Anime Edits on Instagram: "Neon Genesis Evangelion sits at the crossroads of adolescence, obligation, identity, and a world designed by people who stopped learning how to articulate softness. Shinji Ikari pilots an Evangelion not because he wants the war, but because being needed was the first definition-of-self he ever learned. His fear isn’t a character flaw, it’s a starting condition, an emotional survival script the narrative refuses to rewrite cleanly into inspiration. The story lets his re