If NGE+EoE is the dourly cynical postmodern question, NTE is the post-postmodern/ Newly Sincere redemptive response. I'll echo a lot of the praise for the village sequence; I thought it was the best part and almost reached some of the emotional heights of the original series. NTE doesn't supplant th...

Strong disagree. Like Nuke said, he turns away from the relatively spectacular and out-of-the-ordinary towards a very banal occluded shot of a person he sees on a comparatively regular basis. Or...he turns the camera to show the future viewer that Asuka's there. And Asuka doesn't like cameras point...

Jayfive#928051 wrote:That's...a reach.

Strong disagree.

Like Nuke said, he turns away from the relatively spectacular and out-of-the-ordinary towards a very banal occluded shot of a person he sees on a comparatively regular basis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h6xUknn1xM I started playing piano in 2009, in my freshman year of high school. Evangelion: 2.0 came out that summer, and this children’s folk song, which plays ironically during the apocalyptic climax, absolutely smote me and inspired my first attempt at arranging m...

A relevant situation is the recent release of the Criterion Collection's World of Wong Kar-wai set. After the initial announcement, collectors were dumping their out-of-print individual releases for bargain prices. Once Criterion announced that the films were heavily “restored” with stretched aspect...

Bloodtypeblue#921021 wrote:Tamashii Nations just have announced robot damashii unit 8 γ and unit 13.

Thankful to have an alternative to the Mafex 13 and their poor quality control. Hopefully these figures don't beat the movie itself to an international release.

Judging by Anime Expo coverage from past years [1], it's an important source for Western, domestic (Japanese), and worldwide news. This isn't surprising considering the US is uncontested when it comes to demand for anime outside of Japan [2]. So yes, it's a faulty comparison. [1] https://www.animene...

The robots in Rossum’s Universal Robots, the play that coined the word “robot,” weren’t even mechanical. Etymologically, “robot” connotes forced labor, and the timing of the word’s inception with industrialization and automation led to the term being conflated with mechanical objects. You could thin...

It's getting a general release; you can pre-order on BBTS or Amazon. Also, it's best to avoid multi-posting and instead condense your message into a single post. I'm pretty sure it's P-Bandai. In America it'll be general release, no middle-man required: https://www.amazon.com/Tamashii-Nations-Robot...

PainXIII12#917015 wrote:I also have the Robot Damashii Eva 02 alpha on pre order but I had to use a proxy site to order one.

It's getting a general release; you can pre-order on BBTS or Amazon.

Also, it's best to avoid multi-posting and instead condense your message into a single post.

For crying out loud, it is theft! I don't care if you do or don't, I for sure do! But I don't pretend it's legal! I just posted a well-written argument on why piracy doesn’t fit the definition of theft, and your response is just “it’s theft”? Sorry, but I don’t think that will convince me. Except i...

At the risk of sounding like a pedantic asshole, I'll say that regardless of how one feels about the morality of online piracy, it isn't theft. Yes. This is true. Merriam-Webster definition of theft: a: the act of stealing - specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with...

Looks like New-02 is going to be P-Bandai:
https://p-bandai.jp/item/item-1000145955/

13 when 1.0 released in 2007, was starting high school. 18 when 3.0 released in 2012, was starting engineering as a first-year undergrad. 26/27 in 2021, nearing the end of a PhD in robotics. Between 3.0 and 3.0+1.0, I got two engineering degrees, learned (conversational) Japanese, worked on robots i...

Very cool! I recognize those from "Extra Curricular Lesson with Hideaki Anno."

While DC and : || are functionally similar in many contexts, they’re not wholly equivalent. DC is often paired with an “al fine” or “al coda,” marking to go back to the beginning and either stop at the “fine” or skip to the “coda.” In my experience, it’s actually really unusual to see a DC without “...

It's pretty annoying that none of the Bandai lines have a complete lineup: - Robot Damashii '10: missing 06, 08 - Robot Damashii '20: missing 03 (teased but not announced), 06 - Real Grade: missing 03 (teased but not announced) Shame that Revoltech is the only option for a complete lineup, since I t...

I'm expecting a post-credits Preview of shots from NGE.

Ironic that the film series that keeps blue-balling the apocalypse is now getting blue-balled by the apocalypse. I had just started my engineering Bachelor's when I first saw 3.0. Now I'm in the last leg of my robotics PhD, learned Japanese, and even lived in Japan to work on robots. I was even plan...

Made a piano cover of One Last Kiss, based on what was heard so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL8Ps7FWEqI