>>44455>>44460AFAIK, norma-lags who make eva reviews claim they relate to Shinji in terms of feeling lost, in terms of being stuck in the path parents have laid out for their kid.
In this sense, Shinji is ostensibly alright-looking on the outside since he's #1 mecha pilot and the NGE's drama is a trip into the disturbance of a guy who - to his dismay - have to take the path his parents have laid down for him. No matter how cool the path is, Shinji isn't enjoying it.
Oh and speaking of this interpretation as one that ruined eva for me.
"Thanks" to this interpretation, Shinji is the last person I relate to now. My life's drama has been anything but the "laid out path" drama; quite the contrary, I had to go through the pain of pleading my parents to give me such a path only to be greeted with your typical rock-and-roll era boomer "freedom > alle" mad shouting that stuck with me. Fuck it. I literally wanted to be a cog in the machine and now I cannot even become one due to the distortion my parents have successfully programmed into me despite their mutual after-divorce despise