*A special exception is made for Japanese, due to ''Evangelion''’s status as a Japanese work. Many users have at least some degree of familiarity with the language, and some are in the process of actively learning it, so it feels natural to bat a ''little'' 日&...

Regarding the 'SEELE speak Japanese' bit, I would venture to guess that it is purely for the sake of the original Japanese audience rather than some narrative contrivance, and that this would be true for every foreign person portrayed in anime that also speaks flawless Japanese. Absolutely ...

NGE already established a precedent for giving characters of full or partial foreign blood appropriate names, as I pointed out. And Anno established that they're all trope names. We have lots of established things, you merely picked one. Since Kaworu does not have a specified nationality, we ca...

Last night I was largely speed-posting, so here's a more thorough rebuttal. The "evidence" for the Doctor K. hypothesis presented in this thread has two major flaws: 1. Selective picking of anime traditions to suit the theory. Seele members, or Kaworu himself for that matter, speaking ...

Reichu wrote:doesn't look one bit Japanese!"

Your assumption, does not come up in the series.

Not a very intuitive possibility, IMO.

Opinions. My opinion is that my stupid agent name theory is just as good as any alternative.

Being among the only available evidence, its direct implications receive precedence, I should think. Not really. Seele could have given Kaworu a Japanese name only some time prior to sending him to Japan, as an attempt to confuse Nerv. Who knows, maybe Kaworu himself requested that. No way of knowi...

Is assuming/surmising they'd assign a Japanese name to a Japanese character really THAT far-reaching...? :? A similar question would be, why do all members of Seele speak such good Japanese, if they're an international cabal? And considering there's - so I've heard - a character nam...

@Dr. Nick: Why does it specifically matter how or from whom Kaworu got his name? Why wouldn't it matter? Like I said, if Anno didn't create the name, he couldn't have injected any hidden meanings into it. Anno was at the helm, so he clearly had to approve of it. And since he readily app...

Since this hasn't been posted yet, have some copypasta: This character was named by the screenplay writer Akio Satsukawa. Nagisa [shore] is a word related to the sea. Also the kanji nagisa 渚 consists of katakana SHI シ and kanji SHA 者, therefore he's SHISHA シ್...

Edited. I guess I should sometimes re-read some of the more important source materials instead of just reflexively link-spamming.

Huh? On the scan, in the table, the EVA sizes were all unlisted, which I suppose means N/A. The pic scale is meant to illustrate those with a correct height I think... But according to Chronicle, Banpresto already had the official stats available. That scan could be from some promo materials, publi...

and I was left shouting "you brag you spent 4 months writing the script to make sure you got it right, but you frelled up the "Angels come from Adam not Lilith" line?!?!?! That's the most understandable of their errors. There's a confusing pause in the audio that may lead to ...

Maybe making a page for general parodies (like that image) that don't really deserve a page of its own. Agreed. I can't think of anything besides "Gendo Pose", but we should at least make a note that Gendo didn't invent it and we're using it for lack of a better wo...

Incidentally, a set height range of 40 ~ 200 m was published in the unit specs for Banpresto’s consumer game “Super Robot Wars F”. Makes me wonder what kind of crazy bullshit booklet that scan I posted is from... Anyone want to try deciphering the Japanese text? Also, I'm not entirely sure abou...

Does the theory of Kaworu being a clone of Ritsuko come up in Manga's commentary? I think I remember there was something like that in it...

Okay, what was this thing again, and does it belong to Tributes or Fan Parodies? It comes up really often, so I think it needs to be explained.

And talking about fan parodies, should we include Avemarian there, too? Are there any other notable parodies currently not listed?

Does this necessary classify as some form of plagiarism or is it a homage to NGE? If you have to ask questions like that, it only shows that you know very little about anime, let alone about storytelling in general. I apologize if I sound like a broken record, I know I have a track record of attack...

-The concept of transcendant evolution. (speculative) -The concept of progenator/mysterious/ancient/evolution-inducing aliens (speculative) -Classical music (speculative) -Sun, moon, earth (speculative) More correctly, "not traceable to a single source". -R...

No, Gainax actually said that they "officially" go from 40 to 200 meters in height, with the same weight variations. Forty meters is their "normal" size since it's the size they take in most of the shots, but they expand for dramatic effect when needed. In fact, the official...

Preferably, the word "ambassador" should redirect to the Gendo pose page. ...Or now that I think about it, should it be the other way around? They're both problematic terms, really: "Gendo pose" is not accurate, because Gendo didn't invent it, and "ambassador" ...