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Non-Japanese audience probably can’t fully empathize with the emotions in this line of Shinji in the #EndOfEvangelion

「ずっと一緒にいたいんだ」
I want to be with you forever

It is a marriage proposal — Well, some Japanese may say “will you marry me”…

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…like we do. But more often than not Japanese men say subtle things such as “can you cook for me forever,” “I hope to be waken up by you everyday,” or “I want to be with you forever” when they propose

With that in mind, we can probably better understand…

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…why Shinji felt so desperate when Asuka rejected him.

In the previous scene, Shinji mumbled that

「曖昧なままにしておきたいだけなんだ」
I just want to keep it vague

he intentionally dodged facing what he truly wanted, or who he truly wanted…

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If you are still confused about or even troubled by Shinji and Asuka’s love confession in the past tense, there are several things to keep in mind:

1. In 3.0+1.0, someone else used past tense before Asuka and Shinji did:
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…Black Rei (Kuronami) was the one who used past tense before everyone else did

And the context is: at that point, she knew pic 4 is what would happen to her in a sec

Anno already gave us all the hints in Rei. We just need to connect all the dots
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Once you’ve made this connection, then you can go one step further and ask:

What happened to Black Rei after she turned LCL?

She met Shinji again

And that’s all because of:

2. さよなら “Sayonara”: the spell to meet again
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