I recently got my girlfriend into anime. I wanted to watch Eva with her, but I don't think watching Eva as your first anime series is a good idea
so I started off by showing her Cowboy Bebop (clearly the best gateway anime of all time, mirite?) and since then I think she's watched more anime than I have xD (netflix and shit).
so we just watched the series + End of Eva, with me explaining key details along the way to make it much more understandable (without spoiling key plot points). To my surprise she got most of the series on the first playthrough, which was nice. We discussed the ending of the series (EoE) and she was happy with it, saying how it wasn't the happy ending most people would've wanted, but it was the most logical end and very fitting. She appreciated how Shinji's first reaction was to strangle Asuka (I can't remember her reasoning at the moment).
She then quoted an Asuka line, and given her red hair she actually looked like Asuka for a sec. Naturally, I jumped on her and started strangling her.*
:: a little tidbit of psychoanalysis for all you psych-heads: when we were laying down afterwards messing around (yes, we fooled around after that ^ and watching EoE, don't judge us ;o...), she was smiling weirdly so I asked her what it was. She said she was thinking of a time when we were having sex and I told her I needed her (pfft, I dont remember that, she must be making it up...
). I asked her what made her think of that all of a sudden, and she didn't know. I reasoned that perhaps the subtitle of the last scene in EoE, One More Final: I Need You, made her subconsciously think of it, to which she agreed.
It's interesting seeing how Eva affects people in different ways. :)
*I've always hated Asuka ;p
Sahara wrote:When rebuild came to a local art theater in my state, I was bouncing off the walls with excitement, and proceeded to drag eight people with me to go and see it. It only reinforced the obsession.
