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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.
Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Hepburn: Shinseiki Evangerion, lit. ' New Century Evangelion ' in Japanese and lit. ' New Beginning Gospel ' in Greek), also known as Evangelion or Eva, is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax, animated by Tatsunoko, and directed by Hideaki Anno.
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.
Once Shinji turns fourteen, Gendo calls him back to the city of Tokyo-3 to assume the role of Third Child, a pilot assigned to command Eva-01. Because of his abandonment, Shinji feels unwanted [ 62 ] and, according to Hideaki Anno, "abandoned the attempt to understand himself", convincing himself he is useless.
She served as the test subject for the Contact Experiment of Unit 01, but disappeared during testing. Though proclaimed dead, her soul lives on in Unit 01. In the manga, in addition to the presence of Yui's soul in Unit 01, the Eva's Angelic aspect has its own identity, depicted as the unarmored Eva.
14 years have passed since the end of the second film, Asuka and Mari are in charge of recovering the Tesseract in which Unit 01 is sealed, [186] [187] when they are intercepted by the self-defence system in charge of preventing anyone from recovering the Eva. [185] Back inside Unit 01, Shinji realizes that a lot has changed, he is now ...
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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]