Evangelion Movie 3: Q

Fourteen years after the Third Impact, the Earth is a post-apocalyptic wasteland, human civilization is in ruins, and the people Shinji Ikari knows are almost unrecognizable. Trapped inside Evangelion Unit-01, he is recovered from space by Asuka Langley Shikinami and Mari Illustrious Makinami, only to find himself a prisoner of WILLE, a military faction led by his former guardian Misato Katsuragi. Cold and bitter, his former allies view him with suspicion and refuse to support him as he comes to terms with the consequences of his actions.

A hurt and confused Shinji is rescued from WILLE by Rei Ayanami and returned to NERV headquarters. There, he meets and quickly befriends the enigmatic Kaworu Nagisa, who offers him warmth and insight into the state of NERV's war with the Angels. But Shinji and Kaworu's brief respite lies on the eve of a new battle, one in which Shinji finds that his enemies are no longer Angels but former comrades. In this bitter confrontation to determine the future of the world, Shinji will learn first-hand that the past truly cannot be undone.

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Ikari, Shinji Main

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Nagisa, Kaworu Main

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Ayanami (tentative), Rei Main

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Souryuu, Asuka Langley Supporting

Miyamura, Yuko Japanese

Katsuragi, Misato Supporting

Mitsuishi, Kotono Japanese

Ikari, Gendou Supporting

Tachiki, Fumihiko Japanese

Makinami, Mari Illustrious Supporting

Sakamoto, Maaya Japanese

Akagi, Ritsuko Supporting

Yamaguchi, Yuriko Japanese

Ibuki, Maya Supporting

Nagasawa, Miki Japanese

Fuyutsuki, Kouzou Supporting

Kiyokawa, Motomu Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Anno, Hideaki Director, Storyboard, Key Animation, Creator, Executive Producer, Mechanical Design, Screenplay, Planning

Tsurumaki, Kazuya Director, Storyboard, Screenplay

Maeda, Mahiro Director, Storyboard, Screenplay, Key Animation

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Apr 10, 2025

Gucci100

Recommended

Wow I don't know what to say exactly. This movie proved to me how great "Evangelion Neon Genesis" is. In fact, the anime is legendary in history, the godfather of psychological, mystery and of course mecha anime. From the beginning of the movie to the end, we saw many different things. The way the characters changed from their thoughts to their forms was also amazing, from the fights and the drawing to everything else. I'm excited for the next movie. By the way, there's a movie I'm going to watch today as well: "Shin Evangelion Movie: || 3.0+1.0 thrice upon a time." Yes, from the ... end of the movie, I didn't feel bored. I want to thank Hideak and Anno for what they did with the idea of a series retelling the great anime Evangelion Neon Genesis. Yes, it was indescribable fun, the characters' forms changing into their thoughts and the way another organization related to Nerv showed up to stop the actions it was about to carry out. Katsuragi or Misato who became the first to confront the faker Gendo Ikari who wanted to cause the fourth collision like what happened in the damage that happened fourteen years ago. The goals of the characters and the fights and even the way science is presented changed and what Shinji did and what the world has become. The movie showed us that even after fourteen years people are still fighting each other. Touching scenes: As we saw in the movie, a picture and evidence were revealed to clarify what happened to Shinji's mother, who was the one who invented this machine that rivals the strength of humans even and has a link to the reality of "Ayanami Rei" even. Which turned out to be a copy or copies of the original Shinji's mother. If anyone remembers in the original series when Rei was sweeping the floor and Shinji told her that she looks like her mother, at that moment I said with you that Rei is a clone of Shinji's mother from his father. Another thing, the drawing and animation makes you feel nostalgic for the old Shinji. The drawing method in the third movie was much better than the first and second, and the fourth and final movies will be much better, I think, given that 9 years separate him from the third. Finally, I want to clarify something through Shinji, although he is the cause of great problems that occurred when the world was destroyed, and even his personality at the beginning of the movie was promised, but he started to be different in the middle of the movie, and that is because of Kaworu. Yes, every time Kaworu meets Shinji, he is different and cautious. Here I can say that I see the best version of the current Shinji in this movie His idea here, despite his mistake and causing the third collision and almost causing the quarter as well, it suggests that he knows who his enemy is and who he should stand by. And here I want to say that I did not expect to rate Evangelion with more than a nine, in all honesty this movie deserves a 9/10 i want to guve 10/10 but I can't when i see the people reactions i thinking again and say yep 9/10 us deserve the reason for the changes in it and the perfect way of pacing the story. Only the fourth movie remains and I will talk about it for sure just to mention it.
10/4/2025

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 12, 2024

Yunice

Mixed Feelings

The action in this show was intense, though for the first thirty minutes or so, I have no idea what all the technical sounding commands that were being thrown around left and right was all about. Communication flow about what went down during the fourteen years between Shinji and the rest of the characters seemed to be nonexistent. It would have prevented a lot of unnecessary confusion for Shinji if someone had actually told him some facts instead of vague "don't touch this" or "don't do that" kind of phrases. At some point during the show, I also started to wonder how such a whiny ... and wimpy character like Shinji got to have the kind of responsibilities he seemed to have had before.

Overall the show was just ok, with an amazing soundtrack that probably saved the day.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 19, 2025

Weird_Ocean

Not Recommended

This movie really shows how as soon as Anno and the team of writers step outside the very tightly written NGE and EOE story, how good the original story was, and how unnecessary Rebuild as a whole is.

This Kaworu/Shinji movie is pure fancervice, because it's a popular ship, but Akio Satsukawa is no longer in the writer's room to make it gay and romantically ambiguous. No, instead they took an idea that they never used in ep. 24 back in 1996, when Kaworu and Shinji met in abandoned school's music room. Kaworu played piano and Shinji played cello. So, even here they didn't have any ... fresh ideas, but just took leftovers from the original script, that were never used, because, well, they were not good in the first place.

Besides playing the piano and saying that he will save Shinji now, Kaworu does absolutely nothing worthy of mention. They just fuck around in NERV headquarters, while plot is just standing still. So utterly boring. Not a single unpredictable turn of events, or plot twist. There was more character development in Ep. 24, than in the entire 1.5 hour movie of 3.0. And it was 10x more fun.

And that's about it. The rest of it is just Evangelion turned into Nadia: The Secret of the blue water. Misato became Captain Nemo, Ritsuko turned into Electra (she kind of always was, but now it's official) Asuka is just angry now, just like Nadia but all the time. And of course we have flying ships. And Nadia is complete. Nadia, without all the cool death scenes, just aesthetically. Mari is Annoying and useless as ever. And yes, to make Shinji go to NERV, they needed to make every single person on Wunder a complete idiot, that couldn't tell Shinji what the fuck is happening with him, that it's been 14 years. No, instead, they scare the shit out of him, putting an explosive collar on his neck. Brilliant. Everyone is an idiot now.

This movie really shows how impotent Anno's direction and writing has become.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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