Shin Seiki Evangelion Movie: Air / Magokoro wo, Kimi ni
Production constraints forced Neon Genesis Evangelion's TV finale onto a budget so thin that the last two episodes are mostly recycled cels and inner-monologue text cards. End of Evangelion is the version the studio wanted to make. SEELE storms NERV with a strike team. Asuka is in a hospital coma. Shinji is in a worse one of his own. The film stitches together the assault on the base, Asuka's last stand against the Mass Production Evangelions, and Shinji's reckoning with what the Human Instrumentality Project actually asks of him, in the order they happen rather than the order he can bear them.
Production constraints forced Neon Genesis Evangelion's TV finale onto a budget so thin that the last two episodes are mostly recycled cels and inner-monologue text cards. End of Evangelion is the version the studio wanted to make. SEELE storms NERV with a strike team. Asuka is in a hospital coma. Shinji is in a worse one of his own. The film stitches together the assault on the base, Asuka's last stand against the Mass Production Evangelions, and Shinji's reckoning with what the Human Instrumentality Project actually asks of him, in the order they happen rather than the order he can bear them.