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In Evangelion: Detective Shinji Ikari, Kaji and Kaworu are portrayed as private investigators whom Shinji asks for help and investigates a mysterious case. [ 93 ] In Neon Genesis Evangelion: Anima , set three years after The End of Evangelion with a different Instrumentality scenario, Shinji is 17 years old; [ 94 ] he lets his hair grow and is ...
Teenager Shinji Ikari is the pilot of Evangelion Unit-01, one of several giant cyborgs designed to fight hostile supernatural entities called Angels.Shinji is distraught after having had to kill his friend, Kaworu Nagisa, who revealed himself as an Angel in human form.
In The End of Evangelion, Yui's spirit gives Shinji the courage to choose his future and that of humanity, rejecting Instrumentality. [330] Hideaki Anno chose the name Yui because it is similar to Rei's name; while Rei (零) means "zero" or "nothingness", Yui (唯) can be translated as "only one". [21]
The final scene, in which female pilot Rei Ayanami smiles at Shinji, has been described by staff and critics as the end of Evangelion's grand narrative. "Rei II" first aired on TV Tokyo on November 8, 1995, and scored a 7.7% rating audience share on Japanese TV.
A feature film was created as a complementary, alternate ending to the original episodes 25 and 26 and released in three stages: first as a preview (Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth), then as the completed alternate ending (The End of Evangelion), then finally as a theatrical revival combining the two into one presentation (Revival of ...
When dubbing the last scene of The End of Evangelion, in which Shinji strangles Asuka, Shinji's voice actress Megumi Ogata physically imitated his gesture and strangled her colleague. Because of her agitation, Ogata squeezed her neck too hard, risking having her not properly recite the rest of the film's lines. [ 40 ]
Anima is set into an alternative future, three years after the events of Neon Genesis Evangelion are cut short by Shinji managing to avert Seele's plans as they'd take place in The End of Evangelion. It portrays a conflict between a reformed Nerv agency and Seele, now denounced as a rogue organization, still attempting to enact the Human ...
During the process, Shinji also hears his mother Yui saying that "Anywhere can be heaven if you have the desire to live", which writer Dennis Redmond interpreted as a reference to Akira Kurosawa's 1956 movie Ikiru. [82] Mechademia writer Mariana Ortega noted how Yui repeats the same words in the finale of The End of Evangelion. [83]