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What's the meaning of the crayon painting picture just after Shinji choke
Asuka ? The picture below is some of the crayon-painting in The End Of
Evangelion:

**Unknown Guy** [![Unknown
Guy](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGopK.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lGopK.jpg)

**A boy inside a house?** [![unknown kid inside a room
?](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lemiU.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lemiU.jpg)

**Wth is that ?** [![wth is
this](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jHb8n.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/jHb8n.jpg)

**Boy and woman ?** [![ Boy and woman
?](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mw33a.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mw33a.jpg)

**A bucket of fish** [![Summer vacation, i guess
?](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AOEdC.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AOEdC.jpg)

**Dog Corpse** [![Dog
Corpse](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IFw4s.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/IFw4s.jpg)

**A Murder Case** [![Murder
Case](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HJo7T.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HJo7T.jpg)


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What's the meaning of the crayon painting that appear in End Of Evangelion?


I think the general consensus is that it's up to your own interpretation. They
are a mix of actual children's drawings and some that were made to look like
children's drawings but were actually created by the staff (e.g. the gutted
dog and the bucket of fish).

There is commentary that's part of the ["Eva Tomo no Kai" (Eva Fan
Club)](https://wiki.evageeks.org/Eva_Fan_Club) newsletters that supposedly
mention that these drawings were created by children who went through
abuse/traumatic experiences and were drawn as part of some sort of therapy. I
can't provide the actual source or the scan, though, so take that tidbit with
a grain of salt. UPDATE: [Twitter user verified that this is a false
rumor](https://twitter.com/htGOIW/status/1453247436634349578)

So it's possible that the sequence alludes to that of a child (or children, as
in the Evangelion pilots) who went through traumatic experiences (piloting,
fighting, general psychological struggles from the events of the series) and
attempting to cope with them. Sort of like the idea behind the therapy
children's drawings.


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As an art therapist and psychologist-in-training, I can tell you, that yes,
the pictures that were actually drawn by children (the "real" pictures) could
likely be a part of art therapy and reveal psychologically-
damaging/traumatizing people or events. However, these drawings would usually
be kept confidential when drawn within therapy sessions, so it is irregular
that they would just be picked up by Anno and added into the movie out of the
blue. . .


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I personally think that the unknown guy is actually Asuka crying in one
specific frame, The angle of the nose makes me think about how closely related
the two pictures are. The boy inside the house I think is Asuka's mother after
Asuka comes in and sees her hanged, I think that all of these pictures relate
to Asuka's past, or things she sees in her everyday life. The boy and woman
looks like the Geofront and the spear of longinus.


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