How did Shinji learn to love himself? I still don't understand that

How did Shinji learn to love himself? I still don't understand that.

You gotta fake it to make it :)

because he wanted pussy. the pussy always wins. you can't beat the pussy

Now, son, stop being a little faggot and get in the fucking robot.

What if I can't fake it?

just don't love yourself, stupid.

What?

If you can't fake it, just don't love yourself.

He didn't, that's what's explained in EoE. In the TV ending they made him congratulate people to give a measure of closure, but in fact, he didn't learn shit. TV ending happens between the mindfuck and simulated sex in the LCL ocean.

I just finished EVA and it has me so depressed with so many questions, what do i watch after this. all ive seen is initial d, kids on the slope and EVA (with EoE)

The world fucking ended and he got in another world where you're close to everyone; somehow this made him confident to take a desicion of wanting to live again
Just watch it over and over, first time i watched it and it made me REALLY REALLY depressed, but after a while and watching EOE like 100 times i got alright

>How did Shinji learn to love himself? I still don't understand that.
He met his mom and he knew she loved him, but also that he didn't need validation from his flawed father. He also gets off his pity train and realizes how much everyone around him tries to help him despite their own lives falling apart, because they too love him.

I choose to take the live-action scene as canon - he sees how Asuka and Misato would be without him.

Probably took some zoloft.

It will take some years to digest it

Tenga Toppa Gurren Lagann or K-On!, both are acceptable.

Don't question me, just do it.

He believed in the Shinji, that believed in him.

He got mind raped into ti.

I don't think he loves himself in the end, I think he finally becomes "okay" with himself, which is a very good start. Also I don't think the souls saying "Congratulations" are the actual persons, just Shinji's own projections.

I gotta rewatch Evangelion this weekend.

True answer - I went directly from EoE to Dragon Maid, and was cured within the space of about 12 minutes.

Eva is one of the best things I have ever seen in my life, but it hurt me in ways I still don't understand.

>implying zoloft does shit

he does love himself in the end, after having shared other people's experiences by merging with them. He realizes that everyone was fragile and alone, and this makes him love himself and everyone else. Imo

He got an opportunity to hear people's thoughts about himself. When he realizes the shinji in their mind is a different shinji in his mind he undserstands later that people like him and don't see him as the shinji he thinks he is in his own mind.

This, misery loves company, but being able to identify his pain with every one else is better and he feels less alone.

this-> Also what would be great if this series didn't focus so much on Shinji's inner turmoil and focus more on the gaping plot holes of the more interesting background plot left behind in the series.

I'm going with this one, as it very nicely puts into words in idea that I was groping towards.

I saw it as rather than learning to love himself, he gained the perspective that he can one day love himself, even if it takes a while and is hard going. The possibility that he could be happy as long as he kept living meant he finally had a path to take that wasn't simply treading water or worse

Ive watched the whole of NGE every weekend since it aired.
Ask me anything.

Why is Shinji such a beta lord?

Asuka is that you?

Watch more anime.

Do you love and accept yourself, user?

I don't even know what that means. How do I find out if I love and accept myself?