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I haven't watched EoE but planning to (by today or tomorrow). I had a friend who loved Evangelion so I watched the 26 episode series. I liked the characters (my favourite was Kaji lol, damn he's charismatic).
But I think I missed the entire point. I didn't get what's so great with the initial 16 episodes of mecha and fan-service (though I persisted through it as it felt relaxed). But even the final episodes I didn't feel were great or as iconic as they're made out to be.
I haven't been depressed before (during Covid I guess you could say I was but idk -- was the same age as Shinji then). But I just felt... nothing? Like I didn't hate the entire thing but I didn't absolutely love it either....
One thing I loved were all the abstractions and animation/narrative techniques. I liked all the concepts related to love and isolation being thrown around. But I could never "get" them... connect with them. I didn't specifically "rushed" the entire watch. I watched them carefully. But I didn't deep-dive into every episode either.
Is it something to do with the non-stop lore-dropping in the anime? Is it something to do with my aphantasia or anendophasia? I don't know... Someone help me out. Thanks!
Edit: Just watched The End of Evangelion. Such a damn masterpiece. The imagery... the symbolism I really loved the entire damn package. Even from the first scene (Asuka & Shinji in the hospital) to the last scenes of Human Instrumentality... damn. I think I can get it now.... I remember wanting to merge into nothingness during my teenage years. Perhaps the show explored its variation. What if everyone could become one... I admit that many things went through top of my head. And perhaps I don't even remember the sentence just spoken by a character (because they're just so abstract and use just so many abstract nouns like love and this and that). But again as animation as a medium... it's just so brilliant.
I remember that as a teenager I often wanted to return to a feeling of "nothingness". Maybe Evangelion's Instrumentality is a variation of that only.
A rewatch would be necessary now.