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Or maybe she's another key player in all this, maybe even an angel of some sort. She has character elements that are sort of similar to kaworu. It would seem that altho its not stated, mari was written into the book of life just like shinji.

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You can also see it as them getting off the rail or the cycle they've been on since the beginning of the series and forge a completely new path for themsleves.

The last scene and everything building up to that is a clear departure from that kind of mentality, and Shinji/Anno is choosing to live in 'reality'(The train station is actually the train station of Anno's hometown where he grew up),ДЄnd fully embrace the outside world, and he was able to do that with the help of Mari, who is an outlier in that old world and is modeled after his wife in real life. Anno has said in several interviews that he feels like the original series may have contributed to the Otaku culture turning even more inwards to the imaginary and not choosing to live in reality. If you look at the key theme of the franchise, it really comes down to the fear of facing the outside world and the people around you, and Human Instrumentality Project is about trying to absolve the distinction between the real and the imaginary, the self and the other. There is a lot happening in that scene thematically and symbolically, and in a way, it's an answer to the 'negative' cultural impact that the original series had in Japan.

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It's him commenting directly to the audience and acknowledging how serious its become to people, and in a fatherly way connects with us and says its alright to relax and let go of all the meaning.ДЄs Anno has had to learn how to let go of it all to, this being the key difference in artistic expression from End Of Evangelion to Rebuild of Evangelion. Shinji becomes aware of this when fighting Gendo to infinity, hence shinji's sync rate reaching infinity, he can see basically everything, he transcends film, art, religion, everything and chooses to live the realest human response to evangelion, and that would be a life of true peace and harmony.ДЄnno takes all the seriousness, all the pain, all the sympathy and all the emotions of something that trancended meaning and tears it back down to a simple comment about how its just art, its just him drawing at the end of the day, its him displaying maturity in a way that is graceful. Shinji caused the 4th impact inside the Anti-Universe because Kawaru was working with Gendo, and knew Gendo's plans, and created a back door inside the Anti- Universe for Shiji after confronting his father and fighting him in every evangelion timeline, creates a world in world Evangelion's never existed, not the one he was in, not the next metaphorical one, and the evangelion film that exists in our world, the audience.