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In 2009, Katsuragi Miri was 23 years old and entered GEHIRN. In 2010, Ikari Shinji was 9 years old, MAGI was completed, Dr. Akagi Naoko committed suicide, GEHIRN disintegrated, and all members were transferred to the new organization NERV. The chronology that has been thoroughly cooked should have progressed to this stage recently.
"The 'Apostle Attack' and 'Human Completion', which I once thought were very far away, seem to be just around the corner now"... Although I really want to express my feelings like this, but in the "New Theater Edition: Preface" which roughly follows the TV version line "After that, the second "Broken", which was released on June 27, 2009 and released on DVD in May, 2010, seems to lead the whole story to another cause and effect. There will be no change, and it is very difficult to say now.
Looking back at the "Preface" in 2007, it is really just the beginning: basically follow the TV version 1~6 episodes, with "Ayanami Smile" as the climax of the story, and the appearance of the three apostles who appear has remained largely unchanged (although the addition of There are many new functions and new forms, and the serial number has also been changed).
In "Broken", not only did the plot progress to the part of the TV version of the 19th episode, the first machine VS Li Angel, but the overall content was greatly deleted and changed: since the "cause" has been changed, it will definitely change The "fruit" will eventually lead to another future that may be far beyond our expectations.
At the beginning, after the battle between the fifth machine and the third apostle, the familiar plot in the first scene is the Ikari family's father and son's tomb sweeping in the fifteenth episode of the TV version - but at this moment, even Asuka has not appeared. The significance of this plot arrangement is obviously to pave the way for the unsuccessful meal that follows, which is not listed here.
The plot after the seventh episode of the TV version, such as the failure of the nuclear-powered robot Jet Alone, the simultaneous special training of Asuka and Shinji to deal with the double avatar Music Angel (and the super gorgeous fit battle), the second machine of the volcano diving The collective hot springs of NERV, the three people working together under the power outage, the virus-like invasion of the terrifying angel and the forced escape of the three qualified persons naked, after the wedding banquet, the blessing of carrying Miri back home... All these plots have been deleted. Clean and tidy. Asuka's appearance has also changed. The plot of "Miri, please eat ramen" after the three teamed up against the sky angel is gone (but they still dare to sell the "garlic ramen without meat" around Ayanami! Angry!), etc. The list goes on and on.
"Asuka's debut (although the apostles have changed)", "Three EVA hurdles against the Sky Angel", "No. 3 machine was parasitized by the apostles" and "No. 1 machine decisive battle directly invaded NERV Headquarters force angel" and other big scenes The key plot is of course reserved, but after all, the undercurrent slowly grows, and finally when the driver of Unit 3 is changed from the TV version of Suzuhara Toji to Asuka in "Broken", he rushes towards the irreversible. direction.
...This statement may seem too serious. But in fact, the first half of "Broken" is actually extremely joyful, and there are many places worth complaining about in the serious and serious plot.
For example, Asuka, who is so arrogant that even the No. 2 machine will stand with akimbo, for example, Asuka and Ayanami compete to make a lunch box for Shinji, but both of them are full of Band-Aids. "The BGM came through...), such as a subtle detail - when Commander Ikari called Ayanami out of the bath in the cultivation tank (by mistake) to eat, there was actually a chair beside him - did he often "full of warmth in his heart, Like being healed" sitting there watching Ayanami naked for a few hours? !
For example, in "Preface", he insisted on streaking on the moon, but in "Broken", he changed to trousers and half-naked, and as soon as he appeared (without even seeing Shinji Ikari), he rushed Ikari Yuandu to call his father (you know anyway). He only controls loli, right! That's right! So you take over the son, right! Right!) Nagisa Kaoru, except for the admirable deeds of "wearing a pair of pants to see 'Dad'" In addition, at the end of "Broken", the act of snatching up a relative of the first aircraft that was soaring like a little angel was also impressive. In addition, there was a vigorous statement of "this time I must give you happiness alone". People can't help but feel that at that time, he was also completing the task and messing with the foundation (well, he also burst out the line "maybe I was born to meet you"...), and now he has evolved into a What kind of evening festival (... festival?) is the first time of the slapstick? - Asuka soon came out and scolded "death gay!" (She only said in DRAMA that Nagisa is a "HOMO man", but in TV In the movie version and the old theatrical version, there has never been a real rivalry between the two)
and, for example, Ritsuko who magically transformed into a professional commentator in the climax of Battle Angel, whose professionalism and dedication are amazing; such as getting rid of After the fate of becoming the fourth qualified person, Touji, who hugs his sister and fights against the squad leader, is a winner in his life... Of course, this makes Asuka even more tragic.
In addition, there is also an uncle Blessing who distributes hormones everywhere and does not let Shinji go. Perhaps he was hit by the change of "Asuka is not only in love with blessings". A more suitable adjective) as if you just came back from a rotten West and France - as soon as you see Shinji, you say "You're not the only one who knows how bad she (Miri) sleeps", see Ritsuko After the noodles, they called each other by the rippling names of "good sauce" and "ri sauce", and asked Shinji to help him grow watermelons a lot in advance, and indirectly confessed "protect Katsuragi for me", and added "this is this. What I can't do, what only you can do" famous preaching... In addition, Shinji also got a new role this time, Makiba-san's many kills, but don't be in a hurry to envy the male The protagonist, because there is a very magical change in "Broken": the kiss between Kaji and Misato in the elevator, the kiss between Kaji and Misato after the wedding banquet, and the kiss between Shinji and Asuka, each of which was successful and failed once, all four times were deleted and replaced by The thing is... Uncle Lang's blessing (for the pure purpose of molesting children) almost kissed Shinji (what an incredible compression fusion...) - Hey, 18N of Miri and blessing in the back of the TV version And how do you plan to compress Shinji and Nagisa Kaoru's bathhouse scene! ! ! !
Of course, there is also a slot that I have to mention... The first machine that specially climbed to the top of NERV's pyramid and stepped on the top of the tower.
From the TV version to "Broken", Shinji's behavior before and after seeing Xia Angel is generally the same: (theoretically) the hero who should save mankind, facing the friendly machine possessed by the enemy, the reaction is not (old-fashioned but bloody) " Then I'm going to stop it and save him/her", but "I would rather die than let me kill him/her", and ran away angrily after the ghost father changed the ghost system to save humans (in theory) After demolishing the main base, he finally said, "I can't laugh at anyone anymore." This is the standard line of the second middle school, which means that he will never open the EVA again. His words and deeds are truly worthy of his "Yuanzu middle second" name.
Of course, Shinji at that time was originally a real second grader of junior high school at the age of fourteen. There was nothing wrong with being a second grader in junior high school. Compared with the usual enthusiasm of teenagers for robot animation, his weakness, softness and withdrawal, as well as the fact that he was very The kind of self-isolation that is eager to communicate and understand, on the contrary, seems to be true and friendly, close to life. At the beginning of 1995, it is not an exaggeration to call it a major innovation and breakthrough.
In this round, the real eye-catching part of Shinji is that he drove the first machine to run away and kill the force angel. It is no longer the unconscious loss of control when the synchronization rate is 400% and fully integrated with the LCL, but the consciousness is very A clear and heroic explosion-in order to save the zero machine that was eaten by the force angel, of course, the focus is obviously on the Ayanami in the zero machine.
...Although this time, it's hard to say whether he can rescue Ayanami.
The Ayanami in "Broken" is more active than the TV version: she can laugh, she will learn to make box lunches for the sake of real treatment, and her hands are full of injuries, she will want to treat the Ikari family's father and son's feelings by treating them to dinner, she will She picked up the Walkman that Shinji had thrown away (it was also used by his father, the meaning is equivalent to a pair of glasses for Ayanami) and brought it into the cockpit - she became more like what Anno said back then, "It's not that there is no emotion, it's I don't know how to feel"—that is to say, basically became a natural idiot. Or it has become more like the one in "Ayanami Raising Project"... So the old man Ikari has become more like an idiot father who can't raise a son but also hasn't learned to raise a daughter? ! (Anyway, Ritsuko also said that he was clumsy at the time) ——As an obvious mother-in-law, the daughter who was raised did not even have a casual dress (she was wearing a school uniform and followed Shinji and others who were all in casual clothes to visit" Aquarium”), I really don’t know if I should complain that Lingbo is so dumb that she doesn’t even know how to wear casual clothes, complaining that Commander Ikari is out of control, or should I complain that you must spend all your money on that tank (that’s right, a tank ) Ayanami got on, so I don’t have money to buy clothes for a single one, right?”
As for the plot itself, “Ayanami prepares a dinner party” with the opening scene of “the father and son of the Ikari family who have a bad relationship sweeping the grave” as a foreshadowing, apart from the “more lively ( In addition to the meaning of portraying the character's character", its more intuitive role is obviously to replace Touji, who became a victim in the TV version, and Tomoki, who is dedicated to making bentos for him (… bento…) The related plots form a contrasting effect of "beautiful daily life" and "tragic battle", and the equally intuitive plot development caused by it is - Asuka's serious injury, and Shinji's..." The ending climax of "Preface" is busy saving Ayanami, The climax of "Broken" is still busy saving Ayanami."
However, the meaning of these changes is really just to favor Ayanami and let Asuka's fans overturn the table?
Asuka in "Broken" is likely to be the character that has changed the most in the whole story: the famous sentence "Are you an idiot?!" is still retained, the characteristics of Yuanzu Aojiao have also been increased, and the new appearance plot is equally handsome and extraordinary (but I miss it so much). The little dress, trousers and slap in the face XD), but she is no longer obsessed with blessing, and her personality is also changed by the one in the TV version who at least still reluctantly go on a date because of Xiaoguang's request (at least it seems that she can still get along with everyone normally Get along with) the heartfelt little queen, turned into a arrogant girl who directly kicked and confessed to the little boy. As for the rag doll in her hand playing a self-talking one-man show, it added a bit of childish loneliness to her.
She still dances and is full of energy, and will take the place of Ayanami arrogantly on the No. 3 plane (the phrase "No. 3, if I like it, paint me red" is so cute...), Even before the start of the experiment, he had a heart-to-heart conversation with Miri, but then followed by the tragedy of being eroded by the apostles and the spiritual pollution-it is still unclear whether this paragraph directly merges the fifteenth apostle bird angel in the TV version invading Asuka's heart If this assumption is true, then according to the development of the TV version and the old theatrical version, the next will be the collapse of Asuka, the invasion of the mass production machine, the battle of Asuka and the second machine, and finally the mass production machine. The tragic appearance of their food.
However, in the trailer of the new theatrical version of the next "Q" (Quickening. In addition, "Q" and "Q" in Japanese are the same pronunciation) at the end of "Broken", there is a one-eye patch (... Where is she? Cause and effect have to be one-eyed once) The fresh comeback of Asuka.
It is true that a girl like Asuka, who is full of loneliness in her heart, is bright, bright and energetic when she appears, if she wants to show her progress, growth and transcendence, she has to take a huge blow. Such a "V"-shaped process of "up-down-up", if it is forced to be completed in "Broken", which is 108 minutes long, it is not impossible to achieve, but it is likely to be done in a lot of haste. However, the Anno ruffian can withstand the possible pressure of "demolition of the cinema by Asuka fans" and save this gorgeous nirvana for the next film (of course, it is also an important suspense to hang the audience to look down), which is already serious enough in itself. courtesy.
However, it is actually difficult to draw a conclusion on where the sequel "Q" will go.
Sakamoto Maaya's CV's new qualified person, Makibo · Truth · Eras Dorias, was succinctly revealed by the screenwriter with the sentence "So there are people who would consider whether to drive an EVA" (in response to Shinji's "So There are people who will be happy to drive an EVA"). The Big Mantis No. 5 machine that she drove resembled the combination of "The Girl Who Traveled Through the Universe" and "Tianyuan Breakthrough". It turned out to be just a "specialized limited weapon for seal monitoring". In "Broken", in addition to dedicating a few times to kill her to death (the "Broken" in "Broken" is very sufficient for killing otaku and rotten women, all aspects), the main use is in Asuka because the No. 3 machine starts the experiment After being seriously injured, she replaced her role in the TV version of the battle against Angels to drive the second machine, and by the way, showed the "The Beast" mode of the second machine, which was very crashing even with the machine.
Recalling the beginning of "Broken", she killed the third apostle (of course, the "new third apostle") by humming a ditty as soon as she appeared, and said, "I'm sorry, because of my own purpose, the adult has been implicated" (corresponding to blessing "I'm sorry, because of my own purpose to implicate the child") this line, but the real purpose was not revealed until the end of "Broken".
As for the first machine, although it seems to have successfully pulled Ayanami out of the core of the force angel (pulled out a blood-red Ayanami as big as the first machine...), in fact, as far as the audience can confirm the picture , what really got into Shinji's hands was the Walkman that Ayanami brought into the cockpit. After all, it is also difficult to determine whether the plot of Ayanami is directly integrated with the plot of the TV version where she was eroded by the womb angel and then blew herself up (that is, the death of the "two eyes" Ayanami). What's even harder to say is that this time Shinji Did the whole thing melt into the LCL after the explosion of the seeds again——
The first machine that just pulled Ayanami out and merged with it is ascending to the sky (professional commentator Ritsuko said, "The third shock has begun!"), and it is suspected that Nagisa Kaoru (and Liu Xun), who came down from the moon in order to fight against Ayanami for Shinji Number machine) and gave him a shot with the slogan "I'm going to give you happiness this time"... oh no, a shot. And he didn't appear in the entire trailer that followed, but there was a picture of Ayanami leading three little Ayanami (but maybe it was the memory scene when Ikari Yuandu forced Naoko Akagi to death?), and... development plan The completely hidden EVA No. 6 finally appeared (and then it seems that Nagisa Kaoru drove into the main vertical ditch to see Lilith), the fortress city has been abandoned, the NERV members have been imprisoned, and the strangely shaped Nebuchadnezzar The key replaced Adam, the fetus that the blessing was given to Commander Ikari, and the EVA No. 8 machine and the pilot will appear (there are new characters?!)...
From the "Preface", Miri used Lilith, who was nailed in the central big vertical ditch. (In the TV version, she didn't know it existed at the time.) From the time of the preaching of Shinji, the whole story does seem to be moving in a brighter direction.
Of course, it must also be pointed out that Ayanami's growth (learning feelings), Asuka's arrogance, and the direct indirect confession of blessing (...direct indirect?), etc., it is not so much that all the characters have become more candid , it is better to say that due to the limitation of space, it is decided that in this short theatrical version, they must have more direct emotions and clearer actions.
Whether this kind of change is good or not, as an old audience, it is inevitable to have reservations (in any case, EVA's decadence, ashes and misery are also a major reason for its fame more than ten years ago), but in fact, there is no need to criticize too much: after all, if The story itself is good enough, so it is not unreasonable to accept it as another cause and effect with sufficient foreshadowing, progress and climax; after all, the plot of the new theatrical version is only halfway through, and it is still unknown how it will develop next; The supervisor is the ruffian Anno, so it is really hard to say whether the change of "more sunshine and more upward" is true or not (it is not bad...), it is really hard to say.
Although the trailer is still the familiar line from Misato, "The next time, too, you will die if you kill it," and the lines of "Youth who are linked by fate will finally gather" sounds like a hot-blooded young man, but no one said that No, how will the next plot develop? Will a new destiny come? Will God still take care of himself in the kingdom of heaven, and will the world remain peaceful?
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