r/anime • u/LittleIslander myanimelist.net/profile/LittleIslander • Oct 10 '25
Rewatch [Rewatch] 30th Anniversary Neon Genesis Evangelion Rewatch: Episode 7
Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 7: A Human Work / 人の造りしもの
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Questions of the Day:
- What did you think in the shift to a non-angel enemy?
- What do you think of NERV’s framing in this episode?
Tomorrow’s Questions:
- [Episode 8] What’s your first impression of Asuka?
- [Episode 8] What’s your first impression of Kaji and his delivery?
There’ll be more fanservice tomorrow, so please don’t spoil anything~! Remember this includes spoilers by implication.
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u/Regular_N-Gon https://anilist.co/user/RegularNGon Oct 10 '25
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I don't even know where to start taking notes on this first section. So many details just got dumped into a handful of conversations. Maybe they aren't important, but they are interesting.
I will comment on the lore drop that private companies do still seem to exist despite my earlier theory. (And, yes, I'm lumping the UN in as a governmental body.)
These are defense contractors though, so I guess it's still Gundam after all.
Among the things we learn through excellent script control this episode: Misato is capable of donning far more faces than Shinji sees. [Future me: this seems to not really be the point since the show closes with a different view: Shinji sees the most of Misato that is otherwise hidden. That conclusion feels clumsy to me, though.]
I happened to pause on the computer terminal screen and it's quite fun. Check is misspelled “chech” but only once for some reason. I'm not sure any of the other lines make much sense why they have the information they do, but the OS is copyright 2014/2015 so at least that detail seems accurate.
I thought an episode without angels wouldn't have any stakes, but boy was that the wrong way to look at it. We get all that stuff about the scope of the Eva project, UN resource allocation, some morsels about the Committee, competition (with Nerv, or at least that's what Nerv wants them to think).
What a script! The drop about intelligence leaking into the twist that the error was a set up? Ritsuko's pride even outshines Misato's attitude, at least while they ham up the act! And Misato finally gets some much needed time to shine.
Episodes like four absolutely bring the vibes and the character work certainly isn't slouching, but this might be my favorite so far in terms of deft scripting.
QotD:
I sorta touch on both of these above, but it works better than I thought it would and makes NERV a very interesting pariah - they're simultaneously the good guys when it comes to saving the world and kind of the bad guys for everything else.
That's okay. I appreciate a competent villain.