NemZ wrote:Because it gave him an extra degree of control over them, making his elaborate scheme possible.

You have just hit the nail on the head.

Does anyone know if there are any american ports of SRW Alpha 3, Original Generations Gaiden(which I'm told includes Alpha 3), or MX?

Are there any other recent SRW's that include NGE that I should be aware of?

Gendo is sort of like Golem, eaten alive by his own obssession. Actually a better comparison would be to say that Gendo is Batman gone wrong. They are both motivated by grief, they are both crazy awesome, but whereas Batman seeks to save the world, Gendo seeks to destroy it and recreate it. Actually...

They hate Shinji because they see their own weakness, he is not the Conquering Hero they wish to live vicariously through.

Well Shinji is a lot like the main character from It's A Wonderful Life and that is the only other movie where I have seen the line "God's in his Heaven, and all's right with the World."

Gendo is a man given in to despair. He has been so devastated by his wife's death that right and wrong don't matter to him anymore. All he cares about is being with his wife again/flipping off God(I think he says as much in the director's cut of the Platinum Edition)/returning to...

I just rewatched that episode and if you listen intently, you can hear a little girl say:

Mommy, I can't feel my legs.

Anno knows how to knock the wind out of you. I find something new that's horrifying each time I watch that episode.

CyberXIII wrote:What do you think that Evangelion's message is: despair, or hope?

Neither, the correct answer is congratulations. I'm joking of course. I think Evangelion's message was you can't escape into fantasy, you have to earn your happy ending.

But this isn't true. Maybe this argument would work with the other Angels, since they're technically his children, but that definitely doesn't extend to Lilith and the Lilin. He doesn't understand them, and realizes they'll do anything for their own survival. He grasps that they...

Sailor Star Dust wrote:The manga was promising at first, though with the Stages within the past year or so (currently on 56 IIRC) it's been reduced to nothing but fanservice. =_= Sadly I'm not exaggerating either, though I wish I was.

At what volume should I stop?

I only know that I know nothing. But the only people who seem to like NGE are those who gives it a chance. There are three kinds of people when it comes to NGE: 1) Those who like it. 2) "Iz animu, Iz 4 kidz! Also foreign, must be evil!" 3) "Shinji is such a wimp. If I were...

Smile guy probably thought the MP Eva's were performing their finishing move or something.

It's not cost-effective: it would take the same time and resources, and a missile can only be used once whereas an eva can be used multiple times.

He clearly has a concept of individuality; he knows he and Shinji are two different entities, and he doesn't love everyone equally. He understands that other people exist as separate entities, but on a fundamental level he does not understand that other people are sovereign individuals. He sees...

I didn't see the first half of Vol. 2 as homophobic at all, but more a case of a young guy trying to figure out his own feelings and being a bit squicked by his own reactions to Kaworu coming on to him and by those advances. Unfortunately, it wasn't about that. The story focused on Asuka an...

However, he was also human in mindset; he, in the end, refused to unite with Lillith and kill us all. As everybody else here has said, Lilly wasn't his goal, but that isn't what I take issue with. Kaworu's mindset is anything but human. People took a look at him and thought "Gay Ma...

Has anyone read or heard about the new Shinji Ikari Raising Project Manga? I've read the first two volumes so far, it is a lot like Archie Comics except with more fanservice. The art is pretty decent and doesn't burn the eyes like Angelic Days. It's actually kind of cathartic reading a manga where t...

It is an okay read so far, but whenever they try to mix the norse symbolism with Eva's standard christian/kabbalistic/hermetic/deist/gnostic/neo-platonist/jungian mishmash symbolism it smashes my suspsension of disbelief into little tiny pieces. They just don't mix well. Does anyone know wha...

hello, I am a big fan of the Evangelion series. Nice to meet you all.