Image Request Thread

[Ray]

Any particular types of Kaworu picture? Alone or with the obvious company? I've got about half as many as of Shinji, I think.

Are you really Sixty-eight?

[pwhodges]

^ Yes, I was born in 1946 and have two great grandchildren. I have delayed retirement for 5 years, and so have 18 months more at work.

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Kaworu outfits; enjoy!

[robersora]

Thank you very much!

[ElMariachi]

Only a few uniforms - but he has quite a variety of casual outfits. I put a couple of dozen on a page here for you. I've not included the ubiquitous duffle coat in there, nor hospital gowns.

That makes me remember a pic of Shinji in a WILLE officer formal uniform, with cap and coat, very classy.

[StarShaper7]

Would anyone happen to have a pic featuring Asuka in nothing but leg warmers?

[Lavinius]

Picture of Shinji in WWII uniform? Or Rei I guess.

Or anyone in, like, Byzantine garb.

[Mr. Tines]

Shinji


Reu & Kaworu + Gendo & Fuyutsuki

[NemZ]

Is this still a weird subcurrent in anime/manga to put Nazi uniforms on various characters just for shits?

[Mr. Tines]

still

That's really something nostalgic...coming from this 1997 doujin anthology "Lost Paradise 5" which I owned. Guess I should not bring it with me when I travel to Germany or France...

Wish there are bigger scans but the text is revealing. Asuka mentioned the Tokaimura nuclear incident and the hostage taking of Japanese embassy in Peru, both happened in 1996, as conspiracy and sabotage attempt by some "evil power". Shinji got the uniform from Kaworu and inspired to join the "Evangelion National Socialist Movement" and form the "Eva Jugend" to promote "pure-blooded Yamato tribe" and combat "the evil power". Wish I could read other text as some like Hikari's are too blurred for me to read...

[Bagheera]

Even if it's being done ironically it still really bugs me to see popular characters used in that fashion. It's bad enough when it's just something commercial, but when it's something with that kind of history behind it . . . ugh.

[robersora]

Putting anything beloved into Nazi clothes is really not my jam.

[Dream]

To be honest it kinda makes me cringe that there's such a kneejerk reaction to anything Nazi... Rather than fighting their ideas, people seem content to lose their shit at a bunch of uniforms and act like we're so much better for it.

It's bad enough when it's just something commercial,

Not very sure what you mean by commercial there, you mean things like Shinji promoting aftershave cream and things like that?

[Bagheera]

To be honest it kinda makes me cringe that there's such a kneejerk reaction to anything Nazi... Rather than fighting their ideas, people seem content to lose their shit at a bunch of uniforms and act like we're so much better for it.

No one's lost their shit here. We're just recognizing bad taste for what it is.

Not very sure what you mean by commercial there, you mean things like Shinji promoting aftershave cream and things like that?

Yup.

[Dream]

No one's lost their shit here. We're just recognizing bad taste for what it is.

Losing their shit was bad phrasing on my part, but when every time something Nazi gets brought up and there's at least one token guy saying how the Nazis were terrible or whatever, it strikes me as hollow lip service done as nothing more than a self-righteous custom or because it's what you're socially expected to do. The social reaction also comes off to me as proof of how deft propaganda and social manipulation has gotten... For all the rightful disdain Nazi ideology gets i don't think most people would be able to quite say why they were something people needed to fight against outside of generalities or hyperbole, and thus it's just a matter of time before the same mistakes repeat again in another skin...

I'd also like to note the comments aren't directed so much at this instance in particular but just the wider trend i see. Sorry for getting off-topic.

[Bagheera]

Losing their shit was bad phrasing on my part, but when every time something Nazi gets brought up and there's at least one token guy saying how the Nazis were terrible or whatever, it strikes me as hollow lip service done as nothing more than a self-righteous custom or because it's what you're socially expected to do. The social reaction also comes off to me as proof of how deft propaganda and social manipulation has gotten... For all the rightful disdain Nazi ideology gets i don't think most people would be able to quite say why they were something people needed to fight against outside of generalities or hyperbole, and thus it's just a matter of time before the same mistakes repeat again in another skin...

I'd also like to note the comments aren't directed so much at this instance in particular but just the wider trend i see. Sorry for getting off-topic.

Dream, you're combining a holier-than-thou attitude here with a position that's one step shy of Nazi apologism. Probably best to quit digging.

[Lavinius]

I fail to see any hint of anything like sympathy for the Nazis in what Dream said, unless saying something that a subtle Nazi apologist might say now automatically implicates one as a subtle Nazi apologist.

Those Nazi uniforms, with the exception of Misato's, look absolutely terrible. And that's just because she's being fetishized viâ the uniform in a way quite counter to the Nazi sensibilities, which doesn't speak well of the artist's Naziism.

Actually that seems to be sort of the thing that Dream was talking about, though at the other side. The Nazis, not considered as an actual civilization, but as a myth. For the mainstream, this is as the Titans or Giants or worse as a joke; whereas neo-Naziism is basically a cargo cult. I saw something on tumblr about that.

Anyway, I meant Japanese WWII uniforms. But really, that's too specific. Any good-looking militaristic uniform would do. The bloody Utena duelists' outfits would do. In fact, those might be even better.

[Monk Ed]

Losing their shit was bad phrasing on my part, but when every time something Nazi gets brought up and there's at least one token guy saying how the Nazis were terrible or whatever, it strikes me as hollow lip service done as nothing more than a self-righteous custom or because it's what you're socially expected to do.

That annoys the fuck out of me too, but I didn't see any of it here.

Dream, you're combining a holier-than-thou attitude here with a position that's one step shy of Nazi apologism. Probably best to quit digging.

I think you misread the critical line -- "and thus it's just a matter of time before the same mistakes repeat again in another skin". To put it in other words, I read Dream as saying "I don't think most people would be able to say why the Nazis were bad outside of generalities or hyperbole, and thus the risk rises that something like the Nazis could happen again".

We now return to our regularly scheduled topic. (Further responses on the subject shall be PMs to me or nothing at all.)

[Reichu]

As a connoisseur of bad taste, I always found the Paradise Lost Evajugend stuff to be laugh-out-loud hilarious. I blame my father.

[xPearse]

Shinji


Reu & Kaworu + Gendo & Fuyutsuki

Why do those costumes actually suit them very well (or look good on them if you will)? Is it just me? It's also hilarious. I never thought something like that was done in a doujinshi. But is there anything like that for any of the other WW2 countries? I can just picture a cigar chomping, trench gun wielding GI Asuka with a huge, unshaved stubble.

[Guy Nacks]

Well, ISIS-chan is already a thing, so..................