Yui did not use Gendo as a sperm bank.. what the fuck? She loved him, and he went insane and let the power go to his head. She knew his plans would fail, so she sacrificed herself in order to protect her son, and possibly humanity by merging with eva 01, and losing her life as human.
I am still think that Gendo murder Ritsuko's mother because she strangled to death Baby Rei the child clone of his wife Yui, it's obvious, it's not a suicide for me, when Gendo said " Ritsuko Akagi the truth is ....." and Ritsuko said " you're a liar" he actually said " i killed your mother" i am 100 % sure , anyway this man has tragic ending because he loved more this crazy bitch than she loved him, she eating him like a hot dog xD.
Yui isn't a manipulative sociopath though.. I think you guys are all missing the point of the story. She is not evil. She knew that her husband would fail, NERV, and SEELE, would all fail. She took a big risk trying to do the right thing, and it worked.
The irony... Gendo first contacted Yui to use her for his own ends but in the end she used him.. and like every good mother choses her son over her husband.
Damn. For a character that we rarely see throughout the show, unless you count EVA 01’s screentime, she’s pretty important. In fact Yui’s probably the most important character in the story.
Exactly. I am only just now realizing this after reading about the story after finishing the movie.. If it wasn't for Yui.. none of this would have happened. She secretly set everything into motion with her bravery and sacrifice. She saw above SEELE, and the humans fault, knowing that the prophecy would happen with or without them. Amazing woman, amazing story.
So, Yui wished to be forever confined in the Eva, beyond the Milky Way's existance, so that she'll be forever proof of humanity. Dude. I think I need to go stare at the ceiling.
Yui certainly seemed to have the best of intentions in trying to preserve humanity, but making Shinji watch her disappear into the Eva and setting him down a path of depression and loneliness is kinda abusive. It must have pained her to see him suffer throughout the series. In the end Shinji understands her actions and makes the right decision, but the journey there was pretty emotionally destructive. I guess it was a necessary evil for humanity to survive and Shinji to learn to become a better person. Definitely makes Yui an interesting and complicated character
a bit late but I think she might have been insane so while she did have good intentions she wasn't stable or all there in the head shinji just lucky his mom while nuts did love him im scared to think what she would do to him if she didn't love him
"Nuts" nails it, "abusive" even better: We know Yui was pretty much born into Seele, and we know their "methods", in this case I'm thinking of Rit. Both aspects together would mean: Yui would be like Mayu from Elfenlied, who is meant to be like Lucy Kaede (therefore both wearing a woolly hat). Ep5 is pretty much the Arael-Armisael ep there. Lucy more and more recovers from her amnesia and learns how to "switch" between beast mode and "nyuu". Eventually she admits her true feels to her childhood friend Kota: "Kota you were my only dream, but only a short dream..." I consider Yui a grown Lucy also with such a dream. However: Is really Shinji her dream, or is he also a means to an end? Is even the TI a means to an end? "Loveless World", a song made by Muse, however "offscreen", Love Live School Idol Project. Yui also wanna confront all humans with this. And sacrifies her son for it. It only seems to work on one individual: Asuka of all people, who eventually wanna give Shinji a hug, but her body is still too weak. (Mayu also meets a little dog. Most recently happened too in Love Live Sunshine, ep5 as well, to Yoshiko Tsushima.... She is involved in the song "Strawberry Trapper" by the subunit "Guilty Kiss")
While it may seem abusive at face value, the reason she did this was to improve Shinjis sync with the Eva. In his subconscious, he knew his mother was in the Eva from the start, hence his incredible sync values from the get go.
It’s not really “good” or “bad”. Humanity lives on in a space-ark and people on Earth *can* reform from LCL.. Whoop-de-doo. Shinji still killed them all initially, and Seele brutalized and forever traumatized them all with savage violence.
Like the last line is Asuka calling Shinji disgusting, which yes it’s good that humans can be around to misunderstand eachother instead of becoming a Tang Singularity.. But it’s still an ode to our harsh reality and the “conclusions we’ll just come to over and over”.
It’s, really, amazing how the fate Yui chose for herself is so innocuously foreshadowed by the ED so beloved - ‘Fly Me to the Moon’: Fly me to the Moon And let me play among the stars; Let me see what spring is like On Jupiter and Mars ... Fill my heart with song And let me sing forevermore
Well, she's responsible for half. Seele's responsible for the original plan of human instrumentality. As a matter of fact, they're responsible for influencing & manipulating modern civilization. They're sort of like the 'Illuminati" or "Freemasons" of the world of Evangelion. Yui came along and was able to undermine Seele's plans.
Wait wait wait so the whole of humanity actually manages to get their bodies back from the LCL at the end?!! Oh god I thought that shinji and asuka were just left alone to restart things, holy shit i really misinterpreted everything hahaha
@@jesusramirezromo2037 yeah, and I think if Asuka and Shinji can accept the pain and suffering of individuality, I am sure a lot of people will be able to come back :-)
Losing Misato kinda hit hard, but I didn't even realize that Yui planned to be an Eva adrift in space forever after everything was said and done. Kinda wish she and Shinji had had a little more time together, but still. Yui best girl.
+Rhaenys I can give her a pass for abandoning Shinji by fusing with Unit 1 to secure the 3rd impact for him (and unknowingly psychologically scaring him along the way). However after that she better materalises herself out of LCL and be a proper mother to Shinji. Of course after giving herself a hard slap for that dramatic idea of using herself as a memento, instead be content with humanity's memento like radiowave or space capsule.
Luka.K.tutturu Does he need a parent at that point though ? Ideally I would love to think she came back to Earth and lived with Shinji, she would've loved that too seeing how close the two were when he was little. But that would miss the point of the story.
Amazing vid! You say Yui loves/loved Gendo. She probably did love him in the past. Though I'm more of the view that she, together with Shinji (and basically everyone lol), utterly hated Gendo by the end of EoE. The strongest point for me in this view is that Gendo is eaten/killed by Unit 01 during Instrumentality. Everyone else are turned into LCL (even the corpses at NERV HQ), except for him. His lower body is still left in physical form, unable to be reborn and/or unite with Yui. The conversation (before that scene) between Gendo, Yui, Kaworu and Rei kind of acts as an explanation for Gendo, in a rather passive-aggressive manner by Yui. In a way she's saying: "My dear Gendo, you screwed up. I can't tolerate your selfishness and actions towards our son. This is why I won't accept your wish/Instrumentality." This is why I think Gendo says: "This is my retribution. Forgive me, Shinji.", before he's eaten. He realizes (albeit too late) that the mistreatment of Shinji was the completely wrong scenario in reuniting with Yui. As you say: "They [Gendo and Yui] are not on the same page." His "retribution" is to die (be denied his wish), which he sees as a good enough of an apology for the torment he caused to his son. It's probably the kind of apology you would hear from an egomaniacal person like Gendo. There are also other things in the series that makes me think that Yui came to hate Gendo by the end. E.g. the dummy plug rejection. However, I may be completely wrong. Admittedly, I came up with other explanations while writing this xD
onakaru onakaru Unit 01 was up in space at the moment of Gendo's death though, that was most likely a projection / illusion by Rei. It may have been the Actual Souls™ of Yui and Kaworu judging him, since they're not necessarily bound to one physical place. But even then.... this scene in the manga is a little more developed and she didn't hate Gendō. She didn't approve neither was happy with the things he did, but she didn't hate him at all. The rejection of Rei and the dummyplug doesn't necessarily mean she hates him, either. Just that she rejected the plan- if they were in a crisis and something went wrong she wanted Shinji to be inside Unit 01, which wouldn't happen if she accepted other pilots.
onakaru so... that scene in which the Eva eats Gendo is like a reverse 'Saturn devouring his son' painting by Francisco Goya. : -P en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
@@TiinkerBells He was consistently abusive to Shinji. She was in EVA 01 to witness it all. Then...she bit his head off at the crucial moment. I think there might be a connection.
Yui Ikari was the mean to depict the simple allegory of Oedipus. From the viewpoint inside the story, Yui started everything and thing went the way Yui planned. But from the metafictional viewpoint, Yui is just a mean to show mental problems of Shinji/Gnedo. It's very ironic that Yui, the very original individual, is the most inhuman character, but Rei is a very human character. At last, Rei and Kaworu became almost the same as Yui and became the metaphor for NGE itself. Asuka, only one main character that maintained her humanity, was the last person with Shinji. Only Asuka's motivation was irrelevant to Yui.
1.) There are some references to Oedipus… but not through Yui. The Oedipus complex comes from Shinji wanting to kill his dad and be with REI, a clone of his mother. The only element of Freudian psychology that applies to Yui is the fact that Shinji’s psychological hangups are partly the product of being “Orally Fixated” due to his Mother leaving him at such an early age. 2.) Kaworu and Rei aren’t the personification of NGE. Shinji and Asuka are (Adam and Eve). This is why Neon Genesis Evangelion roughly means “New Telling Of the Gospel, Genesis”. Shinji and Asuka are left alone in a cleansed world, without sin (Garden of Eden). ✌️
To think that a mother character is so deep... It's amazing. The depth this series has, it's themes, plot, execution... Truly masterful. This anime is a true masterpiece.
Mothafuckin' Yui Ikari. Manipulating events, friends and family members as much as she could till they gave her the best powers available on a silver platter. Ok, also saving all life as individual beings, but goddamn if she didn't profit immensely in the process after all was said and done. I wonder what the Yui of the rebuild is doing? The rules and greater scheme of things seems to be skewed a bit in that run of the setting.
In the end she wanted to save mankind( by fucking mentally crippling her so beloved son. Good job Yui best Mom ) and by being a godlike creature herself by making a sign humanity existed. Great job there it isnt like that one satelite called Voyager-1 wich left our solar system by the time third impact occurs. Some say but Voyager one isnt stable and can break. I dont think an evas AT Fiels can protect you from black holes quasars, pulsars, stars, a supernova, a black hole jet, alien life who think its trash, annos trolling. Good Job there so called Bioengineer lady learn first astrophysics and how to be a good mom for dummies. I mean she could easily just send out normal radiowaves for indicating our existence. And for who is she doing this crap the first ancestral race, the irken empire, galactic milky way museum, as a symbol or to feed the next black hole? If the FAR finds this out... Well humans are fucked....
I just realized that Gendo prioritized his feelings over logic and reason while Yui vice versa which are opposite behaviors of their respective gender roles as perceived by society.
Great stuff as always. It's yet another way Eva shows children becoming like their parents in spite of themselves-Yui went against Seele's plans yet she herself became a shadowy, unseen force manipulating everything and everyone for her own ends. I always figured with the berserk moments she also wasn't entirely lucid, or that she was kind of "hulking out" as a side effect of being in the same emotionally heightened state that allows her control, and the Eva body was influencing her the same way the human body influences Lilith as Rei, and that's why she seems so feral and bitey on top of simply aggressive.
hey! Second time watching this and I wish you would come back for another analysis at some point. It has been a long time, and I'm sure you have other things to worry about, but I love these videos, and they are awesome :) Good luck wherever you are and whatever you're doing tho!
Yui is such a brilliantly complex character. It's a real shame that she's pretty much completely absent from the Rebuild films. Maybe in 3.0+1.0 we'll find out what her 4D chess game was all along...or maybe not.
Thank you. Evangelion has changed my life, and it still continues to do so, with people like you who don't stop at the "it's just christian bullshit you guys, it's just hype duh" typical stuff. Thank you again. Long live your channel. edit: could you do something about Asuka and her eva unit? i've been searching about the relationship between those two and can't find anything. Maybe i didn't search well enough, or maybe is it because i didn't get it, but i think that would be a great way to explore asuka personality. Again, thank you for your dedicated work. Cheers from France.
illium492 I think Asuka’s mother is in Unit 02. I believe she survived the contact experiment, but only her motherly side of her soul was absorbed into Unit 02 leaving her insane side of her soul in her body. This caused her to commit suicide and then they salvaged the rest of her souls and put it into Unit 02. I think you can see this in 25 and 26 when it’s Asuka’s little character bit where a voice asks her to keep going but also asking if she wants to die with her, showing the two sides of Asuka’s mom’s soul.
Excellent. Evangelion is so dense. I'm sick of all the fans that believe that all of the Christian iconography is just there for looks. It's obvious that Anno has a vast grasp on the mythology. People are frightened by just how much Evangelion packs intellectually and spiritually.
I actually wrote a whole reflection on this on another video, I put some effort on it, but it's still not a complete and detailed explanation of my thoughts. Anyways I think it's appropriate to what both of you are saying :) If you're interested the whole text is on the coments from this video: /watch?v=ppNt6cpNkBU The conclusion I wrote there was this one: "It seems Anno is USING elements, characters, etc. from the Book of Enoch, The Old Testament (especially the Genesis), Kabbalah and other extra-canonical books/Jewish folklore (so actually not much of actual Christian symbols) to inspire details in his argument and build cultural connections through his personal story. So these references don't necessarily hold a direct meaning to the spectator, but just a building intention of the argument, the aesthetic and the series' world to then further expose other meanings and messages that have nothing to do with Christianity or Abrahamic religions/spirituality/folklore."
I always interpreted Unit 1's violent behaviour as Yui protecting her child in exceptionally dangerous situations. She intervenes at the points where Shinji is in danger, or extreme pain and distress. The only point that deviates from that is when she absorbs the fruit of life, but that too was a harrowing fight for Shinji. Maybe because I have kids I see it that way, but I understand the fierce and intense protective feelings which can be aroused if our own children were in such danger.
I think that yui ikari is a pretty good mother to shinji for example , when she was human she was pleasant, soft spoken and caring mother and when she take control over eva unit 01 she can be turned overprotective when fighting angels
I just recently rewatched Eva and was thinking about Yui's intentions in the series and her treatment towards Shinji. Your video cleared up a lot of the questions I had. Thank you for this
It certainly is very interesting to see the actions of Eva 01 unit as the ones from not only a loving mother but also as those you would expect from a determined woman and scientist, willing to place all bets on what she, in regards to her morality and wishes, thinks is best for humanity. But I indeed couldn't remember Yui being the daughter of a Seele member, I have to rewatch this series again and the rebuild movies, I mean, someday we will get Rebuild 4.0, I hope... Anyway, another great video, I can't believe the struggle it might have been for you to put all of this together, to plan, write and edit this. For that, I'm grateful, thanks for the nice video and I hope there'll be more of this analysis series.
Thank you so much for this analysis, thanks to you and others who make these eva comprehension videos, i have so much more of a deeper understanding and appreciation for the series.
I've always been a little confused about what was going on with Yui and her plans vs Gendo's vs SEELE but now it makes so much more sense. Thanks! This was a great analysis
Great episode, I never thought to look at Evangelion from Yui point of view and this episode has really open my eyes to her motivations and intentions. Keep it up.
IT'S BACK!!!! YES!!!!! THANK YOU. I LOVE YOUR ANALYSIS'. Any analysis of Evangelion that brings in new information and perspectives is always nice to listen to.
Thank you for your insight and hard work with this series. I think you are the only person that can make an analysis video on the symbolism and role of the Kabbalah and Tree of Life in Evangelion's plot and characters. I believe this is one of the most unspoken, core themes to all Evangelion, please consider making that video. Thanks again!
I know I'm late to the party, but I got something to say. Yui in her own way may as well be the most evil person out there because despite the so-called plan she had, she was ready to abandon her child to the newly made wasteland that was Earth after Third Impact and CHOSE to be within Eva-Unit 01 to be the sole reminder that humanity existed when everything else died. She chose to be an eternal being at the expense of all other things, even her son who resided in a world that may or may not heal from. And it only gets worse when Third Impact was so powerful that it created a never ending cycle of Death and Rebirth -- the Rebuild series are movies that repeat as said by the creator -- and it was a never ending cycle until 3.0 + 1.0 in which Shinji created a world without Evas. Thereby destroying both the plans of Yui and Selee. Yui was responsible for NGE, EoE, and Rebuild until Shinji stopped it.
So glad that you started making character analysis again! I've been waiting forever for more in depth material from you! Please keep up with more characters in the very near future. Evangelion is one of the best anime ever produce hands down. I love any deep discussion about this one in a million series.
Whoa. This is really good. Bummed you didn't keep going, hope you come back! I learned a ton and honestly, the whole show makes about 10x more sense after this video
She made first contact through EVA-01-- to Lilith, to set up the plan for Third Impact. That first contact, would result in everything else. The bright future was meant to be the contact with Lilith and how it would change everything, hopefully then and there, but it didn't. Or it did, but it wasn't immediate, because no matter how smart and intentioned Yui was, Lilith wasn't on the same level as humans. But like Kaworu with Shiniji, Lilith would find humanity fascinating but through Yui. Hence why such a powerful being would allow itself to be incarnated as Rei. Where when it came to Adam, they had to reduce Adam and forcefully reborn it as Kaworu. But Yui would remain trapped in EVA-01, irrevocably changed through contact with an "angel" (though in Lilith's case, the angel of humanity). And just how all first-contact pilots' fates went--its undeniable that there was likely some irrepairable damage to Yui's soul--not maliciously and possibly not intentionally, but that's what happens when you interact wiht something far bigger than you are, especially in a body and space that's still far bigger than you anyway. Pieces of Yui remain, of course, but she'll never be Yui Ikari again. It would be impossible for anyone to know what would have happened. Yui was the first contact pilot after all, and though she designed the Eva system--the one thing that the Eva system proved to be, unspoken by anyone else, is the ability to meet something like the Angels as an equal, for both communication and inevitably conflict. The whole series is about seeing other people beyond one's self. What better lesson to take with you when you try to talk to a very alien, and very lonely god. And that's the secret. Yui talked to Lilith.
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Finally, such a pleasure to be able to watch this video again.
You are doing such a great Job man. Your theories about the EVA universe helped me to understand the series a lot better. You have a great talent to understand the details in the series and the production. You are doing a great job! Thank you!
Yui was literally playing 4D chess with God and the entire human race AT THE SAME TIME
Talk about extreme
What God? FAR?
She's also a giant robot
And in the same time, she try's to protect her son .
That is a real mother
Yui is best girl for beating the crap out of SEELE and her own husband in the biggest game of 4d chess
@woooudo Yui did love Gendo, but not as much as Gendo loved Yui
Yui should be in the Dictionary next to 4D Chess. Because she fucking defined it.
Yui did not use Gendo as a sperm bank.. what the fuck? She loved him, and he went insane and let the power go to his head. She knew his plans would fail, so she sacrificed herself in order to protect her son, and possibly humanity by merging with eva 01, and losing her life as human.
@Griffith Taka Arguable, but i don't feel like typing rn lol.
I am still think that Gendo murder Ritsuko's mother because she strangled to death
Baby Rei the child clone of his wife Yui, it's obvious, it's not a suicide for me, when Gendo said " Ritsuko Akagi the truth is ....." and Ritsuko said " you're a liar" he actually said " i killed your mother" i am 100 % sure , anyway this man has tragic ending because he loved more this crazy bitch than she loved him, she eating him like a hot dog xD.
It's funny how Anno unintentionally potrays a loving mother figure as a manipulative sociopath with god complex and now you cant unsee it
Lukako.K.tutturu The Freudian analysis seems even more appropriate
Why is this guy not uploading videos
Unintentionally?
>are you sure about that
Yui isn't a manipulative sociopath though.. I think you guys are all missing the point of the story. She is not evil. She knew that her husband would fail, NERV, and SEELE, would all fail. She took a big risk trying to do the right thing, and it worked.
LK_tutturu we are all sociopathic to an extent. We are the main character in our own minds.
The irony... Gendo first contacted Yui to use her for his own ends but in the end she used him.. and like every good mother choses her son over her husband.
@@ejedwards1678 She does
Thats an interesting conclusion and also an interesting dilemma, because is it really a more moral choice to put the child before the father
Let this be a lesson never get married lol
And a father will chose his daughter over an "old hag"
Damn. For a character that we rarely see throughout the show, unless you count EVA 01’s screentime, she’s pretty important. In fact Yui’s probably the most important character in the story.
DenotheFreak definitely the most important character
DenotheFreak she actually is.
she definitely is
I’d say Yui IS the story lol
Exactly. I am only just now realizing this after reading about the story after finishing the movie.. If it wasn't for Yui.. none of this would have happened. She secretly set everything into motion with her bravery and sacrifice. She saw above SEELE, and the humans fault, knowing that the prophecy would happen with or without them. Amazing woman, amazing story.
Yui is the very embodiment of "my goals are beyond your understanding"
So, Yui wished to be forever confined in the Eva, beyond the Milky Way's existance, so that she'll be forever proof of humanity.
Dude. I think I need to go stare at the ceiling.
Damnit, I didn't even think of that.
It terrifies me as well. The plot in the whole series makes me a bit depressive:(
If I clone of my mom looked like Rei, I'd want to bone her too ^_^
stop
WTF is otaku comunity anymore? If they didn't i'd made this joke myself
God poor shinji…. that boy stood no chance the cards were already stacked against him even before his birth
Yui certainly seemed to have the best of intentions in trying to preserve humanity, but making Shinji watch her disappear into the Eva and setting him down a path of depression and loneliness is kinda abusive. It must have pained her to see him suffer throughout the series. In the end Shinji understands her actions and makes the right decision, but the journey there was pretty emotionally destructive. I guess it was a necessary evil for humanity to survive and Shinji to learn to become a better person. Definitely makes Yui an interesting and complicated character
a bit late but I think she might have been insane so while she did have good intentions she wasn't stable or all there in the head shinji just lucky his mom while nuts did love him im scared to think what she would do to him if she didn't love him
"Nuts" nails it, "abusive" even better: We know Yui was pretty much born into Seele, and we know their "methods", in this case I'm thinking of Rit. Both aspects together would mean: Yui would be like Mayu from Elfenlied, who is meant to be like Lucy Kaede (therefore both wearing a woolly hat). Ep5 is pretty much the Arael-Armisael ep there.
Lucy more and more recovers from her amnesia and learns how to "switch" between beast mode and "nyuu". Eventually she admits her true feels to her childhood friend Kota:
"Kota you were my only dream, but only a short dream..."
I consider Yui a grown Lucy also with such a dream. However: Is really Shinji her dream, or is he also a means to an end?
Is even the TI a means to an end? "Loveless World", a song made by Muse, however "offscreen", Love Live School Idol Project. Yui also wanna confront all humans with this.
And sacrifies her son for it.
It only seems to work on one individual: Asuka of all people, who eventually wanna give Shinji a hug, but her body is still too weak.
(Mayu also meets a little dog. Most recently happened too in Love Live Sunshine, ep5 as well, to Yoshiko Tsushima.... She is involved in the song "Strawberry Trapper" by the subunit "Guilty Kiss")
Thats A good comparison
While it may seem abusive at face value, the reason she did this was to improve Shinjis sync with the Eva. In his subconscious, he knew his mother was in the Eva from the start, hence his incredible sync values from the get go.
Take note about how the last 22 real-life shooters all had some sort of dysfunctional relationship or lack of a father ^
At first I thought Yui got played by Gendo but looks like Yui was the pimp. 💀
yui was playign uno with 25 99 cards 😭
I always forget how deep all of the characters in eva are. Like not just their characters, but their stories, their intentions, their motives, etc.
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That is still about their characters. I think you’re trying to say you like how complex their characters are.
The rebuilds did not do justice to the complexity of Evangelion and it seemed more like a forced "happy" ending
Wow Yui is a savage when something hurt Shinji . But that motherly love
@@Bell_Matt She'll be happy tho
Why are people saying EOE is a bad ending, this is exactly what a good ending should be
@just an autistic shitposter Asuka is changed. She is one depressed chick but she’ll eventually come around
We just gotta see what evangelion 3.0+1.0 does
It’s not really “good” or “bad”.
Humanity lives on in a space-ark and people on Earth *can* reform from LCL..
Whoop-de-doo. Shinji still killed them all initially, and Seele brutalized and forever traumatized them all with savage violence.
Like the last line is Asuka calling Shinji disgusting, which yes it’s good that humans can be around to misunderstand eachother instead of becoming a Tang Singularity..
But it’s still an ode to our harsh reality and the “conclusions we’ll just come to over and over”.
@@12kidcat aaaaand it did it, i was afraid it will underdeliver
It’s, really, amazing how the fate Yui chose for herself is so innocuously foreshadowed by the ED so beloved - ‘Fly Me to the Moon’:
Fly me to the Moon
And let me play among the stars;
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
... Fill my heart with song
And let me sing forevermore
Pretty much
After realizing this I will never hear nor look at the lyrics the same ever again.
This is so good
... Now i understand why that song is the ending...
So Yui was the mastermind and responsible for all the things that happened in Evangelion?
Ferch Avalos Basically, she was the mastermind and used shinji to spearhead her agenda
Lot of speculation in this video. Good vid though
Well, she's responsible for half. Seele's responsible for the original plan of human instrumentality.
As a matter of fact, they're responsible for influencing & manipulating modern civilization. They're sort of like the 'Illuminati" or "Freemasons" of the world of Evangelion.
Yui came along and was able to undermine Seele's plans.
@@RardTangler still they're responsable for the second and third impact.
Addy White can I marry you because that really rocked my world lol
PLOT TWIST: Everything in the show actually happened. We're living in post-instrumentality. The series is a rough retelling of events
Tit0Matic Honestly, that would explain a lot. You might be on to something there.
perhaps so 1st impact was the wiping of dinosaur? 2nd impact is what timeline in earth
We are all tang, baby.....woohoo
Alex Armani No the 1st impact was when lilith's egg impacted earth creating life.
One word (as a bunch of wires and ai): ew
Wait wait wait so the whole of humanity actually manages to get their bodies back from the LCL at the end?!! Oh god I thought that shinji and asuka were just left alone to restart things, holy shit i really misinterpreted everything hahaha
If they want they can return back to their bodies if i recall correctly but yeah also tought the same until i furthered my "knowledge" xD
Yhea, pepole who want to be themselves, and accept the pain amd suffering of individuality can retourn
It's free interpretation. You were right too.
@@jesusramirezromo2037 yeah, and I think if Asuka and Shinji can accept the pain and suffering of individuality, I am sure a lot of people will be able to come back :-)
I think it was meant to be open for interpretation.
Losing Misato kinda hit hard, but I didn't even realize that Yui planned to be an Eva adrift in space forever after everything was said and done. Kinda wish she and Shinji had had a little more time together, but still.
Yui best girl.
Why has she chosen to exist "eternally" alone in space?
Why does she care for there to be a proof of the human existence?
Gandeloft I beleive she low-key wanted to be seen as a god.
if humanity ends and there's no proof left behind, humans are meaningless. turning eva into a memento of humanity is a way of giving it meaning.
+Rhaenys I can give her a pass for abandoning Shinji by fusing with Unit 1 to secure the 3rd impact for him (and unknowingly psychologically scaring him along the way). However after that she better materalises herself out of LCL and be a proper mother to Shinji. Of course after giving herself a hard slap for that dramatic idea of using herself as a memento, instead be content with humanity's memento like radiowave or space capsule.
Perhaps she did it to atone for what she knew would transpire as a result of her plans and actions.
Luka.K.tutturu Does he need a parent at that point though ? Ideally I would love to think she came back to Earth and lived with Shinji, she would've loved that too seeing how close the two were when he was little. But that would miss the point of the story.
Gendo: Haha, I'm playing everyone!
Yui: *No U*
Amazing vid! You say Yui loves/loved Gendo. She probably did love him in the past. Though I'm more of the view that she, together with Shinji (and basically everyone lol), utterly hated Gendo by the end of EoE. The strongest point for me in this view is that Gendo is eaten/killed by Unit 01 during Instrumentality. Everyone else are turned into LCL (even the corpses at NERV HQ), except for him. His lower body is still left in physical form, unable to be reborn and/or unite with Yui.
The conversation (before that scene) between Gendo, Yui, Kaworu and Rei kind of acts as an explanation for Gendo, in a rather passive-aggressive manner by Yui. In a way she's saying: "My dear Gendo, you screwed up. I can't tolerate your selfishness and actions towards our son. This is why I won't accept your wish/Instrumentality."
This is why I think Gendo says: "This is my retribution. Forgive me, Shinji.", before he's eaten. He realizes (albeit too late) that the mistreatment of Shinji was the completely wrong scenario in reuniting with Yui. As you say: "They [Gendo and Yui] are not on the same page." His "retribution" is to die (be denied his wish), which he sees as a good enough of an apology for the torment he caused to his son. It's probably the kind of apology you would hear from an egomaniacal person like Gendo.
There are also other things in the series that makes me think that Yui came to hate Gendo by the end. E.g. the dummy plug rejection. However, I may be completely wrong. Admittedly, I came up with other explanations while writing this xD
onakaru onakaru Unit 01 was up in space at the moment of Gendo's death though, that was most likely a projection / illusion by Rei. It may have been the Actual Souls™ of Yui and Kaworu judging him, since they're not necessarily bound to one physical place. But even then.... this scene in the manga is a little more developed and she didn't hate Gendō. She didn't approve neither was happy with the things he did, but she didn't hate him at all.
The rejection of Rei and the dummyplug doesn't necessarily mean she hates him, either. Just that she rejected the plan- if they were in a crisis and something went wrong she wanted Shinji to be inside Unit 01, which wouldn't happen if she accepted other pilots.
onakaru so... that scene in which the Eva eats Gendo is like a reverse 'Saturn devouring his son' painting by Francisco Goya. : -P
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
@@TiinkerBells He was consistently abusive to Shinji. She was in EVA 01 to witness it all. Then...she bit his head off at the crucial moment. I think there might be a connection.
him getting eaten by unit 01 is just his vision like rei visiting all the other people to kill them
She was disgusted with what Gendo had become, that is why she chose to make her own plans.
I didn't know that YUi is the most powerful character in NGE...
Yui Ikari was the mean to depict the simple allegory of Oedipus. From the viewpoint inside the story, Yui started everything and thing went the way Yui planned. But from the metafictional viewpoint, Yui is just a mean to show mental problems of Shinji/Gnedo.
It's very ironic that Yui, the very original individual, is the most inhuman character, but Rei is a very human character.
At last, Rei and Kaworu became almost the same as Yui and became the metaphor for NGE itself. Asuka, only one main character that maintained her humanity, was the last person with Shinji. Only Asuka's motivation was irrelevant to Yui.
After 2 years I can safely say that this comment has no commentary of value whatsoever.
1.) There are some references to Oedipus… but not through Yui.
The Oedipus complex comes from Shinji wanting to kill his dad and be with REI, a clone of his mother.
The only element of Freudian psychology that applies to Yui is the fact that Shinji’s psychological hangups are partly the product of being “Orally Fixated” due to his Mother leaving him at such an early age.
2.) Kaworu and Rei aren’t the personification of NGE. Shinji and Asuka are (Adam and Eve).
This is why Neon Genesis Evangelion roughly means “New Telling Of the Gospel, Genesis”.
Shinji and Asuka are left alone in a cleansed world, without sin (Garden of Eden).
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so basically yui is a straight up savage
Yes, lol.
To think that a mother character is so deep... It's amazing. The depth this series has, it's themes, plot, execution... Truly masterful. This anime is a true masterpiece.
Mothafuckin' Yui Ikari. Manipulating events, friends and family members as much as she could till they gave her the best powers available on a silver platter. Ok, also saving all life as individual beings, but goddamn if she didn't profit immensely in the process after all was said and done. I wonder what the Yui of the rebuild is doing? The rules and greater scheme of things seems to be skewed a bit in that run of the setting.
In the end she wanted to save mankind( by fucking mentally crippling her so beloved son. Good job Yui best Mom ) and by being a godlike creature herself by making a sign humanity existed. Great job there it isnt like that one satelite called Voyager-1 wich left our solar system by the time third impact occurs. Some say but Voyager one isnt stable and can break. I dont think an evas AT Fiels can protect you from black holes quasars, pulsars, stars, a supernova, a black hole jet, alien life who think its trash, annos trolling. Good Job there so called Bioengineer lady learn first astrophysics and how to be a good mom for dummies. I mean she could easily just send out normal radiowaves for indicating our existence. And for who is she doing this crap the first ancestral race, the irken empire, galactic milky way museum, as a symbol or to feed the next black hole? If the FAR finds this out... Well humans are fucked....
TYRANTARES douchbag gendo is douchbag
@@theakiwar9118 oooooooooooooooookay. I see the crazies were out that day.
@@theakiwar9118 bro I dont understand a single thing you just said
Yui is Walter White. Period.
I just realized that Gendo prioritized his feelings over logic and reason while Yui vice versa which are opposite behaviors of their respective gender roles as perceived by society.
Yui: "I'm a manipulative megalomaniac who's intensely opportunistic"
that "goodbye mother" at the end fucking broke me.
I've been waiting for Rebuild 4.0 for however long, this is no biggie.
We all know troll anno. We will die before we see the last film.
+The Aki War It s actually that many people from his studio are working on projects like a new godzilla or that god awful attack on titan actor movie
andariel654789 Well at least we know it comes out in spiring this year
Good news, it's coming in 2020!
Coming June!
Basically when her soul was placed eva 01, she took the meaning "protective mother" to a whole new level
Great stuff as always. It's yet another way Eva shows children becoming like their parents in spite of themselves-Yui went against Seele's plans yet she herself became a shadowy, unseen force manipulating everything and everyone for her own ends.
I always figured with the berserk moments she also wasn't entirely lucid, or that she was kind of "hulking out" as a side effect of being in the same emotionally heightened state that allows her control, and the Eva body was influencing her the same way the human body influences Lilith as Rei, and that's why she seems so feral and bitey on top of simply aggressive.
I think the song title "Cruel Angel's Thesis" carries a whole new meaning for me now.
FINALLY. Lol. Good job.
my favorite Eva CZcamsr
Thank you man, your videos have been a great inspiration that keeps me going with this series. Looking forward to your future work.
Evangelion Analysis Project :D Likewise!
Is this channel dead!? Third Impact? no more new videos? T_T
Do you know what happened to this man?
Yui and Gendo are just two sides of the same medallion.
They really fit together as a couple.
My mom is Savage
hey! Second time watching this and I wish you would come back for another analysis at some point. It has been a long time, and I'm sure you have other things to worry about, but I love these videos, and they are awesome :) Good luck wherever you are and whatever you're doing tho!
1:17 fuyutsuki's face after getting rejected lmao
Yui Ikari More than Meets The Eye! Yuri Ikari Robot in Disguise!
Yui is such a brilliantly complex character. It's a real shame that she's pretty much completely absent from the Rebuild films. Maybe in 3.0+1.0 we'll find out what her 4D chess game was all along...or maybe not.
that aged well
Please come back
Thank you. Evangelion has changed my life, and it still continues to do so, with people like you who don't stop at the "it's just christian bullshit you guys, it's just hype duh" typical stuff. Thank you again. Long live your channel.
edit: could you do something about Asuka and her eva unit? i've been searching about the relationship between those two and can't find anything. Maybe i didn't search well enough, or maybe is it because i didn't get it, but i think that would be a great way to explore asuka personality. Again, thank you for your dedicated work. Cheers from France.
illium492 I think Asuka’s mother is in Unit 02. I believe she survived the contact experiment, but only her motherly side of her soul was absorbed into Unit 02 leaving her insane side of her soul in her body. This caused her to commit suicide and then they salvaged the rest of her souls and put it into Unit 02. I think you can see this in 25 and 26 when it’s Asuka’s little character bit where a voice asks her to keep going but also asking if she wants to die with her, showing the two sides of Asuka’s mom’s soul.
Bro you gotta come back, your videos are way too good i would even be fine if you did other series'
I love Yui Ikari, She's the ultimate sociopathic girlboss
Damn. Five years.
Glad you are continuing. Really love these very well done and researched. All these years and I still think about Evangelion.
so, Yui is best girl?
Best Eva
Yui is Light Yagami
Best mom.
Specially when berserk mode
I'll have her go berserk on me any day😏
5 billion years from now, when the sun, the moon and earth are no more, 4.0 will finally come out
i knew yui was having a sinister grin while in unit 1 there she was fuckign with everyone from the start
She even succeeded in 3.0+1.0
The most important character but with no screen time except for flashbacks and odd appearance in Eva unit 01.
Excellent. Evangelion is so dense. I'm sick of all the fans that believe that all of the Christian iconography is just there for looks. It's obvious that Anno has a vast grasp on the mythology. People are frightened by just how much Evangelion packs intellectually and spiritually.
It's there for the looks, AND vibe and atmosphere
I actually wrote a whole reflection on this on another video, I put some effort on it, but it's still not a complete and detailed explanation of my thoughts. Anyways I think it's appropriate to what both of you are saying :)
If you're interested the whole text is on the coments from this video: /watch?v=ppNt6cpNkBU
The conclusion I wrote there was this one:
"It seems Anno is USING elements, characters, etc. from the Book of Enoch, The Old Testament (especially the Genesis), Kabbalah and other extra-canonical books/Jewish folklore (so actually not much of actual Christian symbols) to inspire details in his argument and build cultural connections through his personal story. So these references don't necessarily hold a direct meaning to the spectator, but just a building intention of the argument, the aesthetic and the series' world to then further expose other meanings and messages that have nothing to do with Christianity or Abrahamic religions/spirituality/folklore."
couldn't have said it better myself!
lol im pretty sure its there for the looks. please explain how it serves a purpose? fyi you're talking to a former devout catholic here son.
Craig Harrison h
Our goal is the happiness of mankind.
I respect yui's character alot as a protective mother
I always interpreted Unit 1's violent behaviour as Yui protecting her child in exceptionally dangerous situations. She intervenes at the points where Shinji is in danger, or extreme pain and distress. The only point that deviates from that is when she absorbs the fruit of life, but that too was a harrowing fight for Shinji. Maybe because I have kids I see it that way, but I understand the fierce and intense protective feelings which can be aroused if our own children were in such danger.
I think that yui ikari is a pretty good mother to shinji for example , when she was human she was pleasant, soft spoken and caring mother and when she take control over eva unit 01 she can be turned overprotective when fighting angels
I literally find it haunting to even look at Yui, I can't look at her without remembering that she technically is EVA 01.
This dude literally made some good content and dipped.
Continue this pls I need more good analysis videos
omfg I never thought I see the day I'm gonna need a beer :D
If only you could come back and finish all the characters
FIRST THIS CHANNEL IS THIS ALIVE
Yui Ikari will always be best girl and best mother in all of anime for the actions that she has done
I just recently rewatched Eva and was thinking about Yui's intentions in the series and her treatment towards Shinji. Your video cleared up a lot of the questions I had. Thank you for this
It certainly is very interesting to see the actions of Eva 01 unit as the ones from not only a loving mother but also as those you would expect from a determined woman and scientist, willing to place all bets on what she, in regards to her morality and wishes, thinks is best for humanity.
But I indeed couldn't remember Yui being the daughter of a Seele member, I have to rewatch this series again and the rebuild movies, I mean, someday we will get Rebuild 4.0, I hope...
Anyway, another great video, I can't believe the struggle it might have been for you to put all of this together, to plan, write and edit this. For that, I'm grateful, thanks for the nice video and I hope there'll be more of this analysis series.
Thank you for piecing this all together and uploading it ! So many details I missed out on while watching the show
Your analyses are always so detailed and enlightening. No matter how long it is between videos, I will be here to watch.
The best plot twist in Eva and Anno delivers a fucking no brainer with Gendo instead in the last movie...
so glad to see another video in this series! i always learn something new about evangelion in these
This whole series was incredible. I really hope it's continued!
This is episode was so good, i was waiting for Yui analysis keep doing the project!!!!
Waiting so much for these videos, totally worth it. Love it man.
Thank you so much for this analysis, thanks to you and others who make these eva comprehension videos, i have so much more of a deeper understanding and appreciation for the series.
'One person' to Gendo meant Yui. And 'one person' for Yui meant Shinji.
Your videos are the only thing that helps me finally understand this show. Thanks, man.
By far the most cogent and clear explanation i have heard so far.
Congrats.
Yui literally wanted to go into the Beyond section of Bed Bath & Beyond.
THANK YOU!!! Your episodes finally shed light on and help me understand the confusion in this super detailed anime!
this truly explained EVERYTHING to me!i can't thank you enough!
Please continue making these videos, they're some of the highest quality analyses on youtube.
I've always been a little confused about what was going on with Yui and her plans vs Gendo's vs SEELE but now it makes so much more sense. Thanks! This was a great analysis
I feel like i was waiting for this forever. thanksss
Great episode, I never thought to look at Evangelion from Yui point of view and this episode has really open my eyes to her motivations and intentions. Keep it up.
Man, that's the best deconstruction of Evangelion i've seen so far. Please, keep on! Much love and thank you a lot for your work!
Please keep up the great work. Even if a year passes between videos, every one of them has been insightful and amazing.
A mother till the end
IT'S BACK!!!! YES!!!!! THANK YOU. I LOVE YOUR ANALYSIS'. Any analysis of Evangelion that brings in new information and perspectives is always nice to listen to.
I had been waiting this for so long. Thanks!
Thank you for your insight and hard work with this series. I think you are the only person that can make an analysis video on the symbolism and role of the Kabbalah and Tree of Life in Evangelion's plot and characters. I believe this is one of the most unspoken, core themes to all Evangelion, please consider making that video. Thanks again!
I only wonder how Shinji's life would be after saving humanity and reaching an end of his emotionally destructive path.
I know I'm late to the party, but I got something to say.
Yui in her own way may as well be the most evil person out there because despite the so-called plan she had, she was ready to abandon her child to the newly made wasteland that was Earth after Third Impact and CHOSE to be within Eva-Unit 01 to be the sole reminder that humanity existed when everything else died.
She chose to be an eternal being at the expense of all other things, even her son who resided in a world that may or may not heal from.
And it only gets worse when Third Impact was so powerful that it created a never ending cycle of Death and Rebirth -- the Rebuild series are movies that repeat as said by the creator -- and it was a never ending cycle until 3.0 + 1.0 in which Shinji created a world without Evas. Thereby destroying both the plans of Yui and Selee.
Yui was responsible for NGE, EoE, and Rebuild until Shinji stopped it.
She and Gendou are the perfect pair
@@sausage5554 A match made in hell.
@@uzumaki7535 well I see them in Hell then.
So glad that you started making character analysis again! I've been waiting forever for more in depth material from you! Please keep up with more characters in the very near future. Evangelion is one of the best anime ever produce hands down. I love any deep discussion about this one in a million series.
Whoa. This is really good. Bummed you didn't keep going, hope you come back! I learned a ton and honestly, the whole show makes about 10x more sense after this video
Thank you for making these videos. I loved the show but was confused about it’s ending however you’ve really helped to explain it to me.
Really good video. Yui is incredible. Almost my favorite character ever.
Nice. I always loved these vids.
Thanks for coming back.
I've always felt like Yui and shinji's interactions inside unit 1 while Shinji was absorbed bares a similarity to Christ being tempted by Satan.
She made first contact through EVA-01-- to Lilith, to set up the plan for Third Impact. That first contact, would result in everything else. The bright future was meant to be the contact with Lilith and how it would change everything, hopefully then and there, but it didn't.
Or it did, but it wasn't immediate, because no matter how smart and intentioned Yui was, Lilith wasn't on the same level as humans. But like Kaworu with Shiniji, Lilith would find humanity fascinating but through Yui.
Hence why such a powerful being would allow itself to be incarnated as Rei. Where when it came to Adam, they had to reduce Adam and forcefully reborn it as Kaworu.
But Yui would remain trapped in EVA-01, irrevocably changed through contact with an "angel" (though in Lilith's case, the angel of humanity). And just how all first-contact pilots' fates went--its undeniable that there was likely some irrepairable damage to Yui's soul--not maliciously and possibly not intentionally, but that's what happens when you interact wiht something far bigger than you are, especially in a body and space that's still far bigger than you anyway.
Pieces of Yui remain, of course, but she'll never be Yui Ikari again.
It would be impossible for anyone to know what would have happened. Yui was the first contact pilot after all, and though she designed the Eva system--the one thing that the Eva system proved to be, unspoken by anyone else, is the ability to meet something like the Angels as an equal, for both communication and inevitably conflict.
The whole series is about seeing other people beyond one's self. What better lesson to take with you when you try to talk to a very alien, and very lonely god.
And that's the secret. Yui talked to Lilith.
Finally, such a pleasure to be able to watch this video again.
You are doing such a great Job man. Your theories about the EVA universe helped me to understand the series a lot better. You have a great talent to understand the details in the series and the production. You are doing a great job! Thank you!
Great work
It's amazing hoe intricate this series can be when you get to think about it