Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni
Tags: psychological, cult, violence, horror, insanity, psychedelic, action, philosophical

Plot synopsis:
In 2015, fifteen years after a global cataclysm known as the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari is summoned to the futuristic city of Tokyo-3 by his estranged father Gendo Ikari, the director of the special paramilitary force Nerv. Shinji witnesses the United Nations forces battling an Angel: one of a race of giant monstrous beings whose awakening was foretold by the Dead Sea Scrolls. Because of the Angels' near-impenetrable force-fields, Nerv's giant Evangelion bio-machines, synchronized to the nervous systems of their pilots and possessing their own force-fields, are the only weapons capable of keeping the Angels from annihilating humanity. Nerv officer Misato Katsuragi escorts Shinji into the Nerv complex beneath the city, where his father pressures him into piloting the Evangelion Unit-01 against the Angel. Without training, Shinji is quickly overwhelmed in the battle, causing the Evangelion to go berserk and savagely kill the Angel on its own.
Following hospitalization, Shinji moves in with Misato and begins settling into life in Tokyo-3. In his second battle, Shinji destroys an Angel but runs away after the battle, distraught. Misato confronts Shinji and he decides to remain a pilot. Evangelion Unit-00 is repaired and Shinji tries to befriend its pilot, a mysterious, and socially isolated teenage girl named Rei Ayanami. With Rei's help, Shinji defeats another Angel. The pilot of Evangelion Unit-02, teenage girl Asuka Langley Soryu, loses her self-confidence following her defeat, and spirals into a deep depression. This is worsened by her next fight, against an Angel which attacks her mind. In the next battle, Rei self-destructs Unit-00 and dies to save Shinji's life. Misato and Shinji later visit the hospital where they find Rei alive but claiming she is "the third Rei". Misato forces Ritsuko to reveal the dark secrets of Nerv, the Evangelion boneyard and the Dummy Plug system which operates using clones of Rei.
Asuka is reduced to a catatonic state by her depression, and Kaworu Nagisa replaces her as pilot of Unit-02. Kaworu, who initially befriends Shinji, is revealed to be the final Angel. Kaworu fights Shinji, then realizes that he must die if humanity is to thrive and asks Shinji to kill him. Despite his initial hesitation, Shinji kills Kaworu. Soon after this act, Nerv and SEELE trigger the forced evolution of humanity, termed the "Human Instrumentality Project", in which the souls of all mankind are merged into one through Rei. Shinji's soul grapples with the reason for his existence and reaches an epiphany that he needs others to thrive, enabling him to destroy the wall of negative emotions that torment him. This allows him to be reunited with all of the main characters, who congratulate him.

Review: These scenes, however, serve to underscore the themes of the movie for the most part.The animation is excellent and the music is great (and features a number of nice works by Bach) and the symbolism is truly rich and elaborate, involving many elements of Christianity and Judaism as the entire series is sort of a take on the Apocalypse.
End of Evangelion tells the same story that episodes 25 and 26 but in the way the creators of the series originally wanted it.
And even if one has seen the series they still might not get all of this, but that's the beauty of Anno's masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion.
This shows a much more dramatic and extended version of Episodes 25 and 26 however, and answers a lot of the questions that were left at the end of the series and does a great job generating new ones.
I think this film is a treat for all viewers and is one of the best anime movies i have ever seen.
Being a fan of both Evangelion and Anime in general, this movie was the best I've ever seen.
This is the official ending for the saga, meaning the last two episodes weren't after the mass disappointment from many of the fans of the NEON GENESIS EVANGELION TV series.
It was also really sad (for the EVANGELION fans that is) to see a lot of the characters who we got know and care for a long time in the TV series, see them for the last time on the screen.This film can really make you ask questions to yourself like 'will we be reborn after we die?', 'would everything be better if humanity ended and then reborn?', 'is destruction really a bad thing?' etc.NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: THE END OF EVANGELION is without a doubt, the deepest film I've ever seen and probably ever will see and thankfully there is not going to be a sequel to this film, and that's the way it should be.Thank you so much Hideaki Anno for giving us the proper end to this awesome saga..
Having had mixed feelings about the Neon Evangelion series, which became increasingly perplexing and offered nothing like a real ending, I should have just let it go.
There is also never an explanation to how Shinji has the significance he has in the end, although the idea of the Destined One is so powerful that even though he's never described that way I imagine people will take it for that.The movie is basically set up as the final two episodes of the series.
But in the first half of the movie there is mainly action and little psychology or character development.The second half basically does exactly what the final two, famously unsatisfying episodes of the series did; it goes into Shinji's head and talks about his fears.
In short: if you didn't like the last 2 episodes of the series, End of Evangelion has that same stuff and then some.
The film also has a very unique atmosphere of strangeness and bottomless desperation.Much like the series, I admire the concept of End of Evangelion.
I know its one of the major points of the series, Shinji is a normal' boy with severe emotional problems, but I after watching Death and Rebirth all I wanted to do was trap his head in a vice and thrash it with a golf club.
Everyone has a film or television show they've seen which causes for them to curse at the screen, wishing that they could rank their favorite of films something higher than a ten, because it has such a godliness to it which makes it far greater than anything believable by man!'Neon Genesis Evangelion' (my respect for that name and it's franchise dose not change that it is a real mouthful); it is my favorite anime, and it is the only film and series where that all applies to me.
In a brief review of 'Akira' I had posted some time ago (under the different user name of Real77), I had written how I consider 'End of Evangelion' and 'Ghost in the Shell (the film)' the greatest of anime films; 'End of Eva' is my favorite of animated films, and that the movie has such a small rating (currently) on IMDb astounds me, though, I understand that, because anime is still obscure enough that such a movie like THIS can be overlooked, animated films (which are not 'End of Eva') from the United States (particularly) which are targeted for children and which will continue making the mainstream idea of animation something targeted towards children, will be the films with the better rankings.
As the title of my comment reads, the franchise is a psychodrama, where the central conflict of the story is about why Shinji pilots the Evangelion and not really about if he can pilot the thing or if he can defeat the Angels; the film's central conflict is of Shinji trying to understand what makes him happy and by what means he can achieve happiness.The artwork in the show was never amazing, though the film has a nice detail to it's art that the series lacked, because of budget-cuts.
The score is fits well with everything going on about in the film ('Komm Susser Todd' is the most depressing and yet hopeful song I've heard in a long while) and the adding of classical pieces is a nice touch also.That this film has such a small ranking really amaze me, but you can change that members of IMDb. Watch the series and this film...please...because few films have had such an fullness and effect upon me as this movie.
Symbolism, great plot and memorable scenes make The end of Evangelion the best movie based on a TV series.
Let's talk about the Movie, It starts off when Shinji is emotionally stressed to help Asuka, but he ends up Masturbating when he was F*cked Up. No wonder about how they put effort with a huge studio in the 90's, If you like this Anime Series as a fan of myself, I recommend you to buy some of the DVD, and Blu-ray products on Amazon, or you can Torrent it legally, but they don't have episodes or movies in streaming services like: VRV, Hulu, Crunchyroll, and Amazon Video.
The plot was about Destroying NERV Headquarters, and Shinji wasn't brave due to his Medication problems, Asuka try's to kill the Eva Series, but she ends up dying when her eyes was sliced apart, and his arm two.
so that was my thoughts of "End of Evangelion" whether you were both depressed or feeling better.This Anime deserves positive reviewsAnimation 10/10Art 10/10Background 8.82/10Plot 8.97/10Story 9.04/10Characters 7.91/10Sound 9.21/10Enjoyment 8.40/10Overall 9.43/10Was it worth your time, or money to watch this series?
If you don't like the classic Evangelion Series filled with Depressed endings and Broken Heart scenes, I recommend you to watch the Rebuild Films or read the Manga with 14 volumes..
This film is absolutely wonderful, but I have to insist that you see the 26 episode Neon Genesis Evangelion series first.
Direct Quote"This show is about your questions and your answers so go find the meaning its whatever you think it is."The show idea was lost to me and for 26 episodes and two movies its too much for the average Anime fan to understand if you need to see go see it!
"Evangelion" was one of the best animated shows ever made, showing that the giant robot genre could be more than big machines fighting each other...Well, part of the series has those elements of shows as "Mazinger Z", but later in the series it grows into something more mature and complex, and more psychological and darker as well."The End of Evangelion" offers the same good elements of the original show, but it goes beyond the limits of the original series, something that makes this film a unique and disturbing (but good) experience.The animation was quite good.The visual mastery of the production is perfect!
they aren't real "anime" almost, even if this movie is intended as a replacement for the last two), yet the figure of Shinji gets thrown down even deeper in the chasm of depression, you can almost feel hatred for him during some sequences, you may even yell "C'mon move you spineless paranoyd!" to the screen.Misteries shown in the series unravel partially as you go on with the movie, good and bad things happen, yet this is a real surprise to discover.Sure, you need to watch it if you saw the whole series, you'd miss something oherwise.
It's the only real "movie" of NG Evangelion, since the other two, "Death & Rebirth" and "Revival" add nothing new to series + EOE.The ending is in the Anno style: you may understand something, yet if you understood something else, it would be ok, since he didn't intend ONE meaning, just wanted to trouble your mind with endless possibilities of unraveling the plot.Gave it a 7, after all it left me a better memory of the series than what it would have been if I was left with the 25 and 26 eps..
I did not watch the original 26 episodes series but I watched in these days all Evangelion films, because of the high ratings: Death and Rebirth (a recompilation of the original series), The End (a rewriting of the End of the series, still considered one of the best Anime ever), and then the last three, 1 and 2 which reboot the series apparently without mayor changes, and 3 which goes in new territories.
Although I will not spoil the film itself.The final instalment of the now notorious Evangelion saga goes way to overboard...Firstly I just wanted to make this clear, I loved the series and quite controversially it's original ending.
The alternate ending, which most speculate is the real ending is astonishing, and great, though it did leave room for more questions to be answered, and it seemed to be more on the psychological side of the story and goes very deep to that in the middle of it towards the very end, it did have good action in the beginning and a lot of gore, blood and violence, but I have to admit the middle part was interesting but there was little character development, and some scenes were unnecessary, I mean what was the relevance of the live action sequences and scenes which looked like letters?
I know a lot of people didn't like the way the series ended, but I think it was okay, though someone told me that this is the real ending, and the last episode is more of an epilogue, not a climax, so I must this is a very promising film for the fans..
{By the way, it is impossible to understand/enjoy this film without first watching the complete series; Death and Rebirth is barely a substitute, as it omits much and can be confusing at times} Personally, the thing that attracted me to anime was the genre's ability to mix the highly entertaining (in this case, giant robot fighting) with larger philosophical issues (the meanings of happiness, reality, and trust to name a few).
The second half gives us more incite into Shinji as a character, although episode 26 did a better job of explaining the process of instrumentality.The greatest part of this movie is the way it layers itself.
If you focus on Shinji as a character, you can see how the ending is a success (although not in the explicit way that the series ending showed).The best way to enjoy this film is to come into it with an open mind.
The End of Evangelion is a film following the conclusion of episode 24 of Neon Genesis Evangelion the TV series.
It was a bit awkward with its execution and wasn't really like the previous episodes making them highly unwanted among the community and also to the director, so Anno decided to finish the series with this film instead.This movie is truly a masterpiece in anime.
I recommend watching the entire series before coming to this movie (including the series' episodes 25 and 26).The Best Things about this Film is:
Seeing that you're on this IMDb page, you have likely either already seen this film or have just found out about it through its relation with the anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
I and many others feel that even though the events appear completely different, the characters arrive at the same point as the show's ending.Of course, if you disliked NGE, then I would not recommend this film; it's not going to change your opinion in the slightest.
I admit the first time i saw it I was confused and disappointed I had not seen the original series, but when i saw it on adult swim it helped me to understand why it ended the way it did, if you are into happier endings EOE is not for you.
Let me explain some scenes which I found to be a great contribution to its symbolism, When Rei fuses with the Lilith, it seems like a random act that would give you that type of random result but its a sort of reference, in the bible angels who would impregnate mortal women would give birth to giants, now Rei was not given birth to but grew to a immense size because of her fusion with an angel(which also means a being superior to man), another is when Shinji was held in place by the Eva series, the symbol that they create is supposed to be the tree of life, which in Genesis Adam and Eve did not take a bite of its fruit, by doing so man becomes god sense we already taken a bite of the tree of wisdoms fruit.
The movie kicks off straight where episode 24 left off, as this is the alternate ending to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series.
Comparing the original episodes 25/26 to this movie, I must say that Anno made a wise decision to give the fans what they wanted and create this alternate ending.
Setting away the psychological ending seen in the series, that's exactly what you can hope to see in this movie, a real Evangelion ending.Finally, all the events seen in the series reach their most important point, with each of the characters having to face their own wars, this movie actually manages to keep the viewer watching the whole time.While most of the sequences are a lot more graphical and violent than older generation parents may be wanting their kids to see, they turn out being completely justified and fitting to the plot.In case you liked the series, you must see both of the movies in order to (finally) understand whole the plot.
HOWEVER (!!!) I would not recommend watching this film unless you have seen the entire series of "Neon Genesis Evangelion"..
I loved this movie to death,I also think there's no better ending to the series than this one.
If you like anime with a lot of substance,definitely check it out.Any other anime movies or series that try to emulate what Evnagelion has done has never been up to snuff,in my opinion,Neon Genesis Evangelion and its movies are the final words on the "ginat robot" genre.
i saw this series.nothing in my LIFE ever changed the way i looked at the world(relationships,people,the planet,god)until,i saw...neon genesis evangelion.
This was his way of just shaking them off.I watched the complete series and this and the last movie in an EVA marathon, and I was so emotionally drained by the end I didn't know where up was.
First things first -Do Not watch this movie without at least seeing evangelion:Death and Rebirth (or better still the TV series itself)- Evangelion:The End of Evangelion is the cinematic finale to the outstanding TV series.With great character development, fantastic, brutal and touching action scenes, EoE is a must for fans of the series.The ending is probably one of the most fantastic ever animated, though it never gives you all the answers, it definitely ensures that it will stick in your mind for a very long time to come.
Although there have been multiple stories as to why this movie was made, the most common was that Hideaki Anno received many, many death threats from angry fans frustrated about the original series' ending (as it was very confusing).
However, having seen this movie a few times now, at its core, it is actually carries the same life-affirming message as the end of the series.
However, both the series and this movie should be watched, as both will REALLY make you think deep thoughts about things like the meaning of life..
This movie is a perfect ending to the series Evangelion.
This is not a happy film, and there is no real hope, or concrete evolution of character, as was seen in the original series ending.
My opinion however is that the movie ends good (The humanrace survives and only 2 main characters die (which is pretty normal in action anime/manga) and the usual lovecouple is made).
Nor good.The only things I liked about this movie was the animation and the fight scenes.So overall, if you're a fan of the series, it's worth watching.
I must say that I am a great fan of the Neon Genesis Evangelion's series, it is the only anime that I really get addicted through times.
If only the ending was as cheerful as many of the earlier episodes in the series so that everyone can enjoy it.Personally I would like to say shame on you Mr Anno, its no wonder you received death threats..
Important previous aclaration: you MUST see Evangelion's serie before see this movie."The End of Evangelion" is more than a very good animation film.
b/c Anno is a genius.I actually liked the ending to the series more than the one in EoE.