"It is, kinda. Even if it's mostly kids your age from Tokyo who got their own round of bullshit, few years down the road from us."

That's the part that gets to Shinji the most. He's still trying to figure out where the hell Mitsuru was for the Phantom Thieves debacle. (Signs point to 'the asshole at the top of the human conspiracy had enough pull to block her out,' which is a different kind of upsetting.)