A dude cooking and cleaning doesn't imply he has gender dysphoria...

Also, for the longest time I was 99% sure Shinji was bisexual but Anno denied that he had any carnal desire for Kaworu. I was shocked but when the creator denies it, it's pretty much torpedoed.

I got it! Unit-00 contains the soul of Yui's mother! I always liked the theory that is has Naoko inside it since that paralells and contrasts with Asuka's mother being in unit 02: Asuka's mother loved her in life but tried to kill her in a fit of madness before killing herself, and Naoko tried to a...

I think the “return to womb” symbolism is more of a narrative thing than an in-universe limitation of the technology. For one, we don’t know whose soul is in Unit-0 but it’s definitely not Rei’s mother because she either (a) doesn’t have one, or (b) Yui is technically her “mother” but she’s already...

NGE/EoE have their own versions in the Rebuild continuity , and happened as previous loops, but the original NGE/EoE themselves are still their own continuity and are not retconned nor part of the Rebuild one. We can also safely assume that the loops happen sequentially, not in parallel. In bold- t...

FelipeFritschF#942831 wrote:because, frankly, multiverses bore the heck out of me.

I wonder when we'll get an Evangelion Panderverse

I'm sure you've all heard about the "time loop" theory. I always thought it was nonsense, BUT that started to change when I noticed a reference to Kaworu and Shinji meeting in the original series that doesn't occur in the Rebuilds. Combined with all of the empty coffins on the moon, I'm le...

From my my own research, I've found the name "Tabris" in the book, Angels: An Endangered Species by Godwin Malcolm, listed as the angel of free will. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1122059722321834065/1203670645649571882/image.png?ex=65d1f0a5&is=65bf7ba5&hm=ddf7ebb7fe62c42...

For inexplicable reasons, the hit 90s pop song "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls popped in my head while I was reading a 15 year old analysis about the pre-3rd instrumentality Shinji Asuka scene. More or less, Shinji tries to come onto Asuka because he doesn't really feel comfortable with anyon...

Hikari's a trusted, real friend more than anything else. I wouldn't go that far. Their relationship seems somewhat distant. When Hikari tells Asuka that she did her best, she doesn't know how crushing that statement is. If you consider Asuka telling her mother she "wouldn't be lonely anymore&q...

I have three things to say here. 1) I keep being baffled by the absolute inability of people to read any positive-natured relationship of differing gender to be anything other than romantic 2) I am not actually positive if "perfect happy life" is entirely the thing that this scene is goin...

The core component of a Mary Sue is to be (imaginary confetti here) SPECIAL (more imaginary confetti) in a way that other characters are not. This does not mean in-universe characteristics; it's the way the story treats the character relative to the characters around them that matters. The easiest ...

At the end of the day - because the popular definition of the term is absolutely useless as a method of literary analysis, because it has been watered down to the point of being a meaningless buzzword intended to exist without possibility of a factual rebuttal; and since this is a forum that intend...

Mar·y Sue (noun) (originally in fan fiction) a type of female character who is depicted as unrealistically lacking in flaws or weaknesses. That's a pretty terrible definition of the term. It is the way in which it is most commonly used these days, which will be the reason why Ox...

I am beginning to suspect that you don't actually know what a Mary Sue is. It is not a female character who is cheerful and competent when others are less so - it is a structural issue. Don't know where you're getting that from. The definition from Oxford English dictionary is: Mar·y Sue (noun) (or...

I don't agree with this line of thought at all. Anno didn't really create her, yeah. But that doesn't mean the guys behind her didn't have their own ideas and intentions while coming up with her character. They did and it's documented. Was she well developed and implemented in the story? I wouldn't...

I think OP isn't saying that a hug would solve everything but reacting to the disproportionate hate you sometimes see like she's a terrible bitch or an abuser & terrible shit should happen to her etc. I'm very critical of her in a lot of ways and I'd be the first to say that her bullying behavi...

kuribo-04#939149 wrote:Don't know if this helps:
https://youtu.be/uLyPNje8oiw

I always wondered how they'd handle this in the English dub if it were in the final cut.

I doubt they'd reshoot it with Tiffany Grant, so would she just dub over Miyamura's voice with Tiffany's?

TBH, I think this is reading into her character waaaaaaaay too much. The first point I'll make is that she wasn't conceived by Anno, nor did he really put her into the movies by his own volition. The producer (Otsuki) explicitly requested a new character, for which Anno believed the motive was likel...

We don't really have a canon answer for this, I guess, but couldn't basically anyone who has ever lived return? Furthermore, couldn't this technically be as any incarnation? (i.e., Kyoko could return as an armorless Eva-02 or her original human form). That begs the question, couldn't Mrs. Suzuhara ...

Point is, Anno himself only wants the OG crew to be teens for no good reason. The Evas represent the means used to fulfill one's escapist desires, as well as, ironically, a safe space that will unconditionally protect its pilot like a mother would and act as a band aid for their deepest insecuritie...