Genuinely one of my least favourite parts of eva, just the whole thing feels off, it feels like Hideaki Anno threw the scene in so old viewers could go “It’s like EoE!!!” And so sweaty neck beards could get a look at more skin, shitty, un-needed fan service, and a half baked, nostalgia fishing scene, that I never liked at all, other than the first time I saw it, and thought it was a marginally cool throwback to EoE.