This chapter analyze very well the character of Asuka and help us to understand this traumatized girl. Showing us how the suicide of her mother Influence on her.
4 Reviews
Mostly perfect
sevskirita31 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Asuka's arc this episode is pretty much perfection. The story building here is very good and informs Asuka's character perfectly as a struggle with wanting to be free from a perceived doll-like expectation of her and her desire for the kind of warmth and affection she'd get by fulfilling those expectations. It works perfectly into her perception of Shinji and Rei and what her Eva means to her.
The only things that even halfway hamper this episode is the scene reuse which is pretty irritating and the fact that this episode doesn't attempt much more in the time. Otherwise, just perfect framing and story building for Asuka, you love to see it. 9/10 at least. Also pretty cool they were able to differentiate yet another Angel battle.
The only things that even halfway hamper this episode is the scene reuse which is pretty irritating and the fact that this episode doesn't attempt much more in the time. Otherwise, just perfect framing and story building for Asuka, you love to see it. 9/10 at least. Also pretty cool they were able to differentiate yet another Angel battle.
The infamous elevator and mind rape scenes
EuropeanQoheleth12 July 2021
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Asuka is understandably still upset about her mother's suicide but is also still annoyed about having supposedly lost in some way to Shinji. 10 minutes in the elevator scene starts in which Asuka and Rei are just staring, and not at each other either, for a full minute punctuated only by a sneeze from Asuka. I know that Gainax were low on money at this point but this is ridiculous. Asuka slaps Rei (that's about the 4th slap in the show now) and then leaves. For the record the elevator scene as a whole lasts 1 minute and 54 seconds. Asuka then declares she hates everyone (hmm, a redhaired, blue eyed, pale skinned teenager from Europe who hates everyone, just like me in my teens) which I can certainly understand. The mind rape begins 16 minutes in (and ends 21 minutes in) which is creepy at first but at 19 minutes in they just keep recycling footage and this goes on for a minute which is the problem with the late episodes of Evangelion; the psychological stuff was put in not to be deep but because of budget trouble. They needed an excuse to keep using the same stuff. With Asuka in no state to keep fighting Gendo has Rei retrieve the lance of Longinus and she then does an Olympic worthy throw of it which somehow goes up into space and destroys the angel. Asuka is upset at being saved by Rei. OK I get that she reminds her of a doll which reminds her of her mother's mind going but it seems ridiculous still.
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