Asuka's Death - End Of Evangelion (english subtitles)

The fact that the users can feel pain was the biggest bruh moment in the show.

I love that she’s never scared even as her mech is being ripped apart, just incredibly pissed off

One of the things I love most about Evangelion is how agile and swift all the Evas are, yet you can still notice that there is great weight in motion going on.

At first I didn’t understand why she was screaming in so much pain, but the I realized that the mech is technically connected to her nervous system. Holy crap, when the mech got its guts ripped out, I can’t imagine how much pain she was in.

remember kids, whenever the characters FINALLY receive a true happiness, something very bad will happen

I see Asuka is a master of turning pain into pure fighting rage.

for those that still need explaining; asuka, just before this battle, had gained new hope in herself after spending several weeks hopeless and bedridden by associating her eva’s AT fields with instead, her long awaited mother’s love (she was SUUPER screwed up from what happened to her but thats another discussion for another time). by gaining this hope and seeing her mother in Unit-02, she harnessed an EXTREMELY high sync ratio with her eva, allowing her to accomplish even greater feats in the 5 minutes of battery she had to fight all 9 Mass Produced Evas. she “killed” nearly all of them, so she thought. SEELE crafted 9 replicas of Spears of Longinus, which harness the power to pierce ANY A.T. Field, and believably pierce through an Eva’s armor to inflict damage directly to the pilot. her high sync ratio is also a cause of this— so when Unit-02’s guts start getting pulled out and sprawled out.. you get the idea. you can actually see the HUGE amounts of dark, viscous blood oozing out of her left eye at 2:28 . it should be mentioned that Evas are essentially HUGE and powerful humans. all of that armor serves to hinder its own free will and movement and to abide by the Pilot’s movements. one of the most heart-wrenching scenes is when Unit-02 begins going berserk, acting on a will of its own and starts screaming in agonizing suffering. people at NERV stationed in the Terminal Dogma can barely watch, and even start saying “ASUKA, STOP! PLEASE!” Unit-02 was still trying to get up to fight, which it could’ve, hadn’t it already been disemboweled and pierced through the head. but with its guts and blood staining everything around it, all it could do was reach up into the sky; its final attempt of retaliation.. only to be pierced by all 9 Spears of Longinus replicas, leading to Asuka’s entire arm being severed, and killing her.

Still my favourite scene in the movie just for how real the screams are. They are fucking haunting.

Damn I forgot how brutal this was

Heart got ripped out of my chest when I watched this the first time. Has to be one of the most brutal death scenes in anime, not just in terms of gruesomeness but from a psychological standpoint of the characters. I've never seen a show like this where you can like and hate almost all of the characters at the same time, but I guess that's what makes it so good.

For about ten minutes, Asuka became the most beautiful character in the series... and then was brutally destroyed.

I cried when I was a little kid watching this. Traumatized me for a bit, but now that I’m older I just appreciate this masterpiece. Edit: The scene before this when she is still under the water in her mech and the camera just slowly zooms while she whispers “I don’t wanna die” over and over is such a claustrophobic and strangely anxiety inducing moment.

The scream sends shivers down my spine everytime I hear it, wow the actors did amazing jobs

"There's no way I can lose!" immediately loses after

the voice actor really killed it with this one

That scream will NEVER cease to give me chills... 😨

You have to give her props Asuka nearly won if it wasnt for the Battery Life, the angels breaking her AT Field, the angels regeneratiing, and them all jumping her at once

i remember as a kid i was watching this with some friend "bro its going to be epic!" then the eva 02 being ripped apart and all of us were like lifeless on the couch. weak in the knees etc. like WTF we're watching?? lol man those are the days

I literally watched this a couple hours ago, and when I saw all 9 replica Spears of Longitis pierce the Eva, I was in pure, unadulterated shock. This is probably one of the only shows I've ever watched that made me feel every emotion possible. I commend it on that.

I just want to know who sent her into battle alone? That’s a death wish if I’ve ever seen any. But it’s impressive that she felt all that damage and still put up a great fight.