kuribo-04 wrote:Wasn't Midori aesthetically based on an actress' appearance in an older movie? I don't know if coloured hair was present there too.
I think it's hard to tell either way when the idea came up. To me her pink hair makes sense to be her styling herself, just because of her personality and mannerisms and such. Kind of fits her lipstick too?
Her dying her hair as a sign of vanity would fit with how she's depicted as the nervous one of the newbies that loudly lose her composure the quickest.
I have the theory that maybe at first her hair was indeed died pink at first, and they they changed the setting for one with much less ressources and technology than inferred in 3.0 (see many of Yamahista's concept arts that were ultimately refused because too technologically advanced for the setting), in a way that hair die wouldn't make sense in-universe, so they changed it for an infection.
We probably will never know unless it brought up in an interview though.
BernardoCairo wrote:And, yeah, sometimes Anno keep information away from the VAs. Miyamura only realized that Asuka was now a clone when she was recording for Shin, believe it or not XD
And there's the opposite thing with Mari's Va, who was told details on Mari's backstory that no one else knows, and is still a mystery to this day.
Konja7 wrote:That said, WILLE crew are angry with Gendo too (he is their enemy after all). This is not shown much, because they hardly interact with Gendo, but Ritsuko directly shoot Gendo in the head in 3.0+1.0.
I think this is the paradox of the situation: we know that WILLE's main enemy is Gendo (and SEELE), Misato says so to Shinji as he's about to leave the Wunder in 3.0.
But most of the scenes of the Wunder crew are about Shinji: their feelings toward him, their opinion on his actions or his return, their desire to punish him (or not)... meanwhile their enmity against Gendo is mentioned at most twice, once by Misato when they start operation Yamato, and by Midori when she threaten Shinji (to put them both at the same level of guilt).
And when we get a "lower deck episode" with Midori's POV, which so far is the only in-depth glimpse we get of the rest of WILLE's crew, we learn that her motivations which made her survive for 14 years to join the fight with WILLE is... to hurt Shinji to punish him (thanks to Asuka giving her that motivation)
In the end it gives the feeling that Gendo is a sort of outside context problem, like an alien invasion that arrived from nowhere after an apocalypse, when he and NERV and SEELE should be the core of their preoccupations, and it probably is, but we never see that.
I think it's obviously a consequence of the story being laser-focused on Shinji after the timeskip, and while it is the core purpose of 3.0, to make us feel the same feeling of loneliness and alienation as Shinji (which it does exceedingly well, making it IMHO the best of the four movies), once combined with Thrice is suffers the comparison with 1.0 and 2.0 which, while still being more focused on Shinji than NGE, still had breathing room to tell other side-stories of the other characters with their own plots: Gendo and Fuyu's deadly game of dupe against SEELE and how it's increasingly escalating, Kaji entering the fray and trying to discover their secrets to counter them, him testing the waters with Misato to bring her in his fight and maybe also rekindling their flame, whatever the hell Mari is doing on her side, even Asuka and Rei's cooking war (which
is for Shinji) is ultimately about how both realize that they are very similar and decide to bury the hatchet to have the beginning of a friendship, as the former realize that she can allow herself to be happy now and doesn't need to be in constant competition anymore, and the latter wants to bring Gendo and Shinji closer to "recompose" the Ikari/Ayanami family, as well as taking the opportunity to invite everyone she knows at NERV because she realized that having interactions with people is nice and she wants more of that.
Most of the post-timeskip scenes that are their "own thing" and not centered or about Shinji are those of Rei Q in the Village, finding her place and discovering the joys of life, and even then it ultimately leads to her death... to shock Shinji into going to the Wunder.
If we get more content set during the timeskip, my hope is that it'll manage to finally get away from the shadow of Shinji and start telling stories that aren't ultimately about him.
