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Postby bowen_shi » Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:38 pm

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Above picture: from episode 15 5:41. So Shinji was looking at Rei,but who was watching him?
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Above pictures: from episode 15 18:45. We can see after the kiss was ended by Shijji, Asuka’s arm was still frozen in the air. Then she rushed into bathroom. Notice the shadow in her face. She hid her true feelings.
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Above picture: from episode 16 7:42. Before Misato’s order, Asuka has moved to Shinji.
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Above pictures: from episode 16. When Misato gave the order to retreat, we can see Asuka was going to reject the order, but interrupted by Rei. Rei said ”Unit 01 and Ikari are still here”. It’s interesting that Rei was not following the order. It’s more interesting to notice Asuka’s reaction in her face. Now you may understand why Asuka just said “What? Is my bad-mouthing of Shinji that much of a problem for you?!”in the last picture.
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Above picture: from episode 16 20:43. Some people think Asuka is jealous of Misato’s fondness to Shinji. I can’t deny that but still, you can see after the battle, Asuka rushed off to check Shinji’s status right after Misato.
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Above pitcture: from episode 18 6:43. When Asuka was complaining Shinji, her foot was waggling lively. Body language can’t lie.
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Above picture: from episode 22. We know at this time, Asuka found Shinji and Rei were chatting and said:” He was melted into his Eva for a whole month until just the other day. What’s with him? He’s totally back to his usual thing again.” I don’t think Asuka was jealous of Shinji’s quick recovery. I mean, come on, they live in the same house, study in the same classroom, and she can only find his recovery until seeing him with Rei after some days? That’s a little odd for me. I think here reveals Asuka’s concern about Shinji during the last month, and jealous of Shinji and Rei’s relationship. And of course, being exceeded by Shinji.
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Above picture: from episode 22 20:59. It’s a surprise for us that Shinji appears in Asuka ‘s mind with this positive look at first. How many times we can find Shinji is that happy during the whole series, especially in front of Asuka? Maybe this is how you view a boy you like in your mind, I guess.

In conclusion, this is how a girl student in love looks like. I don’t care whether is “ love ”or not. At least for me, knowing that someone values me so much in her mind is enough.
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Postby kuribo-04 » Wed Jun 20, 2018 2:57 pm

Yup, there's lots of subtle stuff like this in Eva!
Honestly never payed attention to the episode 18 thing.
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Postby The Cruel » Fri Nov 02, 2018 8:17 pm

Nice analysis here.

As much as Asuka hides her feelings for Shinji, to not appear weak in front of others, the more she doubts herself what Shinji means to her, when they both are hindered by their fears and therefore never got to know the essentials of love and living, thanks to their parents.

And it only serves for selfish men and women who dared to be above Gods and Angels.

To make them initiate 3I and live for the rest of their days as the last remaining humans, to never get to know about humanity existing again in aeons from evolving out of the primordial state, is the ultimate sacrifice to save what's left in the face of the universe.

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Postby DarkBluePhoenix » Sun Nov 11, 2018 10:58 pm

That is the best detailed reasoning behind the argument that Asuka loves Shinji, or at the very least cared deeply for him. I never noticed that Asuka saw Shinji happy in her mind, and you are right to point out that he was not always a happy camper, and I don't ever recall him smiling around Asuka, save for one or two times. For her to think of that memory above all others about Shinji considering how she outwardly treats him, she must love him.
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Postby FelipeFritschF » Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:26 pm

Late to the party, but yeah, these are great details. Asuka would never admit it, but she's very concerned for Shinji.

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Postby PenPen4life » Mon Jan 14, 2019 3:22 am

To make them initiate 3I and live for the rest of their days as the last remaining humans, to never get to know about humanity existing again in aeons from evolving out of the primordial state, is the ultimate sacrifice to save what's left in the face of the universe.

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How is this misconception still going on.

Yui literally says all life can choose to return. The adam and eve theory is the eva equivalent of the birther conspiracy. It directly contradicts what we are directly told:
Rei:
"Anyone can return to human form as long as they can imagine themselves in their own heart."

Yui:
"All living things have the ability to return to their original form... and the heart to go on living."

Yui literally says everyone can choose to return. The sacrifice, the possibility of pain is outlined here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4-Q5mH6EaM
I will eventually be betrayed

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i wanna see them again.


Gendo's "selfishness" is literally rejected by someone who had the power to remake the world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQaafNForNs

Not only is your assumption regarding the state of humanity unfounded and directly contradictory of what we are literally told. it also would be an utterly awful narrative choice that completely disregards what the last 30 minutes of the movie set up.

Inferring a message is nice, but inferences should be based on the material you are making inferences about, not headcanon.

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Postby The Cruel » Mon Jan 14, 2019 6:56 am

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You can’t be sure that Shinji and Asuka ‘ll still be alive to witness humanity to come back.

And even if it takes a strong will for humans to come back, it doesn‘t mean that this will happen so easly and in any moment.

Time and Space are too fucked at this point.

The last time all of life on earth could evolve out from the primodial state into a stable state before 2I and 3I took aeons.

Humanity will never get to know that Shinji and Asuka had ever existed.

It‘s the same as them being buried alive.

Shinji and Asuka are death stranded.
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Postby pwhodges » Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:14 am

View Original PostThe Cruel wrote:And even if it takes a strong will for humans to come back, it doesn‘t mean that this will happen so easily and in any moment.

But nor is there any specific justification for your extremely pessimistic view.
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Postby The Cruel » Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:44 am

View Original Postpwhodges wrote:But nor is there any specific justification for your extremely pessimistic view.


For a pessimist I feel myself as good as a optimist can ever be.

Because I don't have any hopes that end up being false.

All this talk about hope, forgiveness, happiness and love is like thrown into the wind in contrast to the horrors that happen in Eva.

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Postby PenPen4life » Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:26 pm

View Original PostThe Cruel wrote:^
You can’t be sure that Shinji and Asuka ‘ll still be alive to witness humanity to come back.

Sure I can, the climactic choice Shinji makes is between "seeing his friends again" and "avoiding betrayal". Not "living without the rest of humanity" or "everyone dying". The former is not only directly implied but it also was built up to for the entire series whether it be the train scenes in the first episodes or yui noting that gendo was scared. The latter is an edgy plot twist that undermines everything else we've seen in the story.

And even if it takes a strong will for humans to come back, it doesn't mean that this will happen so easily and in any moment.

Strawman, No one said it would be smooth or instantaneous. You're just assuming, for no reason, that "in any moment" means "the remainder of Shinji and Asuka's life"


Time and Space are too fucked at this point.

Another assumption. Stop making assumptions, show me what in the show you're referencing when you come to these conclusions

The last time all of life on earth could evolve out from the primodial state into a stable state before 2I and 3I took aeons.


Humanity will never get know that Shinji and Asuka had ever existed.
"Anyone can return to human form as long as they can imagine themselves in their own heart."

It‘s the same as them being buried alive.
Shinji and Asuka are death stranded.

Because you want them to, not because of anything that happens in the actual script.

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Postby Mr. Tines » Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:12 pm

And people said that I was being pessimistic, back in the day...
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Postby PenPen4life » Mon Jan 14, 2019 2:22 pm

View Original PostMr. Tines wrote:And people said that I was being pessimistic, back in the day...

WTF? LOL.

Why would lynchers/rapists be the first ones to find the will to live?

Why would Asuka and Shinji just lie their all day long?

Why would Asuka, established as a fantasic marshal artist just let ppl fuck with her?


So many random ass assuptions that don't even make sense lol. Nice people tend to be less insecure than mean people and would likely take less time to reject suicide.

And no lol, that's not the "upside" version, that's the version where you make all the worst assumptions that the likes of Gendo made, ignoring that the climax of the film has Shinji refuse to make the same assumptions. Looooool.

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Postby ACGT-Samael » Mon Jan 14, 2019 3:27 pm

View Original PostPenPen4life wrote:How is this misconception still going on.


You can partly blame TV Tropes for presenting that misconception as the standard interpretation of the scene.

Anyway, to actually talk about Asuka and Shinji, to me it's pretty clear how they feel about each other, but I sure wouldn't call them a healthy couple. Shinji's so introjected ge can't really read between the lines with people, and Asuka deliberately obfuscates her feelings, both out of the defensive mindset they share. Maybe in a universe where their relationship was given time to actually grow they could have become good for each other, but Eldritch Horror is rarely good for relationships.

Also women really tend to not like you once you've stroked your goat over their comatose body.

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Postby dzzthink » Sun Aug 23, 2020 4:31 pm

Hi everyone, I just want to add to this post, because there is an amazing amount of detail in the scene where Asuka and Shinji kiss. I didn't make this discovery myself but it was posted as a comment by Jonathan Wang on the YouTube video of the scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kME7NJrxhow. He notes that: "you can actually see Asuka get subtly more irritated as the kiss goes on due to Shinji's inaction. At 0:50 or so in addition to Shinji's face color change, her eyebrows are also subtly shifted to one that makes her look annoyed".
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Postby ShinjiStranglesAsuka » Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:05 pm

View Original Postdzzthink wrote:snip


Good catch.

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Postby FelipeFritschF » Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:14 pm

It's a shame this sort of detail is rarely reproduced in dubs. I remember the ADV dub had a bunch of "naughty naughty" moans in that scene and it completely breaks things. In EoE, too, Miyamura gave Asuka an exasperated tone confronting Shinji that just gives a *hint* of heartbreak and dissapointment, but in the dub she was just mad and that's it.

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Postby Reichu » Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:18 pm

Why would a dub need to reproduce a purely visual detail?
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Postby kuribo-04 » Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:46 am

Never ever noticed the eyebrow shift. And I've watched the show an insane amount of times.
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Postby FelipeFritschF » Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:37 am

View Original PostReichu wrote:Why would a dub need to reproduce a purely visual detail?


Uhh, I think I got kinda confused and meant to refer to that part in EoE specifically as well as the creative liberties they took with the "mmmphs".


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