"Shinji is Nadia" gets overplayed a bit. Asuka uses Nadia's character design the same way and one basically never hears about it. Nadia herself is "genben" in the first place, also, since Anno based her off himself. The "genben" elements of Eva, which are part of the br...

That sort of response isn't really in the spirit of the thread, is it?

I can't find anything. I was hoping that maybe someone else knew what I was thinking of, but unless a source can be found, take it with a giant pinch of salt.

Personally I think that Shinji's character is simply meant to interrogate the sanctity of gender roles. Remember that scene where Kaji gives him his version of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"? Shinji and Kaji are lying back to back the entire time -- this is used to show that the...

Many of your threads are incredibly specific (to the point of making participation from others difficult to impossible) and fall under the general umbrella of "here's how I would change Evangelion". I've found some three to four of these threads, though there might be more. We do have a &q...

No download link to the music, as that's against our rules, but if you would like to share a "text only" version of the playlist, it would be lovely to see the results of your research that way .

Oh god, that page is available?! :cringe: I started it years ago and gave up when I realized that instead of denying a bad idea by pointing to how the "evidence" is actually just hints about the internal backstory of NTE itself, I could just be writing direct analysis on the backstory itse...

Your post makes me think you would be deeply appreciative of the fic linked in my signature... :bigeyes: (Basically using a hypothetical situation with Kaworu to venture deep into Misato's past and into the darkest parts of her psyche. Great fun. Latest chapter has the "alternate continuity&quo...

I think you're doing the right thing by questioning what you've been taught. :thumbsup: My experience with DotA is pretty bad and I never accepted that particular dogma. It feels like it's mostly used in Internet arguments as an excuse for people to impose whatever they want onto somebody else's wor...

dzzthink: I would need to relocate the source, but I distinctly remember hearing something to the effect that "Sadamoto struggled with the manga ending because his original plans were too much like the new movies, so he had to come up with something different". The manga's ending isn't a r...

A filter isn't needed anyway. It wasn't a problem at all until Xard reappeared and wrongfully assumed the forum hadn't changed with the times. The user base in general knows better. The last time slurs were enough of an issue to merit us talking about changing the rules was back in 2015!

@Melkor : Eva-13 wasn't "turning into core"; it was turning Eva-08 into core. (13 itself may have been a partial or whole core-being all along. The method used to insert the entry plugs visually hearkens back to Yui's experiment.) The dark material used for "Seele-tech" seems to...

Eva-08 was being turned into core by 13. Mari had to let go ASAP.

Yes indeed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viruses_of_the_Mind

The latter, certainly. Making the public aware of Seele would provide an opportunity for the mind-virus to plant itself in new hosts, so in every sense that would be the better outcome. Even if Kiel and his buddies get executed, there would still be a chance for someone else to continue their work a...

I would want to see Asuka "sacrifice herself" in embrace of her true self and the power she might possess to deter Final Impact. More here: post/896047/Will-Asukas-Angel-Contamination-Play-A-Role-In-30-10/#896047

This thread is about a specific user returning from a ban who was interested in advice on making up for the past. You can introduce yourself here.

kuribo-04: didn't work because you had emoticons disabled on that post.

But since there is no corresponding change in forum rules in 2020 in comparison to 2014 you can't really expect an old-timer like me to know such change has taken place. You were told, IN PMs , that the rules say "no chanspeak". What could your instinct to append "-fag" to nouns...

@orcot: This is a thread about the films, not the original anime.