I feel like something weird is being implied to the effect of a common origin for all three -namis. The most obvious thread in common would be the Artificial Evolution Laboratory, where both Yui and a woman with suspicious visual similarities to both Mari and Asuka worked. Less obvious is the Fuyuts...

Somehow managed to survive this long at my shitty overnight part-time stocking job, and for a while I was visibly improving my skills and physique and building a respectable reputation. But now it feels like I've reached the point where there is no possible future but to utterly flake out and go dow...

An extremely weak use of "NO YOU". You marched in here and made an utterly bare-bones excuse for a thread with no intention of having an actual discussion, which is not how things are done around here, which is why I have criticised you. People responding to a thread with alternative expla...

It seems like you had your mind made up when you created the thread and never intended to engage in anything but a bad faith argument, but maybe that's just me...

It was tolerable when L was around, but once he was gone it became protracted torture. A whole lot of "I'm going to stand around and think at great length about how clever I am." Yeah, no, that's shitty, unengaging storytelling. I get it, you need to conserve budget -- do it *cleverly*. Th...

The key is the thing inside the briefcase. The case itself was probably supplied by Kaji when he smuggled the key out of containment.

Kaji very specifically says that Seele were keeping it as a "spare". Their intended version of HIP involved Mark.06 and Lilith. Gendo's is rather more convoluted.

Also, the reason Seele weren't looking for the Key may simply have been because Bethany Base got blown up.

Why focus on the negative side of fandom? We have the entire rest of the Internet to do that nonsense for us.

This thread seems fundamentally unproductive -- just an invitation to make generalizations, gossip, and complain about people we probably don't know -- so I'm locking this.

Rei is the name Yui and Gendo would have given their child if it was female, so that's probably where "Rei is Shinji's sister" comes from. (Mostly. I showed NGE to someone with zero foreknowledge and they guessed immediately that Rei was Shinji's sister.)

Wanting to share is fine, but you should have created a new thread in the Everything Else subforum for it. Try to keep threads on-topic, please.

"Trauma" has important clinical uses. It feels a wee bit spurious to use that word here (see topic title) in the context of a stimulus shaking you up a little. Eva giving anyone actual trauma entirely on its own merits would not be even a little normal. It'll make you think of bad things, ...

I split your post into its own thread because it was basically short-form fanfiction and not a speculation post. What does the Weta concept art have to do with anything? That would go in Everything Else.

Eijiro does in fact list "geek" as a possible translation for "mania".

Not mutually exclusive. Letting yourself enjoy the things you like is an important part of loving yourself.

"Good guys" was just something I threw in when hastily making a split topic title. The topic is right there in the first posts -- whether Gendo will get some comeuppance by an opposing party, as in being killed off by Wille or Shinji, not whether it is actually correct to simplify "al...

Yeah, I'm currently with you on that.

The song Mari sings in 2.0 is the 365 Step March. Also Suizenji, also a "march", totally different song

Just for the future: stuff from Shin a.k.a. 3+1 should NOT be anywhere on the forum except the designated spoilers board. That's kind of why we created that subforum in the first place -- to keep all content from the fourth film contained until the film has been released on home video and the spoile...

He's not necessarily going crazy. If Gendo does enter Eva-13 as predicted, then he could start appearing to Shinji the same way that Kaworu is implied to be doing in trailer 2.

Platinum subs are fine for the most part, so the new Khara subs will hardly change all that much for their interpretation. It's just that the Khara subs are even better. There were many notorious mistakes in the ADV localizations which are now fixed, most of all in EoE (which was made by Manga Ente...