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Jap media has a real problem with the work culture and depicting it in media
>characters beat the bad guy and become happy couple who enter adulthood and independence
>they now work 2h overtime each day and women ponder if theres a chance of finding a rich husband who gets you preggers to allow escaping the horrid work life situation to become a housewife

Is that why you bitches have been crying about this ending since the film dropped while nobody minded it in g-reco?

>thinking Shinji has to work a day in his life
He's a war hero, his life is secure

Get on the bed, user

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If you just skip the "get married" part it's not too bad, you know?

The TV show confirmes that humanity is collectively the 18th angel borne from Lilith whereas the other angels are born from adam. This is why in the film all of humanity turns into LCL and returns to her combined with Rei, Nerv was an org put in place to help defend humanity/kill the other angels until they were the last ones standing, and then return to their creator Lilith.

Not him but no human and angels come from different beings

>He's a war hero, his life is secure
Did you miss OP where he is clearly wearing his salarycuck uniform

I doubt he's a wagie. He's probably on the board of directors of NERV and goes to some meetings every now and then as the son of Gendou to help determine what the fuck they're going to do now in peacetime.

>4 films of context to justify why once interesting and beloved characters are given a boring, mundane, regular life.
Not all of them. And Shinji's resolution is not even a satisfying one, even if we assume he's not lying to himself and genuinely content with it. It's like a Hollywood film where you can sorta tell the safe and non-controversial ending was shoehorned at the last minute against the director's initial wish, but here Anno doesn't even have that excuse. There's no epiphany, no catharsis, no hard earned victory. Only a hollow, resigned acceptance of the boringness of real life.

You hit the nail right on the head, user. Granted many Japanese fantasy stories seem to value the mundane world over the fantastical, something to do with their religious beliefs I think, but with rebuild you can clearly see the bias Anno had. It makes it even worse when you think back to the original and how he was not afraid to face the reality of his fictional world and the consequences of said world head on. Here, it just feels like he was tired and wanted to give everyone a boring happy end where they fuck off and live their own lives apart from one another, hence the train station scene. Anno, if you don't want to come back to the world of evangelion, great for you, but don't take it out on the characters you made.