“I just wanna know if my father would ever like meīut I don’t give a fuck, so he’s probably just like me.” With all of that, he still has to face his own shadow, his father – Gendo Ikari, director of NERV. He hates himself for always running away and for letting people walk all over him. Every time he makes a stand, life, or a 75-foot tall creature, knocks him back to sobering reality. Both by design and from his own ‘hedgehog’s dilemma,” Shinji always loses what he loves once he chooses to actually accept love. Shinji, however, does adapt and even begins to make meaningful friendships. Both as a reflection of her own sadness and Shinji’s indecisiveness, Asuka literally beats and berates Shinji for what she perceives as weakness. The bulk of his abuse comes from his NERV teammate, classmate, and coquettish tease Asuka Langley. For the better of the series, Shinji takes a lot of abuse, some deserved, but more often than not, he is bullied and succumbs to pressure. The award for the lowest self-esteem ever goes to Shinji Ikari. Far from perfect, they found community in adversity. For them…for us…Shinji Ikari, pilot of Evangelion Unit 01 in Hideaki Anno’s “Neon Genesis Evangelion” may as well be our High School mascot. The freaks fended for themselves, finding kindred spirits amongst the fanboys/girls, otaku, and gamers. Arguably, up until the past decade, geekdom was still fringe culture. Then there are the rest of us – disinterested, uninvited, or often obstructed from the Generation X/Y/Z Saved by the Bell, Boy Meets World, Degrassi high school tropes.
They attend every five, ten, twenty, and fifty-year reunion function, every class meeting, every cookout. ”Īmongst us walk people who, believe it or not, had the best time of their lives in high school and during their teenage years. If you choose to enter from there, you will discover so much more… Through the exploration of these issues, the show begins to question reality and the existences therein. While the initial episodes focus largely on religious symbols and specific references to the Bible, the later episodes tend to go deeper into the psyches of the characters, where it is learned that many of them have deep seated emotional and mental issues. They are piloted by several of the main characters, including Shinji Ikari, Asuka Sohryu, and Rei Ayanami.
” – the Evangelion series revolves around the organization NERV, using large mechas called Evangelions to combat monstrous beings called Angels.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) is the esoteric laced, adolescent pscyhodrama and coming of age story that Ingmar Bergman would have made with Alejandro Jordowosky in an alternate reality where they were born as Japanese twins in 2099. Fortunately, Hideaki Anno crafted this series in the early 1990’s as a Mecha series with heart and soul, basing much of it on his own struggles with clinical depression.įor the uninitiated, Wikia Evangelion Fandom provides –
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