CLOSURE at last │An Evangelion 3.0+1.01 Analysis 

I always took it as all endings are canon, since Kaworu is doomed to repeat them he knows all the other endings of Eva and his goal has always been to help shinji find happiness. Kaworu has watched him his whole life, in all of his lifetimes, he is protective of him.. shinji finally creating a universe free of Evas sets him free and breaks the loops, hence goodbye all of evangelion.

I find it hard to believe that there are people who can firmly say that they have fully understood this video and the story of evangelion 100%

Fan who only saw original 20+ episodes and the two movies out at that time: “So you’re saying it WASN’T complicated enough originally…got it.”

This is a really solid analysis and sufficiently debunks any arguments made that New Theatrical Edition was a soulless cashgrab. In reality, it was a passion project that Anno could have chosen to rush through to get a quick buck, but instead clearly thought deeply about it and worked hard with his team to execute the vision. As a longtime fan it's been a wild ride, and I'm incredibly happy with how things ended.

After spending my entire life with eva, from the 90s until today, the closure I received from 3.0+1.01 is just.. jesus christ.. 30 years of an abusive hard loving relationship with eva.. I cried, and cried, and cried. I literally jumped up and started screaming and cheering once one last kiss started playing. every time I see that last 30 seconds and hear one last kiss, I can't keep it in. To this day. my heart is at rest!

Evangelion could be its own college course....

The final Eva movie for me had one main message. "It's time to grop up".

Do you know that feeling when you finish reading a good book. That feeling of regret for ending a good story? Yeah, i'm drowning in that feeling.

When Thrice Upon a Time was released I was just overcoming my anxiety and imposter syndrome, faced my dad for my insecurities and finally became the man I wanted myself to be. This coincidence made the movie speak loudly to me: I've accepted my weak inner child at the same time Shinji accepted theirs. I let Evangelion go, and my guilt altogether. These are the happiest years of my life, as an adult, at last.

You’re very underrated

i feel like i just completed a summer semester course on Evangelion. but seriously, these videos were brilliant and i need to rewatch all of them everytime i rewatch these movies. Theres still so much for me to learn and understand

This is an excellent, albeit fast, analysis of this incredible finale to my favorite anime series of all time. The only thing I sorta feel differently about is Gendo's realization about Yui and Shinji. I just interpreted a little more simplistically that he couldn't find Yui because she was dead and gone and her spirit was with Shinji/inside of Unit 01 but her memory lived on through their child, Shinji, and he should have spent more time with Shinji as he is a living symbol of their love and the future that Gendo should have invested his time in if he wanted to be "close" to Yui. I just saw it as more of a heartfelt but bittersweet realization that Yui's memory and love lived on through Shinji and Gendo realized it too late that what he was searching for was there the whole time in his son. Fuck do I love this film. Thank you for putting this together too!

How the hell do you not have more views/subs??? Your videos are amazing, this is by far one of the best 3.0+1.0 (or honestly rebuild movies in general) videos ive seen! It legitimately helped me understand a plot issue i didnt understand since 3.33 literally came out

I barely had a clue wtf was going on in this near the end, but I loved it all the same.

Thank you for making this video. It’s one of the best analyses of the rebuild series I’ve ever seen. You were able to clearly explain so many scenes that I thought were meaningless and just for visual spectacle. I’m also blown away by the numerous references to Mesopotamian religions. I love all the rebuild movies and this gave me an even deeper appreciation for them. Now I’ve gotta binge all your Eva content!

This is what I love seeing. Eva reviews and comprehensive video descriptions that include music. Thumbs up.

The story of Evangelion pilot Shinji Ikari is finished. That's all we needed. That way, Anno Sensei can come back to the Eva universe, bring us new stories, and there won't be a need to connect to anything Shinji related. Or maybe anyone else, like Sadamoto Sensei and his manga timeline. Just as Eva, the possibilities are endless

These videos helped so much in understanding the rebuilds of Evangelion, thank you for making this video series for everyone so we could all understand this amazing story Anno made.

This was a MASTERFUL analysis!!!!! Only ONE single little thing that could have made it better: at 34:50 you could have put in One last kiss to play the video out and then let it play on a black screen just a few seconds to get to the chorus. Would have pushed the video up slightly form a 10/10 to an 11/10 heh

The effort and detail you went through… just thank you. I have a much better understanding of what’s maybe my most favorite epic ❤

Everyone but Shinji and Mari being on the other side of the tracks at the end says it all: Anno, you, me, and everyone who gets it, is done. We finally get to walk away, we get that *closure.* The rest of the cast on the other side, the characters who in many ways were simply tools to tell the story, the people who can't/won't let EVA go... their story can go on, or it can end in any infinite number of ways, but it doesn't, *shouldn't* matter to us. We each live our own lives. Instrumentality was rejected for a reason.

This was so delightful. Thank you ❤

This is literally the most informative Evangelion vid I've ever seen. I'm gonna have to watch it 3 or 4 times to make any meaningful sense of it, but good sh*t brosef.

At last "someone" brings up the Annunaki ! There are two few who talk about "traversing" the tree of life ....maybe its best that way

damn dude... now THAT was an analysis, I also agree that this is most likely the final outcome of Evangelion since the evas are no more, the only thing that could happen as Anno mentioned would be a movie down the road that would cover what happened in the timeskip between 2.0 and 3.0

This series is the be used whenever i force any close friends to go down the Eva rabbit hole. Low key wish whoever rereleases the first thee films would include these videos as special features.

even though this video was still a little confusing, it really cleared up so much of what I was having trouble understanding with the rebuild series. Thank you for the recap and explanations. keep up the good work!

What an awesome conclusion to your Eva series! I recently bought the last film, watched it and liked it but your analysis of the cryptic plot points made me to like it far more. The inclusion of the Anunnaki gods make sense as they are basically the fallen angels of genesis 6. Even though I enjoyed the original series and film more I'm pleased most of the characters finally got the happy endings they deserved. Keep up the amazing work on your channel man!

the rebuilds are amazing, tho I’m still a bit confused, I’m starting to understand, so thank you so much, for the info on the anime that changed my life❤ honestly got choked up to see the picture at the end

went way deeper than i was ready for. good job.

This video made me realize that I'd watched every other EVA thing, but had never watched the 2.0 / 3.0 movies. So I stopped your video, went and watched them both, and then came back for your analysis. The feeling of catharsis at the end of 3.0 was what this series always needed to have a proper ending, I'm glad they made these. Thanks for causing me take the time to watch them!

Man I must say. You did a phenomenal job concluding Evangelion. Bravo. I’m happy for Shinijis ending. I almost cried lol I held back emotions. I got really invested in this anime

I can't believe after 28 years Anno's ghosts of misery are finally put to rest. This has weighed on me. NGE has always caught my attention, but it's grimdark, like 40k. You have no reason to hope which is why the few glimpses of happiness and success are such a big deal. I can't believe we actually got a happy ending. It's the last thing I expected but it's what I really wanted most. Thanks for explaining all the technobabble that goes almost wholly unexplained. Great video.

I’m not even halfway through, and I can already feel my brain burning

Big props on this, dude! I don't have any profound things to say, but I hope adding a little extra engagement will help you in the algorithm. You totally deserve it!

Outstanding analysis … very impressive. Definitely subscribing and checking out your other work. Thanks!

Thank you, I finally understand Evangelion.... I now have closure... thanks

I love thrice upon a time. That ending hits so hard but in a good way. Finally there’s closure :)

Boy, was that a good explanation. Cheers from Brazil!

great video~! i was so happy to finally see the ending i desired. imo it was just perfect.

I need to go back and watch and read EVERYTHING (I have all the Evangelion manga) because of your videos, reading up on Mesopotamian religions (I think Zoroastrianism is one of them because I remember hearing the names Lilith and Marduk being mentioned in my world history class from highschool YEARS ago), read up on ancient Judaism, then re watch this video. I genuinely appreciate you spending time doing your research, writing down your thoughts, distilling them into this video series that breaks all of this down I'm still a bit lost but this is because this is a fire hose of important information, and I have adult ADHD. You're freaking legendary and have gained a new follower. If you haven't had a chance to visit Japan and the Tokyo-1 Evangelion store, definitely add it to your bucket list.

i swear youre so good at explaining, i cant stop listening

I watched the series a few years ago. The ending made me mad. Then i watched the first two movies a few days ago. Those endings made me ask, "why did I come back? now I'm more mad..." Then I watched the rebuild movies over the last couple days, somehow without spoilers after all these years. I am so satisfied I continued to the end, and very happy with the complete story.

Great video, Tony man! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Fantastic, made so easy to digest!

Guess I’ll just never get it. Every Eva explained video is like a research presentation by a scientist specializing in a really niche field: there’s just too much special terminology and logic for one unlearned to follow along. I _think_ the general premise is people trying to amass objects with the right properties in the right place to get what they want, but what objects with what properties and where and what the people want is left to the realm of fan theorization? Idk. Following that logic I’m at least able to accept everything that happens. Nevertheless, Eva is one of my favorite works of fiction. The sci fi might fly right over my head but the human journeys and arcs are just so real and compelling. And seeing y’all who are able to get a foothold in the lore speculate and build cases for your theories is fun. Keep it up!

you need way more subs dude this is so good

Great analysis! Been watching Evangelion since the 90's. Thanks for biblical clarification, I'm to lazy to do that research.

This was so masterful. Subscribing immediately

Hey, i saw that little bit of Animatrix that you put in there! Very nicely done video.

I recently got to watch all 4 Rebuild movies on Amazon Prime. As a long time fan of Evangelion over the last 24 years, this rebuild series did not make a lick of sense. But it sure was pretty. I enjoyed the films, even though I had no idea what was going on. Thankyou for this breakdown - you have helped me to realise that indeed there definitely was ‘something’ going on, as I suspected… I am now at peace in the knowledge that I will never understand it.

HOLY SHIT... THE REBUILDS ARE A MASTERPIECE. IT ALL MAKES SENSE.

Bro, really cool video. You make sense of things in the whole franchise that I didn't even perceived. A lot of research and connections. Appreciateed. As a criticism. Maybe this one is too much to digest. I feel like it would have been better to split it up into a series of videos explaining categories on it's own. For example one video connecting the dead sea scrolls (from Eva) to the mesapotemian pantheon one dedicated to explain relationship between Adam, Lilith and Spears and so on. Just as an idea.

Dude you cover lots of stuff here I haven’t seen anywhere else. Nice work!!

Soo much information to take it. But thank you Took soo much time since the release of the last movies to find somone to explain the Details of what's happening Not just the philosophical theories

Clearly I need to go back and watch the movies, but you clearly know what you're talking about more than any other explanation I could find when I first finished it.

And here i was thinking I knew about evangelion... -_- Thank you for these, i cant imagine the amount of research and work you had to put into it.

One thing I do question, is why after everything is said and done, Asuka is nowhere and to be seen, and Shinji is with Mari, when he had confessed to Asuka that he had loved her. Yes, I'm aware that "loved" is the important word there, but even if those feelings are no longer present, I don't understand why Asuka ins't there at all. If Rei wasn't there, it would make sense that Asuka wouldn't since that would mean that by making it so that Evangelions never existed that the clones wouldn't either, but that isn't the case since Rei is present. I can only think of 2 explanations for this, the first is that all the other characters are from Japan, and the final sequence shows their lives in Japan, and that Asuka is still living in Germany since the Evas never existed, similar to how she doesn't appear in Neon Genesis Evangelion until about halfway through the series. The other explanation I can think of is that Rei does not exist because of Evangelions, and that Asuka does exist because of Evangelions, which would mean that if Evangelions weren't to exist, neither would Asuka. It's clear that Asuka is a different character in rebuild, since she has none of her trauma that was characteristic of her in Neon Genesis, not to mention having a different name, which is an important distinction to make because it means that we can't definitively say anything about Asuka Langley Shikinami's past that isn't stated, and sadly not a lot about her is stated. I always felt that Asuka was the biggest weakness of Rebuild as a result of all of this. That she wasn't given the same level of importance as the other characters were, especially since it would have made more sense that Asuka would end up with Shinji, but instead Shinji ends up with the nothing character. Despite your points on Mari, I still think there was absolutely nothing that justifies her and Shinji being together in the end, especially when the story finally made it crystal clear that Shinji and Asuka have feelings for one another. The only thing I can think of that would lead to this is if thanks to Evangelions never existing, that Asuka and Shinji would have never met, and if that scene on the beach, mirroring the ending of The End of Evangelion where Shinji and Asuka speak to eachother and Shinji tells her that he loved her, acts as an acknowledgement that they would have been together if given the chance, but without Evangelions it simply wasn't going to happen. Maybe I'm looking to hard at this, but if you care to read all this, I wanna know what you think about Asuka not being present at the end.

Stupendous video. I mean I still don't understand the Rebuild lore but I'm glad someone does.

What a deep dive into the series - thank you for doing the research and thinking long about what everything means. While I wonder how anyone could possibly even get this much understanding out of it, it does give me hope the iceberg of story is there, even if hidden large. Importantly, the series finally has closure that I can be satisfied with after the first two endings, which never made me happy - one, which made Shinji the biggest jerk to stuff up his one chance to make everything right by wishing for something selfish, and two, which felt like some kind of counselling fantasy success. I could never have expected a happy ending for this series given all the gloom and dystopian apocalyptic babble it evoked, and yet here Anno has managed to do it in a way I can see the plot worked towards believably. He seriously has come a long way in terms of storytelling and pacing. Do I miss elements of the original episodes? Yes, I do - for one, Asuka and Shinji don't get together - but now I can watch them and appreciate parts of the iceberg, or parts that were discarded for the rebuild. There was a rawness about the original series that is lost in the rebuild, which is more commercially friendly while not sacrificiing its soul. But how often does a creator get to (can) redo with carte blanche his life's passion work? Truly a gift.

すばらしい考察だ。天晴

Me, who hasnt seen anything youre talking about since the original: Fascinating!

I will say Evangelion was far more complicated before 3.0+1.0 rebuild, it eases my soul knowing i got a large understanding from my watch through alone and only had to fill a few blanks with explained videos rather than the ending neon Genesis original run which left me confused and broken.

This is at the same time so confusing and so illuminating. Only EVA could create such a combination.

Wow, my brain is blowing up, never though any of these theories before awesome I subsribed your channel now

Few series have taken this much time to reach a truly satisfying conclusion, but then again few properties are so closely tied to their creator's mental state that until the creator found peace the story was never going to have real closure.

My brain is on fire trying to follow this.

This channel is criminally underwatched.

Thank you for this

I have fallen in-love with this franchise Evangelion from memes, to anime, to analysis. In my own interpretation (or maybe everyone else) of that train station scene Asuka, Rei and Kaworu clothes as an Teenager (maybe just young adult) about to go into their own adventure that will find their own happiness while Shinji already experience enough for his lifetime found that happiness his looking for and that's the reason why his clothing is already what an adult or middle age man would wear. For Mari what I could say an (already matured adult) while Shinji is just (coming to an Adult) but still lack the purpose to move forward and the reason why Mari removed that collar and putting it inside her pocket teaching him to letting go of the past but never forget the past even tho its just a collar at this point in time but Mari knows that it just holding him back and him subconscious finding comfort wearing it. their relationship could be romantical but for me they just close-friends and Mari wants to help Shinji drive to improve himself more while being adult stage of his life and the mater of fact that they are close to each other and not showing any discomfort maybe shows how close are they really are maybe in a future where Shinji and Mari would date each other or already did but its quite funny not many movie just make me smiles looking at the final scene of it until the credit rolls and music start. thank you Evangelion making the most confusing anime I have watch and most satisfying to end with. what a ride am I right?

New favorite evatuber

This story is one of the greatest every written, Its a bit confusing on first watch but after some time it starts to make sense. I remember watching Eva when I was a teenager, fresh off other Mecha anime like Gundam and Eureka 7, so I immediately thought I'd be witnessing a story where the shy and awkward MC grows into a confident pilot with a super cool robot by the end of the series run time. Boy was I wrong haha. Anyway I circled back to Eva some years later and rewatched it and I think my life experiences into my early twenties had an effect on how I viewed the story beats, it suddenly made sense. The movies added and the rebuild series added even more, each viewing adding a layer to the story and finally when I got to thrice upon a time, I felt closure. Just like Shinja at the end, I felt like I could finally move on and that in of itself makes it a truly unique story.

Dude. You just explained evangelion. Congratulations!

a new movie was announced on July 14, not everything has been said, but I can't wait :D

I came in thinking this was a film review or something, but I'm definitely not disappointed in what I got

I thought I would understand this video.....I did not. Nice video.

Holy hell i didnt know that evangelion was this complicated , watched everything now just trying to wrap my head around it . +

This is awesome. I wish I understood it

When Gendo finally says sorry... Eva is finally ending in my heart. It is like finally digesting that one stuck lump in my throat. The relief! The satisfaction!

All I can think about while watching this is Charlie from It's Always Sunny at the cork board with all the strings and pins

Mind officially blown!🤯

cant wait for 2029 when we get to witness all of this in person! so excited!!!

I just wish Rei II and Shinji were allowed more scenes together, given how much they were emphasized in the Rebuild saga. But of course, Anno hates the former and her relationship with Shinji so that didn’t happen, instead being dropped with very little in terms of closure, because Anno has nothing but spite for her character.

What are your thoughts on the very final scene, in the train station? Is this the real world that every character now resides in, does Village 3 etc still exist or is everything to do with Eva completely erased? Or is the station simply in the AU and Shinji and Mari are leaving it? Or are there perhaps multiple universes now, one where impacts happened, one where they didn't? Love the analysis and attention to detail here, super informative!

You earned this sub

From the moment Mari was introduced, I felt as though I understood that Shinji could never be happy with Asuka or Rei and that she was the first proper complement to Shinji.

It occurred to me... the aliens who sent Adams and Lillith's across the galaxy. Their work and perhaps even themselves, still exist. And the closest thing to a robot defender Earth has been shown to muster... Is JETALONE. ... Cue Jet Alone opening credits

Thank you

So, this is the end… finally left behind all this beloved characters that been with me along all these years… I feel a strange mix of happiness and sadness

Hi never seen any of your content before I have to say this was extremely well done, and seems to hit on most of the points that I have been considering since 3.0+1.01 came out. Really stellar work, friend.

Wraped it up with a quantum bow. Thats how it felt when i watched it. Liked and subed.

i was always under the impression that rey never had a soul since she's a clone of shinji's mother and her soul is trapped inside unit 1 (unbeknownst to gendo). or does rey have a lilith's soul infused into the clone body since gendo couldn't recover his wife's soul? i swear evangelion lore makes my head spin xD

I shed a tear with every mispronunciation of Kaworu's name

You're awesome. Thank you for this video

there could be infinite decimal number between whole numbers Like 1.1111 2.2222 etc Meaning there are infinite small possibilities in big possibilities which may result in a infinity loop

I'm always been told that the lore of evangelion is not something I should take seriously or over-analyze, but damn this video, i don't even think over-analyze is the right word to describe it

It is so good on Anno to make all this esoteric, fanservice-riddled bullshit when his main point appears to be "Get a life and leave me the fuck alone". Loved the mythology stuff! Mechanical justification of events is what kept holding me back from enjoying the Rebuild movies. The "But what the fuck is even going onnnnn" factor overpowered me ;DDD Thank you for this vid! Maybe I'll finally be able to watch the movies without hating them ;DDD

All I understand is: Impact = Annihilation, + cool spears and irl lore mixed in

Amazing video. I'm not going to think of it as fanwanking but as cannon since it seems to have its own internal logic and answers many of the remaining questions/irregularities I had. Also, "biological vegetables" cracked me up and was a great slip up.

Nice to see someone actually understand the mesopotamian connection, very apparent even with a base level of ancient history.