she was probably the saddest of the bunch xD

    The third theme is the funnest, cause it totally fits Rei III's personality, especially in End of Evangelion.

  • @Seraph821 Rei III is great both in Shinji's dream world and out of it. In Shinji's dream world, she's a genki-girl, which automatically makes her hilarious. Seeing her say "Oh crap!" in a regular voice is hilarious. In the real world, she's just awesome. She's the only person in the entire show's continuity to stand up to Gendo. "I will not be a puppet for you to control" is a great moment as she decides to do Instrumentality her way, which is great, as Gendo tastes failure for the first time.

  • "But you are an old hag, aren't you? That's what Mr. Ikari is always saying. That old hag is annoying. That old hag won't leave me alone."

  • @deamondogboy Does Naoko have to choke a little bitch?

  • il compositore si è ispirato dalle musiche de "la piovra"

  • @EliceCarol probably everyone. How wouldn't you?

  • "I've prayed for the day when he would abandon me, but now... now I fear it..."

  • OK the two douche bags that hated on this need to die!

  • @Evangelionfreak1 Probably Naoko Akagi and Ritsuko Akagi being jealous over her.

    Why they take out their anger on her instead of the man that's actually RESPONSIBLE for their misery, that I don't know.

  • @SonofAbel

    "The interaction between men and women is SO illogical....Isn't that right, Mother?"

  • Who am I?

    Who.. are you?

    I am Rei Ayanami...

    We are all things called Rei Ayanami...

  • @LovelyAiko279 Ya know, Rei is made from the DNA of the angel lillith and Yui Ikari, technically Rei is Shinji`s sister, why do you think Rei shows alot of resembelence to Yui?

  • @tymaxie2 rei is Yui

    so is unit 1

  • are wa genjitsu?

    ths song is about reality?

    es realidad esta canción?

  • @MultiDamt

    lol nice attempt to ask the same thing in 3 languages and sucking at it.

  • @sharingfeelings

    Yeah of course, but but the thousands of Rei clones don't. A "Rei" in and of itself has no soul, they have to put it in her.

  • This anime was scary....the Angels attacking was scary, rei was scary, Asuka was scary :P

  • @sharingfeelings

    Perhaps we weren't watching the same show.

    They make it pretty obvious here clones were soulless.

  • Rei is all and nothing. the human experience and the abscence of it... she feels like if u would trully look inside yourself u wouldn't anything else but all the others that compose your life... An empty vessel... its sad when u let yourself fill only by what surounds u. U get lost and empty...

  • Such beautiful music. I love Rei, she is so interesting and cryptic

  • ZOMG TEH REI!!!1 one

    ...had to be done

  • That's why anime is better than 'just japanese cartoons'. Epic fucking soundtrack. Brilliant.

  • Love this music , I can belive it , it's from a cartoon

  • @HBIC0907 being a "cartoon" has nothing to do with quality music or even the quality of the show.

  • @HBIC0907 i guess you can say that anime and cartoons have the concept when it comes to animation...but they are 2 totally different things

  • I haven't watched this since I was 14. I'm 19 now. This anime had such a profound effect on me when I was younger, it took watching it 3 times for me to get my head around it.

  • @WetaGuy I'm turning 19 in about a month and I'm about the same way, without having previously seen it. Heck...I had to watch End of Evangelion twice to get a decent concept of the ending (the first time all the imagery put me in to a really bad state so I missed the point of the ending)

  • it broke my heart when I found out that Rei was a clone, how she had to take medicine just to keep her body intact.

    I'm sure I'm not the only one, who wished Rei could be herself, not a clone. Where she could be happy and walk away from loneliness.

  • @facultyofmusic ~that is the main point of her character, what makes a human? a doll is a doll? therefor her last words to gendó "I am not your doll"

  • @nyxmaroercheostrea

    True. Rei's a very unique character. One of the reasons why this anime series is so appealing.

  • This song sends shivers down my spine. In fact all of Evangelion does. The animation, the story, and the music all combined, its one of the most beautiful things I've ever witnessed.

  • this is a beautiful and mysterious theme, just like Rei Ayanami herself.

  • this song perfectly describes what kind of creature Ayanami is. and I love this creature, though she doesn't even exist. am I sick? probably...

  • @slim1992666 she wasnt a creature...shes a person

  • @SerenityFan117 I just used this kind of expression because of her... weirdness

  • @SerenityFan117

    She was a creature, she wasn't human. She's other worldly.

  • @slim1992666

    Creature? She's a soulless human.

  • my FIRST LOVE... this song.. my first fake girl Rei Ayanami.

  • watch?v=zLU535-XZas

    check my cover guys :D

  • I feel like this is a creepy song with awkward notes that make you tingle. But at the same time, there are times where the music picks up a hopeful tone, only to go to the hopelessness again, where it goes up to hopeful again; like a never-ending cycle. A perfect way to represent Rei. Even more, this song is beautiful... Just like her.

  • Such an ethereal feel to this piece... Then again, Rei is very much... detached herself. A forlorn loneliness with a dementia so intricately woven in. Always the enigma, eh Rei?

  • for some reason this reminds me KH2 or is it just me ._.

  • @opticnervetmac i guess since Rei's mindset is similar to the fate of Nobodies

  • Aahh... this song has so much emotion it hurts...

  • This is the theme music of evanngelion!

  • Everytime I listen to this I feel like I was all alone and at the same time, there was some stranger around, watching me. Well, It's how Rei must've been like. I'm seriously scared. ;p

  • This would be such a beautiful song to die to.

  • That's a good idea for a compilation CD, Songs To Go Out To.

    Songs to Die For sounds to cliche.

  • @ApesOfBass Yeah, but then your mind would just be uploaded into another body. How many times would you hear this song?

  • @Shiruvi

    Wait, what are you talking about? I'm just saying the song is like a soundtrack of death.

  • @ApesOfBass I was just referencing what happens to Rei everytime she dies.

  • @Shiruvi

    Oh cool. Yeah she'd hear it a lot.

  • @ApesOfBass

    I think that's the point. She's a character close to death anyway.

  • foreshadowing maybe?

  • @ApesOfBass But now people have to die to Imogen Heap and Guile's theme.

    IT'S A TRAVESTY, I SAY.

  • every echo of the pedels of the piano.. pierces the heart.. like a knife.. it makes u feel.. lost, in the midst the stars.. and the Earth below your feet..

  • Evangelion resist for such a long time...

    i first knew and watched it by August 2009...

    (to think that it was first established in 1995..)

  • Rei...

  • @Sdelosinfiernos No lo habría podido describir mejor.

  • i love this song

    i love all songs of evangelion

    it makes me feel lonely

    and makes me thinking .......

  • even thou i don't like the old drawing style, NGE was just so awesome *__*

  • NGE is considered a pioneer in anime drawing quality, and its generally accepted that since NGE anime drawing technique is stale and static. Khara, the studio thats producing rebuild movies, promised to.. "do" the anime community a favor and totally innovate the drawing style/technique :P

  • seems they did a great job ;)

  • Just listening to the soundtrack alone gives you an impression of just how much of an epic timeless masterpiece Evangelion is.

  • how the berty theme is !

  • Rei is an interesting character. And... this theme is veey interesting, too!

  • just got a guitar and this is the first song i'm learning by ear... let's just say it's a pain in the arse!

  • not really

  • i think it is because there's so much hand shifting and i'm not very fast.

  • if shifting from the 9th fret to the 12 fret is hard for you then you fail guitar forever

  • I only started a week ago and I don't play the whole song on just one string. Its not hard for me I'm just not used to it.

  • playing it on one string would even be harder

    seriously before you even attempt learning a song by ear you should learn all the notes on the guitar and the names of all the strings and such, and understand octaves.

  • I can play this song perfectly until the strings come in (and I can still play that too but it's just incomplete and redundant sounding after that)

  • This song is really a work of art. I'd love to learn it, but probably couldn't do it justice.

  • Empty, but beautiful. Sick but full of life. Damn oxymorons, but I guess this is too rich to describe in words.

  • No matter what I do, this song always makes me shiver. It reminds me of my very first time of watching NGE. This tune and the series have a special place in my heart.

  • I LOVE this song.

  • This song makes you feel.... alone. like you had found out something enitrly strange that seems to distort what you thought was reality...people you know closely are pushed away becuase you found out something about them that isn't them... this is why...(WHOA see how this song IS?!?!?!?) . Hey I just poetic (then why was I failing poetry for a short time?)

  • LOL don't ya mean YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE

  • OH COME ON !!! You just took that out of the anime >:()

  • lol hey at least it's still Evangelion related XD

  • beautiful and sick at the same time..

  • nothing sick about it at all

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  • exelente!!

  • hmm thinking of Rei makes me think of "genie", you know that girl found living with her grandparents, locked up in one room and isolated for most her life....

  • But still... I want a Rei for myself...

  • Perfect song for Rei, a human created by other humans to be used as a tool. As a result she is a child with no sense of self, inner direction, desire, or longings. She molds to whatever role demanded of her. She is a tool used by an arrogant man. Very sad and sorrowful story.

  • wow, what a very insightfull look at Rei..... although Ive considered her a "thanatos" in carnate I dont think ive ever had something as indepth as what you said. Although she does recognize herself, watch the last episodes, or "in the case of rei ayanami" she establishes herself as a self.... regardless of that she still wishes for death : /.....

  • Yup, I think you're right that she eventually recognizes herself or begins to consider herself an individual that does not need to stay within the confines of what others prescribe for her. I like your idea about "thanatos" too. I think there are many interpretations. I think the maker of NGE meant to stimulate peoples minds and emotions in a abstract way so that everybody experiences different emotions/interpretations depending on their own psychological history.

  • isn't sad and sorrowful the same thing?

  • I think she gives the misconception that she has no personality at first, that she is just a very obedient tool, but later on she shows human quality, hate, love, the need for pleasure and company. Were she a real human, the little 8 year old in me would love to be her hero, a quality very few women nowadays posses and a quality that enthralls me. We all dreamed of being heros, but cruel reality crushed that dream.

  • This song makes me think of two people believing that they will never understand each other and have just stopped trying to do so.

  • I think this song best represents the show. It finds the inherent void in the soul and exposes it artfully.

  • I don't know why this song makes me feel indescribeable... Not guilt, sadness, happiness or anything that's even comparible... just don't know. Maybe it's a kind of past life nostalgia...

    Does anyone believe in past lives here?

  • how about words like: 'loneliness', 'differences' and 'silences'?

  • Wierd, things like 'Looking down', 'Legacy' and 'Cycles' come to mind for me.

  • ams...! well... is good, but in evangelion, the son of adam and Lilith is eva?

  • well i think it represents Rei's feelings lonelyness and sad life of a monotony

  • this song makes me feel... wierd. like, i'm not just feeling sadness, but other things i can't explain...

  • lilith + adam = humanity

    lilith = second angel

    adam = first angel

    Angels = another type of human, but not same

    Evas 00,02,03... = Copy of adam

    Eva 01 = Copy of lilith

  • Soo...we can say t hat the EVA 01 it's a copy of the second angel

  • exactly xD

  • Do you speak spanish?O_o

  • jajajaj yes xD I speak english too bad xDD

    si hablo spañol

  • Ya me parecia por tu nombre!,pero no me habia fijado XD

  • jajajja es verdad me acabo de finjar xD

  • if you read kabbalah writings, lilith was sent out of the paradise, and then she started having sex with the demons in the desert, as punishment YhVw killed all her sons. i think that in evangelion, we the human are the sons of demons, the paradise is not for us, we've taken the earth from the ngels, who are the sons of adam

  • very interesting.

  • maybe thats also why we are mortal and angels not (ywhw's damnation upon lilith's sons)

  • I might quote you some of these days..... well in the evaverse humans come from lilith, and adam spawned the angels.. im not sure who would god be... if there is any. anyways its a good combination of various theological ideas in an otherwise philosophical/psychologicly orientated work.

  • ;) judaism, khabbalism, philosphy, psicology and other topics are involved in the Eva trama...

    thats why it's so complex...

    regards

  • Well, it is hinted that ''God'' is a race of extraterrestial intelligences in NGE.

  • i like this song ..i dont now why...byt whel i listen to it i feel pain, sadnes, but i can feel that as a human Im one and only ...

  • what you feel is what the author want to reproduce in the character of Rei. And he did a pretty well job.

  • damn! does someone want me to kill myself??? they're actually fulfilling their plans with this music. I love it though...

  • que melancolia mas grande

    da demaciada pena :(

  • holy shit this brings back memories. Good and creepy. Mostly creepy, and really sad T3T

  • Honestly I don't think highly of the eva music scores on their own - but in the anime they make perfect sense for the background moods.

  • what i would do to be an eva pilot man..yes it's nerdy but come on, how awesome would it be to pilot a giant robot and destroy stuff!?

  • its not a robot, its organic <.< sorta ._.

  • the eva are human

  • their souls are human. their bods be cloned from adam. excepting 01, of course <.<

  • adam is human