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I would recommend anyone who have seen all the material to watch The Curse of Evangelion (39min) [1]

It meta analyzes the series and movies in chronological order. It explains the director's message to the fans about escapism from reality and the dangers of it.

The first EVA series had a massive impact on the anime industry in a bad way; It create more obsessed fans who escape from reality with it and make their lives miserable, even though the series talks about the dangers of it.

Rebuild (released 14 years later) criticizes the impact and how fans misinterpreted the earlier series. He sends a message that you (the obsessed fan) can rebuild your life for the better and stop escaping reality.

As a somewhat obsessed anime watcher it hit pretty close to home. I think the director is sad how early EVA and the impact it had, helped create more hikikomoris[2] instead of less.

I might remembered some stuff wrong above, it was a while ago I saw it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIvs0Q-uKI [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori