All 37 Evangelion Timelines Explained - Anime Explained 

Crunchyroll no usually when I used to use crunchyroll I couldn’t watch more than 1 episode a day but the time trying to get that 1 episode was triple that time just because of the amount of adds. I thought this only happened on older phones so making your app more accessible to older phone users or work out a bug in the app causing 20 of adds

Yeah, my pirated copy with the ADV dub.

I wachted it like 5 time a masterpiece.

Yeah but on Netflix sadly

Is this a COINCIDENCE, that at the same day Get in the Robot Channel uploaded a video about Evangelion????

They cant afford to license it like netflix could and they literally made up a whole shit tone of bullshit about the series to try and accumulate view time from hardcore fans for view revenue

@@rocktheboat56 it's literally free entertainment what are you upset about? If you don't like it. Don't watch.

@@thisisbaxter1354 Last I checked, Netflix isn't free.

@@Qorelin I BELIEVE MY FELLOW BAXTER WAS REFERRING TO CRUNCHYROLL ^__^ =)

@@SHINBAXTER I believe Baxter was referring to this video. Also Netflix ruins a LOT of Evangelion. Like for example they insist that Kaoru merely "likes" Shinji. When it's clear that Kaoru *LOVES* Shinji. As in he wants to bang him.

LMAO

SHAVE IMPACT!!!

Em P 😂😂😂

Absolutely. Had to just find somewhere else in spanish. Great dude. Easy explanation, focused on the anime series, he took 20 mins and I got it. Beautiful anime sad i didnt watch it before but now that i know there is more to it am gonna look for it and watch it all

And he hasn't even mentioned that time shinji and the gang teamed up with an army of cats to take over the world.

I have been laughing to this comment for 2 minutes

Sounds legit.

Fucking canon

Race horses...... ?! ¡Is this- is this a mudafu-!

@@burntchickennugget8142 no

I feel like it's a mixture of both

Didn’t notice till I came to read comments and was honestly pretty miffed.

@@bartleta11 Same dude

23 for me. That's how minutes it took me to ask "who the fuc-... ohhhhh"

When a big corporation actually understands their audience for once

Dude I fkn died laughing at this 😂

Thank you for this

Oh God

Rei chiquita is likin this comment

That is funny. Now my coworkers think I'm even more psychotic

NO WAY!!! REALLY??????

This sounds genius

holy shit, didn't realize this!

Wich timeline is the original 90s serie?

No, thats not entirely true. While He does wake up from a coffin, there aren't 37 coffins already opened. There are far more than that.

He’d be turned on, let’s face it.

I don't think those are mutually exclusive things.

Switch the titles

There are a looooot of theries into this series, even down to symbols being broken down at the tree of life scene..

It's about gendo being a shy boi and being too tsundere to tell shinji he loves him. God it felt disgusting to write that.

why cant it be both?

Imperial Guardsman same

Now I need to watch all the other shit, two times, and end without a clue of what is happening, again, so I can come and bargain for an explanation

@maya aguilar me in confusion after nge: .... timeline_s ?

There are three newer films aswell

@@owo2362 do you happen to now where I can find them? Netflix only has NGE and EoE

Nagisa Kaworu is Akemi Homura

Sometimes it takes a man to be best -girl- waifu

So Shinji is best girl?

@@Esandeech2 Yoshiyuki Sadamoto admitted that he recycled Nadia's chara design when creating Shinji, so yeah, kind of.

I almost died for real because of this comment. I think I have chili cheese Fritos in my lungs now

I'm surprised none of the timelines end with: "Kaworu, I think I love you..." "YOU THINK!? I BROKE LINEAR TIME TO BE WITH YOUR A** AND YOU _THINK_ YOU'RE IN LOVE!?!?"

@@Blu_Moon_VA i don't think Shinji is gay for Kaworu, he just never really had a friend that close. Now if Kaworu would be comatose.......

Kaworu is aware of all of the timelines and knows he's gonna get that Shinji dick eventually

I mean it's less horny and more "please for fucks sake notice me I've been trying to kiss you for a hundred timelines" but

@@Blu_Moon_VA actually in like two eva games i believe there are endings where shinji confesses to kaworu lmao

but, but... but I am the ro-bot!

@@Anonarchist I am the robot I am the robot.

Mazinger zero says hi

It‘s funny cuz Evangelions aren’t robots

thanks for 53:50 minutes ... But why not just start the video at 52:12 and we all can spend the other 51 minutes doing otheer stuff :)

Was the use of the word vibrate necessary

@@somethingsomething9008 about as necessary as your comment was

@@somethingsomething9008 is 'vibrating with motion' better?

Not at all, the last movie has destroyed this theory

@@frankjaeger2565 I am like 10 minutes into the Video and so far he is pretty spot on with the theory specially after the final movie which can be taken as the end of a cycle.

@@ricremricrem2221 at 00:32 he presents the Loop Theory in its classic form, as it was understood before 3.0+1.0 came out: Shinji gets to somehow "reset" the world of Evangelion and start the Rebuild timeline, with the same cast of charachters in the same world, with some minor changes. We now know that cannot possibly be the case: the fact that Rebuild Asuka is a clone of the Shikinami series means she's not the same person Soryu was (Naoko Zeppelin's daughter), and therefore the Rebuild cast is not the same one from the original series. That alone disproves the Loop Theory. We also found out that in the Rebuild universe there are multiple Adams, the Anti-universe, the Golgota Cross and a totally different set of Impacts: none of that was in the original series, so we can safely conclude that it's not the same universe. Kaworu never mentions the world and charachters of Evangelion being stuck in a loop, he only talks about his personal cycle of death and rebirth within the Rebuild timeline, as the first and last angel whose name is written in the book of life. It's in the Rebuild timeline that he had met Shinji when he was a little child, not in a previous loop. I'd say that the last movie didn't properly explain some aspects of the Rebuild lore, but that's clearly not a reason to keep on defending a theory that just doesn't stand

​@@frankjaeger2565 ANIMA is also problematic for the classic Loop Theory because it presents a loop of its own with the Earth and Moon having constantly swapped places for thousands of cycles. In ANIMA, it's implied that there is a loop of some kind when Instrumentality fails, and that the Moon then becomes Earth and it all starts over. But this would not seem to jive with Rebuild where Kaworu's coffins are on the Moon and its implied he has knowledge of at least some of his other incarnations, or as you say, just has died and been reborn in the same universe over and over. The only way to make it work is if the loop is resetting further back than Shinji's lifetime, which would then allow small changes to occur that impact how the characters and situations can be so similar but so different. Maybe it even loops the whole way back to the start to First Impact, who knows? Frankly, it's all meant to be unclear soup as the authors themselves probably have no real vision beyond a vague sense of changing things in the story as they themselves age and change their minds (Anno being the obvious main culprit here). From an in-universe perspective, I suspect we'd just have to accept that there is a multiverse of several parallel universes with differing timelines, some of which are looping in one way, others looping in another way, and some perhaps not looping at all. It does feel like Rebuild is meant to be in a loop with the original series at least, but whether other timelines are part of this is really unclear and there is not a good way to harmonize them all into one cohesive loop. It's similar to what is presented in the video, but certain timelines do not connect and do not overlap unlike the branching paths here. We should probably approach Evangelion like a religious book like the Bible (appropriately enough)--it has multiple authors with multiple ideas and multiple visions of the past and future. You can't really ever fully harmonize it since the parts aren't necessarily meant to fit together.

@@QuintusAntonious they're not meant to fit toghether because they're different works made by different people in different time periods with different intentions. There was never any intention of linking them through a shared multiverse or something like that, the Rebuild have always been presented as a new version of Eva, not a sequel. I have to admit that Anno probably shouldn't have made that scene with Kaworu Shin in that way, and he should have better explained his cycle (which occours just within the Rebuild timeline). Let's just hope they clear things out with some material set between 3.0 and Shin

that would be realls cool if it was true

I'm 36 minutes in and didn't even noticed it was a Crunchyroll video, thought it was this guy's channel.

No it feels like they are very purposeful trying to recreate the style that Brian David Gilbert had while working with polygon

Needs more swagger, funny looks, and higher quality editing.

Lmfao

II WAS 1/3 OF THE WAY THROUGH I WASN'T BEING SERIOUS WHYYYYY

You know if only there was a manga or anime that strictly flowed the school slice of life

no this is when the creators handling out license to any one that will give him money.

They don't even have a real ending tbh, its more like they had a lot of concepts and someone said f*ck it put em all make em all into movies and games!

@@hazelberg420 search up Shinji Ikari Raising Project and Angelic Days manga

This video is just a man slowly succumbing to the void.

underrated comment of the century

*LAUGH* !

@@jeremyetremblay6663 L is for Lovers who love one another A is for Ass of which I like to eat U is for U're the only one for me G is for the only Gamer I see H is for Happy I always feel it When you put it together what do you get Put it together what do you get What do you get What do you get! Also you beat me to saying Laugh!

profile picture fits

Basically the rebuilds

Thats the whole anime basically

Ikr almost 69likes nice

I prefer Shinji get in the robot Shinji get out of the robot Shinji please get back in the robot Shinji oh god no get out of the robot

Shinji: So anyway i started blasting

lmao, i thought you'd talk about the honkai 3rd x eva crossover

I’m going to pretend I never read this.

You had me (scared) there in the first part not gonna lie

Yeah theresnsome shit to unpack here. Things that jump to mind are. These are aliens not spiritual beings or as we would think of them I guess . Sooo if he rebuilt earth did he rewrite reality itself because those same aliens are still out there and I'm pretty sure 1 of the angels came directly from space just out of the blue. And also how would gendo cause an impact if shinji rejected the Eva. Only his Eva can cause the impact like gendo wants all the others just turn into Angels or beserk because all of the others are made from angels . Only Shinji Eva is made from Lilith. More asukas always calling to her mother and in the tv series her Eva had the souls of her mother in it but she's a clone sooooo that kinda makes me wonder if shinji is a clone too but he's not supposed to be because his Eva has hisnmothe inside it too. Then there's rei whose made from yui so she's shinji mother inside unit01 who has the soul of shinji real mother ....sonofabitch. Wtf There's more too like about kowru and honestly where the f did he come from and if there's all those coffins what happens if they all wake up at once.

Okay so I thought I was the only one who read NGE the manga and was shocked at how Kaworu was acting and then found out that the manga was like different or something.

hes got the big horny for shoonj

Didn't manga Kaworu just absorb dead Rei's feelings My gaydar went off way before that tho

@DiaKorrus 18 I wish they revealed more of his background in the future

Anno said in an interview that he lied about the kiss being to help Shinji stop hyperventilating. It actually in all reality makes sense for him to have been lying and making an excuse about Rei’s feelings going into him and infecting him.

@DiaKorrus 18 wow! I didn’t know they still made idiots like you! This is such a rare treat. Shinji says he never hated Kaworu in the manga and crushing Kaworu was essentially his form of a confession “if you care about me kill me please”. Also if you’ll notice- he grabbed onto Kaworu and kissed back and only got embarrassed when Kaworu made an excuse. 😊 Kaworu was imitating what was seen on tv. Maybe if you actually read the manga and Sadamoto’s interview you’d get a clue for once. 💚

aquaguy34 *Fanta

Cup o tea

Stupid zelda fan*

orange kool aid

I feel like I'm watching the anime equivalent of BDG

God bless the best and only sei hei kei you will ever need to watch

Well, damn....😢😢😢

Lol. The amount of bs fans of this cartoon come up with is ludicrous :D Don't start quantum teleportin' into antiuniverses bro

@@gdgd5194 well that’s actually a very graspable concept if you had the most minimal interests in physics that you would embark with quantum physics, and if that’s what peaks your virtues then you must love it when any idea of Quantum entanglement happening (like quantum teleportation) would come into play in a anime just so you can examine in and apply it to your subconsciously absolving ego

@@waterhotter9668 You lost yourself in your own text, buddy. And my "subconsciously absolving ego" tells me that you most likely have no degree in physics lol.

Well great ,Now im concerned of me following along

PEPE SILVIA

Please watch polygons unraveled series, it’s exactly that

I really wish he would've pulled out a corkboard with yarn linking all the Universes together lol

I don't know why this is so accurate

Then you need to watch Gigguk trying to briefly explain Fate

@@Nadia1989 after watching both I think I am loosing my sane for all life, like literally, fate and eva series are so f*cked up and you can get lost pretty easy, in both videos they start with a simple timeline and before you realize you get a f*cking cluster f*ck of information

😂

Brian David Gilbert

My takeaway is that Kaworu is FUCKING OMNIPOTENT

ikr

Jajajja so true

Err fuck aaaahhh asuka

I actually gasp when I saw the image

I clapped. I clapped when I saw the one true timeline.

Yeeeeeesssss

Onesie intensifies

never wore one but def rock a pen2

This is a very underrated comment

@@alejoparedes2388 my dude! Appreciated 🙃

IDC what anyone says, puns are the greatest form of humor.

@@Kudos2me11 indeed, there's something special about a joke that can make you genuinely laugh yet still crinf at least a little inside 🤣, like without being some edgy dead baby joke or something anyways

Best comment

Where's the link man

Name??

When you’ve replayed the original scenario so many times in slightly different versions eventually you’ll get bored and start experimenting a little.

@@MrMagnetron2 RPG-Players: YES xD

@@MrMagnetron2 and that is how pokemon ROM hacks were born!

they turned shinji into robocop funniest shit i've ever seen

kaworu lengerie kaworu lengerie

who is also part alien

Pretty mundane plot for an anime nowadays.

Roll credits.

Doesn't he also spend a lot of time getting injected into his dead mom's animated alien corpse?

@@iiiiiifggffggffgfgfg That would imply that Yui and Unit 01 are both dead, which they technically are not.

"Madness"?

If you get it, you are not "insane"?

Elder Scrolls: "Get on my level, N'wahs"

Imagine if he popped a cap in Asuke instead of choking her

That'll be funny as fucking hell.

He'd probably just kill himself anyways

SHINJI DONT DO IT

Sup, @@henrycawley7136? Don't lose your head! Don't go bury your head in the sand or go hide under a tree. Let's get to the root of the problem. No restarts, okay? Don't go falling into any wells, you hear me?

Thank you xD

It say they drug test at ahibm please make good angel of astrology 3/rat/ares 9/ox/libra darla anna abctv show little nemo on hbo converse -> republican.

P.m nirvana gemdo+shinji Harvey wei stein id pm nirvana.

Evangelion Fans After this video: It's fucking horny Kaworu. That's why.

It's like some sort of wacky Japanese cult. Without the nerve gas and terrorism.

I'm sorry, but I read your comment and my brain decided to focus on the words "spreading" and "legs" I'mma see myself out

@@karlafernanda2715 Lol sounds like someone needs to get laid.

Wait, so Misato never gets to make Shinji into a real man? FML, why are we here, just to suffer?

@@budmeister She's 29 and he's 14, by the law there it is legal but it would be morally wrong

Yeah, she can be his mother

@@federicogasco8604 or an older sister

@@lucasrabelo9427 I see you guys don't have a sense of humor.

He was also hilarious 😂

Relatable

me rn

this just made the confusion worse

Yup accurate

I just wanted answers

This is new timeline

@@diegobarron1690 This new timeline where the movie got postpone :(

What are you talking about? The movie was great! Especially when Shinji and EVA-01 had a baby. Shinji vomited that egg up like a champ. Oh! Almost forgot the angel sex!

@@calebgoodman2076 knowing this series that's probably exactly what happens

In 2022 maybe lmao

XD just made it to that part. No way

Thank you SakuraJade23......

@@timlyu8326 you are an adam among men.

Glory to his madness, one who fell through and arrived at true knowledge.

King Of Bel I’d prefer that series over what we got.

38 minutes in and I'm still waiting for it

And a lumberjack

there's michael bay's evangelion for that

What about Robo-Shinji The protector of New York city

Same, dude. Same. Seems like we'll never get to the bottom of it but that doesn't mean we won'T TRY

@@juunanasai I also thought this was going to be a sweet mech fighting show. Now I'm looking for the meaning of life xD

One of the best parts is never getting to the bottom of it *unlimited content*

Sadly I share this fate, it's exaclty 4:30 am, help lol

I first saw evangelion thinking it was your normal alien mecha show BOY WAS I WRONG

Just gave this 666 likes, hehe ;)

@@F1areon they always told me the devil would be attractive

Oof

What's about Fate Timeline?

Evangelion timeline will be level 10

@@szigo3211 don't start there

What level is Drakengard-Nier?

That's level over 9000

When I saw Kaworu explaining his life cycle and his personal goal in life, my jaw dropped because I reminded this (then) obscure half-joke video Crunchyroll released in 2019. 50:54 now hits different.

I have had this anime on my mind for about 3 months since watching it, trying to figure out why I felt both satisfied and unsatisfied. You just answered my question. It’s cause shinji feels the same way lmao

Thats the final of the last movie 😳

Boy, you better go watch the final movie....

Oh my god he was right all along lmfaooo

That's pretty much the plot of RE-TAKE of Evangelion.

His neutral special is:

omg, same thought

That's a great idea! Give the kid a Gewehr 98.

Kaworu: What dou you have there? Shinji: A gun! Kaworu: Nooooo!

Everyone knows what he wants to use it for next time he feels low.. (0.o)

Gay alien? Really? Ok...

Found ya love your vids

@@locoabreu74 It's pretty gay

@@blue1764 yes sure, he's pretty gay, but alien?

@@blue1764 well I guess it makes sense

That is what audience wants

No, that's where the money led them.

Every fighting game ever

Sephiroth blows up the solar system and it’s incapable of killing you.

That’s just a good metaphor of how useless I am

DOrururururururururururu

Kinda like devilman crybaby

Imagine getting spoiled on Madoka Magica from a comment under a video explaining why strip mahjong in the NGE universe is cannon

😢

That's because Shinji keeps rebooting reality to get with Asuka.

Hehe, eggs go boom

bot destroyer hehe tall lady kill earth

All hail the dear leader jim pickens

@Rain Hello, fellow basement cultist.

@@Rain-mw9du HAIL

True

Or, it could be in this timeline... maybe the Shave Impact will shave the virus off this planet

@Now give me your money WAit.... i'm confused: i thought The Donald was the Third Impact.

I hope your PhD is in anime

Or at least porn

Welcome to the next level.

Right 🤯

I'm blind.

Yeah, late 90s on the Eva mailing list. God this story got wild since then.

I've been debating on goatjesus videos but same lol

We are many it seens. =]

@@altsenmm7857 ahaha me and my friends did a whole podcast dedicated to LOONA theories pre-debut so YEP

@@00millern that sounds lit, would you mind sharing it with me?, of course, if you want to

Shinji’s got a gun Shinji-kun’s got a gun Whole world’s come undone Third Impact has begun What did his daddy do? Shinji’s last IOU! He made Ayanami Rei The man has gotta be insane!

Realistically, he's more likely to use it on himself than anyone else.

*kids with guns by gorillaz blasts in the background*

@@Krankynator thats what im thinking lol

@@Krankynator yeah

Damn they need to heart this comment

It is time for the sorrow in us to arrive

😂

People are building another Titanic

Getting real Jorge Joestar vibes from this

"So how'd you get here?" "Shinji's Post-nut clarity ended the world" *One hundred million EVA-01 models in unison:* "SAME"

The plan is to cover the universe whit EVA-01

_We're back, baby_ -Tim

im just looking for a good ending

@@michaelm6394 read the manga

Shave impact be like: SHINJI YOUR DAD LOVES YOU NOW HIS BEARD MADE HIM A BAD PERSON

Horse racing Gendo is best timeline

Amen

How is there not a single reply after 4 years?

@@jonno9412 idk lol

The last movie has proved this theory wrong