Eh, I was a little worked up when I wrote that. EoE hits a little too close to home regarding depression, and I fail to see much hope in the narrative side of things. I obviously don't know what Anno thinks; but there is a quite heavy streak of Nihilism running through EoE and to a lesser extent th...

Oy, it's supposed to have just one arm



If you're going do a homage, do it right.

Dropping one line from the script is all that it would take, the one that made me say to myself "Where the hell did that come from? Do they think that being on the silver screen necessitates injecting a romance angle?" In a story that had been about coming to terms with being oneself, inj...

Would you argue that Rent-a-Girlfriend is in a way an homage to Love Hina? I'm not well-watched on this genre, so this could be true and I'm just in dark. I also watched Love Hina 15-16 years ago. Most of my thoughts: Keitaro in Love Hina is a ronin (and spends most of the series like that if I...

I apologize, it was used as a box set extra, a movie calendar in 2001. And yes, it's in Die Sterne.

Evacommentary used to have a link confirming this, but it's dead.

Looking at the broader context of the series, she demands that he isn't so self-deprecatory and "grows a spine", basically. Not responsibility in the sense of preparing dinner, but responsibility in the sense that he acts of his own volition. "Hold me, kiss me, save me, but do someth...

Late reply, but here goes. Shinji choose to save Rei at the end of 2.0 regardless of what "might" happen has been described as a metaphor for escapism, but I feel that does a grave disservice to both characters, You can interpret it that way. Or you can go with "even the right decisi...

@Alaska Slim: Everything I wrote was in relationship to NGE!Asuka&Shinji - I just don't have good enough of a handle on NTE to say something substantial about it. Ah, well in that case, I dunno if "responsibility" represents a part of her demands. Shinji is the most responsible of the...

Not much point to create a subforum for it yet can't openly talk about it. That's why I avoided it for... 6 years? Before I finally sat down and watched 3.33. 3.0+1.0 spoilers are still a thing though. As to Rei Q, the Rei Ayanami that Shinji saved still exists somewhere within EVA-01 according to F...

Rent-a-Girlfriend Ep. 3 This show is trash to some degree, but I'm enjoying it because every few moments I want to smother the MC and grind his face into the pavement. That whiny, horny, entitled 20-something mindset I never occupied, because I was a Hachiman. And since Oregiaru S3 is also going on...

Is Misato mad at Shinji or just conflicted about knowing he’s lost 14 years of time, his childhood and any sense of innocence because he did something ( piloting Eva ) that she knowingly coerced him into doing? As BlueBasilisk suggests here , there may also be continuing projection going on. In 2.2...

The NTE version of Kaworu is hard to work with because we still have an entire movie (and all the post- Shin analysis) missing. I'm glad I finally found a way to explain him that doesn't require resorting to stuff like "Kaworu is stalking Shinji through four dimensions and will continue to do ...

Was he? These sorts of claims need a source to avoid the kinds of fan conspiracy theories that threads like this emerge to debunk. You are absolutely right, a 1,000 apologies Reichu-san. My language was also vague, I did not mean to imply that Anno had taken a poll but had rather been asking someon...

I might have liked, or at least respected the change of Manga!Shinji vs NGE!Shinji, if Sadamoto had gone full Natsuki Subaru with him, and made his flaws a clear result of his anti-social habits/upbringing. Something he needed to overcome, just in a different vein from NGE. As presented, he just fee...

Wasn't Anno openly asking someone "Which girl should Shinji end up with" for 3.0+1.0?

That kind of dampens the idea that he had a pro-Asuka ending from the start. Or Pro anyone really.

Chrono Trigger OVA

Aa, Gonzaresu!

Ore wa tsuyoi!

Ore ni kattara shirubaa pointo!!

Deca-Dance Humans are the NPCs / People of the Land for a video game played by Aliens that looks a lot like Mortal Engines . One of the humans who reminds me of Finn for no particular reason is wondering why they can't be out there killing the MoBs like the Players instead of clean up duty. It just...

OreGairu Season 3, Ep1. FINALLY HERE, like a miracle... Aaand they leave out Yukino's conversation with Haruno. And Haruno walking Hiki back to the station. They're going to have to flashback these moments, they set up way too much here. Love how the show connects the "parental freedom" g...

Kaguya-Sama: Love is War second season. Had its moments here and there, an enjoyable enough watch, but the best part of the first season is sadly lacking in this one- specifically the hilarious confrontations/mind-games between the two leads. I hate it when a comedy tries to go dramatic; I don’t ca...

I recently watched Kamisama Dolls. Excellent animation, even background characters have distinct faces. The ending theme What I remember is that syncopated, latin-esce OP sung by the always-great, can uninstall-me-any-day Chiaki Ishikawa. ... ah both are sung by her in fact. And sadly Re:Zero seaso...