It’s something we didn’t really have in Eva until now.Įvangelion was my youth, and now I’m 39. To me, that feeling of nothingness was a continuing characteristic of Evangelion, but Rebuild of Evangelion comes to a proper conclusion. In the original TV series and movies (Death and Rebirth and The End of Evangelion), the story that’s unfolding is one in which the world hangs in the balance, but their endings feel like the main character switched off the show before anyone found out what happened. Looking back, I think a big reason I felt like that hole would never be filled was because there was never a final, definitive ending. Watching the Rebuild movies confirmed that hole was still there in my heart, and I thought it’d never be filled, but I feel like Thrice Upon a Time has filled it. It was two and a half decades when I first felt that impact, and it hasn’t lessened at all in the time since. I was 13 when it started, and turned 14 while I was watching it, and it left a sense of emptiness, like a hole, in my heart. I’m 39 now, so when the original Evangelion TV series was airing, I was the perfect age for it to affect me. Honestly, this was an amazing conclusion. It was like Hideaki Anno was telling me “And now it’s time for you to be an adult,” and I don’t think there could be any better ending than the way this turned out. That was the despondent feeling I had when Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time came to a close. So without further ado, let’s turn it over to Seiji for his spoiler-free impressions: That meant most fans had work or school responsibilities to take care of during the first screenings, but luckily for our Japanese-language reporter and in-house Evangelion superfan Seiji Nakazawa, his work assignment for the day was “go watch the Eva movie,” so that’s just what he did, heading to the theater with fellow correspondent and Eva enthusiast Ikuna Kamezawa. That was supposed to be only an eight-year wait, until the coronavirus caused six months of delays, so with much of Japan coming out of the government-declared state of emergency on March 8, Eva’s handlers wasted no time pushing it into theaters, with the strange result being that one of the most highly anticipated films in recent memory in Japan debuted on a Monday. Are congratulations in order as creator Hideaki Anno’s masterpiece anime franchise reaches the end of its 26-year journey?Īfter the controversial Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, fans had to wait nine years for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, the fourth and final entry in the Rebuild of Evangelion film series that’s also the conclusion to the Eva animated canon.
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