Neon Genesis Evangelion/Quotes

"It's strange that 'Evangelion' has become such a hit -- all the characters are so sick!"

"The lesson for fans: be careful what you ask for, especially when you're asking an artist whose emotional Happy Meal is missing a few fries."

—DVD Verdict's Bryan Byun on The End of Evangelion

Taliesin Jaffe: "This film is meticulous in its ability to be completely incomprehensible."
Amanda Winn-Lee: *laughs* "It delights in disturbing and confusing its viewers!"
Taliesin Jaffe: "Violence, on the other hand, we can all understand."

—The End of Evangelion DVD Commentary

"Yes, it is a creative, spiritual, and artistic masterpiece unrivaled in the anime world, an evolving, personal, and complex expression of insecurity and anxiety, but let's be honest here. It never made a lick of sense, not ever. Still, it's okay to love it."

—Adam Arseneau, dvdverdict.com review of Evangelion 1.11

Maya Ibuki: Unit 01 and the Angel have entered into a loving relationship based on mutual respect and clear communication!
Ritsuko Akagi: IMPOSSIBLE!

—The Woman With a Mole in the Pathway of Her Tears

"I don't see what the big deal is about Evangelion; to me, it just seems like an old giant robot show with a cast of lunatics."

—Jeanne Hedge, paraphrased.

Celeste all but wept. In five hours, Kitchiri had managed to not only foul up the filing system but hopelessly corrupt five Timelines (there was now an EVA line where the Evangelion pilots were Charlie Brown, Lucy Van Pelt, and a half-angel dog named Snoopy) AND spill Salusian Syrup on her copy of the duty roster.

—from Reluctant Bet, chapter 22, by Gregg "Metroanime" Sharp

> 2#. Before you read this: _NEVER_ eat a salami-tuna-mushroom-extra-hot
> Pizza while watching End of Evangelion and having the flu.:
Jeez, why didn't you take a few hits of acid while you were at it?

—Blob and Polychrome, Eyrie Productions, Unlimited Website, 11/2/01

Attempting to harness the engine of our own destruction... only humans are so foolish.

—Misato Katsuragi

One of the complaints most frequently made about [my work] can be summed up as follows: "After all, these people are so spineless, how are you going to make heroes out of them?" This objection almost makes me laugh, for it assumes that people are born heroes. That's what people really want to think. If you're born cowardly, you may set your mind perfectly at rest; there's nothing you can do about it; you'll be cowardly all your life, whatever you may do. If you're born a hero, you may set your mind just as much at rest; you'll be a hero all your life; you'll drink like a hero and eat like a hero. What the existentialist says is that the coward makes himself cowardly, that the hero makes himself heroic. There's always a possibility for the coward not to be cowardly any more and for the hero to stop being heroic.

—Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is A Humanism

Giant Robots with Angels trapped inside of them
Damaged pilots and an evil organization
Doing battle with creepy monsters from beyond
Mankind's last hope lies in the Evangelion

—/m/.

Evangelion is the greatest invention of mankind! It's these really big robots with extension cords which run around and blow up evil Angels.

—Kensuke Aida, Cruel Lina's Thesis

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

"Evangelion is my life, and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself."

—Hideaki Anno

Congratu lations!

—The entire cast, minus Shinji and Kaworu in the televised ending.

Anybody who tells you saving the world in a giant robot isn't cool can't be trusted; next he's liable to try and convince you that, when God pronounces His final judgment on the venal, corrupt world of Man, He'll do it by blowing up Antarctica, waiting 15 years for no readily apparent reason, and then sending giant monsters to attack Tokyo one at a time, which is plainly ridiculous.

—Gryphon, EPU Forums, 7/4/02