[NO SPOILERS] Evangelion 3.0 Speculation [2]

[riffraff11235]

Has anyone said anything about the newly found pink evangelion in the recent 3.0 trailers? C'mon! It's a Pink evangelion! How did that not attract a lot of attention!

There was much ado about this in both the trailers and speculation thread. So yeah, the pink Eva Unit did attract quite a bit of attention.

[brankoburcksen]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to speculate about this, but it pertains to Evangelion 3.0.

I kept wondering to myself what point there was to make such a big deal about new characters by putting them in the trailer and causing a lot of talk just from a mural on an Eva Store. Yes, it's a good way to market a new movie even if the new characters' roles in the story are minimal, but that got me thinking a little more about franchising.

If Evangelion has been good about one thing these past fifteen years and more, it's selling a brand that keeps giving back. In recent years, franchising has become a paradigm. Movie studios milk big movies for all they're worth, stretching titles like Breaking Dawn and The Hobbit to the limits of what the story content can put on screen. Disney now intends to push Star Wars past infinitum. Anime itself is not immune to this.

Gen Urobuchi, the writer for Madoka Magica, imagines a series past the third movie, bringing on new writers even though the first series tied everything together very well and felt complete.

All that's to say the introduction of new characters in the second, third and coming fourth movie, besides offering new faces to market, may be there to set things up for something beyond the final movie. I doubt Anno would stop after these movies finish considering the huge sums of money they are and will make just to let Evangelion lie dormant for another decade while his middle age drifts toward seniority. While new characters can't do much in the way of story in just two films, they outline many creative possibilities. Moving the setting into space also encourages speculation about that.

I do believe it's very probable that after the fourth movie, instead of a complete ending, we're going to sit through another long list of credits only to be slapped with a preview for a forthcoming series to continue where the FINAL movie leaves off.

That's all mere speculation, but apart from marketability, that's what new characters offer, plus the popularity of the franchise is too tasty to just sit and cool. Since the third movie does move into space, I can imagine a scenario where Seeds of Life landed on other planets like Mars or one of the moons of Jupiter like Europa and the new story becomes, first a race to make contact with those other Lilim or Adams, and then a struggle to understand one another. It would be cool if the First Ancestral Race also played a larger role, but...

That's just my take on why we're getting more new characters in the third movie apart from marketing for just this movie.

This is unrelated, but is there a thread somewhere discussing the 13th volume of the manga?

[Bagheera]

Has anyone said anything about the newly found pink evangelion in the recent 3.0 trailers? C'mon! It's a Pink evangelion! How did that not attract a lot of attention!

It did. We talked about it in the trailers thread for quite awhile.

[Hyper Shinchan]

Someone still sane enough also pointed out that purple isn't less ridiculous than pink, my brother said the same thing as soon as I told him that there's a pink Evangelion now.

[airman4]

Has anyone said anything about the newly found pink evangelion in the recent 3.0 trailers? C'mon! It's a Pink evangelion! How did that not attract a lot of attention!

Well pink eva is probably eva - 08 ?

The pilot is unknow , maybe mari illustrous makinami ?

The pink eva got 8 eyes , one more than lilith ...

[StratoSakuya...AF]

Someone still sane enough also pointed out that purple isn't less ridiculous than pink, my brother said the same thing as soon as I told him that there's a pink Evangelion now.

The epitome of Evangelion tackiness ocurred when the LoL had the shape of friggin' Strada!

Yes, Eva 08 is most likely Mari's.

[Hyper Shinchan]

The epitome of Evangelion tackiness ocurred when the LoL had the shape of friggin' Strada!

Strada? What do you refer to? It means "road" in Italian but I don't get the exact reference.

[Monk Ed]

Someone still sane enough also pointed out that purple isn't less ridiculous than pink, my brother said the same thing as soon as I told him that there's a pink Evangelion now.

I'm not bothered by the pink, but I just can't agree with this. Purple has been a color of darkness and shadow for a long time. It's a "legit tough" color -- sometimes ridiculous, but fully capable of representing something completely serious in a way that pink has never been able to.

[airman4]

WOW
People actually think that pink eva is a weak robot ?

Jesus , humans.
I'm not surprised , people actually judge things (and humans) by their skin colors , so why not for evas !

[Bagheera]

WOW
People actually think that pink eva is a weak robot ?

Jesus , humans.
I'm not surprised , people actually judge things (and humans) by their skin colors , so why not for evas !

Ridiculous, not weak. No one's ever said it was weak.

[Hyper Shinchan]

Jesus , humans.

Welcome to earth, did you have a nice time on the moon with Kaworu?

Purple has been a color of darkness and shadow for a long time.

I didn't notice it at all, in Italy it's even considered an unlucky colour, especially inside theatres, because it was used by the bishops during Lent which forced theatrical companies to stop their works.

[Bagheera]

I didn't notice it at all, in Italy it's even considered an unlucky colour, especially inside theatres, because it was used by the bishops during Lent which forced theatrical companies to stop their works.

Dude, royal purple. Whether you noticed it or not it has a strong pedigree.

[Hyper Shinchan]

Dude, royal purple. Whether you noticed it or not it has a strong pedigree.

Royal purple goes back to ancient Rome or even before, but it doesn't say anything about darkness and shadow, it was a colour of power and wealth.

[UBERGEEKZILLA]

ya know what....maybe the characters WONT die!!! ya never know. the point of the rebuild movies is to do something different. why would they repeat what they did a decade ago?

[airman4]

Welcome to earth, did you have a nice time on the moon with Kaworu?

I didn't notice it at all, in Italy it's even considered an unlucky colour, especially inside theatres, because it was used by the bishops during Lent which forced theatrical companies to stop their works.

Hahahah!

I was pointing that this pink eva could surprise actually.

Since the big black american eva got destroyed easy by eva 01 , i don't judge until i see the thing in action lol.

[Hyper Shinchan]

ya know what....maybe the characters WONT die!!! ya never know. the point of the rebuild movies is to do something different. why would they repeat what they did a decade ago?

I've been vaguely suspecting this thing from a while, y'know.

Since the big black american eva got destroyed easy by eva 01 , i don't judge until i see the thing in action lol.

Well, if you consider Shinji's spiral of desperation, purple doesn't really seem to be a lucky colour, for him at least.

[airman4]

Maybe at this point, the purple color is for Yui ...

Anyway i would love to see the white eva (eva 04 )
and a color brown eva.

[Seele00TextOnly]

If Gendo,Ritsuko,and Misato die how is the next movie going to play?

Well that would be one of the interesting things to explore of course.

Then again my list of deaths may have been too extensive... if, say, Ritsuko hasn't been given the time and development that episode 13 did and her scenes in the later episodes, for example, then her death carries no meaning. As is, killing her would only resonate with fans superimposing things from the series because she's basically been a non-presence so far. Same would go for Kaji, I would think. As is, the most shocking deaths I'm expecting would be the Gendo one, and Mari. Mari is probably the biggest stretch on my list; it really all depends on what the writing staff were able to come up with for her to do, probably.

Also if Shinji dies then, well, I'm calling it all over again like I did about a couple years ago: Asuka centered Instrumentality on the horizon. But who knows.

I definitely agree with Xard though, that they almost have to do Instrumentality in some form. Not only is it a fundamental element of Evangelion both structurally and thematically, but also in the greater culture that has existed around it. But moreso, the reason I think Anno will do it again is because he wants to. In both of the previous explorations of Instrumentality he was met with a sizeable amount of backlash, criticism, and rejection of both the concept and his presentation of it, I think. So he's probably very drawn to coming back to it yet again to reinforce what he has to say about the human condition through it.

[StratoSakuya...AF]

Strada? What do you refer to? It means "road" in Italian but I don't get the exact reference.

An anime, then again, people there have CAR names to boot.

Royal purple goes back to ancient Rome or even before, but it doesn't say anything about darkness and shadow, it was a colour of power and wealth.

And Eva 01 isn't supposed to be a powerhouse right?

ya know what....maybe the characters WONT die!!! ya never know. the point of the rebuild movies is to do something different. why would they repeat what they did a decade ago?

Because some people want "Kimochi Warui" all over again, just in high definition so their suffering is more enjoyable.

Apparently, the fans think "Happy Eva? I'd rather die first! I only want Shinji to angst and cry his tears out in fear and shock and be tortured to Lovecraftian levels of mindlessness!"

Enough suffering, Tabris will make Shinji happy, even if befriending is in the order, let's just hope he did changed his haxxor powers for high end destruction.

[Hyper Shinchan]

An anime, then again, people there have CAR names to boot.

Heaven Strada? First time I hear of it.

Because some people want "Kimochi Warui" all over again, just in high definition so their suffering is more enjoyable.

I lolled.