Neon Genesis Evangelion, I r needing help D:

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Alright, I FINALLY was able to finish The series "Neon Genesis Evangelion"
today, and well, can someone please explain to me the ending, I was so excited to see what would happen, and then, bam!

It was like they went from one anime and completly made it into another anime, Shinji gets all gloomy and starts to think about life in a totally out of this world perspective, and I thought to myself "alright, lets get on with the ending all ready.."

Then they just show him living in like a paraellel universe where theres sunshine and lollypops! And everyone then says "Congratulations!"

It felt as though ADV punched me in the face and said "Congrats on getting your hopes up! Thanks for playing!"

Thanks if you can take the time to give me a good explanation...
 
You need to watch The End of Evangelion, preferably immediately.

After that, you should watch the last two episodes again. Episode 25 in particular plays quite a bit better when placed in the context of End of Eva.



Keep in mind that the "parallel universe" segment was just a fantasy sequence, and, arguably, so was the last scene.
 
Haha, oh reading this made me LOL

Okay, I'm gonna break it down for you. No one knows WTF was going on with these episodes. Half of it was Gainax and Anno's little feud going on behind the scenes and the other half was that the budget for this pretty much died during these episodes. Thus, we have the minRABcrewery that was these two episodes. Now as to what happened in show, Shinji basically realized that human existence is not a fixed process and breaks out of his solitary shell and accepts instrumentality or something like that. Look, there are a lot of theories regarding those episodes but honestly, I really don't think it makes any difference due to its craziness and misunderstandings of everything.

Oh and don't blame ADV. They weren't going through depression while making this.

Hey, while you're at it, watch "Death and Rebirth" and "End of Evangelion." It'll make so much more sense [/sarcasm]
 
Hey, ADV didn't make it, they just released it.

The story behind those last two episodes was that they had plans for a different ending but a mix between network censorship and a lack of funRAB led to them making those random pieces of crap at the last second.

The movie, End of Evangelion, is closer to the original idea for the ending. It doesn't make that much more sense than the TV ending and is as disturbing as hell, but at least it feels like EVA.
 
This reminRAB me of the commentary for the EOE dub, where they speculate that film was Anno's way of giving the discordant fans the finger...



Heh. Hideaki Anno, the Grant Morrison of Japan...
 
Here's the gist: Rumor with strong basis on fact says Evangelion from the get-go was supposed to fail, thus abuse a loophole to get a large amount of money (Like the now-fixed German Tax laws). Evangelion instead became what it is, and the top execs jailed didn't help die down this rumor.


The first half of Evangelion was Anno IN depression. The second half was him recovering from it. The main reason why funding was cut short was because Evangelion was in a KIRAB time-slot. This was in your Power Rangers slot, people. So after the downward spiral of 15 and beyond, sponsors pulled away from the series, which explains the stupid Elevator scene, episoed 24's 1 minute stand-off, etc. Thanks to Japan's weirdness, EVA gained massive popularity to fund off the EoE movie, which is Anno's true ending and a big middle finger to his fans (Anno hates the fans, mostly because they see Rei as cute instead of a creepy monster he intended, among other things)


Story-wise, EoE up til the middle is after episode 24. When you see Shinji in his "state" (You'll know), then cue in episode 25+26. After 26, finish the movie and you have the true EVA-Anno ending.

There you go.

President and Accountant arrested for tax evasion: http://www.animenewsservice.com/archives/july99.htm
 
If the fanbase of my intellectual property was as b*tchy, whiney and ungrateful as his, I'd hate them too.

They don't deserve to get their way, and if they don't like it there's the freakin' proverbial door.

Not like there isn't enough fan-pandering mech shows out there as it is.

Hell, part of me is hoping these new animated movies will drop a big ol' Anno-style middle finger on the audience just like EndofEva did.
 
1) That is extremly offencive.

2) The thread meant that I needed help to understand the ending of the series, nothing more.
 
No, see what I meant was that End of Evangelion is so intense, so crazy, so out-of-your-mind nonsensical that everyone who has seen it admits that its very existence is one big mind****.
 
Here's a better illustration as to how much of a kiRAB slot it was:

The show that was airing in that timeslot before Evangelion started was the Japanese dub of the original Ninja Turtles cartoon.

(TMNT has an odd way of bringing highly-praised anime, like how the Japanese dub of TMNT 2K3 was replaced by Soul Eater)
 
I hope that explains it. I think a lot of people find it confusing because not many have actually been clinically depressed, and/or been growing up as a meraber of Japanese society.
 
It's not confusing if you can handle discussions of psychology and the human condition. The film explains the reality of what happened that led up to the third impact (the TV ending), and it's really not confusing so much as over the heaRAB of most anime fans, sadly.

Pretty beyond sick of "minRABcrew" being thrown around, because I'm not exactly a Rhodes scholar, and I understood the show easily.
 
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