Hi everyone! so glad to have this finally come out, it's been a serious work in progress. I really put my all into the sound design with this so i hope you enjoyed! I will be at the NJgamercon in Cherry Hill NJ on the 26th through 28th of July 2019 so come say hi! if you're interested i recorded the end track for this episode (fly me to the moon) i have it up here on soundcloud soundcloud.com/mike-pixley/fly-me-mp3 video is on patreon thanks so much for stopping by, it makes all the work worth it, don't forget to follow us on social media for updates and exclusive content @bonsai_pop and leave me your experiences with Eva below! hit the notification bell for next weeks video and have a great week! -Mike

@yourin8er

5 жыл бұрын

Hi. I was hoping you could do an episode on Blue Gender. No one every gives that show love.

@thecountofmontecristo2796

5 жыл бұрын

@@yourin8er I have to wonder if the ending was what the writer wanted or if it was rushed?

@aljenysilven4121

4 жыл бұрын

Bonsai Pop bro I just watched this! I loved it it you just mind fucked the shit out me!! Definitely subscribing

@samualwilliamson369

4 жыл бұрын

What I took from Evangelion was I wonder what my imagination will look like when I am dead, I think about it daily

@AlaskaFinal

4 жыл бұрын

@3:23 *"Almost completely useless"* He can cook, and cleans Misato's apartment on a regular basis. He can play the cello like a boss. Most 14 years olds can't do one of these things. To include the two 14-year old girls he keeps company with.

Ah yes 5am, time to contemplate our existence

@R_G_K

5 жыл бұрын

DocDoesGaming I wanna like your comment but it’s on 69 likes and I am not a monster

@DocDoesGamingYT

5 жыл бұрын

@@R_G_K it's at 96 now, which is somehow hilarious to me

@PkolDumancas

4 жыл бұрын

Damn dude!!! I also watched this 5am

@DocDoesGamingYT

4 жыл бұрын

@@jijo2002 No, you're awesome!

@zachstonhail8908

4 жыл бұрын

Honey it's 4pm time for you're evengilon void

"Do you know yourself well enough to even hate it?" I remember being a confused 17 years old, who did not know what I wanted to do with my life, the prospect of leaving my routine and going to college and so many more doubts. I remember watching Eva for the first time, then entering a depressive haze due to the show's several messages of intimacy, individuality and isolating yourself from your problems. Now as a 23 year old, with still so many things to learn but with a much more clear head in the right place for the moment, I rewatched the series on Netflix. And I literally cried tears of joy while watching episode 26 (Especifically the Congratulations! scene and the thank you message from the show director). The optimist message of embracing suffering to find your joy and learning to love yourself I now found was like a punch to my guts. The fluidity of meaning Evangelion has that you talked about is truly beautiful and so is your video. Thank You!

@cheekclappa69

4 жыл бұрын

Funny. I saw it when I was 23 still feeling fresh outta high school, really immature and naive AF, in and out of college that I never finished, in financial debt coming back to live at my Mom's, feeling lost, physically broken by both work and hard partying, not really knowing yet what I wanted to do with my life with no real goals or ambitions. It was a total mind fuck of a show and really made me see things in a different way. It was also around the time that the HUGE Indonesian tsunami happened what killed over 100,000 people and boy that really put things into perspective in relation to the series. I couldn't help thinking of all those souls gone in just one day and imagined what it would be like if everyone on the planet died and became one again like in the series. Pretty weird timing for me to finally watch the series as I had known about it for years, but never really had the time or means to watch it until I found the whole series on VHS tapes at a pawn shop when I came back to town to move back my mom's defeated after not finishing college and having no real aspirations. I could also relate to Shinji in many ways. Most notably in his relationship with his father. My father was never there for me, had completely abandoned me since before my first birthday and I had recently gotten in contact with him and had somewhat of a new/actual relationship with. I could relate to Shinji in many wasy, as I was also kind of a whiny pussy when I was a kid lol! Long story short, I'm 39 now and have great memories of the series and how it helped me to understand the real mind fuck that I was going through at the same time that I saw it when my life was in mundane, bleak disarray, chaos, and existential crisis. lol!

@robbanbobban2

4 жыл бұрын

When I saw Evangelion I must've been 15 or something. Everything about the show hit me so hard I had trouble sleeping after many of the episodes. Not only did I have no idea what I wanted to do with my life, I didn't even have a routine outside of playing videogames, watching anime and going to school. My whole life was a series of avoidance strategies, because for most of my childhood I had felt nothing but insecurity and abandonment anxiety. There was no structure to base my life around, to boost my self esteem, to give me a sense of strength. So my ultimate strategy was avoidance and fantasy. And I didn't even know this was the case. I guess the reason why Evangelion hit me so hard is because it peeled away all the layers of comfort and put me face to face with a lot of the fears I actually had. I wouldn't say it helped me though. In fact it kind of became another layer to my trauma, another existential crisis. And there were more to come... lots of them. And these traumas and crises would give way to new methods of escape, new ways to avoid and fantasize. And then the next crisis would come, and the next. Life is brutal when you're lonely. Now as I'm 30, and finally learning how to connect with people intimately, I'm starting to think that life isn't fucked up. There is just something about our history that is fucked up, something that bleeds into today, that colors our existence grey, even when it's not.

@tellurian1734

4 жыл бұрын

Also 23.. after finishing university a couple months ago I was plunged into an existential depression spiral fuelled by excessive Lsd usage. I got to a point where I didnt identify with my own personality/motivations/opinions.. and with the looming question of which direction I should be moving in life, without any sort of compass, I was in a very dark place.. Then I watched Evangelion. Towards the end when shinji is asked "why do you pilot the Eva?".. I couldn't help but ask myself the same question (why do you do anything you do?) This seems obvious but it prompted me to completely rethink my entire relationship with existence.. Since then I've been slowly improving, but honestly if not for Evangelion, God knows where I would be rn. This video was the icing on the cake

@reganbrooks8339

3 жыл бұрын

I essentially felt this exact same way. When I first watched Eva when it was on Toonami, a LOT went over my head. I was expecting a completely different show. THIS show was frustrating to try and understand. Googling explanations never seemed to help and only muddied the waters. All of that said, the memory of the show never left me. There was a sort of reverence in my mind for Eva, a feeling of meaning devoid of the words to describe what that was. I rewatched it last year on Netflix and was blown away by it. The original ending was underwhelming at the time but with two additional decades of life experience, it was profound. The show itself and the concepts therein have burrowed deeper in my mind, leading me to love this series and the End of Eva for completely different reasons than my first time through. Congratulations. That's what I saw in the Rorschach test. As is above, so is below. The hopeful message of embracing your own suffering and learning to love yourself for who you are...not who you want to be or who others expect you to be. This series is a classic, beautiful, and deeper than I ever knew.

@lesliverspy3095

3 жыл бұрын

So I was 13 years old when I watched this entered that depressive state, for a good day or two, not many anime makes me do that, it never made sense, especially after watching the movie, but the fact it didn't make sense was why Evangelion to me is one of the best anime, I can never explain it only that I experienced it at a young age and for a shorter time, and now im the wiser

"To kill a God you must use a god and if there is no God around, simply make one" - Pretty much the shortest and most accurate description of the Evas actually are I've ever seen. Quite Impressive Good Sire!!! Side Note: Canonically Unit-01 is the only one that was born from Lilith's material, hence it's name "Test-Type", all the other Evas are made from Adam.

"Best girl Misato Katsuragi" Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well

I think I was 16 the first time I watched the inkblot. It changed my life. I self-projected onto Shinji. I watched the Director's Cut of the last episode. So many deep, dark things were said in the episode, but there were also many positive things. I even remember it ending on a positive note. At the time, I was going through a religious-upbringing crisis, cause' I'd made peace with being gay, but that was jiving less and less with my religious beliefs. NGE made me feel less shitty about that; that I could be gay and still religious (if I wanted to be). It made me feel like I could be anything, no matter how frowned upon, and still be okay as a person so long as I had support from loved ones and love in myself. Love in myself...more importantly. I think self-love is the big takeaway message. If you can just enjoy being you, despite all your flaws, you'll be strong and in the long run, happy. By the time the inkblot was finished, Shinji came out victorious in finding his own self worth. And that's saying something, cause' that boy has been through some shit.

To me Eva... Was an obssesion, like many others who watched as it aired in Japan, or for those who watched through other means, it left an impact. An unforgettable impression upon us. Casting an idea into our mind and molded us into the people we came out to be presently. Eva help facilitate my intreset in theology through judeo christian and kabbalistic imagery and terminology. As the years pasted by, as my knowledge increased, the layers kept unfolding deeper and deeper into this unending rabbit hole. How the first impact of the celestial object colliding with earth could also be reffering to the primordial bodies, Abzu of the fresh water, and Tiamat of the salt water. Or Shinji's obsession with Unit 01 and Rei is just his oedipus complex. But these are merely what I learned from Eva. Personally, Evangelion was a show that passed the torch of geekdom from one generation of geeks to me and my generation of geeks. Gainax being comprised solely from a generation who were permitted to live their lives drowned in their obssesions after the post war miracle. Anno and his crew of western geeks gave me the realization that, one can achieve great things even if you weren't born in the mecca of the anime industry, you can make your own place in life to fulfill what you desire and fall flat on your face and still be alright. Long live geekdom, and rest in peace Gainax... but you'll live as an empty husk of your former self, but your flame lives on with in all of us.

@speedlgt

4 жыл бұрын

was honestly obsessed with eva than I realized...........this show is full shit.

Dude this was great. Closest i have ever heard someone explain my own experience watching EVA. The whole 'you within me, and me within you' concept truly changed concept of existence. Each person is more than what then their own concept of themselves. They are mostly the impact they have on others. Their is no existence without your existence inside the minds of the people you interact with. And as a bonus, 'Fly me to the moon' is my favorite song in existence, specifically the bossa nova version by Astrud Gilberto.

I always identified with Shinji. I saw him as a kid who was tragically forced into a struggle he never wanted. Who was forced to do a thing he hated because it seemed to be the only reason anyone cared about him. A kid who had a crippling fear of being rejected by others, and so never reached out to them despite his desperate desire for it. A fear I have felt my entire life. I have always seen Evangelion as an exploration of that fear and it's effects on people more than anything else. As a side note, I never felt that Kawaru had any kind of sexual, or even romantic, interest in Shinji. To him, Shinji was a perfect example of what made the Lilim so fascinating to him, and he loved him for that. But 'love' isn't quite the right word. And while even the original Japanese is intentionally ambiguous, I never felt there was an intent to make it a sexual or romantic interest. Like many things about Evangelion, it is something that was meant to be open to a degree of interpretation. Also, Kaworu was not trying to 'touch' Lillith. He was attempting to reunite with Adam. He even says so when he encounters Lilith. He expresses surprise when he realizes that the Seed in front of him isn't Adam, but Lilith. And, additionally, only Unit-01 is made from Lillith. That's part of what makes it special. It was intended to be a backup for initiating Third Impact if Lillith was destroyed or otherwise inaccessible (which is what happens in EoE). The rest of the Evas are made from Adam.

Okay, way to push yourselves on the editing in this episode guys. But really go out and by some comfort food for yourselves and get some hugs. This looks like it took a lot out of you guys. *Patreon*

The biggest thing I took away from Eva was the hedgehog dilemma. That dilemma is rooted deep inside everything in Eva. As much as depression, anxiety, and sexuality play a part. The dilemma is always rearing it’s head somehow. End of Eva and episodes 25 & 26 all deal with it in a way. Shinji accepting his individuality and wanting to continue on living even if it means he could hurt others and be hurt by them is beautiful, crushing, and moving.

Me: Oh cool, another Bonsai Pop video! And it's about Evangelion? Wow, I wonder what they're gonna talk about. Me, 17 minutes later: *What?*

What I took from Eva was a strange kind of anger, not just at myself but as a response to the world. Not in an angsty sort of a way, but like an... indignation. I was, and sort of still am, furious that I couldn't find a way to claw out of my depression. Like Shinji, it's all too easy for me to blame my issues on the situations that have shaped my life and as my own responsibility for my mistakes set in that same anger started to turn inwards. How could I claim to be a moral person with stains on my past? Was I just a hypocrite? Could I really fault the person caught for stealing when I myself had done so? Was it a sign of my own moral failings, did it mean having to give up on old beliefs and admit I'd been living my life wrong? How much of this could I put on something, anything else? My internal monologue is a constant stream of self lashings even now, but the "me that exists in you" struck two chords with me. The surface text of how we only exist as what we think we are in others' minds, but at the same time the allegory of the egg. That all of life is the same life going over and over through cycles, learning and growing with each iteration to become more complete and whole. That carries some heavy reincarnation stuff but is besides the point, moreso that I had to remember that any person I came across could have just as easily been me. If I had been born in a different place, read different books growing up, not had access to books at all, which of the two people crossing paths on a random sidewalk could I expect to be? More than the golden rule, this struck me as trying to see myself in others because I needed to. I was insular, and selfish, and couldn't and still struggle to really form connections with people. Concepts like AT fields, and pretty much the entire struggle of Neku in TWEWY, have always hit me the hardest as themes. Maybe this still makes me sound selfish, but I needed to see myself in other people to care. And then all of that anger shifted somehow, but I don't think it ever lessened. Instead it became anger at a world I didn't despise, but that I myself couldn't fight hard enough against alone. I hate that no matter how much I scream and rage, I'm a speck on a planet in a cosmos. And in and amongst how completely and utterly alone we are in the universe, somehow people could still find the time to be horrible to each other. To post videos of doing things to animals that I don't know how any living human could listen to the sound of without their blood chilling. I realized how blocked off I was becoming, and I saw in the news and in my past what happens to those who block themselves off from humanity, and I became angry that I was allowing myself down that path. I wondered how many of these people could have had their lives fundamentally altered if they had found a way to have a true human connection, and became angry that I had wasted I don't know how many of them. And this is gonna sound crazy, but it was the first time that anger had ever pushed me forwards instead of making me spin in place. I couldn't solve these problems. Not in myself, not in others, not in the world. I wasn't strong or smart or fast enough, and I'm still not. But ever since then, I've used that anger at myself to remind me why I'm trying so hard to fix my life. I've used my anger at the things others do to try and work on a way of helping the next generation avoid those disconnected feelings growing up, even if I'm still a long ways away from that. I'm angry that I wasted so much time when I could have been so, so much closer to that goal, but that anger reminds me that I'm still not complacent. I'm not just OK with my surroundings or my life. I haven't settled, because I wouldn't still be so angry if I had. I thought I was giving up until Eva made me angry at myself for how much of myself I saw in so many of those characters,. The drive to fix myself was still there and I had just been wasting it aimlessly on self flagellation the way nearly every character manages to self destruct by the end of the show in one way or another. So lost in compensating for their own suffering that they fail to see the solutions right in front of them. It was the first time I'd ever felt such powerful anger towards myself be so constructive, like a new inner monologue taking over. One that didn't want to be angry at me, but had been angry for me for a long time and been waiting to shout as loud as it could to help me leave as much impact as possible for a tiny speck.

You Mike are a philosophical genius. Your way of thinking makes it obvious of how much experience you have in life and how you think. Ever since i saw your video on promised neverland i understood the depth and brilliance of you analysis. This is your best video yet and it just reminded me of the thaughts i had after waching eva. The whole irrelevance of your own existence just showed in your face and the terribleness of human nature. You brought it to light perfectly. The end of eva had me thinking the most just because of its bombastic portrayal of the inner depths of the human mind. I usually dont think to much about existentialism but this highlights a side of my mind that leves me sleepless. Anyway i really adore the way you think and i hope you make an analysis on the monogatari series since it has so much incripted meaning.

@BonsaiPop

5 жыл бұрын

thank you for the very very kind words! i'm really happy that you're enjoying the content and getting something good out of it =) really made my day -Mike

@halfabrain6491

5 жыл бұрын

@@BonsaiPop the pleasure is all mine

@veganjotaro

5 жыл бұрын

@@halfabrain6491 look it up, is a song by bj-

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"

@damienwonder

5 жыл бұрын

We killed god, and those with the ability to kill gods are gods in their own right

@SerifSansSerif

5 жыл бұрын

Nice quote. Glad to see I wasn't the only one pulling that vibe from the video...

@thezerowulf507

3 жыл бұрын

Words of a man who killed himself.

@clivehandforth3531

3 жыл бұрын

Oh god i can't beleive i wrote this unironically, I'm so embarrassed..

@23Fists

3 жыл бұрын

@@thezerowulf507 to be fair, Hegel is the one who really discussed thoroughly the implications of that statement, and what circulated most out of that was specific to atonement. Go figure, Judeo-damage-control at its' finest. The purest form of that statement, with context, is that the more knowledge we gain, the less room for God there is in our knowledge; that is to say that the common God-of-the-gaps argument is quickly shown to be an unusable model for our understanding of God in a Judaistic culture, and leads to holes in the foundations of those religions, which can lead to a cataclysmic fallout of nihilism if we are not prepared as a species. At least, that's my take-away from Nietzsche's statement.

When I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion I thought that Kaworu loved Shinji in a universal selfless kind of way like Jesus rather than ordinary romantic love, because you know, the show uses religious elements. Maybe there is more evidence though that it was romantic love.

@kyoneko87

4 жыл бұрын

However in the Japanese version he use aishiteru, which means I love you with all the romantic and sexual connotations. So there is certainly subtext. Plus he was one of the more positive people in Shinji's life.

@ayanoyamada4475

4 жыл бұрын

kyoneko 87 did he say “aishiteru?” I thought he said “Sukidayo” meaning I like you

Had a brownie for breakfast, forgot there was a bonsai pop video. Chose the wrong video to get high and watch 😂

@bladestormviking

4 жыл бұрын

no you didn't.....

I hated the ending when I saw it years ago because of the animation style. When I watched it again after a few months though, it grew on me. The ending, to me, was all about Shinji finally accepting himself confidently and trying to move forward instead of doubting himself all the time. This was way before they made end of Evangelion (still haven't watched any of that).

I loved your perspective on this. I also loved the Xenogears amd FF7 track in the BG. The mix of them all ws great.

@reloadreload8723

3 жыл бұрын

There's Chrono Cross OST in it too... 😊

@cloudstrife5719

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck yeah, love me some Xenogears.

DUDE! my mind is blown... weite a book or a script, this was amazing. Thanks!

I would suggest the nothingness you speak of is a rejection of choice, which paradoxically is a choice. If we have free will then who we become is a choice that we make. If we already have a predefined self (i.e. if that void is already filled), then our only choice is whether to ignore or embrace the self we discover. To put it another way, if you think of the act of living as though we are painters, the painter with the most freedom is the one that starts with a blank canvas. What I think people really dislike about nothingness is the lack of connection. We can create intricate inner worlds, but what good is it if we can't share it with anyone. It's interesting to note that the increased prominence of nihilism has come at the same time that people feel isolated. Modern technology is an easy scapegoat, but I would say it's more accurate to blame our own fears and insecurities. It takes embracing vulnerability to feel connected, and there's nothing that really stops us from avoiding that other than our desire for connection, but if we reject that desire through nihilism we both free ourselves and kill ourselves. That's a valid choice, but I would suggest it takes more courage to embrace uncertainty.

@scottdodge6979

4 жыл бұрын

Modern technology isn't to blame per say but it has facilitated the spread of nihilistic ideas. I'm not going dive too deep but I suspect it has to do with a lack of purpose. The whole question of are we an accident? Or did some divine presence put us here and is the purpose to simply be "good" person and get to whatever afterlife? Nietzsche sums it up the best, if we killed gods are mustn't we become gods ourselves to be worthy of such an achievement? I'm not a super religious guy but I do believe that in general we have developed an aversion to religon and in lots of people I feel this causes an existential crisis. If there is nothing after and if all you are exist in the minds of other who will eventually die as well then well does it all just boil down to nothing? There's a quote from a book by Thomas Ligotti which sums it up nicely "the logic of supernatural horror [is] a logic founded on fear, a logic whose sole principle states: "Existence equals nightmare." Unless life is a dream, nothing makes sense. For as a reality, it is a rank failure.."

Congratulations! おめでとう Congradulation! おめでとう！

@tasogarerubica

5 жыл бұрын

Pathetic

@DocDoesGamingYT

5 жыл бұрын

@@tasogarerubica おめでっとう(笑)

@tasogarerubica

5 жыл бұрын

@@DocDoesGamingYT おめでとさんｗｗｗ

Sound was amazing, visuals were fantastic and the content was off the charts wonderful(as usual)! Great job all of you on this great in depth video! Can't wait for the next review of this deep and complex series.

One thing i see perpetuated is complaining about Shinji being a "crybaby" when he's the spitting image of childhood depression, anxiety and PTSD hitting their teen years. I grew up (and still have) severe anxiety and depression, so while watching this show as a teen, I identified with Shinji and completely understood his actions for the first half of the show. This show is still my favorite anime to date and the platinum edition DVD box set (the ADV dub) is a prized possession.

From the way that you presented the video, I'm thinking that this is an anime where the Japanese author does a story based of Western philosophy. The mother is light, love, and life. In the Eastern philosophy, however, it's the complete opposite, philosophy-wise. Life as pregnancy is shown as the spot of life in a gender that has the traits of Night, Cold, and Death. Light, Love, and Life, in Eastern philosophy, is Male, with a spot of darkness in there to remind the Male of it's own mortality.

Wow dude! this video is kinda all over the place, it's crazy deep and makes me think about things i don't like to talk about. It's really got me feeling some kinda way... I Loved it!

Eva always struck me as a story about our need to connect with others, and our inherent inability to do so. The ATF fields prevent us from truly understanding one another, all that exists of one person in the eyes of another is the image they have constructed of that person. Instrumentality is the removal of the ATF field, the union of all, the death of the ego for the sake of the collective. It is unfiltered knowledge of another, every twisted fetish, every shameful act, every intrusive thought. That vulnerability is painful, we risk alienating those we care about. We risk being "disgusting." But that armor ensures we will always be alone.

As a dedicated fan of this anime since the late nineties, all I can say is that this video was really well done. Seriously. The narration, analysis, and editing of footage all contributed to a superlative presentation that reminded me of just what drew me into this series in the first place all those years ago. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this and for sharing your personal take on the Rorschach test that is Eva.

I really enjoyed this video. Your open ended, philosophical approach was really interesting and I think it really helped me solidify how I feel about the show. I’ve seen it several times from my early teens to early twenties and each time I see something slightly different. In the end I think it’s more important to come to the show as an individual rather than as someone steeped in analysis. I really enjoy your channel!

i saw Shinji grow into self actualization. i recall always with the sense that I missed something. even though i did not. truly an amazing experience .

............................. Know what? I'm going to leave two comments on this video, this being the first one. The second one will be after I've watched all of Evangelion again, including the End of Evangelion movie, and then I'll come back to this video and watch it again. What I'm going to talk about in this comment however is something kind of terrifying I experienced with this video coming out. See, I've recently decided to try and experience something new every day. Either watch a new youtube video, or watch a new anime, read a new book/fanfiction, etc, etc, etc... For the last few days I've been watching things pertaining to Evangelion, I didn't know why, but I felt like I needed to understand it. At the same time, I found myself today being excited and wondering "what's Bonsai Pop going to post today" because you guys always seem to post something relevant to my situation at the moment. See, I don't watch anime or play video games because I simply enjoy them. I find certain truths about myself in them. It may sound crazy, and pardon me if I sound a bit insane, but I truly believe that in a way, video games and anime are real. Maybe not in the reality that we experience right now, but somewhere out there in the universe, every anime, every video game, every book, every fanfiction, all of it is a world unto itself. It would have to be so, otherwise we wouldn't be able to imagine or experience them. Quantum Physics presents the idea that if we imagine something, then it becomes real. However, the stories that I imagine don't manifest themselves as worlds before my very eyes. That doesn't mean that they don't manifest into worlds though. As such, watching anime, reading a good book, or playing a video game in a way is me experiencing another reality, another world. One that doesn't exist, yet does at the same time. So when I watch your videos on this site, I always walk away with something profound. I see the universe in another light, and come to understand my reality in new ways. As such, I was surprised that you posted something on Evangelion after seeing tons of stuff on Evangelion, but at the same time, I wasn't. Or maybe I'm just now able to see what the universe is telling me right now. *_Watch Evangelion_* So, I'm going to get started with that. I'm going to watch Evangelion, and then come back, watch this video again, and then leave another comment. Let's see what the Universe is trying to tell me this time.

@raywilliams6717

5 жыл бұрын

Okah well first off: Quantum Mechanics doesn't say we imagine reality. That is something so absurd neither Everett's Many Worlds nor the Copenhagen Interpretations take up. Quantum Mechanics says that possibility squared is probability, and if it Is possible, it exists. Full stop. So actuslly QM is totally orthogonal to our imagination. It can create things in Ultra Deep Time that are inconceivable (for example Boltzmann Brains), but it is in no way constrained or even concerned with what We think of it. Becaue It is not an Entity. Secondly I have the platinum box set, with some Very meticulous and detailed commentary tracks that truly demystified the show for me. I also have End of Evangelion with the ssme feature sooo... Yeah that's gr8. This show is actuslly rather pretentious but that's a saving grace because so much of it hasn't aged particularly well. Regardless, side-stepping the Esoteric and embracing the Technical doesn't mean that we can't find physical or mathematical analogues for "the I that is not Me" and "the Other that is Myself". The concept of an Abstract Machine is what Turing was actually famous for, and allowing for the existence of s symbol that has an indeterminate value in such a machine creates a system wholly capable of simulating the entire universe--i.e. it is Turing Complete. Hofstadter wrote I Am a Strange Loop which is a fantastic introduction to how the "I" came to exist and is much more thoroughly laid out in Gödel, Escher, Bach. Finally: this show wouldn't exist without Devilman Crybaby, which yes is Newer than this show but was Actuslly the 50th anniversary celebration of Demon Lord Dante. So yes by all means, watch the show, watch End of Eva, but don't get sucked into this Cult. It's not so totally groundbreaking. Altered States exists, as does 2001 A Space Odyssey.

This video is amazing!! I love your approach to anime content! Thank you so much for these. They are a highlight of my weekend

Your really good at giving a brand new philosophical take with every video! Always look forward to the new videos! Keep it up

I literally have no words:0 This really made me think, the writing was intricate, even poetic haha Good job, I mean it.

This is, and forever will be my favorite video by BonsaiPop

Ive recently started and finished nge Been watching videos obsessing over it but by far this one is the best.. Beautiful video dude The way you edited the video and how you talk about the mother and bond we have/loss like amazing I didn't fully look at it that way Thankyou for making this And Congratulations

Wow! What a great video that best captures the show. U did a great job! So artistic!

Quality Content has always gotta love the effort put in

Props for presenting this vid just as an episode of eva. It makes sense and nonsense at the same time. I love this!

This always was one of those animes that I enjoyed for the heavy Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology. I always took it as an extension of the saying "Reality is but bits and pieces of one's own perceptions" and the thing we call reality is explored in the show with the repeating theme that true reality is a culmination of the perceptions of those around you, that and in and of itself is what we take with us as Society. The show really explores Philosophy of ones own being while also making highlighted notes on Sociology and some other heavy hitting themes like mankind's continual obsession with throwing out morals and ethics if the ends justify the means in this case it was mankind's survival at stake. Back to the Sociology though because that is very important to the show, and how 1 person can relate or coexist within society, whether they are needed, wanted, hated, or loathed. It really explores the meaning of how we relate to society and the need to fit in, or simply become singular nothingness as we mean nothing to no one and once your gone if no one knows you there is no part of you that lives on through memory and image, and that leads to how existence is quantified by the whole rather than measuring one's self worth. Should you care about society, or focus on what's important to you?...and is it selfish to do so? Do you as an individual need a reason to exist or simply do you exist?

I've seen so many KZread videos, but this is the one I will never forget. You have a gift I hope I see you all succeed. Very beautiful. I've never seen evangelan but I will now

Terrific analysis! I think the whole of the series doesn't tie up neatly, but you squared off a lot of the edges in a way that brought the major themes and plot points together.

One of the best videos on Evangelion I've ever seen. Brilliantly executed.

I also loved the command sequences with all the characters interacting together with all the chaos involved. Translating it must’ve been a nightmare but it was beautiful to watch. Great vid.

wow my dude just wow! just when I think you can't impress anymore you drop this video which pretty much encapsulates what the series is in a nutshell which trust me is way harder to do than you would think (I should know I've seen way to many videos on this subject) I could sit here and praise the video for days for the amazing editing style that mirrors episode 25 and 26 or the great musical choices don't think I didn't notice the sprinkling of ff7 music which actually fit the anime quite well or the usage of certain words or themes straight out of the anime but I will stop there cause you asked a good question of me and I would be happy to answer I watched this series when I was pretty much Shinji age in the anime and while I didn't identify most with him I did find that most of the stuff he didn't like about himself were things that I didn't like about myself as well which you kind of need to do when watching cause otherwise you come to despise Shinji instead of rooting for him like your supposed to, some of the things that I had trouble coping with this show kind of helped me come to terms with like what the world expected from me at the age versus what I wanted, as a mecha fan this challenged every conception of what I thought a mecha show could be and while that made me uncomfortable it also dealt with subject matter that I wanted to see discussed that I couldn't find anywhere else (thermal expansion anyone?) and after absorbing everything this show had to offer and then having to move on even though like most anime this brought up more questions than it answered and I didn't really want to move on I watched for at least a decade if not more the impact this show had on anime overall which was huge way more than i would have thought and not just on mecha but in the discourse that most shows had between main characters from then on it was like all of a sudden it was ok to be more psychological in anime shows it was wild what a time it was! but I digress this show means a lot to me and I can tell it means a lot to you as well since you did such a bang up job I would apologize for writing a small book in the comments section but you are partly to blame for making such a good video and getting my writing juices flowing I can't imagine what you guys are going to do next week but I look forward to it a whole bunch!

I do enjoy how this video is basically the last 2 episodes. Well done!

I’ve loved all your videos so far. This one... simply amazing! I literally “woah-ed” in public when you were going about your conclusion and “the me in you and the you in me” and “existence” 😵🔥👊🏽👍🏽👍🏽

This is the only Eva analysis video I’ve ever watched that makes actual sense and doesn’t put me to sleep, thanks bro!

Great video to awaken the mind while on my way to work. Great stuff!

Thank you for making this. I’d love to respond to the question you propose at the end of the video but I’d write about 25 paragraphs min and I need some sleep! But you did an awesome job illustrating exactly how you personally interpreted your experience with Evangelion, something I have struggled to articulate for years! If I ever manage, I’ll try to find this one again and link back 😊

I fucking love this channel especially when mike narrates !!!

*Slaps roof of car* This video right here fits so many tears and thank you's. Well done.

This was so beautiful, thank you.

First of all, Congratulations! Complimentery reference aside, I am deeply impressed how well you understand and explain NGE (and as I write this, I did not even finished the whole video yet). Watching this made me feel like I was watching an episode of NGE. The level of questioning, pressure, bleakness and hopelessnes is present in the video, very close to NGE. At least that's what I believe, if it is worth anything. I wanted to praise you for this, because when I watched the show, I though a desparate stranger shared his depression with me because he was pushed to a point that he sought out a massive narrative in animation series form to rip it out of himself. And that hit me like a celestial slap, because I got exposed to a feeling I never had, not even ever inclined to have. It shook me, deeply. After the show and subsequently the movie, it took me some time to absorbe its effect. I can't say that NGE changed me in a certain way, but it certainly altered some aspects of my world view. Like I tried to say, I recalled the times I watched the show as soon as the video started. It was a hurtful experience for me (I will not have the guts to watch it a second time), yet I enjoyed revisiting these moments. Again, I don't know if it's worth anything, but let me repeat; congratulations (this time as a thank you).

Another explicative video of Evangelion! This is a useful effort worthy to watch! 🤙👍

This video was a really awesome experience. And I mean it. I'd love to see a video of yours about Serial Experiments Lain.

Can't wait for the Outlaw Star Episode

damn this is a strangely beautiful video. The intro is so nice bro.

Love the video

This anime came out for me when I was lost and not sure what to do with myself, it made me question both the drive to see things and quest for better. In the last few years of see it again I am more a Zen follower and find that the question is not so much what it mean as to what I can do with myself because you mention the change of attitude changes a day and I find that I do this more and more with each passing day. In Zen you are the controller of your life and all things that happen are a direct result from you. So as I often ask my kids I ask, "What is the sound of one hand clapping" , it has so much meaning now that I am older and I dream of the day when my kids can use the lesson that it teaches. Thanks for the video I can see that you come with your cup empty at all times, thanks for filling mine today

This was amazing. I have chills

You have fantastic videos.

I wasn’t sure how you were going to approach a Neon Genesis video but this was really well done.

I loved this so much

Another deep and awesome video! Considering your video essay choices so far, I'd love to see y'all break down Big O, a fantastic but underrated anime.

This video was very well done. Congratulations

Damn! You guys did a hell of good a job digging deep into the existentialism of this head fuck of an anime. You didn't get bogged down in the surface level story elements, or multiple interpretations, and used lots of techniques that the anime used to cover the meaning in nothingness. Congratulations!!! I loved the way you framed the me that exists in you, and the you that exists in me. It felt like it bridged the gap that exists between us already. Pretty crazy feeling since you don't know me, and I don't know you; I only know the you I see on the internet and in my mind... I feel like I'm going to enjoy watching this video over again in the future, and pausing for all the captions that flashed too fast for me to read. I don't know what else to say, just like I felt at the end of watching Neon Genesis Evangelion. There was one thought, or quote, that kept popping into my head while watching this masterful video you made, and it was from an anime I didn't really like all that much. But, now after watching your video I think the quote applies. Gurren Lagann framed the meaning of nothingness in a happier light all the way until the gut wrenching conclusion. "Don't believe in the you that believes in me, and don't believe in the me that believes in you. Believe in the you that believes in yourself!" - Kamina Have a good one. I love your videos!

Evangelion is like an emotional amplifier. The emotional state you’re in when you watch it tends to elevate itself I think. For example the first time I watched it I was a very depressed person going through a lot of self esteem issues. I related a lot to shinji. by the end of it I was even more depressed then when I started watching it. The second time I went through the show was a few years later and I was in a better emotional state. This time around, the show almost felt uplifting! I could understand how the characters relate to our reality and how the show captures that reality in a unique way. If I had to guess the point to the show was always to not have a point. It was to make the viewer have that inner dialogue with oneself that we put off and avoid. To make us face the inner demons we are scared of and realize we are those demons we are afraid of. And if you wish to not be afraid then you simply stop being afraid etc. For a show to be able to convey this is no simple task and it’s why I believe Eva in my personal opinion, Is not the best anime to watch but it is definitely the most important one to.

Great job brotha

What i saw ?? Human's are terrible and there's a bigger picture , I loved your analysis and i can agree with it,And is it just me or is Evangeline similar to Devilman.

@nathanielduncan4692

4 жыл бұрын

Humans are cancer a species that should be wipe out from this world.

@linkthepig4219

3 жыл бұрын

@@nathanielduncan4692 Yes

Very well done. Congratulations.

sick editing bro

Nice presentation mate

I can't tell you enough how brilliant it is that you used a track from Xenogears in the beginning of this particular video.

So cool you played Omen from the Xenogears OST at 0:30. One of my favourite ever pieces of game music.

I enjoyed hearing your take on the Gospel of The New Millenium, Ser. Also, digging the Mr. Tasty in the background, my little viking.

Fantastic video! Eva is easily my favorite anime for all of this and then some. It's an anime that lacks a clear trajectory while being so perfectly on the mark that it's borderline transcendent. A lot of the things one takes from it impact you for the long run, and usually for the betterment. The message is, there is meaning in nothingness, uncertainty, and that growth is an achievement that takes time and requires self-acceptance. If Eva has taught me anything, it's that one can find peace in the fact that even though you can never truly be happy, you can still make the best of the little world we all have. Independently and collectively.

Very good work sir

This be a good video. Thank you for your work.

loved this video. i always love hearing other's thoughts on NGE, because it's got so many different meanings to so many different people. i think we got similar things from the show, though, which is always cool to hear; especially when they're worded so well like this was. to me, it's a nice reminder that nothing about my "self" really matters. my terrible parts, what i deem as my good parts, my personality as a whole only really exists within my mind and the mind of other people. the last two episodes of of the show especially resonate with me -- why am i afraid of things? why am i an anxious person? what does it really boil down to? do they really even matter in the grand scheme of things? my answer is always the same: not really, no. and that's something that's both fantastic and incredibly difficult to swallow at the same time, and i love that about NGE. nothing about it is easy to swallow. even it's basic premise -- something that should be fun and enjoyable to watch -- is instead ruined, as you said, by a slow moving plot that has far too many complications and characters that are incredibly uncomfortable to watch interact. truly, it's a show that i recommend to everyone not because i think it's particularly enjoyable 99% of the time, but because it's such a good look at human existence as a whole. i'm so glad that, even with my issues with netflix's release, the show is coming back and people are talking about it again. thanks for such an awesome video, i always really enjoy your content over here but this was really something else, in the best way possible haha.

Holy crap, I just found your channel and your amazing thank you

This is my favorite video on all of youtube

Eva has had a profound impact on my life like no other. I was 15-16 when I first watched the series and it grew on me so much because of how much I could relate to the characters. As I was trying to figure out who I was as a person and what my purpose was in life, I found comfort in what the characters were going through. There was still a lot I needed to figure out, even if nobody truly understood my thoughts. I realized, in this world, with its loneliness, that's alright. I go on with my life, holding to heart what I experienced through Eva. I recently rewatched the series at the age of 32. It still spoke to me very much like it did when I was a teenager. As I watched episode by episode, I could see where I was at that age and my current age, how I've come a long way. I still struggle with overwhelming loneliness, even though I find people to be around, both online and offline. I sometimes question if people truly like me, with all my faults, even if that question is the furthest thing from the truth. I could draw similarities between the characters around Shinji and the people I've known in my life. I've seen people overcome their flaws, while others succumb to them. Even with the hurt and pain that comes with becoming closer to others, people are still worth forming connections with.

This video was god damn excellent. I watched EVA for the first time last year after a friend gave me a “copy”. I still process bits and pieces of the show, feeling different every time it crosses my mind, especially after making a couple AMVs out of it. And whoever edited this needs a pat on the back and a shot

Shit Mike. I loved this.

@BonsaiPop

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks isla

really good essay. ty.

This was dope

amazing video. thank you for bringing on an existential crisis

Man....that was....Epic! 🤯 Merch soon?

the editing of this video is so dope. i feel like i understood NGE a lot more now (read the manga when i was 14, around shinji's age). it was so hard to read because as you mentioned the characters were so unlikable! i can't remember if this line is in the manga, but though I've never seen the anime, Kaworu's 'maybe I really was born to meet you' to shinji has a tenderness i can't explain. adam was reborn to meet lilith (in the form of humans?) head big, FULL of thoughts

haha love the Fable music in the background, nostalgic

Listening to this almost brought me to tears. I've never seen the show, and I probably never will but this video, which I had going on autoplay from one of your "story you never knew" videos just... Really messed with me. Now I've got a lot to think about and I'm not sure how to feel about that.

To tell u the truth I watched this anime and couldn't stop. It was hard to stomach emotionally because I myself have Mommy and Daddy issues. I have had my bouts with depression and anxiety throughout my entire life.. So this story hits home for real! Its a hard anime to review or analyze but my boy, you do it right. Its not right, nor wrong... it just is. And I think that's what its supposed to be. thanks man your content is Top tier

Hey guys I'm new to the channel....this video nailed it, long time eva fan.... Amazing work!!

very meta video ; very artistic room design ; good stuff =]

Great video Content! This sounded like ASMR or the Subliminal trance audios! no breaks in between really has a disorienting effect for me when i used headphones. no hidden msg i hope hehe!

@tylerblevins500

3 жыл бұрын

Get in the robot Shinji ASMR

Oh my, this video was a trip. A tiny bit hard to follow, but wow it was good. I would love to see your interpretation of Serial Experiments Lain

Yeah you crammed alot into my head. Thanks

Eva kinda changed my life beautiful video man.

This video made me overthink and think of things I have already thought and thought only after watching and listening. Good video, but now my mind is infinitely racing