Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 26: Take care of yourself.

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Episode Context

Directly continuing Episode 25's descent into the Human Instrumentality Project, Episode 26 serves as the series' philosophical conclusion, resolving Shinji's internal arc rather than the external conflicts built across 24 prior episodes. This is the final episode of the original 26-episode run, and the narrative threads left unaddressed here were later revisited in 'The End of Evangelion' film. Everything the series seeded, Shinji's self-loathing, his fractured relationships, the question of why he pilots, converges in this deliberately unconventional finale.

Runtime24 min

Filler StatusCanon

Plot ImportanceHIGH

Air DateMar 27, 1996

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