Maybe he has taken to play the contrabass instead.

I like to imagine that Asuka tries to text Mari but Mari ignores her and goes straight to Shinji instead.

Kendrix#922825 wrote:I don't think she's actually there (she doesn't get in there until she collects Shinji later) - she's probably a memory

Not saying you are wrong, but why would a memory say goodbye to her? And yeah, she says "Be well", but that's also a goodbye, I think.

That, and the American SEELE member getting flack for being too upset about all those boats sunk by the combined efforts of Gaghiel and Asuka. Rare moment where one of em looks human. IIRC., those are not members of SEELE but the Human Instrumenetality Committee - a suborganization which doesn't ev...

Technically, yes. Shinji saves Asuka by pulling her out of Unit 13. IIRC., Mari tells him again to go save her before he dives into Negative Space.

Thanks for sharing your reactions, Joseki! Some very good points in there, which I haven't seen expressed so clearly before. Mari is still paradoxical for me. Yes, she's connected deeper than almost everybody else to the Evangelion world, yet she remains firmly an outsider; a Yankee at King Arthur's...

Pretty sure it was the other way around, no? SHE was the one involved with Seele through her dad, Gendo married her because he wanted in on that deal. Yes - that was at least the rumor at the time (that Gendo only married her because he wanted to get in touch with SEELE). Whether or not the rumor i...

I know that Anno wanted his big happy ending for everyone, but I feel that he has gone too far against the saga's established narrative to give said super happy ending. Exactly! That's part of the reason why I have a hard time believing that the ending is actually that super happy to begin with. Yo...

"Pseudo" is no more perfectly good than it is banally bland. The only bland thing here is your habit of doing translations that rob the original of a lot of meaning, leaving us with translations so broad as to be almost useless. I have to think back to your refusal to translate the senten...

4) where IS she getting the pics? Not all these scenes have been in clips There are some things that have only been leaked as screenshots. Other sources include the NHK documentary, the trailers, and behind-the-scenes footage released on twitter et. al. Lastly there are the booklet scans; that's ab...

I'd be cautious about using it precisely because of your reaction, since I don't know how far that "maybe all the pilots are artificial" theory is going to spread now. Don't worry, that theory rests on more than one pillar, and has been around since long before Asuka made it obvious throu...

Regarding Shinji, Ha to Shin, I'm not sure any character had it tougher than him, save for Misato, maybe. Hard disagree here. Sleeping through 14 years of hardship immediately disqualifies him from having it "the thoughest". I also don't think that Unit 01 and 13 were destroyed; seems lik...

It would do most of you good if you just stepped back and admitted that your reaction is an emotional one. Trying to act like amateur film critics by picking out things like “how does Wille have the budget for this?” just makes you look ridiculous. Except that concerns about realism & things li...

@ElMariachi: I agree with the criticisms - I wrote up a longer post I never sent containing most of them. Some of the decisions the movie makes are really baffling. @Axxon: The funny thing is that NTE's runtime of 480 minutes vs. than NGE's of 570 minutes (series plus EoE) isn't even that short. Cu...

The biggest flaws of NTE are "turn up everything to 11" syndrome, never finding a coherent tone**, and never truly committing to what it set up, most evident by retreading EoE instead of giving us something actually new. So many moments of missed opportunity. For example, it introduces the...

That might only be a one-time thing, but it doesn't feel like it. It's during the village part, when Shinji is still mostly catatonic. She wonders how long it will be until she can sleep (implying it has been some time since she found (good) rest, or any rest at all).

No, quite the opposite actually. To a surprising amount. I spent a lot of time with NTE in between rewatches of NGE, and feared that NGE would have lost its charme at this point, but no. It feels a lot more human to me in many aspects. The visuals, while not as flashy, have aged very well in my eyes...

There's another slight twist here. Not only was she reduced to "less than human" from the perspective of the Angel infecting her and freezing her in the body of a fourteen year old - even before that, her true Eva-like nature was reduced to human level to begin with, her emotions tempered ...

The way I perceive it, the "Curse of Eva" is a metaphor for societal expectations of conformity that deprive people of their individuality and force them into stereotypical roles. I see it as the same thing - but come to the complete opposite conclusion, similar to Axxon. Because those af...

the pilots having to cough up lungfuls of LCL after exiting their Evangelions, suggesting we never see it because nobody wants to watch teenage girls throwing up. I'd loved a scene like that, actually. Maybe with Shinji, after his first battle. Would have added another nice realistic touch. Not sur...