Okay so First of all, I'll assume that all of you guys who read this review have already seen the TV series of Neon Genesis Evangelion so I think its safe to spoil it here, and as this is more of an analysis, then I'll probably spoil some part of the movie too.
End of Evangelion is often praised by people for covering up the missing 'plot' within the last two episodes of the original TV series so that many regarded this movie as a masterpiece, alongside with that mindblowing conclusions. But as for me, having just a mindblowing ending isn't enough to make one a masterpiece, and yet I think some people failed to notice that this movie is actually a major trainwreck! Believe me guys, congratulations ending is the best ending! Why? Okay I'll explain below on how End of Evangelion screwed up, which is mostly regarding the characters personality and its correlation to the ending.
First of all, we all know that this movie took place after the episode 24 of Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, not let's went into flashback on what happened lately: Shinji killed Kaworu using EVA-01, Asuka being comatose after the fight with the 16th Angel, ang Rei is on her recovery phase. Now in this movie, SEELE began to attack NERV HQ and we will see that Shinji, after masturbating to the comatose Asuka, now being back to his " I won't pilot EVA-01" state. This scene makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE AT ALL!! Your "most realistic" or "most human" character just becomes unrealistic now. Why? Oh please, let's have some more flashback now. Shinji have already become determined to pilot EVA-01 whatever it takes after the conversation with Kaji when he watered up the plants. But now he returned to that state when the EVA-01 being dummy controlled. Let's search for the reasoning behind this. Most of the watchers will already know this, which is: He was depressed after killing Kaworu, a guy who said 'I love you' to him. Is this a realistic reasonings? NO! How the hell your determination can be crushed by a guy you just know for just few days who turned up to be an angel and attacked you with EVA-02 he controlled? Can't one realized that by the fact that he levitated means that he isn't human? Even my little sister who is currently 14 will realized that, geez! The fact that now he secluded himself even more so that he cried is super exaggerated and totally unreasonable. Okay, so that's all for Shinji.
Next, we will go to Asuka. So much people I met said that Asuka is getting better in the movie compared to her annoyingness in the TV series. Okay so what Asuka have done? After she awakens from her comma, she act just like how Shinji act when killing the 4th angel, the only difference is that she failed to kill them as its a 1 vs 9 situation. Asuka, what just happened to you? Your act are almost the opposite on how Shinji act during the TV series and now, why do you act just like him? What changed her? The comma after the "Hallelujah" mindraping? Do that actually can changes ones personality? I don't think so.
Okay let's go to my favorite character on this series now, Misato. What is her role in this series? Oh noo End of Evangelion why did you do this? Why do you make the best girl just a Deus ex-Machina for Shinji before dying? Screw it, EoE!
Okay now let's talk about the ending, which is probably the final part of the negative section. What happened in the end? Oooh what a mindblowing conclusion! Third Impact actually happened! Oh lol now Shinji can 'choke Asuka' and deny the Third Impact resolution! And what do you see after that? Shinji comes back to the world and hey, Asuka is there too! This is really an asspull. I've read some theories regarding this and I'll answer that here. First, there's one who said that those children who born after the Second Impact have no souls so that the won't turn to LCL during the Third Impact. With this theory, It means that all of Shinji's classmates won't turn into LCL and stay on the world, but we only see Shinji and Asuka here. There's another theory that stated if those who really wanted to comeback to the world, they can do so. But that also means that there will be some people who can came back,, not just two. And also why among all peeps, Asuka? Is it because of the "mantra" she said during beaten up by the 9 angels? Well that's a point too, but it's not made that there's no other person than them that wanted to return to the world.
On the other hand, the visual within this series is definitely better and can be considered great on it's year of production, you won't see that 1 minute scene anymore here, and that song during the Third Impact is also good too, although I feel that it will be better if the song is more orchestratic.
Asking for my enjoyment? Well I think you can already guess whether I enjoyed this or not seeing the best girl treated like that while Shinji fapped to the worst girl who managed to come back to the world. Yep, I friggin hate this ending! Burn Asuka with fire!
Okay so that's all for what I share about this shows, I think. Overall End of Evangelion in my opinion is the worst way in attempt to make the last two episodes of the TV series to have a 'plot'. If things just let be, we can assume it with all our opinions, even if it is that the last two episodes of the TV series is just thing in which happened within the casts mind and NERV can defeat SEELE troops. Thank you for reading and remember: #CongratulationsEndingBestEnding.
