I think to build up to that ending properly would have required rewriting like the entire story tbh, not just adding in some additional foreshadowing here or there. It really feels like it comes out of nowhere and is just kind of thematically inappropriate.

The issue isn't that Shinji wanted to save Rei, its that he wanted to save her no matter the cost . I don't care what happens to me. I don't care what happens to the world. But Ayanami... If it's the last thing I do, I'm saving Ayanami, no matter what! The bolded is the issue here, and the horror in...

Lol. Lmao even.

Well thank you Khara!!!

child of Lilith#946480 wrote:Happy birthday, The Killer of Heroes!

Thanks.

If nothing else it looks and sounds good.

Hard for me to tell if they're intentionally trying to evoke Rebuild there or its just because Taro likes moss-covered ruins imagery generally.

GQuuuuuuX was good IMO, which is more than I could say for NieR Automata.

Seriously, I just do not have high expectations for this with Taro writing.

Argonautica story was likely written with assumption that audience would likely know what happens with Jason and Medea AFTER the Golden Fleece adventure. I thought it was just b-tier Odyssey riff myself until I read Euripides' Medea, which put it in a completely different context for me. Jason reall...

I mean, I'd love to read those but I think their lack of existence is its own answer. I think anyone who could write that kind of analysis is also able to recognize how irrelevant those lenses are for a film that doesn't really have strong political dimensions. Actually many of these people would s...

Between holidays and getting nasty cold suddenly I'm late on getting to replies here. The director and the screenwriter have different jobs, different functions. Just like a conductor and a music composer don't have to be, and usually are not, the same person. One writes a music piece and another ma...

One Punch Man season 3 . This is a very interesting experience, in that I am watching it mainly for its declining animation quality and the public reaction to several infamous scenes. It's not often that an anime is so bad that it is good, but I find it very entertaining spotting scenes where there...

Well yeah, I'm not saying you have to automatically like everything your favorite creator puts out- I've criticized Shins Ultraman and Kamen Rider for being bad myself. But the idea that new short from Anno would automatically be "incomprehensible" AND "useless" (TIL Short films ...

Honestly I can't imagine holding some of these opinions on Anno's writing I'm seeing and being an active member of an Evangelion fan forum. I mean you guys do you I guess but its very alien to me. As far as the short itself goes I'm looking forward to it, whether its just some meta thing or more Reb...

Honestly I wasn't able to get into Evangelion. It was just too big, and I had trouble even finding the way to eject the Entry Plug enough for me to enter it. I tried asking some NERV guys about it and they were like "Who are you? How did you get inside the base? Who are you working for?". ...

Happy birthday, Eva.

C.A.P.#945307 wrote:Entire season has been fantastic. Sure hope whoever peaks this thread is watching it.

Yeah me and Kuribo have been watching and enjoying immensely. I really think P&S is the height of Imaishi's more anarchic (Pun absolutely intended) projects.

Aside from Eva (obviously) I could list a few. Little Witch Academia is just peak comfy. Every single character is fun and unique, the animation is top shelf with a really good and original artstyle. Also the overal theme of the show (basically "believe in yourself and do your best, even if yo...

Did Grendizer U do even remotely well anywhere? That's the only other Gaina thing I can even think of that's attached to like, a real IP.

I'm kinda torn on both Koyomi Vamp and Neko Black. For Koyomi Vamp, if this was the only version of Kizumonogatari we had on film since like 2017 I think it'd be loved just fine today. It flows well, still looks amazing (Barring occasionally janky new interstitial shots created for it), and well its...

Anno is still primarily an otaku with otaku interests, which means for better or worse his heart is mostly with the IP work he grew up on. I think this has just become more prominent since the Shin movies took off in earnest with Godzilla. I don't think this is inherently either good or bad, its not...

Why? He has no obligation to some random dub actor he didn't even get to cast himself.