This month, for no real reason other than the fact that it was a cool idea, anime distribution company GKIDS announced a North American theatrical run for Hideaki Anno’s groundbreaking film The End Of Evangelion—originally released in Japanese theaters in 1997 as both a tie-in with Anno’s iconic TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion and an attempt to gently redo the original anime’s ending in a way that would be a little more palatable.
boss Gendo Ikari with the capability to do that, so they attack to send out one of its Evangelion units to fight off the military. The pilot, Shinji Ikari is missing and catatonically depressed. By the time he gets in his Eva, he believes that it’s too late and all of his friends are dead, causing a psychotic break that triggers humanity’s “evolution.” The rest of the film largely takes place in Shinji’s head as he struggles to determine whether or not he should surrender to the pain of existence and give up or continue to be and live on.