'Neon Genesis: Evangelion' Revisited

Repeating some of the stuff I wrote about Evangelion on iFunny a year ago

Introduction and Defending Myself for Watching a Troonime

We’re coming up on a year since I threw myself into a lot of trouble by watching the ‘Tranime’ Neon Genesis: Evangelion. I didn’t expect it but some of my subscribers were really not happy with what I did. I have to clarify how it happened every time so people don’t think I’m a WEABOO.

One night in high school I looked it up and I was a bit disturbed by some of the lore, so I told Absolutist on iFunny it was retarded and that if the guy who made it was suicidal during its production it probably isn’t very good. He kept telling me to watch it once in a while after that. Cut forward to me in college. One of my roommates was watching the reboots with his repulsive friend. I was in the common room doing work anyways so I thought I would watch it while working. This way, I could see what all the fuss is about. After it had finished I wrote my thoughts about it on iFunny, and was mostly attacked for watching the reboots first. I said as well that they were bad but now I was being attacked for going about all this in the worst way possible. Because of this I felt I had to watch the actual show, because I was already in this deep and at this point it was summertime so I had nothing to do. So before anyone calls me a Weaboo, give me a break! Everything I do, I do to deliver funny AND profound textposts to my iFunny subscribers!

Similar story with Attack on Titan which I also got flack for. That is two of the three anime I have watched. The third is Dragon Ball Z/Super and I’m not going to apologize for watching that. I don’t care if shart colored creaturas like it, it’s awesome ok? So just let people hecking enjoy things. Gosh.

Anyways, I was pleasantly surprised with the original Evangelion series, and it also made me dislike the reboots much more. I wrote maybe three fairly long posts on iFunny for it and I’m pretty sure 2 of them got deleted, so a year later I’m deciding to rehash my thoughts on the series over on CHUDSTACK. I know you guys like it when I talk about consuming product.

Review and Common Misunderstandings

First of all, most of it actually is just giant robot fighting. The memes make it out to be some sort of extremely introspective show. It has little introspection until the last episodes. I mean, aside from basic stuff. It’s just giant robots fighting. Some of you might know this, but I like giant robots fighting! I liked transformers as a kid. The government should put more money into giant robot program. All of the money going to the social safety net should just be spent on the giant mech robot project. Poor? Can’t feed your family? Maybe come work on giant mech robot. Boom. Sorry, I am getting off topic, but yeah the stuff with giant robots is always fun. The angels were also pretty cool I guess.

It is in the later episodes when you start to get into the heavier stuff. Characters start to sort of go crazy, although not that crazy. The red-headed girl, Asuka, is portrayed as being a “trauma” victim (lolwut?) but she acts as neurotic and insane as an average teenage girl. They’re really insane people. Rei Ayanami is the blue haired girl. I thought she was extremely boring and didn’t care for her, and I think that was the point. She’s supposed to be kind of a weird science experiment with a robotic personality, but she gained a large fanbase which is why they humanized her more in the reboots. The only think I thought was funny was in the last episodes when they portrayed her as if she was a normal person. Otherwise, I was not only annoyed by I was kind of angered by the comments about how she was “autistic” by the two goons I was watching the reboots with. Can they fucking shut up about autism this, autism that? I only like when Varg does that. I don’t like when shitlibs do it. Autistics are sometimes Nordic supermen, but mostly they’re actual babbling retards. Autism is extremely over-diagnosed because people get their retarded kids diagnosed with autism to feel better. I'm not joking. Anyways, Rei is supposed to act “autistic” because she’s a lab experiment and a tool, but I’ll get to exactly what kind of tool she is later.

Shinji is actually the only interesting character in the show. People call him a bitch. He is a bitch originally, but as the show goes on he becomes less and less of a bitch. The show is about him learning not to be a bitch and that’s where all the actual good lessons of the show come from. People also call Shinji gay for some reason. He wasn’t gay. He never did anything gay, he merely put up with gay things Kaworu did because he didn’t have many other friends. Kaworu is supposed to be a Satanic figure, he is deceiving the humans. People think he is good because they’re idiots. He is one of the Angels, his mission is to trick/manipulate the pilots and destroy humanity. Nothing he says can be taken at face value.

Another mistake people make is putting a lot of value into the last 2 episodes. They’re retarded and don’t make any sense because the producers ran out of money and had to make something cheap. The End of Evangelion movie is the actual ending.

Why Evangelion is a good show, and why the trannies who watch it don’t get it

If Evangelion is such a good show, why are some of its fans such bad people? Well, first of all, a lot of people get the wrong idea from the last 2 episodes. They think after watching them that A) Instrumentality is good, and B) The show is telling you to do whatever you want. I must once again clarify that these episodes are just drivel. The second reason is because it has underaged bright-colored teenage anime girls in it, and anything which has that in it attracts people who either want to have sex with those girls, or BE those girls. This is why Dragon Ball Z is good, because there is none of that garbage in it. It does strangely attract Mexicans and Black People though, even though all of the main characters are clearly either White or some sort of Asian. But when I watched the show, I got the impression that the author was promoting messages which ran quite contrary to the Troons who liked it. This seems to be corroborated by the Author’s taste in Kierkegaard and Heidegger. Here are some of those messages

1. Fulfill your responsibilities in this world because you ought to, without attachment to what other’s think

A major theme of Shinji’s character development is that he does not want to pilot the mech, but does it anyways not because he knows he has to but because he knows doing so gets him admiration from other people. This is addressed in episode 16 while Shinji’s Evangelion is trapped in the Angel Leliel. It is further explored in episodes 18 and 19. Shinji refuses to follow orders and engage in a full-out attack with an Evangelion that has been “hacked” by an Angel, because there is a human being inside that Evangelion. He refuses to kill that person even though it is his responsibility and is necessary to stop the Angel, whose goal is the destruction of the planet. After finding out the person piloting the mech was one of his friends from school, he is so distraught that he abandons piloting altogether. He no longer cares that it brings him admiration, he just can’t do it anymore.

It is only when he has a conversation with another character, Ryoji Kaji, that he realizes the truth. The world is now being attacked by another Angel, and Shinji is nowhere to be found. He says he refuses to do it, even though his refusal will likely result in the end of the world. This Ryoji Kaji, who is gardening watermelons, tells him that while he (Kaji) can do nothing, Shinji is the only person in the world who can do something, and that even if he doesn’t like it and even if it brought him no admiration, he still has a responsibility not to waste his incredible gift and to use it for good purposes. Basically, Shinji was born to pilot that mech whether he likes it or not. Begrudgingly, Shinji returns to fight.

To me, this reminded me heavily of the Bhagavad Gita. Arjuna, a great warrior, cannot bear to fight against his relatives in warfare. He contends that because the world is ultimately illusory, he should give up action and become an ascetic. Krishna explains to him that Arjuna was born to fight in the world, warrior that he is, and that the shirking of his duty represents its own sort of attachment. Krishna advises Arjuna to fight because it is his responsibility in this world, it is his dharma, and to do it without attachment to the outcome of his actions. This means neither extreme yearning for the fruits of his labor, nor extreme rejection of the fruits of his labor. What comes to him through good action should be used accordingly, but this that comes to him should not be the focus of his action. Likewise, the harm he commits, and particularly the loss of life, should not be of his concern because both life and death are fleeting. Everyone dies, and everyone is reborn as the soul is immortal. It is not entirely against asceticism, but suggests an alternative path to enlightenment which is equal in virtue to asceticism and also necessary for most people to take.

It also reminded me of my understanding of Martin Heidegger’s ideas of authentic living. To Heidegger, living authentically means living based on yourself, and what you think is correct. Not based on what other people think. This is not the same as living based on doing whatever you want. Your convictions have to actually be legitimate and not the product of petty urges.

Trannies, of course, utterly violate both of these principles. Trannies are born into a male body but want to be a woman, or vice versa. And furthermore, their happiness is contingent on the rest of us literally spewing lies in order to placate their delusional head. They not only shirk their responsibilities as a biological male, someone with functioning male reproductive organs and an endorcrine system, but furthermore they require all of society to reorganize itself along the contradictory and unintuitive system called “gender”, which obviously exists for no purpose other than to legitimize the bizarre delusions of Troonies and “enbies”.

2. You can’t run away from your problems.

Another big character flaw of Shinji which is repeated throughout the series, is that he tries to run away from his problems and put them to the side, or blame them on outside forces. Eventually he learns that you just have to face your problems head on and reconcile them, and that only you alone can solve your own problems. Our modern psychiatric system does the opposite, it encourages people to externalize their problems.

AWFL = Affluent White Female Liberal, by the way.

Now, don’t get me wrong, sometimes your problems are legitimately just external. And yes, sometimes the more instinctual side of your mind cannot help but become sad or stressed over these external problems. However, you should not let things which are contingent on that you cannot control make you have an existential crisis. What happens “out there” is out of your control and so you should come to terms with it even if you don’t endorse it. Yes, it’s a very stoic line of thought but it’s true. I don’t even like the Stoics. Many of them were losers and suckers. Their thought process wasn’t very original anyways, but nonetheless they get a lot of things spot-on. And the idiotic “psychiatrists” hate that Stoics say this because it doesn’t line up with their sophistry. Obviously, once again, Troons can’t handle this because all they do is try and deny the core problem. They will never be a woman, they were born in the body of a man and will never experience what it is like to have a female body. You will always have the experience of what it is like to have a male body as well, something all biological women are naive to. The solution to this (to them) is not to reconcile with the fact that they are a man, but instead to try and mash their body into the shape of a female body and demand everyone recognize them as such.

3. Strife is Justice.

Following “you can’t run away from your problems”, Shinji’s decision in the End of Evangelion represents an acceptance of life’s suffering, and a genuine appreciation for being and existing in the world despite the pain it brings. Many of the fans of the series (mostly retarded trannies) don’t understand this, they think that Shinji made a mistake here and that instrumentality was “the good ending”. I’ve met these people in real life. After I watched the show they basically implied that it’s obvious the movie ending was the “bad ending”. I got a bit angry at them and explained to them that they should have paid attention to what Shinji said during Instrumentality. That, while it was perhaps nice to sort of “get to know each other in the pot” for a bit, he values his own existence enough to withstand the struggle of life. There is no escape from suffering and duality, even if it is all ultimately provisional. Certainly, if there is an escape, it cannot be achieved through this sort of heaven-on-earth utopian hivemind being that SEELE wants to make. It doesn’t solve the root issue.

I agree with this message, but it seems to be the bane of the “neurotic left”. To them, the world is utterly brutal and awful. This isn’t even an ideological position, this is just how they are. They just hate the world and are debilitated by the knowledge that bad things happen, even bad things which don’t impact them. They want a world with as little suffering as possible, or ideally a world of infinite pleasure and no pain. They do not believe in an ascendance beyond pleasure and pain, they view it as a bug in the game which has to be bumped out through collective human action.

4. The Jewish/Kabbalic symbolism is actually meaningful.

Something stupid which people say about Evangelion is that all of the weird biblical imagery and use of Kabbalic symbols and all that stuff is just “meaningless aesthetics” because “Japanese people love biblical aesthetics without understanding them”. This is a stupid thing redditors made up because some of the higher-ups said the show didn’t have a religious meaning. The show not having a Christian religious meaning does not mean that the religious symbolism doesn’t mean anything, especially when this quote doesn’t come from the main producer of the series, Hideaki Anno. The author obviously did his research, as can be seen by obscure Jewish ideas like the “chamber of Guf”. SEELE’s Human Instrumentality Project is a reflection of Tikkun Olam in Lurianic Kabbalah. To Luria, human salvation had to be achieved through progressive, collective human action, which involved doing good deeds and incrementally constructing a better society until you basically develop a utopia. Because God’s contraction was what allowed for the existence of the world, and the “negative space” created by this contraction constitutes evil and suffering, creating a better and better world means sort of freeing the droplets of divine light from this negative space and returning to that original homogenous divine environment. So, in the process of creating a utopia, you are also sort of destroying or at least obscuring the provisional world.

What Luria actually meant by all this isn’t really the point. The point is, it would go on to strongly influence Jewish thought for the next several centuries up to today. Not just in religious contexts, but in secular contexts. Movements like Hasidism and Sabbateanism spread rapidly among the Jewish world, and were heavily influenced by Luria. Modern day Jews still use Luria’s ideas as spiritual justification for their quasi-utilitarian social justice campaigns. Jews for the past century or two have primarily supported Liberalism and Marxism, both of which come with a progressive and utopian view of the future. By Liberalism, I am referring to more modern strains of Liberalism. The Liberalism of the 18th century didn’t really have this element as far as I know. Heidegger points this out rather frankly in his so-called Black Notebook, suggesting there is a certain irony to Jews being done away with through novel technological means after pushing so hard for a techno-utopia. Heidegger was not a Luddite, because he knew technological advancement was uncontrollable. But, he did not want humanity to become reliant on technology.

Anyways, SEELE is basically a very in-your-face, visceral version of this utopian ideology. Through literally turning all of humanity into one mega-being, you are erasing the distance between people which leads to misunderstanding, which leads to suffering and bad action towards others and yourself. Through Human Instrumentality, the resultant superbeing represents a return to the primordial state of humanity (in-universe) similar to how in Lurianic Kabbalah the healing of the world involves a fixing of the world to resemble the state before contraction. You also sort of see this attitude in the hyper-collectivism of Jewish Socialism. A strong example of this is the Kibbutz. If you haven’t done your research on the Kibbutz, and you call yourself critical of Jews, I would recommend you look into it.

Shinji’s rejection of the Human Instrumentality Project is equivalent to Heidegger’s rejection of Jewish Liberal Star Trek Techno-Utopia, as well as this general sort of search for outward “completion” of life from others. The author was clearly into existentialists. Wouldn’t be surprised if he had read or was familiar with Heidegger’s ideas.

Alright. I’m done. I’m tired so I don’t know if that last part is very well written. But I don’t care.

Edit: Why The Reboots Don’t Do Justice

Uhh yeah, it was like 3 in the morning when I finished writing this post so I was kind of tired and forgot to explain why the reboots kind of spit in the face of the original because the creator got WINEBARRED!!!

First of all, it’s a total cash grab. The fanservice makes this obvious. So much jiggle physics. The substance that there is, I don’t like it once I watched the originals.

The End of Evangelion leaves us with the message that we can’t run away from all of our problems, we have to face them ourselves and we cannot just feel entitled to some magical person or government coming into our lives and solving them. As I just discussed.

But this is completely undone by the reboots, by this Maria Iscariot girl, who is this magical person who comes into Shinji’s life and literally stops the cycle of catastrophic impacts and turns the world into normal civtard life where Shinji is an adult and presumably married to this Maria Iscariot. She’s also pretty much a mary sue, she’s not an asshole or a mentally retarded robot and she actually likes fighting in the mech. It’s been a long time since I watched the reboots because again, I actually watched them first, and they were not that enticing. So I might have some details wrong. But from what I’ve heard Maria Iscariot is meant to be the creator’s wife, and by getting married he realized that it is le good to have someone who saves you from meaninglessness. Yep, he had been winebarred. Many of the greats are! SAD!

Look, if you’re sad because you don’t have a girlfriend and just can’t help it, I get it. It’s only natural. Trust me, I get it more than anyone! But if your issues were deeply existential or you have a deep issue with the way the world operates, and your issues are solved because you got a girlfriend, then you are just distracting yourself! Or worse yet, you never really cared about any of that stuff, and were just projecting your more “petty” issues onto seemingly grander issues. I’m looking at all of you traitorous scoundrel “WNs” who have Asian Wives. Maybe they call her Mary Iscariot because she’s marrying a Japanese man. Just like you guys are trying to marry Japanese women, and being a “Judas Iscariot” to your race and movement! UUUGHHH!!!!!! They also made Kaworu less of a bad guy and more of a christ-like figure… This is impossible because he acts too fruity and so is probably evil, although in his defense he’s an angel with no human sexuality so maybe he’s just misunderstood and doesn’t know that what he is doing is sus in human culture. This is the explanation I often hear and much more realistic than the pedophile bastards who want two teenage boys to have sex for their amusement

That’s another thing that I was never a big fan of, them shoving a quarter-Japanese ancestry onto Asuka in the supplementary books. In my headcanon she’ll always be 100% German. In fact, why don’t we just have the entire series set in the UK instead of Japan, and a fully white UK. Not the UK of today.