This theatrical version puts an end to the EVA series

The theatrical version of "The End of EVA" has not officially met with domestic audiences, and the rumors after it was screened on the Japanese theater have radiated to the domestic ACGN circle.

"The ruffian takes the private goods and puts Asuka with Kensuke", "Ayanami goes to the mountains and goes to the countryside to experience labor", "Mashiba successfully soaks in the girlfriend's son"...

I haven't seen this theatrical version officially Before, this movie version gave me the impression that it was a mess of red lines.

However, after I "completed" this theatrical version and watched it from beginning to end, the split and reorganization of these cps is completely unimportant in my opinion.

"The End" is a veritable animated film. From the story, it puts an end to the "EVA New Theater Edition" series.

At the same time, it is also like Anno Hideaki , a complete farewell to the "EVA" series.

The story of "The End" is very simple, and there is not even much to spoiler. It is probably to shoot all the developments you can think of.

After the third impact, Heili, Asuka, and Shinji were rescued by Kensuke and brought back to the village.

This village is the settlement of survivors after the impact. Their classmates also had a few familiar faces here, but they have all grown up, and only these three drivers are still young.

Shinji has been autistic at first,He has already backfired twice and caused shocks. He clearly wanted to protect and save, but he always got the opposite result.

But after Asuka's spur, Kensuke's company, and Heili's death confession, once again stood up and decided to return to Misato with Asuka.

Although life in Taoyuan Township is carefree, he no longer wants to evade responsibility.

They are going to stop Ikogendo, which is trying to cause the fourth shock, and for this, they must completely seal the 13th machine.

And this important task, of course, finally fell on Shinji's shoulders, he once again sat on the first machine , and Ikujigendō, who was driving the 13th machine, came to the father-son game.

The two first stabbed each other with the guns, then put down their weapons to talk to each other, and finally understood each other. The first unit carrying Yui and the 13th unit carrying Ikogendo embraced destruction.

After that, Shinji completed the "finishing" and he told Aya Hari that she could live without order.

As Asuka wanted, he patted her on the head and told her that she was already great (although this was done in the image of Kensuke, it was obviously arranged by Shinji).

He and Nagisa Kaoru also complained to each other in a place full of memories of the two of them.

Finally,He himself woke up in a station. On the opposite platform, Nagisa Kaoru and Ayanori were waiting for the bus. Asuka sat on a bench alone, playing with a game console.

Real Hippo suddenly appeared in front of him. After flirting with him naturally, he took off the collar around his neck—the explosive device used to restrain the EVA driver.

She took Shinji's hand and ran together, the scene gradually pulled up and farther, the animation scene also seamlessly switched to real photography, they successfully came to a "no EVA" world.

The first thing that impressed me in "The End" is Hideaki Anno's "selective swing" .

The first half of "The End" is very expensive. The opening EVA battle model scene makes people feel addicted. Ms. True Hippo’s No. 8 machine is fully operated, and the man-made apostles are killing them. .

Miss Miri’s miracle battleship directly used the floating battleship like Yamato as dragoons. This is the first time I have seen this formation.

The daily routine in the middle is even more full of funds. Just take a screenshot and let the audience call "Ah, this light, this water".

The ruffian is so hard,Just to show the audience a picture full of life: planting rice seedlings, going to the river to wash clothes, raising chickens, raising children...

Contaminated with qi, walked into this world.

The first half of the budget is so sufficient, when it comes to the decisive part, I suddenly dream of "Leap to the Peak", and even the unprocessed line drafts are unabashedly moved out.

The normal painting part is also slightly perfunctory. The father-son game of the first machine and the thirteenth machine has no decisive battle at all.

The play of these two people reminds me of "Kamen Rider". They stabbed each other with guns and can seamlessly switch to another scene by breaking a wall.

is not only a "selective display" in terms of funding, but also a "selective display" in character creation.

The first half of describes the process of Heili's regaining her humanity very delicately. At the beginning, she was still the three-nothing, but she learned the meaning of various words from the monitor, Dongzhi and the villagers.

"Thank you", "Like", "Goodbye"...the unfamiliar words gradually activated the lurking circuits in her brain.

Finally, when she found that her body was unable to support, she quietly left the Dongzhi family and cleaned up her room before leaving.

She came to Shinji’s side,I confessed seriously, got the name from the person she loved most, and left without regret.

I have to say, Hei Li's exit is really silly.

But when I was able to shape the source hall in the second half, I was shocked.

Although the EVA audience can probably guess it, , this old man planned N times of shocks, and made all mankind into orange juice to meet his wife again.

However, the ruffian threw this fact directly on the faces of the audience, and still used the simplest and rude way of Ikogendo's self-reporting.

The commander’s mystery maintenance is also revealed in his underpants: He is a social horror scholar, and he is unwilling to build bonds with others.

After encountering Wei, his psychological problems were self-defeating under the nourishment of love. After losing Wei, his psychological problems came back again.

So he climbed to the highest level of nerv by any means, just to meet Yui again.

I really don’t believe it,The ruffian will still be short of funds today like it did in "Leap to the Peak".

Therefore, I think that the ruffian’s "selective ostentation" is more like a way for him to convey "priority and subordination" to the audience.

The unsatisfied part is what he wants to convey to the audience, and the unsatisfied part is that he just wants to "complete the task".

To be honest, the content of "The End" has been hidden for so many years. The audience knows that Shinji will grow up and one day he will actually sit on the EVA and perform miracles.

Everyone knows what the essence of Ikogentang is. The supernatural existence of EVA will eventually dissolve.

In that case, the ruffian doesn't bother to waste his tongue on things that everyone "knows".

And the unexpected part of "The End", of course, will belong to the random cp line and the first half of the plot of "going up to the mountains and going to the countryside".

It was because of its unexpectedness that the ruffian changed his attitude of showing up and told the audience seriously these stories.

What the ruffian wants to convey to the audience through this part, in the final analysis, is to give up naivety and bid farewell to EVA.

If we talk about this, there are two images, one is Shinji’s Walkman.The other is the humanoid decisive weapon EVA.

Shinji’s Walkman was passed down from his father, and it was one of the few loves his father had ever given him.

Of course, is also the "self-closing artifact" of the same origin.

Putting on headphones isolates oneself from the world and refuses to interact with other people.

This Walkman is the AT force field of the two of them. It is the scars carved by the bereaved wife and mother in their hearts.

At the same time, it can also be understood as an escape from reality: refusing to connect with others, and further speaking, refusing to integrate into society.

To live melancholy and lonely is one of the privileges of the student days. As long as you become a social person, you have to interact with others intensively.

In "The End", when Shinji first started autism, Asuka beats and scolds him again. This is how lovers care about him- was scolded by her lover. , It's time to stand up.

and Heili just stayed by his side silently, and gave him the Walkman. This is the mother’s way. If you want to be autistic, just be autistic.Mom is always by your side.

Shinji Ikura finally returned the Walkman to his father. In fact, he was saying that he would no longer be autistic, and he would take responsibility and "make up" other people.

The melancholy and innocent boy has passed away. Standing here is a man who is more determined than his father.

EVA is also a symbol of "juvenile innocence". This powerful weapon gives young girls the ability to change the world.

Although, they sit on EVA, perhaps not out of their instincts, and even make them suffer.

But this super weapon is a very world-based setting, which can magnify the worries and worries of adolescence of teenagers and girls to the survival of the entire world.

From the age of their classmates, you can also see Anno's intentions. In "The End", only the driver trio maintains the appearance of middle school students for various reasons.

Their classmates have grown up and become reliable adults.

One of the themes of "The End" is to let the three of them bid farewell to their youths and grow into adults.

As for the demolition of CP, which is criticized by many CP parties,In my opinion, it is also part of the "farewell to innocence".

Ayanami is an ignorant first love and a mother. Asuka is Shinji's first woman to like besides "mother".

But the two of them are actually girls who need Shinji’s help to "make up", And the one who "completes" Shinji in the end is a promise that he will never give up his Shinji.

It should be noted that Shiba Asuka in the new theater version and Asuka in TV, I tend to think that these are two completely different roles.

TV version Asuka is more independent and stronger than the new theater version Asuka. She can block the mass production machine for Shinji, and she can also fill the vacancy in Shinji's heart.

The role of old Asuka in the new theater version is more like being dismantled into new Asuka and Mashiba. The former inherits its arrogant and the latter inherits its strength.

Moreover, I don’t fully agree with the ruffian’s choice of this ending, but I think it’s understandable after reading it.

Is the ending of "Lelouch" better for audiences, or is it better for creators to express themselves like "The End".

This answer varies from person to person, and I fully understand the consternation and incomprehension of some viewers.

personally,This ending is also regrettable.

Although Shinji "filled up" Asuka's spirit, he still did not have time to save Asuka's body.

The second machine was destroyed in front of him again, He still failed to make up for the regret in the old theater version.

Just once, how I wish to see Shinji appear in time to save Asuka, so as to solve the difficulty of watching "For You".

At the end of "The End", Shinji also woke up at the station, just as he walked into the world of EVA at a station .

Real Hippo took off his collar, erased his last touch with EVA, then took his hand, and gradually ran from the station of the second dimension into our world, a world without EVA.

Shinji has already said goodbye to everything about EVA. It is time for us viewers to say goodbye, say goodbye to the naivety of the past, embrace responsibility, and embrace the future.

This may be the words Anno Hideaki on the other side of the screen, I want to shout out to the audience.