Analysis of what the socio-political situation of the world is like in Evangelion after the Second Impact disaster. It’s not actually particularly important to the overall story — this isn’t Gundam, it’s not about politics — but it is more backstory that fills in the overall very realistic approach that Evangelion took to its near-future world: realistically, this is more or less how the world socio-political situation would be 15 years after the Second Impact disaster, after official recovery efforts are largely over and the First World countries like Japan have already finished “reconstruction”.

A major point about Shinji, as well as Gendo, in the series that the Gendo is sort of a dark future shadow, a stark warning to Shinji of what he’s going to turn into if he stays on the path he’s been going down, avoiding other people.

This was made as a video-response to something said in an iSugoi.com video: as the title says, its “provisional” in the sense that it wasn’t meant to be the definitive analysis of the entire Shinji/Rei relationship. Really, its mostly focused on analyzing the scene where Shinji accidentally falls on top of Rei after she comes out of the shower: this happens in episode 5 but is *also* present in Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone, so its just as relevant for Rebuild of Eva.