The Importance of Misato Katsuragi in Neon Genesis Evangelion
The Importance of Misato Katsuragi in Neon Genesis Evangelion
An analysis of the overall importance of Misato Katsuragi in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
My first video, I hope you enjoy!
January 7, 2020 @ 6:16 pm
I always thought Misato had sex with Kaji just after Shinji was recaptured from the Eva-01 because she actually wanted to have sex with him, but couldn’t simply because it was just not convenient due to his mental and physical recovery, and more probably because they didn’t establish that kind of relationship.
Misato cried and sob for Shinji not because he was just a special person to her or a kind of son, but maybe the last opportunity she had to be romantically and sexually involved with someone compatible with her.
Shinji is the total opposite of what her father or Kaji are, just like her, and they experience practically the same problems and difficulties throughout their lifes. Misato can understand Shinji perfectly, and I image Shinji would too if he had an idea about what she goes through in her mind. They’re both immature, and injured, and maybe that’s what Misato wants, someone who doesn’t necessarily wants to help her but to understand her in a more deeper level. But the true question at the end would be, does it work?
Even if they had the same age, not just mentally but physically too, and both of them were adults, that kind of relationship would be very difficult to maintain without any of them wanting truly to move forward and help the other to do so. Sex can’t alleviate nor be a scapegoat to pain and life’s problems. And Misato treats sex in that exact same way.
And for a kid, that could be truly damaging, even if she had the best of intentions. That’s why I cannot see a relationship between Misato and Shinji working, not in their mental state, not in their present age…
January 7, 2020 @ 6:17 pm
great analysis.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:18 pm
That’s crazy yo
January 7, 2020 @ 6:19 pm
She has my same birthday
January 7, 2020 @ 6:20 pm
Every evangelion character has a reason to be in the show not like….. Take an example SAO,intruduce A new Char!! Tara!!,and then "Dump’ The char.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:20 pm
I feel like i just watched a documentary ? great vid.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:22 pm
what version of the song did you use
January 7, 2020 @ 6:24 pm
Misato also hates Black people.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:24 pm
The best character, but i think she is a older sister figure, she is too imature to be a mother figure. Make fantsasing from him about her actually more ok, as they are not related. A very protective loving older sister.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:27 pm
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January 7, 2020 @ 6:27 pm
NOW MY BRAIN IS CATCHING UP I THINK IM GONNA RE WATCH THE SHOW NOT TODAY BUT WHEN IM GROWN UP
January 7, 2020 @ 6:33 pm
I wish there was sone way she’d come back 🙁
January 7, 2020 @ 6:34 pm
Without Misato, Kaji would not exist in the story 🙁
January 7, 2020 @ 6:35 pm
Misato is underlooked? Isn’t she quite clearly the best written character in the show to anyone else? No, just me?
January 7, 2020 @ 6:36 pm
ASUKA is the best girl she gets the most out of shinji .. because shinji masturbates over her.. hehe lol..
January 7, 2020 @ 6:39 pm
Ritsuko is the most underrated. Good video though
January 7, 2020 @ 6:42 pm
What is the song in the background , I know it’s a violin version of the OP but does anyone have a link?
January 7, 2020 @ 6:43 pm
#EvaIsTheBestGirl and
#TeamKaworu
January 7, 2020 @ 6:43 pm
It was a very inciteful analysis…however all the videos were backwards.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:44 pm
this has to be one of the most weirdest animes ive ever watched but it has to be one of the best one animes i’ve ever watched too. i feel allot watching neon genesis evangelion….
January 7, 2020 @ 6:44 pm
Shinji loving Rei?
He’s attracted to her, but he doesn’t understand her or understand women in general. He’s mostly not much respectful towards women for seeing them more as attractive figures instead of someone with their own feelings =/
January 7, 2020 @ 6:44 pm
one of the main reason shinji don’t care misato because, shinji is gay.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:45 pm
She ain’t under looked she’s motherly and loving to the children and she’s best girl as well
January 7, 2020 @ 6:45 pm
Damn still can’t believe they killed off the only good female character in the series…
January 7, 2020 @ 6:46 pm
Shinji having any kind of romantic or sexual affection for Misato is something I just cannot find in the show.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:47 pm
Damn Shinji a lucky man
January 7, 2020 @ 6:48 pm
Uh… no, this is just another example of Postmodernism.
Here is a quote from anime reviewer Animerica (Link: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCl5fqLiYPaBc0bbq0JmIVig) that sums up what Eva ACTUALLY is:
“Evangelion is garbage written by committee with no consistent story or sanity. And now, thanks to all the BS of the original series, 3.33 has successfully destroyed the film franchise. But I’m sure delusion says otherwise.
All “symbolism” in Eva is accidental. The show was dictated by committee and constantly shifting to match fan expectations. It was created in the worst way possible. It is a boring, pretentious, insane mess. The movies were faring MUCH better, with 2.22 being one of the best anime movies I’ve ever seen… but the 3rd movie had ZERO “character development” and was 99% empty mythos babble that was not explained, established, foreshadowed, or explored in the slightest. It’s as though the movie remake expects the audience to have watched the entire series and understand all the nonsense being spat onto the screen. Well, if that’s the case, THEN WHY BOTHER WATCHING THE MOVIE?! If they’re going to devolve into the exact same crap that made the series so convoluted and incomprehensible, why bother? But yes, I must be too “retarded.” Clearly. Thank you for demonstrating what I hate about Eva fans and the series in general. Everybody makes empty, unsubstantiated claims that there’s all this meaning and symbolism, but when I challenge them on it, they scream obscenities and call names. Because that makes you right.
To conclusively prove my point, I only need three words: End of Evangelion. The writers, director, and everybody behind the project had so little concept of any significance behind what they were doing that they had no inkling whatsoever of how to resolve it. Even after trying TWICE. That tells me that they were making it up as they went along and had no grand intentions, plans, or message. None. The creators themselves have no idea what either of the endings mean, both of which contradict each other and make everything A MORONIC MESS OF COLOSSAL PROPORTIONS. I have sat through lectures by UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS on the relevance, symbolism, and profundity of Evangelion, but by simply checking those sentiments, no matter how well-studied, against the simple facts of how Evangelion was created, it is all exposed as made up one-sided interpretation made possible by the still-prevalent mindset of postmodern criticism (i.e., the original creators’ intentions are not of higher importance because there is inherent equal significance and importance in the unrelated personal interpretations of everyone else). Ultimately, if people want to watch it, get meaning out of it, and think it’s more than it is, that’s up to them. But I’m not “retarded” for calling it what it is. Because, objectively, I’m right. And nothing can change that.
The problem I have with your objection is that you are still talking about events that occurred in the movie that were placed in sequence to create a plot. Evangelion 3.33 had no plot. A bunch of people blathered in made-up nonsense dialog for 70 minutes while random shots of things happened and then there was a confusing mess of a climax that also made no sense. Then, finally, the movie ended. Shinji is the most apt audience surrogate in the history of film as he walks around begging EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER to explain the plot of the film and every single one of them refuses. Thanks everyone, I’M SO ENGAGED RIGHT NOW, I CAN BARELY HANDLE IT.
3.33 is one of these films that thoroughly fails on every level of storytelling. I could spend PAGES of text ranting about it.
Another weird quirk of Hideaki Anno: His abject, staunch refusal to write an ending for any story he tells until he gets to the ending. That is the sole reason for why the ending of Evangelion is an unmitigated disaster mess. The most criminally perpetrated myth in all of anime culture is that Evangelion ran out of budget at the end, so the final episodes became what they are. That is patently untrue. In the midst of writing the final six episodes–and not before–Anno became arbitrarily interested and then, subsequently, obsessed with psychology. His intent was to then, regardless of what came before, cram that into the final episodes of the show as much as possible. The final episodes of Evangelion are EXACTLY what he wanted to be. It’s a fact. So, love him or hate him, he is a fool when it comes to storytelling by his own design.”
Also check out Anime Abandon’s reviews: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YCQQ6W7Ttp4
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=24s&v=h6VCU_ol_wA
January 7, 2020 @ 6:49 pm
"Minor spoilers" *proceeds to talk about her death scene*
January 7, 2020 @ 6:50 pm
This was great i had never realized some of those points but they resonate with me.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:50 pm
Nice first video
January 7, 2020 @ 6:53 pm
The show was overwrought and loose incoherent philosophy of the world. The characters were fractured and too simplified. People think it’s complex because they are ‘depressed and sad’.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:53 pm
Misato’s death impacted me the most
January 7, 2020 @ 6:53 pm
ok wow, that was good, i knew that misato did not sexually like shinji, but i now understand that she was thought that that was how ppl show affection by his lover, although he might not have ment to do so… this show just keeps getting better and better
January 7, 2020 @ 6:53 pm
1995 anime
January 7, 2020 @ 6:53 pm
I like Misato for many reasons, but one good reason is she’s actually legal.
Although Rei might be ok since she’s technically Lilith. Woops, spoilers!
January 7, 2020 @ 6:54 pm
I love this rendition of A Cruel Angel’s Thesis. Is there anywhere I could download it or listen to it on loop? Lol
January 7, 2020 @ 6:55 pm
This series makes me fucken cry every goddamn time QΛQ
January 7, 2020 @ 6:56 pm
Great vid, it made it clear to me why misato did some of the things she did
January 7, 2020 @ 6:57 pm
Oh how I long for a girl like Misato.
January 7, 2020 @ 6:57 pm
MISATO BEST GIRL
January 7, 2020 @ 6:58 pm
Misato is a THOT
January 7, 2020 @ 7:00 pm
6:39 BGM was on point omg
January 7, 2020 @ 7:05 pm
Show fucked me up good
January 7, 2020 @ 7:05 pm
Her death hit harder than any other tv show death
January 7, 2020 @ 7:10 pm
Misato And Shinji are dual protagonists.
January 7, 2020 @ 7:10 pm
Misato is my favorite anime character hands down!
January 7, 2020 @ 7:12 pm
Yeah it’s SEELE – V
– I.Am.
January 7, 2020 @ 7:14 pm
She also has a really good taste in cars.
January 7, 2020 @ 7:14 pm
I can relate to Misatos sloppy behaviour when she is not working and seriousness when she is wroking….lol
January 7, 2020 @ 7:14 pm
Misatos death right before shinji pilots? That was so tastefully written I can’t imagine how epic it would be in live action.