


Seele dispatches the Japanese Strategic Self-Defense Force (JSSDF) to seize control of Nerv, killing most of the staff. The shadowy committee Seele discovers that Gendo Ikari intends to use Nerv, the paramilitary organization that deploys the Evangelion units, for his own plans. Desperately trying to shake her awake, he accidentally reveals her chest, and masturbates in front of her unconscious body, chastising himself afterwards. Distraught over the death of Kaworu Nagisa, Shinji visits fellow pilot Asuka Langley Soryu in a hospital where she lies comatose. Teenager Shinji Ikari is the pilot of Evangelion Unit 01, one of several giant cyborgs designed to fight hostile supernatural entities called Angels. Though The End of Evangelion initially received mixed reviews, it has been reappraised in 2010s and received numerous awards, including the 1997 Animage Anime Grand Prix, and is now considered one of the greatest animated films ever made, A 2014 Time Out poll of filmmakers voted The End of Evangelion one of the 100 best animated films of all time. The film picks up where the television show's 24th episode ended. It serves as a parallel ending to the Neon Genesis Evangelion television series, in which teenage Shinji Ikari pilots Evangelion Unit 01, one of several giant humanoid mechas designed to defend against the hostile supernatural entities called Angels. The End of Evangelion ( Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版Air/まごころを、君に, Hepburn: Shin Seiki Evangerion Gekijō-ban: Ea/Magokoro o, Kimi ni) is a 1997 Japanese psychological science fiction anime film written and co-directed by Hideaki Anno and animated by Gainax and Production I.G.
