Huh, I completely missed on this.

So during the Shin Kamen Rider stage greeting, Mirai Moriyama (Ichiro/Chou Augment) actually asked Anno about the meaning behind "Shin" (シン・) katakana in his recent tokusatsu revival movies and his answer is fairly simple:

https://twitter.com/mi__n_n/status/1644967145061888001

Writing in kanji (e.g. 新, 真) gives them a fixed meaning, but in you can have multiple interpretations with katakana.

The first three Eva movies did have the word Shin in them but represented with the kanji that means new (*新* 劇場版; *Shin* Gekijouban = *New* Movie Edition).

[THE MYTHICIZATION OF RYOJI KAJI IN THE REBUILD OF EVANGELION TETRALOGY, or "Fucking hell, You made Kubrick and Tarkovski easier to comprehend than this, Anno"]

This is it, this will be my biggest #Evangelion thread ever. I don't think I can surpass myself anymore at this point. At first, his reintroduction is what he expected. He's still the same ol' Kaji who seems to have stuff going on in the background, but still the same old Ultimate Guy we know from NGE.

It's predictable, but also comforting to know he hasn't changed.

Yet.
#Evangelion

The replies are full of people telling me and everyone about how this film brought them to (happy) tears and made them want to hug tightly their loved ones.

To the people who told me Rebuild is "meaningless" and will be forgotten as soon as it ends:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

https://twitter.com/GhostlyOcam/status/1427630707153805315

I'm not kidding when I said Thrice Upon a Time is a monumental art. This is what art is.