The ending of the TV version depicts the entire completion process from Shinji's heart. Although it seems to be a bit contradictory to the ending of this OVA, it actually more clearly reflects the purpose of shooting EVA as Anno-san himself said-- ---Let OTAKU return to reality and face the world. Shinji represents this group of people watching animation, this group of people who escape from reality and indulge in the illusion of their so-called dreams.
In this OVA, to be honest, I didn't understand it the first time, but when I watched Chapter 26 for the second time, I saw that divinely realistic scene, only to find that the dialogue in the original background clearly said Anno. The classmate's meaning came out:
"
I don't understand, I really don't understand the reality.
No matter what the reality is, the real self is the most important, so that I can live.
I really don't know where the happiness is.
Happiness is only in dreams.
So it's not reality, it's a world that no one has ever been to.
Yes, dreams!
So I'm not here.
You're taking revenge on reality in a boring way.
Can't you?
That's how you master it Life, blinds reality.
Can't I just look at my dream? It
's not a dream. It's just making up for reality.
So, where is my dream?
It's a continuation of reality...
My, where is reality?
That It's the end of the dream.
"
(The camera at this time swept the real shot of a large group of spectators in the cinema... Seriously suspect that it was alluding to those who were watching this OTAKU biblical animation in the cinema at that time... Anno... You are indeed a great god. The ruffian, the great god among the ruffians...)
Note: In my personal opinion, the "this" in the above dialogue refers to the world of OTAKUs, the world of ACG... In this way, this sentence is easy to understand.
I remember that in the 25 episodes of the TV version, Shinji entered a world with nothing, the so-called free world, but he did not feel good about it, but even felt that he was about to disappear. After that, he added a line to represent the ground, which made him feel a lot more at ease, but it was also constrained because of it, but you still have the freedom to choose to go or not, and which direction to go. What I am talking about here is about the sense of existence and identity. When a person only lives in his own world, he will not feel happy and happy because of it, on the contrary, he will feel helpless because of it. And the question of self-positioning, the previous true governance was like this, so it was so negative. Anno Hideaki should be here to point out the mistakes of otaku's lifestyle and the unhappiness it brings. As mentioned after Shinji's Another Life, the world may not be beautiful, but we can choose to see it in another way, we can choose to live another life, as long as we are willing to think and try. What matters is not how the world itself is, but how the world is and can be in our eyes. This, maybe, could also be another me.
Later: It seems that EVA did not achieve the wish of Anno Hideaki in the end, but instead greatly improved the status of OTAKU in the world... In Europe and the United States, OTAKU is even a compliment...
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