Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
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He crammed Evangelion full of themes and iconography from Judeo-Christian texts, science-fiction novels, Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (which Anno helped animate), and even a Robert Browning poem, among other sources, but he got really obsessed with psychology after falling into a deep battle with depression .
Like Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me or The End of Evangelion , this film is so deeply immersed in the dense mythology and self-contained symbolism of its epochal TV predecessor that to assess it as a stand-alone story on its own terms would be a meaningless endeavor.
The franchise is also an anime classic — equivalent in acclaim, auteurship, and cultural footprint to America’s Twin Peaks or 2001: A Space Odyssey.