Neon Genesis Evangelion Part II
Look, I donât even know what I watched half the time in these episodes. Evangelion stops pretending to be about robots and monsters and just starts screaming at you in trauma. Episode 8 gives you Asuka kicking the door down and shaking things up, and then itâs like the show slowly spirals into your own subconscious.
By the time you hit episode 16, youâre not even watching a show, youâre just sitting there like, âIs Shinji okay? Heâs literally floating in his own mind talking to himself. Like, when you donât know who you are, your thoughts do start looping and echoing like that.
And then in episode 24, the show throws in this character who feels like love and peace and maybe something more, and then yanks him away in like 15 minutes. And Shinjiâs absolutely crushed. Itâs not just losing a friend, itâs ,more like losing a version of himself that only existed in that connection.
Then the last episode comes through and just blows everything up. Thereâs sketches, alternate universes, random clapping. You stop trying to âunderstandâ it and just kind of let it wash over you. Shinjiâs mind is basically a broken mirror, and this is the first time we see him try to put the pieces back together, but through other peopleâs reflections.
He doesnât really have an identity in his own but being in the minds of others, seeing how they see him, thatâs where he starts to build one.

















