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- 4.2 Popular culture and autobiographical inspiration.
- 4.1 Religion, philosophy and psychology.
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A 2014 Time Out poll of filmmakers voted The End of Evangelion as one of the best animated films of all time. The End of Evangelion became a box-office success, grossed 1.5 billion yen, won awards including the 1997 Animage Anime Grand Prix, and was praised for its scenes of violence, direction, editing, emotional power, and script, though some reviewers criticized its oblique religious symbolism and abstraction. In 1998, the overlapping feature films were edited together and reissued as Revival of Evangelion. Like Death & Rebirth, the creators conceived The End of Evangelion as a duology comprising "Episode 25: Love Is Destructive" and "Episode 26: I Need You", remakes of the last two episodes of the original television series. Shortly before The End of Evangelion 's release, Hideaki Anno and Gainax studio produced a feature film called Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth that summarizes the first twenty-four episodes of the series. The film features the voice actors of the original series, including Megumi Ogata as Shinji, Yuko Miyamura as Asuka, and Megumi Hayashibara as Rei Ayanami. Shinji ultimately accepts himself and rejects Instrumentality, preferring to live as an individual alongside others. Shinji is a young pilot of a mecha called Evangelion who is subjected to the Human Instrumentality Project, in which human souls are merged into a single, divine entity. The story centers on Shinji Ikari and his colleague Asuka Langley Soryu. The film serves as a parallel ending to the anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was aired from 1995-1996 and ended with two episodes that became controversial. The End of Evangelion ( Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン劇場版Air/まごころを、君に, Hepburn: Shin Seiki Evangerion Gekijō-ban: Ea/Magokoro o, Kimi ni) is a 1997 Japanese animated apocalyptic psychological drama film that was written and co-directed by Hideaki Anno, and animated by Gainax and Production I.G.