Is the Evangelion manga different from the anime? It never gets discussed

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user here is using his ass as source

It's the final loop in the world of Evangelion, just like the rebuilds are the second loop.
But most importantly it has an actually good ending instead of the cancer the original had
>inb4 EoE
That's not the original ending

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By that theory, the manga would be an early loop. Kaworu is really cold to Shinji and grows to love him over the recurring timelines

From what i remember his relationship towards Shinji in the manga was at its deepest, and he acted far more desperate about it.

I read it years ago (actually own the entire collection) and from what I remember the biggest changes were
>Toji actually dying
>Gendo telling Shinji that he never lived him
>end of Evangelion being incorporated into the ending
>skipping the original ending with the applauses and shit
>it ends with Neo Tokyo being rebuilt and Shinji meeting Asuka (both of them seemingly don't remember each other)
It also had an extra chapter where they showed that Mari from the rebuilds was friends with Yui

Are you fucking retarded? the manga ended like 3 years ago and like 15 years after the anime.

Oh and also Kaworu was a sociopath who killed cats

This and Toji tells Shinji he's the 4th child before Eva 03 goes beserk and gets killed

It's better than the anime.
Shinji is more cynical and jaded than the whiny screaming crybaby he is in the anime, even trying to punch out Gendo at one point.
Rei gets actual development rather than being a doll outside of a whopping three episodes (5, 6, 23).
Asuka's bitchiness is acknowledged as an issue by the others rather than just being glossed over as typical "tsundere bitch so funny xD" cliche shit.
Toji actually dies and has a lasting impact on Shinji because of it rather than just breaking a leg.
Kaworu actually spends some time as an Eva pilot and getting to know the cast instead of being a convenient yaoibait character who appears in one single episode and only ever talks to Shinji.
Kaji convinces Shinji to pilot Eva again by telling him about his past, which mirrors the Toji situation and makes both Kaji and Toji more impactful as a result.
The plot is streamlined and removes the angels that were pure monster of the week filler (a virus? Really?), making their number a meaningful 12, as they're actually supposed to be apostles, and it also cuts down on the constant mindfuck scenes the anime loves to spam for the sole purpose of recycling footage.

it's good but the ending sucked
don't see it as complementary material of any kind, it's Sadamoto's baby with his tastes and ideas plastered all over and shoul be appreciated individually he based Kaworu on his middle school crush for example this is why he's nowhere near as fab as Ikuniworu

Sadamoto said "(manga) Shinji would never ever cross that line with a girl" in one of the interviews
Reminder manga Shinji is Sadamoto's insert, is he lowkey revealing something about himself?

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The manga's ending for how third impact resolves is absolute garbage.

Any reset ending where the characters forget all their memories is garbage, it feels like all development went back to 0.
I felt for Kaworu bad because his dying wish was for Shinji to never forget him, and he basically forgot. Then Sadamoto released that official art with all the characters together in the new present as if it helped. I'm not sure if giving Yui and Mari some manga lore was worth with fiasco.

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Shoehorning Mari into that extra chapter was disgusting marketing bullshit. That chapter never happened.

How could such a consistently good manga go from 10 to 0 in just two fucking chapters holy shit

Chad Shinji saves Asuka from the Eva series.

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That pretty much changes the dynamics of Shinji and Asuka.

Apparently, Sadamoto himself said that extra chapter isn't Canon. He asked the rebuild staff what Mari's deal was and nobody had an answer, so he just had an idea and made this chapter.

wow that's even worse, he could have extended the epilogue then

>Is the Evangelion manga different from the anime? It never gets discussed.
From what I've seen it seem like they are different timelines. Apparently the story has played out multiple times with shinji resetting the timeline at the end of the third impact. So the manga is a timeloop that comes after the anime.

>Apparently the story has played out multiple times with shinji resetting the timeline
heavily implied even in content that came only in interviews and side games
>So the manga is a timeloop that comes after the anime
No, the manga is Sadamoto's Eva

When you get out of the mouth-breathing animeonly segment, you find that people don't really give a shit about Eva.