And yikes regarding the other two benchmark shows because those haven't been getting good press (at least not in my filter bubble). Maybe Amazon is no better than Netflix for ELAS! While I can't comment about Wheel of Time, I found the Lord of the Rings trailer to be very scattershot. There were so...

^You raise a number of good points and observations here, and I'm with you. Anno's not unique in these kinds of sentiments or themes, they run the entire anime world. Oshii & Konaka jump to mind, but it's extremely prevalent and it doesn't indicate right or left; Miyazaki, Anno's close friend &a...

Eg the literal translation of "You've got to destroy the rest of the Eva series" seems to be something like "the Eva series will surely be destroyed". Presumably, the context makes it clear that it's meant as an instruction to the person she's talking to, but out of context, doe...

We have user Pluto who is fluent in Japanese and English, but he doesn't seem to be around very often nowadays. Also, we use the old (ADV Platinum) translations of scripts on the commentary project and several of those include comments on the translations of scripts in particular scenes. I know it's...

Eva-00 does run on an umbilical system in Episode 06, the same as any other Eva, and its berserk incident in Episode 05 ends only when its batteries run out of energy. It uses both umbilicals and batteries. These could just as well be mounted in the chest, back or abdomen, under the Eva's armor. Eve...

gelflinghand#934277 wrote: Perhaps she just doesn't sing?

This seems a likely explanation. It appears that she's into tango singing and has provided some vocals for One Piece, but has no significant musical career beyond that I can see.

Didn't completely understand your question. Does the wiki page help? https://wiki.evageeks.org/Lilin Humans in the Rebuild continuity are born from Lilith in much the same way as in NGE. However, it's an entirely different story with the Angels in the Rebuild continuity, whose origin is unknown and ...

Is that entire writeup your work? I'm impressed, although I need to take a quick second look at the facts. Feedback on this would have been so much better if only BobBQ were still around, he knows more on the subject than anyone else I've ever met.

Random aside: someone has probably already said this, but if they make Evangelion 2.5 I hope they title it "Evangelion 5/2" or "Evangelion 5÷2". "Evangelion 5÷2" sounds perfect! :hahaha: I have some confidence in Amazon based on their decent stewardship of the Expanse ...

While it may be true that the sentiment is common across the Japanese political spectrum, the right wing is significantly more overt and assertive about it, and its attitudes (both openly spoken and not) align with what had been pointed out about Anno's colleague Sadamoto's chauvinism and racism, w...

I'd say however, there isn't much pointing at Anno having a more progressive or conservative stance on social issues, though. But he very much a nationalist - he is openly advocating for Japanese interests and autonomy. He might not be a politican (yet?!?), but he seems to like using his works as a...

That's a good point! However, that does make it out to be a seriously sloppy design, forcing a tactical choice between the EM launch rails and the use of extended battery power.

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"Rebuild is a cash cow and 3.0 sucks" is a mischaracterization and reduction of my opinion. My mistake, please read that as "3.0 + 1.0 sucks". I was very tired when I was typing that and forgot the " + 1.0". As far as 3.0 is concerned, you're quite innocent, but that's...

The Netflix Bebop was a mess in multiple different ways and was all-around inferior to the original product. Anno's own remake nosedives at the end; we were all expecting Instrumentality, and it sure enough happened at the same narrative point. As for pumping out Eva, I meant moreso that the entiret...

Because doing so would be repetition without motivation, other than the practical fact that recognizable characters are selling points. NGE veered off the rails and became totally dominated by its creator, and I say that as a positive--any attempt to do so again would be for the sake of doing it, a...

I find your argument to be self-contradictory. Evangelion has a secret society/conspiracy tale, a spy story, a science fiction story, a commentary on the state of Japanese society in the 1980s and 1990s and so on woven into it, and the backstory in the episodes I mentioned in the previous post hint ...

The trouble with turning the Evangelion franchise into another Gundam is that so much of Evangelion comes from Hideaki Anno himself, and Anno's influence as an auteur really shapes Eva to an extent that Tomino's doesn't with Gundam. Gundam is quite a bit simpler and more straightforward story-wise, ...

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