I hereby call this video… The Evangelus. You get it, Father. The final two episodes made me cry and realized that I am a child of the Universe; I belong here. Now please do watch the Rebuilds! 🙏🏽
The REIbuilds are a "middle finger" to the toxic fandom who ignored the Existentialism of the original series/EoE... It's like those who read Nietzsche and only come away with Nihilism/Narcissism/Consumerism... You make them something completely absurd and overwhelming, until the taste of their idolatry sours on their tongues... Hideaki Anno also does liveaction, and he's the Stanley Kubrick/Alejandro Jodorowsky of Japan.
@@ynraider damn homie you right though we are eating from the trash can of ideology every day and we gotta get in the robot or put on the glasses idk if you know zizek you sound like you know zizek
I was lucky enough to be an American kid who is digesting these episodes in real time as they came out in 1996 at my local independent video store. Me and my friend,Armando, would go in every week and beg the clerk, “please, do you have the newest Evangelion VHS?“, And every couple of weeks, or once a month, the clerk would say “yes!“ We watched them on the edge of our seat, watching the 2-episode, subtitled, tape over and over again, pausing frames to glean information and speculate. Soon I had brought other friends into our fascination. Pun, no doubt inevitable, like a religious experience, we sat enraptured as the story unfolded. I, like you, may be in the minority in loving episodes 25-26-but we had followed so closely and had so much pent-up speculation, that we were far beyond wanting an action-packed conclusion. For us, the surreal and introspective resolution was far more interesting because it fed us little bits of answers we had been craving. I’ve now seen that original VHS version of the show seven-times and each time there is new nuances revealed. I’ll also say, having seen various versions over the years, on DVD and Blueray, both Dubbed and Subbed-The original VHS with subtitles is still my favorite (and I think best) translation.
That's right, father, in evangelion religious symbols are not just to be cool but they also have meaning, tree of live, chamber of guf, longinus, evas, adam, lilith, melchior, gaspar, balthasar... everything is related . People saying it is just because it is cool has no idea and say that because an interview.
I do believe the man was being genuine in the interview, but the writers did such a good job researching Christian themes that the show accidentally had Christian messages 😂
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I think people misunderstand that interview. I think what he's trying to say is that the show doesn't have a religious "message". It's not saying "god is the way and shinji needs to convert to Christianity" and instead it's just heavily inspired by Christianity as more of an artistic influence
the second movie, ¨the end of evangelion¨ is the final conclusion. It's a must-watch. lot's of religious iconography there too. the first one is just a compilation of the series
Might I recommend "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood". Although it, obviously, deals a lot in alchemy; classical alchemy uses a great deal of Christian and Jewish religious symbolism that you might find interesting how it is interrupted and integrated. also, "each angel is terrifying." yeah... that's why they usually lead off with "BE NOT AFRAID." when dealing with a mortal. slight spoiler: the reason the children are the ones who piolet, and are in fact the only ones capable of piloting the EVAs is their mother's souls have been entrapped in them. unit 01, has Shinji's mother's full soul, unit 02 has a fragment of the very broken Asuka's mother's soul, and unit 00 is a special case as Rei is well special. this is a by product of experimentation on Adam and Lilith called the "contact experiments" and their outcome is a major driving force for Gendo Ikari's drive. while canon it's not something you are going to find simply watching the series.
Also: the story of Evangelion is the story of Hideaki Anno's struggle with depression. In this light, the Rebuild movies (specially the last one) are the true ending of this story. And its a beautiful ending. Sayonara Evangelion.
The REIbuild movies are the true "middle finger" to the toxic fandom that NEVER truly liked nor understood the Existentialist messaging of the original ending AND movies.
Your explanations are so spot on. You really illustrated why this series means so much for so many. Thank you Father. It may seem silly but Evangelion made me rediscover my Chirstian faith.
Having watched Evangelion for a little over a decade now, I absolutely love your insight into the series itself and it's religious themes. It's so nice having a fresh mind look at it and to see how they interpret it. Thank you for your content!
Ive been a christian and a geek for all of my life. And for all of my life ive had trouble conciliating thrse two sides of me. Ive always heard that "those japanese cartoons are from the devil" and that i couldnt like them and be a good christian. Recebtly ive been going through a lot of difficult sutuations, and i kind of lost sight of myself. Both as a geek, and as a Christian. Finding your channel is helping me to gind myself again. Thank you father. God bless you.
First time watching your videos and I loved your take on it! I know before I got into the series I kept hearing so much negativity about the show with its ending as well as the long pauses, but when I experienced it myself I resonated so much with it. It was not only able to combine a cool mech show, but also the struggles and self discovery of characters that many people could relate to on some level. Anno and the team did a fantastic job with it and I'm glad Netflix and other platforms are giving people a chance to experience it.
It’s really cool hearing you talk about this great show! You might also want to try Angel’s Egg, an anime movie with some religious imagery and subtext
This was such an enjoyable watch! I'm not Christian, so I've certainly been bothering my Christian friends to give NGE a watch to (hopefully) explain everything that went over my head. I'll absolutely be watching your other videos--religious analysis is fascinating, and your presence on camera is magnetic. You seem so sincerely excited to talk about what you do, and you have a very open and welcoming air when you speak. Thank you for giving this new genre a shot, even when it previously seemed simple and childish!
I’ve never gotten a chance to watch Eva in it’s entirety, but it’s definitely something on my queue to rewatch from start to finish. Much of its themes are pretty interesting. I would warn some that it’s not necessarily for kids, it’s something for young adults to watch and relate to. I think one big reason for why I watch anime is because there are many with religious and philosophical themes along side just being general entertainment. I am looking forward to future videos Father!
It's an amazing ride and for the full experience, you'd need to go through it three times, since the Rebuild movies are merely the third and final canon cycle, after the TV version and manga.
I remember when it aired on Adult Swim when I was in high school in 2006-2007. I didn’t have a DVR in my home yet and I had to work a night shift at McDonald’s so I often missed a lot of episodes. I was mildly intrigued by it, but was kinda turned off by the “old” (1995) production quality, so I somewhat ignored it. My friend however who did have a DVR loved it and insisted I watch it, so I started to watch a few episodes, but it’s a show that you have to really watch in sequential (not randomly tuning in during reruns) in order to really appreciate, so I still didn’t grasp the full story. Eventually my friend let my borrow his DVD of End of Evangelion (definitely not for kids lol) and I remember it traumatized me a little bit also left me intrigued to know more. When I started going to college and had access to high speed internet, I was able to watch the entire series in order on TH-cam (copyright enforcement was very lax back then, lol) and I was blown away but it, and I was able to watch EoE again with more understanding and truly appreciated it. Evangelion taught me that anime can be more than just “popcorn entertainment” it can have deep and involving plot lines and character building that leave a lasting impression on you. It got me into discussing anime on online forums, which was something I never did before, because I wanted to talk about Evangelion with others who had watched it and discuss all the themes and plot points of it. I remember being ecstatic when the Evangelion Rebuild 1.0 came blu ray and me and my same friend from high school discussed it more. We also went to a special screening of Rebuild 2.0 in Dallas which is something I’ll never forget!
If I remember right, only children can maintain the psychic resonance link with the EVAs Adults lose the capability. But there's also a spoiler reason for why these specific children were selected.
SPOILER ALERT FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVENT SEEN IT YET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i havent watched this video yet, commenting so i remember to later, as well as talk about how Eva affected me. After watching the original episodic series, i was left someone confused at the end. We (shinji and us, the viewers) had made it. but to where? how? i wasnt sure if i was supposed to be happy or not. after that, i had watched the movie, the "true" ending of the TV series. i was depressed. so fucking depressed. everyone was gone, everyone was dead, in the end there was nothing. i was a changed person for weeks after that. eventually, i finally managed the courage to watch the 4 movies, and it was almost cathartic, seeing everything come together, explain how their world kept repeating, and seeing shinji completely end the process and end up in the "real" world. it was like watching Hideaki Anno come back to the world, and it helped me do the same
I couldnt understand the last episodes but it was so absolutely visceral that I came out of this experience terrified and depressed. Such a great series man
Evangelion is ironically very easy to understand if you know one thing: The key to unlocking this series is absolutely everything from the characters to the themes and motifs is just a dialectic between intimacy and alienation, and the fluidity of human identity. On one hand you have utter alienation, embodied by the angels, which are each wholly unique and singular beings. Some of them are so foreign to our concept of life they break physics, and some seem incapable of interacting with others except through violence, a fundamentally alienating act. On the other extreme, you have Human Instrumentality, which is complete and utter homogenity of being. In this state, individuality ceases to be. "You" are not even a concept anymore, because that implies there is more than one person (You vs Me vs Us vs Them, etc). All people are one person, an undifferentiated being. Over the course of the show the, Anno riffs on this idea to varying degrees. Age, sexuality, maturity, family, everything is up for grabs in an uncomfortable mess.
As a catholic and massive fan of eva, I absoloutly love your take on it! Eva's focus on the phsycological is compleatly unique from any other ive seen.
Great video. It's nice to see people frok all walks of life who are so different from one another, appreciate the same phenomenal series. I'll be sure to send this video to others. God bless 🙏
Loving this series so far, Father. I'd be very interested in your take on Mushoku Tensei. there are those that call it a redemption story, but it isn't. The main character remains a sinner, but he keeps going forward no matter what.
It is so awesome to have a priest get into this, as I just finished this series. Thank you sir for this awesome (unique and rare) content. Alot of anime is NOT for kids haha.
I started the show a yearish ago and it's helped me change my life. Rewatch these whole show and let the show spell it out slowly. You go in as shinji,but you come out so.thing diffrent
@@fatherroderick-anime awesome I also noticed some Christian themes in attack on titan especially when it comes to the descendants of Jacob and the Israelites
@@windmill63 "Attack on Titan"'s Rumbling, is a metaphor of globally erasing Black History, as our ancestors were the GIANTS that built human civilizations... "How Eugenics Erased Black History" by Straight UP; YT upload is damning evidence of this correlation.
Ending note: the movie End of Evangelion is intended as an alternative ending to the last two episodes of NGE. _i.e. it's what would've happened if Gainax didn't deplete their animation budget._ Both are still considered canon.
*_I genuinely felt as though it was an trumendously spiritual anime to the point of me being absolutely convinced at that moment that God existed after watching the show._*
I saw this on VHS when I was young. I thought it was amazing then. Glad so many people are finding it now. I just wanted to find out why it's so popular after all this time.
I feel like I should point out that you called the Angels "robots". They aren't robots. They're living beings powered by a Super Solenoid organ which provides them with unlimited energy, but limited creative potential. And since most of them are enormous in size, they're essentially _kaiju._ Even the Evangelion units are cybernetically-enhanced clones of Adam, the progenitor of the Angels, operated by a human pilot. In fact, the only true Giant Robot in the original series is Jet Alone.
While I understand the criticism, it is much easier to say “big robots” instead of going into detail, especially in a spoiler free way. Also technica not all Eva’s are clones of Adam
@@user-ev2je4mf4pWhile you’re at it, you might as well remind me that the EVAs are actually _kaijin_ because they’re humanoid. Besides, my main point is that the Angels aren’t robots. Sure, Bardiel hijacked Unit-04, Armisael assimilated Unit-00, and Ireul hacked the MAGI Supercomputers, but the Angels are 100% organic.
@@cardinalhamneggs5253 Those are all canonically organic systems compromised by organic Angels as well... MAGI is a set of cloned human brains based on Ritsuko Akagi's deceased mother. It was cheaper to enslave a human brain than to make a functioning AI.
These series of video on Eva are very interesting! Is there anyone better than a theologian to explain christian symbolism in Evangelion? I don't think so!
Actually 26 Episodes is somewhat short for a anime, specially from the 90’s and previews then anime could go 50, 100, or more episodes. Now a days 25-26 are the standard for a single season of episodes in a year and then they come back the following year with another 25-26 eps, adapting the manga material (considering it is adaptation a pre-existing manga). Back in the 90s and early 2000’s the series go on non-stop as long as the ratings where good and whenever the anime caught up to the events of the manga they usually did original history arcs, to give time the manga to advance. But while not always, but most times that filler as it came to be known, came to be disliked by the fans, to the point that some animes have being rebooted after the manga ended to do the “original manga ending” instead of the “non-original tv ending”, some examples are Fullmetal Alchemist, Hellsing, Shaman King. But some filler has being welcome by the anime fans like the Asgard arc, in the series on Saint Seiya, which was made after the success of the Asgard inspired OVA (Original Video Animation), making and 26 original tv story that it was not on the Masami Kurumada’s manga, and was put between the manga canon arcs one the Sanctuary and Poseidon (the first and second big arcs of the manga).
This is what I've been looking for, love the series n movies, love the religious connection n I get most of it but I need that someone to help with the lore of it n how it connects, also all the new movies are connected to the series too, there's an awesome multiple timeline video here on TH-cam that'll help you make even more of those connections, it's like over an hour long, thank you, can't wait to see more
This is an incredibly insightful and poignant reading picking up on little themes i didnt even realize. I grew up with this series, am deeply familiar with the genre tropes, and raised Catholic, but Im going to have to revisit the show again. For this to be your first watch and brush with anime in general is jumping into the deep end and being able to swim.
I personally prefer the original TV series and Ending movie over the "Redo" Movies, I feel the old series reflects the creators original vision more than the REDO movies, the redos felt like "here, here's what you wanted, now take it" it has that kind of vibe to it.
It's the character psychology, similar to shows like Digimon or the Sopranos, it delves into the minds of its cast. Similar to Shakespear there is alot to get from it, and alot to be annoyed at, I personally wish it was longer, maybe like 2 or 3 seasons.
Agree with you 100%; been saying it for years, and every re-watch just confirms it at a new level. Granted, the meaning/correlation of the story to the symbol is almost never direct/obvious, but it is definitely there. And yes, the final two episodes are peak anime, once you break free of the shock in storytelling/genre. The only "revisions" for them they did that are *almost* as good is in Episode 4 of the Rebuilds (but that version [the Rebuild series] is essentially a self-contained separate canon).
The TV endings are vastly superior because they give us more psychological insight to Shinji. The movies manufacture this hero character to please audiences. I’m with you Father, the TV endings are very good and the only endings in my opinion.
I dont find any religious meaning in this series at all. However, it is DRIPPING with spiritual and transcendental meaning. I think that people get the sense that, even if theyre totally confused, there is something deeper going on here. The main theme is obviously being the relationship between separation and connection and the individual person relating to others. We are the source of both pain and love for each other, and that seemingly paradoxical tragedy forms the core of not only the theme, but the plot, and the central anxiety and drama of pretty much every human's life. I dont find that religions actually tap into that much other than just providing some vague god to guide you from beyond and eventually promises you perfect connection. But there's not a deep exploration. I think eastern religions tend to do this better because it's a journey within an individual's own soul, not some perfect savior coming to put it right for us.
the angels arent robots they are living things, they are an alternate form of life from us, and the evangelions arent robots either they are clones of the first angel adam infused with the souls of the pilots mothers, thats why they need those children to pilot them only they can sync with their mother;s souls, and the reason they need the evangelions is because they can project an AT-field just like the angels which allows them to break through the Angels own AT-field and allow them to fight effectively, but neither the evangelions of the angels are robots, the evas are just clones of adam with cybernetics, they are cyborgs
I love the last episodes, people who didn't get it, didn't understand the whole show and Shinji's inner path. No binary ending with a big fight needed.
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@Father Roderick: You might want to check out the Macross anime Franchise eventually. Its latest movie "Macross Delta; Zettai Live" is FULL of gnostic and religious allegory. Most of Macross however is more contempory sci-fi melodrama.
World from my perspective I found that the Evangelion is kind of disturbing at the one hand but at the other and can make you think about many things in your life like what decisions are the right what's the wrong and so on Bad derending is quite questionable I guess so I don't understand it even after I watch it several times but all in all it's the very good Serie
7:00 They might not be christian, but the best respect is when outsiders put the time and effort in to understand your passions. I've met far too many lifelong christians that knew less about christianity than the average atheist to the point where it was clear that if christians were correct about believing in and trusting in god, they would probably have the least per capita heaven attendence and that's an incredibly sad fact about christians.
I gotta be honest I was so hyped to watch this because everyone says it’s great . I watched the series and I didn’t get why, because of some imagery here and there ? It wasn’t my favorite and I would probably never watch it again. The last movie tho! Is good. Nice and trippy
have you watched 'End of Evangelion'? it is another (sort-of) ending but is a direct sequel to the original series. the other movies are a semi-reboot. I will say though, there are some--- deplorable acts in that one. just a warning.
@@josedorsaith5261 learn history , Romans corrupted the christian , the so called Roman Catholic are no longer Christian but christianized pagan religion.
@@josedorsaith5261I'm discussing the use of the cross in the Evangelion series. Anno incorporated it solely for its aesthetic appeal, unrelated to religion.
thats an easy question to answer. it isnt. ive watched everything except the end of evangelion, so i know what im talking about here. its not bad, exactly, but it definitely doesnt deserve the hype surrounding it.
Yeah there is religious imagery in eva, but it's nothing deep and something the creators just chose to add because it looks cool, no deeper meaning or anything
Please, make a review about mobile suit Re:0096 unicorn gundam. Its has a bit of star wars flavor. Its story of hope and humanity. Thank you father in advance. I like the sincerity of your reaction about the philosophical views from Evangelion. God Bless.
I hereby call this video… The Evangelus.
You get it, Father. The final two episodes made me cry and realized that I am a child of the Universe; I belong here.
Now please do watch the Rebuilds! 🙏🏽
The REIbuilds are a "middle finger" to the toxic fandom who ignored the Existentialism of the original series/EoE...
It's like those who read Nietzsche and only come away with Nihilism/Narcissism/Consumerism...
You make them something completely absurd and overwhelming, until the taste of their idolatry sours on their tongues...
Hideaki Anno also does liveaction, and he's the Stanley Kubrick/Alejandro Jodorowsky of Japan.
@@ynraider damn homie you right though we are eating from the trash can of ideology every day and we gotta get in the robot or put on the glasses idk if you know zizek you sound like you know zizek
I've honestly become addicted to the series. And I always enjoy watching people try to figure out what it means.
Watching a person geek out and talk about what they enjoy makes me happy. Great video. You earned a sub
I was lucky enough to be an American kid who is digesting these episodes in real time as they came out in 1996 at my local independent video store. Me and my friend,Armando, would go in every week and beg the clerk, “please, do you have the newest Evangelion VHS?“, And every couple of weeks, or once a month, the clerk would say “yes!“
We watched them on the edge of our seat, watching the 2-episode, subtitled, tape over and over again, pausing frames to glean information and speculate.
Soon I had brought other friends into our fascination. Pun, no doubt inevitable, like a religious experience, we sat enraptured as the story unfolded.
I, like you, may be in the minority in loving episodes 25-26-but we had followed so closely and had so much pent-up speculation, that we were far beyond wanting an action-packed conclusion. For us, the surreal and introspective resolution was far more interesting because it fed us little bits of answers we had been craving.
I’ve now seen that original VHS version of the show seven-times and each time there is new nuances revealed.
I’ll also say, having seen various versions over the years, on DVD and Blueray, both Dubbed and Subbed-The original VHS with subtitles is still my favorite (and I think best) translation.
That's the "TV Edit", very much superior to the Director's Cut(as the Vice Director; not co-creator, added spoiler type details in the DC!)
That's right, father, in evangelion religious symbols are not just to be cool but they also have meaning, tree of live, chamber of guf, longinus, evas, adam, lilith, melchior, gaspar, balthasar... everything is related . People saying it is just because it is cool has no idea and say that because an interview.
I do believe the man was being genuine in the interview, but the writers did such a good job researching Christian themes that the show accidentally had Christian messages 😂
Didn’t the creators literally say that the whole religious symbolism was because they thought it looked cool
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I think people misunderstand that interview. I think what he's trying to say is that the show doesn't have a religious "message". It's not saying "god is the way and shinji needs to convert to Christianity" and instead it's just heavily inspired by Christianity as more of an artistic influence
For anyone reading this comment, Anno never said that religious meaning in Evangelion is just for cool, it is from one of his animator.
the second movie, ¨the end of evangelion¨ is the final conclusion. It's a must-watch. lot's of religious iconography there too. the first one is just a compilation of the series
Might I recommend "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood". Although it, obviously, deals a lot in alchemy; classical alchemy uses a great deal of Christian and Jewish religious symbolism that you might find interesting how it is interrupted and integrated.
also, "each angel is terrifying." yeah... that's why they usually lead off with "BE NOT AFRAID." when dealing with a mortal.
slight spoiler:
the reason the children are the ones who piolet, and are in fact the only ones capable of piloting the EVAs is
their mother's souls have been entrapped in them. unit 01, has Shinji's mother's full soul, unit 02 has a fragment of the very broken Asuka's mother's soul, and unit 00 is a special case as Rei is well special. this is a by product of experimentation on Adam and Lilith called the "contact experiments" and their outcome is a major driving force for Gendo Ikari's drive. while canon it's not something you are going to find simply watching the series.
Also: the story of Evangelion is the story of Hideaki Anno's struggle with depression. In this light, the Rebuild movies (specially the last one) are the true ending of this story. And its a beautiful ending. Sayonara Evangelion.
The REIbuild movies are the true "middle finger" to the toxic fandom that NEVER truly liked nor understood the Existentialist messaging of the original ending AND movies.
Anno's show, Sadamoto's manga and then the Rebuild movies, mirroring Anno's odyssey until the cycle was finally broken.
Your explanations are so spot on. You really illustrated why this series means so much for so many. Thank you Father.
It may seem silly but Evangelion made me rediscover my Chirstian faith.
That’s insane lol, glad u pulled through 💪
Having watched Evangelion for a little over a decade now, I absolutely love your insight into the series itself and it's religious themes. It's so nice having a fresh mind look at it and to see how they interpret it. Thank you for your content!
Ive been a christian and a geek for all of my life. And for all of my life ive had trouble conciliating thrse two sides of me. Ive always heard that "those japanese cartoons are from the devil" and that i couldnt like them and be a good christian. Recebtly ive been going through a lot of difficult sutuations, and i kind of lost sight of myself. Both as a geek, and as a Christian. Finding your channel is helping me to gind myself again. Thank you father. God bless you.
First time watching your videos and I loved your take on it! I know before I got into the series I kept hearing so much negativity about the show with its ending as well as the long pauses, but when I experienced it myself I resonated so much with it. It was not only able to combine a cool mech show, but also the struggles and self discovery of characters that many people could relate to on some level. Anno and the team did a fantastic job with it and I'm glad Netflix and other platforms are giving people a chance to experience it.
It’s really cool hearing you talk about this great show! You might also want to try Angel’s Egg, an anime movie with some religious imagery and subtext
Oh dang i was going to recommend that
This was such an enjoyable watch! I'm not Christian, so I've certainly been bothering my Christian friends to give NGE a watch to (hopefully) explain everything that went over my head. I'll absolutely be watching your other videos--religious analysis is fascinating, and your presence on camera is magnetic. You seem so sincerely excited to talk about what you do, and you have a very open and welcoming air when you speak. Thank you for giving this new genre a shot, even when it previously seemed simple and childish!
I’ve never gotten a chance to watch Eva in it’s entirety, but it’s definitely something on my queue to rewatch from start to finish. Much of its themes are pretty interesting. I would warn some that it’s not necessarily for kids, it’s something for young adults to watch and relate to. I think one big reason for why I watch anime is because there are many with religious and philosophical themes along side just being general entertainment. I am looking forward to future videos Father!
True, definitely not for kids. But fascinating themes and subtext!
It's an amazing ride and for the full experience, you'd need to go through it three times, since the Rebuild movies are merely the third and final canon cycle, after the TV version and manga.
I remember when it aired on Adult Swim when I was in high school in 2006-2007. I didn’t have a DVR in my home yet and I had to work a night shift at McDonald’s so I often missed a lot of episodes. I was mildly intrigued by it, but was kinda turned off by the “old” (1995) production quality, so I somewhat ignored it. My friend however who did have a DVR loved it and insisted I watch it, so I started to watch a few episodes, but it’s a show that you have to really watch in sequential (not randomly tuning in during reruns) in order to really appreciate, so I still didn’t grasp the full story. Eventually my friend let my borrow his DVD of End of Evangelion (definitely not for kids lol) and I remember it traumatized me a little bit also left me intrigued to know more. When I started going to college and had access to high speed internet, I was able to watch the entire series in order on TH-cam (copyright enforcement was very lax back then, lol) and I was blown away but it, and I was able to watch EoE again with more understanding and truly appreciated it. Evangelion taught me that anime can be more than just “popcorn entertainment” it can have deep and involving plot lines and character building that leave a lasting impression on you. It got me into discussing anime on online forums, which was something I never did before, because I wanted to talk about Evangelion with others who had watched it and discuss all the themes and plot points of it. I remember being ecstatic when the Evangelion Rebuild 1.0 came blu ray and me and my same friend from high school discussed it more. We also went to a special screening of Rebuild 2.0 in Dallas which is something I’ll never forget!
If I remember right, only children can maintain the psychic resonance link with the EVAs
Adults lose the capability. But there's also a spoiler reason for why these specific children were selected.
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i havent watched this video yet, commenting so i remember to later, as well as talk about how Eva affected me. After watching the original episodic series, i was left someone confused at the end. We (shinji and us, the viewers) had made it. but to where? how? i wasnt sure if i was supposed to be happy or not. after that, i had watched the movie, the "true" ending of the TV series. i was depressed. so fucking depressed. everyone was gone, everyone was dead, in the end there was nothing. i was a changed person for weeks after that. eventually, i finally managed the courage to watch the 4 movies, and it was almost cathartic, seeing everything come together, explain how their world kept repeating, and seeing shinji completely end the process and end up in the "real" world. it was like watching Hideaki Anno come back to the world, and it helped me do the same
I couldnt understand the last episodes but it was so absolutely visceral that I came out of this experience terrified and depressed. Such a great series man
Evangelion is ironically very easy to understand if you know one thing:
The key to unlocking this series is absolutely everything from the characters to the themes and motifs is just a dialectic between intimacy and alienation, and the fluidity of human identity. On one hand you have utter alienation, embodied by the angels, which are each wholly unique and singular beings. Some of them are so foreign to our concept of life they break physics, and some seem incapable of interacting with others except through violence, a fundamentally alienating act. On the other extreme, you have Human Instrumentality, which is complete and utter homogenity of being. In this state, individuality ceases to be. "You" are not even a concept anymore, because that implies there is more than one person (You vs Me vs Us vs Them, etc). All people are one person, an undifferentiated being.
Over the course of the show the, Anno riffs on this idea to varying degrees. Age, sexuality, maturity, family, everything is up for grabs in an uncomfortable mess.
Father my first language is Spanish, thank you for speaking so clearly and slowly, I appreciate it and your knowledge
As a catholic and massive fan of eva, I absoloutly love your take on it! Eva's focus on the phsycological is compleatly unique from any other ive seen.
Great video. It's nice to see people frok all walks of life who are so different from one another, appreciate the same phenomenal series. I'll be sure to send this video to others. God bless 🙏
Loving this series so far, Father. I'd be very interested in your take on Mushoku Tensei. there are those that call it a redemption story, but it isn't. The main character remains a sinner, but he keeps going forward no matter what.
It is so awesome to have a priest get into this, as I just finished this series. Thank you sir for this awesome (unique and rare) content. Alot of anime is NOT for kids haha.
If you haven't yet, you should TOTALLY check out Trigun! There are Christian references and I absolutely love it!
Love and Peace
I started the show a yearish ago and it's helped me change my life. Rewatch these whole show and let the show spell it out slowly. You go in as shinji,but you come out so.thing diffrent
You should do an analysis of Deathnote. A lot of Christian symbolism there
I've started watching the series, will definitely comment on it here!
@@fatherroderick-anime awesome I also noticed some Christian themes in attack on titan especially when it comes to the descendants of Jacob and the Israelites
@@windmill63 "Attack on Titan"'s Rumbling, is a metaphor of globally erasing Black History, as our ancestors were the GIANTS that built human civilizations...
"How Eugenics Erased Black History" by Straight UP; YT upload is damning evidence of this correlation.
Ending note: the movie End of Evangelion is intended as an alternative ending to the last two episodes of NGE. _i.e. it's what would've happened if Gainax didn't deplete their animation budget._
Both are still considered canon.
*_I genuinely felt as though it was an trumendously spiritual anime to the point of me being absolutely convinced at that moment that God existed after watching the show._*
watch the end of evangelion its cannon
this last movie is like what is happening in reallity and the two last episodes are in shinjis mind
Lol not me watching this during Easter
"Long series" It's so cute that you think that's long, in the anime world that is very short.
It's long for a Netflix series, he didn't say it was long for animé
Even for classic shows that are not just meant to milk the audience.
LoGH took over 100 episodes and several spinoffs to tell its story.
This made me so happy to hear that this opened your heart to anime
I saw this on VHS when I was young. I thought it was amazing then. Glad so many people are finding it now. I just wanted to find out why it's so popular after all this time.
I feel like I should point out that you called the Angels "robots". They aren't robots. They're living beings powered by a Super Solenoid organ which provides them with unlimited energy, but limited creative potential. And since most of them are enormous in size, they're essentially _kaiju._ Even the Evangelion units are cybernetically-enhanced clones of Adam, the progenitor of the Angels, operated by a human pilot. In fact, the only true Giant Robot in the original series is Jet Alone.
Yes but surface levels is easier to say robot to someone then all of that
While I understand the criticism, it is much easier to say “big robots” instead of going into detail, especially in a spoiler free way. Also technica not all Eva’s are clones of Adam
@@user-ev2je4mf4pWhile you’re at it, you might as well remind me that the EVAs are actually _kaijin_ because they’re humanoid. Besides, my main point is that the Angels aren’t robots. Sure, Bardiel hijacked Unit-04, Armisael assimilated Unit-00, and Ireul hacked the MAGI Supercomputers, but the Angels are 100% organic.
@@cardinalhamneggs5253 Those are all canonically organic systems compromised by organic Angels as well...
MAGI is a set of cloned human brains based on Ritsuko Akagi's deceased mother. It was cheaper to enslave a human brain than to make a functioning AI.
They're apostles
These series of video on Eva are very interesting! Is there anyone better than a theologian to explain christian symbolism in Evangelion? I don't think so!
Actually 26 Episodes is somewhat short for a anime, specially from the 90’s and previews then anime could go 50, 100, or more episodes. Now a days 25-26 are the standard for a single season of episodes in a year and then they come back the following year with another 25-26 eps, adapting the manga material (considering it is adaptation a pre-existing manga). Back in the 90s and early 2000’s the series go on non-stop as long as the ratings where good and whenever the anime caught up to the events of the manga they usually did original history arcs, to give time the manga to advance.
But while not always, but most times that filler as it came to be known, came to be disliked by the fans, to the point that some animes have being rebooted after the manga ended to do the “original manga ending” instead of the “non-original tv ending”, some examples are Fullmetal Alchemist, Hellsing, Shaman King.
But some filler has being welcome by the anime fans like the Asgard arc, in the series on Saint Seiya, which was made after the success of the Asgard inspired OVA (Original Video Animation), making and 26 original tv story that it was not on the Masami Kurumada’s manga, and was put between the manga canon arcs one the Sanctuary and Poseidon (the first and second big arcs of the manga).
This is what I've been looking for, love the series n movies, love the religious connection n I get most of it but I need that someone to help with the lore of it n how it connects, also all the new movies are connected to the series too, there's an awesome multiple timeline video here on TH-cam that'll help you make even more of those connections, it's like over an hour long, thank you, can't wait to see more
This is an incredibly insightful and poignant reading picking up on little themes i didnt even realize. I grew up with this series, am deeply familiar with the genre tropes, and raised Catholic, but Im going to have to revisit the show again. For this to be your first watch and brush with anime in general is jumping into the deep end and being able to swim.
I personally prefer the original TV series and Ending movie over the "Redo" Movies, I feel the old series reflects the creators original vision more than the REDO movies, the redos felt like "here, here's what you wanted, now take it" it has that kind of vibe to it.
I’ve never wanted a combo more in my life
we got an actual pastor giving anime recommendations?
It's the character psychology, similar to shows like Digimon or the Sopranos, it delves into the minds of its cast. Similar to Shakespear there is alot to get from it, and alot to be annoyed at, I personally wish it was longer, maybe like 2 or 3 seasons.
I love the passion for the series and simultaneous religious historical background!!
Agree with you 100%; been saying it for years, and every re-watch just confirms it at a new level. Granted, the meaning/correlation of the story to the symbol is almost never direct/obvious, but it is definitely there. And yes, the final two episodes are peak anime, once you break free of the shock in storytelling/genre. The only "revisions" for them they did that are *almost* as good is in Episode 4 of the Rebuilds (but that version [the Rebuild series] is essentially a self-contained separate canon).
Enjoyed the commentry. Might give Eva a rewatched because of it.
This feels surreal, A Father talking about anime
I’d wonder if my church’s priest and deacon secretly have a podcast where they geek out over things
Yo every trolls out there should not be recommending Boku No Pico to this holy man.
The TV endings are vastly superior because they give us more psychological insight to Shinji. The movies manufacture this hero character to please audiences.
I’m with you Father, the TV endings are very good and the only endings in my opinion.
watching the show made me not want to kill myself so i also recommend it to anyone
I dont find any religious meaning in this series at all. However, it is DRIPPING with spiritual and transcendental meaning. I think that people get the sense that, even if theyre totally confused, there is something deeper going on here.
The main theme is obviously being the relationship between separation and connection and the individual person relating to others. We are the source of both pain and love for each other, and that seemingly paradoxical tragedy forms the core of not only the theme, but the plot, and the central anxiety and drama of pretty much every human's life.
I dont find that religions actually tap into that much other than just providing some vague god to guide you from beyond and eventually promises you perfect connection. But there's not a deep exploration. I think eastern religions tend to do this better because it's a journey within an individual's own soul, not some perfect savior coming to put it right for us.
my favourite biblical imagery was in the first 5 mins of the movie (end of evangelion)
I watch this series annually with my friend, that's how much we love Evangelion
This is what I expect from youtube. Evangelion analysis from father :D
the angels arent robots they are living things, they are an alternate form of life from us, and the evangelions arent robots either they are clones of the first angel adam infused with the souls of the pilots mothers, thats why they need those children to pilot them only they can sync with their mother;s souls, and the reason they need the evangelions is because they can project an AT-field just like the angels which allows them to break through the Angels own AT-field and allow them to fight effectively, but neither the evangelions of the angels are robots, the evas are just clones of adam with cybernetics, they are cyborgs
I love the last episodes, people who didn't get it, didn't understand the whole show and Shinji's inner path. No binary ending with a big fight needed.
I would get up early on sundays and go to church If the semon would be a discourse about eva
Thank you father, very cool.
As a non religious person; EVA, Coltrane, and Bach have made me appreciate religion more then any youth pastor ever could've.
He absolutely needs to do trigun
I can't believe how somebody could hate this anime
💕Will be my fav anime ever, and is since decades ❣️Intuitive feeling creators especially introverted mbti types like infj infp ones...with lots of shared experience and honest vulnerability can give such amazing presents to be shared with the world 🌎❤️
I just watched a priest talk about evangelion for 20 minutes. What an amazing world
@Father Roderick: You might want to check out the Macross anime Franchise eventually. Its latest movie "Macross Delta; Zettai Live" is FULL of gnostic and religious allegory. Most of Macross however is more contempory sci-fi melodrama.
World from my perspective I found that the Evangelion is kind of disturbing at the one hand but at the other and can make you think about many things in your life like what decisions are the right what's the wrong and so on Bad derending is quite questionable I guess so I don't understand it even after I watch it several times but all in all it's the very good Serie
source on your EVA-02 wallpaper?
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They might not be christian, but the best respect is when outsiders put the time and effort in to understand your passions. I've met far too many lifelong christians that knew less about christianity than the average atheist to the point where it was clear that if christians were correct about believing in and trusting in god, they would probably have the least per capita heaven attendence and that's an incredibly sad fact about christians.
Has he watched ergo proxy? Definitely a good watch.
Thank you for your work.
Has the eva units ever been thought as nephelem
Amazing content!
You have not completed the series if you haven't watched The end of Evangelion.
true
The angels aren't robots
I love Father's weeb energy.😊
And the angels are of the 12 zodiac signs
Fantastic!
I gotta be honest I was so hyped to watch this because everyone says it’s great . I watched the series and I didn’t get why, because of some imagery here and there ? It wasn’t my favorite and I would probably never watch it again. The last movie tho! Is good. Nice and trippy
have you watched 'End of Evangelion'? it is another (sort-of) ending but is a direct sequel to the original series. the other movies are a semi-reboot.
I will say though, there are some--- deplorable acts in that one. just a warning.
WATCH HELLSING🗣
the two last episodes are some of my favourite in anime
You should watch the movie Rebuild of Evangelion.
There are not robots in this series apart from the Jet alone episode, Angels are not robots and neither the Evas.
when you watching the anime is like reading the bible you can,t understand it.
there not robots dude....
its not
it isnt
That gay episode with the final demon was kinda jarring ngl
it isn't
They are not Christian Symbol , it only resembled Christian symbolism but nothing to do on Abrahamic Religion in general.
False. You clearly don't know much about Christianity
@@josedorsaith5261 learn history , Romans corrupted the christian , the so called Roman Catholic are no longer Christian but christianized pagan religion.
@@josedorsaith5261I'm discussing the use of the cross in the Evangelion series. Anno incorporated it solely for its aesthetic appeal, unrelated to religion.
thats an easy question to answer. it isnt. ive watched everything except the end of evangelion, so i know what im talking about here. its not bad, exactly, but it definitely doesnt deserve the hype surrounding it.
It isnt.
Yeah there is religious imagery in eva, but it's nothing deep and something the creators just chose to add because it looks cool, no deeper meaning or anything
Please, make a review about mobile suit Re:0096 unicorn gundam. Its has a bit of star wars flavor. Its story of hope and humanity. Thank you father in advance. I like the sincerity of your reaction about the philosophical views from Evangelion. God Bless.