Mental Health and Neon Genesis Evangelion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- disclaimer: if you are sensitive to gore, mentions of suicide, or have visual epilepsy you’ll want to skip this one.
special thanks to loki for helping out with this video and for making the thumbnail, go show him some love:
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after 3 and a half months, a natural disaster, and multiple mental breakdowns, this video is finally out. I've tried to put my heart and soul into this one, so I hope you all enjoy it.
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I was going to actually sleep tonight. But nope, Cabin Fever posts at 11pm
no sleep only evangelion. no but seriously it means a lot, i hope you liked the video!
@@cabinfeverff
I'm going to have to disagree with you here, on what you said about learning from Trauma and becoming a better person, cause Asuka never became a better person, in fact she never really even learned from her trauma only Shinji seemingly did.
Also Asuka and Shinji were never friends their relationship was that of end Egotistical Entitled and Abusive Narcissist and a passive, abused and borderline submissive Co-Dependent.
I honestly want to see that comparison between the Doomslayer and Shinji. The one that killed all his humanity to fulfill his role and the other that ran from his role to keep his humanity and have his trauma destroy him.
Everyone who has to struggle with bpd or was in a relationship with someone who got bpd know exactly what’s goin on with this anime
I loved eva as an anime because it was the first one i watched that was so weird and depressing, which was relatable to me at that time, this video was super resonating to me and brought back good memories about the show and the characters. keep up the videos!
thank you biku
I'm not a fan of anime as a genre either but Eva left an impression on me I never would have expected and will never forget. Very good breakdown for the each of the characters. They were written to be so real and I think that's why some people will always hate certain characters. They hit too close to home. Nice work.
Love the Daft Punk tracks you put in too.
evangelion really is something else, i had no idea what i was getting into when i first watched it. i actually had a few daft punk songs planned for the video but when i heard the news of them splitting up i put a few more in because i thought they fit the video and i wanted to pay tribute.
@@cabinfeverff
I'm going to have to disagree with you here, on what you said about learning from Trauma and becoming a better person, cause Asuka never became a better person, in fact she never really even learned from her trauma only Shinji seemingly did.
Also Asuka and Shinji were never friends their relationship was that of end Egotistical Entitled and Abusive Narcissist and a passive, abused and borderline submissive Co-Dependent.
i really love eva, it’s one of my favorites. but I always have a hard time bringing myself to rewatching it. it always ends up reminding me of all the things that I hate about myself. I can’t even rewatch end of evangelion because every time I watch it i feel like I’m about to have a panic attack and have to stop.
yeah, im sorry. i get it. i rlly do. this vid was made @ prob one of the worst points of my life but things got better, and even if its painful to look back and remember all the things i hate abt myself and abt that time, it doesnt hurt as much as it did back then.
@@cabinfeverff yeah I feel you, when I was a teenager I would always direct my anger and hatred towards everyone and everything around me. I’d end up hurting a lot of people around me and it would just make everything worse.
It took me a while to even realize that all my anger towards the world stemmed from hating myself and it took even longer for me to just come to terms with the fact that this is just who I am. I don’t know if this is normal or even healthy but now I have a weirdly positive outlook on hating myself. Like my self hatred is there to remind me to try and be the best version of myself that I want to be. It kind of broke my pessimism I had about the world too.
Obviously I still have my low points, like just the other week I was in such a bad state that I couldn’t even sleep for 3 days and I barely ate anything. But I still feel much better about myself and the world than I did back then.
i seriously cannot believe this doesn't have more views than it does. you put everything i've thought and felt about the portrayal of mental illness in eva so seamlessly. this series means the world to me and you did it so much justice. fantastic work
i rly appreciate it!! this vid took a lot out of me and it was pretty exhausting and demotivating at times - but seeing ppl enjoy and relate to it though brings me a lot of happiness and i’m rly glad that i followed through with it. i rly hope that you enjoyed it
@@cabinfeverff i won’t even lie i’m still shocked because this has the same quality as high end channels. your work is definitely deserving of appreciation, you should be proud (:
@@mothcoven i’m rly glad to hear that!! i do this as a hobby when i’m able to, but i try to put everything i can into them because i love doing it!!!
@@cabinfeverff i can see the dedication and passion and i admire it SO much. i’m very happy to have stumbled across this and i sincerely hope others do as well so they can appreciate the love put into this. hobby or not it’s a work of art all the same ; i want to say sorry quickly as well bc i realize i sounded like i was gauging the value of your work on the popularity of your channel and i did not mean it that way at all T_T i just think this is deserving of more attention than it has, even though it doesn’t really matter either way yk?
@@cabinfeverff
I'm going to have to disagree with you here, on what you said about learning from Trauma and becoming a better person, cause Asuka never became a better person, in fact she never really even learned from her trauma only Shinji seemingly did.
Also Asuka and Shinji were never friends their relationship was that of end Egotistical Entitled and Abusive Narcissist and a passive, abused and borderline submissive Co-Dependent.
Great music choice and video
Need to know the name of the first song. Not the evangelion one :3
This video for sure needs more love.
Amazing breakdown when i finished NGE i knew it was diffrent so im glad to have found a video that explains exactly how i felt about the show and end of evangelion in 1 video
This video is super cool, I may reference it for a video essay I'm working on
yes ofc !!
Awesome video! From the title I was expecting it would be something like diagnosing the characters with mental illnesses, which is something I don't like seeing in media analysis. Instead you managed to show how the struggles of the individual characters fit into the overarching narrative and how they play off each other. I just find the intro to be a bit iffy since you first say you're not really into anime and then go ahead to make kind of authoritative generalizations about Evangelion's uniqueness in the anime industry, which I think is unnecessary and sounds dismissive of anime as a whole. Other then that everything from the writing to the presentation was fantastic. Hope you make more video essays :)
hey thank you! i really appreciate hearing stuff like this, both the praise and especially the constructive criticism. i definitely agree with you, rewatching the video i definitely should have specified that evangelion was my gateway into the rest of anime, and that after watching it i was able to watch a whole bunch of other classics in the genre. i should also clarify that the uniqueness i mentioned about this show shouldn’t have been based on the uniqueness of it compared to other shows in this medium but instead it’s uniqueness to me, as it was unlike anything else i had personally seen which made it unique to me. i’ve got some other video essays on my channel as well but i’ll give you a fair warning that they’re not usually about one specific topic or anything, i tend to bounce around and talk about whatever’s important to me.
Danks for saying this, cabin hasn't delved into anime as much but he prob got the idea of uniqueness from smth I said, since I've seen a bit more of the larger shows.
@@cabinfeverff Thanks for replying! I'm gonna take a look at your other videos as well. I'm planning to do a video about an anime soundtrack soon, so your music related video essays might help me get a better idea on how to structure my video since it's my first time doing something like that.
@@loki_the_gnome It's cool. You also brought up how different Eva was from anything you've seen prior, but it was in the context of your own experience with anime up to that point so it's justified. Good job to you as well shadowlokimon!
@@Hakaru oh nice, i'll be on the lookout for a video like that from you in the future cause that's something i personally would love to watch. if you'd like, i have a discord server dedicated to small creators i've met on youtube so if you'd like to join you're welcome to. people on there would be happy to give you advice or feedback or anything like that, and i'm on there pretty often was well.
This was great! Thank you for making it. Congratulations!
this is amazing
This video is so underrated
Congratulations!
Evangelion with big robots in depression mode
woah big robot fighting epic cabinfever collab woah
This was an excellent watch. Thank you.
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such af great video. this is literally my favorite anime ever. pls keep making videos. i just came across ur channel and it looks like you put a lot of effort in your videos. keep it up :)
i want to but i kinda lost motivation and ran out of ideas. i will come back 1 day tho prob
I disagree with the claim that no character is mentally stable, like we all just forgot Pen²
Also, if we are being serious, Fuyutsuki seems pretty stable.
@@jadegrace1312 Fuyutsuki also aint stable. He just appears so. Deep down, hes essentially the same as Gendo. He loves and wants to see Yui one more time. No one stable would desire the human instrumentality as he does.
BASED VERIDIS QUO USAGE
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This is fantastic! Do you mind posting the titles and timestamps of the songs you used in the video?
i really appreciate it thank you! and of course:
0:00 - next episode 30 second version
0:48 - android apartment - wipe away your tears to the unknown
1:58 - junko yagami - Mizuiro no ame
4:18 - daft punk - veridis quo
7:11 - daft punk - technologic
10:09 - daft punk - face to face
12:27 - machine girl - frenesi gabbertrap remix
14:33 - death grips - blood creepin (instrumental)
15:49 - eva soundtrack - barefoot in the park
18:21 - eva soundtrack - hedgehog’s dilemma
20:47 - king quartz - mall thugs and street rats
23:31 - eva soundtrack - fly me to the moon
14:34 A Fantano has been spotted!
very nice
We make positive content too!💜
Sorry,what’s song from the start of the video
How did you get into NGE in the first place? and have you read the manga because I heard it’s slightly better than the original anime
the friend whos in the video put me on eva n i have not read manga or seen the rebuilds but i wnna do both tbh
@@cabinfeverff Cool, but I have seen the rebuild films and well... the last one was decent but the rest were kinda a mess and only popular for Kawoshin
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Does anybody knows what song is playing on 16:00?
Barefoot In the Park
00:50 what's the song name
android-apartment.bandcamp.com/track/wipe-away-your-tears-to-the-unknow
And then the re builds ruin it all
yeahhhh i haven’t seen the rebuilds but from what i know they just seem like kind of a generic mecha anime
@@cabinfeverff The Rebuild story arc has its own different layers of mental issue; I recently just finished watching it and I enjoyed it - in the similar token of satisfied-and-not-satisfied kind of way.
The rebuild starts off on the premise of what-if Shinji rejected the instrumentality and kick off a whole reboot phase.
fireeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Oh, so you like evangelion? Explain the plot.
DAMN WHAT IS THAT SONG AT 1:57 🥶
nvm just found out also this is a pretty cool and true video
Neon Genesis Evangelion nearly drove me to suicide.
Seeing Shinji suffering is like seeing myself suffer, because at one point in time I was almost exactly like him, especially back in 10th grade when I was bullied to the brink of suicide. I simply cannot tolerate watching Eva. I felt forced to relive my trauma upon viewing it. I’m deathly afraid of it. Twice I had a nightmare where I saw myself as Shinji choking Asuka and starting the Third Impact. I’ve been struggling with this newfound depression ever since.
Evangelion is nothing but a bright shining lie. There is no instant cure for depression as so many on TH-cam and Reddit claimed and praised this series to be. I was obsessed with the series for over a year to try and outwit the Coronavirus pandemic. It only increased the burden, and kept the memory of my friend’s recent suicide alive. Sometimes I hate myself because I fail to appreciate this series which people treat larger than life, because of how much pain it resurfaces.
Watching the End of Evangelion was like peering into a broken mirror, and I was viewing the hell I would’ve put myself through had things turned out differently, had I decided to give up living. It still haunts me to this day.
Sometimes I hate myself because I fail to appreciate what so many have claimed to idolize, and I beat myself further for failing to worship what they call praiseworthy, I forced myself to watch a show that reminded me of nothing but pain just so I wouldn’t be alone anymore, I was willing to sacrifice my individuality for some company amidst the isolation of the pandemic.
But it only spiraled me deeper into depression, which I’ve been struggling with for over a year now.
I just want Shinji to be happy, so this past self of mine can be laid to rest once more. I’m afraid to decouple myself from him after losing my friend to suicide, which Eva made me feel responsible for, especially when I saw Shinji kill Kaworu, of which I fail to understand how anyone can call it praiseworthy. Until then, I feel nothing else matters.
There’s a reason why I keep coming back to Evangelion; something that reminds me of nothing but pain.
I want to prove to myself I’m not crazy for feeling this way, that Evangelion really did force me to relive my trauma, that my depression is not just a figment of my imagination or another anime plot point
But the fact I’m the only one I know in existence who’s been traumatized by an anime makes me feel like I really am crazy.
Whenever I feel this way, there’s something I remind myself with.
“There are no answers in Evangelion, only illusions.
There is no truth in Evangelion, only falsehoods.
There is nothing to be gained from Evangelion, only pain.”
But finally, with 3.0+1.0 released, I can rest easy knowing that Shinji has finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel. Evangelion is finished, and I want it to remain that way.
But if things hadn’t turned out that way, I wouldn’t be here today.
I’m still recovering…
im sorry to hear that you went through that. i think that a lot of the praise that this show gets isn’t necessarily because it has a really happy ending or has a lot of well rounded characters. in my opinion your reaction to evangelion is completely understandable and justified, it’s a show that demonstrates the undeniably human aspect of having to go through unspeakable trauma for “the greater good.” while it may not have been as extreme, i had a similar reaction after watching the show, it invaded every part of my life after watching it, it was so hauntingly captivating because of how unabashed it was. but i can imagine how torturous that could be for someone who doesn’t like to experience that kind of feeling, to someone who’s been through a form of that trauma firsthand. regardless i hope you are doing better now.
@@cabinfeverff I keep coming back to Evangelion because I want to prove to myself I'm not crazy, that my depression is real and not just another anime plot point; something that is NOT instantly cured.
@Kenny why did half the fandom I meet claim that Evangelion cured them of their depression?
Kinda late but stop copy-pasting this, get help if this is true. It's just a great show, it won't cure anyone of anything, ppl help themselves first and foremost