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Nerv major Misato Katsuragi orders Asuka to be moved to Evangelion Unit 02 and placed at the bottom of a lake, then rescues Shinji from Self-Defense Force troops. Seele dispatches the Japanese Strategic Self-Defense Force to seize control of Nerv, killing most of the staff. Seele discovers Shinji's father Gendo Ikari intends to use Nerv, a paramilitary organization that deploys the Evangelion units, to create his version of the Third Impact to reunite with his deceased wife Yui, whose soul resides in Unit 01. Trying to shake her awake, he accidentally reveals her chest and masturbates in front of her, chastising himself afterward.Ī secretive committee called Seele has been planning to initiate an event called the Third Impact, which will wipe out life on Earth and achieve Human Instrumentality. Shinji is distraught over the death of his friend Kaworu Nagisa, who had revealed himself as an Angel in human form, and visits fellow pilot Asuka Langley Soryu in a hospital where she lies comatose. Teenager Shinji Ikari is the pilot of Evangelion Unit 01, one of several giant cyborgs that were designed to fight hostile supernatural entities called Angels. 4.2 Popular culture and autobiographical inspiration.4.1 Religion, philosophy and psychology.The End of Evangelion became a box-office success, grossed ¥2.47 billion, won awards including the 1997 Animage Anime Grand Prix, and was praised for its scenes of violence, direction, editing, emotional power, and script, though some reviewers criticized its oblique religious symbolism and abstraction. In 1998, the overlapping feature films were edited together and reissued as Revival of Evangelion. Like Death & Rebirth, the creators conceived The End of Evangelion as a duology comprising 'Episode 25: Love Is Destructive' and 'Episode 26: I Need You', remakes of the last two episodes of the original television series. Shortly before The End of Evangelion 's release, Hideaki Anno and Gainax studio produced a feature film called Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth that summarizes the first twenty-four episodes of the series. The film features the voice actors of the original series, including Megumi Ogata as Shinji, Yuko Miyamura as Asuka, and Megumi Hayashibara as Rei. Shinji ultimately accepts himself and rejects Instrumentality, preferring to live as an individual alongside others. Shinji is a young pilot of a mecha called Evangelion who is subjected to the Human Instrumentality Project, in which human souls are merged into a single, divine entity.

The story centers on Shinji Ikari and his colleagues Rei Ayanami and Asuka Langley Soryu.

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The film serves as a parallel ending to the anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which aired from 1995–1996 and ended with two episodes that became controversial. ' Neon Genesis Evangelion Theatrical Edition: Air/Sincerely Yours ') is a 1997 Japanese animated apocalyptic psychological drama film written by Hideaki Anno, co-directed by Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki, and animated by Gainax and Production I.G. The End of Evangelion ( Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版 Air/まごころを、君に, Hepburn: Shin Seiki Evangerion Gekijō-ban: Ea/Magokoro o, Kimi ni, lit.