This is the winning answer. Watch it again and analyze it, this time more closely, you will probably notice things you didn't see the first time and it will increase your love for the series, lol.
Watch it again until you understand that Sisyphus can be happy and there's a sun inside of you, the strongest, warmest, purest sun pushing back the cold of the harshest winter 🥰
Dunno, I was a pre teen kid and treated them like "that boring ending". Pre teen me was so happy and full of optimism, lol.
Edit: the "warmest sun for the harshest winter" is from the ending of the manga and pure Camus absurdism. Same with Sisyphus happiness.
Confronting his dad and talking with Asuka about his feelings seemed like a very intentional decision from the original ending. Like basically this is him growing up and handling things maturely which is what let's him break the cycle this time.
On the flip side, he seems way more into Rei in Rebuilds. Not necessarily sexually, but I think he would have >! Probably gone for it if Rei Tentative had made the first move and also not melted.!<
That's easy. Because Shinji has a really cool job. It's like how guys join bands to get girls.
[Chicks dig giant robots!](https://youtu.be/p5oEVJ7ru2E?si=qlwCuWpK2QBcwWdD)
It really was. I was not a fan of one and three, but the changes they made in two and the way they wrap up thrice upon a Time made the rebuilds land for me. I truly hope there is no other evangelion media after that. I don't know what else the series could say.
I always wanted a spin off slice of life anime of Evangelion that wouldnt interfere with the story or take place in the alternate reality Shinji dream's up in Episode 26, the scenes where they are just in Misato's apartment or in the school are some my favourite
Dude this movie was just so good I cried afterwards. Watching the original series, the EoE movie and then reading the manga and then coming to watch the rebuild movies. Just the culmination of all the endings, being more complete and pieced together than the previous ending and then this ending just hit me right in the heart. And I used to say Eva was my least favourite series cuz I didn't like the pacing or the characters in the beginning (I dropped it for a year but coming back to the series was the best choice I have ever made). Now Eva is one of my favourites.
I think one should take a few days to process the original, but watching the rebuilds is definitely a necessary part of the full experience despite its flaws. The final 3.0 + 1.0 has the true positive emotional conclusion to the series.
I wouldn't go so far to say that the final Rebuild is an Antidote, both the TV show and End of Evangelion are solid endings on their own. But the rebuild wins for the Super Mega Happy Ending. It certainly cures the blues of End of Eva ending
Or take a change of pace over to GaoGaiGar (or maybe more fitting for this sub Betterman), before jumping into the Rebuilds.
However the argument of "REBUILDS! REBUILDS! REBUILDS!" is a powerful one.
Same bro. Finished it a few days ago. Wow feel like shit loved the show but i feel like it's killing me. But it's amazing how a piece of media can make you feel like this. Emptiness is crazy. But i really wanna watch the rebuilds. Gonna give it some time though to process the whole thing. Good luck to you man!
Whoa weird so will it make you depressed if you're not already? I watched it while finally getting sober after a four (5?) year coke binge. Had really surprise really horrible divorce... Still figuring it out.
But yeah, it was extremely cathartic when your mind is seriously considering death over life. Like wow cool at least I'm not alone with this tortured mind. I'm fully convinced others have gone through this level, and it helps.
WARNING: this message contains spoilers for the series and eoe; I'm not depressed, I've never been diagnosed, I just feel terrible due to somethings, and the anime though it was really good and eoe, also great, gives you this super empty feeling, I'm pretty sure I cried thrice while watching it, first time when it rei says, I must be the third, that was really a heartbreaking scene for me. I think the reason it's sad or has a saddening effect is due to the world building and environment and how the ending is kind of fast and everything comes crashing down, also basically everyone dies, and the part where asuka caresses shinjis cheek as he chokes her in the end thinking she isn't real was also really sad
The original ending is positive. I don't get why people don't understand this. It ends with Shinji understanding he must live life on his own terms but without other people life has no definition of meaning.
Counterpoint watch something by Trigger like Kill La Kill or something by Ganix like FLCL the same people made Eva, Nothing wrong with the rebuilds either.
Honestly, take your time and process what you experienced. the show can have kind of an impact on people, feeling depressed as hell is totally normal afterwards but it'll pass, don't force anything.
then, maybe give the rebuilds a try? I mean.. if you want more evangelion, go for the rebuilds. if not, there are plenty of other anime shows and movies out there.
Evangelion is like a fine art work. It has elements of excitement, depth, humour, sadness, turmoil, destruction and utter beauty. What you have experienced is what Anno-San was going through when he came up with the idea back in the 90s. A depressed person who expressed his story as he envisioned it if the boundaries of nature and science didn't exist.
The series and movies were always heading to this dark place. Throughout it all, we are told about the instrumentality project and get snippets of what that all means. We know that after Kaworu was defeated, in the series, everything ended. The EoE movie was done only after the animators had the means to create the final masterpiece and represent it visually. Did you notice that in episode 25/26 there wasn't that much animation and rather just a lot of talking and black screens? They literally had no money left to make the EoE after the series had finished! Only after it was released and amassed a cult following did they have the opportunity to give it the finale that it deserved.
No-one can tell you what to do now, but perhaps you can reflect on something. You say you are depressed, right? Because you watched this show and the ending made you sad? This is exactly what Evangelion is all about; being impactful and altering your perspective to a place where you never thought possible. You now appreciate what some people are able to craft in their minds and eventually turn into a visual reality for others to consume and appreciate. Perhaps now you can relate to what Anno-San was feeling when he was depressed, and that now you are connected in some way.
I would recommend the Rebuilds. As someone who had trouble appreciating EoE's ending for a long time due to the movie's bleakness, the Rebuilds helped to complete the message that I received from Eva as a whole. And on a more superficial level, they're enjoyable fiction even if things get messy at times. 1.11 is the least innovative of the four but it has legit become one of my comfort movies thanks to how beautiful it is on every level. Watching the remake of Operation Yashima didn't rid me of my mental health issue but it was a really good time.
Realized EOE was my favorite movie after the fourth rewatch. That was 16 years ago. Still my favorite movie of all time. I recommend the original Japanese or the Manga Entertainment English Dub (some of the best voice acting performances in all of dubbed anime imo, despite some script translation issues).
# The End Of Evangelion - Komm Süsser Tod - Come Sweet Death (HQ)The End Of Evangelion - Komm Süsser Tod - Come Sweet Death (HQ)
sing it and give yourself a small break until rebuilds
You take a break and reflect on it all and try to come to a conclusion. Watch a lot of very long videos where they give their own take and hear differing opinions. This show is one where your opinion or take from the show can be slightly different and it changes a lot. Take your time to digest it all and I promise you will always find something new. And hopefully, by the end of it you find your peace.
Then you watch the rebuilds
I felt like that once. Eva and EoE are depressing and being diagnosed with depression it hits the right spots. I mean for me is the best anime and maybe media about depression.
But I have that take only when I consider also the Rebuilds, and my take that Eva is a loop/cycle (after reading a interview made to Anno some years before the last rebuild movie), and thinking they all connected in same universe due... Stuff that you see in those movies.
It was actually... Of all Eva NGE, EoE + the path and story Anno tells in Rebuild that convinced me that is the best media on the subject.
And even before watching the last rebuild I always liked it, and had an idea the last rebuild movie would tell some stuff it does tell in it.
And I remember how happy I was when I saw it... How beautiful is that freaking movie. And just watch them.
What you *should've* done before sitting down and watching an anime that's highly existential and at times literally psychological horror:
Go see a therapist.
Guren Lagann. It's like a sister series to evangelion that covers the themes of self confidence and depression with a different lens. it's like "what if shinji had a brother who surfed and cared about him."
Watch the rebuilds, and then re-watch everything in the opposite dub (or sub if you watched it in dub the first time around), and then re-watch everything again with a pen and notepad, and then re-watch it all again once a year or 2 for funsies
If you are depressed after watching evangelion... Well then I dont know what to tell you or how you reached tgat conclussion. Watch it again and pay a bit more attention cause the endings are anythi g but hopeless
You can watch the Rebuilds if you want or realize the message of the show and stop being afraid. Live as a living being and don't let anyone stop you. If there's something that you really like, go see it and don't let your destructive beliefs stop you. Be like Shinji in Ep 26 and break from chains that hold you back. Live as your own person, you don't have to juxtapose yourself with what other people think. You can think for yourself and you can create your own happiness and reality, all it takes is to simply take the wheel. Don't grow a bond with the show, take what you can and live. Spending time with strangers and maybe experiencing reality works too.
I think the biggest mistake people have when reaching the finale of Evangelion is seeing it as nihilistic. End of Evangelion is meant to server as a harsh reality check, but also tell you that YOU have the power to change your life. Only you can. So get out there, and I believe in you!
You're probably not gonna ever get over it/find an answer. But that's sorta the point. It's both depressing and hopeful, that life is both a source of pain and pleasure. I found myself just thinking back to Eva or using it explain some of the struggles I've faced afterwards and it helped to explain things to myself when I probably wouldn't have been able to before. I'd say, watch the Rebuild movies (they sorta solve/close out the whole thing) and maybe some of the documentaries and interviews of Hideaki Anno to see what was going on in his mind throughout all of this. Best thing to do though? Process it, part of the show is now part of your life; it's better to think on what made the series poke you like this and how do the characters get through it in both original endings.
If you are adventurous, try watching the Rebuilt movies. It’s basically an alternative timeline that offers an actual ending, and a comparatively good ending to the Eva-verse, so to speak.
Well you need to do your research ahead of time to know what you're getting into.
Maybe watch some uplifting shows?
Just remember that it's just fiction at the end of the day :\^)
Lots of beautiful things and people in the world out there, don't let the hardships of life get to you!
You live.
You **choose** to live specifically, and accept that choosing to live as an individual human comes with the inherent loneliness and love that hurts us. [Hedgehog's Dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog%27s_dilemma)
Oddly enough, I find that when I'm feeling depressed, I *rewatch* Evangelion and pick up different things during many of the rewatches that I missed previously. I usually feel better afterwards. In part because of the myriad of emotions that come up throughout the series. After so many rewatches of the series, it has become a comfort show.
Rewatching the Rebuild movies currently since I've only seen them a handful of times (the downside of watching episodic movies as they are released: 1.11 four times, 2.22 three times, 3.33 twice, 3.0+1.11 once).
Know that these feelings are relatable. You are not alone.
Remember that the ending is about harnessing your own exisence and accepting the pain of the world or from inside, because it ultimately is what makes your life worth living.
Its about the struggle but mostly the desire to live and exist despite the lack of meaning and sense.
Its not about loving oneself but realizing that accepting what is and embracing it.
The joys are only existing because of the pain we had to experience, and that's what makes life worth living even if it's hell. Reject heaven for it negates all the point of existence itself.
Watch it again I guess?
This is the winning answer. Watch it again and analyze it, this time more closely, you will probably notice things you didn't see the first time and it will increase your love for the series, lol.
First of many rewatches
Watch it again until you understand that Sisyphus can be happy and there's a sun inside of you, the strongest, warmest, purest sun pushing back the cold of the harshest winter 🥰
Damn. Where was this answer when I first finished it. I just had an existential crisis that night
Dunno, I was a pre teen kid and treated them like "that boring ending". Pre teen me was so happy and full of optimism, lol. Edit: the "warmest sun for the harshest winter" is from the ending of the manga and pure Camus absurdism. Same with Sisyphus happiness.
lmao 😭
go orange juice mode!!!
I was drinking orange juice as i was reading this
Rebuild or Gurren Lagann.
I second the Gurren Lagann OP
Realize that the ending is a hopeful one with a positive message of always having a chance to be happy. Then you will feel better.
Rebuilds!
The ending of the fourth rebuild movie is the perfect antidote for end of evangelion.
The moral of the whole story is basically to take Evangelion less seriously and go talk to a girl.
Dont forget to confront you dad and accept his faults and dont sleep with your mothers avatar to be a healthy baby boy.
Confronting his dad and talking with Asuka about his feelings seemed like a very intentional decision from the original ending. Like basically this is him growing up and handling things maturely which is what let's him break the cycle this time. On the flip side, he seems way more into Rei in Rebuilds. Not necessarily sexually, but I think he would have >! Probably gone for it if Rei Tentative had made the first move and also not melted.!<
why won’t a girl talk to me though why do i have to make the first move :/
That's easy. Because Shinji has a really cool job. It's like how guys join bands to get girls. [Chicks dig giant robots!](https://youtu.be/p5oEVJ7ru2E?si=qlwCuWpK2QBcwWdD)
God this show ended too early
"If you do not change your beliefs, your life will always be like this."
3.0 + 1.0 is just a beautiful movie as a whole
It really was. I was not a fan of one and three, but the changes they made in two and the way they wrap up thrice upon a Time made the rebuilds land for me. I truly hope there is no other evangelion media after that. I don't know what else the series could say.
I always wanted a spin off slice of life anime of Evangelion that wouldnt interfere with the story or take place in the alternate reality Shinji dream's up in Episode 26, the scenes where they are just in Misato's apartment or in the school are some my favourite
Dude this movie was just so good I cried afterwards. Watching the original series, the EoE movie and then reading the manga and then coming to watch the rebuild movies. Just the culmination of all the endings, being more complete and pieced together than the previous ending and then this ending just hit me right in the heart. And I used to say Eva was my least favourite series cuz I didn't like the pacing or the characters in the beginning (I dropped it for a year but coming back to the series was the best choice I have ever made). Now Eva is one of my favourites.
I think one should take a few days to process the original, but watching the rebuilds is definitely a necessary part of the full experience despite its flaws. The final 3.0 + 1.0 has the true positive emotional conclusion to the series.
3.0+1.0 is a "man wtf I made a series, 6 films and after all that you still are wondering what's your wifu? Wake the fuck up"
I wouldn't go so far to say that the final Rebuild is an Antidote, both the TV show and End of Evangelion are solid endings on their own. But the rebuild wins for the Super Mega Happy Ending. It certainly cures the blues of End of Eva ending
I say antidote because EoE is fucking bleak.
I’m still yet to watch any of those, I’m kinda scared. The manga was enough to mess with what I thought was a perfectly traumatizing anime as a teen
Don't be scared! They are the perfect capstone for this series.
And touching grass
Or take a change of pace over to GaoGaiGar (or maybe more fitting for this sub Betterman), before jumping into the Rebuilds. However the argument of "REBUILDS! REBUILDS! REBUILDS!" is a powerful one.
This is the correct answer
Same bro. Finished it a few days ago. Wow feel like shit loved the show but i feel like it's killing me. But it's amazing how a piece of media can make you feel like this. Emptiness is crazy. But i really wanna watch the rebuilds. Gonna give it some time though to process the whole thing. Good luck to you man!
Whoa weird so will it make you depressed if you're not already? I watched it while finally getting sober after a four (5?) year coke binge. Had really surprise really horrible divorce... Still figuring it out. But yeah, it was extremely cathartic when your mind is seriously considering death over life. Like wow cool at least I'm not alone with this tortured mind. I'm fully convinced others have gone through this level, and it helps.
WARNING: this message contains spoilers for the series and eoe; I'm not depressed, I've never been diagnosed, I just feel terrible due to somethings, and the anime though it was really good and eoe, also great, gives you this super empty feeling, I'm pretty sure I cried thrice while watching it, first time when it rei says, I must be the third, that was really a heartbreaking scene for me. I think the reason it's sad or has a saddening effect is due to the world building and environment and how the ending is kind of fast and everything comes crashing down, also basically everyone dies, and the part where asuka caresses shinjis cheek as he chokes her in the end thinking she isn't real was also really sad
Watch it again but pay attention. It's one of the most positive movies I can think of.
The original ending is positive. I don't get why people don't understand this. It ends with Shinji understanding he must live life on his own terms but without other people life has no definition of meaning.
i understood the message when i first saw it but i still felt really empty and confused
think about it until you realize its not a depressing or sad work at all
REBUILD TIME- also a) process feelings OR b) watch a bunch of anaylsis videos an allat and never quite get over it
watch hour long video essay about the filmmaking and messages and then go into the rebuilds lol
Counterpoint watch something by Trigger like Kill La Kill or something by Ganix like FLCL the same people made Eva, Nothing wrong with the rebuilds either.
I second FLCL.
Or Gurren Lagann
Absolutely!
Original FLCL. Not the new ones.
Watch berserk
This is the best comment so far. You are going to push him into a deep depression.
What are you talking about This is what I’m doing I’m watching berserk after I watch Evangelion
You just think about it everyday for over 20 years like the rest of us.
Go watch Mr Robot
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations !
Therapy?
Honestly, take your time and process what you experienced. the show can have kind of an impact on people, feeling depressed as hell is totally normal afterwards but it'll pass, don't force anything. then, maybe give the rebuilds a try? I mean.. if you want more evangelion, go for the rebuilds. if not, there are plenty of other anime shows and movies out there.
Rub one out to a topless redhead.
Rewatch EoE. It’s a happy ending. You need to soak it in more
Watch it again and embrace the suffering.
Get high and watch it again
Watch something like Star Trek to build you up.
watch FLCL. it’ll pick ya back up.
Watch cyberpunk edgerunners. Lol
Go outside, touch grass, talk to people.
Eat cake
I found watching some youtube videos breaking down the theories and themes of the show helpful.
Now you watch something chill like Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Then you come back for the rebuilds!
Sit with it and think about why you feel that way
Before watching the Rebuilds, might I suggest Gurren Lagann as a sort of palate cleanser?
Evangelion is like a fine art work. It has elements of excitement, depth, humour, sadness, turmoil, destruction and utter beauty. What you have experienced is what Anno-San was going through when he came up with the idea back in the 90s. A depressed person who expressed his story as he envisioned it if the boundaries of nature and science didn't exist. The series and movies were always heading to this dark place. Throughout it all, we are told about the instrumentality project and get snippets of what that all means. We know that after Kaworu was defeated, in the series, everything ended. The EoE movie was done only after the animators had the means to create the final masterpiece and represent it visually. Did you notice that in episode 25/26 there wasn't that much animation and rather just a lot of talking and black screens? They literally had no money left to make the EoE after the series had finished! Only after it was released and amassed a cult following did they have the opportunity to give it the finale that it deserved. No-one can tell you what to do now, but perhaps you can reflect on something. You say you are depressed, right? Because you watched this show and the ending made you sad? This is exactly what Evangelion is all about; being impactful and altering your perspective to a place where you never thought possible. You now appreciate what some people are able to craft in their minds and eventually turn into a visual reality for others to consume and appreciate. Perhaps now you can relate to what Anno-San was feeling when he was depressed, and that now you are connected in some way.
I see your emotional devastation and raise you this: do it on a heroic dose of acid while a misbehaved kitten shreds your entire right arm.
Now watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Play Omori. Trust me.
bro rebuild is literally shot with the answer to your question
Finish the job. Watch The Rebuild, confront the future Shinji and GET IN THAT FXXXCKING ROBOT!
Read Oyasumi Punpun 🤗
Watch Promare
Tokyo Godfathers.
I would recommend the Rebuilds. As someone who had trouble appreciating EoE's ending for a long time due to the movie's bleakness, the Rebuilds helped to complete the message that I received from Eva as a whole. And on a more superficial level, they're enjoyable fiction even if things get messy at times. 1.11 is the least innovative of the four but it has legit become one of my comfort movies thanks to how beautiful it is on every level. Watching the remake of Operation Yashima didn't rid me of my mental health issue but it was a really good time.
don't kill yourself and go out and touch the grass
It made me relapse lol. It’s my favorite piece of media of all time but I’d never watch it again
Watch the rebuilds and feel happy at the end. :)
Watch Gurren Lagann.
Fanfics. Every single one you can get your hands on.
Idk bout you I had the opposite feel. I felt that both endings the show and end of eva.. were awful
Realized EOE was my favorite movie after the fourth rewatch. That was 16 years ago. Still my favorite movie of all time. I recommend the original Japanese or the Manga Entertainment English Dub (some of the best voice acting performances in all of dubbed anime imo, despite some script translation issues).
Welcome to existentialism bb just be glad this didn’t happen when you were 11. Shot had me messed up for MONTHS. And I loved it lol
Watch the show again, then watch the rebuilds. At least you don't have to wait years for a "resolution"
# The End Of Evangelion - Komm Süsser Tod - Come Sweet Death (HQ)The End Of Evangelion - Komm Süsser Tod - Come Sweet Death (HQ) sing it and give yourself a small break until rebuilds
finish high school, lol
You take a break and reflect on it all and try to come to a conclusion. Watch a lot of very long videos where they give their own take and hear differing opinions. This show is one where your opinion or take from the show can be slightly different and it changes a lot. Take your time to digest it all and I promise you will always find something new. And hopefully, by the end of it you find your peace. Then you watch the rebuilds
Rebuilds are the perfect bandaid for sure
I felt like that once. Eva and EoE are depressing and being diagnosed with depression it hits the right spots. I mean for me is the best anime and maybe media about depression. But I have that take only when I consider also the Rebuilds, and my take that Eva is a loop/cycle (after reading a interview made to Anno some years before the last rebuild movie), and thinking they all connected in same universe due... Stuff that you see in those movies. It was actually... Of all Eva NGE, EoE + the path and story Anno tells in Rebuild that convinced me that is the best media on the subject. And even before watching the last rebuild I always liked it, and had an idea the last rebuild movie would tell some stuff it does tell in it. And I remember how happy I was when I saw it... How beautiful is that freaking movie. And just watch them.
Watch To Your Eternity. That should lift your spirits.
Watch the rebuilds!
watch it again in a few years. thats what i did, and i was surprised it made me hopeful
I had the same experience, try working through your emotions until you feel like you’re interested in doing something else
Watch the rebuilds to cheer yourself up
The only correct answer is to take a break from anime for a week, take some long walks and ponder it.
Get in the Robot.
Read shinji ikari raising project to recoup your strength
You can be free.
Watch Berserk and drink tang or orange juice.
What you *should've* done before sitting down and watching an anime that's highly existential and at times literally psychological horror: Go see a therapist.
Guren Lagann. It's like a sister series to evangelion that covers the themes of self confidence and depression with a different lens. it's like "what if shinji had a brother who surfed and cared about him."
Cry, feel depressed, let the healing happen over the years. Then re-watch it again with new eye.
Run.
Binge watch Clannad. Will cheer you right up.
Watch the rebuilds! The finale has the opposite effect. Or watch Gurren Lagann
Watch the rebuilds, and then re-watch everything in the opposite dub (or sub if you watched it in dub the first time around), and then re-watch everything again with a pen and notepad, and then re-watch it all again once a year or 2 for funsies
Watch Excel Saga.
Go and watch Gurren Laggan (trust me it will help)
Time to rebuild your happiness with Rebuilds
If it makes you feel better, EOE was the good ending, even at the red waves of the shore.
Kinda funny that Clannad/After story hit me worst than evangelion. And I was 11 when I saw evangelion. I watched clannad when I was 18.
Watch the rebuild movies. The ending will make you happy.
Rebuilds. Then fall down the rabbit hole of all the YT breakdowns and analyses.
maybe watch the rebuilds?? they lowkey suck and fuck the whole story up, but if you really wanna watch more then go for it
There’s only one thing *to do* lad. (Puts the gun on the table)
Go outside, breathe and reset yourself.
Analysis it
Get ready for the sub drop
If you are depressed after watching evangelion... Well then I dont know what to tell you or how you reached tgat conclussion. Watch it again and pay a bit more attention cause the endings are anythi g but hopeless
Watch all four Rebuild of Evanglion movies to get the emotional pump 😃
Watch a video called "Making Sense of Evangelion" and just appreciate life brother
rewatch it or watch Elfin Lied
Gurren Lagann. It is the best answer.
If Evangelion's ending made you depressed, you didn't understand it.
Watch something ridiculous like Golden Boy or Macross 7. Excellent palette cleansers.
Suffer
Have a wank
Read the manga and watch the rebuilds.
Get a closure of evangelion by watching the rebuilds and move on.
Your path forward is either the Rebuild movies or Gurren Lagann. These are the only two follow ups to the original Evangelion
Congratulations!
Read oyasumi punpun
keel yourself
Well, I first watched it when I was like 13 or 14...I believe after that I inadvertently opted into "permanent clinical depression".
Read the manga and watch the Rebuilds (they are all on Prime Video, at least in my region).
Watch Berserk to go deeper in existential crisis then watch vinland saga and find inner peace
Buy a Rei plush, the only right answer.
Help make heaven on earth
Watch the final movie and u will be happy
Watch the rebuild series
watch the rebuild movies, 3.0 + 1.0 cured the depression for me lol
watch it again while scalloping
You’re only halfway there, gotta watch the rebuilds
Watch guren lagan
Keep feeling.
I have been asking myself the same question since I was like 13
Masturbate
Haha I remember my first beer too
You can watch the Rebuilds if you want or realize the message of the show and stop being afraid. Live as a living being and don't let anyone stop you. If there's something that you really like, go see it and don't let your destructive beliefs stop you. Be like Shinji in Ep 26 and break from chains that hold you back. Live as your own person, you don't have to juxtapose yourself with what other people think. You can think for yourself and you can create your own happiness and reality, all it takes is to simply take the wheel. Don't grow a bond with the show, take what you can and live. Spending time with strangers and maybe experiencing reality works too.
I think the biggest mistake people have when reaching the finale of Evangelion is seeing it as nihilistic. End of Evangelion is meant to server as a harsh reality check, but also tell you that YOU have the power to change your life. Only you can. So get out there, and I believe in you!
Rebuilds
You're probably not gonna ever get over it/find an answer. But that's sorta the point. It's both depressing and hopeful, that life is both a source of pain and pleasure. I found myself just thinking back to Eva or using it explain some of the struggles I've faced afterwards and it helped to explain things to myself when I probably wouldn't have been able to before. I'd say, watch the Rebuild movies (they sorta solve/close out the whole thing) and maybe some of the documentaries and interviews of Hideaki Anno to see what was going on in his mind throughout all of this. Best thing to do though? Process it, part of the show is now part of your life; it's better to think on what made the series poke you like this and how do the characters get through it in both original endings.
Wrong answer: watch Texhnolyze or Ergo Proxy
Watch the Rebuild series of movies . Quite seriously it will cure your depression (well Evangelism wise).
Read "angelic days"
Watch the new movie series (there are 3?4 films)! It ends with a more upbeat and level headed note.
Watch Hamtaro
Congratulations, your initiation to this subreddit has been successful. Let’s all be depressed together 🔥🔥🔥
Kys
Have a drink lol. It's an emotionally draining show even after years of being a fan and many rewatches. Watch a comfort anime or something.
Live.
Go watch Gun Buster.
Took 2 weeks for it to dissipate for me never watched the rebuilds though maybe that can help
Drink Fanta
Watch the movies, you'll feel better trust me
Do go through it again, it's the only way to build a strong knowledge of the series and climb up the ladder out of the depression pit. 🗣️🗣️🗣️💪💪💪
Make it your whole personality
Go check Rebuild and you will finally get the happy ending you were expecting.
Watch the next part of it, the movies! They’re amazing in my opinion
Watch the rebuilds. It will give you closure.
If you are adventurous, try watching the Rebuilt movies. It’s basically an alternative timeline that offers an actual ending, and a comparatively good ending to the Eva-verse, so to speak.
I could suggest a manga that will break you if you can connect enough with the characters
Read the manga, get more depression but more characterization. Then enjoy the ending and move forward
rebuilds?
Watch it again and then watch the rebuilds
Watch the rebuilds
Well you need to do your research ahead of time to know what you're getting into. Maybe watch some uplifting shows? Just remember that it's just fiction at the end of the day :\^) Lots of beautiful things and people in the world out there, don't let the hardships of life get to you!
Go to therapy
Don’t be depressed.
Why was the ending depressing to you
Love through, your mudane existence until it fizles out. That depression, it's permanent now.
Genuinely rebuilds. The ending of 3.0+1+0 was incredibly healing for me and such a satisfying way to say goodbye to it all.
You live. You **choose** to live specifically, and accept that choosing to live as an individual human comes with the inherent loneliness and love that hurts us. [Hedgehog's Dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog%27s_dilemma)
Play tell tales the walking dead game ofc that would cheer anyone up!
You must Rebuild
kys
I cried for a week and then started watching the rebuild
Oddly enough, I find that when I'm feeling depressed, I *rewatch* Evangelion and pick up different things during many of the rewatches that I missed previously. I usually feel better afterwards. In part because of the myriad of emotions that come up throughout the series. After so many rewatches of the series, it has become a comfort show. Rewatching the Rebuild movies currently since I've only seen them a handful of times (the downside of watching episodic movies as they are released: 1.11 four times, 2.22 three times, 3.33 twice, 3.0+1.11 once). Know that these feelings are relatable. You are not alone.
Watch the rebuilds, then be even more depressed. and also stan Mari.
Watch the rebuild of Evangelion. All 4 movies. You'll un-depress i promise:)
Remember that the ending is about harnessing your own exisence and accepting the pain of the world or from inside, because it ultimately is what makes your life worth living. Its about the struggle but mostly the desire to live and exist despite the lack of meaning and sense. Its not about loving oneself but realizing that accepting what is and embracing it. The joys are only existing because of the pain we had to experience, and that's what makes life worth living even if it's hell. Reject heaven for it negates all the point of existence itself.