nerv bae#938866 wrote:

AsuQa_PsyOp_Langley#938865#938866 wrote:Thanks for filling me up on the manga, that poem intro sounds less clumsy I expected (Eva love its Lunar content).

A link to the manga for reference.

That's pretty overt. I think the last two films lacked more moments like that, though.

Thanks for filling me up on the manga, that poem intro sounds less clumsy I expected (Eva love its Lunar content). I don't think I absolutely need to have a lore justification why Asuka calls out to Shinji but it's nice I had the same idea as the writers though. More Asuka and Mari interactions is i...

As for Shinji and Asuka deciding to not spark an old flame, what also muddles things is that Asuka's feelings for Shinji are constantly brought up, by Mari no less. So logically Asuka must had brought her feelings at least once for Mari to know about it. And then the prequel mini-manga goes even ha...

The Angels do seem to beeline to Tokyo-3 and Nerv HQ... mostly (and even materialize right in the vicinity, often). I think the contrivance is moreso their general attitude, but that falls squarely in "nebulous beings", the behaviour is consistent enough though for every point you have a c...

I'd argue Asuka in EoE is maybe having a manic upswing more than her getting better for good because she had a new piece of information in the Eva 02 unit. She gets to go on a energetic, liberating rampage for a few minutes but that's all we will see of that. After that she undergoes Instrumentality...

Shinjo wishes all Evaway but there's an entry plug by Kensuke's house.

To be fair, maybe in mini-instrumentality not all need to be said explicitly... So maybe he didn't have to ask Asuka ? Not sure I'm myself convinced by that, to be honest. All scenes with the other characters present there are played as straight, normal one to one dialogue. I think NGE or EoE had mo...

Do Angels really need to be delicate though ? The meteor one was going to obliterate Tokyo-3 and the nano one tried to initiate self destruct IIRC. It's a little silly but it feels that merging with Lilith is really a matter of chemical reaction, Adam and Lilith touch, kaboom, even if the Lilith Cha...

Vague Faceless Council of Evilness (be it alien or powers that be) that loves to plot in poorly lit room seems to be a favorite trope of 60-70s, including in Japanese pop culture. Saw there's one in Shoujo Commando Izumi and I think it's pretty reminiscent of things you could see in some Gerry Ander...

You mentioned EvaMonkey, was that the Feminist Anime (pardon me if I got the name wrong) podcast ? I read the transcript in diagonal and thought of maybe giving it a shot. It was their Evangelion and Good Friends Spoilercast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkvAQzcWgms Not the one I was thinking of...

That's nice reading a perspective such as yours ! I've been on an Eva binge after Thrice but it's not that easy finding fresh angles to listen to. You mentioned EvaMonkey, was that the Feminist Anime (pardon me if I got the name wrong) podcast ? I read the transcript in diagonal and thought of maybe...

Thanks !
I see a central conceit is that the hero's powers are given to him by the evil organization he ends up fighting, I'm down for more evil councils in shadows.

They're going to circle back to Shin Spider-Man !

Kamen Rider doesn't turn himself into a giant, right ? I'm only very loosely familiar with the character... If so this will be interesting because both Godzilla and Ultraman relied much on the appeal of how Anno and co illustrate scale, that was a huge part of their production value. Excited for a r...

Well NTE Ramiel doesn't beam downwards either that I remember.
She/He just really likes the drill !

Oh I know I was going full "what if Shinji bended reality even before they get in the chamber ?" with it. With the whole "Eva 1 is hope, 13 despair" of the finale, maybe sending Eva-01 to space tampered the lance of hope somehow remotely even after the Lilith chamber was sealed. ...

I think the war propaganda angle is really weak but it's not too hard to see where it might come from, especially when it comes to Anno (though it's really common across a lot of cultural products). I don't think "war propaganda" is a threshold he ever crossed, but both in Godzilla and Ult...

It could be that the cloth is a quickly created defense against the angelic infection, suggesting that Asuka is loaded into whatever Eva this is to face something imminent (like an MP Eva attack or a 3I scenario). My prediction is that -46h will start with N3I being stopped, the fallout fro...

I think this comes down to how much control you think SEELE (or NERV) has, which is not a very cut and clear topic in the series (they both have a very precise roadmap based on a prophetic text that is seemingly very detailed... But keep having to amend them). Though immensely powerful, I get the im...

Having been helpfully pointed here, I'll just say that the editing definitely conveyed to me that : - Shinji disengaged Kaworu controls. - Eva 13 impaling itself was a result of Kaworu trying to fix things. Though both are debatable. The first edit could be : Kaworu controls gets disengaged when Shi...

On rewatch I'm less interrogated by the very end with Mari (it's bothersome but she's just so shallow a character... and that song plus the heartfelt pan to the city does a lot to sweeten that sequence) but Gendo and Yui reuniting in a loving embrace and finally doing right by their kid is a little ...