The villains, (SEELE) a secret organization who secretly control world governments, want to fuse all humans in to one to bring back their satanic god.
Now look at whats happening. They want to fuse men and women with transgenderism and nonbinary shit, they want to fuse countries and remove borders and create a one world government and they want to fuse races with race mixing.
The endings of Evangelion are linked with Hideaki Anno's emotions and situation at the time of making it as the series itself HEAVILY focuses on the character's emotions more than giant robots, secret organisations and biblical references.
The original series ending was constrained by time and resources so it to many people felt rushed and there was backlash because of it.
That backlash caused the End of Evangelion when Anno was in a dark place and extremely frustrated at a fanbase that would send death threats to his studio and himself.
After this venting and being in a dark place, he met and married in 2002 manga artist Moyoco Anno which 5 years later starts the release of the Rebuild films. The character added Mari is basically Anno's wife who helps Shinji as an outsider overcome his internal struggles like none of the other characters could.
The REAL plot of Evangelion is depression and understanding how to manage it and Anno's message was escapism alone cannot help you so you need contact with the outside world. The Rebuild titles themselves actually provide the message for this in order: You are not alone, you can not advance, you can not redo and then the 4th (though not called 4 because in Asia 4 sounds like death so not a good thing to end on when the theme is depression) is the answer: you can not redo to undo your mistakes but you are not alone so find someone who can help you.
Sorry for the long response but thought context was important.
I guess I should watch the Rebuild movies, but tbh I was very satisfied with End of Evangelion and how it communicated that message. It was a venting of the shit he got, but in the end accepting reality for what it is and moving on.
I’m also an Asuka-fag so I liked how the ending had Asuka starting to open her heart to Shinji.
People say EoE was Anno's backlash to the fans. If that's true, then the Rebuilds are Anno's expression of pure hatred to the fans. Unfortunately, that also makes them artistically inferior products.
I'm aware a lot of people are into the Rebuilds, but I can't stand metacommentary BS, let alone whole movies of it.
I would say you should watch the Rebuild films ESPECIALLY because you're an Asuka-fag because I personally feel like they give her more character development in the films (as with every character).
Don't be disappointed with who Shinji ends up with, I know that was actually the biggest discontent with the community at the end than the actual ending, everyone kind of felt content once this song played and learnt what the lyrics meant.
This guy gets it.
Indeed, this is the actual propaganda
Anno represented his wife as the most stereotypical waifu bait ever? Questionable decision
He's still married, so appears to have gone over fine lol
Lol. At least he didn't wreck his marriage along with the story
If you know your esoterics, Fulcanelli's master supposedly became an immortal being by transforming into an androgynous form that was neither male nor female. Considering how hard the global elites bought into that shit a century ago I suspect that this is more what they're in line with. Either that or my original theory that the aliens are gay androgynous space communists and only help out species that are androgynous space communist enough, so the world leaders are falling all over themselves to make it happen.
I find your original theory lacking to be quite honest.
I find the UP3 theory from Star Ocean series to be more convincing. Advanced star faring civilizations choose to not make contact with less advanced civilizations in order to preserve their authentic development.
If humans manage to reach out to galactic federation then that means they meaningfully united on their planet and pulled all their resources for a single unified purpose and devised methods unique to them to do so.
If humans wont manage to reach out to galactic federation then that means there's no point in bringing them into the galactic forum as whatever that is dividing and stalling human progress would likely affect the greater galactic society as well.
Most likely, aliens don't exist
The plot is trying to reunite the angels Adam and Lilith. It's unification propaganda
What if I don’t want to become part of the giant anime girl?
Then you can go live in the post-apocalyptic ruins caused by that dipshit Japanese kid who couldn't just find the decency to kill himself. By the way, he'll be you only company in the world. Well, him and the redheaded bitch. Have fun!
Redheaded bitch? I’m in.
Uh, well, no...
It's really just Gendo's massive cope about getting Yui killed.
Shinji's whole arc is basically the same as Trevor Hills in American Arcadia... getting mad enough to look everyone in the eye and yell "LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!"
what do you call the plot point about the organization SEELE who secretly controls world governments and wants to fuse humanity in to one then?
Flavor text.
What you're not getting is the symbolism of Fuyutsuki turning off SEELE in 3.0.
It wasn't exactly a 4th wall break but there was definitely a metacontext. Sorry SEELE, you contribute nothing to the story (YEETED).
The eventual 4th wall break happens when Shinji is fighting in a cardboard city in a studio in 3+1. If you think EVA is about hot blood and giant robots saving the world, you're in the wrong neighborhood. That's Gundam town.
Original series only for me. Remakes are fake and gay. points at piano duet scene
Pleasantly surprised to find other people that hate the Rebuilds here.
I used to think EoE was a fitting end to the series, but after a rewatch with friends I think the original 25 and 26 are superior.
The point of Rebuild is that you didn't understand the original to begin with.
But I did understand the original.
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Were this any other franchise, I would conceptually understand your reasoning for not wanting to accept the subsequent materials.
If we were talking about Star Wars, we can say with certainty that it was good, and then the later stuff was shit.
But in the case of Evangelion, it was always shit, and Rebuild exists to say: "Yeah it was shit, you were supposed to think it was shit, why did you spend the last twenty years pissing away money on Asuka/Rei figures?".
But Anno already told us that in End of Evangelion.
Rebuild was made to get a new generation addicted to Rei, Pirate Asuka, and Mari figures.
Is this a rhetorical question?
That's a lot of work for tradcon propaganda. At least the crazy jap guy got Asuka right by making her a massive cunt like real woman, his mistake was not killing her for real.
Mari is the same waifu bs pushed by all japanese cartoons, because no manchild wants to hear what they actually need is stoicism and discipline. If evangelion was made today instead of using freudian psychology it would talk about toxic masculinity and feefees and you'd call it woke
They DID make Evangelion today, it's called Darling in the FranXX, and it's shit.
Lawl. I thought the girl from the TikTok dance was from the rebuilds. Now, how can I convince weebs FLCL and Gurren Lagann are shit too?
Before Anno ran out of money and meds, that's literally what the first half of the series was about played more straight than even Gundam was doing at the time. There was more wangst and "I don't wanna fight!" in the first arc of Naruto than there was in the first 10 Angel Kills, until Leliel flipped the switch into the part its famous for.
Reading this thread reminds me why I love Eva’s background lore, but hate interacting with most stuff after EoE and mainly stick to fanfic. Anno’s an…acquired taste.
Shin Godzilla is really good, and my friends (who are Godzilla dorks, but not Eva dorks) thought it was very accessible, and may not have gotten the subtext about it being about the Japanese government's response to the 2011 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown, but neither did I, honestly, until I read it. Check it out! Great movie.
GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN, ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD.
SHINJI GO BLOW UP THE SEELE HQ.
You forgot the part when Yui achieves apotheosis by manipulating everyone including her husband and own son, and how she leaves everyone to die while everyone is distracted fighting the secret cabal
Wrong, she sacrificed her life to protect Shinji and become a mother to a new world