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Neon Genesis Evangelion 1x23: "Tears" // Reaction and Discussion (Patreon)

Published:
2025-12-05 23:37:04
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2025-12-19 22:05:40
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Intro: 00:00

Reaction to Show: 00:46

Discussion: 16:10

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Neon Genesis Evangelion 1x23: "Tears" // Reaction and Discussion

Intro: 00:00 Reaction to Show: 00:46 Discussion: 16:10

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Mati D.

This episode is Cinema

timpkmn89

Shouldn't it be Monogatari where they create an out-of-chronological-order intro?

circleface

whoa i think ben is the first person ive ever seen pick up on how the "cat" could be referring to kaji! i dont think its ever clarified what ritsuko's involvement in kaji's investigation was exactly, but at the very least we know she was aware of it and never ratted him out...

Camska

"I feel very conflicted and very confused" Wait for The End of Evangelion for the third NGE feeling, which I wont spoil

Camska

One very controversial thing that you may have missed is WHAT Misato offered Shinji. What she says to herself after is the key She offered him comfort sex. Because thats how SHE copes and coped with Kaji. When he refuses her, she doesnt understand it and dont know how to help him otherwise.

Meow_Lin

These next three weeks......ARE GOING TO BE PAINFUL WAITING!

nycReaching

the ending and EoE is gonna be wild. this series is amazing

VS

Likewise, Ben <3 Can't wait to continue!

Derantor Kiarig

Great reaction, as always. ^^ Just a quick heads up, Kiel is pronounced "Keel", not "Kyle", and Seele "Sailah" (not really, but close enough - take the "a" in "sail", and stretch it out, without saying the "i" part), not "Seelie". Those are all German words, just like Nerv and Gehirn. Different vowel sounds which don't quite exist in English. Seele = Soul, Nerv = Nerve, and Gehirn = Brain. Kiel is named after the nautical term (the keel on a ship), while Ikari can mean anchor. Poor Hikari had an impossible job indeed - no real way to help Asuka, and I suspect that what she says (I think you did your best) made everything worse, because clearly, Asuka's best wasn't even close to being good enough in Asuka's mind.

Linus Lindholm

Looking back on this discussion after you've seen the whole thing will be crazy.

Plugsuit

Is the red scene with the Evangelion grave added content of the DC? I have seen NGE countless times in the nineties on VHS, TV, conventions and so on, but this seemed new to me.

Derantor Kiarig

Yes, it's a DC addition. The original has a bunch of skulls and spines lying on the ground, neatly arranged, here it got replaces by trenches full of haphazardly discarded bones.

Asher Adson

44:20 anyone whose gone though a crisis knows what it feels like to have a Hikari, the part where Auska starts sobbing in particular when she remembers what she's doing

Kayin, the one and only

I've rewatched Evangelion almost every year, at least every other year, since it came out in 1997. It means something completely different to me now than it does to me now.

Sergio Meira

"There is no way to sort through your feelings right now." Yeah... People talk about 'wham! episodes', but usually these are centered about big revelations that recontextualize everything. And even though there is one such revelation in this episode, I feel like I've always seen it as the "wham! episode" that gives you all kinds of feelings you'd have if you had really been hit by a big fist. Who even are these characters right now? What was Ritsuko crying about at the end? Was Misako really offering Shinji sex? Did Asuka really feel they were sending nobody for her? And what the heck were those Seele guys blabbering about? Seele looks sometimes so cartoonish... And then gods, and Adam, and the EVAs from Adam... what kind of gobbledygook is all that?!? To me, unless you dive deeper into the mythology of the series (check out wiki.evageeks.org), these are all confusing paths in which 'reality' -- Seele, NERV, the Angels -- seems to be collapsing like the pilots' minds when the Angels get into them. It's all about personal decisions now -- what will Rei III do now that she cries without knowing why? What will happen to Asuka, now that she feels she wasn't worthy even of being rescued? What is Gendō doing, and why have the other Seele members lost their trust in him? Is it my impression, or is every character becoming more and more isolated from everybody else?... Maybe this is a psychological thriller, not a meccha anime...

Sergio Meira

I've always wondered about that. Yes, it is possible to interpret the scene this way (especially with her past with Kaji, and also because of how averse Japanese people tend to be to touching), but I find it also so easy to interpret that as her offering comfort in a less sexual way -- if you want a hug, I can give you one, if you want to talk I'm here for you, etc. Both interpretations would be compatible with her "I'm the lonely one" conclusion at the end of that sequence. So I'm not really sure. She certainly was offering comfort, but was it obviously via sex? Hm.

Camska

It was. The key is what she says to Penpen just after. Every character in Eva represents a fucked up mind. Misato's issue is that she's using sexuality as a way to escape / fight her problems. That's her thing. And EoE push that even further.