Was it a happy ending?

>kimochi warui
Realistic ending. It completely reflects how I feel about humanity especially Yea Forums.

>human instrumentality
you all assume the hive mind would be some god like being: why? i am inclined to believe a melding of all human minds would bring out the worst in everyone personally.

Because the original ending of the show demonstrates how instrumentality goes about improving the people comprising it.

Yes

Wasn't it hammered over the series that the melding would essentially make everyone understand each other and thus being a good thing for everyone?

Human Instrumentality is basically eternal life, while being at one with everyone around you. It's a thoroughly alien concept for a human being to try and wrap his head around, which is not being alone in your mind anymore but being exposed to the thoughts of everyone around you and being at one with all of humanity, but the assumption is that it will probably be good as it will end all the pain and suffering that comes from individuality. Either outcome (instrumentality never begins / instrumentality completes) is fine, but what EoE leaves you with is an awful middle ground where everything is completely fucked

not happy but it had to be done

lightspeed watcher

On a personal level? Yes
On a macro level? No

Wrong, he gives everyone the choice of whether to remain in Instrumentality or not based on brute force of will

Pretty sure Anno said he wasn't against the idea that for some people 'running away' through Instrumentality was the better option, just not for Shinji (or Asuka); the ending is championing free will in deciding how one reacts to circumstances more than saying "Instrumentality good/bad"

Would Instrumentality make the perception of one another universal or individual? We see the mind of Shinji going through it and accepting the need of other people in his existence as he breaks the barriers in this immaterial reality but I never understood if others were actually summoned there to help him through the process or if everyone was just going through their own thing.. I guess the idea of being an alien concept like you say makes it difficult to reach a conclusion

I think the whole point of instrumentality is that you still exist but the AT field that allows you to retain your individuality is destroyed, so I suppose that it's kind of like hearing voices in your head, except they're not voices but actual human beings, and you're capable of perceiving them completely and also you are able to full perceive their thoughts and memories and shit. It's very weird, like I said. It doesn't sound pleasant to us now because everyone likes a bit of privacy but who knows

I can't believe someone in this thread has actually watched it and paid attention? Incredible.

>Asuka now knows about all the times Shinji went to /trash/ and jacked off to the furry porn threads
>Asuka knows about the times when Shinji pretendeds he's the lead singer in a band to impress the school
i think i'd rather kill myself

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But she also knows all of the reasons that led to these events, i mean everything
And shinji also knows everything shameful about her too

>Asuka's most shameful moment: Trying and failing to fuck Kaji and then crying
>Shinji's most shameful moment: crossdresing on omegle and crying himself to sleep and jerking off to spongebob rule34 of sandy cockvore

I have no idea if that's the way things actually happened in the anime. Says something about the genre.

Wrong board virgin nobody with sexual experience watches nip cartoons

EoE is heresy
they all just died and got collective therapy in the afterlife, there is no turning back from that.
TV series is a sealed canon.

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TV series and EoE aren't seperate canons you brainlet. 25 and 26 take place during the Hey Jude sequence

EoE takes TV series' ending and butchers it up. It's heresy.

Shinji is choking Asuka because she is worst girl and would prefer best girl Reirei instead.

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I completely agree with you.

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youtube.com/watch?v=R-_GeYPYD38

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