"his heart," don't you mean
neon genesis evangelion (episode two, "the beast")
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“The Beast” takes its sweet time before it finally lets you know what happened in the battle between Shinji and the Angel that closed out “Angel Attack.”1 The ultimate outcome of Shinji’s fight with the Angel is not at issue—it’s plain Shinji lives and the Angel dies—but how he got there, after a very unpromising first few steps, it keeps under wraps for as long as possible.
Instead, it tells a lot about the aftermath. We know lies are being fed to the press and that SEELE, the people Gendo apparently answers to,2 aren’t happy about the damages and the amount of money required to fix things; we overhear a frightened conv…