What was the real reason Anno and Gainax made End of Evangelion?

Supposedly they were satisfied with the TV ending, even if it was rushed and not what was originally planned.
The rebuilds were cashgrabs meant to fund Anno's new studio, but was money also the motivator behind this one?

He wanted to make his own "The Ideon - Be Invoked"

It’s a mecha series, a finale film is necessary

It's a cool movie.

He wanted to asuka's cute breasts to be animated

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Because every popular franchise got a movie back then.

The preview in episode 24 shows the mass produced Evas in episode 25 but in sketches.

That was added in the director's cut, the broadcast version didn't have it

No one, and I mean no one, liked the TV ending. It was typical Gainax crap... they had a habit of blowing through their budget and having to ultra-cheese the final episode or two to get by (see Gunbuster for another famous example -- they pulled out all the stops to cut costs to the bone to shit out that final episode).

Evangelion blew up and they knew fans would clamor for a proper ending, so they made a bunch of them over time.

was this art necessary?

It was essential.

No one, and I mean no one, liked the TV ending. It was typical Gainax crap

EoE is the rejection of the original ending and its message.

I don't think so, they just have different messages
TV ending = other people have their own issues too, you don't have to suffer alone
EoE = relationships with other people are scary and painful, and can go terribly wrong, but the alternative is isolation, and isolation is death

NGE = self acceptance is possible for Shinji and it's possible for you too
EoE = without self acceptance, all that awaits you is a hell of your own making, just look at Shinji, do not do like him

Every single entry of eva is about Anno's own struggle with self acceptance.

Money. Also the Ideon tv-series had a shitty ending that was later changed with a movie and Anno wanted to copy that

I'd hardly call the world post-EoE hell
Yeah, the aesthetic immediately following a destructive near-apocalyptic event isn't exactly pleasant, but the world and the sun and the sky are all still there, and everyone who had their life taken from them by eva now has another chance to flourish with the looming threats of angels and SEELE gone for good
It's not hell, it's a test to see if humanity has the willpower to go on living (just like second impact), and if Shinji and Asuka of all people could muster enough strength to reform themselves, what's keeping anyone else from doing it too?

I'd hardly call the world post-EoE hell

Purgatory.

It's not hell, it's a test

It's not a test, it's reality, period. Facing reality is the whole point, and by that I mean the reality of one's self: self acceptance. Without self acceptance, Shinji is effectively going nowhere, no matter where he runs off to.

if Shinji and Asuka of all people could muster enough strength to reform themselves

Sheer fanfiction utterly divorced from anything that happened in EoE and basically the complete opposite of what's being shown onscreen.

Sheer fanfiction utterly divorced from anything that happened in EoE and basically the complete opposite of what's being shown onscreen

You're literally replying to a post that has a webm from the movie itself that disproves your claim, dude

Yui: "It will be alright. All lifeforms have the power to restore themselves and the wish to live. If you decide to live, anywhere can be heaven, because you're alive. There will be chances to be happy everywhere. As long as the Sun, Moon and Earth exist...it will be alright."

basically this
it was a bunch if people's passion project based on Anno's angsty script (in fact, many things about the movie were changed from Anno's depressive vision, and it ended up being better for it)

... and Tomino wanted to make his own "Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato"

Don't bother replying to that faggot. He's a Rebuild tard who sees EoE as nihilist when in reality it's just him projecting his anger on Shinji. He failed to understand the ending

Money.

I don't think there's any real reading of EoE at not nilhistic. It literally ends with Shinji saying he can't change and will always be unhappy.

There are opportunities to be happy everywhere

Did we watch the same movie?
Shinji's unhappiness comes from the idea of the hedgehog's dilemma, with him being too afraid of being prickled to try to get close to others
The end of the movie is Shinji deciding that he might as well try to run straight into the quills

According to the logic of the guy you're replying to, Anno wasted his and the audience's time by giving a message of hope in Instrumentality and then flipping over the same message in One More Final. Yes, he choked Asuka, but he wanted to confirm whether he was in the real world or not (it's literally obvious by his facial expression that he isn't in his right mind either). It's also probably true that he was terrified that the first person to come out was someone he hurt a lot and was hurt by as well, and to save himself wanted to harm her .The most balanced interpretation of the ending in my opinion is that even though Shinji learned the value of relationships and hope, he still has some way to go before he fully heals. The same can be said for Asuka. Anyone who thinks that both of them endued up at square one in One More Final is a retard

EoE = relationships with other people are scary and painful, and can go terribly wrong, but the alternative is isolation, and isolation is death

Dude that's Eva TV's entire thesis, the episode titled Hedgehog's Dilemma is like episode 4.
TV finale shows singularity happening from Shinji's own internal perspective, in EoE we see it from the outside, the cataclysmic world ending event that it (almost) is. They tell the same story and show the same things and preach the same message.

Yui is such a shitty mother. After lecturing her son she decides to fuck off in space instead of actually meeting him and deciding to spend time with him as she should have. Fuck man Shinji got done dirty and really deserved better parents than Gendo and Yui.

that's one of the main themes of the whole show, every major character plays into it. everyone is trying to figure out how to live in the emotional wreckage of what the previous generations left for them. even the setting is a part of it. eva is a fundamentally post-bubble work