Do You Love Me? (Neon Genesis Evangelion)

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"Do You Love Me?" is the twenty-fifth and penultimate episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, created by the animation studio Gainax. Series director Hideaki Anno wrote the episode and developed its storyboards alongside Kazuya Tsurumaki, who directed it. The episode follows Shinji Ikari, the teenage pilot of Evangelion Unit-01 for the paramilitary organization Nerv, as he grapples with having killed Kaworu Nagisa in the preceding episode. As a plan to merge human consciousness begins, Shinji, Rei Ayanami, Asuka Langley Soryu, and Misato Katsuragi confront their fears and memories through a series of introspective exchanges. Gainax originally planned a conventional climax involving a large-scale battle, but severe scheduling problems forced the staff to discard a completed script and substantially revise the planned conclusion. The staff rewrote most of "Do You Love Me?" in just two weeks. The staff consequently relied heavily on editing and previously produced...

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