As we all know, the new theatrical version of "EVA" was released in Japan not long ago. This is the final theatrical version of the series, and the final chapter that countless Japanese comic fans have been waiting for for nearly 20 years.
Still familiar with the explosion of the battle scenes, or unexpected plot development, that natural box office showed a fiery situation. Although it is not comparable to "Devil's Blade", it has accumulated more than 4.9 billion yen in just two weeks, and I believe that there is no problem in becoming the runner-up of the annual box office---
However, the box office explosion is a box office explosion, in fact, since the final theatrical version of "EVA" was released, it has been in the condemnation of public opinion.
It's not that the quality is bad, but the incomprehensible ending, and Asuka (the other being Ayapoli), who was once the first goddess of EVA, is actually written by the leper, and she is abandoned by Shinji Tsurugi and thrown into the arms of Kensuke Aida.
Why do lepers behave like this? I've heard two explanations in the past.
One is that the leper wants to ensure his maverick creative style, but he wants to make everyone guess and act, so he adopts a special and special way to bury the happiness of the life of the goddess Asuka.
As for the second kind of "leper with bootleg", just after the end was exposed, netizens also found out the photos of the leper in college, and after the comparison between the two, it is not difficult to find the similarity between the two.
To put it bluntly, it turns out that everything is for themselves, in order to satisfy their own selfish desires and "disgusting" comic fans?
The above speculation has its own reason, but these explanations do not seem to be thorough enough, nor can they solve the problem: the old version of EVA has been praised, and the new version is only a remake of the old version of the story, why doesn't Hideaki Anno honestly copy the old version of the ending?
This problem continued to haunt me until late March, when the Japanese television station NHK released the Hideaki Anno documentary, and everything came to light.
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Friends who have always paid attention to Japanese news should be very aware of the status of NHK radio in the industry, and the word-of-mouth documentaries they have produced include the famous "The Man Who Can't Be" in previous years, which completely exposes the creative process of Miyazaki Hayao, a national treasure master---
In addition, NHK has also filmed about the development of Chinese animation, and has successively shown the true level of today's national comics through interviews with Shueisha's editor-in-chief and director Tian Xiaopeng, etc., and the friends who have watched it are surprised that the original domestic animation has the ability to return to the world stage---
This time, it was also NHK that showed us a lot of other aspects that are usually unknown by following Hideaki Anno for 4 years.
For example, why does the new version of "EVA" have to abandon the original end that has been praised by word of mouth? The leper did not answer the question directly, but he revealed another key piece of information to NHK reporters---
"I originally wanted to create more animation for people in the world who liked animation, but after that (after the release of the old version of the ending), I saw a lot of talk on the Internet about how to kill Hideaki Anno... After seeing these topics, I suddenly felt that nothing mattered, I didn't do animation at all, and I also thought about ending my life twice, once was a jump, and the other was a jump on the roof of the company..."
What's going on? Doesn't it mean that the old version of word of mouth is a godsend? How did it end up being spat upon by fans?
It is not that the quality is not good, but the ending of the old version makes many fans "can't understand", they rack their brains and do not know what the leper wants to express, especially the "congratulations" scene that appears at the end is even more surprising to Azai.
And this "doubt" after the cohesion of the group also turned into anger, and there was extreme rhetoric against the leper---
Of course, as the "God" of an anime, the creator can completely choose not to ignore the scolding of public opinion, but the leper is different, and he can delicately polish the manga artist who is a otaku who thinks about emotional autism in his mind, and he cannot not have a keen perception of the outside world.
So in the face of the pressure of public opinion at that time, the leper once embarked on the road of seeking death, but fortunately, he still has the side of a normal person, in addition to thinking of jumping rails and jumping off the building, the leper also thought of the "pain of death", we can only see his living figure today more than 20 years later---
It is impossible not to change the ending, the old version of the ending is like a thorn deep in the heart of the leper, but the change also has a different direction: one is revenge, the other is compromise.
Starting from the former to understand the ending of the final theatrical version, it is not difficult to understand why the leper is disgusting, and starting from the latter can also explain why Asuka is going to go secular (obviously you can let the goddess live alone, why do you want to match CP?). It may be that the leper thinks that the worldly ending can be easily understood by fans, and there will be no more insults than 20 years ago?
It's just that the emotional intelligence of the leper is relatively low, and he doesn't know that Asuka and Kensuke Tian will actually suffer the doom of "mailing D films"?
At this point, the mystery of the ending of the final theatrical version of "EVA" can be answered more clearly, but the highlights of the NHK documentary are actually only the tip of the iceberg for you.
In fact, the reason why the leper was able to "escape from death" was that in addition to being afraid of pain, it was also indispensable to the appeasement of Toshio Suzuki, one of the Ghibli iron triangles, and he gave such advice after he knew about the psychological endurance of the leper---
"Creation is the best medicine, don't stop, think more about new projects"
As a result, we all know that the so-called new project is the four theatrical versions of the EVA remake, and this remake spans more than a decade, until the present of 2021 does not really come to an end.
So at this moment, has the leper been able to calmly face the pressure of public opinion and no longer fear the public opinion condemnation of the final theatrical version of "EVA"?
My answer is yes, because the leper at this moment has received more valuable recognition than the insults of public opinion, and it also comes from the founder of Ghibli, not Toshio Suzuki, but the famous Hayao Miyazaki---
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If you know anything about the career development of the leper, you must know that he is inextricably linked to Ghibli, which is why he was able to get the comfort of the highly respected Toshio Suzuki in that year.
For the creator born in the 1960s, his journey began in Ghibli, and as a newcomer to the industry, he was assigned by Miyazaki to join the "Valley of the Wind" team and assigned by the latter to draw the giant god soldier---
The above scene appears at the end of the "Valley of the Wind", when the human military organization at that time was forced by the erosion of the king worm to awaken the ancient weapon giant god soldier early, but because of the premature birth of its form, it was ugly and terrible, which was the ultimate interpretation of the anti-war ideas of this work.
The image was written by Hideaki Anno, but note that when it was drawn, the leper not only did not have half a point of joy, but on the contrary, it was endless pain, but Miyazaki, who had a strong personality like a tyrant, only threw out one sentence---
"If you want to paint, you can continue to paint, and if you don't want to paint, get out of the egg immediately"
The above encounter profoundly stung Hideaki Anno and caused him to resign shortly after completing the Valley of the Winds, and since then, the leper has repeatedly complained to the media about Miyazaki's hegemony, and bluntly said: "If I can, I really want Ghibli to be destroyed by humanity."
In the decades since the leper left Ghibli, the relationship between Miyazaki and Hideaki Anno seems to have gone to the poles of hostility, with miyazaki feeling that the other party is terrible, while Miyazaki thinks that the other party is garbage, and once called "EVA" "not even three minutes to watch, I really can't watch it."
However, more than 20 years have passed, and the former enemies have returned to the same piece.
Miyazaki took on the role of voice actor Horikoshi Jiro in Hayao Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises", and Miyazaki praised it in a recent NHK documentary---
"He's like a man from the universe."
Does public condemnation matter? The answer is obviously no, and if you dare to call yourself an EVA fan, you must know Shinji's feelings for Tsubasa: everything the former does is to get his father's approval!
It is said that the character of Commander Tsurugi was based on Miyazaki's creation, and through the foregoing we also know that the leper has a cowardly and introverted side similar to that of Makoto.
This also means that now that he has been recognized by his "father" and has completed the "completion" of himself, how can he be crushed by public opinion under such a complete mental and psychological condition?
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Knowing the above, I believe that you can also have a more comprehensive grasp of Hideaki Anno's creative process and the evolution of the ending of "EVA".
You may still scoff at Asuka for throwing herself into the arms of the glasses boy, and you can't help but feel the urge to curse the rotten tail.
But so what?
Hate represents crazy love, and your anger can no longer shake the mentality of the leper, so the anxiety will always be only yourself, and the hurt and waste will only be your own life---
Instead of this, it is better to face it frankly, and to be able to cross such a psychological threshold, I believe that you and I can be regarded as the real "finished", right?