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Shinji Ikari, pilot of the mecha Eva-01, protests against his father Gendo, commander of the special agency Nerv.Gendo used his Eva-01 to destroy Bardiel, the thirteenth of a series of humanity's enemies called Angels, and with it the mecha Eva-03, despite the mecha containing its pilot Toji Suzuhara, Shinji's friend.
As the Angel attacks Unit 01's core, Shinji pleads with the Evangelion to start working again. Unit 01 goes "berserk", re-engages and defeats the Angel, and then tears apart and eats the Angel's corpse, absorbing its S² engine in the process.
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]
Yūichirō Oguro, the editor of supplemental materials included in the Japanese edition of the series, interpreted Neon Genesis Evangelion's plot as an Oedipal story. Eva-01 can be seen as a motherly breast and a source of ambivalence for the character.
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.
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.
Kazuya Tsurumaki, assistant director of Neon Genesis Evangelion, served as director of "Angel Attack"; [8] Anno and Masayuki, who drew storyboards for the episode, [9] [10] assisted him, [11] [12] while Shunji Suzuki worked as chief animator. [13] [14] Yoshitoh Asari, Seiji Kio and Yuh Imakake worked as assistant character designers.
Neon Genesis Evangelion director Hideaki Anno. Gainax studio staff decided the base plot for "A Human Work" in 1993, when it wrote a presentation document of Neon Genesis Evangelion named New Century Evangelion (tentative name) Proposal (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン (仮) 企画書, Shinseiki Evangelion (kari) kikakusho); [1] [2] In Proposal document, which was published in 1994, [3] [4 ...