Misato has ice, snacks and 50 GALLONS OF BEER in her fridge lmao. Mood. Her car is wrecked and there's a monster that might kill her and all she can think about is car payment loans lol. She's just like me fr. Well, except for the groomer vibes she's giving off.
I'm sure it's gonna get depressing very soon, I hear all the characters suck and half of them are sexpests. Seems like you get a pretty decent understanding of why they suck though. I already dislike Shinji though, dude get in the fucking robot the world is ending. I guess sucking is hereditary, because his dad sucks too, fucking dumbass. Dude if your son is "the chosen one" when it comes to piloting these things and you're all "I must sacrifice everything for the mission" then sacrifice some free time to be with your son so your top pilot is less psychologically messed up.
NERV is in dire need of a psych team though, insane that there isn't a dedicated therapist to help the pilots deal with trauma.
Also it's so beautiful! I miss old anime like this and Akira, everything just gets to breathe. It's so pretty every frame is a painting. The women have noses and they look like women, which is also impressive. Sadly there's still only one body type women can have, but at least they can look humanoid.
Anyway, bit idea: Guy who only watches Evangelion for the fights.
Edit: Okay so Shinji managed to make two friends and they get sent away. The dude needs a support network, how incompetent can his dad be? "Huh my best pilot is getting some friends? Can't have that, we need him to be as mentally unstable as possible!"
Dude needs to be fired.
Double edit: Now on an episode where an EVA goes berserk and tries to attack the dad and he just stands there looking at it and then when it breaks thru to him he's shocked. The guy is absolutely not beating "himbo, but not actually hot, just dumb" allegations
Gotta be honest, what hooked me was the Eva moving its arm in episode 1, but I am a sucker for a good power fantasy "chosen one" trope.
I think the goal is to explore repressed young male teen sexutality. This show reminded me of what it is to be a virgin straight boy
I don't mind shinji being weird and horny, I honestly think it's great to see a show have an honest depiction of how weird those years are where you're at the precipice of figuring out sex and sexuality and attraction and all that kinda stuff, but it's still scary, but you also want it, but you also feel like there's some expectation of you, but youre also just full of hormones, just young dumb and full of cum.
I think it's interesting how obvious it is from episode 1 that the adults around him are aware of this, and use it to control him.
But then there's also just stuff that seems to be
Yeah you're right they definitely planted some
for commercial appeal
Gainax unfortunately has long been
Gunbuster is a great example, totally unnecessary fanservice (at least in Eva it emphasizes shinjis awkward nature) except for the moment where
spoiler
Noriko tears her shirt open so the Gunbuster can do the same in episode 6That moment is kino, but the rest of the service is sadly just very commercial appeal based.