The Killer of Heroes#904299 wrote:Well you had the time dilation stuff in GunBuster but that was notably only ever going forward in time, never backward, never looping around etc.
Now that I think about it Shinji and Rei being trapped in Unit-01 and waking up in some unknown future mirrors what happened with Noriko and Kazumi.
I just think there's no real reason to erase all the progress Shinji's made in the original series by tying it to the rebuild. "Keep trying until you succeed" is one thing but having a Godlike character resetting the timeline for you is another. If you're trying to learn how to snowboard a...
He's definitely lying by omission. There's a lot of shit Shinji should have been aware of before embarking on their little doomsday mission. How much of the lying being intentionally malicious though is yet to be determined. I don't buy "evil Kaworu" but I don't think he's some perfect lit...
It'd be total character assassination to have Asuka still feel something for Shinji after 14 years though. A few of Mari's lines towards Asuka regarding Shinji hints that we're missing a big chunk of context, true, but if they even remotely go down that route I hope to God it's not at the expense of...