Why Evangelion's Endings Make Each Other Better

Great video. I really appreciate you not doing what 99% of eva videos do and get stuck unable to talk about the actual story to get lost in "well the director was depressed and so we dont really know what it means".

The true ending of Evangelion is the friends we made along the way

Evangelion is probably the most life-affirming anime I've ever seen.

My reading of the story always was that ep. 25 & 26 happend during istrumetality in shinjis mind, and that when he chooses agianst instrumetality we see everybody congratulating him because that is what he sees in his mind, right before waking up on the beach next to asuka. Back in reality

I always assumed that the ending of the series is more like what shinji was imagining, like what was going on in his head during the third impact. while EoE is what ACTUALLY happened, it kind of makes sense why the series felt like a happy ending, in his mind he thought that rejecting the impact would be a good thing, a thing that will make him happy and bring everyone that he wants back. but the movie ending is what actually happened in reality, thats just my thought though could be completly wrong

Damn dude I just watched Eva a few days ago I’m unsure if I wanna watch the rebuilt films as I feel the original shows conclusion was perfect as it is and I feel this puts my thoughts put together perfectly looking forward to your future videos and career man the anime YouTuber scene has just seen a promising new creator!

This analysis really put into perspective why I "enjoy" rewatching both the original series and the film. It is a constant reminder of the difficult yet, correct decision; whenever it is necessary to heed it. Nihilism gets you nowhere, except rock bottom. Confronting your fears at least gives you that chance to go up.

How in the pantheon of Eva analysis have you managed to find a take this fresh? I've always been so fixated on the metacommentary of EoE that I never thought to look at its story separate from that context. This also reminds me somewhat of the endings of Madoka Magica and its movie, Rebellion.

cant stop watching eva videos this post eva depression hits different

always impressive how you keep making sick videos on topics and media that’s already well covered but you still manage a take that’s not always explicitly expressed but i’ve so far already found i agreed w myself

1:23, this is actually a myth. Eva did not run out of money at any point, it was actually quite high budget for the time. The issue was more poor planning and other behind the scenes messes that caused them to run out of time for what Anno wanted. 4:35, I also disagree with your reading here. Imo, it's clear that Shinji has been on the beach for quite a while, just look at how he's nailed misatos cross to a wooden peg and that the cross has a small ammount of rust. I see his strangling Asuka not as a rejection of others, but rather as a Conformation of them. After all the shit he's been through, Shinji is doesn't really know if what he's seeing us real. Is this actually Asuka? Or is it another figment of the sea of LCL? Out of his mind and desperate to find some way of knowing if she is real, Shinji strangles her again, trying to make her hurt and reject him so that she knows she's really there. Instead, Asuka responds by showing tenderness to him. At this, Shinji both knows she is real, and at the same time the horror of what he was doing truly sets in, and then he breaks down. Asukas is then a Conformation that while she is willing to show him kindness, she hasn't forgotten his mistakes and hasn't forgiven him.

Shinji's head during the ending: "Yes.....o....oh...oh fuck....no."

I like interpretation that all of the Evangelion endings are canon and are the result of, as Anno says, Evangelion repeating itself. And it took potentially many more unseen endings for Shinji to have a "final" ending as seen in Rebuild.

crazy how watching this give makes me feel mad jealous and furios of how real are characters and every consequences can happen i love evangelion..

Really beautifully written video. Each ending is a half truth and they come together to form the whole. But even with the whole truth there are so many unknowns that can only be understood with time. I originally thought the difference between these endings was that they showed each of the possible outcomes of Shinji’s decision of whether to carry on through the pain or to regress further within himself, but watching this video has helped me realize they show the same outcome. I assumed that making the “right” choice, to choose love in spite of the promise of pain, was all blue skies and congratulations. But the whole truth is that it can also be the bleak, desolate landscape of giving into hatred and being rejected for it. But not always. Sometimes it’s one, and sometimes it’s the other. You take the good with the bad. Believing things will be all good from here on because you chose love is naive, because life isn’t that simple. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth making that choice.

This is the take. I couldn’t articulate what I thought after watching both endings. But this is definitely one way to put together that jumbled cluster of thoughts this story put in my head. Great review

Another great vid, now you got me wanting to rewatch Eva. (I've only watched it once about 10 years ago.) I always thought the end of the series and the end of... erm, End of Evangelion, were concurrent in some way. This is a really neat reading of the two.

how does this has so few views and likes? it's easily one of the best EVA videos I've seen, I could never have thought of this relation between the endings. Keep up the amazing work!

Just letting you know this is now one of my favorite videos about Evangelion ever, Amazing Writing.

One of my favorite Eva videos. I come back to it every once in a while.