Shinseiki Evangelion Movie: Air/Magokoro wo, Kimi ni

Shinji Ikari is left emotionally comatose after the death of a dear friend. With his son mentally unable to pilot the humanoid robot Evangelion Unit-01, Gendou Ikari's NERV races against the shadow organization SEELE to see who can enact their ultimate plan first. SEELE desires to create a godlike being by fusing their own souls into an Evangelion unit, while Gendou wishes to revert all of humanity into one primordial being so that he can be reunited with Yui, his deceased wife.

SEELE unleashes its military forces in a lethal invasion of NERV headquarters. As SEELE's forces cut down NERV's scientists and security personnel, Asuka Langley Souryuu pilots Evangelion Unit-02 in a desperate last stand against SEELE's heaviest weaponry.

The battle rages on, and a depressed Shinji hides deep within NERV's headquarters. With the fate of the world resting in Shinji's hands, Captain Misato Katsuragi hunts for the teenage boy as society crumbles around them.

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Souryuu, Asuka Langley Main

Miyamura, Yuko Japanese

Ayanami, Rei Main

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Ikari, Shinji Main

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Katsuragi, Misato Main

Mitsuishi, Kotono Japanese

Nagisa, Kaworu ing

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Pen Pen ing

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Ikari, Gendou ing

Tachiki, Fumihiko Japanese

Kaji, Ryouji ing

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Akagi, Ritsuko ing

Yamaguchi, Yuriko Japanese

Ibuki, Maya ing

Nagasawa, Miki Japanese

Ishikawa, Mitsuhisa Producer

Anno, Hideaki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Screenplay, Original Creator, Setting, Planning, Animation Director, Mechanical Design, Key Animation

Tsurumaki, Kazuya Director

Tanaka, Hideyuki Sound Director

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May 31, 2025

gabdesumilde

Recommended

The first time I watched The End of Evangelion, I didn’t understand shit — I just spiraled into a massive existential crisis. But now, the second time around, I felt complete. Because I saw someone put into words exactly what I feel inside. And you can’t truly understand Evangelion unless you feel that shit — unless you really connect with it. Evangelion doesn’t lie. It shoves it in your face: life is hard, cruel, and depressing. But it also shows that it’s possible to find yourself, to accept yourself, and to keep going — one day at a time. I think that’s why I finally ... got the ending. Because this time, I felt it. And that made me so fucking happy.

I just wish more people could connect with this masterpiece the way I did…
But I guess most of them are just as fucking scared as Shinji — too afraid to face their own reality, and they'd rather run away than let themselves be helped.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Feb 9, 2025

Shineix

Mixed Feelings

The most confusing watching experience you'll ever have. The Evangelion movie was a very carefully planned out movie but the main area it lacks in is it's explanation of the story.

Overall the story, depth and message are really good and even the characters are interesting in this path of Evangelion however this is only if you can understand it while watching.

Since the review is strictly on the movie I have to give it a bad rating, the movie doesn't explain basically anything going on and just expects you to follow the many random and odd events. If you went and searched up everything on ... google later you'd realize that the movie was actually good and well made but google shouldn't have to be used to understand it and the movie itself should be explaining what, how or why all this is happening. All the hardcore Evangelion fans are going to come after me for this but I had full focus on the movie and anime but they simply never explain anything at all which ruins the entire experience.

Overall the movie had potential to be amazing but since it requires you to search up everything it just ruins it all and makes everything feel random especially near the end.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 22, 2025

DanTheMan2150AD

Not Recommended

Well, I can't say I didn't at least try and give this another go, but I still stand by everything I've ever said about this film and the franchise. What happens when self-awareness goes rogue? You get The End of Evangelion. A horrific mass of half-cooked ideas stolen from better sources made out of spite, glorifying the darker and more carnal side of humanity rather than offering a critique or deconstruction of it. A reflection of Anno's own self-deprecation. Doubling down on every misguided artistic choice, it transforms a flawed, semi-intriguing series into an insufferable spectacle of existential drivel. I'm putting my journey with this ... franchise well and truly behind me; a huge part of my college years was spent analysing it to death, enduring more abuse and death threats than I'd be willing to it and, more recently, ridiculed, mocked and deprecated by people I used to call friends. A quick fix of instant despair. The End of Evangelion is an ugly film, visually less so, narratively abhorrent. There are very few films I utterly loathe so ionately as much as this.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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