So, you finished watching and you’re a little confused. That’s completely normal and entirely expected given, well, the entire ending. But don’t worry, we’re here to explain everything to you.essentially has two endings, both of which are now available on Netflix: the end of the TV series (specifically episodes 25 and 26), which originally aired in early 1996; and the film The End of Evangelion, which was released in 1997. (In between there was a movie called Death and Rebirth, which is on Netflix in a re-edited form as Death (True)², but you don’t need to worry about that: it’s basically just a recap of the TV series with a few minutes of new footage, which originally bridged the gap between the end of the TV series and the release of the movie.) If you’ve watched one or both of them, you’ve likely noticed the jarring pivot towards the story’s conclusion, but might not be familiar with the troubled production history of the acclaimed anime. Here’s everything you need to know about the infamously complicated ending of Evangelion. Evangelion’s Apocalypse ExplainedLet’s start with the anime series’ ending first.

At the end of episode 24, Shinji is forced to kill Kaworu, who was revealed to be the final Angel. Despite being made to reunite with Lilith, thus wiping out humanity and making Angels the new dominant lifeform, Kaworu is moved to give his own life so that humanity—or rather, Shinji—can go on.

During Third Impact, after the Mass Production Evangelions crucify Unit-01, they form an inverted Tree of Life around Unit-01 by resonating their A.T. The figure of the Tree of Life also appears twice in the opening credits, these two glyphs from the opening credits are examined in more detail below. Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Hepburn: Shinseiki Evangerion, lit. 'New Century Gospel') is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and Tatsunoko Production, directed by Hideaki Anno and broadcast on.

With all the Angels gone, SEELE and Shinji’s father Gendo Ikari both set the project known as “Human Instrumentality” into motion: a process that will meld all human beings into a single shared consciousness. While both forces want Instrumentality to happen, what they want from it is wildly different. SEELE’s goal is to make the meld a permanent state, with everyone blending together and losing any sense of humanity.

They’re a kind of death cult, believing that humanity isn’t fit to live as it is and must undergo a unification in order to become a new being. Essentially, life is too hard, it’s beyond fixing, so let’s hit the reset button and start over. Gendo, however, is carrying out his late wife Yui’s plan, at least coincidentally. He wanted to use EVA Unit 01 as a sort of “arc” where everyone would experience the benefits of understanding one another and healing their own traumas, but also be able to resume individual shape afterward. To that end, Yui sacrificed her life so that her soul would inhabit Shinji’s EVA. Unlike SEELE’s plan, Yui’s would allow people to understand one another and then build a better future while retaining individuality. This is all kind of incidental to Gendo, whose driving desire is to see Yui again.

Gendo, implicitly in the series and explicitly in End of Evangelion, is the person Shinji is in danger of becoming if he can’t find a way to change. That is to say, the actual worst human being and father. All of this is set up before the finale begins, though often in cryptic dialogue masked by references to Christian iconography.

Very little of what we’re about to describe happens explicitly in the TV series, and visually the show begins to look dramatically different than the first 24 episodes. Instead, episode 25 begins with Shinji already undergoing the process of Instrumentality.

However, because of the select images that are shown, like Misato’s body suffering the same gunshot wound and Asuka having been moved from the hospital to her EVA, it’s safe to assume that what happens explicitly on screen in the movie is also likely happening offscreen between the end of episode 24 and the beginning of episode 25. The TV series is far less interested overall in the “hows” of the apocalypse than the emotional stakes that event represents for the cast. Still, let’s break it down what End of Evangelion depicts. In order to gain access to Unit 01, SEELE sends a military strike force into NERV headquarters and kills most of its personnel. Misato, before she’s fatally wounded, tells Shinji that Angels and the human race are all descendants of Lilith: each Angel is a different version of what humanity could have evolved into. This means that just like the Angels, humanity is also trying to reunite with the scary-mask-Lilith in the basement and ascend into a new form—that’s Instrumentality.

Misato begs Shinji to stop this from happening, but EVA 01 is unable to move. Asuka is gruesomely taken out by a series of artificial EVAs powered using Kaworu’s DNA (the same as Rei’s “dummy plug”). Meanwhile, down in the basement, Rei absorbs the embryo of Adam—the creature created by the First Ancestral Race that SEELE dug out of Antarctica—but rejects Gendo as the leader of the apocalypse. Instead, because she is a clone made of Yui’s DNA and Lilith’s, she’s able to meld with the scary-mask-Lilith and turn into a giant Rei. Having done this, she seeks out Shinji, who has managed to get into the awakened EVA 01. Terrified by the sight of Asuka’s mangled EVA, his breakdown intensifies, and he is powerless to stop the unification of the EVA (a symbol of humanity’s knowledge) and Lilith (Giant Scary Rei). Lilith-Rei appears to everyone in the form of their most beloved person-for Shinji it’s Kaworu, for Hyuga it’s Misato, for Maya it’s Ritsuko, and so on.

The only exception is Gendo. While he sees a vision of Yui, she (alongside Kaworu and Rei) berate him for his abandonment and abuse of Shinji before Yui, whose soul still inhabits EVA Unit 01, bites off his head. Around the world, humanity melts together into a sea of LCL (that’s the stuff pilots float in when they’re piloting the EVAs). That takes us roughly halfway through the movie and, theoretically, to the point where episode 25 of the TV series begins. Confusing, right? All of that tells us the “how” and “what” of Evangelion’s apocalyptic conclusion, but the mechanics are secondary to the metaphor: this is about the world “ending” in emotional terms, as a result of debilitating mental illness (particularly anxiety and depression).

To that end, many fans prefer to think of the different endings of the TV series and End of Evangelion as universes when it comes to the results of Instrumentality, each potential paths that Shinji could have taken. Though never confirmed as canon, the multiverse theory is a popular one because it offers a possible explanation as to how these two starkly different conclusions can co-exist within the same continuity. Interested to see the biggest changes Netflix made to their re-release of Evangelion?

Watch the video below. Differences between the ending of Evangelion TV series and the End of Evangelion movieIn the TV ending, Shinji is able to confront his self-loathing successfully—as are Asuka, Misato, and presumably the rest of humanity. Afterpulse cheats. However, you may have been caught off guard by how Shinji’s journey is rendered in abstract, with line animation and sometimes plain colored marker drawings. There are conflicting reports as to why this happened: anonymous have alleged that the show had difficulties finding (or rather, keeping) sponsors, leading to a need to outsource production work and the budget running thin in the show’s final third; puts it down to scheduling issues caused by the television networks, which would have left the team insufficient time to finish the episode; the fact that the sexual content and violence late in Evangelion’s run would lead to broadcast censorship standards, and founding studio president Anno just couldn’t make up his mind in a timely fashion.

Whatever the case, the starkly different animation style can be seen as a pragmatic storytelling device. As Shinji travels further and further into himself, stripping away his defenses, so too do the visuals strip down through the steps of making an anime.

Shinji peers into the hearts of those around him and realizes that they are also suffering, just as he is, and that it isn’t right for him to rely on them to fix his issues. In a half-dialogue, half-lecture mimicking a therapy session, Shinji realizes that his own self-hatred has warped his relationships with others. Part of this journey involves traveling to a literal blank page, symbolizing complete and utter freedom of self-definition.

But that’s far too much for a human mind, particularly a teenager, to grasp. And so, slowly, it becomes a brief glimpse into an alternate reality where Shinji and his friends are happy as ordinary high school students. Think of it as a sort of “Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come” sequence, except more hopeful; rather than showing Shinji the catastrophic outcome if he continues on his current path (that’s End of Evangelion, more on that in a minute), it presents a version of him that’s succeeded in being happy.

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This single scene is significant for the franchise at large because it implied a canonical multiverse that would later allow artists to put the characters into a variety of genres and settings, but its purpose in the moment is to snap Shinji out of a sense of being trapped.

This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: – ( July 2019) Neon Genesis Evangelion ( 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Shin Seiki Evangerion) is a Japanese created by and owned. Most of the franchise features an action story, which revolves around the efforts by the organization NERV to fight hostile beings called, using giant humanoids called (or EVA's for short) that are piloted by select teenagers. Subsequent works deviate from this theme to varying degrees, focusing more on romantic interactions between the characters, plotlines not present in the original works, and reimaginings of the conflicts from the original works.The debuted in in December 1994, to generate interest in the upcoming anime release. The anime was written and directed by, originally airing from October 1995 until March 1996. The general consensus is that the anime was groundbreaking; it explored religious, psychological, and philosophical themes, while initially appearing to be a standard show. There was some debate over the controversial ending of the television series.

In response, two films were made to provide an alternate ending for the show:, released in March 1997, and released in July 1997. Death is a compilation of clips from the TV series, with some new footage added, and Rebirth comprises the first 30 minutes or so of End of Evangelion.The popularity of the show spawned numerous additional media, including video games, radio dramas, audio books, a novel, machines, and a of films titled. Other derivative works include,. As of June 2018, it is the 27th of all-time, with an estimated revenue of $14.9 billion. Contents.Setting Works within the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise typically have the same setting, characters and theme, but can vary in their portrayal of the storyline with alternate re-tellings of the original anime.

Evangelion 's fictional setting takes place after the Second Impact, a cataclysmic explosion in which resulted in the deaths of billions and threw the Earth off its axis. Fifteen years after the Second Impact, a group of mysterious beings referred to as ' begin appearing and pose a worldwide and existential threat to mankind. The NERV organization, a paramilitary special agency, is tasked with defeating the Angels, with the use of giant mechanical warriors known as ' to fight them. A select group of children pilot the Evangelions, with a focus on, and.The backdrop of Neon Genesis Evangelion slowly reveals the true nature of Rei Ayanami, the Evangelions, the Angels, the NERV organization and a group known as the SEELE organization. Religious themes, include and references to, and the. The series is well known for its of the characters, most heavily covered in the implementation of the Human Instrumentality Project, the secret goal of NERV and SEELE, whose result varies across different media, including the original anime, films, manga and video games.TV Series, original net animation and films Neon Genesis Evangelion. Main article:Neon Genesis Evangelion ( 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Shin Seiki Evangerion, literally 'Gospel of a New Century'), commonly referred to as Evangelion or Eva, is a Japanese that first from October 1995 to March 1996.

It was directed and written. Evangelion follows, a fourteen-year-old boy, who is summoned to Tokyo-3 by his father Gendo Ikari to pilot Evangelion Unit-01 on the eve of an Angel attack.

Treated as a tool by his father, Shinji joins Rei Ayanami and Asuka Langley Soryu as mankind's last hope against the mysterious beings known as the 'Angels'. As the series progresses, the true natures of NERV, the Evangelions, and the Angels are revealed.Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth. Main article:On September 9, 2006, Gainax confirmed a new animated film series called, consisting of four movies presenting an alternate retelling of the TV series (including new scenes, settings, and characters) and a completely new conclusion to the story. The first film was released in Japan on September 1, 2007, with and released on June 27, 2009 and November 17, 2012 respectively.

The final film is slated for a 2020 release date. Proposed live-action film Development of a live-action movie version of Neon Genesis Evangelion by, and (then the worldwide distributor of the Evangelion series outside of and ) was announced at the on May 21, 2003. Early coverage included ADV Films raising 'about half of the $100 million to $120 million needed to produce the film' and some concept art produced by.As time passed without any official announcements of production, the film project showed increasing signs of being in. At 2008, ADV founders Matt Greenfield and John Ledford revealed that they had hired the producer, pitched the idea to other producers such as and, and seen increased interest in the wake of the success of the 2007 film. At 2009, Matt Greenfield announced that several U.S.

Studios were competing for final rights to the project, predicting an official announcement naming the studio, director, and perhaps casting information within the next nine months (he later noted that the closer he got to sealing a deal, the less he could say anything about it). Though the sudden collapse and asset sale of in September 2009 raised concerns over the project's viability, Greenfield, Ledford, and producer Joseph Chou insisted the project was still actively searching for a director (claiming delays owed more to the general deterioration of the American anime market than to ADV's internal issues).In August 2011, A.D. Vision sued Gainax, claiming their refusal to accept an payment for the perpetual live-action rights to Evangelion was a breach of contract and resulted in losing an opportunity to produce the film with a major studio. Vision has asked to be awarded the full live-action rights and any accruing.Manga and light novel.

See also:A number of series based on the anime have been released, most notably the by series character designer, which was first serialized in February 1995 (eight months before the series' official premiere, in order to promote interest), and ended in November 2014, 19 years later. Three other manga have been created: by, by Takahashi Osamu, and by Min Min.A series Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA was serialized from 2008-2013 in Dengeki Hobby Magazine. The series set in an alternate future diverging from the events of the anime. The novel begins 3 years after the end of the Human Instrumentality Project, replacing episodes 25 and 26 of the anime, as well as the End of Evangelion film.

Our team of former Eva pilots are coming to terms with the aftermath of the battle at NERV HQ, while adapting to normal life. Three clones of Ayanami Rei have been put into Eva units and sent into space as a precautionary way to seek out and eradicate the remaining mass-produced Evangelion units, as well as monitor Earth’s safety.Soundtracks and music. Main article:Evangelion has had numerous soundtrack releases since its debut on television, with most of the music composed.

The television series' opening theme song ' has become an iconic anime theme song. Further information:Neon Genesis Evangelion has spawned a number of video games. These range from action games such as for the and on the, the fighting game, the and, and the rhythm game 3nd Impact (read 'Sound Impact').

Characters from Evangelion also make numerous appearances in other titles such as in the series. The hit mobile game 'Monster Strike', by the Japanese company Mixi, did a collaboration featuring dungeons and collectible units from the series.

Audio dramas A parody, Neon Genesis Evangelion – After the End, was released in 1996 as part of the album. The story features the anime's original cast reuniting to star in a new Evangelion series, while attempting to change various themes of the series to make it more popular/accessible than it already is. A separate Evangelion audio cassette drama was released in 1996. Pachinko A number of Evangelion-themed and machines are offered at pachinko parlors:.

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(Pachisuro). (Pachinko)As of March 2018, Evangelion pachinko manufacturer Fields Corporation revealed that the Evangelion franchise has sold a total of 2.317 million pachinko and pachislot machines, including 1.752 million pachinko machines and 540,000 machines. At an average unit price of $5,000, the Evangelion franchise has grossed approximately $11.585 billion from sales of pachinko and pachislot machines.Amusement park On July 22, 2010, opened a 1,460m 2 section devoted to Evangelion, featuring a lifesize entry plug and statue of, an approximately 3-meter titanium Lance of Longinus, NERV hallways with character cutouts that lead to a hangar room with the 1:1 bust of, SEELE monoliths, appropriate cosplay, Eva-themed hotel rooms, and food products. A bust of modeled after a scene in Evangelion: 2.0 was installed in 2011.Universal Studios just announced there will be a Godzilla and Evangelion crossover attraction at universal studios Japan. Related media Evangelion: Another Impact is the anime short number 12 from the Japan Animator Expo, a collaboration between the Khara studio and the media company Dwango. The anime short could be seen on the official website of the project, but the website closed on December 31, 2018.

Since, a company who sell animal related product have bought the domain name, and the Japan Animator Expo website no longer exist. The credits song is called 'Marking Time, Waiting for Death', by Shiro Sagisu. A Transformers x Evangelion comic and toy line featured a Transformers and Evangelion crossover. Universal Studios announced there will be a Godzilla and Evangelion crossover with an attraction.

In episode 31 of Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion, Shinji is the pilot of the 500 TYPE EVA, a redo of the Shinkalion 500 stylized to resembled the real TYPE EVA of the and the EVA Unit 01. He only appeared in the crossover episode.Fanworks Evangelion is also popular among, inspiring notable titles such as 'Evangelion RE-TAKE' (an unofficial sequel to the ) by Studio Kimigabuchi and even works by famous manga artists, such as 'Birth of Evangelion' by.References.

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'It has been credited with defining gender roles, influencing attitudes toward the environment, and spawning the madly obsessive—and immensely profitable—otaku subculture embraced by tens of thousands of geeky fans who spend their lives unraveling the larger message of the show and collecting pornographic comic books featuring the show's female characters.' 'Let's Die Together', David Samuels,; May 2007, Vol.

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