Joseki#946422 wrote:I also remember reading years ago that after Q they never did the round of interviews and collection of material, so that's probably taking a while now that the movie is... almost 15 years old (scary).

Makes sense if Anno was supposedly all burnt-out after it.

Precisely. You might argue that the reason Rei got eaten in the first place is still related to the Bardiel incident, or Shinji's resulting 10 min retirement as a result. He was too overwhelmed/preoccupied with his own upset that he didn't pause to think what'll happen to his comrades if he buzzes o...

Shinji isn't choosing to actively disregard/ burn the world, though - he didn't even know that could happen & is shocked to learn that it did. He's just being honest about his primary motivation/reason being personal - that he's not doing it FOR the world. (& shifted it from Gendo to someone...

Given that it's Sohryu, it's also surprising there's no Kaji segment I feel like the fantasy he represents to her would have been summed up in the "being grownup & sexy" fantasy (represented her by the joke segment of her in the test suit) - plus the same "generic romance will gi...

You keep asserting these things as if they're "settled science" & then coming back to them as circular logic whenever people bring up counter-evidence or different arguments/viewponts like a broken record. It's like you're baiting people to try changing your mind but then pulling out t...

I man he's introduced as a stereotypical hot guy/ ladie's man / discount James Bond. Though some are put off by how agressive he is - like Maya is clearly uncomfortable when he's hitting on her & Ritsuko also remarks on this in ep 21 as something she doesn't know how to deal with / why he isn't ...

Asuka says that Shinji has repeatedly jerked off to her She probably means that he jerked off in private, in a more normal setting. (aside from that one time, when he was hardly of sound mind; though it certainly that doesn't make it any better for her) Most teenage boys have probably beaten their ...

I mean at the end she also says that she'll "find her happiness after protecting everyone" which suggests that she sees something beyond her piloting job, too. It's her at first lamenting her ending/ thinking she 'missed out' - didn't win everything, become the MC/get all the glory, didn't...

Machine translation gives me: “It's okay now, Mom. Go be with Dad.” “If you were with Eva, you could live forever.” “But there's no one there.” Shinji is building graves for everyone. “Maybe everyone is still alive somewhere.” “No, I can’t see them anymore.” “One person clinging on is enough.” Shinj...

I wasn't too surprised;

A "everything explodes until it reaches thermodynamic equilibrium" type ending seems a fairly logical continuation for the last 3rd of the series.

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 stra...

I got a whole Rei-themed playlist

I think it's as simple as this website being old, & in the olden days technology was considered a "boys hobby". But I still remember a bunch of prominent female users - Reichu, Joseki, Child-of-Lillith etc... Personally I don't got much use out of "feminist" tumblr agendapost...

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. I feel like it's adressing the idea that she feels like she "lost out" (not being the "main char...

It annoys me that ppl generally rank Q as the worst tbh It's a bit incomplete on its own without the next one to deliver the "punchlines" but its arguably where the Rebuild really got brave & dared to do unique shit that pisses ppl off. To date its the only movie ever that manage to up...

It baffles me how some ppl still insist that reishin is non canon / all in our heads after the last Rebuild has an *unambiguous on-screen love confession* I mean, it was right in the proposal & ep 23 (or the EoE booklet for that matter... or like several pieces of tie-in music) were pretty clear...

Crazy how "The Only Neat Thing To Do" came back after all this time. That's a story I actually read because Eva lol. IIRC it was the last episode's name in the Proposal for NGE? Yup. Another thing the "silly romance" actually comes up 2 times, like first in the sketch where she ...

I guess if you are an Asuka shipper, this short is gold. She is Anno’s favorite character, and symbolizes anti-escapism compared to Rei after all. I hope you eventually recognize the irony of continuing to claim this after this shot explicitly calls "Asuka & Shinji having a cliched romace ...

If it's not made by Anno/ the same authors, It doesn't count as the same thing to me. / Is basically fanfiction.

That said, I liked Yoko Taro's work on Nier Automata tho, they seem like a good choice to produce something with a similar-ish flavor.

I refer to quotes not because you "need" those to understand the work but because they spell things out clearly. I think my point is clear from the work itself, but clearly you don't. Just... just read THIS and THIS (because it has a lot of sources gathered in one place and I don't want to...