Retrospective: Neon Genesis Evangelion (1994)
I'll just lock my heart away deeper and deeper. If I do that I won't have to feel pain outside or inside... or the fear... I won't have to feel anything at all. 2015, Tokyo-3. Fourteen year old Shinji Ikari lives with his uncle after being abandoned by his father a decade earlier. He then gets a letter from his father who is sending his attractive young assistant Misato to pick Shinji up and bring him in for a reunion. Why now, after all these years? Shinji is a mopey, disconsolate introvert with no goals, no friends and no joy in life. Still, he is intrigued by the summons... However, when he sets out to meet Misato a state of emergency is declared across the whole city and the monorail station shuts down. Walking to the next stop, he sees a large shape descending from the sky, a gigantic alien creature. Fighter jets attack it with missiles but they have little impact. Then a huge robot appears and the two behemoths begin fighting. Misato arrives in her car and ushers him ...