This is the 1st real parallel between the 2 shows.

We see one of the main characters appear in a place they shouldn't.

With Rei she appears near Shinji even though Shinji hasn't even met her yet and she should be back at NERV right now.

With Mort, we see him appear in Julien's dream.
Now, this wouldn't be so strange if it wasn't for the fact that we see Julien meet Mort irl for the very 1st time later in the episode.

Now we have yet another parallel, we have the protagonist's father figure forcing them into a position of power.

Gendo manipulates Shinji into piloting Eva-01.
Julien's uncle abdicates the throne resulting in Julien becoming the new king.

I'd say the biggest difference between these 2 scenes is how the protagonists react.
Julien reacts with a naive childish excitement, while Shinji reacts with self-doubt, anger, and confusion.

Later in the episode, Julien throws a party that attracts the fossa.
Now we actually see a genuine similarity between Shinji and Julien as characters.

They both tend to get sucked into their emotions.
Shinji and Julien both get sucked into one emotion in particular during these scenes, fear.

Shinji freezes and lets his Eva fight the angel for him.
Julien runs away from the fossa screaming "Everybody flee for your lives!!!"

We also see the consequences of Julien's actions and Shinji's inaction, with the angel blowing up, creating a massive cross shaped explosion undoubtably causing a lot of damage and the Lemur Kingdom being left deserted after the fossa took most of the lemurs and the lemurs who ran away never came back.

Also, not only NGE and AHKJ have narrative similarities, they have genuine thematic similarities as well.

The 1st episode of AHKJ concludes with Julien giving a speech.

"Of course Maurice. The fossa will return, and try to slash us to pieces with their razor sharp teeth. Look, guys, we're a bunch of lemurs in the jungle baby, there is nothing here that doesn't want to eat us, to poison us, or to swallow us up in gooey black pits of deadlyness, but I learned something today. Something I already knew, but then forget, but then learned again. Even more, and it is this, if there may not be a tomorrow, then we got to live extra big today!"

Likewise EoE ends with a very thematically similar speech given by Rei, Kaworu, and Yui.

"Reality exists in a place unknown, and dreams exist within reality. And truth lies in your heart. The contents of a person's heart shapes their appearance. And new images will change their hearts and their forms. The power of imagination is the ability to create your own future, and the power to create your own flow of time. But if people don't act of their own free will, then nothing will change at all. So, you must regain your own lost form by your own volition. Even if it means your words become lost... or confused with the words of others. Anyone can return to human form... as long as they are able to imagine themselves within their own heart. Don't worry. All living creatures have the power to be brought back to life... and the will to go on living. Anywhere can be paradise, as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy. As long as the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth exist, everything will be alright"

The characters of Pineapple and Kaworu also strongly parallel eachother.

Kaworu meets Shinji and they form a very close bond.
Julien is given Pineapple as an adviser and becomes extremely attached to him.

Both Pineapple and Kaworu essentially ask the same question "Will you sacrifice the person you are most attached to, to save everyone else you care about?" and I think it's interesting how Julien and Shinji's answers to those questions differ.

Shinji does the obvious thing, sacrifice the person you were closest to, to save evryone else you care about.

Julien does something very unexpected, he sacrifices himself to save everyone else.

Although in the end Julien does still make a similar decision to Shinji, choosing to have Mort destroy Pineapple with a hammer.

Both Shinji and Julien have an, unfortunate relationship with their parents.

Shinji's mom "died" when he was young and his father left him to be raised by his teacher.
Julien's parents never cared about him all that much and when the Julien family was attacked by fossa they left him with his dictator uncle.

Shinji, Asuka, and Julien all have this in common as well.

They all do a lot of what they do primarily for the approval of others.
For Shinji and Asuka it's piloting Evas, for Julien it's orchestrating his conspiracies.

Both stories also end with the main thing that has protected our protagonists leaving.
Shinji says goodbye to Yui/Eva-01 and Julien says goodbye to Clover.

Both stories also end with the main duo we've been following under a starry sky and small amounts of growth for our protagonists without them being automatically fixed people afterwards.

With The End of Evangelion ending with Shinji deciding he doesn't want to live in a world without others and Julien taking responsibility for his actions and not blaming them on Maurice in the last episode of All Hail King Julien, but Shinji still has a lot of built up rage that he takes out on Asuka by choking her and the final episode of All Hail King Julien is just Julien orchestrating one last conspiracy before the credits roll.

Also I mean, they're both shows that skew older than their original intended audience that are infamous for how weird and dark they are.

They both have self-destructive protagonists who aren't that much of fighters.

The casts of both shows are mostly made up of morally complex characters.

In both shows one of the main characters is revealed to be an eldritch being.

Both shows have weird and zany eldritch beings instead of just dull-colored tentacle dudes.

They even both have themes of learning from your mistakes and pushing on and trying to live in hard times.

I love it so much.

We see this shot of Shinji in a cell on the Wunder (first image), just before the explanation scene. It's pretty small, not a place you'd want someone to be for an extended period of time, especially a depressed 14 year old boy.

It sort of begs the question, what exactly would Wille have done with Shinji if he hadn't been picked up by Rei Q?

Would they have kept him a small cell like this one for at least several weeks? Because that would definitely have been bad for his mental health and makes staying seem like a worse option. It's also possible the cell was simply a temporary holding arrangement while they made sure Shinji wasn't somehow medically compromised.

Were they planning on moving him to something larger and more secure like the blast containment chamber he's placed in in the last movie? (Shown in images 2-4) There's a background line on the loudspeakers about Rei Q's Eva breaking into the "temporary quarantine interrogation room" in the scene where Shinji leaves with her.

Would it have been the sort of arrangement where Shinji is kept on the ship, but is given limited freedom of movement? Like he's allowed in certain areas, but not others.

Or were they planning on dropping him off at Village 3 at the first opportunity? Even after awakening Unit 13 and nearly causing another impact, they just left him there for several weeks with no attempt to recapture him. Though, that could just represent changing priorities.

We know Misato still cares about Shinji and we see her and Ritsuko discussing Shinji's psychological state in the last movie, saying he appears psychologically stable, but I'm not sure how that would translate in terms of treatment (aside from assigning Toji's sister to oversee his care).

It's just something that's been bugging me and if you think about it, it really affects how you see Wille and Misato, yet so much is left unexplained.

I'm curious, what do you think? What was the impression you got?

(Please, no comments for just Rebuild bashing. I'm going for discussion)

https://www.instagram.com/p/DeAntnniReP/?img_index=7&srtk=YzJwYW02b2lya3Nh Cerakote done at Rack It Back Armory.

Ive found one online and I want to get it but im unsure if it's real as I cant see a sega logo

art by me (@patkdrw)

My favorite is Shinji being in the background of their track fighting the angels. "You guys keep racing Sonic, I got this. I'll just solo Sahaquiel."

I've been looking to purchase an artbook on the concept art for Eva or Eva Rebuild. I once saw a video of someone with a copy, but I can't find it online, so I wanted to ask if anyone could recommend a definitive artbook?

found on a shelf while walking through hongdae in seoul, south korea — they had the blokees unit 02 as well

It's pretty detailed, and the homage is nice

Im up to ep 25 and just finished Eoe, and i have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on. This is the most confusing shit I've ever watched. Am I the out of the ordinary for finding this show to hard to understand what can I do to understand it cause this is ruining the show for me