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Greed1914
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I love how this movie brought a sense of progress and closure to Eva. Whether it's Shinji learning to accept what he can't change, like with Rei's death not making him shut down again; characters finally talking to each other to process things, or flat-out revisiting End of Eva. I went into it just hoping to get a satisfying conclusion to the Rebuild series, and came out of it with something that genuinely feels like the cap to all of Evangelion.
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kamisu66
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Goodbye, perhaps. But --- animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2021-08-12/hideaki-anno-hints-at-untold-evangelion-stories/.176175
In any event, terrific recap/write-up/analysis guys! |
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jdnation
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5 days later, and I still have Eva on my mind.
So now I'm just enjoying seeing other people's reactions to it. Congratulations! Bravo! *Clap clap clap* 
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AnimeFan617
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I'd be very interested in hearing what others think of the English dub of Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0. I personally have mixed feelings on it as a whole. Apologies in advance if this somehow opens up a can of worms in the comments.
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penguintruth
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This is one of my problems with 3.0+1.0, actually. It's trying way too hard to be the capper on the franchise rather than the capper on the film series. In much the way Rise of Skywalker was obsessed with being THE final Star Wars movie rather than A final Star Wars movie. I'd rather them just have made it a more personal, smaller, and intimate conclusion without all the metafictional hullabaloo. A lot of this movie made little sense as a conclusion to the previous movies.
I thought it was decent. I'm normally not a fan of Tiffany Grant's Asuka, but I thought she actually did a phenomenal job, especially in the scene where Asuka's past is presented. |
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Marzan
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Great piece guys. It’s crazy how much Evangelion has touched so many of us over the years.
I don’t know, probably never will know objectively how good this is film is, considering there are so many feelings involved. There are many things Anno could have done differently no doubt, but at the end of the day this film gave so much closure and at the same time left so much open to our reading. Take a bow Anno. And I really hope they never offer you enough to make another one. |
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tintor2
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Something that felt motivation to me is that Gendo reenacted the events of The End of Evangelion where even Fuyutsuki becomes juice but the judgment is different. In the old movie, Kaworu and Rei (?) are the ones judging Gendo until he is eaten by the Evangelion. Here it's Shinji just accepting his father until Gendo kinda.... What splits him from the robot in Yui's cameo.
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dm
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That scene reminded distinctly of the end of 2001: A space odyssey, when Bowman "grows up" in the hotel room, finally confronting the monolith to emerge as the Star Child. Also, I'd like to give a shout out to concluding the credits with one more rendition of "Beautiful World". Having re-viewed all the Rebuild movies this past weekend before tackling Thrice upon a time, that song had just become the way to say good-bye to a Rebuild movie. |
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Covnam
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Overall I enjoyed the movie. I would have liked more info about details, but you can mostly put that aside and just enjoy the overall story for what it is.
Posted this in the other thread, but it seems more appropriate here since we're talking spoilers. So are there now multiple worlds/timelines that everyone is sent to, or did everything get reset for the world without Evas ("the real world") we see Shinji in at the end? It seems odd (for instance) to send Asuka to find happiness with Kensuke in the original world and then just undo that by resetting everything a few moments later (not to mention Tohji, Hikari and Tsubame among others living there)... I'd presume not, but then we see everyone at the train station (though those could be different versions). Just curious on people's thoughts... |
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TJ_Kat
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My understanding is that Asuka and Kensuke wasn't intended to be a romantic thing; that Kensuke is meant to be the parental father figure that Asuka always wanted. He's basically replacing Kaji in that role.
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eltodesukane
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"But being new to Neon Genesis Evangelion means you must've been living under a rock for the past idk, 26 years"
Well, I'm 8 years old. Sorry I never knew about Evangelion. |
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