Imagine the likes of Vegeta, Naruto, Ichigo, Amuro (OG Gundam), Luffy, Inuyasha, Ranma, Ryuko (Tenshi Muyo), and Aisha Clan Clan (Outlaw Star) in foldable metal chairs sitting and looking depressed while a disembodied voice asks them rhetorical questions about their innermost insecurities, fears, an...

Predictions - It won't be as good and it should have been. It won't be as good as it could have been. It won't be as bad as people fear. It will be forgotten in a few years after release. It will bring in new viewers for the older series and movies. They won't be able to tell the difference between...

They initially planned to kill Rei II like in the show, but producer thought it would be too dark for the audience, and they replace it with Shinji's botched save mission. Essentially soft kill, that looks like saving, not to upset the audience. First forcing Mari in and now this. Was it that Otsuk...

Some interesting thing I've noted with the main love triangle is that when Anno is writing Asuka & Shinji he seems to emphasize more with Shinji, but when he's writing Shinji & Rei he seems to put himself in Rei's shoes. In quotes like this one: In the beginning, Asuka's personality was str...

It was fascinating, and I loved how Asuka grew as a person. While realistically apocalyptic, One More Final - I Need You had just enough hopefulness that I enjoyed it. A lot of anime fans dislike it because it's not unrealistically sweet and happy. That being said, said anime fans usually don't know...

Nothing at all. They have no common friends or interestest, the only thing they have in comon is being screwed up, and not in a way that unites them. She wouldn't even look at him if being an eva pilot didn't put him near the acceptable ratio radius (and was, in fact, quick to dismiss him before sh...

You say what Asuka accepts is that she has needs. What does Shinji do in a similar vein? He doesn't seem to come to terms with anything, but instead has inner axioms magically/surgically removed. This is why the original Shinji and the Rebuild Shinji are obviously not the same person and there is n...

It's building towards the conclusion of "It doesn't fit me, so I'm ok with the reality where that (& all the other wish-fulfillment scenarios of power, winning, sexyness, mommy's praise etc.) didn't happen.", so it works best if "it doesn't fit me" is the main, primary objec...

I don't think you are supposed to read the short literally, that's not really post-EoE Asuka talking. She is a Asuka, talking with another Asuka, and they both represent in that context their respective "real" version reflecting on their journey. The world where Asuka pilots the Eva-02 is...

People change their mind about that all the time particularly if they have that view at age 14. It's also in the context of her despising her menstrual cramps so it's more about hating the reality of being a woman. That's true, but there's plenty of people who in fact never have children who held t...

I was fairly shocked, I started out watching the rebuild movies and I was NOT ready for the OG series. My reaction was me sitting on my chair staring at my ceiling thinking <3 >///< For context, I saw the original series and EOE for the first time just 3 years ago, in my 30s, married with a kid. I ...

It's an established character trait she doesn't want kids (episode 22). The only mothers she has known before then is the shell of her biological mom who killed herself and a doll in her place, and her step-mom who presumably is the one who was having sex with her dad while mom was in the hospital....

She never says being a mother and having a family is not for her, It's an established character trait she doesn't want kids (episode 22). People change their mind about that all the time particularly if they have that view at age 14. It's also in the context of her despising her menstrual cramps so...

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I think she pretty explicitly states that she's not interested in whatever Rebuild has to offer, including the world without EVA. Isn't a world without Eva basically what the og anime timeline is now too after the End of Evangelion when all the Evas were destroyed and Unit-01 was sent off into spac...

I feel like the "she totally wants this but later/in reality" reduces the supposed message to a platitude without really looking into its meaning, especially since the reasoning was never about "effort" or "earning things". She smiles and says "Thank you" bec...

Watching the Asuka 30th anniversary special, it seems pretty obvious that Asuka Sohryu (the original) disliked her End of Evangelion ending, what with the choking and "kimochi warui." She did not really have an ending in the TV series. After going through all sorts of different scenarios w...

Let's make some predictions and guesses so we can review this thread after more info comes out & it eventually airs. Maybe someome will just reply with the exact plot of the entire series. Me personally, Hopes: Completely original timeline with brand new characters. Some thematic similarities a...

Certain writing choices aside, I feel the Rebuilds would have been greatly improved if more time had been spent on building up the characters and their relationships with each other. Overall, my proposal would be a total of 7 movies rather than only 4. 1. You Are (Not) Alone - this movie can stay th...

I wish I could find that one article where Asuka's VA talks about how she would consider Rebuild Asuka a tsundere since she does like Shinji, while OG Asuka didn't/ the person she likes was Kaji. Two things 1. This quote was taken before the 4th Rebuild came out, Miyamura became much more supportiv...