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by Jayfive
Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:42 am
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: Just suppose for a moment...
Replies: 35
Views: 16405

Sorry but never having used 4chan or whatever thats a new image macro on me - youre going to have to explain what you're trying to say. Have I covered an old chestnut? A conspiracy theory? What? Bear with me here, ive been into EVA for like a month and taken a LOT of information in during a very...
by Jayfive
Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:16 pm
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: Just suppose for a moment...
Replies: 35
Views: 16405

I wouldn't be too surprised if Mari turned out to come from the post-EoE world Well someone involved in Rebuild is on record as saying Mari is like 'a character who has stepped into EVA from another anime' (im paraphrasing but thats the general gist). Though I learned about this...
by Jayfive
Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:06 am
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: Just suppose for a moment...
Replies: 35
Views: 16405

Havent read all of those threads (hadnt seen them before but their existence comes as no surprise) but in the main they seem to be examining the evidence for and against a sequel/remake. Thats not what i posted this for - Im asking more about how such a thing would be received - would it be ...
by Jayfive
Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:23 am
Forum: Evangelion General and Chit-Chat
Topic: Evangelion making you picky
Replies: 61
Views: 17742

EVA has helped me confirm (as if it needed confirming) how awful a lot of hollywood cinema truly is. As ive said to people a few times regarding anime - is that Japanese films assumes their audience is intelligent while hollywood assumes its audience are idiots. This is, f'instance, why ...
by Jayfive
Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:11 am
Forum: Rebuild of Evangelion Discussion
Topic: Just suppose for a moment...
Replies: 35
Views: 16405

Just suppose for a moment...

...that the opening red waves shot, the chalk outline on the hill, the red strip on the moon and Kaworu's 'again' lines are all more than callbacks to the original series and instead all *mean* something so that it is implied or explicitly stated that Rebuild and/or NGE is: a) a drea...
by Jayfive
Sat Oct 16, 2010 10:17 am
Forum: Evangelion General and Chit-Chat
Topic: Names
Replies: 12
Views: 7243

it's the name of a sunken ship, not a person. But in the context of a fictional work, people are mostly willing to roll with it.


True enough, not sure if a UK or US show would get away with calling a character Charlie Titantic or Mary Lusitania :P
by Jayfive
Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:54 am
Forum: Evangelion General and Chit-Chat
Topic: Names
Replies: 12
Views: 7243

Names

Quick question from someone whos taken in a lot about Eva but doesnt know a great deal about Japan and Japanese culture. I know about the significance of some of the surnames and middle names but would the first names and surnames generally be seen as unusual or common or even funny in Japan? Guess ...
by Jayfive
Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:49 am
Forum: Old Stickies
Topic: Official Welcome Thread : Jun 21, 2004 to Nov 13, 2010
Replies: 3989
Views: 671098

Afternoon.

Happened across NGE a few weeks back and have absorbed A LOT of information about in a fairly short space of time. :grin:

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