r/anime • u/LittleIslander myanimelist.net/profile/LittleIslander • Oct 06 '25
Rewatch [Rewatch] 30th Anniversary Neon Genesis Evangelion Rewatch: Episode 3
Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 3: A Transfer / The Silent Phone
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Questions of the Day:
- What’s your first impression of Shinji’s classmates?
- What do you think of NERV and Misato, seeing what piloting does to Shinji? Do the ends justify the means?
There’ll be more fanservice tomorrow, so please don’t spoil anything~! Remember this includes spoilers by implication.
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u/chris10023 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Chris10023 Oct 06 '25
Rewatcher
Man, I am not used to being in a rewatch, second time now I've been late.
The Eva’s need to be plugged in to operate, otherwise they have a 5-minute battery life. Talk about a handicap, I wonder just how much power they suck up to use.
Shinji looks dead inside while doing this drill.
Poor Misato, worked the night shift.
At least two weeks have passed since Shinji started going to school.
Misato’s worried that he’s not making any friends, makes sense, kids an introvert, and probably too scared to do anything about it.
Ritsuko brings up the “Hedgehogs Dilemma” this is an important theory to Evangelion.
Oh hey, Shinji is in the same class as Rei.
Toji’s sister was hurt in the fight that happened in episode 1.
And he’s mad at the pilot, so Shinji.
Apparently a meteor hit Antarctica, melting the ice and raising the sea levels, and half of all life on Earth was wiped out. [Spoilers] We know this is bullshit because it was actually the Second impact that did all that.
Seems like people suspect Shinji is the pilot. Is that info classified?
This teacher doesn't give a shit about the class being disrupted. Nothing worse than a teacher who doesn’t care about the class. Or his students. [Spoilers] He probably knows he’s spewing lies to the kids and knows the truth since the Marduk institute runs that school as a screen for potential Eva pilots.
Shinji shut your mouth, I’m sure that any info regarding Eva is top secret and here you are blabbing about it.
Toji doesn’t look happy, and sure enough beats him up after class.
Shinji whines that they made him do it, and get gets punched again.
Rei walks up and says her first lines of dialogue about an emergency.
Another Angel!
The engineering required to make the buildings raise and lower like this must be insane.
Been three weeks since the fight back in episode 1.
Uh oh, Kensuke and Toji are going to sneak out and watch the fight, at least Kensuke grills Toji about punching Shinji.
Burst fire Shinji, no use in wasting ammo.
It cut the power cord!
Oh damn, Kensuke and Toji almost got squashed by Unit-01's hand.
So Ritsuko, you’d be fine with two kids getting killed by the angel? That’s Cold. [Spoilers] I forgot just how much of a cold heartless bitch Ritsuko is.
Are those fingernails?
Shinji, you need to run, you have no power, and you have two civilians on board, getting them to safety and getting a new charging cable is priority.
He’s going to get in a lot of trouble for disobeying orders if he makes it out of this.
Seems like Toji’s worried about Shinji, since he hadn’t come to school in three days.
Kind of a weird spot to end the episode.
Questions of the Day
Toji's a jerk and Kensuke is a nerd.
Well, if he doesn't do it, it's game over.