Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0: the connection to the other series, why are they different?

Exactly, after a long wait, finally Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 has really arrived and all fans of the saga could finally find out the end of Shinji’s deeds, Asuka and Rei began with the tetralogy of Rebuild of Evangelion.

With the vision of the film landing on Amazon Prime Video, as expected, many questions were finally answered, but many others still opened up to viewers. However, one thing is finally clarified and specified by Hideaki year, one of the questions that deserves an answer, or why are all Evangelion series, from the TV series of the 90s to manga and movies, so different from one another?

We remind you of this the following is full of spoilers that could affect the vision of the film. The main answer immediately denies the hypothesis put forward so far, the loop theory, which was ultimately categorically denied by a dialogue in the feature film. To explain it all is Kaworu Nagisa, the true needle of Libra, the one from which everything changes. The so-called “five children“It turns out to be essentially immortal, in fact, a person whose name was written in the book of life and who is therefore it dies and is reborn all the time. Consequently, Shinji, Asuka Shikinami, and Rei are nothing more than different individuals than those we know from the original series or the manga, different protagonists of a story and a reality that belong to each of Kaworu’s cycles of death and rebirth. Cycle that the fifth he contributed to the change by also writing the name of the man in the book of life who, above all, wanted to meet again and again with every rebirth: Shinji Ikari.

Evangelion is a story that repeats itself, yes, but in different ways and For Kaworu Nagisa’s eyes only. And you, on the other hand, have clarified this doubt in this way? Let us know what you think about this with a comment below.