Evangelion - Human Instrumentality Explained
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Lets talk about NGE, The End of Evangelion, and why the Human instrumentality project is the most beautiful depiction of the apocalypse in animation/movie history. I'm sure you'll disagree with some of the points I make here so lets talk about it!
This is my first video in this style and the first time I've created anything like this in over two years. I'm excited to make things again.
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I think Rey appeared to everyone and let them choose instrumentality or life, and only Auska and Shinji did. Maybe her "how disgusting" isn't aimed at Shinji but the fact it was only them that realised.
agreed. she rejected the idea of gendo making the decision for the entire humanity. what's the point if she just redirected that control to another single person (shinji)
Interesting and enlightening. Thanks. What I don’t understand is, why did Shinji choke Asuka? Is it because he wanted to spare her from a life like this knowing her most inner feelings or was it some form of revenge?
@@majingazetto4146there’s a lot to it, an idea I’ve heard is that it shows how shinji still has a ton of stuff to work on
@@majingazetto4146Personally, I had an assumption when I saw the scene; Shinji was convinced she wouldn't be alive and he'd once again just be tortured and rejected and alone. He's already seen the depths of the day so far in EoE. It would be such a sick but almost totally expected scenario to be 'saved' and to see you accompanied by a dear friend, only for that friend to only be a corpse like you saw a few moments prior. I assume he chokes her because he wants to know for sure. If she's dead, there was no going back anyways. But maybe, just maybe, she's there.
And she was. I like to think this more symbolically representing the fact that up to this point, whenever Shinji has had any ounce of control, he was given a devastating rejection. But here? To be accompanied and not be alone with no strings attached? I saw Asuka saying "disgusting" less as a reaction to anything in particular about Shinji or with the situation and more as a cue to say that - that was indeed Asuka with her personality and who she is to Shinji. Shinji called out to her to insult him and call him an idiot when she was in a coma because that's what she does: Shinji is relieved to hear her voice through the radio comms calling him an idiot when she was fighting the eva series vultures alone: Shinji is relieved that she calls him disgusting, because it means she's there with him. An Asuka which would represent another rejection would be her if she was totally silent in response to Shinji, or if she's dead or in a coma again. But she holds his face and calls him disgusting... It's no longer bitter rejection. Instead it's one of the first true displays of acceptance of what they are to each other.
@ Interesting take. I have to think about that a little. However I don’t think that the “disgusting” was directed to Shinji. I watched the scene in Japanese because I was hoping for more clarity. I am not proficient in Japanese but I understand a few words. So I can’t tell if the English translation is accurate, but I think it is. What she actually said was kimochi warui, with kimochi meaning a feeling or to feel and warui for bad or evil. So I’d interpret it like her comment on how terrible it feels to be alive, having to experience all the humanities inner secrets or commenting on Shinji's feelings, acknowledging that it feels terrible because now she knows.
I wonder if in that regard Shinji choked Asuka because he knew something about her that she never told anyone like rather being dead than being second best or something in that line, so he chose to do it since he knew how she felt and wanted to put her out of her misery. When she reached out for his face he maybe realized that she knew as well what he knew and stopped, since she signaled that she understood and both knew how miserable they both felt. But I’m not deep enough into evangelion to say it really is like that. Maybe someone else can explain or elaborate further.
Amazing video. There is something about NGE videos that never gets old for me
@@vanshinners2722 super glad you enjoyed
you need to let go of NGE. Watch Arcane, I beg you. It will finally banish the monster that is NGE.
I watched Evangelion as a freshly graduated high school student in 2004 and watched End of Evangelion in my college years back in 2005, and have never fully understood what the full meaning was behind the human instrumentality project. From all the absolutely disturbing and cosmically horrific and yet beautiful imagery of the End of Evangelion, I honestly thought it all ended in a sad and terrible note. Throughout the years, I've been wanting to make sense of it and now, 20 years later, watching analysis vids of this anime, and coming to finally see this video essay, I'm glad to see and fully realize that End of Eva ended on a good note, and a happy ending.
I haven't seen all the new movies yet and I will in the future, but thank you for this truly in depth look in one of the most profound and impactful (no pun intended) animes in history. Well done!
Thanks for this, really glad you enjoyed the video and I'm glad to help bring the perspective you were looking for.
Please let go of NGE. Watch Arcane. See the magic, beauty and love. Cage the beast that is NGE and do not let this poison ruin your life further.
It didn’t end happily in EoE. It’s essentially Asuka and Shinji becoming the new Adam and Eve. They were the first two souls to “choose” to live life with AT fields, as themselves.
Shinji didn’t believe that Asuka was even real at the end and that’s why he begins to strangle her.
@@Walpurgisnacht. That is pretty dark. I still have this anime rent-free in my head. However I would think that achieving the Singularity Shinji has to absorb Asuka somehow to become the Singularity again. Maybe he chose a really bad way because he didnt know there were more beautiful alternatives.
To experience evangelion in that time must be nice
All in all I believe that NGE is about showing an idea of what are the possibilities of leaving this world. If you leave, you may perhaps become one with the rest, like many religions and philosophies say, but to be human with it's joy and sadness is a unique experience worth going through.
Instrumentality has to be indeed, the most painless, least scary apocalypse that could ever happen.
When I first watched Eva I must have been 15. Most of the story and references to psychology went over my head but I always knew for some reason that Eva was "special" to me. Even though I didn't get the show, there was always the feeling that it was made FOR ME. Like the show understood me. And when I got older and rewatched Eva, I started to understand the show too.
I feel like I've been down a path of loving Eva,
thinking it's metaphorical high brow trash,
to loving it again now understand its messaging and references to psychology and faith,
then hating it again when I learned that a lot of the show is the creator's own trauma dump,
to loving it because of that display of vulnerability,
to disliking it again because of the rebuild films and
now having seen 3.0+1.0, thinking it's the best way it could have ever ended.
The part of movie 4 I liked the most? The opening or final battle? No. The scenes with Rei participating in the community of the village was the best thing. She finally got to learn what it meant to live. Something that was never granted to her before.
I was 16! I watched it for the first time in 2014 and I was literally going thru the worst depression of my life after my mom died in 2011 and this beautiful piece of art actually bought me some piece of mind. I love Eva. 🥹
I was around 16 when I saw the first episodes and I think 18 when got my hands on the EoE. Back then a lot went over my head, but I also found myself enamoured with it and felt that it touched something special inside me. I spent a lot of time in the following years (in the early 2000s) looking for explanations and interpretations and built an understanding and my personal view on how things went and what they meant. I've since rewatched the series and EoE several times, but haven't seen the later movies at all. I might like them, but for me the original run is enough and has formed me into who I am today.
I think the scene after with the collar at the base and shinji response was my best feeling. His reaction was a lot more mature and showed growth that the previous incarnation would crumble and be depressed for another 6-14 episodes considering what happened
Turning into Fanta it's not scary at all 😊😊😊😊 yeah.
Maybe Human Instrumentality is the friends we made along the way
I commend you for putting pen to paper and creating a video that explains a piece of art that really influenced you. I enjoyed it thoroughly man, you should keep it up.
Your explanation is amazing and easy to understand, Evangelion is truly a life changing anime.
I watched Evangelion when I was 12 years old. Now I'm 40 and I can confidently say no other piece of media has influenced me the way this show did. I honestly don't think there's been a single week of my life since I was 12 that I haven't thought about Evangelion in some way. 28 yeas later and I'm still not bored of this show. It's more than entertainment and more than a television series. It's like a lensed that in some way I've come to view life through.
Damn son, this is your FIRST video?? Subscribed
Appreciate the video. It's such a beautiful anime, the series, and the movies. Well done, guy 👍
Guys would rather become primordial soup with all of humanity than go to therapy
Lmao
Therapy is overrated, especially in the Us urghh
Unless Dr Peterson is your therapist then its nonsense.
Ghost Pulse, amazing video you deserve more views
@@IOSALive thanks!
I would never withstand the human instrumentality project. I freaked out when people watched my cell phone , I couldnt stand if they watched inside my soul, its true terror
Beautifully explained and well done! please keep making more content!❤
More is on the way!
As everyone is saying here... I am surprised by this being a debut video! Congratulations, consider me a new fan!
But bro, I'm gonna need that setlist of musics used in this video ASAP. They're so beautiful, and incredibly fitting for what you're talking about
This is masterfully explained what I took half my life to fully understand. NGE is among the great philosophically relevant pieces of fiction, and considering it's still relevant 30 years (!) later and has aged exceptionally well makes me wanna wager that people will watch it in 2095 like we read the great classics hundreads of years later. Thank you for this amazing video.
sick vid bruv. now my high ass is scared of this happening irl LIKE HELL NAH MY ASS ISNT MELTING WITH ANYONE
Thanks dude!
It wouldn't feel like melting lol. They live on in a dream state. It would be like falling asleep.
@@mrblank-zh1xy well shit that would actually be nice(without other ppl ofc)
Love that this came my way. Hope you keep making videos!
More to come, slowly but surely.
this is the best video explaining Evangelion. I've watched the anime, The End of Evangelion and many essays, but only yours got it right. Thank you
Great video, excellent pull by the algorithm. Definitely subbed
heck yeah! Thanks!
I watched in another video that the reason the Eva pilots were kids with no mums is because their own mothers' souls were fused in each Evangelion. This also explains why these kids can sync with these Evas very well and protects them at all cost.
This is correct.
I actually finally decided to watch NGE after watching some of this. I'm on episode 13 and it's been super good so far
You’re in for a wild ride from there!
Your right on most points but one thing the Eva’s are not robots, they are actually large human like bodies that then had the mothers of the children’s souls, that’s why the kids can sync so well with their units, Eva unit 01 was made from cells of Lilith while the rest of the Eva’s are made from cells of Adam
@@bloodybmill very true! I called them robots at the start of the video as part of a kind of joke about the series being about mech fights when its actually much deeper :)
Evangelion is the ulimate DMT trip
Even Kendo, Misato, Ritsuko has trauma. Kendo lost her wife, Misato lost her father and seek her father figures, Ritsuko lost her mother because she loved Kendo and Ritsuko also die because she love Kendo following her mother.
Incredible video. Watched until the end.
@@UndeniableBlack thank you, I appreciate that!
Man, i got around 7 goosebumps watching this...
Apocalypse can also mean revelation or disclosure so it's probably the most apt. During HI everyone knows eachother's secrets.
You’re right, good point there!
So human instrumentality is just communism deluxe?
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Watched NGE at 13 because of the sick ass mechs (Unit 00 is the best) and it lowkey changed my life dude, especially end of eva, that movie was the greatest thing I had eveer watched at the point in history
@@Bean3776 truly a masterpiece!
Oh cool, I've seen images from this show but never watched it. Thanks for the explanation.
Everybody each got to make their own decision on if they accepted Instrumentality or to reject it. Not just shinji
As a teenager sounds like a great outcome...
After reading the 40K setting, this becomes a concentrated gate to the warp...
This is so peak omg😭😭
Amazing video
non ironicaly (sorry if i write something wrong, english is not my fisrt language), but seeing this video high make me understand evangekion more then seeing the anime sober
Sometimes i feel like this Human Instrumentality would be the happiest possible ending for everyone and everything. I kinda thought that it's thanks to Human Instrumentality everyone and everything could live happily ever after. If we became one, we could understand each other better. No more corruption, discrimination, greed, laziness, propaganda, suffering, or evil in general. Everything would be perfect, and we'd all be happy, and reunited with our dead friends and family. Everyone would redeem themselves, earn their happy ending, and reach enlightenment, and understand and know everything and everyone.
At least that's how i interpret it. Did i get it wrong?
Gendo?
ontologically evil.
You are fused with EVERYONE.... Rapists murderers peoples that like pineapple on pizza... The worst type of humans
fantastic video
I’m glad we don’t know what happens next, the uncertainty and knowledge that life WILL go on is enough for me and that uneasy feeling of not knowing how things will work out is all part of the message of Evangelion I think.
Also we have the rebuild films for a happy and more conclusive ending. I think that after watching the original series and end of Eva the rebuilds actually are a really nice watch and seeing shinji get happy ending is very nice, even though it’s not as “profound”.
Really glad you liked the video!
@@ghost-pulse Not knowing how it'll work out and going head first knowing it wilkl go on is such a powerufl message
Amazing Video
Reminds me of cosmic bliss. The opposite of cosmic horror or a different kind at least
ok, so we turn into a hivemind. Got it
Yes? A hive mind, but still separate.
Yes and no. Yes, everybody is everybody else too. No, because everyone is aware of their uniqueness even being merged with everybody else.
A hivemind that is also orange tang
as mush as you do not need to eat litteral shit to appreciate how delicious a cake is, i reject the idea that one needs to suffer to know joy or to be able to be curious about things.
human instrumentality is not a failure, and i do not see how erasing pain leads to the removal of all emotions.
for what i know, to reject removing the very possibility of suffering, given that it is possible, might be the most immoral thing to do.
Great video put a lot of things into perspective for me, one question: What's the music that played at the start of the video?
It’s called Twin Lynches
I loved this ending, but it does feel a bit too optimistic in regards to its message. Yes, bad things exist. And I guess good things can thrive from that. But with everything it's chance. And for some there's a lot more negative in life than the positives. Sometimes it feels like the negatives outweigh the positives. Maybe I haven't experienced enough joy, I guess I can only hope.
But those are just thoughts they come and go just depends where you feel most comfortable to remain negativity or positivity maybe you are out of practice with positivity because of how you grew up so even when "positive" experiences emerge you don't recognise them as such and even then you may retreat from them towards a move pessimistic view because that is what you feel comfortable with...we don't seek what is good we seek what is familiar, maybe it's time to familiarise yourself with positivity
Thank you so much
The fate of the world, resting in the hands of some wimpy INFP kid... ends up making the correct choice? Do we really need an apocalypse for this?
This could have been an email
apocalypse is not the end of existence but the end of a worldview, which is basically the same as "the world" since in experience the world is not physical collection of entities but everything within the horizon of meaning, so the way the world is viewed is for all intents and purposes the world itself
history repeats the apocalypse pattern when civilizations try to totalize itself by merging their world with the periphery, ie. that beyond the horizon of meaning, this sounds abstract but the pattern makes itself known on every level - physical, psychological, societal and spiritual - social systems, identities, beliefs and ideologies break down and violence ensues because the nothingness that is released when civilization tries to control and make sense of "everything", instead of everything they have a terrifying encounter with nothing
you can see this on ideological leves when people learned God doesn't appoint kings, or that communist party will not create utopia, or now - that technology and liberal democracy will not bring prosperity, the promise of power and totality is equal to nothing
but the key thing is that apocalypse doesn't mean destruction or end but revelation, when civilization claims monopoly on all meaning (like Roman Empire appropriating every religion as long as the emperor is worshiped, or modern civilization appropriating humanistic impulses as long as capital holds all power) then it meets nothingness for the purpose of liberating true meaning,
e.g. the meaning of equality is redeemed only after an egalitarian project fails (like soviet marxism) or Christianity is redeemed only after cultural or political Christianity gives way to secularism to reveal the spiritual essence uncluded by ideology and hypocrisy
sadly, we are in a crisis of meaning and find it hard to connect with people on all levels, thus alienating ourselves from ourselves as well, it sadly does take an apocalypse to restore us to a more grounded, sincere and courageous worldview after one world ends, it will be revealed to us
I know its harsh and not all people will be able to handle it (I myself might not) but its better than complete spiritual destruction of human soul, though we will come close to that as well
stay hopeful
Seele actually means soul in german, for those who dont know
I didn't know that, thanks!
Remember, the H in NGE stands for Happiness
Also worth mentioning: Human Instrumentality is the Jewish concept of 'Tikkun Olam'
Not really. Tikkun Olam does not entail being joined into one oversoul. Tikkun Olam is "restoring the world" through Jewish concepts of social justice. It really has nothing to do with unification of souls.
I'm a bit confused on how humanity can go back to being individuals at the end. Is there something in the text that lead you to this reading? I didn't personally get that impression
It’s said in the show at least the subs that I read said it
while idk if people are given back their forms, but I think it's meant that humanity can redevelop back from the primordial soup, instead of humanity basically being trapped in the soup as one collective soul. So while Shinji and Asuka are the last humans of their generation with their AT field intact, humankind will be reborn later on.
This is your only vid?
@@Zelmazam1 hey! Yes it is for now but I will have more over the next few weeks :)
So it basically like the infinity tsukuyomi from Naruto but with better written
You just made me love NGE even more.
Fantastic video! You simply mustn't pronounce Longinus that way, though haha
@@halfhero longeyyyeeeeenus 👀
@ghost-pulse strong argument, I concede the point
I’d date Lilith.
Evangelion means Good News or the Gospels of the Bible. Many parallels although humanity is flawed from the fall, the Good News is that humanity is saved by the human incarnation of Jesus. This anime seems to maybe copy the Gnostic ideas of Christianity popular about 100 years after Jesus that adapt Greek, Christian, and eastern philosophy, and does not really represent the true Biblical history or theology. Gnostics believed the material world was bad and through gaining knowledge and awakening our spirituality we could Transend the material. This is flawed, even Shinji rejects human instrumentality, because what are we without our emotions? No free will, no real love. If we are all one without emotion, what are we?
What about the other lifeforms?
I disagree that you going to say something that i disagree with though we may disagree that you going to say something i disagree with when in fact where in total agreement! thus strangely how this argument began, so indeed i think we have definite found ourselves within a perplexing paradox a bit like Schrodinger's cat felt or the awakening of sentient ai i am and i am not because im a robot dont worry we all been there i think it every day i go to work
@@PathFinder-t6p uh
Houh?
Naruto did the same thing tbh
Longinus is pronounced "Lon gee ness" not like a female body part 😭
Listen I'm sorry ok :'(
cool vid, but for me neon genesis evangelion is just a fucked up, sad and depressing asf psychological horror (no offense to anyone)
Edit: pls tell me, did humanity actually regain it's form as single organisms and minds or no?
Honestly i love and hate evangelions end. I like visually but hate what it means idk i think the movies definitely fixed it
But i still in disappointed in the end. I was exacting all of the biblical references to connect and have a great reveal but in the end they were just backdrops with almost none to none actual importance besides looking cool there. Also all of those fever trips with all of the pseudo intelectual philosophicalism that is the end means nothing is like "im 14 and this is deep" with a jungle music in the background is tiring and boring. The normal parts of the show are already very emotional and deep those just seem forced.
The end not being explained and i having to look for outside sources to understand is just bad writing im sorry. If your work doesn't explain it self alone that's bad writing.
For me i think evangelion is a big waste of potential
A valid take, and I get it!
And learn to say seele right too. Did you even watch the series
Probably watched it in japanese like most normal people.
what was this account about before? osrs ?
Yes thats right :)
@@ghost-pulse omg that explains it. I was already subbed and was really confused!
human instrumentality would fix me
Seem redundant to say in my opinion.
This is your video who’s opinion would it be other than yours?
Bro is dumb
Of only you can say asuka right
He pronounces Asuka correctly, though?
"explain human instrumentality", then for the first 3 minutes talk about characters. No thanks, tldw
Pretentious drivel. Couldn't sit through it. Just clicked on the video to find out wtf "human instrumentality" is. The title kinda implied you were gonna explain that ish. Title was NOT, "the history of evangelion."
You’re the pretentious one.
So have you seen evangelion?