In our newest podcast series, Jel, Iro, and Gee watch and discuss the iconic 1995 sci-fi mecha classic, Neon Genesis Evangelion. Join us and watch along before the upcoming Netflix release.

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Opening Music: “Good, or Don’t Be” – Neon Genesis Evangelion OST III
Closing Music: “Next Episode” – Neon Genesis Evangelion OST I

Show Notes

7:02 Episode 13: “Lilliputian Hitcher” or “Angel Invasion”

• Routine Magi check-up
• Naked entry plug testing
• Corrosion in the protein wall!
• The Eleventh Angel, Iruel
• Hacking the Magi
• Caspar the friendly supercomputer
• Personality implant technology
• One second to spare
• The kids got ejected at some point?
• The three aspects of the Magi

25:53 Episode 14: “Weaving a Story” or “Seele, the Throne of Souls”

• NOTES: Why does Evangelion have recap episodes?
• Rei’s monologue
• Let’s try swapping EVA’s
• The Dummy System
• Don’t put Shinji in Unit 00
• All according to keikaku for Gendo

36:26 Episode 15: “Those Women Longed for the Touch of Other’s Lips and Thus Invited Their Kisses” or “Lies and Silence”

• Gendo’s job security
• Kaji the double agent
• Misato watching her friends get married like a true millennial
• Rei would (not) make a great mom
• Visiting Yui’s grave
• Shinji plays the cello and Asuka goes dere
• At the bar with the grown-ups
• Misato is a sad drunk
• This is what happens when you leave bored teenagers home alone
• Rei is absent from school for “reasons”
• The first angel, Adam

1:03:29 Episode 16: “Splitting of the Breast” or “In Sickness Unto Death and…”

• Happy home life
• Shinji is now #1
• The Twelfth Angel, Leliel
• Shinji takes point, then gets eaten
• Rei and Asuka don’t mix, vol. 2
• Inside the angel
• Apparently Ritsuko can take command at any time
• Inside Shinji’s head
• Unit 01 escapes
• In the hospital again

1:29:58 Overall thoughts on this block of episodes and the shift the series is taking