How Gainax botched the ending of Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV)

[Talge-wcts]

Alright partner… keep on trollin’ baby
You know what time it is

**Chorus:**
Throw your hands up and keep on trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (What?)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (Come on)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (Yeah)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin'

Now I know y'all be lovin' this ending right here
Gainax's in the house, put them hands in the air
'Cause if you don't care, then we don't care
Keep confusing fans, throwing twists everywhere
One, two, three times, two to the six
We got the mystery ending fix
So where the hell is Shinji now?
Gonna leave you lost like “How?”

**Pre-Chorus:**
So what’s up? Where we goin’?
When you know that the plot ain't showin’
Keep them fans always wonderin’
Keep them fans always wonderin’
So what’s up? Where we goin’?
When you know that the plot ain't showin’
Keep them fans always wonderin’
Keep them fans always wonderin’

**Chorus:**
Throw your hands up and keep on trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (What?)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (Come on)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (Yeah)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin'

**Verse:**
Check out the weirdness we drop now (Get up!)
Matrix, angels, space, they don’t stop now (Get up!)
Anime is unpredictable and we got the grip
Makin' heads spin like Eva, let's trip
So where's the closure, we don’t really care
Fans need answers, but we just ain't fair
Hideaki Anno’s got you in a haze
Like "Congratulations, " what a craze!

**Pre-Chorus:**
So what’s up? Where we goin’?
When you know that the plot ain't showin’
Keep them fans always wonderin’
Keep them fans always wonderin’
So what’s up? Where we goin’?
When you know that the plot ain't showin’
Keep them fans always wonderin’
Keep them fans always wonderin’

**Chorus:**
Throw your hands up and keep on trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (What?)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (Come on)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (Yeah)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin'

**Bridge:**
Hands up, now keep them up (What?)
Keep them up, now keep them up (Come on)
Hands up, now keep them up (Yeah)
Keep them up, now keep them up

**Outro:**
Y'all be messin’ with the best endings that don’t make sense
So throw those hands in the air
'Cause Gainax's always here to troll
Gainax's always here to troll

**Chorus:**
Throw your hands up and keep on trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (What?)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (Come on)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin' (Yeah)
Trollin', trollin', trollin', trollin'

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Keep on trollin'!

[josevalverde]

The ending of Evangelion should be considered watching it the chronological way, watching the last two episodes and the movie in certain order

[shusterandy]

I didn't mind later part of the series. I like ending Yeah It doesn't give a nice wrapped up resolution. But that's how life is, you might spend year's working at some thing, to makes things better but it's not that simple but even if achieve some thing great that doesn't mean every thing in life automatically fixed. That's how I see it with Shinji there isn't a whole lot of development with him, every thing is not resolved. But at least Shinji comes to terms with this. And he finally accepts him self and accepts the world for what it is regardless of how harsh the world is. At the ending I think it's a beautiful moment when they were playing an orchestral version of cruel angels thesis, and Shinji realizes he has the opportunity to to find happiness in the real world. Great video dude I liked what you had to say.

[Yankeezcap]

what was asuka's attempted suicide method? did she slash her wrists?
that's the method usually used by people in bathtubs. I didn't see the slash marks though.


did I get all of it, or are there any parts that I missed?

[rxzero]

I agree with a lot of these points. Gainax did botched the middle of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. Why did the studio force the team to extend the show more than the intended amount? Did Studio Gainax force Hideaki Anno to botched Shinji's development because they saw the fans hated him or so? Did Gainax see that Asuka is a fan favorite and forced Anno to focus on her character instead of Shinji near the end which led Anno to being pissed to the point that he made Asuka suffer psychologically in the show? Anno did recently expressed his anger towards Studio Gainax quite in detail. When Studio Sunrise forced Yoshiyuki Tomino to do certain things he didn't agree with in the Gundam franchise and other shows, I'm pretty sure he became so depressed that he kills off a lot of his characters by the end of said shows.

[ElricSowrd]

I'm a Fan of the female Characters. In a special way... 😏