Episode 26'

Episode Information
Episode #26'
Title 1: まごころを、君に Magokoro o, Kimi ni Yours Sincerely Title 2: I Need You.
Written By	Hideaki Anno
Directed By	Hideaki Anno
First Aired	7-19-1997
Video Release Date	9-24-2002
Angel Appearances	Lilith, Adam
Eva Sorties	N/A
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"Episode 25'"	"(End)"

Synopsis

Some rough notes:

• Third Impact set in motion (Pointless Religious Symbolism, Spear, XBOX HUEG explosion, Big Black Ball, etc.)
• Shinji: ARGH GODDAMIT WHY ME
• Rei: Screw you, Commander, I'll be taking your arm and that giant marshmallow woman over there now.
• Giant Naked Rei, deformed harpies, Giant Naked Kaworu, Tree of Life, Shinji likes boobies, sploosh
• Pre-3rd Impact Pre-Instrumentality: Sand box, Mama, boobies, college sexathon, boobies ("Hay, Shinji, I don't care if you use me as a Side Dish! But damn it, I wanna be the Main Course instead!" "ZOMGWTF?"), I want you Asuka, fuck off Shinji (Pathetic Shinji doesn't help me so why should I help him? Grr!), GYARRRRGH
• "EVERYBODY DIE INCLUDING ME"; "lol okay"; mass Tangification (Gendou inducted by Divinity Trinity), little red dots (souls), Harpies do disturbing things to said little red dots, Path to God, Doors of Guf (lol Vagina-Palms! ^_^)
• Pre-Instrumentality is short and weird
• LCL Sea; "this sucks after all"
• Yui-sama does cool stuff (destroys Black Moon, petrifies MP Eva Series and Lilith); GNR goes kapoot (But Rei 3 as Lilith is still around); preachy words (Everybody can return if they want, Hoo-ray!)
• "Sayonara, kaasan..." Reality or not? ...After Entry Plug's Ejected.
• Final Scene Grave markers & Misato's cross, Shinji gone batshit crazy from isolation, Rei 3 goes "'sup?", DIE ASUKA DIE, caress, shikushiku ("ZOMG Mother! And ZOMG Asuka's KIND to me!"), Kimochi Warui (due to Shinji=Pathetic with crying, NOT due to SFAiBL), FIN
• GODDAMNIT ANNO YOU SUCK (Seriously, why end it with Shinji going nuts? >_< What about his Instrumentality sucks and I can love myself Epiphany (lol Simpsons Movie) at the end of 26???)

Notes

~See this page for Bookend Rei 3 stuff: http://evacommentary.org/FGP/Rei's_Ghostly_Appearances_and_Quantum_Mechanics

Analysis

~Asuka apparently doesn't care Shinji fapped by her bedside (despite what the Miyamura Kimochi Warui interview says) as the P3II Personal Hell Traincar scene reveals.

~Shinji alone for a while due to gravemarkers (Misato's cross hanging on one), disturbed look on face compared to scene 11 where he looked, um, sane, surprise at seeing Rei then Asuka, etc.

~Asuka kicked her gravemarker down as scrapped Last A scenario reveals; also Asuka probably only just returned that day/night.

Quotes

• Yui and Rei Before Shinji turns into L.C.L: "This Rei is from your soul. She's the embodiment of your wish." "What do you wish for?"

• Misato: "I failed to be Shinji's mother after all."

• Asuka and Shinji during Pre-Instrumentality with Misato occasionally interjecting:

Asuka: "Do you want to kiss?"
Misato: "Absolutely not."
Asuka: "Or are you scared?"
Misato: "It's not for kids."
Asuka: "Then, here I go."
Asuka: "You don't understand anything! Don't get come near me!"
Shinji: "I do understand."
Asuka: "You don't, you idiot! Asuka kicks Shinji instead of kissing him. Do you think you understand me?! Do you think you can save me?! That's nothing but your conceited ego! You will never understand!"
Shinji: "How can I understand? Asuka doesn't tell me anything. You don't tell me anything. You don't say anything. It's impossible to understand!"

• Asuka admitting her feelings for Shinji in Pre-Instrumentality: "If all of you can't be mine, I don't want anything."

• Shinji admitting his feelings for Asuka in Pre-Instrumentality: "I want to help you. I want to be with you forever."

• Asuka rejects Shinji in Pre-Instrumentality: Shinji: (After Asuka pushes him onto the ground) "Help me. Someone, please...please, help me. Help me. Help me. Help me! Shinji pushes the table over. Don't leave me alone! Shinji picks up a chair and throws it. Don't abandon me! Asuka looks frightened. Don't kill me!" Asuka: (Coldly staring at Shinji) "No." Shinji strangles Asuka.

• Shinji: "Is it okay for me to be here?"

• Keel: "The beginning and ending share the same moment. Good. Everything's going well."

• Gendo: "So, this is my retribution? I'm sorry, Shinji."

• Shinji and Rei: "Where's my dream?" "The continuation of reality." "Then, where's my reality?" "At the end of your dream."

• Yui: "It will be alright. All lifeforms have the power to restore themselves...and the wish to live. If you decide to live, anywhere can be heaven...because you're alive. There will be chances to be happy everywhere. As long as the Sun, Moon and Earth exist...it will be alright."

• Shinji his final lines: "I still don't know where to find happiness. But I'll continue to think about whether it's good to be here...whether it was good to have been born. But in the end, it's just realizing the obvious over and over again. Because I am myself."

• Asuka The final line, spoken in "the coldest voice possible": "...I feel sick."

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