JinKazama2006 wrote:I know it's a shame for someone to cry with not knowing. Or is it a shame to cry because of an anime?
Yo, first off, it's not a shame to cry and not know the reason behind it; it's one of those little things that just happens sometimes to us flawed and incomplete humans.
I'm definitely not the type to cry a lot,(it's silly to put a number on these things, but if I had to guess, 1-3 times a year? Well, to me, that's not a lot, anyway.) but when I do find myself crying, it's usually for no reason at all. Sometimes it's brought about when I read some old scripts that I've written, even when they're not particularly sad; somethings are beyond explanation.
Secondly, it's definitely not a shame to cry because of an anime. Anime is a form of art, and it in no way should be looked down upon just because it's animation. Some people discount anime because it's "a cartoon"(which is true, but the label is often, but not always, used in a derisive manner to make it seem more childish), and some people discount it because of its fans, which, well, are just the victim of stereotypes.(We're not all unsocial shut-ins who live vicariously through lives of fictional characters.) But in the end, anime; that is to say, art in general, is just another form of communication, one person or group of people telling a story to another person, and it's a shame to see it be such a niche market.
As for me, I've never cried watching Evangelion, but the more I watch it, EoE in particular, it means a little bit more to me emotionally, and I think my eyes might have watered a little bit last time.
If I'm forgiven to be going on a bit of an unrelated note, this thread reminds me of how I came into Evangelion. I had just finished watching Serial Experiments Lain(another psychological anime), and I was looking some stuff up on it online, and every review compared it to Evangelion. So I went to Hollywood Video, which was where I got a load of Lain, and I got the first Evangelion VHS. First episode didn't impress me then, but the second episode sold it for me. The episode that for me really set it in the "best series ever" category was the episode where Shinji got sucked into the Sea of Dirac(I'm bad with episode numbers). I hadn't seen anything like it at that point. So, everytime I went to Hollywood, I would get two VHS's, and usually watch them both that same day. By the time I was done with the series, EoE was set to come out on DVD the next week, so I snatched up both the movies, and ate those up, too. Bam, that was it for me, best movie ever.(Casablanca is a close second.)
And as for the whole Eva brotherhood thing, I suppose having a common interest does sort of build a sort of inherent bond between everyone here, but everyone has their own different opinions about different things, which cause a bit of divisiveness in our little community, but then again, every family argues, right?
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(not because I had to rewrite the whole thing again due to an "unexpected explorer page refresh" at the first time I wrote this same thread) :x
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