I think what TheCarkolum may be referring to what is known as the public face as people normally have a face they show the public which is Asuka's not so nice ego face and her private face which shows after she kisses Shinji and it goes wrong where she breaking down and vulnerable and going why did...

@TheCarkolum I see. Perhaps, instead of "non-human", we might say that the common thread, is being confronted with the presence of the "other". And that both your and my interpretations are two aspects of that? By the way, that picture, which episode is it from? It's from my &qu...

I always thought it was more of a... primordial thing (like the sea of nutrients from which life evolved). Specifically, those scenes during 3I in EoE, where Shinji is with Rei, and Kaworu, that it symbolized a sort of recreation of life. Or perhaps, of... Not isolation, but just of being alone wit...

Surely a character is defined by their personality? A character is defined by what it does through the show. And bear in mind Asuka does not always do things that matches her real being, her true personality. Her cunt personality can be a little distracting, but I love the character anyways. Don't ...

Shinji in EoE and Ritsuko for being emo mode because Gendo doesn't give a fuck abouth her (girl, it's Gendo...).

She's not quite human. She is an imitation. A doll . Coupled with that is overall her lack of agency and emotion, her willingness to do as ordered, and her disregard for self-preservation. It's as if she lacks a soul or her own. She is a human. She has a human soul, Lilith's, therefore is human. Th...

Well, yeah. There's so much to complain in episode 20. But the train sequence is, as we told before, a motif. The beach one is better, in my opinion, for several reasons. First, it has a purpose along the series, and it never loses it. You know, the human reality, in contrast with when we are inside...

Rei is not only creepy, but a hundred more feelings at the same time. It's perfect.

How many times is overused? I'm pretty sure you can count the number of train sequences used in the original series on one hand. In episode 20 is used at least 3 times, so pretty sure one hand won't be enough. Again, it's overused because most of the times it's not needed, it's used just because it...

Trains are burned into Shinji's psyche because they're inextricably linked to the memory of being abandoned by his father. Far from "pretentious", it's smart use of a motif. I'm not against that idea as much as its execution. I mean, it's overused and a lot of times is pointless, which ma...

Specifically the question is why sacrificing the design of two angels to express a vague symbolism of Christianity, to me does not make sense. But they are not sacrificing anything. Their designs are maybe the best of all. In fact, the symbolism doesn't even bother or matter. So, I don't see any pr...

Well, just because something is commonly accepted, does not mean it's true. I know. In fact, the "Unlimited Budget Works" is a joke to emphasize that, maybe the rumor became overbloated, but I still think that they got a high budget compared to other shows. First of all, Karas is not a TV...

Sources? Mmm actually it's hard to provide factual sources because usually they don't release official numbers, but it's commonly accepted that Ufotable, for example, as a big studio that it is, tend to expend large amounts of money in their projects. Look at this in the Crunchyroll website: http://...

Thanks Nahash for the post, very useful. Yeah, I knew money had to do with the production issues of Evangelion. I don't know why people keep denying that. Almost every show has the same budged. That's not slightly true. Fate/Zero had a large amount of money to use it on explosions and effects and so...

Oh yeah I've forgotten to mention the sarin gas thing.
One I've heard some time ago is that the Ramiel battle was going to be very much impressive, like in Eva 1.0, but money was lacking. So, maybe money did affect production too...

Mine is extremely biased. Here's some without any order:

Some people say there were production issues, other people say they ran out of budget (this is the most accepted by the fandom), other say Anno went out of his mind... So, I'm sorta confused. Does anybody know the real deal? I mean, it's obvious that some scenes had not the best animation quality an...

Are visual words related to what he was meaning when he was saying that the visual system incorporates the auditory one to form an integrated understanding because that which is recognized visually has to be processed and understood first through language, and therefore the auditory system, to be u...

I say sexualize everybody so that I can enjoy my eye candy in peace. What? I mean, what's the point of sexualizing? If you wanna get horny, just watch porn or a shitty ecchi for that matter. Don't get me wrong, you can sexualize adequately and with subtlety in order to make a character more warm or...

Could you explain a bit, what the term "visual words" means? And could you define 'significant'? Visual words, or "acoustic images", are the main basis of the Lacanian notion of significant. Visual words are just a synthesis of two mediums which a "concept" or meaning ...