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

1:30 Episode 24: “The Beginning of the End” or “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”

• Asuka is not doing well
• Shinji wonders about Rei and his mother
• Ritsuko in custody
• Shinji is alone again
• The Fifth Child, Kaworu Nagisa
• Glasses Guy making himself useful
• The new pilot of Unit 02
• Kaworu’s totally not ominous conversation with Rei
• Shinji and Kaworu hit it off
• SEELE has had enough of Gendo, really they mean it this time
• Farewell, Pen Pen
• The Sleepover
• Misato Katsuragi, Super Spy
• The Seventeenth Angel, Tabris
• Shinji is pissed
• The real AT field was inside us all along
• Misato’s backup plan
• Finding Lilith
• Kaworu’s final moments
• Shinji and Misato, one last time
• NOTES: The Two Endings

1:02:50 Episode 25: “Do You Love Me?”

• The Folding Chair
• Rei calls out Shinji for killing Kaworu
• Why does Shinji pilot the Eva?
• Rei calls out Asuka, who is now floating underwater
• Why does Asuka pilot the Eva?
• Rei calls out… herself???
• Gendo arrives to start instrumentality
• Ritsuko and Misato’s fate
• Misato’s turn in the chair
• Everyone can see everything
• Asuka back in the chair
• The truth about Asuka’s step mom
• Asuka’s real voice again
• Apparently Shinji chose this
• We’ve resorted to showing the script in the preview

1:16:37 Episode 26 “Take Care of Yourself”

• Instrumentality completes us all!
• Deep dive on Shinji again
• We’ve now resorted to random black and white photos
• Maybe Shinji and Asuka aren’t that different
• And now we’ve gone to marker sketches
• Take care of yourself, because the world keeps changing
• The world of nothing
• Shinji enters the harem anime he deserves
• Gendo’s newspaper
• Showing the script is both sad and brilliant
• I’m me. Nothing more, nothing less.
• Congratulations

1:29:50 How much of the ending was planned versus how much was scrambling to finish?

1:44:20 The two halves of Evangelion and why they’re both important

1:55:55 Iro and Jel’s thoughts rewatching the TV series in 2019