Yeah, my bad on that knee-jerk reaction. I've been defending Asuka for so long on other fora I assumed you were attacking her character, rather than just her credibility. Both, actually.... Just not on this particular issue anymore. :thumbsup: I've never really liked Asuka, though I do feel...

Mr. Tines wrote:That'd be its exact opposite.

Everyone who ever lived all comes back to life at once on a world that surely can't support them with it's recently devastated ecosystem... is a GOOD END?

Is there any reason to think that souls without bodies don't erode over time? I don't believe there is any reason to expect people who aren't very recently dead to still be around for 3I. Kaji in EOE is just there in Misato's memories, and in EOTV that was likely just the Kaji in Shi...

FWIW, the literal translation of what Asuka says is "Yeah, with an MD student." If that is what the line was originally intended to convey then I'm willing to concede the argument. Misato would definately know the truth of the matter and her not commenting at all on such a declaration...

I'm in as a designer, collaborating with Rhyno. Team New Guys is go!

So, everyone who acts professionally at his/her place of employment on a daily basis (this would be all the time... no?), they are actually lying? It isn't that they are being their professional selves? You do realize that people can have different personalities around different individ...

I thought they kinda looked like Giger's aliens, only white and more smoothed out. There definately is something androgynously sexual about them though that creeps me out when they smile.

I don't recall yui taking the souls. I think most of them ended up floating in that bright red ring in the sky.

Anything is possible on that front, I guess.

Earth is gonna be damn crowded after 3I if everyone who ever lived is coming back though. Hmm... would this qualify as an addition to Mr. Tine's list of BAD END scenarios?

Next!

If Rit-chan would loose the dye job she'd be higher in my ranking. I just don't care for blondes... no real definable reason why.

If Maya was a real possibility, I'd give her the nod. Failing that, flashback college Yui.

That's real interest, however. If it's just raw sex appeal for a no-fuss no commitment bit of fun we're talking about them Misato by a landslide.

Man... the next time someone comes to a job interview dressed up in a suit, I'm going to deny them the job right away because they're dishonest. I didn't complain about the suit comment, not directly anyway. It isn't a lie to behave in a manner consistent with expectations of a spec...

Asuka may be intelligent, and believe that makes her mature; but she lacks both maturity and the wisdom that come with it -- in D&D terms, the classic INT18, WIS8 magic user type. I assumed that regardless of the question at hand, honestly. ^_^ in her one detached command, Lance Corporal Sohryu...

@ SSD: The mullet-headed time traveler is a meme mostly supported by YTMND. The link I offered was to the original site, but since there have been all manner of additions to his 'legend': pics of him messing with history, other people joining the time war with similar newspaper ads, a quest ...

In the end, it will be up to you to decide whether you believe Asuka or not... and that will reflect volumes on how you perceive the character. I don't think you are going to find any other 'direct' evidence one way or another however. It certainly looks that way. I came here hoping som...

Gendo stuck the soul back in the embryo after Kaworu went squish. I assume that as well, but he certainly didn't take over Gendo when that happened. Had he fused with the embryo he may have just ended up trapped or in some combined adam/gendo hybrid form... teh uberpimp?! Why did he think that ...

That's certainly an impressive wall of text! First, everyone acts differently around people they like. I disagree. If you act differently than you expect to generally continue to act around a person in a romantic or business sense then you are indeed being dishonest. A white lie is still a lie. ...

The only direct evidence that Asuka did attend college is her statement to Shinji in Episode 10. As you yourself have stated, there is no direct evidence to the contrary. I don't speak Japanese nor do I have access to the platinum subs, so I was rather hoping that there might be some evidence t...

Is it problematic if my first reading of the title was that it was discussing a 24 FOOT plot hole? :D Okay, my way of seeing things: Scene at the lake was two scenes at once... though whether both are occuring at real time or one is a flashback is debatable. I'm suprised nobody has mentioned ...