Get in…on Some Official Evangelion Glasses, Shinji – Gizmodo

Neon Genesis Evangelionis so dense with symbolic meaning that it can be easy to overlook some of the smaller, simpler ways the series uses seemingly mundane objects the characters hold dear to convey their thoughts and feelings about ideas like love and pain in the story being told.
Though Gendo Ikaris the only core Evangelion character who consistently sports glasses, the glasses come to mean quite a bit to otherslike his emotionally fragile son Shinji, and Rei, the enigmatic young Eva pilot who…

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