Was he supposed to be a Jesus reference?
Considering every series has their designated Jesus character with OP abilities, yes.
Nope
He is there to represent how shinji is a batch who will love whoever throws him a bone
Then later he represents how you the viewer is still a manchild who can't grow out of escapism, actually he doesn't represent that, he literally says that to the camera
>alien God that comes back in a human body
>sacrifices himself to save humanity and gives Shinji his grace
>comes back later during the apocalypse
Yes
>god
Please user
He is just a tool for creating life made by aliens
As the Angel of Love he definitely bears some similarity, but he's also the Angel of Betrayal.
Consequently he's more of a Judas/Jesus combination.
He's actually the Angel of Free Will
If Jesus was this cute i'd be a believer!
But Anno views Kaworu in a positive light and literally says that he represents the opposite of this?
The fact that he literally tells the viewer that they're manchildren who can't grow out of escapism is proof of this.
This.
I don't think any character in Eva represents escapism, and the people who try to argue this have flimsy examples/arguments.
Rather, a lot of the characters engage in escapism on their own and have dynamics with characters that fuel their inner version of escapism.
For example, Misato to Kaji and Gendo to Yui - but that doesn't suddenly mean Kaji and Yui represent escapism.
With Shinji's relationship with Kaworu, it wasn't Kaworu himself that represented escapism, it was Shinji's obsessive reliance on him and his love that caused Shinji to idealize him to fuel his own escapism.
Absolutely, he gives Shinji the unconditional love he so desires. That is the love of a mother, or a God.
Did Jesus murder cats too?
Manga Kaworu is a completely different character.
Yeah, he murdered like 99.999% of all life in the og testament before he turned into a hippy.
So is Rei
What do you mean?
so satan
I like to think that God used to be a dick but when he became human he realized how much this fucking sucked and mellowed out.
He died for Shinji's sins. It's Shinji's jesus. And Shinji isn't even human anymore, so, nah.
We had Devilman not too long ago finally teaching all those plebians about Satan, and now everybody forgot? Sheesh. Once a pleb, always a pleb.
Shinji = Jesus
Kaworu = Gabriel
Rei = Lilith (in the biblical sense, duh)
Is jesus gay?
Ackshually rei is connected to lil, so..
Kaworu = Adam
Rei = Lilith
Shinji = Eve
>And after six days Jesus told him what to do and in the evening the youth comes to him, wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the kingdom of God.
>song: God message
Teachings of ancient prophets
Teachings of ancient prophets
>basically seele
Scriptures of God's own message
Delivering God's message
Biblical instructions which will govern our existence
>Dead Sea scroll
Moral codes by which we have chosen to heed
>kaworu is jesus
What is shinji then? I mean both kaworu and shinji got stabbed by the spear of Longinus (the same spear that stab Jesus)
The Kaworu=Adam/Shinji=Eve parallels only seem to apply to post-Rebuild Eva though, not to the original series.
kaworu’s ability is getting fuckin smooshed by a big robot