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

3:58 Episode 17: “Fourth Child”

• Misato’s interrogation after the last angel
• Toji and his sister
• NERV Second Branch disappears
• NOTES: The NERV Branches
• S2 Engine and Dummy Plug
• Asuka and Shinji as the old married couple
• Misato learns about the fourth child
• Rei’s place is still a dump
• Gendo and Fuyutsuki getting high again
• I don’t think Kaji’s moves will work on Maya
• Kaji sure loves melons
• Shinji is no longer #1
• Kensuke knows too much
• Hikari and Asuka make their moves
• Unit-03
• “Fly Me to the Moon” Aki Jungle version

37:58 How much did the troubled production of Evangelion’s second half affect its reputation?

47:35 Episode 18: “Ambivalence” or “The Choice of Life”

• Misato and Shinji catching up
• Kensuke wants to get in the robot
• The melancholy of Toji Suzuhara
• I would not ask Asuka for relationship advice
• I would not ask Kaji to babysit
• Testing Unit-03 goes very, VERY wrong
• Gendo takes command
• The Thirteenth Angel, Bardiel
• Rei and Shinji can’t take the shot but Gendo sure can
• The Dummy System in action
• Rubbing it in with Hikari
• Somehow, everyone survived

1:16:11 Episode 19: “Introjection” or “A Man’s Battle”

• Shinji is pissed
• The remains of Unit-03
• In the hospital again
• Shinji quits for real
• “The phone that never rings” rings
• The Fourteenth Angel, Zeruel
• Rei is no longer compatible with Unit-01
• Asuka’s chance
• So much for the Dummy Plug
• Rei’s final charge
• Kaji actually does something useful
• Why does Shinji pilot the Evangelion?
• Breaching central dogma
• A Man’s Battle
• Berserk Mode, Round 3
• Once again, all according to keikaku

1:53:19 Final thoughts on this block of episodes