But I don't understand the argument that the main pilots need to remain cute and recognizable. The whole point of the 14 year time skip in 3.0 is that it thrusts Shinji into an unfamiliar and dark world, and the audience is supposed to feel weirded out and alienated as well. Aging up the pilots so ...

Shinji saved humanity, but at the cost of becoming a murderer. This is a very simple tragic story and that's why it works. Kaworu is not a "complex character" and that's not a problem. What makes him unique is the subversion of tropes that were already scattered throughout the narrative. ...

There doesn't need to be a specific degree for you to become an Eva pilot. Misato and Retsuko happened to be in the same college and ended up at Nerv working in completely different roles, though I imagine Retsuko must have done computer science. We know that Yui Ikari studied bio-engineering and t...

24 has Shinji and Kaworu sharing a bath, Kaworu taking Shinji's hand and Shinji blushing, if that's not homoerotic, then I don't know what is, lol. Kaworu is an angel disguised in human form so a humans gender and sexuality mean absolutely nothing to him! He loves Shinji for his humanity he offers ...

He doesn't say it in Rebuild, but Kaworu does indeed say suki to Shinji during the bath scene in NGE (好きってことさ / Suki tte koto sa). Likewise, Shinji says suki when talking about his feelings for Kaworu to Misato later in the episode (好きだった / Suki datta). The franchise as a whole is made to be ambigu...

"silvermoonlight” I'm not against the pairing I was really for it at first. As I felt maybe the message was about growing up and moving on and how people romantic tastes change as they age but as I thought about it harder and harder the cracks really started to show. The very idea of it being ...

Why am I the only one? who can’t get that image of Misato’s last and only kiss with Shinji out of my head every time I hear this song? It nearly always moves me to tears thinking how powerful and full of love that goodbye was? So many others feel she was just manipulating him to pilot again, soo not...

Actually, I really can't see why so many people seem to think years have passed between the beach and train scenes, as if he would spend 14 years wearing that choker lol Because Shinji appears older? And if it’s the “same” Mari as before? She would be the same age as his mum! Why is it Mari is alwa...

A few HC's on the background of SEELE. Keel Lorenz, a commoner with a natural interest in the occult, was born in 1900, and served in WW1. He joined the Thule Society during the Interwar Period, but found their theories to be too racially charged and went off to have Indiana Jones-esque adventures ...

I have just finished perusing this thread, but feel some miss the overall feeling this scene is trying to portray? Asuka’s at rock bottom, has run away for the last seven days! Doesn't care if she lives or dies, wallowing in apathy, the bath scene is full of symbolism designed to “reference” suicide...