In the 1990s, Japanese society was pervasive of the end of the century. In the face of the collapse of the bubble economy and the confusion of future hopes, repression, resistance and escape have become the main emotions of people in the face of external pressure. Many uneasy people began to question and explore the heart and essence of being "human".
In this context, the work of the era directed by Hideaki Anno was born, "Evangelion".
Early planning book
The Evangelion anime premiered on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996. After the first broadcast of the drama, due to its unique plot thinking design caused a strong response from the audience, its subsequent heat has lasted for a long time to this day.
The coverage of psychology, religion, philosophy and other fields in the work makes it a high-level work worth recalling.
Early planning intent
The story of Evangelion takes the world in 2015 as the main stage, and the content carrier presented to the audience is the story of the battle between human teenagers controlling huge human-shaped weapons and the mysterious enemy "Apostle".
The so-called "apostle" is an unknown powerful life form.
In the story, Adam, the ancestor of life who fell to the South Pole of the Earth, is called the "First Apostle" by humans.
Lilith, the origin of human life, fell in the Japanese region and was called the "Second Apostle" by humans.
Early planning about the apostles
From Adam, the third to sixteenth giant "apostles" splintered and multiplied, and they acted with the goal of returning to Adam and restarting all things.
But this return to restart will have a huge impact, and its energy is enough to destroy all life in the moment.
apostle
In order to deal with these giant "apostles" and avoid destruction, the human side has established NERV, an institution specifically responsible for investigating and annihilating the "apostles".
At the same time, based on Adam and Lilith for the prototype, the "universal humanoid duel weapon" - EVA was also developed.
And EVA has become the only means for human beings to protect themselves and effectively fight against the giant "apostles".
About the early planning of EVA
We will follow the order in which the "apostles" appear in the story, and introduce each "apostle" separately.
This time, we are going to introduce the appearance and design of the sixteenth apostle "Womb Angel".
Sixteenth Apostles Womb Angel (ALMISAEL/Amishal)
The sixteenth apostle, the "Angel of the Womb", is the 14th apostle in the story, whose name comes from the Jewish legend of the angel "Almisael" who gave birth to the womb and childbirth.
"Angel of the Womb"
The "Womb Angel" as a whole appears as a huge ring of light, and the specific shape can change as needed.
When it first appeared, it had been hovering over the Owakudani area, circling continuously in the form of a double helix ring.
plan
Due to the inability to confirm the attack method and morphological changes of the "Womb Angel", NERV only sent the second aircraft to temporarily carry out a tentative response to the enemy.
However, the pilot of the second machine, Asuka, has not yet recovered from the spiritual attack of the "Bird Angel", and its too low synchronization rate has been unable to manipulate the operation of the second machine.
Asuka
In order to avoid the second machine becoming a live target, the NERV side could only recover the second machine and sent the zero machine to fight again.
When the Zero machine moved, it noticed that the "Womb Angel" of the Zero machine quickly changed its movement form and took the initiative to attack the Zero machine. The "Womb Angel", which turned into a strip of light, instantly broke through the "A.T force field" of the Zero machine and penetrated the abdomen of the Zero machine.
Zero attempts to resist, but the weapon it holds cannot inflict damage on the Womb Angel. At the same time, the "Womb Angel" began to erode the Zero machine through the penetration site.
Through the abdomen
And unexpectedly, when the erosion and fusion degree of the "Womb Angel" and the Zero machine exceeded 5%, there was even a phenomenon of invading the driver's mental field.
Even though NERV wanted to try to force the insertion plug of the Zero machine (with cockpit function), the eroded body did not respond at all.
The "Womb Angel" attempts to better accomplish the purpose of erosion and fusion by touching the driver's essential field.
At this time, in the mind of Ayapoli, the pilot of the Zero machine, another self formed by the influence of the "Womb Angel" appeared.
The "Womb Angel" is constantly induced to merge with Ayabori in her own image. Ayapolis's loneliness, loneliness, sadness, hatred, and love for Shinji are all seen by the "Womb Angel".
Ayabori, who was penetrated into her heart, shed tears for the first time.
At this time, the back of the Zero machine suddenly erupted and proliferated a huge sarcoma-like substance.
This fast sarcomial substance is only shown for a few seconds in the animation, but we can see the figures of all the previous apostles.
Dorsal sarcoma substance
As to why this sarcoma-like substance takes on the image of all the previous apostles, it is most likely related to the setting of the "womb angel" itself.
The "womb angel" itself has the meaning of representing the womb and childbirth, and the zero machine is copied from adam, the origin of the apostles, and the fusion of the two makes the apostle's genes appear figurative.
Some enthusiasts believe that the "Womb Angel" can borrow the Zero machine copied from Adam to re-conceive the apostles. Because the story itself doesn't present an end result, we don't make too much guesswork.
In order for everyone to see more clearly, we attach a note drawing, as follows.
Sarcoma contains 3-15 apostles
In order to avoid deteriorating the situation, NERV could only send the first EVA aircraft, which had been temporarily frozen due to the rampage.
Shinji flew the first plane to reinforcements. Insight into Ayapolis' liking for Shinji's inner "womb angel", the end split changes Ayapolis's shape to block the first machine.
The "Womb Angel" entangled the first machine and began to erode the first machine. Shinji, on the other hand, was very hesitant to strike in the face of Ayabori's apostle.
In order to save Shinji, Ayabori made up her mind at this moment and made her own coping strategy. First, she turned on the inverted "A.T force field" of the Zero machine, sucking the "Womb Angel" back into her body.
If the normal "A.T force field" can exclude contact things from the force field, then the reverse transformation "A.T force field" is to pull the contact thing into the force field.
After the "Womb Angel" was inhaled into the Body Zero, the Zero Machine was like giving birth, and the abdomen swelled.
Then, Ayabori activated the Zero machine's D mode, the self-detonation program. She intends to die with the "Angel of the Womb".
The inhalation of the Womb Angel into the Zero body also accelerated the full fusion of the two. In the instant before the Zero machine blew itself up, the two were fully fused to present a huge and complete image of Ayabori.
With a loud roar, the Apostle, Machine Zero, and Ayabori were reduced to ashes in the explosion.
At this point, the sixteenth apostle "Womb Angel" was also officially offline.
At last
After absorbing the "womb angel", the zero machine has a scene similar to the birth action, so the design not only reflects the meaning of the "womb angel" itself, but also hints at a process in which the "doll" of Ayabori finds the concept of self-existence.
The process of pregnancy, childbirth, and self-detonation is a process in which Ayabori escapes from her "established destiny." This self-sacrifice became the choice of Ayapolis's truly independent personality.
And the complete and huge image of Ayabori that appeared before the explosion may also represent the completion of self-awareness.
At the end of the article, I will end this content with Ayapolis.
See you more about Evangelion in the next issue!