>>4259599I always wondered what the implication for Misato was in the Manga version (or time-loop) of the story, because the last shot we get of Shinji is his carry on with Misato's greek cross necklace tied around one of it's grips.
So does that imply in the new timeline that he lives with Misato, or at least knows of her? Or perhaps was she his guardian prior to him getting on that train to move to Tokyo? That was really the only thing that confused me about it.
I find it funny in retrospect now that the last rebuild film came out that both it and the manga ending pretty much have the same outcome and message, hell both of them are even in a train station and end with Shinji leaving on a note of "life may be hard but it's worth it. Which makes me think either Anno asked Sadamoto to end it this way as a foreshadowing of what the last film would be or he heavily borrowed from it during one of the many rewrites of 3+1.
