NAveryW wrote:It's quite possible that his character didn't really get to show through and become three-dimensional because he only got seven minutes of screen time. With more time, we'll see a side of him (or sides) that we've never seen before. Possibly including his palms.
Watch EoE sometime.
BrikHaus81 wrote:The only reason Kaworu is so popular is that he satisfies some sort of moe desire amongst the screaming fangirls. They needed something to fill the void left by Kaji's death.
He does that thematically in many ways. I am a bit of a Kaworu fan, but hardly for the reasons you state above.
Really, he's not that great of a character, he's totally two-dimensional. How much character growth can one person have in, what, seven minutes of screen time?
I think it might be more than that. I'll have to sit down with a stopwatch or something.
For what little there is, Kaworu has captured my fascination far more than his counterpart, Rei, and I think they managed to squeeze an amazing amount into what ended up being such a short screen presence.
Funny how we all see the same thing different ways. </the obvious>
If Anno truly intends to make him a central focus of the first new film, it is simply because he has sold out (which has been apparent for years), and not due to any "artistic vision" he may have.
This is not necessarily true.
slothen wrote:I never liked Kaworu anyway. Probobly because they shoved him in and killed him off in the same episode, then tried to pass his relationship with Shinji as "deep and personal." I know this was due to budget problems interfering with the creative process, but the result was a character that I cared little for whom I believed to have little place in the series as a whole.
Although not implemented to the extent that he could have been, Kaworu has the distinguished position of being a counterpart to Rei (ancient Seed trapped in body of Lilim adolescent) -- which acts on various thematic levels -- and allowing Adam, the mother of the "Enemy", to have a multifaceted role within the plot and be more to the audience than a glowing silhouette or a sessile embryo.
TriLink12 wrote:if Anno had the money during the TV series, he would have given us a heavy dose of Kawrou right then and there. That WAS his artistic vision, but he simply couldn't afford it at the time.
SAUCE?