Too depressed for sex (with a woman because he would have accepted if it was Kaworu)
Logan Bell
Eh, the EoE scene with the spear in the EVA might be a sex reference (as are a lot of things in that movie) but it still leaves open to interpretation whether Shinji consciously perceived it as such.
So that still leaves the question, though, of why he didn't go for it anyway; or alternatively see sex as a way OUT of how depressed he feels.
Daniel Collins
A, and also I don't think you want to have your first sexual experience while you're in mourning
Gabriel Lopez
He was completely messed up, distraught and anxious, and then a woman he’d begun seeing in a motherly/sisterly role made a move on him... I couldn’t blame him for pulling away, even when I was a kid I thought she was over the line there.
Blushing over embarrassment is different than blushing over being in love, see how miserable he looks in the images you posted? Now look how happy Shinji is when he blushes at Kaworu.
>jerks off to comatose asuka because he desesperately wants pleasure in all this sea of misery, doesn't even enjoy it. Considers kissing her in her sleep so he can prove he's not childish as she said earlier. >3 girls ask him to "become one with him" and he rejects them >One guy asks him to "become one with him" and he accepts while tears of joy go down his face I'm inclined to think he's bisexual but more gay than anything.
He "enjoys" it enough to bust a nut. What he doesn't "enjoy" is the regret at realizing he's the lowest of the low.
>Considers kissing her in her sleep so he can prove he's not childish as she said earlier.
Nah, it's Asuka who wants to seem like an adult. Shinji is clearly tempted by the sight of her lips.
>3 girls ask him to "become one with him" and he rejects them
Did he? Did he leave the dream voluntarily or did circumstance pull him out of it? The show doesn't specify.
>One guy asks him to "become one with him" and he accepts while tears of joy go down his face
He craves love more than sex. Kaworu clearly put more effort into getting to know him as an individual than Misato "well he's a teenage boy so surely having sex with a woman will cheer him up" Katsuragi or Asuka "well he considered kissing me in my sleep so if he's not holding me when I'm my fully awake, mean-spirited, negging-him-through-taunting-about-his-dead-mother self clearly it means he's no longer attracted to me" Langley "wait what's all this sticky white stuff all over my hospital bedsheets?" Soryu.
EoE leaves open to interpretation whether Shinji consciously realized the parallels between "penetration" of the EVA and sex (he's a bit on the naive side, as evidenced by his nonchalant reactions to Kaji's "is she still wild in bed" remark). Maybe he's just smiling at seeing Kaworu because he misses the guy?
Jeremiah Russell
>I mean, he DID continue to mutter Asuka's name after Misato saved him You act like he was muttering Asuka's name like a prayer, he only said "Help me, Asuka... help me" right after Misato told him to get in Unit 01. He was trying to run away again. Rei wasn't Rei anymore, Kaworu was dead, and Misato was telling him to get in the robot, so the only one left he could use as escapism was Asuka. Misato noticed that and immediately called him out. And when Maya was screaming and begging him to go and help Asuka because the Mass Produced Evas were literally killing her, he stood there and did nothing. At least manga Shinji had the balls to tell Yui to wake the fuck up and move.
Perhaps anime!Shinji didn't realize the EVA could move while stuck in bakelite?
I've never understood the "help me" thing, though. Did he not hear Misato's phone conversation with headquarters about Asuka fighting off the EVAs? Wouldn't that make him MORE motivated to get in the EVA, if only to be able to establish radio contact with Asuka, let alone use it to rescue her like he used to?
Jayden Butler
Again, I'm aware that even before the EVA was stuck in bakelite, he was reluctant to get in said EVA. But once he saw the EVA stuck in bakelite that was a whole different scenario.
Andrew Bennett
He doesn't enjoy it, though. Shinji didn't like who Misato and Asuka were as people, he mocked Misato for being slobby and mocked Asuka for crying about her mother. His attraction to them was shallow and they knew it and called him out on it. He accepts Kaworu because he loved who Kaworu was as a person beyond the superficial "he's hot", Kaworu was everything that he wanted to be.
Alexander Morgan
>Maybe he's just smiling at seeing Kaworu because he misses the guy? No, the storyboard describes Shinji as being in bliss and ecstasy, I think he knew it was sexual.
Ryan Bennett
>Did he not hear Misato's phone conversation with headquarters about Asuka fighting off the EVAs? Wouldn't that make him MORE motivated to get in the EVA, if only to be able to establish radio contact with Asuka, let alone use it to rescue her like he used to? He didn't want to get in the Eva at all, user. He had lost the will to live. I saw the "Help me, Asuka... help me" as a "Help me, Asuka. Misato is telling me I need to pilot again. Help me and pilot it yourself so I don't have to. Help me, Asuka".
Early on, after she'd only been his commanding officer and roommate for a few weeks. I would guess that toward the end of the series, after realizing the shit she went through, let alone how much of that was for him, he wouldn't dare mock her over something like forgetting to make breakfast.
>mocked Asuka for crying about her mother
Not to her face... except in the immediate aftermath of her calling him out on trying to kiss her in her sleep, at which point he would've thrown damn near ANYTHING at the wall trying to fight back. Usually he's meeker and milder around her than damn near anyone else, which shows either how intimidated he is by her or how enamored he is to her. (Possibly both?)
Speaking of which did either of them call him out on "shallow" attraction to them? I know Asuka called him out on how he acted on it, but not necessarily on it being shallow.
Adrian Davis
This. Asuka even says it herself: "You're just using me as an escape because you have no one else!"
If so, shouldn't he have told her that BEFORE she killed 3 guys for him?
>I saw the "Help me, Asuka... help me" as a "Help me, Asuka. Misato is telling me I need to pilot again. Help me and pilot it yourself so I don't have to. Help me, Asuka".
But... she was already piloting an EVA. Her own. Which is exactly what Misato's phone conversation with headquarters was about.
Kayden Scott
>after realizing the shit she went through She was drinking herself to sleep every night after Kaji died and he wouldn't even comfort her. He actually saw her crying on the table in one scene and ran away without saying a thing. >Not to her face... Maybe not, but he still mocked her for being a kid just because she was crying about her mom which is kind of fucked up. This isn't the fault of anyone else mind you, it's Shinji's. Throughout the entire series Shinji has a serious probably being unable to put himself in the shoes of anyone else and empathize with them. He's too convinced he's the only one that's suffering, and refuses to see anyone else outside of superficialities because they're all "others". The only ones that don't fit into that are Rei and Kaworu, Rei is more like a subconcious version of himself and Kaworu is his ideal self - if we want to take Anno's words and apply them to Shinji.
Tyler Allen
>shouldn't he have told her that BEFORE she killed 3 guys for him? He should've. In any case, Misato kept insisting and telling him to pilot the Eva.
>she was already piloting an EVA. Her own Yes, he wanted her to take care of everything by herself so he wouldn't need to pilot the Eva too. He was being utterly selfish. Again, in the manga Shinji was depressed but at least he still wanted to fight to help Asuka. In EoE, however, Shinji had given up since the very beginning.
