Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 527 Dreams and Reality

Chapter 527 Dreams and Reality (Original)

The last important character who has not yet transformed into the original water of life is Gendo Ikari.

however……

"I've been waiting for this moment."

He was still lying on the ground, holding his right hand with the Adam part torn off the palm, but he said calmly, "I finally see you... Wei."

Sure enough, beside him, a familiar figure was looking at him with a gentle smile.

Ikari Gendo's face was calm, but his eyes looked a little complicated.

"If I'm with Shinji, I'll only cause him to get hurt."

Ikari Gendō then said, "So it's better to do nothing."

The audience was puzzled at this time. Did Gendo Ikari know that he had been hurting Shinji Ikari?

Or rather, he had always known it, but he still did it this way.

Wasn't it clear to Gendo Ikari that he was using Shinji Ikari from the very beginning?
Why do you still act like you're doing good for Shinji Ikari?

At the same time, some viewers discovered that... isn't Gendo Ikari's personality the same as Shinji Ikari's?
They are all equally lonely, and equally afraid of loneliness.

So the idea of getting close to Ikari Yui with other purposes at the beginning turned into a plan for Ikari Yui in the end.

"You're afraid of Shinji."

"Ikari Yui" said to Ikari Gendo at this time.

“I couldn’t believe that I could be loved by anyone.”

Ikari Gendō said, "I am not qualified."

After hearing this, the audience also confirmed...

The personalities of Ikari Gendo and Ikari Shinji are actually the same, and there is not much difference between the father and son.

Shinji Ikari feels that he is not liked by others, and even he himself doesn't like himself.

The same is true for Gendo Ikari. He feels that he is not worthy of being loved by others.

Even though Yui Ikari, Akako, and Ritsuko all fell in love with him one after another, he still felt that he was not worthy of accepting their love.

"This is the misfortune that is inherited."

Ke Xinjie said with mixed feelings, "They are indeed worthy of being father and son. Ikari Gendo is the grown-up Ikari Shinji, who grew up alone in an environment where he was not loved and did not feel he was qualified to be loved, and finally passed on his misfortune to the next generation."

This is just like in real life, when a mother treats her daughter and instills in her daughter the traditional idea that women are the foils of men, and then the daughter passes it on to her own daughter, generation after generation, thus forming a closed loop.

Only if one of the daughters realizes that something is wrong will it be possible to break the bad inheritance of this secular tradition.

But it is obvious that this inheritance was not broken between Gendo Ikari and Shinji Ikari.

Because Gendo Ikari feels that he is not worthy of being loved, and he also knows that he will only hurt Shinji Ikari, there is always a gap between him and Shinji Ikari.

Shinji Ikari does not feel the love of his father, and his mother also died unexpectedly, so he lives in an environment where he cannot feel love.

From then on, he felt that he was not liked by others, and gradually, even he disliked himself.

"Alas... this tragic sense of fate is really sad."

Zhou Wenwei on the side couldn't help but sigh.

But at this moment, he saw the clock on the living room wall. He was a little stunned, "Hey? Is it half past twelve?"

"Half past twelve?"

Ke Xinjie looked at the time and said, "It's already 12:23, but why does this episode feel so...long?"

She paused the show, only to find that today's final episode was actually 40 minutes long?!

"This episode is forty minutes? That long?"

Ke Xinjie couldn't help but say, "No wonder it feels like it's almost over, but it's not over yet."

"It should be because there is not enough space, so two episodes are combined into one."

Zhou Wenwei said happily, "But this is also good! Great!"

"Yeah, it's nice to finish it all at once."

Ke Xinjie was also very happy and continued to press the play button.

Back to the plot of the anime.

"You're just running away."

A familiar figure appeared above Gendo Ikari's head. It was... Kaworu Nagisa.

“Reject the world before you get hurt yourself.”

Kaworu Nagisa looked at Gendo Ikari in front of him and said with some pity in his eyes.

"You are afraid of the invisible and intangible things between people..."

"So I can only shut myself off from the world..."

Then, Ayanami Rei suddenly appeared again, and together with Ikari Yui, she exposed Ikari Gendō's true feelings.

then……

"Is this retribution?"

Ikari Gendo's body appeared in... the hands of the beastified Unit-01, but he still spoke calmly.

"I'm sorry, Shinji."

He finally said it calmly.

And then...

In the end, his head was bitten off by Unit-01?!

This scene shocked the audience.

However, some viewers felt that this scene was somewhat familiar...

They all murmured to themselves, wondering why they felt like they had seen this somewhere before.

"That's not right... Have I seen this plot somewhere before?"

"I think I've seen this kind of... um, U-turn scene in TV series other than EVA?"

"This scene is so familiar, have I seen it somewhere?"

"I feel this smell...is really familiar!"

……

But more viewers said - "Yeah!!"

After all, the character of Gendo Ikari is indeed somewhat unlikable, as he has always been hurting Shinji Ikari.

Shinji Ikari is still his son, but time and time again, he has never shown fatherly love for Shinji Ikari.

Instead, he always forced Shinji Ikari to do things he didn't want to do, and he also messed around.

He had affairs with Akako and Ritsuko, and his relationship with Ayanami Rei was also unclear at the beginning.

In short, most viewers don’t feel much charm from the character of Gendo Ikari, and just find him somewhat hateful.

Now seeing him being bitten off by Unit-01, everyone felt that he deserved it and felt relieved!
"Great! This is how the Commander ends up! It's great!"

"It's so damn good! Pop the champagne!"

"The protagonist's father really deserves to die. Shinji's autism is usually caused by him."

"This extremely evil man is finally dead."

"That's great! Yeah!"

"Yes... He committed a heinous crime, and he deserves the punishment..."

"Perhaps this is a relief for the Commander, as he doesn't have to face Shinji anymore."

"So he looks so calm, maybe he feels relieved and that's a good thing."

"After all, I got to see Ikari Yui again, so I have no regrets in dying."

"When you die, then dust returns to dust, earth returns to earth..."

……

After Ikari Gendo's death, the perspective returns to that above the earth.

At this moment, the nine EVA mass-produced machines surrounding Black Moon and Lilith all held spears and pierced their cores directly.

This is actively freeing your soul.

With the final release of the soul, all the power of Lilith and Black Moon burst out. Then the blood-red and cross-like light enveloped the entire earth, as if all the creatures on it had accepted "completion".

In an instant, the earth became a blood-red ball of light covered with crosses.

And above the earth, the angel-like "Lilith" holds the spiral black moon in her hand and looks up like a devout believer.

At this moment, the Tree of Life transformed from Unit-01 fell into the third eye that appeared on Lilith's cracked forehead.

Insert gradually into it and then return to it.

In the sound of that joyful, holy music, countless souls seemed to float by, and then the scenes of the past twenty-seven episodes of "Neon Genesis Evangelion" were quickly replayed.

The voices of the characters all blend together in a chaotic manner, as if all their thoughts have come together.

At this moment, the audience seemed to suddenly understand what the Human Instrumentality Project meant.

That is... all human souls gather together to become an extremely large consciousness, and at the same time...

Control the ultimate life form formed by the fusion of Adam, Lilith, all the apostles, and all life!

This is the so-called plan to eliminate the barriers in the mind and make up for the deficiencies of human beings!
But this plan...did it really come true in the end?

Suddenly, at the end when countless images gradually disappeared, the sound of a cathedral bell appeared.

Shinji Ikari's face gradually appears in the picture, and he seems to be lying on the ground.

And at this moment, Misato's face suddenly appeared again. She looked down at Ikari Shinji's face and seemed to be scolding him, "Coward, if it's so painful, just give up."

But suddenly her face turned into Rei Ayanami's and she continued to say to him, "If you really don't want to, then just run away."

"Have a longing for liberation."

"Hope for peace."

"Want to become one with me?"

"You want to become one with me, both physically and mentally."

……

The voices of Misato and Rei Ayanami mixed together, tempting Shinji Ikari to take the final step.

However, Asuka's voice suddenly appeared at the end——

"But I will never be with you..."

Hearing this voice, Shinji Ikari's eyes suddenly widened.

then……

The original picture suddenly turned into... a scene in reality?
Then, the animation suddenly turned into real camera work, scene by scene.

Empty seats in the cinema, a bustling human city, hurried pedestrians, a cute kitten, a running puppy...

In the end, scenes of packed, bustling movie theaters appeared, followed by streets and subways filled with people.

This left the audience confused. How... did the real scene suddenly appear?

In the picture, at the end, three women stood in the busy crowd, staring at the camera.

But it seems like it is watching the audience who are watching the show.

"Comfortable?"

This sentence suddenly appeared on the screen.

"I don't know."

Shinji Ikari's voice now appeared, replying, "I don't quite understand what reality is."

"You can't grasp the gap between other people's reality and your own truth."

Ayanami Rei's voice responded.

“I don’t understand where happiness lies.”

Shinji Ikari's voice was full of confusion, just like most viewers before watching the anime.

Whether you are already very happy or feel that you are very unfortunate, you always don’t know where happiness lies.

Only a very few people know clearly what their happiness will be.

"Happiness can only be found in dreams."

Ayanami Rei said.

“So that’s not reality.”

Shinji Ikari said, "It's a world without people."

"Yes, it was a dream."

"So, I don't exist here either."

"You are just making up excuses that make you feel at ease, in order to take revenge on reality."

"Isn't it possible?"

"You are escaping from reality in fantasy."

"Can't I dream of myself alone?"

"This is not a dream, it's just a way to compensate for reality."

They continued their conversation sentence by sentence.

……

Then it suddenly switches to the original cinema, which is now bustling with people, and everyone is either cheering excitedly or with tears in their eyes.

Just like a complete and different life.

The audience immediately remembered that Lin Qingshan once said that he loved movies, and that many of his works contain plots with cinema elements.

"He really made me cry. I still love movies and cinemas so much!"

"Aoyama's favorite thing is movies, but I suddenly understand... This kind of art that depicts the various aspects of human life is really the best."

"Movies...are actually an art form that combines reality and dreams. The plots all come from reality, and the actors who perform them all come from reality, but they are able to present...a dreamlike movie plot."

"The most powerful thing about humans is their ability to dream, isn't it?"

"What humans are most praised for is their ability to dream while standing in reality."

"Escape cannot change reality, dreaming cannot change reality either. Only by holding on to dreams while still standing on reality can you change reality."

……

This part was actually filmed at the premiere of the "EVA" movie.

Of course, Lin Qingshan does not have the "EVA" movie version here. He combined some content from the original TV, movie version and even the new version, making the best use of their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses.

He doesn't plan to shoot it in too many versions.

At most, a complete new theatrical version will be produced in the future.

So what he is using now... is actually the filming site of the live-action movie premiere of "Goodbye Eri" not long ago.

That's why some people were crying and some were laughing.

He quite likes this kind of scene, which is like the reality of the world, where laughter and crying are equally precious human emotions.

He thinks that what EVA expresses is actually just one sentence in the end:

“Neither we nor the human species are perfect, but we still try to survive.”

A world where everyone bears original sin, but not everyone is extremely evil. They have flaws, but they also have a good side.

So do humans need completion?

No need.

Because I am not perfect, I still want to live.

Just as no matter how bad the reality is, people still have to live on.