Apologizes in advance mods, I'd suggest splitting this too but I'm going to get confused if I don't reply here. Sorry to say so much but there was just so much wrong with what you said. That's a really bold statement so I'm going to answer you methodically. I sed: "Suzuhara&...

Italics seems like the more elegant solution to me. Caps usually implies loudness over emphasis. Also, can anyone make sense of Sister Suzuhara's affection toward Shinji? I feel like most of translating her well hinges on this and I'm completely at a loss for her behavior. It's at odds w...

How about "Then... wouldn't that pilot have been just as good for this as me?"? Is the italics enough emphasis? I'm also not a professional translator or anything, but I've seen italics being used before in fansubbing when trying to make something more explicit. Yeah, that wou...

"Then... wouldn't that pilot have been just as good for this as me?" Seems like written this way, you lose all of the creeped out inflection of his voice. I don't know enough about general principles of translation to make a good argument here, but essentially unless the viewer has...

People who are expecting the mysteries to resolve must not remember the experience of watching the original very clearly. Within the TV series, the plot devolves into incomprehensibility rather rapidly and is not adequately explained even by the conclusion. Instead there are a bunch of highly fragme...

Hahahahaa. I remembering arguing with people on here that Eva had degenerated into light entertainment, a total betrayal of the spirit of the original. The wary among you said the next two films were going to destroy that, and I didn't believe. Haaaa. I admit I was completely wrong. It was great...

Thank you sire! Now if only I could figure out a way to make them a bit smaller... OSD settings in VLC is not affecting it. Do I have to import my own file to get them to observe my prefs?

Is this using the github subs or a different translation?

Haha, Tines! YES! I'm telling you guys.

Forgive me for sounding prudish, but Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. Though this is commonly repeated wisdom, it is questionable in its accuracy. From my understanding, Mary came from a region famed for its prostitutes and may have been mistreated or distrusted by the Jewish community because of t...

's cool.

You may all go back to reifying your Rei theories if you like. ;)

I can't which is exactly why I framed my post on the previous page the way I did. One can theorize for things cogently when there's no proof for or against.

Umm...CRC doesn't paint Mari as being entirely Anno's own creation, and he was asking others for their own input regarding her characterization. So that kind of shoots that theory in the foot. Only if you operate under the assumption that Anno has to be the only one to create her for her to...

You're all wrong. Rei, Asuka, and Misato all represent women Anno was previously acquainted with. NGE is partly his examination of his complex relationships with each of these women. Mari represents Moyocco Anno, a new character and unfamiliar intrusion into the world space because she was not i...

That's a really good point NemZ... Did not occur to me at all but it matches up unfortunately well.

Thank you, Tines.

Essel, your "They really could have screwed this up." post on p. 14 left me simultaneously laughing and weeping - epic sarcasm.

Can someone point me to this interview thread? I just browsed through the sub-forum a bit and I'm not spotting it...

Thanks in advance!

Yes but of course Eva's deconstruction didn't happen until the second half of the series either. The first half was chock full of cliches and what I was describing isn't putting a twist on them so I think you're misreading me there. Read Azuma's essay if you want to get at what I...

However, there's a problem from a structural standpoint. If Asuka is in fact defined by this combination of a welcoming, "fantasy-like" exterior and an interior that tries constantly to solidify itself, or to constantly reject anything, then an Asuka who learns to completely accept ot...

Thanks to everyone who's seeding and to Aaron for continuing to serve this community! We all owe him a big debt of gratitude for keeping this place going and stuff like this reminds me how lucky we are as fans to have a resource like this. So thank you! Thanks also to the mods! *tips hat* Now if...