So... what was the point of that scene?
Both characters, in the wake of self realization necessary as part of escaping human instrumentality, are in a state of shock and have their filters down.
Shinji expresses what he has been bottling up all this time (his anger and frustration at his relationships and Asuka in particular) by chocking the shit out of Asuka. This is something he has been feeling for a long time but was too afraid to show.
Asuka, in kind, expresses what SHE has been hiding: affection for Shinji, which she never admitted to herself because it was at odds with the "Im man adult" narrative she was trying to impose on herself.
Shinji gets shocked out of her state by the unexpected affection, which is all he has ever wanted, and they both fall back on old habits. Shinji starts crying, and Asuka insults him.
It was only a brief moment of truth between them, unsustainable, but it is an important first step in emotional growth for them both. It shows that they CAN open up to each other, where before they couldn't. Even if its still only briefly. But it makes the ending ultimately optimistic for them both.
Asuka gives shinji shit throughout the trippy sequence and he chokes her but gives up crying as always so she calls him disgusting because of his pussy behaviour
Liiiinking this
>Shinji has clearly been surviving for a while now with no problems since he made graves for everyone and Misato's cross has started to rust
why do ESL retards keep posting this image?
idk
because they are esl retards
pic related
what the hell are you talking about?
The guy awakened with Asuka in front of the beach. the cross of Misato was there for some very random reason, no one know who made that.
Thanks guy
absolute state of ESL speedwatchers
No.
He was angry that she actually retained her form through sheer will, while he only survived because he was inside unit 01,
what's this obsession with ESL? only this board insist with that, are you aware majority of this site is ESL? we don't cares about your shitty saxonic language.
He was still into hallucination trip during this moment.
Rei's head had not even her giant size in front of him.
>Not eating all the soul goo right next to them.
Next time try watching the movie first, ESL-retard-kun.
what would soul goo taste like?
But Rei's head is a lot bigger than that. compare it with Eva's size in the sky. Shinji's body here is too big. Giant Rei's head was bigger than the fucking black moon (literally the entire geofront area).
YOU need to rewatch that autismo.
salty milk and coins
eva consistently never gives a shit about consistent scale
It still matter.
Well it has still explanation:
Giant Naked Rei was really giant because she was fused with Adam, in god-mode at full power.
Rei's size on this pic is the average size of an Eva head, it's basically the body of Lilith who assimilated Rei but without Adam, so it's now smaller.
just shut the fuck up and admit you were wrong, there's more dignity in that
I legitimately wonder why these types of people post on internet forums, they're 100% unwilling to listen to anyone else and just keep repeating themselves over and over again, no matter what. What's the point? If you can't learn anything new from others then then no-one else can learn from you either. Sadly this is why 99% of these threads are so shit, no honest discourse or engagement, just a bunch of fucking schizos shrieking into the wind instead of looking for actual discussion.
Remember how 26 ended on Shinji's self actualization as well?
The room disappears and Shinji and everyone else are revealed to stand on a giant coral reef. The coral reef is obviously a reference to society, as like coral, society is built on the corpses of those that came before.
The characters welcome Shinji as a member of society.
Here, this is the opposite.
In a biblical reference, the sea was turned into blood (keep in mind that LCL is stated to smell like blood so this isn't particularly far fetched), killing all life within it. Society has collapsed.
Shinji is rejected from what remains and washes up on one of the crater lakes.
People are so obessed with ignoring symbolism that they refuse to acknowledge it when it is used.
Mighty nice headcanon you've got there, shame anyone can interpret anything anyway they want and pull up whatever post facto rationalizations fit and call them references or allusions. It'd be perfectly simple to argue the opposite of your conclusions with the same material.
a reading is just a reading, if you got something better let's hear it.
nice digits. yui confirmed devil
The Guy who wrote this, was a psychopath and on multiple drugs, there is no point to the scene, whole movie or the last episodes of the anime. It's just the incoherent rambling of a mad man.
anno probably thought it looked cool at the time and you faggots have been jerking off about it for decades
>incoherent rambling of a mad man
absolutely nothing wrong with that. makes it better if anything
I took the coral commentary very literally, 'a world without continents' that it's symbolic of instrumentality, a world where everyone is connected, quite literally the idea that "no man is an island" taken to an extreme. Society doesn't factor into it, it's just a representation of a world without AT fields, which you can't really call a society at all since "no-one really exists".
It's also total speculation that all life has ended on Earth, as you seem to be suggesting that the oceans becoming LCL is some apocalyptic event. LCL is quite literally Lilith's blood, the same Lilith who is the progenitor and lifegiver for all of humankind. The reversion to an ocean of LCL is a clear reference to the "primordial ooze" from which all evolved life supposedly sprang, in that sense it's not death but life that LCL produces. Plus we know at least the LCL in the Eva's has oxygen and that Instrumentality only directly affected living things with AT fields, so it's not a stretch to think animals and fish or whatever are just fine, or that in reality Shinji has inherited the earth and "dominion over" it's life, it's almost straight out of genesis with people being remade in god's image, with him and Asuka basically being a proto Adam and Eve. I can understand the desire to think otherwise though because of the rebuilds, but nothing about the original series suggests life has ended on earth, and there's much that implies the opposite.
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All of this is to say that the ending of Eva is full of hope, not Shinji being consigned to failure or rejection at all. That seems to me to be entirely extraneous, the kind of conclusion one could only come to if they look for symbolism before accepting the actual plot before them, to repeat, that instrumentality is not society, it is the negation of individuality. That is not the same thing, a society is the coexistence of individuals, instrumentality is an abnegation of existence itself, a world where you're everyone and no-one. Instrumentality is the escapist route here, and we all know how Anno feels about escapism.
>I took the coral commentary very literally, 'a world without continents' that it's symbolic of instrumentality, a world where everyone is connected, quite literally the idea that "no man is an island" taken to an extreme. Society doesn't factor into it, it's just a representation of a world without AT fields, which you can't really call a society at all since "no-one really exists".
I thought the total replacement of borders and a unified solid earth made this obvious
Devilman reference.
End of Evangelion is terrible and self indulgent. Same reason the rebuild missed the mark. The genius of 25 and 26 is pure and simple.