Video Gamey storytelling. This seems to particularly affect works in the classical fantasy genre, probably because a lot of these people lack any sort of reference for these types of settings beyond their favorite JRPGs. Sword Art Online is pretty much the ultimate fantasy anime, since it literally ...

I saw something about this on /a/.
The four squares were taken from the background in this shot:

pwhodges#597867 wrote:But that was true before 4I

That's the point, we don't know if there was anything left to destroy.

^We don't have any evidence that anyone who's not part of either Wille or Nerv is even alive. In regards to Third Impact, I'm calling retcon on this one. Even if it's possible to rationalize all the destruction, it's undeniable that there's an enormous disconnect between 2.0 ...

PWM is one of those story elements that were mentoned once, never to be heard from again. Frankly I think it's a stretch think that it explains anything in the show, especially at such a late stage as EoE.

^That must have been because she absorbed Adam.

Gendo says her body is falling apart is because of her unstable AT field, and it seems pretty clear that this is the reason he's able to stick his hand inside her.

The meaning of the epilogue becomes a lot more clear if you think of it as a parallel to the film's other major strangling scene. The other scene being a manifestation of Shinji's fear and hatred of rejection, source of a great deal of human drama in the story (and was ultimately what dr...

The wiki says Keel is based on an Austrian child psychologist. I think trying to say he's Jewish and therefore that NGE can be seen as anti-semitic is still a huge stretch to be honest. Well, an old name for Seele was Essene, which was also the name of an ancient Jewish sect. I wouldn't rea...

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l37/Corporeal/Rei/f5622805.jpg [/spoiler] Did they actually consider having the Evas turn into giant babes at some point story? Cause I think I read about it somewhere around here, perhaps there's someone who could verify. Maybe it was just another one of Yamas...

The antagonists are also German and Japanese.

I've been wondering... Okay lets face it Shinji is much more focused on than he was even in the original. Just about everyone else has suffered in terms of charecter depth and development. Hence Shikinami having a lot fewer issues than Sohryu. And less issues means she's better adjusted. So...

Maybe there's some supplemental material or discarded scripts that I'm not aware of, but based on what the show gave away I never got the impression that Yui was a scheming asshole, she's arguably the noblest character in the show.

I found it confusing too, but I didn't notice that Yui's clothes suddenly changed. That little detail makes it pretty obvious that we're simply going through every incarnation of Yui which naturally leads up to Eva-01. As for why she eats Gendo, I suppose that's just what mindless be...

Xard#594938 wrote:>watching manga

There are people who watch their mangas on Youtube, I saw it at the library the other day.

And Like Na7e said, his choices weren't "stop Z or 3I". There was "stop Z and then don't rape the core " too. Na7e's imaginary scenario calls for divine intervention somewhere inbetween steps 1 and 2. Never mind that it was Shinji's burning intent to rescue Rei t...

Misato and friends are responsible for putting him in a trillion dollar experimental super weapon whose mere existence could potentially cause the end of the world. Take that as you will. I guess my point is that the thoroughly unpredictable nature of the Evas is what's really to blame. And sinc...

Eh, not really. It's pretty clear Misato had no idea what was going on, and Ritsuko . . . well, nobody's ever said she gets a free pass so that's kinda moot at this point. Doesn't change Shinji's involvement either way. Does it really matter whether anyone had any idea what was ...

Kid blew up the world, I don't think it's all that unfair to hold a grudge when he's a moron about it. Misato, Ritsuko and pretty much anyone involved in the Eva project were accomplices in the crime. The other side of the story is that they were able to defeat Zeruel only because Shinj...

Their attitude towards Shinji is very unfair, but it works nonetheless if you think of it as plain old human weakness, they're all more or less at the breaking point. And that's where Kaworu comes in.

Motoko's fashion sense just seemed really out of place. While the rest of Section 9 wore regular civilian clothes, she was walking around in a leotard.