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[94] [95] Mariana Ortega linked Yui Ikari to the Sophia of Gnosticism because of "her intellectual brilliance, maternal wisdom", and status as one of the founding members of Nerv. [96] According to Ortega, the scene showing Yui with the child Shinji on the shore of Lake Ashi depicts her as a "benign Madonna". [97]
Shinji Ikari (Japanese: 碇 シンジ, Hepburn: Ikari Shinji) is a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise created by Gainax. He is the franchise's poster boy and protagonist. In the anime series of the same name, Shinji is a boy abandoned by his estranged father, Gendo, after the mysterious death of Shinji's mother, Yui.
The scene in which Shinji meets Rei Ayanami for the first time also ranked sixteenth in a survey by TV Asahi about the best anime scenes. [74] At the 2006 Tokyo International Anime Fair , anime fans voted the first two Evangelion episodes as the anime they would most like to see again.
Meanwhile, Shinji's consciousness goes on an introspective odyssey while merged with Unit 01 in which he comes into contact with the soul of his mother, Yui Ikari. After speaking with Yui, Shinji is "reborn" from Unit 01's exposed core. Later that evening, Misato and Kaji resume their love affair.
In the hospital scene, where Shinji stands alone in an empty corridor, contrasts of light and shadow were used, keeping the scene monochromatic, to represent Shinji's inner emptiness. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Furthermore, the main staff used real brands in "The Beast" scenes to depict a realistic fictional world, [ 36 ] including a Mitsubishi Fuso truck ...
The episode's protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy who is recruited by his father Gendo into the organization Nerv to pilot a giant bio-machine mecha named Evangelion to combat certain beings called Angels. In the episode, Shinji tries, but fails, to connect with Rei Ayanami, a fellow pilot, who is close to his distant and cold father Gendo.
"The Day Tokyo-3 Stood Still" [a] is the eleventh episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. The episode, written by Hideaki Anno and Yoji Enokido and directed by Tetsuya Watanabe, was first broadcast on TV Tokyo on December 13, 1995.
Rei overlays Shinji's and Gendo's faces and smiles, [63] and it is not clear if she is able to understand Shinji's feelings in the scene. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] For critic Manabu Tsuribe, the show reaches its climax at the smile scene, and "as a story of 'growth and independence of a boy'—like a Bildungsroman —ended there once.