Recent years have seen the original series and its two feature-length follow-ups reach new audiences on Netflix and Blu-ray, as well as the completion of creator Hideaki Anno’s third telling of Shinji’s story, “Rebuild of Evangelion.” After topping the 2021 box office in its native country, the fourth and final “Rebuild” film, “Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time,” screens across the United States this week - at the end of a year when “Evangelion” entered the cultural conversation once more thanks to its influence on the mysterious entity at the center of Jordan Peele’s “Nope.” “Neon Genesis Evangelion” completed its run on Japanese television in 1996 a quarter century later, the franchise it launched is more popular than ever. On top of all that, he has to deal with all the typical stresses of being a teenager while regularly hopping into a giant biomechanical robot in order to defend humanity from the threat of monstrous beings tellingly referred to as “Angels.” And with each new iteration of the pioneering anime “ Neon Genesis Evangelion,” Shinji relives this cycle of death, depression, and rebirth all over again. He’s actually kind of a mess, but not without damn good reason: His mother died when he was 3 years old, his father abandoned him, and his entire world view has been shaped by the people around him, who try to maneuver Shinji any which way they’d like.
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