>>3645280But the movie did make it so only marishin is canon. It didn't sink kawoshin in the sense that if you want you can pretend they are talking about love in their scene but that doesn't change the fact that it's a relationship of the past that is over just like it happens with rei and asuka. Every art of them together as adults IS cope. Some felt uncomfortable with the pairing and left because of their interpretation of the movie or beacuse of other nip evafags bullying them, others don't even like to think about it and draw them as 1415 year olds. Others said they would only draw manga kawoshin from now on. It's clear from everyone who worked on this movie that mari and shinji end up together. Japanese men working on moe idol shit, who love age gap relationships and fanservice every 5 minutes don't think a man and a woman can be friends. And everyone who watched the movie understands this. Have you forgotten about the great fujo depression after the movie was released in japan? if "hikareta" is oh so romantic, then why didn't native japanese people react happily to it? and then they were bullied AGAIN when Iseki released his illustration. Someone must have asked him what was he going to draw and he explained and no one saw anything wrong with him thinking of Kaworu as a father figure. So they encourage you to see this """"""""""love"""""""""" as anything you want it to be. It gets a worst treatment than Asuka or Rei's feelings since the movie refers to those as romantic love.
Kawoshin's """""""love""""""" gets a 2 minute scene and half of it is about Kaji talking with Kaworu with reused animation from 3.0.
It's the same as EoE without the "I love you" part. It has an ending with Kaworu out of Shinji's life and the rest is all art that tries to pretend that didn't happen