@Reichu:

Do you think it's possible to get those things completely off your chest someday? EoE has left me unsatisfied by leaving everything open, strangely I feel as though the rushed ending of episode 26 from the original series would have given me more closure.

To everyone who's seen the original series a while ago, what is it that keeps you guys from moving on and forgetting about it? For me, I relate to eva's characters on a deep and personal level. Even after 10 years have passed since my first viewing as a teenager, I'm coming back to it as a relativel...

I was rewatching episode 25 the other day and the inner dialogues between Misato, Asuka, Rei and Shinji enforced just how similar they all were- afraid of communicating with the outside world, afraid of failing, unable to reunite with their mother, resentful of their father. None of them believe the...

Production IG is making seasons 2 and 3 of flcl!!!! Wonder if Sadamoto will have any involvement with character designs. And Gainax, of course.

My least fav character would be...the angels? any of them? Sounds terrible but I really wish NGE had focused on its social drama aspects & emphasized the intense psychological analyses of the three Children. I know NGE wouldn't be the same without the battle for survival against the Angels b...

Black light, I don't think anyone has ever linked NGE to Plato's Symposium before! Here're my 2 cents: Aristophanes' speech on the origins of human 'incompleteness' (as you referenced) deals with the human longing for companionship and affection, stemming from Zeus...

It's weird for me to comprehend how a bunch of nerdy animators could ever have come up with such compelling characters as the Children. Maybe I'm overestimating the originality of NGE, and Anno may have just copied a bunch of 80's anime tropes and switched them up. Doesn't matter! I ...

I don't know much about absurd-ism as a philosophy (if that's what you're referring to), but as a viewer of animation, I have a certain respect for the fantastical qualities of Japanese 'cartoons'. I don't think Gainax and anime in general, mock the foundation of logi...

I'll sound like I'm heaping meaningless words of praise that don't amount to squat, but never mind that. Eva is - beautiful, fragile From an art design perspective, the animation style has always fascinated me. Yoshiyuki Sadamoto and Takeshi Honda's work in character design in partic...

the NGE fanboy in me would pay cash money for that. If I could choose, I would pick ep. 8-16 for a shot-for-shot remake, and follow that up perhaps with 17-24. 1.0's remake of ep. 1-6 did not appeal to me at all, IMO the beginning of NGE kinda dragged on. this is just my opinion (~duh, right...

purely from a visual perspective, I thought ep. 10, 11 and 12 had abysmal animation- even ep. 25+26, despite the low frame rate, had decent artwork. The art style of ep. 10, 11 and 12 hardly matches the rest of the series. I am a fan of Takeshi Honda's artwork, and to follow the wonderful art st...

I never took Eva to be a conventional good-vs-evil morality story, even though it is essentially a coming-of-age story and the two genres often mix. Antagonist-wise, I would say the enemy is deliberately uncertain, as Anno and Gainax intended. This is emphasized by the distorted, amorphous shapes an...

This probably won't be what you're looking for, but I wanted to post this trailer anyway-it's the Japanese Theatrical trailer of EoE set to Dies Irae. One of my favs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ-4myiJIQg

ya I'd love to see some classical NGE sheet music, especially for the piano! Definitely keep us in the loop!

Anyone listen to the instrumental version of Sakura Nagashi? Pure piano bliss to me. If J-Pop ever gets tiring, I recommend this song's instrumentals. Coincidentally, I like me some Chopin. I'd say melody-wise, SN is more evocative than BW. Something about its simple arrangement reminds me o...

ahh we need a thread devoted to Asuka's characterization as a Tsundere archetype! I've read some interesting posts in this thread that either support or reject Asuka's 'Tsundere' label, but it's totally off topic so I'm hesitant to offer this random Yuko Miyamura quote ab...

@ Chaosakita you are definitely not alone! The quartet rehearsal scene in the high school auditorium provided an unexpected perspective of the eva pilots as young students. That these kids could savor music right before the start of the apocalypse, was beautiful to me. Looking back on it after 8 yea...

I couldn't say why the Japanese dislike ReiQ (maybe some do, some don't?), but I'm told that Rei from NGE was its 'premium girl' in Japan and sold all kinds of merch like hotcakes back in the day. Personally, I loved Kuronami's new plugsuit design, the black suit cont...

@TMBounty Hunter

I got twitter to load up to Oct 13th on Sui Mame's account by clicking on the "Photos and Videos" link right below the "sign up" link (i.e the page view of his photo collection) and then scrolling down. Hope it helps!

@Chuckman I'm also not sure what you mean by the unfamiliar "dramatic structure." Granted, the Jo-Ha-Kyu organization may not be a direct parallel to say, the 5 act plays of Shakespeare, but I was able to make sense of the Rebuild films. It's too dismissive to say that because we&#...