Shin Evangelion Movie:||

Following NERV's failed attempt to retrieve the Spears of Longinus and carry out the Human Instrumentality Project, the destruction caused by the Fourth Impact has been largely averted. In a state of disarray, Shinji Ikari, Asuka Langley Shikinami, and Rei Ayanami travel to Village 3—a survivor settlement free from Earth's ruination. There, Shinji slowly comes to terms with his past, developing an entirely different life from his days as an Evangelion pilot.

Meanwhile, NERV makes preparations to continue the Instrumentality Project by means of a new Impact. When WILLE's main aerial battleship arrives at the village, Shinji decides to board, believing that he can help by piloting an Evangelion. As new secrets are uncovered and a battle between WILLE and NERV approaches, the future of Earth hangs in the balance. Can Shinji save humanity and the rest of the world one last time?

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Souryuu, Asuka Langley Main

Miyamura, Yuko Japanese

Ikari, Shinji Main

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Nagisa, Kaworu Main

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Ayanami (tentative), Rei Main

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Ayanami, Rei Supporting

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Katsuragi, Misato Supporting

Mitsuishi, Kotono Japanese

Pen Pen Supporting

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Ikari, Gendou Supporting

Tachiki, Fumihiko Japanese

Makinami, Mari Illustrious Supporting

Sakamoto, Maaya Japanese

Kaji, Ryouji Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Sugitani, Yuuki Producer

Anno, Hideaki Director, Storyboard, Screenplay, Key Animation, Planning, Creator

Tsurumaki, Kazuya Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

Maeda, Mahiro Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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Apr 10, 2025

Gucci100

Recommended

Evangelion Neon Genesis. A work I will never forget as long as I live. In the last ten days, or at most if you count 12 days, I watched it. It is one of the most controversial anime in the history of anime and the most famous anime in the twentieth century and until the late nineties. A work that I did not respond to at first or understand well. People saw it from a different perspective and I was closer to that. Here I want to talk about the last movie that was released four years ago and everyone knows the movie (Neon Genesis ... Evangelion Three at Once 3.0 + 1.0). I want to clarify something that I faced in the story or concepts and secrets and ambiguities that (Hideaki Anno) did not clarify. He clarified it here and I want to thank him for his idea of creating a series of movies that summarizes and retells the story in a clearer and better way than the original series. There were differences and a lot of stories, but they were replaced with a storytelling that focuses on the story and the ending as a whole. First, the past, desire and plans of Shinji's father (Gnedo) appeared at the end of the movie. His phobia of people, science, life, and committing things against himself and his beliefs. He was very afraid of his son who was no different from him in the way he dealt with people and that social phobia. His intense desire to see his wife again to see her freed from the burden she carried in the beginning. We knew that Shinji and his father were not different at all, but Shinji was better than his father, as he was steadfast in the face of life’s harshness and hardships, but he was always in pain, to the point that he tried to protect people from harm. On the other hand, his father saw humans as flaws. He only believed that knowledge and the piano, which he loved, were the beautiful things in life until he met Yui, who proved to him that life can be fun. The difference in personalities: When I saw Toji become an adult and marry that girl, I was very happy for him and the guy with the glasses. Even Ritsuko or Dr. Akagi were also different. Let's not forget Katsuragi or Nisato who became a mother and married Kaji and gave birth to a 14 year old child. But he and Misato unfortunately died at the end of the movie. Kaji felt a little sad for them because of the sacrifice made in Third Impact and we saw in the movie that Misato died in the ship. The fate of many characters was unclear and who is Shinji's father? Is Rei alive? And let's not forget Asuka who was released by Kaworu before when Shinji said he wanted to save Asuka and everyone but did Shinji fulfill his promise because he abandoned her in the second movie. In the end I talked a lot about the anime and I hope this is useful to anyone at any time or place. The movie series (Rebuild of Evangelion) was great and enjoyable and I recommend it and the ending of the movie is very satisfying with everything else and with all the flaws (Evangelion Neon Genesis) it changed the way I think about life, people and opportunities as well and watching it and the enjoyment I had is something unforgettable. Rating the movie as a whole 10/10, some people might disagree. This is the first and last time I rate Evangelion 10/10 in an anime or even a movie. It's not that I like happy endings, but I think I'm going through a nostalgic state right now. In order not to change the rating to 9/10 now, I want to say that Evangelion Neon Genis is one of the greatest anime I've seen in my life and deserves a rating of "legendary or a masterpiece." If you are reading this, thank you very much for your interest in my empty words, and I ask God to grant us forgiveness and well-being in this world and the hereafter. Amen.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 6, 2024

ajc228

Mixed Feelings

The final Rebuild film ends with a whimper. I felt that all the meta-textual stuff was a bit much and pulled me out of the film. The last 30 min feels like a rush to give development to various characters to provide an emotional and thematic send off. Instead of focusing on being the final film in a series of movies, it decides to focus on it’s place as the finale to a franchise. It lacks cohesion and is only somewhat satisfying in regards to its themes. The CG ranged from good to jarring. On a positive note, “One Last Kiss” is an absolute banger.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Feb 25, 2025

Jimmy3_People0

Not Recommended

I've claimed elsewhere that the NGE manga's depiction of the events of EoE is the "easy way out." It really does read like an officially-sanctioned fix fic – Shinji heroically swoops in to save Asuka from being torn apart by the MP-Evas, Ritsuko's last words to Gendo are spoon-fed to the reader, and it's all wrapped up with a nice big retcon where another timeline is created, everything is beautiful, nothing hurts, and Shinji & Asuka are both definitely heterosexual.

That's bad. Shin Eva is downright insulting.

On my first and only watch of Shin Eva, it was readily apparent to me that Anno’s heart just wasn’t ... in it any more. There's a million different examples to point to – the physically-locked-at-14 Asuka traipsing around a fully-grown Kensuke in a hoodie and very little else might be the most blatant, but the whole "Curse of Eva" gimmick really is the perfect encapsulation of how cynical the entire Rebuild tetralogy feels, and any attempt at treating it as a serious thematic device feels woefully desperate. Calling it the smoking gun for why the Rebuilds fail on principle isn't an exaggeration in the slightest.

There's so much more beyond that, though – Rei codifies one of the worst character assassinations in the medium here, reduced to an infantile husk of her original form that only serves to react to mundane things like a toddler and be the square peg getting jammed into the same Shinji-shaped hole as the first two films. Shinji himself isn't much better, stripped just about bare of his most defining (and, importantly, negative) traits from NGE, ultimately ending up as one-half of a DeviantArt template for Anno to insert himself and his wife into at the end of the film. Mari, in turn, continues to offer zero justification for her own existence aside from the occasional sprinkle of shameless queerbaiting. The pilots' former classmates are primarily here to sell the natalist undertones of the village scenes, and the adult cast continue to remain as unexplored and underdeveloped as they were in prior Rebuilds, utterly wasting the likes of Ritsuko in particular. It becomes a struggle to find a reason to care about the vast majority of these characters aside from them looking and sounding like ones from a better work that you're fond of.

In the end, what is all of this in service of? A half-baked villainous redemption for Gendo? Regurgitating EoE's aesops through a more marketable filter? Anno definitively putting Evangelion in the past tense? That last one certainly isn't true, considering there wouldn't have been any money in actually doing so. Honestly, I'm not certain Shin Eva's defenders know that any better than I do. It seems like they just know there's *something* profound in there, and they can pat themselves on the back for absorbing it as they watch Shinji and Mari run off into the sunset. Maybe that’s enough for some people.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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