>>347417552
neon genesis evangelion is on the surface level a mech anime, a bit deeper it is a dance of jungian archetypes and psychological turmoil of the flawed characters living in hypocrisy of their own true selves that are laid bare in the end sequence
but below all of that it is the becoming of whole for oneself, it's the drop returning to the ocean and (in my opinion this was not the original intent of the creator but the others forced him to rewrite the ending to be more positive) return to samsara
the true ending would have probably had shinji be the drop that returns to ocean and ends samsara for good through advaita vedanta but instead we get the watered down version where the most miserable cunt in the entire series somehow makes a full turn after seeing how ugly people really are under the masks of their personas