Just finished watching EoE and the series right before that. Show was great...

Just finished watching EoE and the series right before that. Show was great, I even like the final episode although it wasn't really meant to be the end. But was I suppose to understand that movie at all? First time watch btw

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You're supposed to understand everything except for the symbollism

Episdode 26 is still meant to be the real end. EoTV and EoE are alternate endings, so both are equally "real". Anyways EoE can be a bit rough on a first time watch, looking shit up after helps.

A lot was explained in supplementary materials. What were you confused about?

Asuka chokes Shinji because after they emerge from the instrumentality (where all human souls are one and there is no "other"), he simply does not know how to handle "otherness". So instinctively he does what he did the last time he interacted with another human just before instrumentality: he strangles. Aggression, causing pain, is at that one moment the only way he knows how to deal with other human beings. Then Asuka shows him kindness. Despite him hurting her, she carresses him. So he stops, since he sees that just because humans hurt each other, they are also good to one another. It's just the hedgehog dilemma flipped on its head.
That's my take on it, anyway.

End of Evangelion is just a more pictureseque and cinematic version of what the final episode of the TV series is already explaining. But I think it is more beautiful while doing so.

Go back.

>Asuka chokes Shinji
Other way around, of course.

Fuck off, threads where Anons share their first experience with Evangelion are among the comfiest on this website. It's a shame I'm going to bed already, would love to stick around and talk about it. Will read this thread in the morning.

choke

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To be honest I may have watched Evangelion wrong because once EoE ended my only thought was "It ends NOW?" like I had so many questions probably because I am too dumb to understand symbolism...

The symbolism was pretty difficult to wrap my head around. The ending of the TV series was pretty straight forward in Shinji maturing and understanding that things aren't permanent and your perspective changes the world entirely. The movie however picturesque it may be, was hard to follow because I couldn't tell at some points what was shinji imagining and what was actually happening. And did they just retcon him understanding his perspective? He gets completely depressed again in this movie right after having made a breakthrough in the last episode.

thats also my understanding of it but i still dont fully understand the "disgusting" line. sans the difficult raw translation part of it, of course. she just showed him kindness and he had an understandable reaction to it, and given that they're now in a new phase of life post instrumentality better and more understanding of each other, why would she deride him?

Follow up, where the fuck did Rei come from?

Probably because when their minds were together in instrumentality she knew what Shinji gripped with those hands before gripping her neck.

Reminder that Rei is still alive and watching Shinji on the beach.

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yeah i dont know if i fully buy into the >asuka knows shinji ripped one in front of her comatose body

This is really low effort. Try harder next time.

Reminder that all that matters in the new world is Asuka.

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This is really low effort. Try harder next time.

Samefag

That is really high effort. Try easier next time.

Sorry meant for

read the book of revelations unironically

EoE is just an extension/expansion of the final episodes, at least the way I see it. Shinji comes to realize in ep 25/26 that individuality (and thus, existance) is a good thing after all because its his mindset that can define the frame of his reality. EoE takes that a bit further, showing that its important to not escape into existing in some dream world, but to persist in reality as well, even if its painful at times. Dont give up, dont run away from reality just cause it hurts, adapt your frame of thinking to a more positive mindset and persist through the painful parts of life.
Thats my hot take, anyway.

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