Recommend some classic Japanese anime

I won’t say much about popular comic series such as Naruto and Bleach. Now I will recommend one, EVA

When it comes to EVA, this is a work of some years. If I think about it, as long as I have seen it, 90% of people will think it is a classic among classics...

Plot summary of EVA

In the prehistoric era of the earth, the essence of heaven and earth was gathered, yin and yang blended, famous and unnamed, two rites gave birth to four images, and the four images came to an end! Anyway, after physical and chemical reactions that are so complex that no one can explain clearly, the tree of life began to grow on the earth, producing various living things one by one, spreading across the land, oceans and sky of the earth, making the world between heaven and earth Full of life. Finally one day the tree of life grew to its peak, and the essence of yang and yin condensed into Adam and Lilith respectively. Adam is the male body and Lilith is the highest form of female body. After their "forbidden fusion", Lilith produced an "Egg of Lilith, the Black Moon", from which eighteen apostles were born, seventeen of whom received the Fruit of Life. I wonder if it is because there are only seventeen Fruits of Life growing on the Tree of Life, and the Eighteenth Apostle could only obtain the Fruit of Wisdom. Therefore, the power of A.T. Field is too weak to maintain a general form, and can only be divided and disintegrated. Existing in different forms, this is - human beings. The Tree of Life no longer exists, but the "light and water" in the Tree of Life, that is, energy and transmission matter, constitute the human soul. In the end, only a few unrotted roots were left of the Tree of Life, which became what later generations called the Spear of Longinus. Adam, Lilith and Apostles No. 2 to 17 all entered a dormant state, while the still ignorant humans went their separate ways. Some wise men among them still knew what had happened. These things were written into the Dead Sea Script as legends. Maybe it was also written into the Classic of Mountains and Seas... Time flies, and the 18th apostle of that year, human beings, has traveled all over the earth. With wisdom, he has developed a highly developed civilization and taken the world as his own. The owner considers himself. However, the "barrier of the heart" creates barriers between people, and the soul is full of indifference and sadness. The sense of loneliness forces humans to start looking for a new way of survival... In 1947 AD, in the caves of the Jordan Valley , some Gypsies accidentally [url=javascript:;] discovered the Dead Sea Documents, which shocked the archaeological world. The deciphering work continued for many years and finally succeeded. The content of the record is shocking. It not only points out the origin of human beings and apostles, but also points out that at some point in the future, those born from Adam and Lilith will return to their original bodies, re-grow the tree of life and produce new forms of life forms. In this process, it is crucial which side controls Adam, humans or apostles, because genetic factors come from Adam (so Adam is also called the first apostle, the first man), and the side that controls Adam returns to Lilith. After the egg is released, you can become a new life form, or become a god, and the losing party will only die (the winning party will also die, but the soul will be saved haha). Therefore, before this agreed moment arrives, the apostles will definitely wake up and become enemies of mankind. If mankind wants to successfully complete its return, all apostles must be eliminated before then.

For this purpose, the secret organization Seele was established. Its German meaning is soul. Headed by Speaker Jilu, it formulated a script, or timetable, for the human completion plan. Its subordinate executive agency is GEHIRUN (meaning brain), later renamed NERV (meaning nerve). Seele recruits researchers from all over the world. One of them is Yui Ikari, a female student doing research at Kyoto University in Japan. In 1999, the research report she wrote attracted the attention of Fuyutsuki, a professor of metaphysical biology. At the same time, she was also paying attention to Sextant Yuandu, who was determined to climb up. It only took him a few months to win over Wei, and thus he also entered the Seele organization and became the thirteenth member (this number is destined to He is the rebellious Judas). As the research deepened, Seele dispatched the Katsuragi expedition team to Antarctica in 2000, but only Gendo among them knew the ultimate purpose of the expedition...

God said, I will come back , when I come back, I will destroy this world! Noah obeyed God's will and built the ark, allowing life on earth to survive the great flood.

This great flood was God's punishment and is called the First Shock. From an archaeological point of view, there was indeed a great flood in ancient times that destroyed most of the world's population and many prehistoric civilizations, and it remains in the legends of various ethnic groups in the world.

In August 2000 AD, the Katsuragi expedition team arrived in Antarctica. The huge humanoid life form they discovered was actually the fusion of Adam and Lilith. Katsuragi's plan is to seize or control Adam and Lilith's S^2 mechanism, separate and shrink Adam and Lilith and use them to complete the plan for the future of mankind. But there was one thing he didn't know. Whether Adam and Lilith were fused or separated, they would release huge explosive energy and anti-ATField force. This was the same as the principle that nuclear fusion and nuclear fission would produce big explosions and shock waves, but the explosion yield was different. So although the disaster caused by the separation of Adam and Lilith will not wipe out all mankind, it will kill half of the population on the earth. The third impact sixteen years later is the refusion of Adam and Lilith, and the entire world will be doomed again.

Katsugi, who knew nothing, continued his separation experiments, even taking his own daughter with him. On September 12, Ikari Gento, who received instructions from Seele, left Antarctica carrying the data. The experiment ended in a big explosion the next day. The powerful anti-ATField force awakened the second apostle, the giant that glowed white in the blurry photo. Its huge spread wings covered the entire southern hemisphere. With a devilish roar, Antarctica turned into a sea of ??blood and a huge tsunami. It flooded large swaths of land within hours, killing hundreds of millions of people. In this apocalyptic disaster, only Katsuragi Miri was rescued and escaped by her father. Ikari Gendo later returned to Antarctica and rescued her. But Ikari Gento’s main purpose was to recover Adam, Lilith, and the Second Apostle. Only the Longinus gun was left behind (Miri Katsuragi, who suffered from aphasia, was imprisoned on an Antarctic research ship for nearly two years. It seemed that the recovery work lasts a long time). The chain of disasters caused by the second shock did not gradually calm down until 2002. The climate on the earth has also become weird. For example, in Japan, it is summer all year round, and the cicadas are heard chirping at any time. This is probably because of the deflection of the earth's axis.

Seele learned from the Dead Sea Script that not only the second apostle was awakened by the second impact, but actually all the apostles had awakened, but they still needed some time to accumulate energy (the second apostle was due to insufficient energy. and was subdued). After investigation, Seele also discovered that a child was born with strange phenomena on the day of the impact. The child's name was Kaoru Nagisa, so he was quickly monitored. Although this child was educated to be a very cultivated and charming person, he never forgot his true identity and purpose of birth, which was his destiny of freedom and death... Adam asked God, why am I so lonely among all things in the world? So God took his rib and made Eve. On February 23, 1997, Dolly the sheep, the first somatically cloned mammal in the history of biological evolution, was born.

Human beings are afraid that they have the power of God in their hands, but some people have shouted the oath to kick God's throne:

God's in his heaven, all rights with the world! ——Seele's motto

In 2004 AD, three-year-old Shinji Ikari was taken to the second underground experimental site of the Institute of Artificial Evolution (GEHIRUN's external name) in Hakone, where he witnessed his mother's death in early childhood. The machine is transformed into a sub-quantum state (synchronization rate is 400%). Soon after, Ikari Gendo entrusted little Shinji to a teacher who lived far away. The image of his father's heartless departure became a nightmare in Shinji's heart, which kept popping up in his mind even after he grew up... But He didn't know the huge work his father and Seele behind him were doing. After the second impact, millions of tons of sand and soil were removed from the huge spherical space under the Hakone area on the edge of Sagami Bay, Japan. Twenty-two layers of armor protection were installed on the surface, which can be said to be impregnable. Institute of Human Evolution Using this as a base, Lilith was pinned deeper into the central dogma zone.

As a subsidy for the human completion plan, Plan E was implemented in parallel. The second apostle who had lost his S^2 mechanism and was transported from Antarctica was equipped with restraint armor and became an important tool for humanity's future completion - EVA Unit 1 , and imitated it to obtain a soulless EVA Unit Zero. However, EVA cannot be used without soul synchronization. The only way is to extract Lilith's soul material to create a clone with apostle abilities and make it obey the orders of humans. At the same time, Ikari Wei, one of the main implementers of the Human Completion Plan and Plan E, was secretly planning to rebel against Seele. She tried to save mankind from the third impact in the future, so she took advantage of the opportunity of the Unit-1 fusion experiment to Take the initiative to fully integrate your soul into this important tool to complete the plan. Gendo was deeply shocked by Ikari Wei's move, but he quickly began to take advantage of the situation and implement his own set of completion plans, mixing the Lilith soul material of the Unit Zero clone into Ikari Wei's particle body, and even made his appearance change. Dummy Wei, this manufacturing process is realized through the Dummy System. Through this [url=javascript:;] system, countless clones can be cloned from one subject, sharing the same soul. Thus, The First Children, the exclusive pilot of Unit Zero, Ling Boli, was born. Absolutely obedient to Gento, she cursed Dr. Akagi, who had just finished building the MAGI super computer, and died. Dr. Akagi, who had been used, also committed suicide. Another person who was exploited was the developer of EVA Unit 2. Part of her soul was forcibly deprived of her soul by Unit 2, causing her to suffer from schizophrenia. Her daughter Asuka was chosen to be The Second Children - exclusive to Unit 2 under construction. driver. Unit 2 was difficult for Gendo to control, and it might even be a counterweight that Seele placed around him, so he tried to hand over the most important Unit 1 to his son for control. However, choosing Shinji as The Third Children will inevitably attract Seele's opposition, so Gendo has to wait patiently for the opportunity. At 12:30 pm on June 14, 2015, the Third Apostle appeared and attacked the third New Tokyo City, the fortress city of mankind. The Kanto Coastal Area was under martial law, and the Strategic Self-Defense Force mecha units and N2 mines (i.e. No Nuclear (no nuclear weapons, but no less powerful than nuclear bombs) attacks were declared ineffective. Gendu's opportunity has finally arrived, and Shinji is on his way to NERV...

The entire EVA animation is based on complex religious ideas. Simply, from the title of the film, we can see that Evangelion means Gospel in English, which makes people think of the Old Testament. Moreover, the story is full of references to God, Adam, Eve, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Note 1). The entire story is based on Judaism. Due to the close connection between Judaism and Christianity, there are so many things in the Bible that we are familiar with; however, this film is neither an ideological propaganda of Judaism nor a Christian one. religious films, the author just borrowed the story concepts to express his own thoughts - these will be gradually revealed in the following analysis. Since we are talking about religion, let us start our research from NERV, a mysterious organization in EVA. NERV—GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN, ALL'S RIGHT WITH THE WORLD

People who have seen EVA will definitely be interested in NERV The blood-red logo left a deep impression, and at the same time, you will also understand the sentence GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN, ALL RIGHT WITH THE WORLD in the subtitle - it is a poem by the British poet Robert Browning. We can temporarily translate it as " What God does not do, man does." From this sentence, we can understand the meaning of NERV. As Ikari Yuanduo said, the power of science is infinite. Please look at the conversation between Ikari Yuandu and Dongyue when they were in the Antarctic in Chapter 12 (the two were on an aircraft carrier at this time) Dongyue: No life is allowed to exist. , the world of death - Antarctica, maybe it shouldn't be hell.

Not to mention the revelation of the storyline in this important conversation, the ideological viewpoints revealed can already explain the meaning of the blood-red symbol of NERV. The symbol of NERV is NERV under half a leaf. The words are the main body, surrounded by the words GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN, ALL RIGHT WITH THE WORLD below. In fact, that leaf is actually a fig leaf, which is the original sin in the Bible that symbolizes Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden - the original sin of eating the fruit of wisdom; the expression of the forbidden fruit of wisdom is converted into EVA, that is, NERV represents the idea of ??scientific omnipotence, and GOD'S IN HIS HEAVEN, ALL RIGHT WITH THE WORLD embodies NERV's idea of ??scientific omnipotence (Note 3). However, Hideaki Anno (Note 4) believes that the power of science is the source of human original sin, so there is a fig leaf on the NERV logo. On the one hand, it represents the original sin that human beings bear; on the other hand, being NERV has this meaning The logo also embodies NERV's fearlessness, awe, and self-centered will. As the commander-in-chief of NERV, Ikari Yuanduo concentrated this kind of thought and will, or it was Ikari Yuandu who brought this kind of thinking to NERV. Dongyue, as a skeptic, has the faith and awe that humans should have. Dongyue believes that it is precisely because humans are complacent with their own scientific power and try to use the power of science to carry out their own plans to become gods that led to the second impact - God's punishment of humans. SEELE - the theological perspective of consciousness first

SEELE is the direct superior agency of NERV. As the planner of the human completion plan, SEELE is the largest and final guiding force behind EVA (from the meaning of SEELE - —the soul can know), in fact, only the senior personnel of SEELE and NERV know the truth about the so-called human completion plan. From the outside, the so-called completion of human beings is the process of human beings evolving to a new realm through the power of science, including divine power. If we take the movie version as a benchmark, it means that human beings are restored to soul-like existences in the sea of ??LCL. Some people think that the ending of THE END OF EVANGELION is the total annihilation of human beings. In fact, human beings have lost their bodies and the barriers between them and continue to exist in the form of spirit, which is spiritual completion. At this point, the same is true for the ending of the TV version. The psychological analysis in Chapters 25 and 26 can be said to symbolize (actually, it is) the completion of the soul. It can also be seen that SEELE's behavior of giving up the human body and allowing humans to evolve into the spiritual world proves their concept of consciousness first. At the same time, it is also the ideological basis of this film - human thoughts are the most important, and the meaning of EVA is to give people a sense of completion in the soul.

Does this look very stupid? Is it difficult to understand? The reason why it is stupid and difficult to understand is because this work contains too many things. It is difficult to understand just by reading it. Read it a few times and then go Check the relevant information of EVA and combine it with your own understanding to understand the connotation of this work. I believe you will have a new understanding of the world and life

Number of episodes: TV version *** 26 episodes< /p>

Theatrical version: Death and Rebirth (Rebirth of the Apostle) Air·Sincerely for You

New theatrical version:

Preface to ヱヴァンゲリヲン

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ヱヴァンゲリヲン? (The title has not been announced)

Note: 1. The original theatrical version of "Air·True to You" is taken from "The Beast Calling for Love in the Center of the World"

2. The new theatrical version has no The words "New Century"!

When reading EVA, you must not jump to this one like those serial comics and harem comics. Every term may affect the subsequent plot...

Recommended viewing order TV 1-26 --------The TV version of the original theatrical version has one ending, and the original theatrical version has another ending that is different from the TV ending