Ends of Evangelion

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

One of the most popular anime series just became widely available when Netflix started streaming Neon Genesis Evangelion. Evangelion is also infamous for having several different endings -- and a fandom that has a contentious relationship with the series creator Hideaki Anno. Nate Ming, Vrai Kaiser, Aaron Clark, Gene Park, and Heather Anne Campbell discuss how Evangelion tackled important issues like anxiety, depression, masculinity and sexuality while finding time for kids to get inside giant robots and fight giant aliens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:06.2	our disbelief.
0:07.2	I'm Eric Mollinsky.
0:09.8	If you know anything about anime, you probably know about Ghost in the Shell, or Akira,
0:15.8	or the movies by Miyazaki, like Spirited Away in My Neighbor Totoro.
0:21.7	But one of the biggest anime franchises in Japan was not widely available in the West
0:26.7	until this past summer.
0:28.9	The Netflix started to stream Neon Genesis Evangelion.
0:34.1	The show was broadcast in Japan for just one year, from 1995 to 1996.
0:39.8	And after the show ended, there was a 90 minute movie that wrapped up the story.
0:44.3	But more than 20 years later, Evangelion is still having an impact on pop culture around
0:50.0	the world.
0:52.0	Heather Ann Campbell is a TV writer in Los Angeles.
0:55.5	She discovered the show as a teenager.
0:57.6	And she watches the entire series again every year.
1:01.0	She likes to watch it with new people to gauge their reactions.
1:04.5	I've shown it to people who cry.
1:06.0	I've shown it to people who, like, one of the last times I watched it with some friends.
1:11.7	One of my friends, his name is Alex Berg.
1:13.7	He went out on the deck and had a whiskey and had his eyes narrow and like sipped at the
1:19.0	whiskey for a while and was like, that's the craziest thing I've ever seen.
1:22.9	That felt satisfying to me.
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