Why we do hate Shinji so much?
Shinji
Or Shinji faggot
Or the pussy Shinji
Or the coward, the scary, the undecited, the lazy Ikari
Are names that describes very well
Well.... maybe not a perfect way
But, yes reflect some characteristic of the character
Almost people who has watched Evangelion
Hated Shinji in some point
There are thousands of scenes where he complains and depress when everything is going to hell….
But just left one important question ¿Why we do hate Shinji a lot?
*Very excellent music*
Why we do hate Shinji a lot?
*Asuka voice in Spanish: You are a stupid!*
Why we do hate Shinji a lot?
In my opinion, is true that he deserves our hate because he doesn’t have courage in the critic situations
nevertheless, I guess the reason is in the creation of character.
Is clear that Evangelion have deep influences of the existentialist,
philosophic current that it was very popular in some zones of France, in 1960 and 1970,
one of the most important exponents is Jean Paul Sartre
he wrote one book named “The existentialist is a humanist”
and in this text he defended his philosophic position and he explained some bases of way to thinking.
In one part of the book he mentions the reason of the existentialist characters are very annoying,
there he said that they are annoying as the shit because this current philosophic postulates that everybody can decide our way
in other words, the coward decides to be coward,
he doesnt't have a biological fault or a mental illness.
The coward decides to be coward, and any change in his attitude it depends only on him.
In this way is that we hate Shinji a lot,
because he decides keep catatonic to the destruction.
If we think that he doesn’t have the power or he isn’t “the chosen one”
Shinji would only be an annoying character;
but the reason of our hate is because he decides not to get in the robot,
he decides get down on the floor while NERV have troubles,
he decides to be a coward and he decides to be like that,
this a attitude obviously is very annoying.
We hate him not just because we have watched a many vibrant characters in Evangelion,
like Misato
Asuka
Or inclusive Gendo Ikari
We hate Shinji because everybody have one Shinji Ikari inside of ourselves.
Who has not been through difficult times, in when we were able to do something for change the result but instead we just run away to the battle or we were stunned before chaos?
Shinji represents the attitude most crawl,
and in sometimes the most noble, that the humanity have.
Hero and without balls live together in the same character.
Shinji represents the pedestrian human and
too represents this portion of each one at in some point did not want to fight for save himself,
and we just did keep amazed
I don’t want finish this video of tragic way.
So I cite another great existentialist, Simone du Beauvoir,
*SPOILER ALERT*,
in her book “The useless mouths”,
the principal characters decide fight with all energies, after of they have thought if they do it or not,
then they destroyed their own town and they will decide their destinies in this epic battle.
One lines make us think that we can change what we are, if we decide it.
Clarisa - ¿Are this people the same of yesterday?      Juan Pedro – (Not)* today they have their destiny between their hands.
Simone du Beauvoir, 1951.
*The parenthesis whit the “not” is mine, it was maximize understanding of this cite.
*Sorry for the mistakes in the subtitles in the future videos I will do better work. If you found any mistake comment it. I can make better translations ;)*
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Remember you don’t be a Shinji Ikari…..
or if you are, to be a Shinji with balls.
