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The design of the Evangelion was conceived and edited by Anno and Ikuto Yamashita, the official mecha designer of the series. [25] The director took inspiration from the demons of Japanese folklore, the oni, and wanted to give them a modern look that differed from other mecha, such as the Gundams of the Mobile Suit Gundam series, giving them a more human-demonic nature than strictly robotic.
Eva-01 notices Shinji's lunch, and Shinji offers it a piece. Eva-01 likes it and, in return, insists that Shinji eat one of the batteries from its lunch. To be polite, Shinji swallows the battery, but this encourages Eva-01 to then swap their lunch boxes entirely, and to continue to be polite, Shinji chokes down the rest of the batteries.
The MP Evangelions crucify Unit 01 with their Lance of Longinus replicas, and centering around the Rei/Lilith being, create an Anti-AT field which spreads over the entire world, reducing everyone to the primordial soup of LCL, merging into a single super-being as all souls merge. In a surreal sequence (in which Shinji imagines himself in ...
Anime News Network reviewer Mike Crandol noticed that Shinji depends on Unit-01 in the first part of the series, becoming negatively affected by the symbiotic relationship. Crandol described his entry into Eva-01 as a Freudian "return to the womb" and his struggle to be free of the Eva as his "rite of passage" into manhood. [185]
EVA Arcade Series: Coin Diver was a coin pusher-style game that played clips from the different films, similar to a Pachinko machine. EVA Arcade Series: Puzzle Buster, and its sequel EVA Arcade Series: Puzzle Buster: Break, were tile-matching games that simulated battles with angels from a first person perspective. Evangelion: Catharsis of the Soul
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Yoshinari took care of the battle scene, [28] trying to draw the shoulders and face of the Eva-01 using rulers. [29] The staff also made extensive use of close-ups during the episode. [30] During the battle, before Eva-01 berserk mode, the crew zoomed in on Shinji's face in close-up giving the idea of wide-angle lens, and deforming it with CG. [31]
For example, Kyoda proposed a scenario during Operation Yashima in which the Eva-00 and Eva-01 join forces to hit Ramiel, like Kyodai Ken Byclosser, but the result was found to be too unrealistic. Ultimately, the staff watched DVDs of Neon Genesis Evangelion to recover the spirit of the original series and not stray too far from the plot.