More importantly, what if you're an otaku but you're ok with your life. I sure wish I had the ego to create a 26 episode and two movie series about how someone is living their life incorrectly. Touma please go. Well, it's not like Anno walked up to you on the street, slapped you and tol...

Oh boy Did Anno drop his anvils too hard and too often? You ask this question a lot in many different ways. It's a bit ambiguous though. For one thing, you might mean that Anno made his messages too black and white. It's true that a large portion of art is to be as far from blunt in what you...

SuperTechmarine#751511 wrote:Even the most conservative estimates put the Evangelions at over 700 tons.

Plot twist: The Evas are actually mostly hollow, balloon like structures . How do they get their combat ability? AT Field magic!

NGE is without question my favorite anime. It's not only my favorite anime, it's extremely far above any other anime. I've seen other deep anime before (Serial Experiments Lain comes to mind first), but absolutely none that seemed to be as well crafted, lovingly made and thought ...

"I've always related to Gendo more than Shinji" is a line I can remember in an interveiw with Anno. Anno Definitely definitely is a Gendo Fanboy, and it shows in eva, more obvious in EoE and Rebuild. I remember watching a bit of Nadia, and cringing when I saw the stoic captain. When t...

The notion of a beautiful death is not alien to Western audiences at all, but traditionally here we prefer that there (a) be some greater good or triumph attached to it and (b) the character face it with stoicism and dignity. Shinji is not dignified. When he performs his greatest fe...

I agree with everything you've said, save for what I quoted above - I think the fact that she keeps repeating "I don't want to die!" coupled with her revelation of the "true power of the A.T. Field!" would put her in the anti-Instrumentality camp. I take those two things...

Trust can decay very quickly. 14 years is a long time for a little trust to decay. And we know something bad happened to her. She's 14 after 28 years of living because of what she calls the curse of eva and she's calling humans lillin. There's a lot to potentially blame Misato for, thoug...

The line "Isn't that right, Captain Katsuragi?" indicates that Misato was the one who informed her on all of these events that have transpired. It would make sense if Misato told her exactly that she thinks they don't have the luxury of worrying about such things, but if she just ...

I don't detect a hint of bitterness between them, but rather a comically huge amount. I have no idea why though.

Why wouldn't there be enough time? There's a sudden cut indicating an unspecified passage of time between when Misato et al are in the kitchen talking and when they're seeing Misato off. Furthermore, why would Asuka go into the bathroom and not her bedroom just to change? Who goes to th...

I just reviewed that scene. Actually, she never goes to her bedroom. When she reappears in her sundress, it's in the entrance hallway. Asuka simply went straight from the bathroom to there, wearing the clothes that she obviously brought with her into the bathroom. Seems like there's no myst...

Very interesting! The shot actually lasts for quite a while, about as long as you can comfortably look at a pair of shoes and an umbrella. It definitely seems to be intentionally saying something. Maybe she did come up with this plot as an excuse to look good in her dress around Shinji. I'm remi...

Advocates of the series proclaim it to be a more realistic story about real people and how they'd really react in such a situation. We at Cracked are often puzzled by this declaration as we've unanimously agreed getting to pilot a giant robot in high school would be FUCKING AWESOME regardles...

I won't be heartbroken out of my mind and lose the will to live, but I will definitely be sad. Despite other series that have done it, I have every doubt Anno will remake his series again after this. His whole reason for doing it in the first place is that he wasn't able to do it the way he ...

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I see. I can't help but think that's kind of an advertising thing. I have a feeling his thought is something like anyone can watch it, but it will be 2 deep 4 u.

69%, Kouzou Fuyutsuki. Abstract (Compatible) Introvert (Compatible) Logical (Compatible) Dominant (Incompatible) The questions were pretty lulzy. It's interesting to me it says "Your Dominant side also makes you a good leader, like the Vice Commander Fuyutsuk...

By the end of the series Light has long since abandoned any claim to a desire for a better world. All Light wants in the end is power, control, and worship. I disagree. Light was following the same ideology he was using from the very first episode for the entire series. He knew that would involve p...

I disagree, they're pretty similar characters with only a few things seperating them. One is that lelouch actually feels bad about his actions now and then. The second is that Lelouch had more personal motivation then Light did and didn't lose sight of what he was trying to do as much in re...