What do you think about the "oblivious protag ignores the girl that's very obviously throwing herself at him" trope?
I hate it because it happened to me in high school
Evangelion is not that kind of story, but Shinji's true soulmate is Kaworu, and Asuka should have gone for Rei instead. Those are just facts.
>>287976065I much prefer the protagonist that knows exactly what's going on and doesn't give her the time of day because she's a slut
NOOOO PLEASE DON'T SUCK MY DICK is literally the worst anime trope
>>287976141same
>>287976284A real man would kick her in the face to make her stop
>>287976250...do you not know?
>>287976335Tbh, I'm not even sure if that manzai short is canon. Maybe it is, maybe it's not. Either way, Asushin won, so I guess the shippers finally got what they wanted.
>>287976065>What do you think about the "oblivious protag ignores the girl that's very obviously throwing herself at him" trope?Unsatisfying
>>287976065>protaggo back to youtube comments
>>287976065It's bad but when it happens she should then do something to him that doesn't require him to understand.
>>287976065Depends on how obvious.
>>287976662She also did that, it didn't work
>>287977507That's only a good way to start, not a place to stop.
>>287976620what would you prefer? MC? protagonist? main character? fucking retard?
>>287978440主人公
Why did Anno make Asushin Canon?
>>287978651Just a bit of trolling after 3.0+1.0
>>287978651Yes
>>287978651it always was
>>287978668It's honestly funny how that short killed all shitposting to the point that when it happens it's literally a single schizo doing it.
>>287976065Shinji isn't really an example of it.
>>287978475
>>287976141A girl also threw herself at me in hs but I'm pretty sure she was playing with me so I never bit kek
>>287976141>>287979005happened to me but the girl was ugly and also my friend's sister so i intentionally avoided her
>>287978884I enjoyed brief period of discussion the short's release brought and also the fucking chaos of the leak, I still can't believe that shit happened
>>287977507>bros, how am I supposed to know if a girl likes me just because she kissed me?
>>287978963
why don't girls just say and do what they mean? I'm sure things would turn out way better for everybody involved
>>287979201Historically, women expressing desire openly has been frowned upon significantlyThis is why they developed this culture of trying to nudge the man into action rather than initiating themselvesBesides, the act of romantic pursuit has a lot of risk involved (rejection, ridicule, etc.), so it's also essentially offloading the responsibility
>>287976065>>287977507>>287979176it should have been ME with asukai wouldve fumbled even harder but it still should have been ME
>>287979104got a link to any of those initial threads? i missed the first flurry and only caught up once there was a full camripnice presentation
>>287976065Shinji isn't oblivious, he just misinterprets. He assumes Asuka is making fun of him because he thinks nobody would actually like him, and it doens't help that she spends the rest of the time getting angry at him.
>>287979533I unfortunately didn't save the good onesthis is the earliest one I can find, but it starts off with some shipfag shitflinging:https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/286235001/
>>287979897Same outcome though, the lack of the desired reaction just frustrates her further
>>287979513This, but me instead
>>287976065No way fag-ass image.
>>287979176If he didn't act like he does, it could have been a much more interesting night to see.
>>287980650What part of what she did seemed in any way, shape or form like an invitation though?The wall of jericho thing would be an obscure reference even today
>>287979099Ugly girls are cute.
>>287977305This didn't happen
>>287981067You dont really realize it til it's too late.
>>287976065In these kinds of stories the audience have the benefit of knowing that the girl actually is interested in the guy, but as far as the guy knows the girl is just being friendly with him. Since the way girls act friendly towards guys they have no attraction to and the way girls flirt is very similar. And if you read her intentions wrong and make an incorrect move on her, it can ruin the relationship.
>>287980839She only said not to cross the door, nothing about opening it again or ignoring her.
>>287982505When he did ignore her she pulled THIS
If Shinji at least, tried. Just tried to rizz her, He'd be drowning in her pussy juices.
>>287982746As far as Shinji knew, even simply entertaining the thought would be a humiliation ritual that she could use to make fun of him even more
>>287976065I thought it possible they were screwing with me to laugh about it with their friends later, so I went and did something else.
>>287976141/thread
>>287976065Why are you implying Shinji is an oblivious MC?
>>287976141Happened to me but the girl was a dumbass that could not do simple math and that turned me off
>>287976141I realized a girl in highschool was trying to ask me out in a pretty roundabout way, but I was a based autist who couldn't even imagine a girl being interested in me so I was oblivious to her advances. I found out later that she was pretty crazy so I probably dodged a bullet.
How come normalfags think their lives are interesting?
>>287977305I act like this
>>287979402>Historically, women expressing desire openly has been frowned upon significantly>Now, men expressing desire openly is frowned upon significantly as well>The result is just that everyone masturbates alone in their room, the woman in front of a camera so she can upload it to her Onlyfans later
Shinji is canonically homossexual, watch the show before asking stupid questions
>>287976065Her mom is hotter.https://files.catbox.moe/01mlqp.jpg
>>287985383Shinji is affection sexual. You would know this if you actually watched the show instead of out of context tiktok shorts.
>>287976065But that leads to pic
Why are all of you so mean to Shinji? He was just a puppet and the kid tried his best
>>287976065
>>287976065Does anon own merch of asuka fucking rei?
>>287976065>>287976141The exact scenario depicted here happened to me as well> Be senior year> Sitting in Spanish class> Cute redheaded girl sitting behind me, wearing a windbreaker and short shorts from her soccer meet.> She fans herself off going "Ughh... it's soooo hot!"> I turn to her and ask "Well... why don't you take off that windbreaker, then?"> She leans in and says "I'm not wearing anything under the windbreaker> My response, word for word:> "Well that wasn't very smart."> I turn awayWhat the fuck was wrong with me, bros.
>>287986798Senior year of high school, I should have specified.She was cute too. Had freckles everywhere, even on the back of her knees.Those back-of-knee freckles really stuck with me, for some reason. Really made you think about where else the freckles must've been.
>>287976141happened to me as well. but the last thing I wanted was mingling with her shitty circle so I ignored her. at that point I had been on opposing side of the fight with 3 of her guy friends and got into another 2 by the end of the school.
>>287976250Kaworu is just a stand-in for Shinji's father. Rei is genetically forced to be in love with all Ikari men. Asuka is Shinji's only true equal and his true love. Rather than a concept she's a whole person who can give him a full life.
>>287978884I'm glad I don't have to gaslight myself that Mari ending was good anymore.
>>287986798>> She leans in and says "I'm not wearing anything under the windbreaker>> My response, word for word:>> "Well that wasn't very smart.">> I turn awayholy based
>>287986798What was the correct response supposed to have been here? You were in class, you can't just ask her to get naked.
>>287983702
>>287987389The correct response would've been: "I don't believe you."Or I could've just dared her to prove herself to me later. There could've been a cute back and forth about it. I wouldn't have had to tell her to get naked right then there, she was flirty ffs. These things are supposed to build.
>>287976141I remember a girl who threw herself at me but I was too much of an autist to realize. She's a model now.
>>287983983>calling yourself based
>>287988870the show's main audience are the mentally ill
>>287977305this happened.
>>287989467>what is sarcasmI know we're all literally autistic here but come on.
>>287991232you just assume people know you're being sarcastic?
>>287991400No, I recognized anon was being sarcastic.
>>287985094So it seemsSo it seems
>>287980322Maybe, but that's the struggle when you've got two people in a relationship where one is delusional and the other is unwilling to be vulnerable or explain themself.>>287980839Immediately opening the door and walking through is retarded. You have to open it and keep the conversation going, tease her. She is testing if you are able to step past her stupid barrier in a socially intelligent way.
>>287991400I recognized it!
>>287976065Good thing Kensuke picked up on it and fucked the shit out of Asuka
>>287978884Well I guess you called it here >>287993685
>>287979176I don't get what's her purpose
>>287979402But I'm not a woman and still never take action or initiate myself.
>>287976316most dicks aren't that long
>>287994424To piss off >>287993685, get with Shinji and piss off and be one of the main characters. That's a really retarded question
>>287994479K, b, c as he loves to spam
>>287988784That's a high risk high reward gambit though, if it works you get laid but if not you could get publicly accused of sexual harassment. Not worth the risk imo, I think you made the right call.
>>287977305teenAGE muTANT ninJA TUURRRTles
I wish I had a cute rude girl to bully me affectionately
Now that the dust has settled, was it Kino, based and canon?
>>287976141Thankfully I didn't experience anything as bad as some of these other stories, but I was asked to a dance at one point iirc in middle school. I was 90% sure it was one of those bitch dares girls do where they dare a friend to ask someone out and then take it back just to be a bitch though so I declined without even looking back at her.
>>287985060i'm sorry you didn't get the dick
>>287976141>Completely miserable teenager>Figure if I spurn any token scraps of happiness that life tosses me and miserymax then I'll "win" and god will acquiesce and give me a better lot>Hang out with old people>Realize that going your entire life without fulfilling your dreams and dying alone is actually the default
>>287994629If only they were honest with each other...
>>287994629it matches the sweetest and hottest doujins so it's canon
>>287976141I hate that it happened to so many autists on /a/ but never to me
>>287994830Why would you want it to happen to you?
>>287994805Don't worry, that's what happens after the beach
>>287995105World is already over, they'll spend their final week suffering from inanition.
>>287995349If humanity bounced back from the second impact, which killed half of the human population permanently, then they'll recover from this
>>287995400>killed half of the human population permanentlyas opposed to killing half of the human population temporarily?
>>287995446Yeah, that's the whole point of what Rei/Lilith/Yui didPeople can come back, Shinji and Asuka were just the first to do so
>>287976065This trope annoys me. Men like this annoy me.The only anime that I've seen that did it in a way that didn't annoy me was "More Than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers".The girl was openly pursuing someone else, and so was the guy, and they had the 'points' situation that could explain a lot of her behavior.It was plausible (not always, but usually) that he would not think she's actually interested.
There's an empty earth where all are equal in death. My fellow darkscribes I have returned from Apokolips! Most joyous news my fellow historians!Somehow ourselves. But mostly me.
>>287985584i don't watch the traitor pipeline
>>287995349Nah, they can live off of Tang and fuck all day
>>287994791romantic love is the greatest lie fiction ever sold to general society
>>287976141Any woman that expresses interest in you is an agent of the state seeking to integrate you into subservience to the status quo, do not fall for it
>>287996588It's not a lie, it's just rare
>>287997629it's not even rare, but it's fickle and fleeting so it's not a good way to build a lasting relationship. People fall in and out of love all the time which is why people historically knew there needed to be something stronger underneath to withstand stuff during those cycles
>>287997684I believe in love because i have a living example of it in my life, being my parentsTogether for 40 years and it's very clear they love eachother even when they fight
>>287997684People who think love is strongest during the honeymoon stage are spiritual gooners.
>>287976141Same but I'm 80% sure she was trying to get met o go along with it so she could embarrass me in front of her friends. I do not want that kind of uncertainty even if it was my last chance.
>>287994584This is why the white race is dying.
>>287994791This. What's worse, there were basically no friends my age growing up, all my friends were spiteful boomers who were rich but the kind of rich where they would charge interest to their own kid if they needed a car loan. I effectively got to see that everyone was an asshole and it made me a jaded teen who was an asshole as well.Then a few years back I'm cleaning out my high school backpack, and there are tons of numbers at the bottom of the pack from girls I don't remember getting them from.
>>287997684Remember that the opposite of love isn't hatred, it's indifference. Another point against Rei.
>>287994659In hindsight, those were never real. If a girl asked you to do something, it was likely never, ever a 'dare'. That was something made up to make you second-guess every nice action anyone ever gave you and instill deep-seated trust issues so you really DID end up acting like Shinji.
>>287994791The same thing happened to me except my dream is still to be along in a forest somewhere. All the old people are still my "friends" and I cannot get along with most young people.>>287998141Homeschooled? My "boomer" friends weren't the rich type. I didn't get any numbers in college or highschool so I don't have that to look back on.I guess there's a reason I'm posting here on my Saturday
>>287998324>Homeschooled? Private school, gated community where everyone was old.
>>287998425>private school>gated communityHeh, try ten years of independent homeschool in a rural neighborhood with no kids in it.>inb4 "this isn't a competition"Yes, this IS a competition now.
>>287998782did it ever get better?
you now remember those old ass RE-TAKE doujinsI probably jacked off to those a thousand times when I was younger, I wonder if they'll still hit my feels the same way today
>>287976065I used to think it was silly until women started doing it to me and I became the oblivious protag
>>287994600Heroes in a half shell! TURTLE POWER!
>>287979176women act like this and then are like "wow why didn't he try to rape me? why are men so oblivious?"
>>287998792Sort of, if you count being an undersocialized homunculus that regards other humans as fauna as a good outcome. It took years and an expensive college tuition to get to the socialization level of a freshman with the career aspects of a random white dude, but such is life.
>>287994584> you could get publicly accused of sexual harassmentIf she didn't want an answer like that, she wouldn't have given me that kind of opening. She made a risqué comment, and probably expected a risqué response in return.And a smirking dare isn't the same as forcing her to take her shirt off at gunpoint or whatever. She could have (and probably would have) easily turned it down: laughed it off with a giggling "You're such an asshole!!" or something.Trust me: only the most insufferable of absolutely psychotic SJWs would've seen "I don't believe you" as sexual harassment. I know there are women out there like that: e.g. "gym bunnies" who wear revealing clothes at the gym just to trap and publicly shame the dudes who dare to look at them. But they're rarer than you think, and usually visibly deranged in other respects.If she HAD been that kind of girl (and she wasn't), there would've also been enough other eyewitnesses at the time for such shaming tactics to have failed. And she wasn't that kind of girl. Her intentions were genuine. I played it wrong.>>287998108Agreed. It's a shame how scared so many guys have become.I honestly didn't "come to terms with my own heterosexuality" until pretty late in life myself. Didn't lose my virginity until well after college: at the age of 26. I've made up for lost time since then, but still. I've got regrets.
>>287998929I want the continued adventures of those two fucking in the post-apocalypse
>>287994659damn, that takes me back to an ancient memory. A girl asked me out from across the classroom, and other people were clearly reacting to it> > hey anon> *visible confusion as I look up to find who is talking to me*> > you want to go out?> *long silence as the question is processed*> angel shoulder: ehhh i really don't wanna, she's not cute and smells like smoke and> devil shoulder: WHAT ARE YOU GAY, JUST SAY "YES" YOU @#$@$ FAGGOT> "um, sure I guess"> > a-actually I was kidding, never mind> *shrug* okay then *reads*and then we never talked before or ever again! I guess she got obliterated, but autism never knows these things
>>287998299Eh, I don't know. Maybe it's not as common as people think but it definitely happens. I'm pretty sure I actually heard conversation about doing that kind of thing at one point too, though it wasn't during that incident I posted about. I was strangely popular or at least well known in high school though. I'd frequently have people I had no idea who they were greet me and stuff like that. I at one point sat down with a couple of girls at lunch since there was nowhere else to sit and they seemed to all know who I was. I'd seen at least one of them but didn't know her name. I asked what her name was and she seemed to get pissed.>>287999090What do you mean she got obliterated? You think her friends made fun of her or something for doing it even though they were probably the ones that put her up to it?
>>287998108Blame society for treating sexual allegations so severely, or women for being trigger happy with accusations, or jews for teaching them to be that way. Not me for being cautious. I've been burned before, not risking it again.
>>287998929>I honestly didn't "come to terms with my own heterosexuality" until pretty late in life myself.I'm still doing that. Honestly everything IRL is extremely unarousing and boring but at the same time I don't want to be a genetic dud>26I'm 25 so here's to the future...>I've made up for lost time since thenI'm going through the motions but I know I'm not getting that youthful experience back, if it at all would've existed. But as it stands I'm a bundle of regrets and shame looking for something to do with myself.>>287999498Take accountability faggot. All you can do is fix yourself so blaming other abstract concepts doesn't do anythingAnyways, anime.
>>287999212>I'd frequently have people I had no idea who they were greet me and stuff like that.that happened to me because I was a massive lolicon before it was demonized and did a lot of social stuff around school. Think of a haruhi without the dependable, smart, attractive friends. It didn't translate to any opportunities.
>>287998929>that piclmao
>>287979176>crazy bpd slut constantly gushes over and tries to seduce a hot older man>constantly bullies and teases shinji, sending mixed signals>aggressively makes out with shinji almost suffocating him to death allegedly because she was bored, runs to the bathroom to puke afterwards>"I will fucking KILL you if you try to put the moves on me! tee hee">she has the means and disposition to do so>shinji is somehow in the wrong for not trying to wife this thing>officially she was just being a maiden in wuv with shinji all along???>officially they had sex at some point????? despite shinji's autismI don't understand eva and asukafags. What a retarded franchise.
>>288000150Shinji raped the entire world because he was afraid of rejection. No one will ever out-BPD him.
>>288000150you don't understand women either, apparently
>>288000315I love when my earnest tsundere who wears her heart on her sleeve gets the happy ending she deserves.
>>287998818Looking back, it's depiction of Rei is abysmal dogshit but it's still entertaining
>>288000150She was also a maiden in love in 3.33 when she was actively trying to kill him btw
>>287976141In primary school a girl handed me a note saying ''I love you'' and i STILL didn't get it.
>>288000235Well he should be afraid of the crazy bitch who threatened to kill him. Asuka is a nasty bully not some run of the mill tsundere, she's awful to everyone if she thinks she can get away with it and considers them beneath her. How was Shinji supposed to know that she likes him? Why pursue her if there are other hot girls (and women, and boys, and men) practically throwing themselves at him, and they don't treat him like shit? Asuka is the most retarded choice out of all of Shinji's love interests.
>>288000815I think it gets better and better with each new doujin, maybe except the last one(?)It was 100% only asukafaggotry tho, for sure, but then again young me didn't give a single fuck about Rei so...
>>288001046in elementary school a girl went up to me, looked me up and down, then took my hand, went "you're my boyfriend now" and dragged me off to playIt's been so long I don't even remember her face or name
>>288001046>back of the knee maybe
>>287995349Tokyo-3 was supposed to be able to weather obliteration, there HAVE to be some shelters with supplies around, even after the destruction of the geofront
>>287999699I've been falsely accused of rape and/or sexual assault 3 different times, two of which resulted in me losing friends and opportunities, destroying my reputation and requiring me to move and start over. I'm not just being a pussy, I still try to be assertive when I can, I just can't afford to play games anymore, I have too much to lose.
>>288000150not even the worst case of something like this
Sorry I forgot what board I was on for a while there.Shinji definitely should have gone for it when she initiated the kiss, even I'm not clueless or cautious enough to squander that.
I'm gonna jerk it to doukins of them being lovey dovey
>>288001847I want to fuck Louise so badly
>>288001873To be fair, he couldn't breathe
>>288001934In one fluid motion, gently take her hand and pull it away, slip your other hand into the small of her back, tilt your head to the right, and press your lips against hers gently but firmly. She would have melted.
>>288001996Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of the woman?
>>288001909I'm partial to monkeys taste's doujins
>>287985768sauce
>>287993685K b c
>>287976141>went to a small highschool with sub 90 kids in the sticks>every girl is ugly as sin so it was easy to ignore them>go to university and i can see the dark girls making eyes at me and asking to hang out or saying hi out of the blue trying to make conversation>working and i meet a blue eyed fit blondie with my same interests and high sex drive>she moves away>people from work ask i dont have a gf since im good looking>shrug dot jpegit's all just luck and i hate this trope
>>288004777the beta plugsuits actually look like scifi pilot suits instead of barely disguised fetish gear, but the final ones are so iconic
>>287977594This good enough?
>>287976141I find it questionable that so many people here consider themselves to be loser otakus degenerates when apparently you guys are all chick magnets according to these replies.
>>288004994It's almost like there's more than one person here.
>>287976141>girl asked me out in school>hear some girls nearby giggling afterwardI didn't even know if they were friends or not but I refused to take the chance
>>288005307>implying this entire site isn't just my schizophrenic delusion
>>287976065it needs to be stopped. Shinji and Asuka and other examples from that era were okay because it still felt believable but modern romcoms are ridiculous with it.
>>287994584>That's a high risk high reward gambit though, if it works you get laid but if not you could get publicly accused of sexual harassment.that's how flirting works retard. the trick is to perceive whether she's into you or not.
>>288004994you don't have to be a chick magnet to have at least 1 girl hit on you. It's quite the opposite really. If you manage to make it through k-12 without anybody showing some interest then you're either hideous or terribly unpleasant. The much more bothersome part is not understanding how quick those moments pass because teenage girls (maybe a woman in general thing) or not realizing the signs until years later
>>288004994it's all luck. care less and play more games, women aren't worth it anymore.t. had 2 long term relationships with a blonde and a neet chinese hapa
>>287976141>be in hs>looks like your typical bland romcom mc>best friend's sister asks me who's my school crush>quickly answer her best friend >crush is one of the best looking girls in our school >next day getting harassed and teased when they invade my classroom >keeps happening for weeks>just noticed the guys in my classroom looks at me like they want to beat me up>knowing my friend's sister, it must be one of her stupid pranks to get me beaten up>avoid crush for days>one day got a text from crush>"anon, it's my sister's birthday, I want to visit her grave, let's meet up, because not familiar where it is">it must be another prank set up by my friend's sister>ignore my phone and grind in maple story instead >the next day, everyone is mad at me>crush was waiting for me almost the whole day alone, only for her dad to pick her up >never talked to me ever since Now she's living in Japan with her second jap husband, has three kids from different men
>>288005307I don't man. With the amount of threads that are just extreme specific topics repeated to hell, I'm convinced it really is just a circlejerk of tinfoil hat enjoyers.
>>288006148*I don't know man
>>288005435True, no point in worrying about any of this shit anyways. At least if I put work into my interests, I can expect a consistent return.
>>288005584shit like this makes me think maybe these obnoxious romcom anime are onto something
>>288004994I was a cute shota/teenNow i'm bald at 25 and fat
>>288001909Some good recs?
>>288002058a humble khv
>>287976065Kensuke never ignored Asuka
>>287993685based
You can always tell how mad the Kensuke tard gets when he shows up. Nothing but replying to his own post and same Kensuke shitposts
>>288008605You should see this thread https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/287824690/#q287882948_175. It's pretty funny to watch him seethe
You ever noticw how he never brings up Kaworei? I mean Anno made that canon lile refuse to acknowledge that.
Why did Anno do it?
>>288008860To portray how much of a cuck Shinji is by marrying used goods
>>288008879Oh. I get it. You are a Reishinfag extra mad that Asuka cucked Rei and won. It explains why you keep trying to hard to shitpost. It's over Asushin won move on
>>288008879>used goodsgacha gamer level of cuck delusions
>>288004994You can be attractive physically while being fucked up mentally. It's more common than you think.Plenty of anons are most likely atleast average but got stunned socially because of various environmental and life circumstances.
>>288009293>Plenty of anons are most likely atleast average but got stunned socially because of various environmental and life circumstances.this, i believe most here are at least salvageable appearance-wisethere's a lot of people who look average, don't work or have a good personality but still manage to get a decent girlfriend/wife; the difference is that they were proactive
>>288009293>>288009481One anon once told me a story about how he knew this guy who wasn't some god tier looker but he was the life of the party and had sheer force of personality. One time anon's car broke down and the other guy wordlessly came by to help and never asked for thanks too.
>>288004994Turns out "just bee yourself and things will turn out well" is a lie and even if you're mildly outgoing and not ugly as sin (at least to the extent that you can talk to girls, which is something that some people have trouble with) that doesn't guarantee anything.
>>287976065Overused. Fine in school settings but becomes pathetic when post school protag still operates in the sex ickky state. But its easy way to connect to >>287976141 because its "just like me!"
>>288009139To be fair he's a /dbs/ tard and has spammed BBC porn in the threads. Also, he really into talking about male dick sizes when he shitposts >>288010407
