Often it's also about cost. Also, I think Anno wants to move animation forward, so I'm sure, whenever they manage to make the characters themselves look good in CG, he'll use it. Anima(tor) Expos Cassette girl already came pretty close. Yeah I also tought about cost as it would be the most reasonab...

It really doesnt matter, cgi in hand drawn animation will always look odd and out of place. What's the excuse? The shot's inside the wunder where really cringeworthy. I get that some of the cgi for backgrounds can be really interesting and such but the overall execution has made this really cringewo...

^ I'm glad you exist, you deserve a cookie. Ohh thats very nice of you, thank you! Chocolate chip is my favorite kind tought. Do you think they had cookies in evangelion? Are you also are a sequel theorist? Having seen how he works as a filmmaker, even if the film series was somehow a sequel to the...

In any case, I'm not sure why you can't await a mindscrew AND exercise your brain's powers of deduction at the same time. You seem to be all about, "who needs to piece together anything that's actually happening in the story when I can just keep believing that the original series will show up ...

You assume that all of a story's mysteries must be solvable before the end of a work. I'm not sure where this conceit originates, but it doesn't make much sense to me. The Dark Side of the Moon is a famous Pink Floyd album. And this thread is and always has been silly. At the contrary this is preci...

Sometimes things are omitted not because they don't "canonically" happen, but because it's deemed unnecessary to show it. If we had never known about the omitted scene, we could have eventually connected the dots on our own. Yes but until it is not published I dont trust apocrypha stuff. ...

I'm not projecting on Shinji. If anything I'm projecting on Asuka, she's the one who's missing an eye because of his cowardice. How would you treat someone who left you to die in an accident because he was too chicken to pull you out? Because of his cowardice? Ikari was willing to give his life in ...

So you just want him to become the brat that Asuka thinks he is? Do you really want to think he's got no capacity to become better than that? I believe that Eva 's vision is about overcoming problems in life, not giving in to them. Same thinking over here, I think that Shinji saving and helping Asu...

It's been posted in this very thread, and every shred of material therein has been thoroughly addressed and proven to not be evidence of a sequel in any way, shape or form. All that remains is Kaworu's cryptic words, which are at best consistent with a loop, not a sequel. pssst, there is a reason o...

The story would be awfully boring if all its mysteries could be figured out by fans before the final installment, no? That there is a loop maybe yes and maybe not but that is nothing but a mere door to the endless possibilities that could happen in 3+1 otherwise we already know what would happen. I...

I am just going to post this here, I am sorry if it has been posted before but I do think it is a very good gathering of information supporting the theory of rebuild being connected or even being a possible sequel: http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d18/Pitaya_CrimsonLord/1456794321697_zpspgnc7p4h.jp...

Well I think Anno put them together because both of them where two sides of the same coin. Asuka and Shinji feel abandoned and all alone in the world due to the loss of their mothers and their fathers abandon. They wanted to seek to approach each other a safe emotional support, Asuka did not know ho...

She's mentally 28, she's waaaay too old for him. and after 3.33 romance is going to be the last thing on anyone's mind. I am gonna have to disagree here, this movies are fan service and already stablished the fairy tale road, Asuka it's the princess that is gonna need to be saved. And besides they ...

Thanks for sharing, it's always interesting to read about experiences with Eva other people had watching it. Anno said he chose the name because it was cool, so they still might have put some thought into it afterwards. But even if they didn't it's perfectly fine to apply meaning to it for yourself...

Because she knew him for several months as a human being, and 14 years as a coward who could have saved her, and didn't. for 14 years as the one who was responsible for ruining the planet. It's kind've hard to believe someone like that could have kept her Eva from burning up in the atmosphere, espe...

We don't know why. But whatever the reason is, a time loop seems the most illogical since there's no hint of it anywhere else. There is still a reason of why them storyboards wherent used, drafts and such get taken out of production for different reasons. Like I stated before, if it's not connected...

Hey, does anyone have the supposed storyboards that flash in this short regarding 3+1? Like Asuka, Shinji and Rei walking throught the wasteland and then riding a merry go round?

I don't think it is, since nothing in the movies (apart from Kaworu's cryptic lines) even suggests it's in play. I'd like to think Anno's capable of better. You underestimate Anno, I think he does have an awesome mindfuck prepared when how the original and this version are connected. Also it's not ...

That's the main argument against a loop IMO -- it's hard to see how it would add anything to the story. It's not impossible, it's just . . . why , man? What's the point? Unless you're doing something like Groundhog Day, where the loop is the point of the exercise, I can't see why Anno would bother....

There is, actually. Things like staff saying outright that the new movies are not a sequel. Like, there's a direct quote of them saying that. So yes, we actually do have documentation telling us the NTE can't be a sequel, and we also have all of the above evidence which tells us the same. The new m...