Bravo, Azathoth. I'll have a hard time getting this out of my head. In any case, I want to like this theory of yours, but I have a hard time buying that Shinji tried to strangle Asuka to spare her from the burden of living or something (even if his motive was fundamentally selfish). I&#...

Asuka as we first saw her would have reacted like this ; what there is lying on the beach is something defeated and broken. But does the fact that she didn't kick him prove that her personality changed? It's clear that she's broken, but it is more likely for her to change back to the wa...

I think it is pretty important that she doesn't attempt violence against him. That's one possible irony of the scene: he tries to kill her because he knows they're alike; she tries to be kind to him because she knows the same thing. I'm not fond of interpretations of the characters ...

This would've absolutely been the best ending imaginable. ^ This x 1000. It's not like a person with Narcissistic Personality Disorder would always Kick the Dog (TVTropes ftw). I think she was in shock herself after the experience, so I doubt the fact she didn't murder Shinji af...

That can't really be used as evidence because there is no proof that scene actually occurs with Asuka; it occurs in Shinji's mind during pre-Instrumentality. At least, I don't believe that was the real Asuka. I think that's Shinji's mental model of Asuka, which in my opinion is t...

Asuka as she was during pre-Instrumentality would have just let him choke her, so clearly she's changed in some respect. Not really. Maybe during her catatonia but after she wakes up and goes on psycho rampage against the MPEs she regains her will to live. Also, I doubt that even at her lowest ...

I don't understand why is seems to be common opinion that Asuka's personality "changed" after Instrumentality and resurrection. When she comes back to life, she is first seen catatonic on the ground, and only wakes from her state when Shinji starts strangling her, stroking his chee...

Which is what you'd expect, but Eva is laughably inconsistent about sync ratio and how it affects the pilot in general. Some people have made a case that the Lance(s) of Longinus intensify the effects of sync ratio, which would explain why Asuka's arm and eye are damaged but not her...

1. Rei has control over Instrumentality but decides to leave it up to Shinji as to what should happen. It's like the principal asking you if you want school to be canceled or not. Shinji decides that everyone should die...so everyone dies. Sort of. 2. The plug suit would conceivably cover up th...

No doubt her self hatred was buried as a child, and it probably festered in those sleepless nights in bed, but it was the experiences in Japan that dug it out of the hole she had hid it in and showed it to the world. Specifically, I'd say everything up till the fight with Arael was digging, and...

I don't think it's possible. She'll always find some flaw, even in a perfect world. Instrumentality probably helped her through that phase, or at least I hope so. I don't get why people think she had a magical change after Third Impact. I'm pretty sure the coldness she said &quo...

The Word of God sort of already told us he did it because he never thought Westerners would like Evangelion so much, so he put in crosses and Biblical imagery just to make it look cool.

Since Asuka is at least partly narcissistic...

Asuka x Asuka!


Best shipping ever. :p

I'm pretty sure the Angels were made by underpaid, underfed animators somewhere...
No magic involved it that. xD

Stryker#492263 wrote:...Are those gloves Anno is wearing the Mickey Mouse gloves?

I could totally see Gendo wearing Mickey Mouse ears while acting serious.

Asuka to Anno: *kills him and splatters blood on her Eva*
Shinji to Anno: ...
Misato to Anno: *shoots him and splatters blood on Shinji*
Gendo to Anno: "Very interesting..."
Rei to Anno: ...

It could come from the ambiguity of the letter vav. Vav in Hebrew can be used to represent three sounds: "ou", "v", and "w".
But I do believe that Chavah with a "v" sound is the current accepted pronunciation.

Instrumentality was a plan put into place by SEELE and the Human Instrumentality Committee to end all individuality and suffering by instigating the Third Impact. All the souls in the world would combine to form one and there would be no more suffering, hatred, love, or anything really. It was predi...

1) Rei is a clone (Rei 1, 2, and 3) made from the genetic material of Yui Ikari combined with the salvaged soul of Lilith. They have clones of her as back-up if she dies (which happens twice), and no one knows for sure why her arm falls off. 2) Asuka does die, as it is inferr...

Asuka, so much. Apparently we both have narcissistic defences, and are both afraid of rejection. My friendships since infancy have been the epitome of the hedgehog's dilemma, and I pretty much closed up due to being rejected and betrayed so much by my peers. We both relate pretty badly to others...