One small problem that makes the English release inferior is that the 3.0 + 1.11 blu-ray has a color banding issue. The EvaGeeks YouTube channel has a great review of the 3.0 + 1.11 blu-rays. The visual quality took a hit to save space for 2 audio tracks. Not the case for the 4k blu-ray, but I don'...

Do you know what the Japanese Rebuilds are like? I know they don't have dubs, but I read on an Ebay listing that they do have subs. They lack English subs. They're completely unaltered on English BD releases though, there's no Fly Me to the Moon situation there, so there's no reason to avoid the En...

Required reading: https://wiki.evageeks.org/soul

Sorry to say, no. No Japanese releases have English subs or dubs. I know this off-hand, but here's some evidence. First of all, a very good resource for Eva home media is this site . It doesn't specify if a release has subs or what kind, but it does provide the very helpful cat. # for each release. ...

Also, for the longest time I was 99% sure Shinji was bisexual but Anno denied that he had any carnal desire for Kaworu. He never said "any," he said a specific instance of blushing (in the bath) wasn't particularly out of carnal desire. It doesn't rule out romantic inclination elsewhere, ...

I feel as though The Matrix is so trans-coded that it can very easily be seen without knowledge of the Wachowskis' trans-ness. But at the same time, I speak as a trans woman, and I worry sometimes that everything looks like a nail. Anyhow, regardless of a lack of direct intent to create Shinji as a...

Following that line of logic, though, we should be able to deduce and construct a pretty coherent healing process (the answer) if the crux of the narrative was about exploring the problem (or question); to put it like math, the equation and solution are the same thing in different expressions on eit...

Time for the appreciation post! I attribute a lot of the elements I've come to enjoy to a thorough dive into the dialogue. A pretty massive takeaway I've come to is that the official subtitle translation is sorely lacking, specifically in terms of retaining the full sense of the stylization, as a mu...

I've been doing a slow-burn, thorough rewatch of NTE, and I've unexpectedly found myself with a newfound appreciation, or more accurately, a softening of my disappointment. I've found myself inadvertently nursing an effortpost throughout the course of my rewatch and will finish that sometime soon an...

Just food for thought: a lot of disappointment with the way Thrice resolves its character relationships has to do with the characters, essentially, parting and not explicitly shown to be in line for a reunion. Perhaps it was decided that instead of prior endings where Shinji reconciles and integrate...

What confuses me about alien explanation is how backwards it is in application; instead of neatly falling into empty places it basically overwrites everything we know from the show itself. It's "stop believing your lying eyes" kind of explanation. Given that a not insignificant amount of ...

Taking the CI as canon is too far in one direction; immediate and off-hand dismissal of it as "fanfic" is the other. Truth lies somewhere in the middle. The version where aliens create seeds of life to populate earth seems to be incompatible with the show. What I believe happened is that g...

Various different versions of 3I, involving Rei or otherwise, operate as the endings for the Evangelion game that the CI lore details come from: https://forum.evageeks.org/thread/8742/NGE2-Alternate-Outcome-Translations-3I-Etc/ There are scenarios where only Kaworu fuses with Lilith, and various way...

The CI has the following line: "The Angels — Adam-based life — became active under their respective tactics for survival and success." This can more or less be extrapolated from the show, as they suss out that the angels are acting in a somewhat reactive, or adaptive manner. I guess you ca...

To be fair, Kensuke and Touji seem to be hiding Shinji's identity from Village-3 people. So, I don't think the way people in Village 3 would act so different from WILLE crew if they knew Shinji's identity (Asuka seems to have issues with Village 3 people). That said, Shinji doesn't really interact ...

The original plan always seems to have been that Shinji (and the audience) would feel lost and isolated when he awakes, but he would find healing and determination in Village 3 after Kaworu's death. There just wasn't enough time to adequately develop all that in 3.0. I don't assert these creative c...

I actually have no problem with the decision when Q is viewed in a vacuum. Back when that's all there was I was a defender of the alienation, which I took and still take as intentional. I think what I have more trouble rationalizing is the relationship between Q's creative choices and Shin's, which ...

The one thing I don’t get is why make Asuka a clone in the NTE universe instead of being her own person? Everyone else is the same character, but why not her? Why ditch the old Asuka in favor of the new one who’s not even the real her? I get Anno wants a fresh start on the series to begin anew and ...

The point in 3.0 is that the audience shouldn't be fascinated with its world-building. People are supposed to feel as lost and confused as Shinji does. Well, they are though, as is evident by a lot of the flack it received. One can understand the intent but still find the execution lacking. The way...

I've tended toward the above metafictional reading as time has gone on but what I'm not settled on is exactly what's happening metaphysically (and allegorically) with the last train station scene. Because parts of the real city image is supplemented and attenuated with CGI, and Shinji and Mari retai...