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
Realistically, the therapists’ job in this scenario would be manipulating the soldiers and/or finding ways to numb and avoiding the pain
Anyway, despite relating to Shinji in many ways, the grandness and stakes of the show makes it very hard for me to be on his side. Like I literally become military brained and demand they torture or MKULTRA the kid in order to fight the literal demons. Yes, yes, I know they’re all metaphors for current issues. But man. I don’t know. It’s like any other anime where the teenager is the chosen one - it becomes goofy after a while.
If the stakes were more grounded, I’d be more understanding. I guess I’m not into mecha stuff at all lol. Unless it’s something like MGS where the sci-fi stuff is just part of conventional war and not biblical aliens and robots with souls inside. Or Mr Robot which is just live action Evangelion about hackers, down to the semierotic gay undertones between the “villain” and protaganist and singularity of humankind. The setting is grounded and because of that I feel more attached, despite hating the show.
Yeah, and they really need someone who actually knows how to do that, instead of Misato whiplashing between supportive caretaker and bullying superior officer.
Yeah, the stakes are too high. There's people telling me "you just don't get it!" and tbh I feel like I get it, the show is very good at establishing Shinjis mental state, the reason for his mental state and why he doesn't wanna get in the robot in episode 1. I am still annoyed at his apprehension because the world is about to end.
Check out the movie "Pacific rim". If that doesn't get to you, then I'd say you're not into mecha stuff.
There's a scene where a mecha is punching a kaiju again and again and the punches just aren't hard enough, so it activatues MASSIVE JET ENGINES IN ITS ELBOWS so it can PUNCH HARDER and then it PULLS OUT A SWORD FROM ITS THIGH.
There's also a Chinese and a russian mecha and they're very cool. The russian mecha has a nuclear reactor and it is best described as being a Kruschevka come to life.
I have watched Pacific Rim as a kid and honestly it was just
to me