Imeme 1.0 review1/29/2024 Which is a big ol' middle finger to all of us. Rather than give half the fanbase a middle finger and giving the wanted happy moment for the other (even though both sides would not work in the "happy ending" that would come of that) he choose the third option. Fans of Evangelion have known for a long time that Hideki Anno doesn't exactly have the best relationship with us, it's sort of a seething hatred, a level of anger and resentment on both sides for being - in both words - a stubborn (well I said a word for bum but apparently that's not allowed now) And Anno has ended the story of Evangelion by doing something I didn't expect him to do but makes sense with the way things go. There's references to the long held belief that the series and movies have been a long looping set of ideas that really never ends and I liked it, but then there's the out of nowhere change that comes in right at the end that allows Shinji to survive and fixes the world to be without Evangelions. I feel like Anno is trying to fit in all his ideas into this final project so he can bookend the series and walk away, but it fails to do so as it doesn't answer anything ultimately. Then Shinji enters Unit 1 and battles him in a mental landscape of a world that we've never heard of before, beyond the Gates of Guf. The ending felt rushed if I'm going to be fair to it, the build up to 4th impact comes without any dramatic descent, it's just happening, Gendo overrides the heroes, takes Unit 13 and merges with it. But it isn't needed, there's nothing in it that is required to be there and it stumbles as we were told in 3.0 that Toji was dead, he's not, he's alive and has a family. This story feels unfinished in that the majority of it isn't needed, the quiet moments in the country where Rei 6 learns to.accept humanity and Shinji comes out of his self-disgust is beautiful, it's quiet and it's a set piece to give Shinji a reason to fight. In the Evangelion series there was enough room to do story build up, for the plot to be explained that you can understand whats coming for EoE. But there's a massive problem with it that needs to be said. I like it, it's an ending that is final - supposedly - and it "works" in the world of the Remake series. And I won't bore you with it if you're just a casual viewer, suffice it to say that even veterans of the series are going to scratch their noodle at this a little bit. There's a lot to say about the final piece of Evangelion work that Hideki Anno is going to helm, the last piece of "official" Evangelion story to be told and a lot of it is the usual fare when it comes to the stuff that makes up Evangelion.
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