>>4144318Well, χαῖρε ὦ φίλε. I hope you would stay.
>>4144663"If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer,
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues-
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori."
No country here today is worth dying for, my friend. The only country we ought to love is the one beyond this place.
>>4147508In my view, it is a foreshadowing of Instrumentality to come later and of Rei's connection to people, including or especially Shinji --- at least in the actual Evangelion, i.e, in the series of the 1990s. I can agree with both
>>4147905 and
>>4148536. I agree completely with
>>4150105's first point. Regarding Kaji, however, it's not known to us whether she appeared to Kaji at his death. It may be that such a thing could only happen after her soul was reunited after the events of Episode 23, but this doesn't align with the first episode's appearance, unless her connection to Shinji was an exception to this possible rule. We should discuss this further.
