This anime is really heavy. It contains so many tweaked philosophic, religious, psychological, and scientific concepts. However, it's just a story. Don't take it so seriously. Be careful though, the story may make you depressed. I need to skip some episodes especially the episodes at the end of the TV series because they're kind of boring and too heavy to deal with. Later, I found out that Hideaki Anno, the writer of the story, wrote Evangelion after he recovered from 4 years of depression. No wonder the story is so dark. The TV series is darker than the movie because there are more hopes in the movie. In the Rebuild of Evangelion 1: You Are (Not) Alone, Misato encourages Shinji who feels that he is alone and scared when he fights the Angels, but Misato says that actually he is not alone, there are so many people who support him in the battle.
The main characters in the story are people with a lot of problems. The center of the story is Shinji Ikari. Shinji has so many problems when he tries to understand so many things: the purpose of piloting Eva, the purpose of his existence, how to deal with praise/ignorance, his bad relationship with his father/others, how not to run from problem etc. In one of the episode, Ritsuko talks about Hedgehog's Dilemma to depict the sophisticated relationship of people. People need to interact and intimate with others because humans are social being, however they will get hurt easily because of the collisions of one's interests with others'. Shinji, who is still a teenager, doesn't understand how to deal with this situation. As a result, he always feels painful.
In 'The End of Evangelion', the Third Impact makes all people in the world lose their A.T. Field (my interpretation of A.T. Field is something that keep one person as a separated individual) and become one living liquid called LCL. Shinji decides to give people their rights to be separated individuals (by asking Rei to give back their A.T. Fields) although he knows people will always hurt one another. The ending scene shows that he tries to hurt or even kill Asuka(probably the only human being other than himself, who survives from the Third Impact). It means that despite his decision of giving back people's AT Fields, he still cannot overcome his terrible pain in his heart. He stops choking Asuka after Asuka shows him some affection.
In conclusion, although I suggests not to take this story so seriously, I found that this hedgehog's situation is interesting. In my opinion, This hedgehog's situation is unavoidable. That's why sometimes I don't understand people's motives. I don't understand why people do this or that. Why people do politics. This situation often makes me feel contempt. IMHO, we can use love/affection to deal with such kind of situation. So, enjoy our life with others, because, indeed, humans are beautiful beings.
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