They do allow it. Without them our matter reverts to it's simplest state, LCL. LCL is Primordial Soup. Primordial Soup is made of molecules, and it is the simplest state of a living thing because you can't get any simpler without not being alive anymore. Of course, it smells like blood and ...

http://static3.animepaper.net/upload/thumbs/wallpapers/Neon-Genesis-Evangelion/%5Blarge%5D%5BAnimePaper%5Dwallpapers_Neon-Genesis-Evangelion_Hofodomo01(1.25)__THISRES__29274.jpg Asuka: Nein! Haydn oder ich töten Sie! Shinji: But Asuka, Haydn has too much violin and not enough cello and I wa...

There's more to Shinto than that. Harmony with nature is important but it's just an outgrowth of the idea in Shinto that everything proceeds from the Great Original Kami. I'd be interested in reading The Imperialist's thoughts in full. I read Yamakage's Essence of Shinto a while ...

AT Fields don't allow molecular cohesion. The Tang is still made of molecules. Precisely how the AT Field works is never made clear, but it allows Tang/LCL/Primordial Soup to form into cells and bodies. It works on a cellular/genetic, not molecular/atomic, level. I only watched Eva recently and ...

There's a difference between reasonable interpretations of the text, opinions or hunches that can't really be proved or argued about but that do at least have some vague semblance of plausibility, and completely ridiculous ideas pulled out of the rectum. For example: Maya being lesbian fits ...

Rewatching EoE a few days ago, watching GNR's eyegina get poked out disturbed me less than the Prime Minister scene, actually. That will NEVER stop disturbing me. I'm not even sure why. It's some combination of the extraneous pendulum and the shot's similarity to shots of Gendo at hi...

Is it really that unlikely that a Japanese man would apply a Shinto concept to the metaphysics of his Japanese anime made for his Japanese audience? Well, combined by Anno wanted to use pseudo-Christian imagery and metaphysics, and that knowledge of Shinto's deeper concepts aren't really al...

I was reading Motohisa Yamakage's book The Essence of Shinto earlier and there's a long chapter about the idea in certain schools of koshinto (='original Shinto', as opposed to State Shinto or modern schools) that the human spirit is in fact a manifestation of four different ...

Gamer_2k4 wrote:Gives "room for one more" an entirely different meaning. =P (though I'm not entirely sure what the original meaning was...)

I'm fairly certain it was a Twilight Zone reference.

I think Gendo was vetoed by Yui, not Shinji. Is it known whether or not Gendo was vetoed at all? He certainly seems to think so, but getting eaten by a giant robot that was in orbit at the time and having his glasses picked up by three incarnations of the same clone with the same soul...eh, sounds ...

OH GOD THAT'S SO DISTURBING BUT SO PLAUSIBLE.

Where do I BEGIN? The parallel between Gendo and the Prime Minister (what's that pendulum doing in his office, anyway?). Rei getting her third eye stabbed with the Tree of Life. Maya's hand falling across the screen. Misato being visibly blown in half. Shinji's screaming. The Dir...

Well, she did give him control of the situation, and may have been acting according to what she thought were his wishes even before that, and I doubt Shinji would particularly care about Bob from Newark who died in 1924, so I would think that the collection only extends backwards as far as Shinji...

ASUKA--When not even Facepalm is enough to sufficiently express the stupid.

Rei-tachi can do what I would term in mixed company 'some pretty effed-up things with spacetime.' Really? Specifically they can appear in multiple places at once, they can appear before and after they're technically supposed to have 'existed,' they can shift forms or combine int...

Again, she goes straight from talking about Evas to talking about Rei. If this was all meant to be an explanation of Rei's nature, then it would appear Ritsuko thinks Rei is a miniature Adam-born Eva with a soul. She could be saying that the Evas don't have a soul because Rei's was the ...

Given that the demand was low (birthrate was dropping) and supply was high (billions of dead still hanging around from 2I) I'd give him some pretty good odds. Actuallly, with the room of gaf being empty I had the opposite impression - the birthrate being low because there were t...

That'd be its exact opposite. Everyone who ever lived all comes back to life at once on a world that surely can't support them with it's recently devastated ecosystem... is a GOOD END? :think: That would depend upon your general opinion of the human race. Short answer: no, unless you re...

Anno isn't atheist exactly, he believes in the general Japanese form of spiritism.

FUN FACT: Kami have cores.

It's highly likely that this is a stupid question, but: Kaji died well before Third Impact (it seemed like about two weeks to me). But Guf collects all souls, not just those that were Tangified on 1 January 2016 specifically, and the Rei-tachi can do what I would term in mixed company &#...