Yeah, pretty much. What really creeps me out, though, is that Asuka seems to suffer karmic retribution for not being a Yamato Nadeshiko---she realizes that she's an evil gaijin because she hasn't injured herself enough in her attempt to win Shinji over, then gets shipped off to the morgue. ...

Probably says "Nebuchadnezzar". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nebukadnessar_II.jpg I agree. It's hard to compare the two, but look at the bottom glyph on the Key's field: it's a big asterisk (*), which is present twice in the wiki link. With this one, i tried to ma...

At least when real!Asuka cut herself, she did it with serious intent. Hm. I thought we had reached consensus that Asuka hadn't cut herself, but the red water was from rust & lighting. People in 2010 still care about Pokemon? :um: Surprisingly, yeah. It's ridden a wave of nostalgia among...

Yes, Shinji is just despairing alright. "But I can't get into the Eva... There's nothing I can do..." Yes, that's the statement of someone despairing over their only loved person in the world being ripped to nasty little shreds and being able to do nothing about it. Cripes! If ...

Shinji's screams of the damned upon seeing mangled Eva-02 counts for nothing? >_> Please ignore any typos or odd grammar; emotionally exhausting day. Not to me. 'Forgive me for eating your plums' etc. To excuse Shinji I would have to postulate either stupidity (what did he think was...

Why not? It's better than just sitting there. Hell, in that scene Maya is more concerned about Asuka! Maya (on speaker - screaming): Shinji!! EVA-02! Asuka! Asuka... she's...! Shinji: But I can't get into the Eva... There's nothing I can do... (EVA-01 breaks free from the...

Even if Shinji had gotten to Eva-01's cage before the JSSDF attack and before the bakelite coverage, Yui wasn't budging. Eva-01 didn't reactive until after Eva-02 and Asuka were killed by the MP Eva series. (In terms of the why: it's possible that Yui just wanted to get 3rd Impa...

Both the reviews cited in wikipedia were written by people who are clearly familiar with the show and reference it in their reviews. Just about the only positive review of 2.0 I've seen that was written by a non-anime fan was Variety's rather clueless review, which compared NGE to The Da Vinci Code...

another possible source: http://www.webcitation.org/5sqJK1ybE http://gainax.forumfree.it/?t=47948108 Seems to be a full copy this time. (On a sidenote, I have jury-rigged a script to every day ask Firefox what new URLs I visited that day and fire off an archive request to WebCitation & the I...

Fireball#386965 wrote:yeah, for once it's not that bad to live here.

at last i could watch it now. the last fight really blew my mind. i am glad i've waited for the blue Rei release.

I see what you did there.

Many aspects of NGE require us to investigate the use of single words or phrases to further our understanding of the show. I understand what you mean about information being lost in translation, nonetheless, the information is still there, it has been placed there by Anno/Khara for a reason, and th...

No, but "someone" is an impersonal, abstract term, not a pronoun that you would use when faced with the prospect of killing someone you know. Even "I can't kill her" would have been completely believable. As-is, the line feels bizarre and inhuman for the context it's giv...

Horn likely saw my original posting, it being the Eva ML after all. Nor has Horn gotten back to me of late, and I hesitate to press him further. So I suspect that he is either unable or unwilling to help.

Given the still ongoing 2.22 debate, is it safe to say that the pro side boils down to these arguments while the con side is for these ? No. I read these 39 pages in a single sitting. My background is more philosophy than filmography so a number of the arguments went past me, but there are, at a mi...

If more than anything, there could be more than we know to Mari and to be honest, I REALLY doubt Mari has no personal issues ;) Oh, Mari has issues. She's 'special'. And I don't mean in an Asuka way. I specifically mean the cloud-cuckoolander or Sadamoto-envisioning-her-as-insane-and-talking-to-a-r...

HE'S NOT GOING TO SNUFF IT. Kaji WILL survive this whole thing. :soapbox: Well, if we amend that to 'won't snuff it before the human race in general' or 'will survive past Armisael', then he might well make it. I mean, Touji was both spared and got his sister back, nor has a...

Whew. You weren't kidding about the audio quality. I thought I'd transcribe the important bits, but between the sound and the translator's Aussie accent, I was missing a lot. So I'll leave it for a better amanuensis than myself to do...

What kind of response are you trying to get? Any response from IG would be acceptable. For example: 1. gomen, we suck; the forum archives were deleted years ago 2. here you go! (w/attached .html) 3. former employee X might know; here's his email address 4. the forums were spun off to an...

re: http://forum.evageeks.org/viewtopic.php?p=198735#198735 which is in a locked thread. I posted in January about this: http://eva.onegeek.org/pipermail/evangelion/2010-January/005777.html But no one on the EML got back to me, nor did IG's webmaster, nor MDWigs. So might as well try again; perh...

Interestingly enough, there are actually chiptune versions of both. Komm Susser Todd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKQOoUJLj0 I found that *bizarrely* compelling. (Not the video. Looks like someone just ran 7 minutes of EoE through a filter and called it a day.) I also still really like ...