Since it's CGI it was mostly likely a lot easier and cheaper than the other scenes. The harsh angles and lack of fine details would also make t a lot easier to animate.
@@math9172 *Push glasses up* WELL *uses inhaler* Acshually Ramiel exists in 6 dimensions thansh very muchsh. Lol, in all seriousness though that's really neat. I've done a lot of 3D printing projects in Blendr since I made this comment, so I see a lot of what you mean. Still too much for me to even begin trying to animate.
What I like best about Ramiel is how it reacts to pain, turning its body into a plethora of spikes like it’s a defense mechanism. I also like how unlike in the original it’s implied that the spooky vocals are coming from it instead of just being ambiance
I like how it clanks shut into default shape, when it takes a genuine hit to its core. So surprised, so taken aback. Like ramiel stops mid stride, touches the warm spot on its belly, and looks down to see blood on its fingertips.
Also note how the entry wound and exit wound are on the same side when it is going into spike form and presumably flattening chunks of itself back into three dimensional space.
Ramiel gives me the idea of “this is the biblically accurate angel” It moves in physically impossible ways like we’re looking at a 4D organism from a 3D perspective, it screams and creates vocalizations that remind me of gospel choirs, and there’s no possible way to know what it’s thinking but you can tell it’s trying to do something specific
After recently watching another video on 4D shapes in 3D space and rotations I also couldn't help but have the same feeling when viewing this video once again.
same I feel like God is way more mathematically inclined than people see him as, this feels accurate in some sense to me rather than just.. winged people, you know? idk haha
@@MissusAnon Have you actually seen what Biblically accurate representations and depictions of angels honestly look like? Because a man or woman with two wings is just the lowest tier of them… Let me tell envagalion doesn’t go far off, as a matter-of-fact, I would say the real representations are more sinister…
The fact that Ramiel doesn’t just blow up the mountainside, but melts it, is absolutely horrifying to think about. The sheer amount of power required to do that is incredible.
@bean smell in real life, no, we would be screwed🤣. I might be wrong, but I’m pretty sure even the most powerful nuclear weapons we’ve produced couldn’t melt an entire mountainside. Not to mention the AT Field.
@bean smell I’m an idiot, you mean the stand. Still, probably not. If you haven’t watched Evangelion, Ramiel has an extremely powerful AT Field(basically a force field), and even N2 mines, which are thousands of times stronger than an average nuclear bomb, couldn’t breach it. The World’s fists couldn’t produce nearly enough force to breach the AT Field, so Dio would lose on the grounds of not being able to actually do anything.
I like how Ramiel's beam has infinite different power settings but it prefers always to select the correct one even if there's seemingly no drawback for overkill. Then it gets annoyed when an unforeseen barrier shows up and it has to re-calibrate.
I noticed that, too. “Step 1: Blow EVA to smithereens. Step 2- wtf there’s a wall there…ugh Step 1 (AGAIN): Blow EVA (AND WALL) to smithereens.” **EVA goes back down shaft** “Are you- you know what? I’m just gonna go get it myself.”
Some other guy says that because of her originally human nature, dividing the core and reaching higher power output would physically hurt her, thus why she screams when throwing the super powerful beams
@@bonecodoposto4618 Ramiel would probably wipe that hairy reptile off the face of the earth if given the chance, not even a nuclear weapon could output that much power.
This is one of the very few times ever that i‘ve seen a properly executed saturation attack with missiles in media. It is a bloody shame they had to fight THE CUBE. This might have been the only portrayal of what a real military would try to do
Imo this has always been the most terrifying angel. It is literally just a shape that fucking kills. You cannot read it. You cannot know what it is thinking. The only thing You can know is what it is trying to do, and the sheer raw power it has to do it. The fact that it screams with a Human voice and bleeds makes it that much more horrifying to me because despite being utterly alien in design, appearance, intelligence and biology, it still has a connection to mankind.
the way it screams when it attacks seems so uncanny, but then when it screams the same scream as it's about to die as if in agony, it relates it back to a more human experience
Japanese are known for being fast a rebuilding. This city in particular has ALL the money at their disposal. So this guys work FAST and without ANY limit of money
@@kolyashinkarev7366 for example... They moved all the energy from all Japan to a single place in one night... Thats the level of extreme logistics they have.
@@kolyashinkarev7366 I also think that if this was the kind of event a population would have to face regularly, they would straight up adapt the architecture, no tall buildings, no big roads, only easily replaceable structures and so on, but eh the destruction would not look as good I guess lol
I love that with almost every beam it uses the exact amount of power it thinks it needs to destroy its target, but after it actually takes damage it gets pissed and just decides “y’know what? FUCK you and everything in your general direction”
I think what’s most disturbing about ramiel is the fact that you can’t tell what it’s thinking. It looks and acts like an object, with no wants or needs, just existing, carrying out the function it was made to do. The unnatural (to us, at least) way it moves so you never really know what it’s about to do, attack or defend, makes fighting it truly terrifying.
@@terrificmarrow2764 i was joking. Ramiel is mainly portrayed as a geometrical shaped thing here. Shapes in geometry have angles. And Ramiel is an Angel. What I did was a play on words. Now that I explained it, it no longer is funni 😔
3:38 That's chilling. There's no music, no ambience, just... that echoing screech as it fades into silence, like the whole world is holding its breath in anticipation of how Ramiel will react.
@@pandabanaan9208 The "mech" units are protected by energy fields akin to the angels' own, in addition to being constructed sorta based on them, despite the incredibly different appearance.
Ramiel for me captures the "this was sent by aliens to drstroy you" vibe the most. Its just an ochtahedron not a beast or freak of nature and has sick trnasformations.
@@orbitalbutt6757 the angels aren't send by god. They are children of Adam, one of the two seeds of life that landed on earth with a moon. Both Adam and Lilith, the seeds of life that landed on earth, are also Angels as are we humans or ,how we are also called, Lilins. The reason why Adam's children came to earth in the way they did was never made clear. They attacked earth or more specifically Tokyo-3, but why could have multiple reasons. To retrieve and connect with Adam which would cause the creation of more angels, to connect with Lilith to start The Second Impact (I think) or to simply retrieve both or even something else. The Angels are acting mostly on impulse and instinct. They are obviously conscious and have a semblence of intelligence but not like us humans who are the exact opposite to them which is because of the different seeds that created the Angel and humans.
@@EUM_NEMESIS yeah that’s all true and so on but they also specifically say Eva 01 is becoming something “close to God” when Near Instrumentality hits, more than once they open the Guf which is (or is part of) Adam Kadmon aka the universal man aka God’s manifestation as the primordial man aka the physical manifestation of the ten sephirot and in 3.0+1.0 they literally pass through da’at into the Qlipoth soooooooo yeah
@@orbitalbutt6757 The question is, what is the definition of God in their eyes? Because neither The First Ancestrial Race, The Seeds of Life or the Angels are Gods if a God is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent and truly eternal. That is our definition of God. Someone who is everywhere, knows everything and can do anything for all times. The First Ancestrial Race comes the closest to God but they still fall short so how does Eva-01 even come close/compare? Imo that statement is a bunch of bullshit and doesn't make sense plot wise.
@@orbitalbutt6757 Technically technically they were aliens not the creator of the universe technicaly technically technically were alien colonizers because we stumbled into this plannet along with the angels (which are also aliens)
It only exposes the spheres when firing. Presumably this is a functional requirement: The spheres are delicate organs but also have to be exposed in order to emit their weapon beams, so the creature must become vulnerable for a moment in order to attack. Not a huge weakness, because any attacker would have only a fraction of a second to take advantage of the weakness before becoming plasma.
0:11 Exploring Mode (Moveable, High Defense & Radar Efficiency) 0:30 Focussed Laser Mode to eliminate single/multiple hostile along straight line 0:53 Laser Blast Mode : eliminate single/multiple hostile along straight line with more power 2:16 Air Defense Mode with High Frequency Radar 2:40 Focussed Shield Mode 2:42 Wide-Area Laser Blast Mode 3:39 Ramiel's pain reaction 4:01 Ultimate Laser Blast Mode
It looks, sounds and moves like a machine, but it *BLEEDS* when harmed. Ramiel is such an amazing concept, truly feels like something from other dimension
I like to think it’s sort of like how we would curl into the foetal position when punch in the gut. That clang was it trying to hold itself together before bleeding out
It’s the way it BLEEDS that fucks with me. I get why but it’s just that seeing this machine like geometric screaming … THING bleeds OUR blood fucks me up
It's basically a representation of what humans could have been if our evolution took a different path. All the angels in this represent a different path humanity could have taken, it's no surprise that the last angel is human.
Its becoz the Angel is basicly like Us, only different fruit... the angel has the fruit of life, only few of them but they strong & powerful, while we have the fruit of knowledge, we are weak but there are many of us & also smart....
The influences on Shin Godzilla that this movie had were numerous. From the soundtrack being remixed and used in Shin and even the scene at 2:23 inspiring shin godzillas laser defense against bombs being dropped on it.
"I'm going to fuck up your life and relationships laterally and vertically and in dimensions you don't even comprehend": the alien. I love it. It's genius.
I love how (at least to me) the repeated same transformation at 4:05 (likely for greater power) perfectly says 'Now the angel is really ticked off' without needing any explanation.
It just unfolds all of its multi-dimensional appendages. We can only guess how many dimensions he actually has, but with how many weird shapes it assumes - there is A TON of those dimensions in play
@@notveryartificial4486that's an interesting point. I kinda always assumed it was 4D, but there's no reason that it couldn't be much MUCH higher than that
Friendly reminder that Ramiel was designated as the "Defensive" Angel. AKA, the one angel that had the best defense of all. And it had the offensive power to headshot mountains. Defensive Angel my ass.
I’m coming back to this scene now after a long time and I’m only now just realizing the vocals going “ahhhhhhhhhh” as Ramiel casually hovers around, are not from the background music but coming from Ramiel itself. It’s not song, it’s speech. That’s even creeper to think about a giant geometric figure casually belting out “aahhhhhhh” before switching to screaming out an extremely powerful particle beam.
@@TheCrazyCapMastersomeone here said that the pain is coming from the maximum high energy output and power ramiel is using, making him feel pain which then causes ramiel to scream, but not enough to make it turn into its defense spike / death or regeneration form
yknow, ive found it really, really funny, that when that barrier was flipped up, ramiel got so utterly offended it incinerated nearly an entire sector of the city's worth of buildings
"Ramiel" is one of, if not THE, most _alien_ things in any anime. No limbs or speech, no relatable expressions or body language; just simplistic, shifting geometric shapes that don't even seem to obey the laws of physics (changing mass, density, shape, and even completely separating and then rejoining all at random according to it's will)... I honestly can't think of another entity (good, neutral or evil) in anime that is truly as _"alien"_ as this is.
Ramiel definitely seems to exist on a multi dimensional plane and acts like a 4-d object, which sounds confusing but is explained pretty well in a lot of youtube vids if you just look for them
What I like about Ramiel is how it seems to be using the 4th dimension to change it shape and when it goes through multiple changes and reverts, it actually reverts and doesn't just quickly change back in a new way that'd be more efficient for animation. Like, it feels like it actually expands to change its form and then goes back to its normal size
@@lusamine7925 Probably the biggest it can be is when it was injured on lethal levels, revealing its entire form, just like how some parts of our skeleton makes us get straight up and be full on 2 foot when just a second ago we were crouching So, almost like a small city
I love how when the beam hits Ramiel it suddenly loses control of its body shape by suddenly turning black and forming into spikes as a sign of it showing pain.
Can we talk about the drilling scene from 1:30 and how it messes with perception of scale. Because Ramiel's body is literally a featureless octahedron our sense of scale when looking at one particular bit of Ramiel is completely bonked. When Ramiel starts drilling our brains automatically assume we're seeing the full lower half of Ramiel's body, even if it knows that it's actually really big. Then cut to the next shot from far away and we see the building-sized drill was only a tiny, and I mean TINY extension of Ramiel's huge body. Ramiel being literally a geometric shape works in many impressive ways but I haven't seen a lot of people talk about this particular bit. The moviemakers really used the simple design to so many various effects.
Even better! When the killing blow against Ramiel first strikes, she closes up, and just looks like a small diamond were it not for the buildings nearby for scale. And then she screams and her form breaks into these giant spikes...if we were standing before it on the ground, those spikes would completely block out the horizon! The scale is amazing!
Ramiel's always been my favorite Angel. A lot of the others seem more like a classic big bad monster or godlike entity, while Ramiel seemed so intimidating and Alien from the rest. In the original Anime, it was a foreboding unmoveable crystal hovering above Tokyo-3 and it's laser beams would take out any who dare to confront it. It felt more like a fortress or battle station rather than a living thing. In the Rebuild, it is now even more freaky. Truly one of the closest representations of the "Biblically accurate angels", with its geometry-defying shapeshifting and unnatural yet human-like screams. Even freakier is the fact that it BLEEDS red blood like us earthlings, super creepy. Not to mention that it's laser attack FUCKING MELTS THROUGH MOUNTAINS! It truly comes across as something not from this universe, almost like trying to imagine something from a higher physical dimension interacting with our three-dimensional space.
4:10 - The heat that's melting nearby stone and boiling the lake is only half of the damage. That shockwave that's blasting away the molten rocks is also tearing away huge boulders from behind the mountain.
@@thesongbird1679 if I was alive in the biblical OT, no angel could convince me to not be afraid of them. I'm pretty sure God sent down a few angels to massacre the legions of an enemy nation that just wouldn't piss off.
The Angels aren't evil. If anything, humanity is more 'evil' given that it usurped the Angels' position on earth in the lore. We're squatters and Ramiel is returning to back what belongs to her by right. @@lilkamie6042
I remember when the movie came out in Japan and details of the movie started getting shared across the imageboards, the one thing that stood out to me was that "Ramiel changes shape". My imagination went wild. And then this absolute madman on NicoNico used a Blender-type CG software and actually animated (albeit crudely) what the shape changes looked like. Blew my mind. Needless to say I was pumped to see the movie for myself.
Ramiel on the rebuild is fucking terrifying. On the OG they handled it pretty easily but on this, you realized how a fucking monster Ramiel really was. Not only that, the way it transformed everytime it attacked or defense felt like an absolute being that surpassed our realm of understanding especially during the drilling scene when it twisted itself to be a driller instead of the OG version where it looked like a normal drill. Ramiel on this movie felt even more "alien" than the OG
If only the Angels worked in unison... But sadly, unlike humanity, they all operate by themselves. Sharing the same goal, but each going to do their own thing. "Teamwork" just never occured to them.
@@MrDibara there was one angel that kind of worked as a pair and it needed to have both angels killed at the same time forcing the eva pilots to sync their attacks and movements but yeah besides that they dont seem to like working together
@@azurephantom100 If I'm not mistaken, weren't those "two idividuals" actually *a single Angel capable of dividing into two bodies?* Not much "teamwork" in that scenario, more like the Angel exploiting the features of its body to gain an upper hand.
I always had the theory that inside Ramiel's core was a humanoid angel like Tabris. Whenever Ramiel twisted matter, and concentrated a beam, Ramiel would always scream in pain or fear after dividing her core, then reconstructing herself. When in a passive state, Ramiel would also sound like a solo choir singer.
A lot of the angels are confirmed to be “humans who rejected humanity,” or rather, other products of the same things that gave life to humanity, and have a very close match in DNA tests to people. It’s not any wonder why Ramiel sounds so human.
@@ValentinoMarino11 *“Because it IS human.”* Aw hex nah last time I checked humans don’t shoot mountain melting lasers and it’s just the way it and all the other angels bleed, it’s hard to believe it’s related to humans when it shoots lasers
This one angel is terrifying. You can never read its moves. It changes shapes to adapt to the situations but ensures that the shape can be both offensive and defensive at the same time. The only weakness is that it doesn't know how to think, it only knows how to reflect on the situation it's facing, and was created to do only one thing, to kill.
I love how is one of the angels that defy our understanding of things. He literally uses his own nature completely as an advantage... Not only because it has an organ that allows him to obtain insane amounts of energy from another dimension. its by the fact that literally it takes our world physics to the limit. Uses geometrical forms to concentrate his energy, could be interesting if it´s another type of energy unknown to us, that ionizes the air instantly or it's another complex phenomena . Anno is a darn genius...
Pretty sure its lasers are just an extremely powerful weaponized AT Field, like what Shinji used on Zeruel at the end of Rebuild 2.22. So you're right that it's a foreign type of energy, it's just that it's already well-known. That said, for what it's worth, that's a damn good idea, and is definitely now my personal headcanon.
it doesn't obtain energy from another dimension lmao where the f u got that?, they know it has a nuclear reactor inside which activates each time it shoots
@@c4n0 The manga and then 3.0+1.0 confirm that The S2 Organ of the angels takes energy from other dimension. I can’t take you seriously when you talk like a 15 year old trying to sound cool…
Because it's mixed with CGI. Now, I didn't liked the characters designs and the entry plug suits; they became thinner where in the original series, they were more round.
@@taylor3381 The rebuild story is similar in the first 2 movies with some references to the TV series. It is a bit more condensed and leaves out some parts to make a cohesive narrative for a movie runtime. Movie 3 and 4 tells a new story. The rebuild movie names are: Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time They were released in 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2021 respectively. The bluray versions are titled 1.11, 2.22, 3.33 etc.. It features some small adjustments but essentially the same as the theatrical releases.
One thing I like about this Ramiel is the very Ramiel drill they have, instead of a randomly-industrial looking drill. Sure the original was very utilitarian, but it always seemed a bit ordinary I suppose.
@@georgeofhamiltonDrills have a spiral around a sharp spike that allows them to automatically pull themselves in as they push through wood or whatever else. The drill moves along this spiral when it’s rotating in the opposite direction as the spiral moves up. Ramiel, however, is turning her drill the wrong direction, and the spiral is going upwards in the same direction the drill is spinning. And yet, she nearly made it to the geofront and blew up anything that attacked her as she did.
Fantastic portrayal of destructive power. I every aspect: sound, visual, character reaction… epic. Glad the algorithm leads me here every now and then.
it still sends shivers down my spine how, more accurately than ever, "the entirety of Japan" fought the angel of geometry. Really sold me the idea Shinji isn't alone in his fight, and humanity is in fact worth saving even though the people weren't necessarily motivated by will and choice.
Way back I think 2013 there was a huge earthquake here around Fukushima that hit the power grid. Thousands of homes are affected, and the power company announced to the people they need to borrow power because the current plant can't make it. The announcement was called "Yashima Sakusen" meaning Operation Yashima, the strategy used to defeat Ramiel by borrowing power from the whole Japan electric grid and young people back then like me just pretended Nerv needed our help to defend humanity.
I have yet to watch Evangelion because I kept putting it off for years, but after seeing this video, I have officially moved it to absolute priority. This character is one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen, and I want to see what other horrors await me. Edit: I have finished 3/4 of the Rebuild movies. This series is amazing, but holy crap, I never expected it to get quite this depressing.
@@Dovahkiin10482 It's worth doing that either way, so you can better appreciate the depth, meaning, and message of the final Rebuild film. That final film redeems the whole Rebuild series. As for NGE and TEoE, good luck - you're in for a major mindf*ck and deeply depressing existential & philosophical crises. The Rebuilds just don't compare. TEoE especially will do a number on you.
@@Dovahkiin10482 Wow, you cranked through the whole series fast. Wish I had as much free time as you lol Right? I love TEoE more than I can express, particularly for its wildly profound bilbical symbolism & references. It's the best thing to come out of the entire series IMO. What was your favorite piece of NGE?
Seeing ramiel reduce an entire mountain into lava is so profound Infinitely more so than just having the ability to destroy planets because you can really grasp the depth of a mountain
@@IamThee0 it's complicated, but a gross oversimplification is that it's part of a race of a human-adjacent species called angels which just started appearing one day. ramiel (this screaming octahedron) is the 6th one that's fought and it's nothing like the others.
Realistically there’s no way they could have beat ramiel a being than can change its shape so fluidly at will and has the fire power to cause rock to melt and tear down mountains
Your right. In a normal fight there is no way they could have won. It is why they basically had to assasinate the thing from afar with a citywide blackout amount of power of a railgun and even then it took them a second shot to get it clean.
@@thesuperdoge2476 But also, it could be a 4th dimensional being intersecting with our own plane of existence. Models of tesseracts (4D version of a cube) look a lot like Ramiel, where they have a fourth axis "w" which can change their shape in the 3D plane.
If you ignore it, it will come for you. If you confront it, it will annillate you and everything around you with extreme prejudice. If you address it, the only response you get will be screams that haunt your nightmares for the rest of your life. If you study it, you will only see enigmatic and featureless geometry. Ramiel is one of the most terrifying antagonists ever created.
For those who do not know, in the game of Neon Genesis Evangelion 2, it is the first time that this form of Ramiel is seen, in addition to the Yashima operation in all its splendor.
Best Angel by far. The visual & sound design are both stunning, the scale is insanely epic, and Ramiel's human screams before firing are deeply unsettling, hair-raising, and creepy. Ever since I first heard it, I just keep coming back to hear it again. All of its 4D transformations are so inventive, visually appealing, and subtly satisfying. The gargantuan amount of blood coming out of it is the cherry on top. This Angel was designed to perfection. It's absurdly OP, overpowering even our various senses.
The sounds that Ramiel produces are the best that this angel has, the Oooh-Oooh- every time he moves and the AAAIAAIAIAIAAA when he shoots and his cry of suffering when he is damaged are a chill.
Holy shit. Ramiel screaming gives me chills every time. Such a genius usage of sound effects for an attack. The Angels are so alien. Even still, nothing has compared to the monster designs in this show. Just unique identities across the entire series _and_ the films, and they only got weirder and even more abstract in the Rebuilds.
I’ll always love the original series more than the rebuilds…but holy shit did they take Ramiel, an already beastly Angel, and turn her into something truly horrific. Easily one of THE best monsters in fiction.
Out of all of the angels this one is my favorite for how inhuman and just cool it is-- it isn't just some weird blob with eyes, it's geometrically accurate and constantly shifting in completely unreal ways that seem to defy physics. It looks like a structure, yet it's simply the shell surrounding it-- a calculated, intelligent being that can change in any mathematical way that it can imagine for it to suit its needs. But still, it can scream, these inhuman-sounding screams. That's way more scary to me.
2:21 is one of the most jaw-dropping animations I've ever seen in any work of fiction. That long exposure shot of the missiles prematurely detonating, the music, the PUNCHY followup sound of that laser. *chef's kiss*
I'll never get over this, cause you'd think it's a weapon, an object built, not something birthed or made biologically, until you hear its screams of agony and hate, realising the choir at the beginning wasn't from the ambience but coming out of it, then see that it can bleed and that it turns into a sea of blood after being defeated
It's terrifying to watch Ramiel even just... Exist. You don't know what it wants, needs, or what it's even capable of doing until it morphs into something akin to what it could use to acompish it's goal. It's using what we know so well against us, a basic shape turned into this multi dimensional horror that we can barely comprehend, with unmatched power to kick it all off! To think, it could MELT an entire mountain. *MELT* it, not just destroy or crumble. And that probably wasn't even the full extent of what it could do, it only did that when it was possibly pissed about being hit for once! If it could already do that, what else could it possibly do?
if ramiel were to have farther intellectual knowledge, maxiumum energy and strength, and power, she would be able to form much more complicated and stronger forms, which just shows how much power ramiel truly has, if she were to be any bigger than the sun, she would most likely erase the whole solar system with its stage 2 focus point beam.
@@sadsongs7731 well... I personally can't stand how the plot points were delivered, Asuka (the Tsundere bitch), Shinji being absolutely annoying. I also have gripes agains the "die hard" fans, even tho I like Jojo and the fans there also tend to be braindead. And the plot stuff- it annoys me how many times EVA requires outside info to understand why shit is going on. I like when a story encourages further research, but EVA does that in the most... insulting way
The juxtaposition of: polygonal shape(s), human screams, and effortless mountain-leveling firepower were really used well in combination to make Ramiel a truly terrifying and alien being. It just radiates “The Unknowable” and I always appreciated that about it.
It's got to be so hard animating "power" It's one thing to animate a beam that is so powerful it can melt a mountain, it's another things to feel like I'm standing where the point of view is and FEEL like I'm experiencing the raw power of the explosion. Very well done.
I love Ramiel's design, especially in Rebuild. My favorite bit is you know precisely how screwed you are depending how long & loud that charge sound is. The fact that it's not an explosive sound when it fires... I don't even know how to describe it really. The double hit, the casually vaporizing half a mountain... Sound designer alone deserves a medal imo. Also 5:11 - Ramiel gets acid reflux.
The sound is like a wind up to an orgasm of infinite physical destruction. You cannot comprehend the true form of it’s attack, so Shinji draws from the spiritual. Ramiel could casually vaporize half of the planet to fulfill its goal.
I don't really like the rebuilds but MAN did they do ramiel justice! not just her 4d-ness and beautiful angelic voice that makes her more disturbing, but the preparation for the fight too. The feeling that there's a strategy behind what they do, and the ANIMATION is so GOOD 2:00 - 2:30 is Eye Candy
I just realized just to kill an angel it cost billions of dollars. Multiple city blocks got evaporated, hundreds of tomahawk missiles were deployed, countless of ground canons were gone and consuming the whole power grid of Japan to energize a couple positron sniper shots. Not to mention the repair cost for neo Tokyo
I always loved how it was always symmetrical whatever attack or defence ur deployed, perfecrly controlled. Until its hit, and it turns into a hundred random spikes to symbolise it was surprised, hurt and dismayed.
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Ramiel looks like the most horrifyingly difficult thing to animate, and simultaneously one of the most fun things to animate.
Since it's CGI it was mostly likely a lot easier and cheaper than the other scenes. The harsh angles and lack of fine details would also make t a lot easier to animate.
It's 3D dude i don't think so
Its one of (if not the best) use of cg in anime fr fr
@@emeraldgreen_chan actually Ramiel has 4D shape
@@math9172 *Push glasses up* WELL *uses inhaler* Acshually Ramiel exists in 6 dimensions thansh very muchsh.
Lol, in all seriousness though that's really neat. I've done a lot of 3D printing projects in Blendr since I made this comment, so I see a lot of what you mean. Still too much for me to even begin trying to animate.
What I like best about Ramiel is how it reacts to pain, turning its body into a plethora of spikes like it’s a defense mechanism. I also like how unlike in the original it’s implied that the spooky vocals are coming from it instead of just being ambiance
I think of it like it's recoiling from the pain, pushing its mass out in every direction but that side.
Or a little like diffusing energy.
I like how it clanks shut into default shape, when it takes a genuine hit to its core. So surprised, so taken aback. Like ramiel stops mid stride, touches the warm spot on its belly, and looks down to see blood on its fingertips.
@@MrCantStopTheRobot *Proceeds to blow up half a mountain*
Also note how the entry wound and exit wound are on the same side when it is going into spike form and presumably flattening chunks of itself back into three dimensional space.
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Ramiel gives me the idea of “this is the biblically accurate angel”
It moves in physically impossible ways like we’re looking at a 4D organism from a 3D perspective, it screams and creates vocalizations that remind me of gospel choirs, and there’s no possible way to know what it’s thinking but you can tell it’s trying to do something specific
perfect representation of why i love ramiel
After recently watching another video on 4D shapes in 3D space and rotations I also couldn't help but have the same feeling when viewing this video once again.
same I feel like God is way more mathematically inclined than people see him as, this feels accurate in some sense to me rather than just.. winged people, you know? idk haha
@@MissusAnon Have you actually seen what Biblically accurate representations and depictions of angels honestly look like? Because a man or woman with two wings is just the lowest tier of them…
Let me tell envagalion doesn’t go far off, as a matter-of-fact, I would say the real representations are more sinister…
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I like about how fast Ramiel returns to "default state" when mortaly wounded. It's like the angel realizing something is wrong.
Maybe it's rebooting
@@zephyr1181 Or trying to
"Somethings wrong... Oh fuck, I died!"
@@Vhailor_Mithras you forgot about the "BLOOSH" of its blood exploding.
@@Vhailor_Mithraslol
The fact that Ramiel doesn’t just blow up the mountainside, but melts it, is absolutely horrifying to think about. The sheer amount of power required to do that is incredible.
@bean smell no wtf
@bean smell in real life, no, we would be screwed🤣. I might be wrong, but I’m pretty sure even the most powerful nuclear weapons we’ve produced couldn’t melt an entire mountainside. Not to mention the AT Field.
@@Dovahkiin10482 cool. But could it beat Goku?
@bean smell I’m an idiot, you mean the stand. Still, probably not. If you haven’t watched Evangelion, Ramiel has an extremely powerful AT Field(basically a force field), and even N2 mines, which are thousands of times stronger than an average nuclear bomb, couldn’t breach it. The World’s fists couldn’t produce nearly enough force to breach the AT Field, so Dio would lose on the grounds of not being able to actually do anything.
literally reduced to atoms
I like how Ramiel's beam has infinite different power settings but it prefers always to select the correct one even if there's seemingly no drawback for overkill. Then it gets annoyed when an unforeseen barrier shows up and it has to re-calibrate.
I like your profile pic
When you put it that way, it's actually kinda cute... In a horrific and alien way
I noticed that, too.
“Step 1: Blow EVA to smithereens.
Step 2- wtf there’s a wall there…ugh
Step 1 (AGAIN): Blow EVA (AND WALL) to smithereens.”
**EVA goes back down shaft**
“Are you- you know what? I’m just gonna go get it myself.”
Some other guy says that because of her originally human nature, dividing the core and reaching higher power output would physically hurt her, thus why she screams when throwing the super powerful beams
Tsundere ramiel wants to impress with precision.
The fact Ramiel is capable of swiftly adapt to what’s attacking it and wipe it out in seconds is a nerve racking concept
The concept of " best defense is the best offense" given artful form.
You only have a few seconds to kill it before it turns you into molten sludge. Have fun.
NERV racking, very clever
may i present to you my friend,
scp-682?
or do you already know of it's existance?
@@bonecodoposto4618 Ramiel would probably wipe that hairy reptile off the face of the earth if given the chance, not even a nuclear weapon could output that much power.
2:23 I just love the utter contempt of that, like its just brushing away annoying leaves: "Missiles? In _my_ sky? Get that shit out of here."
And then thinks: "Ez bozos"
@@IAteAllToasts Blud be like: try harder
reminds me of Shin Godzilla
This is one of the very few times ever that i‘ve seen a properly executed saturation attack with missiles in media.
It is a bloody shame they had to fight THE CUBE.
This might have been the only portrayal of what a real military would try to do
Ramiel holds that laser too for a moment like ".. aaaand.." *SwwwwwEEEEEEEp*
I didn't notice this until now, there's a rainbow that is shown when it falls after dying due to the amount of blood raining from it. Chilling.
Yeah it shows after the death of almost every angel
Yeah it shows after the death of almost every angel
This thing having blood don't even make sense
they're apparently almost genetically identical to humans, the blood most likely serves as a reminder that the angels are still "mostly human"
Isnt that lcl?
Imo this has always been the most terrifying angel. It is literally just a shape that fucking kills. You cannot read it. You cannot know what it is thinking. The only thing
You can know is what it is trying to do, and the sheer raw power it has to do it. The fact that it screams with a Human voice and bleeds makes it that much more horrifying to me because despite being utterly alien in design, appearance, intelligence and biology, it still has a connection to mankind.
the way it screams when it attacks seems so uncanny, but then when it screams the same scream as it's about to die as if in agony, it relates it back to a more human experience
@@alamrasyidi4097 I mean... all of the angels are alive and sentient
That's the way Hideaki Anno describe biblically-accurate angel while drunk for you
The angel who made the darkness so much more terrible...
It is also unbearably cute, IDK WHY but it activates the cute signal in my brain
What always impressed me about this franchise is just how much infrastructure destruction goes on and how quickly they end up fixing it.
Japanese are known for being fast a rebuilding.
This city in particular has ALL the money at their disposal. So this guys work FAST and without ANY limit of money
@@justaguy577even if you have all the money in the world, there still are limitations on how fast and how much you can build
@@kolyashinkarev7366 for example... They moved all the energy from all Japan to a single place in one night... Thats the level of extreme logistics they have.
@@kolyashinkarev7366 I also think that if this was the kind of event a population would have to face regularly, they would straight up adapt the architecture, no tall buildings, no big roads, only easily replaceable structures and so on, but eh the destruction would not look as good I guess lol
@@shenwoo666hellbrawl they would probably build underground at this point
I love that with almost every beam it uses the exact amount of power it thinks it needs to destroy its target, but after it actually takes damage it gets pissed and just decides “y’know what? FUCK you and everything in your general direction”
XD thats so true
I think what’s most disturbing about ramiel is the fact that you can’t tell what it’s thinking. It looks and acts like an object, with no wants or needs, just existing, carrying out the function it was made to do. The unnatural (to us, at least) way it moves so you never really know what it’s about to do, attack or defend, makes fighting it truly terrifying.
What makes it terrifyng for me is, everyhting that you said plus the screaming part.Its eery and haunting.
whats scary is eveyrthing you mentioned is correct and ramiel is just a being like us but religiously determined
It’s so fucking abstract, just a geometric horror
@@Flairisyeah
It looks like something straight out of a fever dream or a drug trip
this sounddesign is just so geomatrical
Ikr
Sounds like my geometry questions
Except the chant noises
I see what you did there
@@Vitor20XX dont think its suppose to make sense
Ramiel first version: just a flying crytalline octahedron with laser
Ramiel second version: how many shapes do you want me to be? *YES*
euclidian horror
One shape, rotating in 4-th dimension :)
Formless type?
bro brakes
The best change imo
Ramiel must be the most amazing eldritch abomination I have ever seen in a fantasy work. You just can't fathom that this is a living, thinking being.
What a creepy and magnificent attack. That plasma beam can destroy half mountain in one attack. I love this angel
Ramiel in that moment be like: fuck everything in that direction
You mean angle?
Angel is what they’re called
An angle is like 90 degrees
@@terrificmarrow2764 i was joking.
Ramiel is mainly portrayed as a geometrical shaped thing here.
Shapes in geometry have angles.
And Ramiel is an Angel.
What I did was a play on words.
Now that I explained it, it no longer is funni 😔
@@yuiopqwert2172 ohhh I am smooth brain squared lol
3:38 That's chilling. There's no music, no ambience, just... that echoing screech as it fades into silence, like the whole world is holding its breath in anticipation of how Ramiel will react.
Only then to counter attack with it's most powerful attack, almost melting away an entire mountain
@@PuffDaFluff while also emitting enough residual energy to vaporise the nearby lake.
@@PuffDaFluffI'm not to familiar with the lore so can you explain to me how shinji survived being hit by that
@@pandabanaan9208 The "mech" units are protected by energy fields akin to the angels' own, in addition to being constructed sorta based on them, despite the incredibly different appearance.
@@kirinashia567 alright that makes sense
Ramiel for me captures the "this was sent by aliens to drstroy you" vibe the most. Its just an ochtahedron not a beast or freak of nature and has sick trnasformations.
Sent by God*
@@orbitalbutt6757 the angels aren't send by god. They are children of Adam, one of the two seeds of life that landed on earth with a moon. Both Adam and Lilith, the seeds of life that landed on earth, are also Angels as are we humans or ,how we are also called, Lilins. The reason why Adam's children came to earth in the way they did was never made clear. They attacked earth or more specifically Tokyo-3, but why could have multiple reasons. To retrieve and connect with Adam which would cause the creation of more angels, to connect with Lilith to start The Second Impact (I think) or to simply retrieve both or even something else. The Angels are acting mostly on impulse and instinct. They are obviously conscious and have a semblence of intelligence but not like us humans who are the exact opposite to them which is because of the different seeds that created the Angel and humans.
@@EUM_NEMESIS yeah that’s all true and so on but they also specifically say Eva 01 is becoming something “close to God” when Near Instrumentality hits, more than once they open the Guf which is (or is part of) Adam Kadmon aka the universal man aka God’s manifestation as the primordial man aka the physical manifestation of the ten sephirot and in 3.0+1.0 they literally pass through da’at into the Qlipoth soooooooo yeah
@@orbitalbutt6757 The question is, what is the definition of God in their eyes? Because neither The First Ancestrial Race, The Seeds of Life or the Angels are Gods if a God is Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent and truly eternal. That is our definition of God. Someone who is everywhere, knows everything and can do anything for all times. The First Ancestrial Race comes the closest to God but they still fall short so how does Eva-01 even come close/compare? Imo that statement is a bunch of bullshit and doesn't make sense plot wise.
@@orbitalbutt6757 Technically technically they were aliens not the creator of the universe
technicaly technically technically were alien colonizers because we stumbled into this plannet along with the angels (which are also aliens)
Love and hate how Ramiel is so powerful it can leave its heart in plain sight as if mocking everyone
It only exposes the spheres when firing. Presumably this is a functional requirement: The spheres are delicate organs but also have to be exposed in order to emit their weapon beams, so the creature must become vulnerable for a moment in order to attack. Not a huge weakness, because any attacker would have only a fraction of a second to take advantage of the weakness before becoming plasma.
3:34 vulnerable core/heart
I love how Ramiel casually takes out half a mountain. Thanks for uploading! :)
You’re welcome. I may have to reupload to account for a tiny lag near the start of the video.
I like how frequently the EVAs just straight up don't work. Feels very realistic.
@@justcommenting4981 Yes, agreed! Sometimes they run out of juice etc.
@@justcommenting4981 thats True, its essential for the anime's vibe
She has the power of the sun inside her so it's not that hard. Truly a magnificient flying fortress.
0:11 Exploring Mode (Moveable, High Defense & Radar Efficiency)
0:30 Focussed Laser Mode to eliminate single/multiple hostile along straight line
0:53 Laser Blast Mode : eliminate single/multiple hostile along straight line with more power
2:16 Air Defense Mode with High Frequency Radar
2:40 Focussed Shield Mode
2:42 Wide-Area Laser Blast Mode
3:39 Ramiel's pain reaction
4:01 Ultimate Laser Blast Mode
I like to think that when Ramiel is screaming when firing the lasers they are in agony cause it's a huge power output through their core
The focussed laser mode and laser blast mode.
I think the difference of them is.
The scream is more effective lmao.
5:14 "After eating a really spicy food" mode
@@Fei-Chan more like "after eating too much taco bell" mode
After that 5:19 brutally killed mode
4:10
It's not just melting the mountain, the heat radiating from it is flash boiling the lake next to it away too
i didn't even notice that. neat
Nice catch
not sure which one is more impressive actually
@@kahlzun how could boiling water be more impressive than melting a mountain
@@anakullanc6520 When it's an entire fucking lake
It looks, sounds and moves like a machine, but it *BLEEDS* when harmed. Ramiel is such an amazing concept, truly feels like something from other dimension
Bro I fell like nobody is talking about how epic the animation is LIKE GOD DAYUM
THANK GOSH SOMEONE WHO MENTIONED IT
Hands down my favorite part of the rebuilds. The animation is fucking fantastic.
literally god
Is is amazingly awesome
and to think this was released on 2007
5:13 the way it makes a CLANG sound as it snaps back into its original shape before bursting is so satisfying👌
God: RAMIEL, QUIT TRYING TO IMITATE A DAMN ANVIL-
Ramiel: *SCREAMS IN GEOMETRIC DESIGN*
Poor thing recoiled from the attack. It must have felt pain.
@@djailsonfelipe84 THAT THING IS TRYING TO KILL HUMANITY, QUIT SHOWING FEELINGS FOR A KILLER OCTOHEDRON
Ramiel best girl!
I like to think it’s sort of like how we would curl into the foetal position when punch in the gut. That clang was it trying to hold itself together before bleeding out
It’s the way it BLEEDS that fucks with me. I get why but it’s just that seeing this machine like geometric screaming … THING bleeds OUR blood fucks me up
It's basically a representation of what humans could have been if our evolution took a different path. All the angels in this represent a different path humanity could have taken, it's no surprise that the last angel is human.
@@03chrisv wow I must me dumb, that never occurred to me. Holy shit, everything on earth shares genetics with the Angels
Its becoz the Angel is basicly like Us, only different fruit... the angel has the fruit of life, only few of them but they strong & powerful, while we have the fruit of knowledge, we are weak but there are many of us & also smart....
Dont we bleed THEIR blood
The blood of the Angels is a fluid similar to amniotic fluid.
The influences on Shin Godzilla that this movie had were numerous. From the soundtrack being remixed and used in Shin and even the scene at 2:23 inspiring shin godzillas laser defense against bombs being dropped on it.
Didn’t the creator of evangelion direct shin Godzilla?
@@grandboy124 they did indeed
"I'm going to fuck up your life and relationships laterally and vertically and in dimensions you don't even comprehend": the alien. I love it. It's genius.
You missed the chance to say "I'm going to fuck up your life and relationships geometrically and in dimensions you don't even comprehend"
You missed to the chance to add "Geometrically" there
I love how (at least to me) the repeated same transformation at 4:05 (likely for greater power) perfectly says 'Now the angel is really ticked off' without needing any explanation.
It just unfolds all of its multi-dimensional appendages. We can only guess how many dimensions he actually has, but with how many weird shapes it assumes - there is A TON of those dimensions in play
@@notveryartificial4486that's an interesting point. I kinda always assumed it was 4D, but there's no reason that it couldn't be much MUCH higher than that
4:18 in this shot, stuff in the pilot's area is blown away and melts despite only being next to the beam, that's how powerful it was
“ALRIGHT I THINK IVE HAD ENOUGH.” 🤣
Ramiel's equivalent of pushing the sleeves up? Basically it is going to take the situation seriously rather than as annoying/interfering.
Friendly reminder that Ramiel was designated as the "Defensive" Angel. AKA, the one angel that had the best defense of all.
And it had the offensive power to headshot mountains. Defensive Angel my ass.
It's a flying fortress.
A fortress with fortress guns lmao.
The best defense is the best offense after all!
No one could attack you if you annihilate them first
Its at field is its defence. Its defence and ability to reject things outside of itself are so strong, it destroys everything. 😉
What they don't use GN Particle attack and combination with Trans-arm system activation so that think easily defeated?
I would scream if i saw a giant daimond screaming, shapeshifting, and fireing lazers.
I'd be like "well NOW I've seen everything" and keep driving my cab
I’m coming back to this scene now after a long time and I’m only now just realizing the vocals going “ahhhhhhhhhh” as Ramiel casually hovers around, are not from the background music but coming from Ramiel itself. It’s not song, it’s speech. That’s even creeper to think about a giant geometric figure casually belting out “aahhhhhhh” before switching to screaming out an extremely powerful particle beam.
There’s apparently a theory that firing the higher-powered beams actually causes Ramiel pain, hence the scream 😅
@@TheCrazyCapMastersomeone here said that the pain is coming from the maximum high energy output and power ramiel is using, making him feel pain which then causes ramiel to scream, but not enough to make it turn into its defense spike / death or regeneration form
If Ramiel can scream, it mean he could talk to?
@@IAteAllToasts not so certain yet, most of the angels can't talk
Angel equivalent of humming maybe?
Don't you just hate it when geometry screams at you?
Dont you hate it when geometry fires a laser beam at you that straight up melts stone
Mathematic kills
@@KENSHIROez3260 its sacred goemetry and not mathematics.
this is the nightmare of everyone who *hates* maths
F%%k yeah i do!
I love this version of Ramiel. It just makes them more something from another world that no any mortal can explain
but they killed him! :(
why are you into animals
@@Visciralis ??
@@iwuvpiesgaming9164 it a female :^
@@gales9043 Ramiel R34 when?
yknow, ive found it really, really funny, that when that barrier was flipped up, ramiel got so utterly offended it incinerated nearly an entire sector of the city's worth of buildings
"Ramiel" is one of, if not THE, most _alien_ things in any anime.
No limbs or speech, no relatable expressions or body language; just simplistic, shifting geometric shapes that don't even seem to obey the laws of physics (changing mass, density, shape, and even completely separating and then rejoining all at random according to it's will)... I honestly can't think of another entity (good, neutral or evil) in anime that is truly as _"alien"_ as this is.
Imagine if Ramiel was just an alien that appeared over our planet and hovered over cities and forested areas, willing to attack us at any moment
Leliel has entered the chat
Ramiel definitely seems to exist on a multi dimensional plane and acts like a 4-d object, which sounds confusing but is explained pretty well in a lot of youtube vids if you just look for them
Leliel is literally a being that only exists as a shadow in our 3 dimensional plane, he’s my second favorite angel next to ramiel
Ramiel seens to move on 4D
What I like about Ramiel is how it seems to be using the 4th dimension to change it shape and when it goes through multiple changes and reverts, it actually reverts and doesn't just quickly change back in a new way that'd be more efficient for animation. Like, it feels like it actually expands to change its form and then goes back to its normal size
Which could mean that its a lot larger than it seems, i wonder how large it actually is..
@@lusamine7925 Probably the biggest it can be is when it was injured on lethal levels, revealing its entire form, just like how some parts of our skeleton makes us get straight up and be full on 2 foot when just a second ago we were crouching
So, almost like a small city
I love how when the beam hits Ramiel it suddenly loses control of its body shape by suddenly turning black and forming into spikes as a sign of it showing pain.
0:26 that has to be one of the most satisfying sound effect I’ve ever heard.
I feel like it's mint for the mind 😂
Can we talk about the drilling scene from 1:30 and how it messes with perception of scale. Because Ramiel's body is literally a featureless octahedron our sense of scale when looking at one particular bit of Ramiel is completely bonked. When Ramiel starts drilling our brains automatically assume we're seeing the full lower half of Ramiel's body, even if it knows that it's actually really big. Then cut to the next shot from far away and we see the building-sized drill was only a tiny, and I mean TINY extension of Ramiel's huge body.
Ramiel being literally a geometric shape works in many impressive ways but I haven't seen a lot of people talk about this particular bit. The moviemakers really used the simple design to so many various effects.
Even better! When the killing blow against Ramiel first strikes, she closes up, and just looks like a small diamond were it not for the buildings nearby for scale. And then she screams and her form breaks into these giant spikes...if we were standing before it on the ground, those spikes would completely block out the horizon! The scale is amazing!
@@DgShadowChocolate 5:20 is a prime example of that.
I always thought the drilling using an actual drill as opposed to being an extension of its self was a bit strange in the original version.
Ramiel's always been my favorite Angel.
A lot of the others seem more like a classic big bad monster or godlike entity, while Ramiel seemed so intimidating and Alien from the rest.
In the original Anime, it was a foreboding unmoveable crystal hovering above Tokyo-3 and it's laser beams would take out any who dare to confront it. It felt more like a fortress or battle station rather than a living thing.
In the Rebuild, it is now even more freaky. Truly one of the closest representations of the "Biblically accurate angels", with its geometry-defying shapeshifting and unnatural yet human-like screams. Even freakier is the fact that it BLEEDS red blood like us earthlings, super creepy. Not to mention that it's laser attack FUCKING MELTS THROUGH MOUNTAINS! It truly comes across as something not from this universe, almost like trying to imagine something from a higher physical dimension interacting with our three-dimensional space.
For me it was the shadow sphere thing; that one creeped me out the most by far.
@@ashes2diamond That's Leliel I think... unfortunately it didn't appear in the remake.
@@ashes2diamond Yeah that's Leilel, another really cool angel. Def one of my favorites.
Lelie que tan grande era si solo podíamos ver su sombra en nuestro plano como una figura 3D💀
@@ashes2diamond Leliel was a "sentient" vaccuum area iirc, in quantum physic called a Dirac sea
4:10 - The heat that's melting nearby stone and boiling the lake is only half of the damage. That shockwave that's blasting away the molten rocks is also tearing away huge boulders from behind the mountain.
I didn't see that at first, good catch
3:14 I love this scene of it doing all sorts of random formations while defending
"Be not afraid"
Angel: *looks scary as hell, screeches and destroys a fucking mountain*
"Be afraid" is now the more appropriate phrase. Lol
@@thesongbird1679 if I was alive in the biblical OT, no angel could convince me to not be afraid of them. I'm pretty sure God sent down a few angels to massacre the legions of an enemy nation that just wouldn't piss off.
RIP Ramiel, you were too pure for this cruel world.
Can you explain why ramiel wasn't evil ? I'm kinda confused on its purpose on earth
@@lilkamie6042 tbh, I think Ramiel is entirely beyond concepts such as "good" and "evil".
The Angels aren't evil. If anything, humanity is more 'evil' given that it usurped the Angels' position on earth in the lore. We're squatters and Ramiel is returning to back what belongs to her by right. @@lilkamie6042
They were just trying to save their mother that was being held by humans in earth
@@ender8759I thought this was a part of gendo project Seele produced angels right?
2:47 Ramiel dishes out a colossal amount of implied destruction in just a few seconds. Watch the screen carefully.
I like how this implies that it can take a lot more forms than we saw, all in the span of 2 or 3 seconds
Holy shit that’s a lot of laser blasts in quick succession, seems that form it took as a rapid fire blaster effectively
I remember when the movie came out in Japan and details of the movie started getting shared across the imageboards, the one thing that stood out to me was that "Ramiel changes shape". My imagination went wild. And then this absolute madman on NicoNico used a Blender-type CG software and actually animated (albeit crudely) what the shape changes looked like. Blew my mind.
Needless to say I was pumped to see the movie for myself.
Ramiel on the rebuild is fucking terrifying. On the OG they handled it pretty easily but on this, you realized how a fucking monster Ramiel really was. Not only that, the way it transformed everytime it attacked or defense felt like an absolute being that surpassed our realm of understanding especially during the drilling scene when it twisted itself to be a driller instead of the OG version where it looked like a normal drill. Ramiel on this movie felt even more "alien" than the OG
I normally don't like remakes but I think in Ramiel's case it was good to have the tech and skill to do him justice.
Terror inspired by that which is incomprehenrible
The angels failed to realize the potential in Ramiel, send in a giant impenetrable sphere full of cores, make it laser its way into HQ
If only the Angels worked in unison... But sadly, unlike humanity, they all operate by themselves. Sharing the same goal, but each going to do their own thing. "Teamwork" just never occured to them.
@@MrDibara there was one angel that kind of worked as a pair and it needed to have both angels killed at the same time forcing the eva pilots to sync their attacks and movements but yeah besides that they dont seem to like working together
@@azurephantom100 If I'm not mistaken, weren't those "two idividuals" actually *a single Angel capable of dividing into two bodies?* Not much "teamwork" in that scenario, more like the Angel exploiting the features of its body to gain an upper hand.
@@MrDibara ah, you mean israfel
@@MrDibara yeah that will make the differences between the fruit of life and the fruit of knowledge
I always had the theory that inside Ramiel's core was a humanoid angel like Tabris.
Whenever Ramiel twisted matter, and concentrated a beam, Ramiel would always scream in pain or fear after dividing her core, then reconstructing herself. When in a passive state, Ramiel would also sound like a solo choir singer.
A lot of the angels are confirmed to be “humans who rejected humanity,” or rather, other products of the same things that gave life to humanity, and have a very close match in DNA tests to people. It’s not any wonder why Ramiel sounds so human.
@@MrHAH-cd9ku Because it IS human.
They are us, and we are them. Just different evolutionary paths.
@@ValentinoMarino11 do you think its a reference to God making humans based on angels and Him?
@@nathanaelwalakula4743 No clue…
@@ValentinoMarino11 *“Because it IS human.”*
Aw hex nah last time I checked humans don’t shoot mountain melting lasers and it’s just the way it and all the other angels bleed, it’s hard to believe it’s related to humans when it shoots lasers
"Whats the most terrifying kind of monster you can think of?"
"Geometry when it's pissed off."
"...What?"
This one angel is terrifying. You can never read its moves. It changes shapes to adapt to the situations but ensures that the shape can be both offensive and defensive at the same time. The only weakness is that it doesn't know how to think, it only knows how to reflect on the situation it's facing, and was created to do only one thing, to kill.
>ensures that the shape can be both offensive and defensive at the same time
Took lessons from Aldebaran from Taurus
Ramiel vs Mahoraga is gonna be fire lol
I love how is one of the angels that defy our understanding of things.
He literally uses his own nature completely as an advantage... Not only because it has an organ that allows him to obtain insane amounts of energy from another dimension. its by the fact that literally it takes our world physics to the limit. Uses geometrical forms to concentrate his energy, could be interesting if it´s another type of energy unknown to us, that ionizes the air instantly or it's another complex phenomena .
Anno is a darn genius...
Pretty sure its lasers are just an extremely powerful weaponized AT Field, like what Shinji used on Zeruel at the end of Rebuild 2.22. So you're right that it's a foreign type of energy, it's just that it's already well-known.
That said, for what it's worth, that's a damn good idea, and is definitely now my personal headcanon.
it doesn't obtain energy from another dimension lmao where the f u got that?, they know it has a nuclear reactor inside which activates each time it shoots
@@c4n0 Are you ok?
@@-TheUnkownUser yeah, u? lol wtf ur reply? wanna fight?
@@c4n0 The manga and then 3.0+1.0 confirm that The S2 Organ of the angels takes energy from other dimension.
I can’t take you seriously when you talk like a 15 year old trying to sound cool…
Ramiel is by definition a multi-purpose living weapon
0:18 DIO could've saved the world if he had used his time-stop powers against the Angels.
NO
Lol
* after ten seconds *
Ramiel : * screams *
Dio : WRRYYY
Fun fact, aoba and DIO had one voice actor
“THE WORLDO!”
That living geomtery is just badass, I love how it screams with this high human voice before an attack and when hit. Just brilliant.
The rebuild's artstyle, animation and sound design are just amazing!
They really did nail it pretty darn well.
Because it's mixed with CGI. Now, I didn't liked the characters designs and the entry plug suits; they became thinner where in the original series, they were more round.
Does the rebuild have the same story as the original? I wanna watch but I don't like the old anime visuals. Also, what is the name of the rebuild?
@@taylor3381 The rebuild story is similar in the first 2 movies with some references to the TV series. It is a bit more condensed and leaves out some parts to make a cohesive narrative for a movie runtime. Movie 3 and 4 tells a new story.
The rebuild movie names are:
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
They were released in 2007, 2009, 2012 and 2021 respectively. The bluray versions are titled 1.11, 2.22, 3.33 etc.. It features some small adjustments but essentially the same as the theatrical releases.
@@goldentrout4811 thanks
One thing I like about this Ramiel is the very Ramiel drill they have, instead of a randomly-industrial looking drill. Sure the original was very utilitarian, but it always seemed a bit ordinary I suppose.
Plus it still spins in the wrong direction, which is funny yet a little spooky considering it still easily made its way to geofront after a day.
@@MrHAH-cd9ku What do you mean that it spins in the wrong direction?
@@georgeofhamiltonDrills have a spiral around a sharp spike that allows them to automatically pull themselves in as they push through wood or whatever else. The drill moves along this spiral when it’s rotating in the opposite direction as the spiral moves up.
Ramiel, however, is turning her drill the wrong direction, and the spiral is going upwards in the same direction the drill is spinning.
And yet, she nearly made it to the geofront and blew up anything that attacked her as she did.
@@MrHAH-cd9ku Oh, I see what you’re talking about. That’s visible in the shots at 1:49 and 4:31, but the drill looks fine at 1:43.
the original ramiel's drill looks like a penis tbh
Fantastic portrayal of destructive power. I every aspect: sound, visual, character reaction… epic. Glad the algorithm leads me here every now and then.
it still sends shivers down my spine how, more accurately than ever, "the entirety of Japan" fought the angel of geometry. Really sold me the idea Shinji isn't alone in his fight, and humanity is in fact worth saving even though the people weren't necessarily motivated by will and choice.
Way back I think 2013 there was a huge earthquake here around Fukushima that hit the power grid. Thousands of homes are affected, and the power company announced to the people they need to borrow power because the current plant can't make it. The announcement was called "Yashima Sakusen" meaning Operation Yashima, the strategy used to defeat Ramiel by borrowing power from the whole Japan electric grid and young people back then like me just pretended Nerv needed our help to defend humanity.
This film did Ramiel justice.
Definitely one of my favorite Angels.
Felt like this was what Ramiel was meant to be in the original anime. What the animators WANTED it to be.
I have yet to watch Evangelion because I kept putting it off for years, but after seeing this video, I have officially moved it to absolute priority. This character is one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen, and I want to see what other horrors await me.
Edit: I have finished 3/4 of the Rebuild movies. This series is amazing, but holy crap, I never expected it to get quite this depressing.
Original Evangelion + TEoE is worse. Rebuild has a happy ending.
@@Gard3n208 good to know. I plan on saving movie 4 for when I’ve finished Neo Genesis and End of Evangelion. I want to finish it on a good note
@@Dovahkiin10482 It's worth doing that either way, so you can better appreciate the depth, meaning, and message of the final Rebuild film. That final film redeems the whole Rebuild series. As for NGE and TEoE, good luck - you're in for a major mindf*ck and deeply depressing existential & philosophical crises. The Rebuilds just don't compare. TEoE especially will do a number on you.
@@Koolstr I just finished the Thrice Upon a Time last night. And you’re right, The End of Evangelion was an absolute mindf*ck😅.
@@Dovahkiin10482 Wow, you cranked through the whole series fast. Wish I had as much free time as you lol
Right? I love TEoE more than I can express, particularly for its wildly profound bilbical symbolism & references. It's the best thing to come out of the entire series IMO. What was your favorite piece of NGE?
Seeing ramiel reduce an entire mountain into lava is so profound
Infinitely more so than just having the ability to destroy planets because you can really grasp the depth of a mountain
Ramiel didn't just MELT the mountain, there would've been more of a splash from it. Ramiel EVAPORATED part of that mountain.
They made the worst angel battle in the manga into the best angel battle in the anime.
Well played, well played
I mean, the anime came first…
i guess a fight this intense and stuff with a shape that breaks the laws of physics whenever it moves would be hard to print onto sheets of paper
What is this and can anyone explain why im seing it all of a sudden
Why is the cube thing screaming laser beams
@@IamThee0 it's complicated, but a gross oversimplification is that it's part of a race of a human-adjacent species called angels which just started appearing one day. ramiel (this screaming octahedron) is the 6th one that's fought and it's nothing like the others.
@thepurified8386 so he is the strongest of them?
Also if they are human adjacents why they built like cubes?
Such beauty, such elegance, such grace, such tragic destiny... It's clear why everybody falls in love with Ramiel-chan. 🔷
I agree Ramiel is just a floating shiny diamond and the beams got me fall in love with ramiel
cat game ramiel best boi
@@LordOfPowercreep
Eva ramiel: Erases mountain
Cat gæm remiel: erases Ultimate Dragon Of Armageddon Energy
#Ramiel4life
Realistically there’s no way they could have beat ramiel a being than can change its shape so fluidly at will and has the fire power to cause rock to melt and tear down mountains
Your right. In a normal fight there is no way they could have won. It is why they basically had to assasinate the thing from afar with a citywide blackout amount of power of a railgun and even then it took them a second shot to get it clean.
@@ColdNorth0628 not even a railgun, that was a positron cannon accelerating fucking antimatter at it, nothing could withstand that kind of blast
@@battleoid2411 apparently except Geometry that takes two.
Well, realistically Ramiel wouldnt even exist
@@thesuperdoge2476 But also, it could be a 4th dimensional being intersecting with our own plane of existence. Models of tesseracts (4D version of a cube) look a lot like Ramiel, where they have a fourth axis "w" which can change their shape in the 3D plane.
If you ignore it, it will come for you. If you confront it, it will annillate you and everything around you with extreme prejudice. If you address it, the only response you get will be screams that haunt your nightmares for the rest of your life. If you study it, you will only see enigmatic and featureless geometry. Ramiel is one of the most terrifying antagonists ever created.
1:36 this is the one of the best sfx I ever hear
Me too
I like the part when she goes aaaaaaaww in the F key
and I like how smoothy she penetrated the ground, like if it was hot butter
For those who do not know, in the game of Neon Genesis Evangelion 2, it is the first time that this form of Ramiel is seen, in addition to the Yashima operation in all its splendor.
Best Angel by far.
The visual & sound design are both stunning, the scale is insanely epic, and Ramiel's human screams before firing are deeply unsettling, hair-raising, and creepy. Ever since I first heard it, I just keep coming back to hear it again.
All of its 4D transformations are so inventive, visually appealing, and subtly satisfying. The gargantuan amount of blood coming out of it is the cherry on top.
This Angel was designed to perfection. It's absurdly OP, overpowering even our various senses.
The sounds that Ramiel produces are the best that this angel has, the Oooh-Oooh- every time he moves and the AAAIAAIAIAIAAA when he shoots and his cry of suffering when he is damaged are a chill.
1:17落ちるエヴァをレーザーがちょっと追いかけようとしてるの殺意高くて好き
Yeah, I always thought it was cool how Ramiel tries to track the EVA, even as it falls down the shaft.
殺意しかなくてシンジくん絶望植え付けられたはず
それしか無い！
確実に仕留めようとするラミエルの執念が見える
ホントだ
The coolest angel. Utilizes my favorite Evangelion motifs: insane sound design and the cross flash laser.
Holy shit. Ramiel screaming gives me chills every time. Such a genius usage of sound effects for an attack. The Angels are so alien.
Even still, nothing has compared to the monster designs in this show. Just unique identities across the entire series _and_ the films, and they only got weirder and even more abstract in the Rebuilds.
Always like how Ramiel's scream synchronizes with the charge up noise before it shoots too. A1 sound fx
Ramiel: "F**k everything in that general direction."
Mountain: "What direction? Oh w-"
The animation for Ramiel is stunning! The sound design too, it all feels really alien, yet ethereal as well.
4:10 one of my favourite scenes of all anime action history
For being angels.. their strength is truly infernal.
ramiel screams geometrically
Man that was beautiful
“So how much money do we get to spend on animation this time?”
Anno: “Yes.”
I’ll always love the original series more than the rebuilds…but holy shit did they take Ramiel, an already beastly Angel, and turn her into something truly horrific. Easily one of THE best monsters in fiction.
Out of all of the angels this one is my favorite for how inhuman and just cool it is-- it isn't just some weird blob with eyes, it's geometrically accurate and constantly shifting in completely unreal ways that seem to defy physics. It looks like a structure, yet it's simply the shell surrounding it-- a calculated, intelligent being that can change in any mathematical way that it can imagine for it to suit its needs. But still, it can scream, these inhuman-sounding screams. That's way more scary to me.
2:21 is one of the most jaw-dropping animations I've ever seen in any work of fiction. That long exposure shot of the missiles prematurely detonating, the music, the PUNCHY followup sound of that laser. *chef's kiss*
I'll never get over this, cause you'd think it's a weapon, an object built, not something birthed or made biologically, until you hear its screams of agony and hate, realising the choir at the beginning wasn't from the ambience but coming out of it, then see that it can bleed and that it turns into a sea of blood after being defeated
It's terrifying to watch Ramiel even just... Exist. You don't know what it wants, needs, or what it's even capable of doing until it morphs into something akin to what it could use to acompish it's goal. It's using what we know so well against us, a basic shape turned into this multi dimensional horror that we can barely comprehend, with unmatched power to kick it all off! To think, it could MELT an entire mountain. *MELT* it, not just destroy or crumble. And that probably wasn't even the full extent of what it could do, it only did that when it was possibly pissed about being hit for once! If it could already do that, what else could it possibly do?
if ramiel were to have farther intellectual knowledge, maxiumum energy and strength, and power, she would be able to form much more complicated and stronger forms, which just shows how much power ramiel truly has, if she were to be any bigger than the sun, she would most likely erase the whole solar system with its stage 2 focus point beam.
The singing. The screaming. The geometric severity of its violence... I think I'm in love.
I have a certain love for sound effects of creatures and attacks and Ramiel is somewhat one of my favourite, despite my objections against Evangelion
Same
Mmmm you shall be executed for your opinions, this is ze internet
Objections such as?
@@sadsongs7731 for me i cant stand shinji
@@sadsongs7731 well... I personally can't stand how the plot points were delivered, Asuka (the Tsundere bitch), Shinji being absolutely annoying. I also have gripes agains the "die hard" fans, even tho I like Jojo and the fans there also tend to be braindead.
And the plot stuff- it annoys me how many times EVA requires outside info to understand why shit is going on. I like when a story encourages further research, but EVA does that in the most... insulting way
Ramiel’s scream gives me nostalgia to something I can’t even remember. Is that even possible?
The juxtaposition of: polygonal shape(s), human screams, and effortless mountain-leveling firepower were really used well in combination to make Ramiel a truly terrifying and alien being.
It just radiates “The Unknowable” and I always appreciated that about it.
Remember, this thing also BLEEDS for some reason.
It's got to be so hard animating "power" It's one thing to animate a beam that is so powerful it can melt a mountain, it's another things to feel like I'm standing where the point of view is and FEEL like I'm experiencing the raw power of the explosion. Very well done.
I love Ramiel's design, especially in Rebuild. My favorite bit is you know precisely how screwed you are depending how long & loud that charge sound is. The fact that it's not an explosive sound when it fires... I don't even know how to describe it really. The double hit, the casually vaporizing half a mountain... Sound designer alone deserves a medal imo.
Also 5:11 - Ramiel gets acid reflux.
Ramiel was one of the most benefited from the Rebuild. A real powerhouse and scary treat, I loved every part of him in the movie.
The sound is like a wind up to an orgasm of infinite physical destruction.
You cannot comprehend the true form of it’s attack, so Shinji draws from the spiritual.
Ramiel could casually vaporize half of the planet to fulfill its goal.
0:46 Someone please tell me what the music in this part is called
Lucifer's Cry (EM 17) Evangelion 1.11 OST
Thak you so much
I don't really like the rebuilds but MAN did they do ramiel justice!
not just her 4d-ness and beautiful angelic voice that makes her more disturbing, but the preparation for the fight too. The feeling that there's a strategy behind what they do, and the ANIMATION is so GOOD
2:00 - 2:30 is Eye Candy
one of my top 3 fav episodes for this reason
1:27 the metalic clink is an eargasm
YES
Unironically one of the most creative depictions of a "higher dimensional being" I think I've seen.
I just realized just to kill an angel it cost billions of dollars. Multiple city blocks got evaporated, hundreds of tomahawk missiles were deployed, countless of ground canons were gone and consuming the whole power grid of Japan to energize a couple positron sniper shots. Not to mention the repair cost for neo Tokyo
Thanks for this, Remiel is my favorite angel hopefully it doesn’t get copyright striked and removed
Ramiel really went: 🔹🔷💠
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🔹🔷✳️💠➖➖➖➖⛰️
@@Purgation_98 💥- - - - - - - -
@@Sky_darts ⛰💥---------------------🔴
I just love how versatile it is and how it shapes and transforms!
I always loved how it was always symmetrical whatever attack or defence ur deployed, perfecrly controlled.
Until its hit, and it turns into a hundred random spikes to symbolise it was surprised, hurt and dismayed.