It's great that the earthquake was only a minor inconvenience to you and your family, Rei. I've witnessed an earthquake in Ibaraki a couple of years ago and it amazed me how stoic and disciplined the Japanese were in face of disaster. In the West Coast, or in Chile, where I was also unfortun...

I don't actually remember what I felt when I first watched Evangelion. I was living in Latin America at the time ('99-2000) and had to follow the series on this Latin cartoon channel called Locomotion. Whenever I missed an episode, I had to trudge the streets looking for badly pirate...

You're right. I completely disregarded them since their function in that fictional universe is precisely to be "normal, everyday" people.

I agree with Chuckman, back in the first page, that great works of art art are usually able to stand on their own to legs, regardless of the reader's knowledge of the work's background. However, to quote the great writer and Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, true and in-depth appreciation of any ...

None, since not a single Eva character would withstand the harsh ad nuanced realities of real life without getting lock up in a mental hospital, a prison or both. Maybe Gendo. He'd soon have a radio show of his own to rant about conspiracies of old white men who run the world behind the scenes &...

That's a gross overstatement, CX. As someone who has worked in Japan both for an American company and a Keiretsu, I only suited up when we were meeting higher-up execs. Specially in the summer, the standard salaryman uniform is business casual - the younger ones fold their sleeves. I just got ba...