Ritsuko, NERV’s head scientist, also suffered from her relationship with her mother, watching her self-destructing due to her relationship to a man, with her eventually making the exact same mistake. In that regard, Misato, chief operations officer at NERV and the one in charge of the teenager-pilots, seems to long to be a mother, eventually taking them in her house and in general, acting as one in her interactions with them, while her relationship with Ryoji, a shadowy character who works as the chief inspection officer for NERV, is both Oedipean but also highlights the fact that she is still a little girl inside, since she never managed to experience her own childhood. In that fashion, Shinji emerges as the central figure in the story, but the focus and the analysis of the rest of the characters is also rather deep, moving much beyond their interactions with him, while eventually, the issues they all face seem to derive from their traumatic parental circumstances, in the element that actually connects them in the most ingenious fashion. In the process, they are called upon to understand the ultimate causes of events and the motives for human action.ĭespite the cliched beginning, with the school boy that becomes a hero against his will, “Evangelion” is actually one of the richest, contextually, titles ever to appear in the anime industry, with the beginning even, hinting at how special it is, both through the montage that actually presents the initial battle as a flashback, and through Shinji’s psychology, as dictated by the strained relationship with his estranged father, and his empathy for the injured Rei, which his father seems to exploit in the most despicable way to convince him to do his deed.
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The series explores the experiences and emotions of Evangelion pilots and members of Nerv as they try to prevent Angels from causing more cataclysms. The protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy who was recruited by his father Gendo to the shadowy organization Nerv to pilot a giant bio-machine mecha named “Evangelion” into combat against beings called “Angels”. Buy ThisTitleįor those who do not know of the main story yet, (shame on you btw) “Evangelion” is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm, particularly in the futuristic fortified city of Tokyo-3. The thoughts included in the following review have resulted from the fourth viewing (of the whole series, the first four episodes I must have seen more than 50 times), which occurred a few days ago, as the anime is now streaming on Netflix. It would take some years before I managed to acquire the whole series (in DVD this time) and a third viewing to truly realize the depth and the overall quality of this magnificent title. And that was it, just from the first episode, my mind was completely blown, even though, as I understood much later on, I did not fathom even half the comments Anno was making in his series. Back in 1998, if I remember correctly, I borrowed the credit card from the father of a classmate, in order to buy from Amazon the VHS of Evangelion (just the first 4 episodes btw), a title which has caught my attention through an article in a video game magazine (yes, there was a time when people watched VHS and read magazines). Allow me to start with a very personal comment.
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