Does this scene actually mean anything? After all, he's just talking to himself...

Does this scene actually mean anything? After all, he's just talking to himself. The "people" he's talking to is just his versions of them that only exist inside his head. There's nothing to congratulate him for, since he didn't achieve anything except changing the state of his simulation. The actual people he thinks are congratulating him are all busy with their respective simulations.

Refer to multiple endings theory. TV series would be ending "A," movie would be ending "B."

Misread OP. Basically that scene means he accepts Instrumentality.

You answered your own question

Anyone really likes this goof ball?

>15 years old
>expected to save the world
>expected to get over mother's death alone
>expected to get over father absence alone
>expected to climb in a robot without no experience to fight a creature that destroyed the best military of the time alone
>expected to live with bitchy german sidekick who just insults him for not being her
>expected to fall in love with a girl who happens to be his mother's clone and do not get mentally fucked over this
>expected to survive the shitstorm when the powderkeg of Nerv collapses into 25 episodes of drama
>expected to do not run away when the pressure of failing is as destructive as dying
>expected to do not choose to destroy the world after he kills his best friend, watch older girlfriend die, watch bitchy girlfriend being sliced alive by harpies, lose everything he has in life including the only person / angel that gave a fuck about him (whom he had to kill himself)

Shinji had it so bad. I feel so sorry for him. He got shat on by the authors. I'd have chosen to end it all.

He has the biggest balls in all of anime. He EARNED that Congratulations.

He accepted Individuality, not Instrumentality.

He accepted that the world has pain but there are also good things in it. He accepted that misery is part of human experience and we have to get over it. He decided to do not kill himself along with humanity and that's why he got the 'Congratulations'.

He's only 15 years old, don't be mean.

EVA is just a more complicated version of 'Inside Out'.

>He accepted Individuality, not Instrumentality
No, that's the movie ending.

Well, if they're all in his head, then they're all essentially extensions of himself. Therefore, this would mean that he has learned to appreciate himself in a manner that he hadn't done before.

Yeah but did he ever get laid?

Nope.

Nope. Instrumentality was when everyone started turning to goo and was in EoE. Shinji rejected Instrumentality in the series and accepted it in EoE.

>The actual people he thinks are congratulating him are all busy with their respective simulations.
The general consensus is that the scene takes place during Instrumentality, meaning that the people congratulating him are actually the ones congratulating him.

Literally the same thing, they were made to make sense to the other.

For the last 14 years, the conclusive guide to the ending is

Episode 24 - > Episode 25' (The first half of End of Evangelion, before the credits roll) -> Episode 25 and 26 of the TV Series -> Episode 26' (The second half of End of Evangelion)

If you want a timestamp of exactly where Episode 25 and 26 of the TV Series happens during End of Evangelion, its roughly 1:14:00

There is no argument to this, End of Evangelion was always meant to be the actual ending to the series. This is the "Next Episode" for Episode 24 of the series, extremely rough animation of the in production End of Evangelion.

>For the last 14 years, the conclusive guide to the ending is
>Episode 24 - > Episode 25' (The first half of End of Evangelion, before the credits roll) -> Episode 25 and 26 of the TV Series -> Episode 26' (The second half of End of Evangelion)
Nobody other than retards use this "guide"

>Nobody other than retards use this "guide"
You can continue to go on not understanding how the endings even flow together let alone what they mean but dont be surprised when people call you fucking stupid because thats really what you are.

It doesn't matter if they flow together. That's not how the anime was produced. Release order is always the correct order.

Well whose fault was it?

what the fuck. anno was so poorly received inside and outside the studio, they went and made EoE to give it the closure it deserved.

>Episode 24 of the anime literally had the "Preview" as scenes from End of Evangelion and named the episode Air
>Next episode of the anime was called The World Ending, had literally none of the scenes
>End of Evangelion comes out, with the first half being called Air
>"Thats not how the anime was produced"

I really dont understand how fucking stupid you can be. The decision was made to have the actual finale be two episodes back to back as a movie release as they couldnt do nearly any of the stuff Anno NEEDED to do for the end of the series on a TV Broadcast.

You thinking that "Thats not how the anime was produced" is one of the dumbest fucking things ive ever heard.

>I really dont understand how fucking stupid you can be.
I don't understand how stupid you can be. The TV ending is one ending. The movie ending is another ending.

>anno was so poorly received inside and outside the studio
Are you actually braindamaged? Are you suggesting that Gainax didnt actually know that Anno was using all of their money and resources to create the ending to his series which would have had to be planned years in advance, and they didnt know until the end of the series even though they had published footage of the actual ending in the preview at the end of Episode 24?

This doesnt even work as bait, nobody is this fucking stupid.

Holy shit kill yourself

Are you ok dude?

>This doesnt even work as bait
Well you replied and got angry so it did work you fag.

Its just baffling how people can be that fucking stupid.

>The decision was made to have the actual finale be two episodes back to back as a movie release as they couldnt do nearly any of the stuff Anno NEEDED to do for the end of the series on a TV Broadcast.
Doesn't matter. It is what it is. Watch the TV ending and then EoE for the proper and true Evangelion experience. Anything else is just some weird fan fiction ending.

>Angry
Dissapointed, like everybody you've ever been in contact with.

>I-I'm not angry!
Are you a cute girl too? I want to hold your hand.

>Doesn't matter. It is what it is.
It couldnt be more clearer that it isnt what it is, the show itself is telling you that EoE is the actual ending. You refusing to accept that is just straight retardation.

Fan edits aren't canon

>The actual preview that was aired on TV in Japan showing that the episode after Episode 24 is supposed to be End of Evangelion is "fan edits"
How are you this stupid?

>even though they had published footage of the actual ending in the preview at the end of Episode 24?
So I guess I'm supposed to watch 4.0 before 3.0 since 2.0 featured preview footage that didn't appear in 3.0 but will probably appear in 4.0?

You shouldn't watch the rebuilds at all.

Yeah if thats the case, but that analogy is pretty stupid considering

>TV Series End: 1996
>EoE Release: 1997

>2.0 Release: 2009
>3.0 Release: 2012

>Comparing what amounts to storyboards of an unfinished movie to completely finished scenes
>Comparing a TV Series that needed a movie to allow the creator the freedom to make the real ending to a Movie to Movie series with no limits

But hey, except the fact that Anno blatantly said that EoE was after Episode 24 and you're all still too stupid to realize that, he could take us on the ruse cruise again.

You poor thing. The director's cut was produced after End and End wasn't planned at the time the show finished airing. The last two episodes aren't like that because they ran out of money, it's because Anno delayed for weeks trying to conceive any ending.

>Episode 24: 13th of March, 1996
>Episode 25: 20th of Match, 1996
>Animation for the next episode wouldnt be complete during the previous weeks preview
>"Anno delayed for weeks trying to conceive any ending" when the next episode was exactly 7 days later, and the final episode was another 7 days after that

Good try though.

Yes, weeks that would typically be spent producing a traditionally animated show with a completed script. Careful observers may notice previews included animation for the next episode in some stage of completion and that maybe anime isn't aired live. They were behind schedule at least since 18.