Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 15 Reaction

Hopefully 86 can win the next poll for a short anime. I have seen some want takopi reaction and would love it too. Takopi and after 86. 🥺

Calm before the storm, indeed. A blink-and-you'd-miss-it moment: the chamber that houses the crucified creature is labelled "LCL manufacturing facility." The liquid used in the entry plug is the blood of that entity. Marduk Institute supposedly is the organization that handpicks pilot candidates. Yet, only Creed, Gendo, and Fuyutsuki were on its board of directors. That is a contradiction. Evangelion's psychological thriller and greater mysteries begin to unfold here. I often feel that this is the episode in which Evangelion went from an exceptional anime to art.

Loved y’all’s discussion for this episode!

This is the very first episode I saw from Eva. And still my favorite of them all. I was speechless at the end. It was so good even not knowing anything at all from the series.

Also this is one of my favorite episodes if only for the scene with Misato and Kaji walking under the beautiful cel animated starlit night, as we see a bit into her soul as she lowers her guard for the first time, revealing such vulnerability and sadness and darkness and self hatred... Poor woman is just a traumatized child inside trying to do her best, far from the parental figure she is to the kids or the ruthless NERV commander at work. Just breaks my heart. All as the instrumental version of Fly Me To the Moon plays (for the only time in the show) underscoring how important this scene was to the creators

Anyone else think that Ritsuko's character design is just Lola in 90's anime form??

Cant wait for the next one! 16 is one of my absolute favs 😍 😍😍😍

Guys, I think this show may contain some religious allegories.

Small detail. The vault where Adam is impaled with the spear was labeled "Main LCL Plant" when Kaji swiped his badge. Adam was leaking LCL from his wound. LCL is the orange liquid that is in the entry plug of the Evas and it is in Rei's tank this episode.

In previous episodes they showed Kaji: - Repeating classified information to a random person in a cable car, it's the same information that was said over a phone call in an earlier episode before Ritsuko says to disconnect the line or something because someone could be listening in (Episode 10) - Running around investigating classified areas while everyone at Nerv was trying to stop an angel attack (Episode 13) There's tons of others but those are the main ones I think of

Two episodes into the second half, and they're finally checking old episodes during their discussions to try and figure things out, love to see it.

The next episode's video quality will be lower than what you're used to because the studio lost the original film when transferring to digital, so don't worry it has nothing to do with your episodes. There just isn't a high quality version of Episode 16 sadly.

I really like the scene with kaji and Misato and that one line about Misato lying about falling in love with someone else, and she asks him if he knew that was a lie, and he says no. You really reel for kaji in that moment that all these years he believed that she fell for someone else and that’s why she broke up with him. When actually it was just a lie because Misato was afraid how close she was getting to kaji.

No recordaba tantas cosas de este capitulo, pero tremendo la vdd, bastante bueno

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"and everybody said it was a recap" Wasn't it literally one person lol

One thing you forgot to note about the Lance is that Gendo and Fuyutsuki were returning with it from Antarctica in ep 12. Also, for some reason, everyone seems to be completely missing the ‘LCL plant’ bit in Terminal Dogma. Everyone focuses on little legs and completely ignoring the orange goop flowing down. When it is arguably the most important bit here. And no, Shinji’s attempt with 00 completely failed. P.S. this another point where ‘instrumentality’ mistranslation rears its ugly head. If they kept Complementation, you would have avoided so many going-in-circles

Very juicy interpersonal drama this episode. Also, I love this display of Shinji and Asuka's dynamic, where her goading brings him out of his shell a little, but she can't turn it off and just breaks his confidence more.

Really disappointed that the comments have affected what they think about a few things in black and white terms instead of with the nuance that's there.

You know what.. as a kid..watching this.. I was wondering to myself if i should be watching this or not. Since the anime comes with more mature themes such as intimacy and stuff. But again.. I blame Cartoon Network for putting me into this anime lol

Sorry for commenting this here but girls please watch Fruits basket after jujutsu kaisen. It’s time for both of you to watch an anime with romance in it. The main character is also female so that’s a small bonus. It unfortunately will never win a poll so maybe one day you’ll just watch it without one. I also highly recommend an anime called March comes in like a lion to be added on the poll it’s fantastic.

Well, Shinji at least still had a much better first kiss than Denji did

Hi! my comments and easter eggs about this episode Kaji's investigation reveals that the Marduk Institute is connected to 108 companies, with 106 already confirmed to be dummy corporations and Shannon Biotech appearing likely to be number 107. The supposedly independent institution responsible for selecting Eva pilots therefore begins to look less like a genuine organization and more like an elaborate structure of names hiding whatever actually exists behind it. The name Marduk refers to one of the most important gods in ancient Mesopotamian religion, who eventually became the chief god of Babylon. In the Enuma Elish, an ancient Babylonian creation epic written as a long mythological poem, Marduk rises to supremacy after defeating Tiamat, a primordial goddess associated with the chaotic sea, and receives 50 names associated with his divine powers and titles. The number 108 is also a symbolically important number in Buddhism. Asuka is surprised to discover that Shinji plays the cello and compliments his performance of the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1. Shinji immediately downplays it, saying that he has been playing since he was five but has no particular talent. Asuka specifically praises his perseverance, telling him that continuing with something is itself a strength and that she now thinks a little better of him. It is a rare early moment in which she openly praises a positive personal quality in Shinji rather than criticizing him or competing with him. When she asks why he kept playing for so long, however, he basically says that he continued because nobody ever told him to stop. Yui's grave gives her dates as 1977-2004, but Gendo explains that there are actually no remains buried there and that the grave is only symbolic. At the wedding after-party, Ritsuko describes homeostasis as the ability to maintain the status quo and transistasis as the ability to change, explaining that all living things possess both of these contradictory traits. The idea is interesting because life depends on preserving continuity while simultaneously remaining capable of transformation, making contradiction itself part of what allows living things to exist and adapt. Misato's conversation with Kaji is probably the most explicitly psychological scene in the episode. Episode 12 already established how complicated her feelings toward her father were, and here Misato puts the connection directly into words when she says, "I hated my father, but then I fall for a man who was just like him." Her confession is made even more expressive when she begins to move her arm as if she is going to embrace Kaji but stops and lowers it, allowing the hesitation to communicate the emotional distance that still remains between them. I relate this to what Carl Gustav Jung called an Electra complex, commonly presented as the female parallel to Freud's Oedipus complex, since her relationship with her father continued shaping the kind of men she was drawn to even while she consciously tried to escape his influence. Her comparison with Shinji is especially important because, after repeatedly criticizing him for running away, Misato recognizes that she has spent much of her own life trying to escape something painful from her past, forcing her to see herself in the behavior she had condemned in him. Misato and Asuka form another parallel through the way both try to appear mature and independent despite their emotional vulnerability. Misato functions as a kind of role model of adulthood for Asuka, who imitates what she associates with adult femininity through things like dating and wanting Misato's lavender perfume. Recognizing that same perfume on Kaji then forces Asuka to confront the gap between the adult image she performs and the reality that, despite trying so hard to appear mature, she is still a child trying to enter an adult world. Asuka says she wants to kiss Shinji because she is bored, but the excuse gives her a way to test his reaction without openly admitting that it matters to her. Her feelings for Kaji are still part of the emotional background, especially because he represents the adult recognition she wants but cannot obtain from him. The question beneath "Do you want to kiss?" therefore feels much closer to "Do you want me?" This also fits with Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly Lacan's idea that our desire is shaped by how we imagine other people see and desire us, because Asuka wants Shinji's reaction to confirm that she is desirable. Their physical closeness only makes the emotional distance between them more obvious, bringing us back to the Hedgehog's Dilemma that has been central to the series since Episode 4. It also recalls the "Wall of Jericho" from Episode 9, when Asuka used that biblical reference for the boundary she established between herself and Shinji. The episode gradually exposes Kaji's espionage. It begins with Gendo and Fuyutsuki discussing an unidentified man whom they are willing to let act freely because he can still be useful. At the wedding after-party, Kaji gives Ritsuko a small cat souvenir and claims it came from Matsushiro, a town in central Japan northwest of Tokyo, but she suspects he was actually in Kyoto and warns him that investigating too deeply could get him burned. Later, after bringing Misato home drunk, he steals her ID card and uses it to enter restricted areas of NERV, where Misato eventually catches him. She then reveals Kaji's divided role. Officially, he belongs to NERV's Special Inspection Department, a position that gives him broad access inside the organization, and he also performs covert tasks for Gendo, while secretly investigating NERV for Japan's Ministry of the Interior. Misato warns that this could get him killed, echoing Ritsuko's earlier warning, but Kaji explains that Gendo already knows about his activities and divided loyalties and still finds him useful, finally clarifying what the opening conversation was referring to. Rei is absent from school and shown floating naked inside a tank in a hidden facility below Central Dogma (WTF?... what am I even supposed to say here?). Central Dogma and Terminal Dogma are both sections of NERV Headquarters, but they represent different depths of secrecy. Central Dogma already contains facilities and information hidden even from many members of NERV itself, while Terminal Dogma lies much farther below as another layer beneath those secrets, accessible to an even smaller circle and concealing things from people who may already possess privileged knowledge elsewhere inside NERV. Terminal Dogma is basically the point where NERV's secrets have secrets of their own. Central Dogma, as I explained in Episode 13, comes directly from molecular biology. Terminal Dogma, however, has no biological counterpart. The final descent into Terminal Dogma shifts the episode from emotional secrets to physical ones. It is marked as 2,008 meters below Central Dogma, and the journey downward loosely resembles a common pattern in ancient myths called katabasis, where someone descends from the ordinary world into an underworld or hidden realm associated with danger, secrets, or forbidden knowledge. The severe warning at the entrance makes me think of the inscription above the gate of Hell in Dante's Divine Comedy, with its famous "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." The door reads "Keep Out: Main LCL plant circulation line 03 Trespassers will be shot on sight violators will be liable for penalties of up to 10 years'imprisonment. $100000 fine or both" (if they shoot you on sight, I am not sure how worried you are supposed to be about the fine or imprisonment afterward xD). Terminal Dogma almost feels like an inverted temple, with NERV surrounding the enormous crucified figure with industrial infrastructure, security systems, containment, and bureaucracy, treating it less as an object of worship than as something classified and managed. Kaji identifies the figure as Adam and calls it the origin of the Second Impact and everything that followed, prompting Misato to recognize Adam as the First Angel. This is the same Adam Kaji delivered to Gendo in embryonic form back in Episode 8

Every episode from now until the end I love. This particular episode stands out to me even in that run as special. The scene with Kaji and Misato walking home is gorgeous, and the instrumental version of ‘Fly Me To the Moon’ that plays throughout it is one of my favourite instrumental songs, period.