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NGE GENERAL
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION GENERAL
And wow, I fucking hated it to be perfectly honest. It seems like the entire show is only about Shinji's angst (and Rei increasingly I'm sure) and the characters various emotional issues, but like, okay, who cares? The situations they're thrown into are totally absurd and ridiculous so how can I take any of this drama stuff seriously?
Like these kids are the last best hope of mankind and they seem to be totally unsupported by anyone? Shinji was gonna live in a totally empty tenement and it's only his superior's minor moment of reasonable judgement that means he lives with her instead (and she is clearly no kind of parent figure), and Rei lives in a dark, dingy slum dwelling made of all concrete with nobody taking care of her either?
Like, their emotional reactions seems somewhat understandable but also completely dull and uninteresting because the situation they're in is absurd (and even then they both come off as pathetic and unlikeable - and no you can't say 'but that's the point!!', that doesn't make it entertaining to watch).
The less said about the non-angst portions of the story the better, the 'fights' are 10 minutes of foreplay for like 60 seconds of action if that, and while that's a common problem with anime, that doesn't make it excusable.
Yes this series is old and I'm sure it has inspired so much but people still recommend to watch it and it just seemed like garbage. Almost nothing is explained which means I can't possibly feel invested in this absurd world in any way. Every part of the setting seems to have been created with 'style over substance' in mind, urgh, just overall I found it absurd. Try not to give too much spoilers because I guess I might still try watch it, but I really don't see it redeeming itself.
Though for context I also hated 'The Godfather' and 'No Country For Old Men' and thought they were pretentious overlong shit, so maybe I'm just a contrarian.
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▶ No.2934>>2941
>>2501>>2565Thanks for your responses. I can only say there's many ways to interpret Evangelion. But I guess that's one of the things that makes the show attractive.
>>2565I don't think that one can describe Asuka as just being a tsundere. I think there's more to it.
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▶ No.2941>>2948
>>2934There's more to her, of course, but Asuka is the archetypal tsundere.
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▶ No.2948>>2971
>>2941I supposed the Asuka/Rei debate has died down finally if there hasn't been any reaction to this.
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▶ No.2971>>3007>>3014
>>2948Do you come from EvaGeeks or something? NGE debate has died down in general.
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▶ No.3007
>>2971Well there's has been a little evangelion hype since last year due to the series being in Netflix, and that the last of the rebuild films is coming out this year.
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▶ No.3008
>>1936>it's why anno had a literal fag write the episode and told him to make it even gayer after the initial scriptCan anno get more based?
Also, Eva is a hegelian series.
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▶ No.3014
>>2971/a/ still had regular rei vs asuka threads on 8ch
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▶ No.3696>>3698>>3699>>3700>>3704>>4672
So, who you guys think is best girl?
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▶ No.3698>>3703
>>3696As OP, Asuka, at least she seems to have a personality.
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▶ No.3699
>>3696They're all unstable bitches I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot dick, but I do have a thing for fiery girls, so if I had to choose it'd be Asuka.
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▶ No.3700
>>3696I was all about Asuka at 13, but now that I'm almost 30 I think Misato is best girl.
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▶ No.3703>>3714
>>3698Have you finally finished watching the whole series?
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▶ No.3704>>3750>>4733
>>3696Rei. before she
dies her character progression and caring nature by the end show her to be a very good, if (like all of them) broken person. Asuka, is similar from a different end, but anyone who's actually had a girlfriend like her, knows that the amount of effort and problems caused is troublesome, unless you're a really chill person.
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▶ No.3714>>3720
>>3703Hell no, this is just based on what little I know. Asuka is usually always smug or smiling, that's cute, Rei is always apathetic and somber. I don't have time for that shit.
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▶ No.3720>>4684
>>3714>Rei is always apathetic and somber.<I can't pay attention to facial expressions, so I'll take the fake ones plastered on by an aggressive, abusive girl than one by a calmer one.
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▶ No.3722>>3727
>>591>NGE gets betterlmao no
Don't waste your time OP. The characters only get more annoying, the plot only gets more absurd and the lore of everything is never explained properly. NGE is the pinnacle of psued bullshit and babbies first philosophy. If it were made today, people would be railing on it each week talking about how ridiculous the episode was or how annoying Asuka was. By all means stick it out to the end (by which I mean EoE, not just the end of the series) but you'll only get more annoyed
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>>3722Oh look it's the unironic
"2Deep4Me so it's pseud-shit" poster. I wondered how long you'd take to post here.
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▶ No.3750>>3751
>>3704>but anyone who's actually had a girlfriend like her, knows that the amount of effort and problems caused is troublesomeThere's an alternate live sequence that was meant to be in EoE (but was later deleted) where Asuka is hooked up with Toji. So I guess that's how she'd be in any relationship. By the way, one interesting aspect of the Eva fandom is the shipping (even though the characters are all fucked up to be in any kind of romantic relation, aside for the fact they are all just 14 year old kids).
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▶ No.3751>>3769
>>3750Thee Asuka vs Rei argument is a classic indeed. I have some posts from leftyweebpol I made about preference and their brokeness, but I'm probably going to wait on reposting them when I can organize my time a bit better
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>>3751Well, they both are great, they have their ups and downs. But if I have to choose, I'd choose Asuka. I wouldn't mind being always there for her whenever she needs me, aside for doing all the housework for her. Plus, she's a redhead, and redheads attract me.
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>>2285Yes. The contrast of the end of the world with those moments of nothing happening.
I insist, this is the best series I have ever seen in my life. I think there is a lot of hegelian/freudean analysis to get out, which I haven't seen anybody write about.
>>2410The brilliant thing is that Shinji is the one that needs therapy the least.
>>2565I interpreted that as Asuka hating Shinji because he no longer hated Asuka enough. Asuka hates herself so much, that she hates Shinji for not hating her.
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▶ No.4730
>no you don’t get to say “but that’s the point”
But…it is?
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▶ No.5505
>>4684 Since (you) doesn't exist on this site these images have more impact methinks
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pleb filtered lol
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▶ No.8748>>8756>>8792
>>4786>It's a MariShin ending>Mari is a time traveler who knew his parents <It's DEEEEEEP <HOAD https://imgur.com/a/YlWfywmFuck Anno, his original work was great but the rebuilds were worse in almost every aspect, he unironically should have jacked off on camera and that still would have been a better ending.
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▶ No.8756>>8802
>>8748I haven't watched any of the Rebuilds so I don't have the patience to try to understand this chaotic collection of posts.
So Asuka
ends up with Kensuke and Shinji with Mari? What happened to
Kaworu and Rei and their fans?
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▶ No.8792>>8802
>>8748>he unironically should have jacked off on cameraIsn't that pretty much just what the script for Evangelion is anyways?
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▶ No.8802>>8827>>8867
>>8792Kek, no.
>>8756>Kaworu and ReiRei
wants to become a farmere and live in solitude and peace but without LCL her body just falls apart. Kaworu reveals himself as
a being that exists in all timelinees or something like that, and that this whole thing has been going on over and over and over again and that Shinji needs to end the loop. While there is no KawoShin content, the fujos went full retard and have been spamming /a/ evangelion General threads with their garbage for months since the movies release.
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▶ No.8827>>8867
>>8802>LCLdon't you mean AT field?
>no KawoShin contentI thought the movies were gayer than the series, or are you just talking about the latest ones?
Also what happened to the other couples?
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▶ No.8867>>8886>>8901>>9126
>>8827>don't you mean AT field?Nope, LCL
<"Rei requires constant exposure to LCL and cannot maintain herself, decomposing in Shinji's presence." >are you just talking about the latest ones? The gayest moment in the series outside of the manga fuckery is Rebuild 3.0 where he and Shinji are constantly together, in 1.0 and 2.0 it's straight as an arrow for relationships.
I was referring specifically about 4.0 in
>>8802 where Kaworu is barely in it.
>what happened to the other couplesMisato apparently had a kid with Kaji but abandoned him at a farm with other survivors. Touji and Hikari got together and are adults, Kensuke is still alone, Asuka is actually a clone or something and is also alone, Shinji ends up with Mari after Gendo and yui sacrifice themselves during 5th impact to reverse infinity or something and basically create a world without Evangelion, a la The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki, where he meets Mari as adults and they walk off into the future.
Oh and Mari is apparently some friend of Yui's from some alternate past.
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▶ No.8886>>8917
>>8867>mariIt would have been nice for them to set any of that up at any point in the previous decade
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▶ No.8901>>8917
>>8867>Kensuke is still alonethank fuck
Thanks for the summary anon
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▶ No.8917
>>8886>set up MariHah, yeah. But fuck the audience is Anno's motivation for Evangelion in the past decade. The creator of mari actually ahd to come out and claim the Mari timetravel bullshit was non-canon, because fans were so annoyed at how half-assed this trivia was, especially since the movie doesn't actually openly go into it and it's a manga extra that went along with the rebuild story.
>>8901 You're welcome.
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▶ No.9118>>9130
>Though for context I also hated 'The Godfather' and 'No Country For Old Men' and thought they were pretentious overlong shit, so maybe I'm just a contrarian.
Nah OP, that's called having taste.
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▶ No.9126
>>8867Personally, I don't think Shinji and Mari are a couple like some people like to suggest, for me it seemed pretty ambiguous (not that I have anything against them being together). But I guess it's up to interpretation. Kaworu and Rei could definitely be a couple. The only romantic interaction so far is between Asuka and Shinji when he tells her that he also liked her, making her blush.
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▶ No.9130>>9131
>>9118>That's called having no tasteFTFY
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>>9117>Why hasn’t Anno been able to connect this theme with the Rebuilds and instead opt for more meta themes?Because the rebuilds are about trolling the fans and making money.
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▶ No.9472>>9475
>>9088This is one of the best videos Owen has made. I'd recommend anyone else in the thread to watch it
although it isn't really that related to Eva