More reason why shinji is a hated main character, just compare him to asuka, damn, embarrassing, this is why alot of ppl hate evangelion bcuz the characters are annoying, especially the main character shinji is just pathetic, nice job making your main character pathetic and expecting ppl to like your story, that was unnecessary, just make a good main character if u have a good story.
@@bananadictator3032 as someone who has never seen the show, can you explain to me what exactly im failing to understand in these scenes? Shinji gets angry about these Eva Series killing Asuka, yet he loses that right to anger when he couldve helped her if he really gave a damn. It feels like a useless character meant to be useless until the plot decided he should care enough to really do something. But that is all i got from this scene. Again, never watched this
@@spiderfingers2113 You should watch it lol. But to answer your question, all the characters in NGE have pretty glaring character flaws and they all struggle with them throughout the show. Without spoiling too much, Shinji’s deal is he never does things because he wants to. He goes through life taking the path of least resistance to get people to like him. That’s why he’s essentially useless, but to appreciate it fully it’s better to get more context which the show provides
One of the things I love most about Evangelion is how agile and swift all the Evas are, yet you can still notice that there is great weight in motion going on.
It's something I've always respected about the series despite not being too big a fan of it. Universal consistancy like that can sell so much and does wonders for the setting.
@@budgroweryt9947 depends on the material they're made of, obviously it was some ultra advanced alien shiit since they are inspired by "angels" in the series, which included 4D shapeshifting cubes, 2D entities, beings that used themselves as kinetic orbital bombs, etc.
At first I didn’t understand why she was screaming in so much pain, but the I realized that the mech is technically connected to her nervous system. Holy crap, when the mech got its guts ripped out, I can’t imagine how much pain she was in.
not even that, when the spears hit the eva's hand and eye, since her sync rate was so high, it physically damaged her eye and hand. thats why her arm is split in half. thankfully her sync rate was low enough during the guts part that it didn't physically rip her guts out (or it could be that the suit was containing it, you decide)
@ESPEDIPADAS ORSCOIFADHHEJSJSWJWIWIEPINGES lol it’s like p4 animation where the personas are three feet away from the users at 75% of the times And then there is sees and phantoms who hurt themselves to summon one so I guess it’s equal
It's supposed to be a minimal thing so users can know what's being damaged. The thing is that Asuka here just achieves godhood and becomes one with her unit
for those that still need explaining; asuka, just before this battle, had gained new hope in herself after spending several weeks hopeless and bedridden by associating her eva’s AT fields with instead, her long awaited mother’s love (she was SUUPER screwed up from what happened to her but thats another discussion for another time). by gaining this hope and seeing her mother in Unit-02, she harnessed an EXTREMELY high sync ratio with her eva, allowing her to accomplish even greater feats in the 5 minutes of battery she had to fight all 9 Mass Produced Evas. she “killed” nearly all of them, so she thought. SEELE crafted 9 replicas of Spears of Longinus, which harness the power to pierce ANY A.T. Field, and believably pierce through an Eva’s armor to inflict damage directly to the pilot. her high sync ratio is also a cause of this- so when Unit-02’s guts start getting pulled out and sprawled out.. you get the idea. you can actually see the HUGE amounts of dark, viscous blood oozing out of her left eye at 2:28 . it should be mentioned that Evas are essentially HUGE and powerful humans. all of that armor serves to hinder its own free will and movement and to abide by the Pilot’s movements. one of the most heart-wrenching scenes is when Unit-02 begins going berserk, acting on a will of its own and starts screaming in agonizing suffering. people at NERV stationed in the Terminal Dogma can barely watch, and even start saying “ASUKA, STOP! PLEASE!” Unit-02 was still trying to get up to fight, which it could’ve, hadn’t it already been disemboweled and pierced through the head. but with its guts and blood staining everything around it, all it could do was reach up into the sky; its final attempt of retaliation.. only to be pierced by all 9 Spears of Longinus replicas, leading to Asuka’s entire arm being severed, and killing her.
@@solidsnape2186 SEELE wants puppets, tools they can use. They don't want individuals with a mind of their own, because they're always a threat. What made them want to kill her wasn't the strength, it was her free will they couldn't risk.
@@solidsnape2186 asuka would've interrupted the human instrumentality project (the third impact) which required shinji to be the vessel for, so SEELE wanted to destroy her AND her eva before she found out that she needed to destroy each Mass-Produced Eva's cores in order to kill them (which all harbored S2 engines, which meant that they didn't need a battery unlike asuka's eva) you could say in theory, yes, that asuka at some point could have found a way to go berserk and begin killing the M-P Eva cores, which would halt the progress human instrumentality project. unfortunately, SEELE came prepared with their own Spear of Longinus replicas in order to incapacitate her before she could reach that point.. of course, she did eventually go berserk, but it was too late.. her eva had already been pierced and disemboweled by SEELE.
I honestly think the most tragic part of this is that she was truly, seriously whooping those things' asses with style and fury but it amounted to literally nothing
The other side wasn't playing fair. If that had been a standard angel fight, Asuka would've handed its ass to it. Even with the multiple units, she was still winning. But Longinus spears made it unfair. No way anyone was going to win after they pulled that trick out of the hat. She was doomed to fail, but got so damn close anyways.
Heart got ripped out of my chest when I watched this the first time. Has to be one of the most brutal death scenes in anime, not just in terms of gruesomeness but from a psychological standpoint of the characters. I've never seen a show like this where you can like and hate almost all of the characters at the same time, but I guess that's what makes it so good.
Bro ,she won't die At the end She'll come back For three minutes where she'll say disgusting to shinji as it would be her first time accepting that she loves him lol. And until that she'll be in coma.She and shenji were the last two to survive
No it’s shinjis fault. He became full on coward and his inaction and complete resistance to act got kusuragi and aska killed and ended the world. Worst ending ever and completely unredeemable shut character. Like he’s actually disgusting to me. Fuck what people say about the ending being so philosophical or something he’s despicable. Then choking aska at the end in a fit of incel rage. Disturbing… idk why the creator threw his whole series in the garbage at the end. You can tell from his interviews he hates his own success and his own series.
I cried when I was a little kid watching this. Traumatized me for a bit, but now that I’m older I just appreciate this masterpiece. Edit: The scene before this when she is still under the water in her mech and the camera just slowly zooms while she whispers “I don’t wanna die” over and over is such a claustrophobic and strangely anxiety inducing moment.
@@Nil-pb7sf I was like 7 at the time so I had no idea what he was doing lol, a few years later I realized it.. My parents never would have let me watch it had they realized what content was in it, they just saw it and assumed it was a “action cartoon about robots”
You have to give her props Asuka nearly won if it wasnt for the Battery Life, the angels breaking her AT Field, the angels regeneratiing, and them all jumping her at once
i remember as a kid i was watching this with some friend "bro its going to be epic!" then the eva 02 being ripped apart and all of us were like lifeless on the couch. weak in the knees etc. like WTF we're watching?? lol man those are the days
I just want to know who sent her into battle alone? That’s a death wish if I’ve ever seen any. But it’s impressive that she felt all that damage and still put up a great fight.
Seele sent in their Mass Production Evas to attack NERV, the only thing Nerv had to defend themselves from them was another Eva. Unit 0 was destroyed and Shinji was being Shinji and having a mental breakdown and refused to get into Unit 1. Also, the Mass Production Eva’s a far superior to the units at NERV. Being equipped with S2 engines, completely eliminating the power cable. Dummy Plugs to replace the emotionally unstable teen pilots used for NERV Evas and mocks of the Spear of Longinus. They were essentially everything the NERV Evas were but better. Asuka was doomed from the very beginning. I personally blame Shinji for Asuka’s fate. If he had gotten into Unit 1 sooner and helped Asuka then maybe she would still be alive. I believe Shinji even stars this in End of Evangelion.
@@hugobaba4414 yeah asuka survived. Seems like a similar situation with akame ga kill anime how they killed off a few characters who were supposed to have survived in the manga.
This scene always makes me cry,maybe because I see myself in Asuka. Seeing her regain her confidence and kick ass only for her effort to be in vain, and she dies in such a horrible way too. I get more upset seeing her try to get up because I just want her to win so badly! 💔
I literally watched this a couple hours ago, and when I saw all 9 replica Spears of Longitis pierce the Eva, I was in pure, unadulterated shock. This is probably one of the only shows I've ever watched that made me feel every emotion possible. I commend it on that.
I've just noticed that since Asuka is synced 100% with her eva, the injuries actually physically happened to her, and the blood pouring out of her eye Now im completely fucking terrified of this scene
the physical injuries are caused by the artificial lances. as seen when unit-02 gets disemboweled but she is only grabbing her stomach in pain afterwards.
@@someasiandude4797 Yeah, since her eye and arm have the same injuries as the Eva, it’s likely that her organs are being horribly ripped apart, and that her suit is the only thing keeping them from spilling out.
@@christiantaylor1495 In order to work the Evangelions, they pilots have to connect their nervous systems to it. While this means that the pilot can control it better, it also means that they feel or receive any damage taken by the Eva. In this scene, Asuka is very synced with her Eva. And this leads to two moments where she takes the same damage that the Eva does. First is when the Lance of Longinus stabs Unit 02 through the face. We see Asuka scream in pain when it happens, but in a later cut to her, we see that she is bleeding heavily from her eye. This shows her taking the same damage as the Eva. At the end of the fight, Asuka’s arm gets split in half, again like Unit 02. We see the Mass Production Evas ripping into 02’s abdomen and devouring its organs. Asuka is shown to, at the very least, feel this pain as well (shown by her holding her belly and writhing in pain). I think it’s likely that she also had her own viscera ripped apart.
In the Rebuild timeline Asuka dies while testing the new Evangelion, the Asuka with the eyepatch was an angel, in End of Evangelion Asuka dies, or at least is in agony while the 3rd Impact starts, so she was taken to the giant ball of human souls, and could return to earth after Shinji canceled the whole thing
@@kobz2862 ive been watching lots of scenes of evangelion these past 3 years. I wanna watch it, but sadly im 50+ with lots of things to do :(. Can u kindly spoiler me the whole thing? And also why shinji mathsdebate on asuka?
I’ve never watched any of this series, but this scene out of context is extremely gut wrenching to watch. That first scream of pain kept me up at night after seeing this
Asuka can feel EVERYTHING happening to her regardless of each injury. However when the lance corpus (I guess some special power) comes in, her literal body inside the mecha took actual damage, hence the eye and the arm severing. When the got skewered with the other lances her body got skewered too to how she died fr
It honestly feels sick and perverted, in a way, on the part of the director and/or writer, especially when combined with the hospital scene. I'll try the show, and avoid this trash.
I mean Suzuhara survived his Eva being completely torn apart, even after the entry plug was destroyed. We don’t even see her entry plug destroyed, so the worst that happened is the excruciating pain and psychological damage… it’s entirely possible that her physical body was unscathed by that.
her arm literally got split in half inside the plug I think they were suggesting she wouldn't just receive some surface pain in the eva anymore, but would actually get the injuries like the volley of spears after
2:27 if you look close enough, you can see the blood coming out from her eye because of that first lance, and next her arm got split in half too. I didn't watch this whole series, so im not 100% sure, but i can guees, she completely die on that scene. But its an anime, everything can happen right.
If the attack is caused by a spear of Longinus the damage is reflected into the body of the eva pilot. There's also the fact that at this moment her connection was above 100%.
Idk man, I see blood like liquid dripping from her eye? Longinus and +100% synchro rate means it probably does happen physically. Tho I'm not sure why she didn't die with the brain being pierced. Maybe the battery power dropped to zero right before the brain is damaged? Anyways, she probably won't feel anything afterwards, including the Eva torn apart. So really just the eye pierce. Although, her arm got split in the next scene. Then the Eva got pierced with a bunch or lances. Not sure why that's the case though. Maybe her arm got split in that moment, but the Eva stopped again before she could feel again.
I was rewatching the movie and then when I saw this scene 2:27, I just realized that was blood flowing from her eyes holy shit can't really imagine the pain shes been through 😭
This was such a great turn in the movie, and I was really rooting for Asuka since this felt so hopeful. I was left feeling really sad during the scene where we watch her lose.
What I'm gathering is that with her full sync with the Eva, she was the most powerful being in the vicinity. But the Lance confounded that. At 0:25 she became a human in a hunk of metal infused with flesh. Surrounded by eldritch abominations hellbent on enforcing her demise. This is panic, frustration, despair, and rage. Pure fear.
This also the scene that cemented on why Mass Produced Eva's are terrifying. They regenerate, they don't tire because they do not need a pilot, and they're feral. How the hell SEELE can control these abominations, I have no idea.
and after instrumentality she decided she wanted to live again... that's why I love her... not everyone can deal with absolute defeat and even death and still continue, iconic, great, Asuka.
I watched this whole anime with no background knowledge and went from "oh wow, a cool anime about robots fighting monsters" to "WhAt ThE FucK". It's a masterpiece
@@PanMeansBread She was definitely dead, what the hell? Human Instrumentality just merges the soul, so dying and not dying doesn't matter, and souls can still get a body of itself as we saw when Shinji just imagined himself in Unit-01 after the Lelliel fight, even the Unit transformed into Reis and Shinji still managed to get his consciousness together out of the LCL Fanta Sea.
Everyone arguing that she did or didn't die from this, when whether if you're talking about the canon show (that blatantly said she died) or the alternate timeline of Rebuild, she still would have been turned into LCL regardless.
Because the actual problem was at Nerv and Gendo started the Human Instrumentality Project. It wouldn't have mattered if Shinji did help Asuka in the anime. The project was underway and couldn't be stopped and the mass produced EVAs had a role as designed.
Im not really into anime but my brother showed me this way back and i gotto say its a masterpiece. I hold this up there with Death note and code Geass. The only 3 animes ive watched multiple times throughout the years randomly.
Basically Evas are not robots but literally artificial living beings created by humans , it had even a soul inside it (Im not talking about the pilot but the eva itself) . Synch ratio is the game, the better the pilots synch ratio, the better the performance and control for the eva's because the pilot is linked neurologically with the eva which also means they will feel more whatever happens to the eva . Which is on this case is freaking painful. And it must be that asuka had super high sync ratio given that she felt her mother on this time , but i dont want to spoil why i said it. Just watch this anime like from the beginning up to the movie if you haven't watched it yet, its amazing.(well it depends how you would view things after watching the whole plot)
Fun fact: In a movie called One Our Photo starring the late Robin Williams... a kid brings Robin Williams an Evangelion toy, which happens to be one of the Eva Series. And then the kid said this, "It's a good guy, it can fly and it has a silver sword that can kill bad guys." 😂😂
watched the eating part frame by frame and you'll noticed the MPE arm now have a claw similiar when 01 berserk (pause the video then use key , and . to backward and forward frame by frame) Also one of them literally licking lots of drooling.
I was 14 when I first watched this. I will never forget the feeling I had that a great warrior had lost a battle she should have deservedly won. Such a great scene.
I like both scenes but in my personal bias, i would have liked a combination from how the manga and the movie do this scene, in the manga Shinji appears in time and saves Asuka life but he did not save her from being impaled by the lances, he saved her from other 3 evas who Asuka couldn't win against when she still had power left, she was beaten by them, not cheated (what you can see in the movie where she wins against all of them but they then rise again when she has 0 power left), i think it would a been more pleasing for both characters to show their strengths, Asuka showing how good her skills is to beat all of them and Shinji to come just in time to save her from the lances showing he got the spine to do what he truly wants, not to fight them while Asuka can only watch like in the manga, I'm sorry if this poorly structured.
I LOVE ASUKA! Outnumbered and outgunned on a limited power supply and she gives it everything she’s got. A fucking beast. Even better is despite her imminent defeat she still Has that fire in her and declared that she will kill the enemy. Obviously we know how it ends but there’s something so powerful about an obviously defeated person still having the drive to win regardless
for people confused as to why she was in pain... These people are injected into the spine of these large creatures for full control and have ESP connection that happens while inside the plug. So She felt her inners being ripped out and everything else while not actually having that happen.
I wonder about an alternate universe, where Asuka realizes that the mass production Eva's are far more Angel than machine and goes for the spot where the core is: the plug.
