Analyzing Evil: Gendo Ikari From Neon Genesis Evangelion 

I've heard a really interesting interpretation of Gendo"s "death" in End of Evangelion. While everyone else is dissolved into Instrumentality through a welcoming figure of comfort or desire, Gendo's end was violent, suggesting that his greatest desire was to be punished for all the wrongs he'd done knowingly.

I always wondered... if Gendo actually loved Yui, but rather the image of Yui he had built in his mind, and how she made him feel.

Shinji: You ruined my life! Gendo: How could I ruin your life? I wasn’t even a part of it.

It's interesting how Gendo is able to give off such a powerful and intimidating aura, but the more you learn about him the more it becomes clear how pathetic he is. We don't know much about his past, but it's hinted that he was a troubled youth who never tried to better himself. Yui was able to help him become more stable and less self-destructive. He was so reliant on her that once she was gone he reverted back and wasn't man enough to take care of his son. He also has a frail and weak body. He's really just a weak man with a weak heart.

I read an interesting comment someone made on another website. In Japanese culture - If a man comes from a family with a bad reputation and marries a woman, he will take her last name instead of the other way around. This would explain why he chose to change his last name to Ikari when he married Yui, and it also sheds some light on his background in a very subtle way. My guess is that he was probably made an outcast from a young age because of his family's reputation, and it instilled a deep shame within him that festered as he grew older.

I used to cosplay Gendo on occasion at some cons, and the reactions I had with some other con goers were always fun. Had a "World's Best Dad" mug as a little extra flavor.

A character with Hedgehog Complex. And a "Hero" with the same characteristic as the villain.

Get you a girl like Gendo Ikari. A girl that would sacrifice all present, past and future humanity to grab your soul from the void and bring you back so you can live together.

There's an interesting parallel betweeen SEELE's plan and Gendo's. SEELE wanted to merge all of humanity together because they believed that the weaknesses inherent in every human soul would be erased by the strengths in all the others, eliminating suffering, misunderstanding and loneliness. But in a way, Gendo had already achieved this himself in his marriage to Yui. He loved her so completely because her strengths made up for his weaknesses. So when he lost her, he not only lost the person he loved more than anything, he lost what made him a better person.

Gendo is the ultimate manifestation of the central existential tenant of NGE, the ultimate Bad Ending of the path Shinji was on. "Wanting to be useful to others is admirable, but you must always have an internal sense of self-worth. Defining yourself entirely by your relationships to others will end in disaster." Gendo's entire sense of self was Yui. His entire world began and ended with her. When she was lost to him, he ENDED THE GODDAMN WORLD for a chance to be part of her again.

This man actually put the hospital scene cuts in it 😂😂😂

the thing with gendo and grief is that.. well.. for him yuui didn't just die, she changed existence. that's why you can see him not really mourning for his loss much. he simply knew he just had to go on with his research on the eva and the rituals found in the scriptures.. and so he did. and when he found out that the eva 01 was actively protecting shinji... he just used hatred as a trigger to make him the bringer of distruction and unified (quite literally) rebirth

Honestly gendos arc in the rebuild let alone the end of thrice upon a time was the biggest curve ball. You did absolutely amazing

The worst thing Gendo has ever done, was making Shinji get in the GODDAMN EVA

Gendo Ikari always reminded me a lot of Joseph Stalin. Both grew up in poor and abusive environments, and their youths were marked by loneliness, petty crime, and a lack of close relationships. Both entered their respective organizations (RSDLP/Genrin) as low-class nobodies surrounded by high-class people and intellectuals who looked them dow and underestimated them. They both had a happy marriage with a woman who melted their hearts of stone (Kato/Yui) whose death left them devastated and made them more ruthless than ever. Through cunning and manipulation they rose to the top of their respective organizations (CPUS/NERV) and ended up as supreme and feared bosses. Both had a distant relationship with their sons (Yákov/Shinji) whom they abandoned at an early age, reuniting with them at the age of 14. Both tyrants were distant and cold with their children, as they reminded them of their happier past. Both Yakov and Shinji were permanently scarred in their minds by their father's cruelty and desperately tried to seek his approval. One of the most terrible things they suffered is that both young people ended up failing in all their love relationships due to their self-esteem and meekness as a result of their upbringing (Rei, Asuka/Zoya, Ketevan). They too were forced to fight in a war in which they ended up failing miserably (Yakov captured/Shinji running away) and both parents were as indifferent to the fate of their sons as they were to those of their unknown soldiers. Finally both young men end up broken by all their suffering and end up falling into utter despair, Yakov commits suicide in Sachsenhausen ashamed to learn of the Katyn massacre committed by his father and Shinji begins the Instrumentality as revenge against a cold world that made him suffer. In the end, Stalin and Gendo end up paying heavily for their crimes, they die alone and in terrible agony in their offices without any kind hand comforting them and accompanying them in their last moments on earth.

The tantrum was adorable and I acknowledge your hard work! Could you do the Spiral King and Ant-Spiral from Gurren Lagann?

"I would give any thing, or pay any price, if you could help save my people." - Arthas, back when he's just a hotheaded little prince and not a cynical warlord

Yui is on a similar level of evil as Gendo with the full context of her involvement in the series and how nearly every event can trace back to her in one way or another. The fact that she had full control of Unit 01 and purposely prevented Shinji from piloting it while Asuka was torn to shreds in EoE alone is bad enough. But knowing that she set the events of the series in motion, knowing the suffering and death that would come from it and doing it all willingly to esstionally make herself an immortal being really makes you reconsider just how good of a person she really is.

OMG! The Vile Eye covering Evangelion? What a treat! As for Gendou, the way I see him/remember him is a case of mourning process going terribly wrong. Instead of healing, accepting the loss and moving on he decides to basicly sacrafice all humanity in an unearthly ritual to reunite with his dead wife. His plan includes using people as tools, killing aliens, creating man-made-god and making his son's life as miserable as possible (among other things). Normally it would sound like complete insanity but in EVA world it's actually doable. What's realy insane is that Gendou believes it's all worth it.

Shinji is a reflection of Gendo. The "Forgive me Shinji" Gendo final scene pretty much sums it up. Love your children. Children are so helpless in the world without loving parents. Their minds are so fragile. It shows that without parental acceptance, children feel unloved and have no place on earth. No one shows them to live for themselves and accept themselves. Shinji doesn't live for himself, but who does he live for? None, not even him. No one ever showed him that it's good for him to be there. No one showed him that they were happy that he was born. That's why Gendo is obsessed with Yui because she was the only one who tried to meet him too.

Shinji is truly Gendo's son. And Gendo is truly Shinji's father. Two sides of the same coin. Different, yet same.

The most disturbing part of Gendo is his love of his wife doesn’t draw him close to his son at all despite the fact that’s what’s a part of her left alive

You know what's even more terrifying? In the Manga, it is suggested that Gendo is somehow looping the timeline, retaining memories after every failure just to be even more ruthless each rebirth of the universe after third impact. The first redo was in the Manga, the second was the 90's series and the last was the rebuilds. There's more evidence in how every instance of rebirth, tokyo 3 and what the pilots go through is absolutely worse every time, from the angels to the subtle changes made. You could also see this by subtle changes in decisions Gendo makes after each redo. He can't do this again as Shinji erased all Eva's at the end of the series.

Eva has such psychologically complex characters, and the ambuiguity leaves so much to personal interpretation. Even though I know the lore like the back of my hand I always love to hear any analysis of the characters because everyone's is a bit different

As someone who has a father similar to Gendo Ikari, I applaud Hideaki Anno for his depiction of the psychologically abusive effects of parental neglegence, and how it can lead to a child growing up with either little to no self-worth, an obsessive desire to prove themselves while incapable of ever feeling content with their accomplishments, or both. 12:23 is a defining example of my relationship with my father. Such parents might think they're teaching their child to be "tough enough" to handle themselves on their own, but to have a parent like that can lead to one being unable to understand why anyone regards them as having any importance to anyone or anything. It's ironically funny to me looking back when I first watched the series in my early adulthood, being initially annoyed by Shinji's behavior. Then once I recognized his relationship with his father, it made perfect sense why Shinji is the way he is. Gendo reminds me a lot of Tywin Lannister. Like Tywin, Gendo was at his happiest when he was with his late wife. He could've reclaimed his happiness after her death had he given his son the love and attention he required, but he failed to understand that loving his son and giving him the attention he needed would have been most benificial not only to himself, but to his wife's legacy. Maybe if both men took the time to understand and love their son, they could've better understood that the woman they lost and loved more than anything in the world had actually survived through the life of the child they together created.

As someone who only watched the original anime and nothing more I really appreciate the deconstruction before it was explained

Consistent top 5 competitor at the Worst Fictional Fathers competition

Hearing all about Gendo's mentality and motivations reminds me of a quote from Ultra Magnus, in a Transformers comic book. Loosely paraphrased, "I'm glad you've found company, because you may be the loneliest individual I have ever met."

Gendo is such a great/horrible deconstruction of the typicsl father on this type of anime.

Gendo is the spikiest of hedgehogs. No wonder Shinji had such difficulty connecting to other people. Thanks for another excellent video, Vile.

"Grief can make you a monster." - The Monument Mythos

Beautiful work, as always. I've watched your entire channel multiple times, but this video spoke to me in a different way that I especially appreciated. The words at the end: "When you are alone with no hope, there's no telling where your mind will go, or what you'll do once it gets there." To me, the connection you so eloquently voiced is the entire point of understanding "villains" and "evil". If abuse and violence are to decrease, it has to be understood that these "villains" could be any one of us if the circumstances occured in just the way to trigger our behavior to change. I love how you use both empathy and cognitive understanding to underline the importance of both our choices and our environment, which then leads to the choices of those around us. It helps me feel hopeful that there isn't just some predestined big bad out there which cannot be eliminated, but rather a complex web of human interactions and projections that - working together - we can change.

Human emotions are really overwhelming, you never know what a person feels or if they're being true so it's easier to not get involved with other people, but when someone takes you out of your loneliness and shows you how love can be happy and fulfilling you end up being depended of that person, which only worsens when they leave you because you wish you never let yourself open to love them in the first place. All the hesitance to love or be loved comes back as well as the need to feel loved by that person again

A set of villains I recommend are those of the Dr. Who universe. The Daleks, The Master, the Cybermen, Davros the Time Lords, the 456, The Eleven, there’s so many fascinating monsters and villains to analyse in Dr. Who. I really hope you take a look at it one day

Gendo Ikari to me is cold, calculating, and a sad old man who cared little of others even to his own son. I still can't believe that some fans of the series like him even though he abandon his own son when he needed him the most. Hell! He would sacrifice the whole world and his own son to get his dead wife back. Yet he should have moved on with his life, instead he ended up destroying himself, the world and making Shinji suffer.

Neon Genesis has to be one of the greatest, multi-layered stories ever told. Thank you for covering Gendo, I would advise the consummate viewer to check out further analyses of the series with respect to alienation as presented in what I like to call the "questionable" trilogy, ie the final episodes of the original show.

The true villian of Evangelion is Pen-Pen

Some antagonists I can't believe you haven't covered yet: -Professor James Moriarty, from the Sherlock Holmes series. A man nicknamed "the Napoleon of Crime" definitely deserves an in-depth look. -President Coriolanus Snow, from The Hunger Games. -Sheng, from Kung Fu Panda 2. Easily the most complex villain in the series, he can be silly, tragic, and terrifying. -Luca Blight, from Suikoden 2. No, I'm not going to shut up about him. -Handsome Jack, from Borderlands. -a "silly" villain, like Team Rocket from Pokemon, or Zedd and Rita Repulsa from Power Rangers. -Biff Tannen, from Back to the Future. Buttheads!! -Oroku Saki (The Shredder) from Ninja Turtles. Another one who can be goofy in one iteration and deadly serious in another. -and finally, Count Dracula himself

Omgggg I’ve wanted a video on Gendo from you foreverrrrrer, he’s one of my absolute fav villains from a story that is/has been so deeply meaningful to me since I was Shinji’s age.

thank you for covering this, always appreciate your uploads

My new favorite video. Thanks Mr Vile Eye

I think Gendo has something in common with Professor Souichi Tomoe, a villain from Sailor Moon, especially they use their own children as a key to destroy all humanity.

Thank you so much for doing Gendo. Evangelion is my favorite series. This is a great video🔥

I’ve been requesting this for so long, and it’s here in time for my bday!!! Thank you so much Vile Eye!!

According to rebuild all of the three Gendo's are the same guy in different states of the endless recurring cycle. Even the one who sold out to make pachinko machines. The Gendo that promoted razor blades. And the Gendo that fought Shin Godzilla.

I like your video analysis on Gendoh Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion. This is my first time watching a video from your channel and hear your thoughts. From my perspective since watching the anime on Netflix and then reading the manga and watching the End of Evangelion. I have always seen Gendoh as the main villain in the story not the angels trying to attack or destroy Toyko-3 to get to Lilith or Adam downstairs or even Seele who were in fact responsible for the Second Impact that started this series of event leading to an eventually battle to decide the fate of mankind as a whole though they are evil men with a motive and grand design planners at time there involvement is rather limited that it can be said there a secondary evil in the series. I've always wondered what was driving him to such atrocious acts of cruelty and deceit from being a cold calculus man that showed little to no emotion or feelings as a person, to treating his only flesh and blood son like a total complete stranger and doesn't even acknowledge him or treat as someone special or of value but instead looks at him like an eyesore or the worst thing in his life a waste of existence, and finally manipulating both Dr. Ritsuko and her mother through either physical intimacy or sexual desire or whatever the case depending upon the version or perspective. The rebuilds changed him in the first two movies, but it's still doesn't change Gendoh towards being someone worthy of redemption at least in my take he doesn't deserve one never has the moment he left his son at the train station he lost the right to be a Father, a parent, and it burns me up that shinji never comes around to accepting he never needed Gendoh to be his parent, his father because he could never be that to him it's the reason he abandoned him. It's the reason, why I see Misato as his parent or Mom in the story or a mother figure despite her flaws and shortcomings. It's the one thing, I wanted from the series as a happy ending to it was Misato taking in Shinji as her own child. Anyway Gendoh's a character that chooses to be so tightly wound up in the past that he is driven to destroy, use, manipulate, and abuse anything and anyone to accomplish his goals like most villains do. I see not redemption for a man like him. As for the instrumentality question you asked. As a christian, I believe we should all live our own lives as individuals in this world. It's true we cause conflict, destruction, war, and death due to a number of reasons regarding own nature as flawed sinful being given temptation of thought, mind, and heart. But one of the teaching I heard as a kid in church school was that the holy trinity; God, his son, Jesus, and the holy ghost. The holy ghost is supposedly connected to us all as a whole that is also saying we are all connected. We all have feelings, emotions, thoughts, pain, heartache, dream, and wishes. Just like in Avatar: the last airbender the episode in the swamp or the forest. The old man gave an important lesson; "You think you're any different from me, or your friends? " We are share a connection we are human and we understand each if we are willing to listen, feel, and connect with each other. Seele's goals was nothing more than a desire to leave the physical world behind because of the nature of humanity as a whole was to be self destructive and instead of being a force of change of better the world they used cruel manipulative tactics to ensure their wished was fulfilled. Evil is what comes to mind for me.

I love your videos. It's always a huge event for me when q new one drops! Please never stop making these!!!!

Excellent Analysis, as always! You have really humanized Gendo without excusing or dismissing his evil actions. And well done for recognizing all his backstory without the context of the Rebuild films! Genod reminds me of another sympathetic villain who I must recommend you cover: another monster, who is taught to appreciate the world around him, until the love of his life is taken, so they embark on a crusade of wrath and loss, all while ignoring their son and toll it takes on the humanity their wife loved. I speak of course of Dracula, from the Netflix Castlevania series. With Castlevania Nocturne coming out in September, it would be an excellent time to cover this classic animated villian! Either way, I can't wait to see who you analysis next!

We're gonna see alot of Anime fathers in these videos. Yujiro Hanma, Endeavor, Shou Tucker, etc.

Child Abuse in everybody's robot anime, i like this topic. everyone over looks this part.

Always love the work you put in these videos Vile, I haven't seen Thrice Upon A Time so I wouldn't have known any of that. I am glad to see you venture out into anime and was wondering if you would be able to do a video on you tackling the antagonist of series like FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Like Fuhrer Bradley or the entire seven sins. I would also love to see something on Aizen or Madara Uchiha

THANK YOU IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG ITS SO GOOD I LOVE YOU

Kind of a random call but I think you could make a mini-episode on Fuyutsuki as well. It could be an interesting concept to analyze a side "villain". It's a discret but also very well written character as well.

so are we just not going to talk about how he canonically SA'd rei and ritsuko? they're just as much victims as shinji is, if not more so. shinji was abandoned, yes, but rei and ritsuko had to suffer even more abuse the entire time. ritsuko blatantly says "why don't you have your way with my body, like you did that time?" in episode 24 i believe, an unambiguous reference to SA, and there are also photos of a middle school aged ritsuko standing next to an adult gendo, which is just gross. gendo is also regularly seen staring at rei's naked body and grabs her breast in EoE (neither of which he has any good reason to be doing). there are also drafts of episode 24 where ritsuko says that rei is gendo's "plaything", which further proves this point. so basically if we're going to talk about how evil gendo is, we should probably be talking about his other victims, don't you think?

Just recently discovered this channel. Really enjoying how vast and diverse your character studies are. Would love to see your takes on certain characters down the road (Makima, Jinx, Dio Brando, Silco, Wilson Fisk, Killgrave, etc)

Amazing video. One of my favorites so far

Love to see this. You should do a video on Bondrewd from Made in Abyss, one of my favorite anime villains.

Gendo is one of the most evil characters out there. He low key means to destroy humanity (their individuality, but you're not "you" without it anyway) without even caring to ask anyone... ok, that's insane. Not to speak of the trauma his caused his son and the way he uses Rei as if she was a doll. Pretty insane, but great character.

The "I deserve the credit damnit" , made me laugh! Good job! Enjoy your content, and you do deserve the credit... Damnit.

Ahhh so glad you understand the show so well. Great video! Thanks for sharing ❤

It's okay Vile, we know that frustration of working a problem out the hard way, just to find the answer for free on the next page. You get full credit for showing your work, A+.

You have to love the subtext of how Gendo's inability to let go of the past is also commentary of how the mecha genre was (and still is) unable to let go of its past as well.

You did fantastic work in this video, great work

This is an incredible iteration of gendo, he is one of my favourite characters and this video 100% did him justice. I’m so glad someone finally made an in depth analysis of his character, because truly it is one of the best in the series!

Ngl, after seeing Thrice upon a time ( 3.0 + 1.0 ) , i forgave him. That scene where he and Shinji realize that fighting isnt going to solve "their" problem and they decided to talk it out on that train cart and gendo admitting to his faults and not trying to deflect everything on shinji was just perfect. That scene is up there with my fav anime scenes of all time

One of the biggest L dads in fiction

I've been waiting so long for you to cover him🙏

Yet another one of your masterpieces. You have succeeded in putting into words everything that comes to my mind whenever I think of this character and then some. This is especially impressive considering that Ghendo as a person remains rather enigmatic all throughout the series even as we're getting exposed to bits and pieces of his backstory. Despite that, however, you deconstructed him to the degree that almost makes him seem like a real person, someone who could actually exist in that setting. If that's not a mark of someone who really cares about what they're doing, I don't know what is. With that said, as per tradition, I would like to provide you with a list of other characters that you might want to take a look at in the future: -Jesse James from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (quite possibly my personal favorite of Brad Pitt's performances. He pretty much does the impossible in this film - convey the personality of a man, who oozes with charisma and subtlety one moment, but can easily turn brutally homicidal the very next. Needless to say, I hope you will get to him someday); -John Fitzgerald from The Revenant (I realize that he has been suggested before, but still, there's a good reason for that. This particular role really showcases Tom Hardy's ability to play truly captivating villains. The way that I see it, his memorability mostly comes from the fact that he doesn't even have to be particularly expressive in order to convey his character's emotions, which results in the aura of quiet menace that follows him around in every single on of his scenes. One of Hardy's finest acts to be sure.); -Andrew Detmer from Chronicle (essentially Tetsuo if he grew up in modern day US. Really, the whole film is especially outstanding due to how it manages to blend some of the more cliche superhero-esque elements with genuine character development.); -Jang Kyung-chul from I Saw the Devil (considering that you had already taken a look at Lee Woo-jin from Oldboy, this one is a given. In stark contrast to his equally excellent role in the aforementioned Korean classic, Choi Min-sik makes for quite possibly one of the most deplorable villains I had ever seen in cinema. Likely in the same league of unrepentant evil as Jack if you think about it.); -General Francis Hummel from The Rock (Honestly one of the best examples of a true anti-villain in cinema. To the point where even calling him a villain would be something of a stretch in and of itself. Watch the film if you haven't already and you will understand exactly what I mean by that.).

15:44 is the part that he knows I DID IT ALL ON MY OWN!!! Appreciate it!!! 🤣

The sad part about Gendo is we can no longer take him seriously anymore as he became a Madao in the Gintama universe.

Vile I haven’t watched the rebuilds but am intimately familiar with the original series and I appreciate the work you did and have empathy for all of that seeming for not once it was all confirmed in the rebuilds. Great analysis and deconstruction as always my friend :)

wow, i did not expect an analysis on Gendo, but love this vid!

"When simping goes too far" A Gendo Ikari story

Gendo is such a great deviation from normal anime villains. He is not some strong fighter or intergalactic threat (atleast in the original). But he manages to be one of the greatest anime villains just through his sheer cold heartedness and abuse. Also, since you did cover NGE, it would be a pleasure if you covered Vicious from Cowboy Bebop, another one of my favourites.

Oh man I’ve been waiting for this one!

great video,can't wait for future video.

In the End of Evangelion, Instrumentality -- at least, Instrumentality as Shinji accepts it -- is presented as an escape from reality. A world of dreams, and a world of non-reality. A world without pain, but also without true happiness. My personal interpretation of Instrumentality has always been the total, logical end of Escapism, of rejecting reality and hiding from the pain that it comes with. Only by accepting the present reality, its pain along with it, can we begin to experience the joys that reality holds. That's how I've always interpreted it, anyway. Side note: Seeing this video on my timeline gave me such a dopamine rush, one of my favorite series getting an Analyzing Evil episode is a dream come true ^^

Recommendation: Yoshii from Texhnolyze. Texhnolyze is criminally underrated and I feel like Yoshii is an underrepresented yet beautiful type of villain

Good video. I loved how you covered both original and rebuild Gendos.

i requested this!! ^^ thanks Vile Eye :)

I remember my korean friend like 20 years ago telling me over and over how good this anime was, still haven't seen it!

Another great one. Still Vile I know I ask all the time but please do one on one of my favorite villains Nina Meyers from. “24.” A ruthless and cunning villain that is a perfect match to Jack Bauer.

Thank you for this drop ❤️

Your tantrum earned my subscription😂😂 I can relate to that so hard lmao personally I believed you as soon as you said you came to those conclusions independently but I understand your frustration lol

Oh DAMN, I am definitely up to watch this one. I've loved Evangelion ever since seeing it on VHS back in the 90s. I dunno what to say that wasn't already said, though yes he is essentially Shinji's own shadow, his dark reflection of the person he' was steadily becoming as well. If you do more anime villains, I recommend Dio Brando of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, the Ultimate Despair (and its leader) of Danganronpa, and the Incubator(whom we know by a different name before the reveal) of Madoka Magica, the last of these anime is to the magical girl genre what Evangelion is to the giant mecha genre.

Analyzing evil : Pablo Escobar plz he was a real life villain

I waited a long time for this thank you.

This video made my day, my week even.

THE Vile Anime Dad of all the Anime dad lol❤

Loved the vid! Can next be Frank Fontaine from Bioshock?

I really commend your dedication to these videos

thank you so much for this!!!!

Dude I NEED you to do either Dio Brando, or Heihachi and Kazuya Mishima. I think both Mishima’s deserve to be in the same video they’re both dark people that family meant nothing to them.

Something that occurs to me is that since Gendo’s primary goal is to reunite with his wife, he must have attempted to synchronize with Unit 01 at some point. That attempt and the aftermath would be fascinating to see.

I love this channel. Never thought we'd get a gendo analysis.

Awesome video. Did not disappoint.

Gendo is great villain both in eva tv series and movies

Gendo was an introvert tasked with saving the planet from divine super beings. Yes he became cold and objective. No he didn't want to get close to people so his decisions could be 100% rational and non-emotional. He had the world on his shoulders. He did take it a bit too far we find out

My friends meme about this series a lot, and they’ve all seen it and know it well, but I never have. I know the broad strokes through listening to their banter. Generally when this series comes up, I laugh or roll my eyes. When I heard you say “if you’ve ever lost something, you know Gendo Ikari” I thought, I’ve gotta watch this properly. Thanks for doing this one, Vile. And well done on puzzling out Gendo’s motives so accurately without having seen all the material first. That little edit near the end was both funny and impressive.

YES!!!! Thank you for covering him.