Good God, people will take any excuse to criticize these movies. This "sub plot" accumulates a few seconds of screen time, folks. It's not a big deal one way or another. I guess threads like this are what happens when we don't have news for months on end.

Asuka's realization that Rei can do something worse than herself (she has more band aids) is what causes Asuka to drop her guard. She had accused Rei of not caring about anything human. The wounds prove that this is not the case, and they have at least that much in common.

I find the fact that Anno was able to do that very interesting. Does he own the copyright to Eva (or at least, the right to take it to a different company)? There was talk a few months back about him being so fed up with Gainax that he was prepared to cut them off from Eva completely. Whethe...

Honestly, Anno should just let Enokido write the whole thing and focus on directing. 3.0 would be out in no time and probably much better than previous installments (now I love Rebuild so far so don't think I'm dissing previous entries here) What? Why? If Anno didn't control the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qow6eRlPCgI&feature=BF&list=SP67189DE250CF2480&index=6 Pen Pen's crazy noises and Kaji's sexy voice make this dub worthwhile. Haters gonna hate. Still, Grant sounds like a piece of shit, and so does Spencer. Funimation should have thought it throug...

I was taken aback at how visceral my reaction to these clips were. Upon hearing Grant again, the nostalgia hit me in a way it hadn't with Spencer or Keith. I know all about the original dub's sins, and watch the show subbed now. Even so, the dub will always have some fondness in my heart, an...

It still baffles me that we don't even know what form the next installment(s) will take. Everyone seems to take it as a given that the next "two" parts will in fact be a single movie divided at the 45-minute mark, but that's not based on anything. If they're really prep...

OR maybe Anno/Kara are simply taking the time to insure that 3.0 is a quality product. We don't know exactly what it is they're working on, after all, or the length. The pressure to meet release dates is part of the reason big budget U.S. films frequently disappoint. If Kara needs another ye...

AuraTwilight#426115 wrote:Oh hey, pseudoscience.

"Pseudo" how? This stuff has been established for a while now.

I knew skipping page 103 of the March 2004 issue would come back to haunt me... Not exactly an AT, I think he was going more twards instrumentality. AT fields seem like a physical state changer controlled by your mind to warp air and matter into an at sort of field that can be nuetralized by someone...

How so? This is the AT Field as defined by the series (at least on the human level). If you remove the influence of these neurons, you literally lose the distinction between yourself and another person and begin to associate their feelings as your own. It can't help ya generate fancy ass...

I think any fan of Eva will find parts of this Ted Talk... familiar. In fact, if this had been around in '95, we'd all consider it the basis for Anno's "severed arm" preoccupation. The talk is by neurologist V.S. Ramachandran, who details the role mirror neurons can play in &qu...

I don't think comparing it to the FLCL dub is fair. That show's style allowed more freedom of performance -- mouths were frequently hidden from the viewer, allowing the VAs to form their own rhythm. The characters were also "bigger", no one really had to worry about subtlety.

Yeah, if Miyazaki films are relegated to the anime ghetto (and they are), Funimation's dub certainly has nothing to do with it. Critical praise and even an Oscar haven't been enough to get Ghibli mainstream acceptance. Thought a major issue with an English dub for 2.22 would just be ...

Xard#424403 wrote:Hikari's a trusted, real friend more than anything else.

I wouldn't go that far. Their relationship seems somewhat distant. When Hikari tells Asuka that she did her best, she doesn't know how crushing that statement is.

I just don't think it's fair to pass judgment on her performance based on this one scene (beyond what you think of the scene, of course). Those already declaring her a disaster are a bit premature. I'm not entirely impressed myself. BUT if she nails "psycho bitch" Mari,...

It's worth pointing out that this scene is atypical for Mari's character... in the rest of the film, she's hyper, violent, and confident. Here, she's confused more than anything else. I think we'd have to see the entire performance before drawing any conclusions. What's that ...

You're being kinda anal... its natural that discussion would be limited to Mari at the moment since this clip is all there IS to discuss, really. The Japanese tend to think of Europe (and even "the West") as one entity (just as Americans tend to think of Japanese/Chinese/Ko...

Why shouldn't this be the thread to debate her performance? The idea that Mari should have a British accent is a complete fan creation, guys. Vague Sadamoto quotes aren't enough to back that up.

Yeah, that's certainly an error. It would make no sense.