Was this a happy ending?

Was this a happy ending?

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I think so, shinji finally realises that it’s okay to be him, understands that he doesn’t need to constantly run away (and instrumentality is the ultimate form of running away), and then rejects instrumentality because even if humans hurt each other human interaction can sometimes be worth it. The scene with asuka with the choking and the caress kinda demonstrates that, while also proving that they are back in reality. Plus if asuka can come back anyone who can define the self can too.

Who cares? happy endings are for children and fags.

Yeah, they can come back to a blasted out ruined wasteland that is incapable of supporting life. Real happy.

why did the blue haired girl become a giant?

Definitely. At the last second Shinji stopped instrumentality and NERV's scheme. His and Asuka's revival proves that the others will eventually wake up over time.

>The scene with asuka with the choking and the caress kinda demonstrates that
Asuka still hated everything negative she recognized Shinji and she shared and Shinji was still the whiney little bitch he always was proving they were both still 'themselves' after instrumentality but also they were able to see a little bit of each other and chose to pursue a mortal human connection even if it was probably impossible to really ever understand each other.
I'd say digging any kind of victory out of a failed Armageddon is a happy ending. No promises of happiness, just a promise to try.

I fucking hate that beta shinji why not a cool male protag

It's not Rei.

Lilith and Adam merge and become a god, rei is just a vessel. Honestly though it’s fucking confusing

yes, worst girl dies and best girl comes back to life

Asuka's disgust comes from her letting someone in and being vulnerable. Both her and Shinji hyperbolically overcame their character flaws in the choking scene

Languid, slightly effeminate betas are japan's "cool". A doomed country if there was ever one.

Evangelion wouldn't be praised as it is now if Shinji wasn't the whiny, lonely faggot he is.

There was nothing happy about the entire series, not least of all myself.

This. I liked shinji because he was just as pathetic as I was at that point. Unironically one of the most relatable characters ever.

Ambiguous. Its one of those endings where its only happy if you believe the characters truly learned their lesson.

Yes, everybody is living happily inside the sea of tang and dysfunctional individuals like Asuka and Shinji have been expelled.

I'd hesitate to call it an ending at all

No, it's definitely Rei.

Asuka is alive so yes. Too bad that faggot Shinji is there as well.

I fucking hate normalfags

>and NERV's scheme
That wasn't really Nerv's scheme as much as it was Gendo's and Seele's.

>t.

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Sounds like heaven on earth tbqh

Aren't the rebuilds sequels to EoE since asuka is wearing an eye patch in them

The eyepatch in Rebuild is from something completely unrelated. She doesn't actually start off with it, but it does hint at something fatalistic.

There are other reasons that Rebuild is considered a sequel though.

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they killed the things making the angels so I guess it's a good ending

depending on how you read it either asuka and shinji either have the combined memories of every human between them, or everyone else was reconstituted somewhere else offscreen, and they can rebuild the world