Postby gryzzli86 » Mon Jul 03, 2017 3:27 pm
riffraff11235 wrote:Also, if you go the the
official Evangelion website, you can see the numerical titles listed along the bottom of the page as ":1.0", ":2.0", ":3.0", and ":FINAL". If we superimpose this onto the Japanese title, the reading becomes "Shin Evangelion Gekijou-ban: FINAL".
This was brought up by a poster in 2013.
Although it
is clearly ambiguous, and the ambiguity is
arguably intentional, and
I'd argue more to the point than "is it 'Shin Eva {:||}' or 'Shin Eva: {||}'" simply because you could make a decently strong case for either, even though obviously none of us are in Anno's head to know for sure.
I will admit I quite like the {:||} aspect, since my own headcanon is that NTE is in some kind of weird-ass parallel timeline to NGE, which it already pretty much is if only in a meta sense given the very existence of NGE and NTE as works of fiction in our universe (call it a loop if you want but I'm wary of getting too truther-y with this). But the very fact that Misato didn't read out the full title in the Shin preview is some indication that we're basically dealing with Schrödinger's anime title which I mean, fuck, whatever, we'll know by the time the 2024 Paris/LA Olympics roll around I guess.
“U c, Enobby,” Dumblydore said, watching the two of us watching the flame. “2 c wht iz n da flmes u mst find urslf 1st, k?” - My Immortal, chapter 12