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
U wot? Like someone else already said all my thoughts exactly but I just have to chime in and say "give the kid a break", too. Like if you're going to dislike Shinji for anything, dislike him for that scene in The End of Evangelion that made me start noting down any anime I watch that include at any point a POV shot of a character looking down at the palm of sy right hand with slightly bent fingers.
Anyways I've been watching Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water lately and it's been interesting seeing these common elements and motifs between that show and NGE, since Hideaki Anno directed both. Most famously there's the つづく and Shinji's character design being inspired by Nadia — Shinji was originally going to be a girl, in fact, which kinda-sorta adds to trans readings of NGE.
Not gonna spoil anything but the Shinji and Kaworu stuff later kinda fucked me up when I first went through the series and made me feel some kinda way
It's just for the scene in episode 1 where a massive monster is using a big ass laser cannon to blow up several skyscrapers and Shinji is told that it won't stop and he's the only who can stop it and he's still like "no". Which is understandable, but I also think it's understandable to react to that with "come the fuck on dude, Tokyo was just blown up."
*removed unintentional spoiler
"bro theres this giant alien which leveled half a city and ate 2 supernukes like it was nothing, we're just gonna need you to drown inside this nightmare engine with no training and take it out real quick..."
nah the entire situation was a horror show, humanity was on borrowed time as soon as a 14 year old was tasked with saving it
Otherwise the world will end, yes. So get in the robot or you will be killed by the aforementioned monster, you're literally out only hope. Shinji himself realises in that first scene that he and everyone he loves will die if he doesn't get in the EVA and he still doesn't get in the EVA.
I understand that he is depressed and so on. He is crippled with executive dysfunction. He even asks the question himself of "why won't I do it?" Because he understands that there is some tremendous mental block keeping him from acting when he has to. I understand all of this. I am still frustrated that he will not get in the EVA.
Understanding a characters motives, does not mean you need to enjoy them, and I think he was shitty in that moment. The stakes of the present moment are made out to be so massive, that I struggle to sympathise with him.
Yeah I don't think the situation is optimal either.
Who? Gendo? Rei? Lol. Lmao.
You see, the crushing weight of the task at hand is exactly why he is St. Shinji. To "fail" so purely in meeting tremendous unfair expectations set by what seems to be an uncaring universe.
You are currently not alienated enough from the socioeconomic order to relate to the sentiments, so you read it more literally and get frustrated. You don't see the picture behind the bigger picture.
Nah that's an understatement lol it's so horrifically FUBAR that, as you mentioned, it's funny.
Dude, the stakes is that everyone will die if he doesn't stop the angel in episode 1. I don't know who loves, but they're part of everyone.
Yeah, I agree? It seems like you think I'm arguing it's fair or good to expect these things of him or something. I'm not.
Legit fuck you. Don't make assumptions about me and don't condescend me. Of the two of us you're the only who at the moment is failing to read into text - you are arguing as if I dismiss the bigger picture, the themes or the motivations of the characters, despite the fact that I acknowledge them. This is what I am talking about with "misinterpretation" and "frustration". You have made up your mind that I am arguing from a position which I have never claimed to inhabit, that I am dismissing arguments which I acknowledge, that I do not grasp very base-level stuff of the discussion. Despite getting these things responded, you decide to further entrench yourself in the position that I either do not understand or acknowledge these elements.
This sucks. If you're gonna be a troll, then troll someone else please.
Yeah I wonder if I made it an understatement on purpose to keep the tone of this discussion light and funny.
He has no-one else except maybe the sensei he mentions boarding with.
That's why a lot of people, including me, think he's based. We are legion.
No thanks.
Yeah you acknowledge them intellectually but clearly can't fully relate so you dislike the character. That's what I'm trying to say. I apologize if I wasn't being sufficiently clear.
Don't escalate things further with that hostility of yours, please.