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"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. The series is set fifteen years after a worldwide ...
Megumi Ogata (緒方 恵美, Ogata Megumi, born June 6, 1965) is a Japanese actress and singer from the Greater Tokyo Area. [1] As a singer, she goes by the name em:óu.She attended Tokai University, but left because of her lack of interest.
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 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.
British band Fightstar published a song named "Shinji Ikari", which contains the line "I grow old after one shot", which Japanese website Anibu described as a possible reference to "Rei II". [133] The Nippon Professional Baseball team Hanshin Tigers used the OST "Decisive Battle" during the matches after Operation Yashima, a choice that ...
The episode's Japanese title "Life and Death Decisions" suggests Gendo and Shinji come to different conclusions, [84] and Shinji must decide whether to kill or be killed. [85] According to critic Kenneth Lee, Toji helps Rei realize she has a purpose during the scene in which Toji confronts her on the rooftop of Tokyo-3 school. [ 86 ]
[22] [23] Maeda also worked on Israfel's design. [24] Shinji Higuchi drew the storyboard for the episode. Hasegawa took care of the scene in which Shinji tries to kiss Asuka, [25] while Ogura Nobutoshi drew the scene of Shinji and Asuka's final phone call. [26] The first battle between the Evangelions and Israfel was done by Fumitomo Kizaki.
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]