Shinseiki Evangelion Movie: Air/Magokoro wo, Kimi ni

Shinji Ikari is left emotionally comatose after the death of a dear friend. With his son mentally unable to pilot the humanoid robot Evangelion Unit-01, Gendou Ikari's NERV races against the shadow organization SEELE to see who can enact their ultimate plan first. SEELE desires to create a godlike being by fusing their own souls into an Evangelion unit, while Gendou wishes to revert all of humanity into one primordial being so that he can be reunited with Yui, his deceased wife.

SEELE unleashes its military forces in a lethal invasion of NERV headquarters. As SEELE's forces cut down NERV's scientists and security personnel, Asuka Langley Souryuu pilots Evangelion Unit-02 in a desperate last stand against SEELE's heaviest weaponry.

The battle rages on, and a depressed Shinji hides deep within NERV's headquarters. With the fate of the world resting in Shinji's hands, Captain Misato Katsuragi hunts for the teenage boy as society crumbles around them.

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Souryuu, Asuka Langley Main

Miyamura, Yuko Japanese

Ayanami, Rei Main

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Ikari, Shinji Main

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Katsuragi, Misato Main

Mitsuishi, Kotono Japanese

Nagisa, Kaworu Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Pen Pen Supporting

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Ikari, Gendou Supporting

Tachiki, Fumihiko Japanese

Kaji, Ryouji Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Akagi, Ritsuko Supporting

Yamaguchi, Yuriko Japanese

Ibuki, Maya Supporting

Nagasawa, Miki Japanese

Ishikawa, Mitsuhisa Producer

Anno, Hideaki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Setting, Screenplay, Mechanical Design, Animation Director, Original Creator, Key Animation, Planning

Tsurumaki, Kazuya Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Setting

Tanaka, Hideyuki Sound Director

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Nov 3, 2025

Square_Eyed

Recommended

"But there is this big war trying to like basically destroy humanity, because humanity has free will, and there is a decision to which level we want to go to. We have free will, so evil is allowed to come in and contend—not just good. And the elites themselves—believe their racing using human technology to try to take our best minds and build some type of breakaway civilization, where they’re going merge with machines, transcend, and break away from the failed species of this man, which is kind of like a false transmission, because they’re thinking what they are is ugly and bad, projecting it ... onto themselves, instead of believing, no, it’s a human test about building us up. And so..."





























-Alexander Emerick Jones

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Feb 9, 2025

Shineix

Mixed Feelings

Funny

The most confusing watching experience you'll ever have. The Evangelion movie was a very carefully planned out movie but the main area it lacks in is it's explanation of the story.

Overall the story, depth and message are really good and even the characters are interesting in this path of Evangelion however this is only if you can understand it while watching.

Since the review is strictly on the movie I have to give it a bad rating, the movie doesn't explain basically anything going on and just expects you to follow the many random and odd events. If you went and searched up everything on ... google later you'd realize that the movie was actually good and well made but google shouldn't have to be used to understand it and the movie itself should be explaining what, how or why all this is happening. All the hardcore Evangelion fans are going to come after me for this but I had full focus on the movie and anime but they simply never explain anything at all which ruins the entire experience.

Overall the movie had potential to be amazing but since it requires you to search up everything it just ruins it all and makes everything feel random especially near the end.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Oct 9, 2025

danseaview

Not Recommended

No idea what this was, for starters this is an ending to the series not a standalone movie.(Incase you haven't seen the series)

For any normal person looking for a quick review, whatever they started smoking at the end of the anime still hadn't worn off when they wrote this movie. There will be no real answers, or enjoyable plot, just ego stroking for the writers. (they did a real self insert at the start IYKYK)

I feel any reviewer that gave it a positive review should be required to explain the entirety of the plot, with drives, character arcs, setups and payoffs. IMO you should ... be able to summarize the fundamental lesson/focus/struggle in 1-2 sentences for a show to be good/focused. It would probably take pages to try to explain what was going on, and as a viewer I took away nothing was going on.

There's about 20 minutes of plot with the base attack which is the synopsis on MyAnimeList, there isn't any really setup/payoff to this its just a thing that happens mid-movie. The other 60 minutes are the insane ramblings of a clearly horny, look at my intellect type writer. The kind of guy you see getting swirlied and when his head finally comes out of the toilet he keeps explaining how it was actually very intellectual and deep with its themes and imagery.

The "deep intellectual" points are actually just surface level questions which they then proceed not to setup, explain, answer, or confront in any way then proceed to flash something else so you don't think about how dumb they actually sounded.

Technical Aspects
Pretty good animation - Alot of it wasted on the insanity scenes and not much in the way of scenic or establishing shots.
Voice acting - Good, some scenes feel mismatched but thats probably just down to the poor script
Plot - None existent, actually negative if you count all the stuff they just take/assume you know from the series
Music - Not bad, was a couple scenes i had my suspension of disbelief broken, laughing thinking why certain music was playing though
Character Development - None, It's like watching parody of who they were from the series
Writing/Script - Bad. They're saying words, they did indeed write down words in the script. Half is technical jargon, half is nonsensical attempts at "art". Was watching with original subtitles so I was wondering while watching if they were just struggling to translate. (that's how little there's to engage with in the movie)

Hope the writers friends checked up on the guy and got him help, then politely yet firmly told him this wasn't it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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