she considers herself young due to having her physical aging stopped by the "curse", and her usage of the term may not relate to her actual age. One justification for writing in the time-skip could even be so that Asuka can be affected by the curse as well as Mari, to make it seem slightl...

and therefore Asuka was alone when she yelled for Shinji. To my mind the intriguing thing is that she yelled for Shinji at all. Consider: she's been without Shinji for fourteen years , presumably in many fights as well; she has no idea what state Shinji is now in, to the extent that when they r...

Chaos Pudding#575182 wrote:could we assume that the reason that pilots no longer age is because they are slowly starting to be transformed at a cellular level into something akin to actual Angels?

Ah, like magical girls become witches in Madoka Magica, you mean? There's nothing like keeping up with the neighbours!

NGE 's a given, as I've come to this forum. In somewhat the same vein, I have also enjoyed: Martian Successor Nadesico (absolutely hilarious) RahXephon (so like NGE, and yet so unlike - definitely not a clone) Gurren Lagann (just such fun to watch, and good characters to...

I am currently watching Martian Successor Nadesico ; it's my second time through it. Very funny indeed, laugh out loud stuff at times, but with a serious core some of which wouldn't be hard to miss in places. Lots of parody stuff, too, only some of which (I presume) I get, because I ...

Here is an avi I used for a while that's a bat with a hat:

A "Wilderness Sabbatical", as in Scott Pilgrim, eh? :~)

OK, I suspected that was out of line, but I just felt like trying it for size...

Kendrix#574356 wrote:50? What if any of them is in their midlife crisis?

Oh, I'd dealt with mine by then.

I thought of another reason for Rei to be absent. She wouldn't hold 3rd Impact against him as much as others. And not because of the saving her bit. What was Rei created for? To influince 3rd impact. She could very easily have been the triggerman instead of Shinji. Hang on; if I recall what I&#...

Ynnead#574358 wrote:He didn't know or Care he was going to cause third impact.

Um, how could he care if he didn't know?

Kendrix#574300 wrote:I still can't make myself think of something else, it bothers me, to the point thatI'm seriously upset in real life.

We might open a support group or stuff.

Perhaps this film needs an age 50 certificate, so that only people sufficiently grounded in their lives can get to see it!

Good grief! I think I must have led a sheltered life...

Shinji's attitude to world and its destruction was not innocent. But your attitude (Shinji's in this case) to something will vary according to your understanding of your capabilities. You can emotionally yell "damn the world" when you don't think you can do anything, b...

My avi is Shinji from the end of Rebuild 2, which I presume most of you recognised. However, on forums which allow it, I use a script on my server which delivers a random choice from over 100 images (mostly anime or manga, but not all) each time it is refreshed: http://cassland.org/images/PJ...

Stryker#574014 wrote:It's because of Q, isn't it?

No interest around here in v13 of the Sadamoto Manga, then?

(I have both the English and the Japanese editions.)

Hi, I'm Paul. I am not a typical anime fan, I suppose, but here I am none the less. I have been watching a lot of stuff recently, but NGE was the first anime that I watched completely; I wrote about my initial exploration in an article here , and am working on a sequel about all the things I hav...