Here's a short manga by Yagisaka @ pixiv, showing post-Final events. Shinji has reconciled with Misato and reunites with an aged Kaji. From what little I can tell, Kaji and Misato have had a kid or kids together, but they're not actually shown. (I hope this is what's going on... I&#...

Î don't think Asuka is the sort of character that dies. Her "life" association from the original is not really present in Rebuild (other than maybe the "animals eat other animals!" speech) but you know, Anno needs her there to write the dialogues in between all those...

Seele00TextOnly#578237 wrote:I like this Kaworu/Shinji conceptually, anatomy stretched though

Seems like a Penguindrum reference.

A live action film set long after EoE. Think the cut live-action sequence of EoE (except Shinji exists in this one) or Anno's live-action work.

No Evas or angels, no big sci-fi concepts. Just characters and their relationships and their problems.

Bagheera#577667 wrote:Why loop or repeat instead of going forward? After all, isn't that the ultimate goal fo the exercise?

That's why all this talk of time loops makes me uncomfortable.

Fourth there's of course the 18+ hag deal that probably is important part. I don't think it's simply a matter to pandering for fans - I think the creators themselves are pretty uncomfortable and weirded by the idea. It's simply a matter of habituation and the general youth glorifyin...

But anyway, they wanted to use a music symbol, I'm not arguing that, but what I'm saying is they couldn't have left out the colon symbol they have been using for all the films, it would've been inconsistent and it would not have provided a separation of the subtitle from the title. ...

But you'd think Anno would be aware that the position of the colon would mean that any musically minded person would immediately read the title as 'end repeat'.

Why can't it be both?

Huddle up in a ball and cry hysterically like a good little Shinji.

LinNervling04#577632 wrote:And they won't have them together. The way things are going, we all know Shinji will probably get Rei back from Unit-01 at the last second in 4.0.

Last minute Shinji/Rei romantic ending? You Can Redo!
I highly doubt it.

Sailor Star Dust#577357 wrote:Paul Carter (the composer and a friend of Utada's) plays a piano version of Sakura Nagashi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQPdzHVakyM

Co-composer, to be precise.

The literal LCL Sea. But I imagine the latter actually probably functions a bit like Shinji's experience of the former, only without the luxury of angel guides.

I think of the LCL sea as a realm of introspection where the concept of time doesn't really exist, and one can grapple with realities of their existence eternally until they come to some kind of resolution to return.

Well...it works for me! The leaving-you-hanging is deliberate, I feel. The uncertainty of the future is something Shinji has to come to terms with as a character. Going "and then they killed each other forever" or "and then they lived happily ever after and had a billion children"...

Wow.

CaasiBoy#569868 wrote:Not even top 10. Hell, maybe not even top 20. Despite that, it is by far the one that I'm the most obsessed with.

I don't get how that works.

ancapevageek#572825 wrote:so it's roughly 12:45 pm over there. How long until the first screenings begin, and confirmations of these spoilers start rolling?

The first screening was like, 12 hours ago, dude.

Oh shiiiii

Why would they subtitle domestic film release for domestic audience? You might as well wonder why Hollywood films don't automatically come with, say, Spanish subtitles A few cinemas in Tokyo showed Innocence with English subtitles when it was released in 2004. Possibly Steamboy as well, but not...

Interestingly, the post originally stated that 'a release will follow in 2013'. Now it says 'as soon as it can be confirmed'.

Hmm. : /