Postby C.A.P. » Sat Jan 18, 2014 2:42 pm
There's two way Eva could be seen. The most likely outcome is that their presence will still be around, and simply won't "go away." Yes, there will be no new projects for years, but the impact was so great, no one will feel like they disappeared, no matter what or how many projects comes out of the franchise in the future.
If not that, then it could end up the same way anime such as Yamato, Harlock, Astro Boy, and so on are seen: Although they caused the "style" of that decade, it will not be seen the majority of anime fans who simply don't connect to it: only people who stumbled across it, through memories and/or by chance, or those who love learning about the "history" of anime will bother watching it all the way through. Sure, we'll still be around, but unless big news happened in a post-Rebuild world (like some kind of revival anime), I will not be surprised if this place becomes more and more niche as the years go by.
In other words? We'll just complain about "the good old days" to these new kids who like their moe, yuri and yaoi way too much, and how we "missed out" the experience of seeing the souls of 14 year olds being crushed and ruined by a director who probably hates himself more than his audience.
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