Was Rei's initial popularity because she kept getting injured? Its kinda hot watching her pant and moan in pain desu
>>289707288Yes, partially. they took that and her quiet nature as proof she's "submissive" and they wanted to go protect her. Rei accidentally started "moe" as a cash cow. Instead she's meant to be sympathetic and tragic, living a life akin to a cynic philosopher like Diogenes.
>>289707288Rei appeared like 7 episodes before Asuka, in fact she's the first secondary character to appear in the show aside from Shinji. Does it mean she's supposed to be a less important character in the grand scheme of things?
>>289708574>Does it mean she's supposedBy she I mean Asuka
>>289708574Asuka becomes the designated love interest for Shinji though.
>>289707288Yeah, her being in a lot of pain and whimpering was very cute, and triggered my protective instincts, the same ones I feel towards women I'm actually attracted to.But then Asuka appeared and Rei was over.
>>289708909yes, after the broadcast had ended, through films, director's cuts and promotional material.
>>289709010>after the broadcast had endeder
>>289709009Manwhore!
>>289707288she was giving birth to a hero there, anon
>>289709010The theme anno seems to be going over is that Asuka and Shinji have powerful barriers between them and througout the course of the series they break them down. Asuka-Shinji si the designated couple. They soul bond in instrumentality, and Shinji lets out his anger at her and Asuka let's Shinji knows she knows he jerked off on her. The post-story is implied to be them rebuilding things and being a couple.
>>289707288>Its kinda hotIf you're a mentally ill fembrain. If you're a man you'll find Rei pitiful and you'd want to protect her by taking her place, that's the natural male instinct.
>>289709211The rewards for taking her place are that she then fucks you. Men don't naturally just go around sacrificing themselves for no reason. They sacrifice themselves for family, tribe, nation, because that's their genes they're protecting.
>>289709378>Men don't naturally just go around sacrificing themselves for no reasonThey do, actually. That's the one thing that women will never do, jump into a burning building to save some stranger's child. Women will only try to save their own flesh and blood. Perhaps that's a W for the ladies, it depends how you view things.>They sacrifice themselves for family, tribe, nationNo one sacrifices himself for nation anymore because nations are racially impure. Over 20% of my country looks different than me, the country can go to hell for all I care cuz they're not my people.
>>289707288>>289707902god, imagine whipping and raping her up the ass
Reipe Meat
>>289710287Yes, that's why fewer people are running into burning buildings. You're proving my point.
>>289710445jesus, she's a stick
>>289710492out of 10
yeah she's supposed to be this sympathetic figure but also kind of alien since contrasted to shinji she takes the beatings like a champ
>>289711988that's sexy
>>289709010goyim will pay money to feel their retarded fantasies confirmed baka
>>289708574>in fact she's the first secondary characterThis isn't a secondary character.
>>289713102still don't get it but anno was masturbating on a page
>>289709136>implied>personal headcanonMeanwhile Anno will straight up tell you that he didn't really have a plan besides the basic mechanics of Instrumentality.
>>289713587>Asuka: "This is the impenetrable Wall of Jericho. Take one step over this wall and you're a dead man. And now, it's time for children to go to bed!">slams a door between them>then she "accidentally" sleeps in his bed, and he thinks about kissing her Are you too dumb to understand basic themes? They even lay it out and turn it into a sci-fi mystical concept that is weaponized: AT Fields. That stands for "Absolute Terror", because Shinji and Asuka have a fear of connecting to each other. Did you know what happened to the walls of Jerico? THEY FELL DOWN. It's hinting that the "wall" between them is going to collapse.
>>289713714>muh themes
>>289713714>absolute terror because they're afraid to connect!!You cannot be serious, that's the gayest most theater kid thing ever. If that was Anno's intention then NGE automatically loses one point on a scale from 1-10.
>>289713714tbf it was pretty retarded of asuka to expect a jap teenager to get her biblical reference.
>>289713973nta bro I read the Bible twice and I didn't remember Jerico by name
>>289714104>Bible speedreader.
>>289713956>You cannot be serious, that's the gayest most theater kid thing ever. If that was Anno's intention then NGE automatically loses one point on a scale from 1-10.You can dislike it, but that's absolutely the direction. NGE is not a series where there's some character drama then some mecha fights. Instead, the drama is completely linked literally and metaphorically to the fights and the final outcome of the series.All humans have an AT field, a weak one, and it keeps their form and keeps us separate from each other. So you need a little bit. If two humans were to completely synchronize with each other they would both dissolve into goo and merge together. Angels and Evas have huge ones and they are able to project it like a shield and weaponize it. Asuka and Shinji have a big barrier around themselves that displays in different ways. The entire show and movie is Shinji and Asuka breaking that down, until they can actually have a normal ass relationship after the events of End of Evangelion.
>>289714171And related to this: after the tv show Anno starts to get VERY meta and it both impacts and influences his decisions. He started with including scenes of actual people watching Evangelion in the theaters for End of Eva.There has been at that time a 20+ year back and forth over whether Asuka or Rei is better. Thus he added Mari who is inspired by his wife, to be the new designated lady to win over Shinji. This way neither side gets offended and possibly affect merch sales. And also why mari is HORRIBLY boring and bland.
>>289707288Rei looks very /fa/ here.
>>289714283>MariI would've preferred for Shinji to remain single than to get together with an Ao3 fanfic character.
>>289714422>>>289714422Mari sticks out like a sore thumb simply because she's such a nothing of a character, and she has a strangely veyr mature face that would fit a woman in her 30s more than a supposed 14 year old.
>>289714461In that one >>289714283 she looks a least 20 and has a white girl man jaw.
>>289709211>If you're a man you'll find Rei pitiful and you'd want to protect herProtect her? Yes. But it also gives me the desire to torture her because her reactions are so cute. But I still want to protect her.>>289709378What if rather than wanting the reward for protecting Rei to be that she lets me fuck her, seeing a girl whimpering and in pain in of itself makes me want to fuck her? After all, Rei looking so pitiful and helpless is a big reason so many men want to fuck her.
>>289713956>You cannot be serious, that's the gayest most theater kid thing ever. If that was Anno's intention then NGE automatically loses one point on a scale from 1-10.Are you just figuring out that a lot of NGE's plot and story are pretty stupid or child ish? Anno also tried to retcon things to fix plot holes, which then made the plot needlessly convoluted and introduced more plot holes. I don't think Anno is an A+ tier write or anything. But he wrote something from the heart and those elements - his otaku obsessions, and his personal experience with depression, really shine through.
>>289707902Why did they have to make her so perfect? Imagine if women like this actually existed.
>>289716121Plenty of girls like Rei exist. Women? No.
>>289714104what about the Veggie Tales episode? >inb4 LN > anime
>>289714461anon, she's even older than she looks...
>>289716143girls aren't honest, they're just bad at lying
>>289716873If they don't like you they'll be brutally honest, especially when they're girls/teens. But that usually turns into a mask as they grow into women.
>>289716919nah they'll be intentionally mean. not quite the same.
>>289708574Wouldn't that be misato?
>>289714283Who the fuck is Mari?
>>289709009>But then Asuka appeared and Rei was over.Based
Asuka best girl.
>>289707288Rei is made for sadistic men. This was confirmed by Anno.
>>289722925i want to make her thank me for hurting herbut also take good care of her after
I'm so fucked up
>I have to go?>Yep you have to go.
I would like Rei and Shinji to have a timeline where they're in a relationship but cmon, that's like fucking your mom
>>289707288>most your age always fought over red hair or blue hair>tfw I was one of the few that enjoyed violet hair
>>289707902>a 1995 anime accidentally started "moe"I hate you faggots so goddamn much.>inb4 "as a cash cow">implying anime merchandise didn't exist before then
>>289707288you have a kink that isnt shared with most of the population in case you didnt realize. so no, people wouldn't typically find appeal in her for that beyond at best an empathetic must protect her response. its good to not delude yourself into thinking you're of the norm.
>>289726968We came from Adam and Eva. Every woman's a sister or a cousin.
Why did Rei have to die? She was the most moral and professional of the pilots.
>>289726968I see Rei as more like Shinji's sister. She's not so much Yui as she is Yui's daughter.
>>289713973I'm still not clear if Asuka was just wrong in her refences, or she was trying ot lay hints.
>ITT: one retard overanalyzes a series that his very creator has repeatedly admitted he used half a brain cell on and slapped a bunch of references from a foreign religion on it because they were “cool”
>>289714368It’s funny how she only wears that sleeveless plugsuit once and its sole purpose is to expose her shoulders so she looks more vulnerable.
>wheels out this shit for youWhat a babe
>>289729062
>>289728958She dies like three times, but she gets better. Death isn't really a factor for her.
>>289729342Death is a major factor, since they share some of the same soul each time, but she's fully reincarnated. Rei II that we know and love from the show dies, and with her, her life experiences. Each Rei has to be socialized, and Rei II was beginning to be a bit more comfortable with people and was bonding with Shinji.Rei III is some weird soulless fresh out of the factory quasi-angel. She she absorbs Adam, she functionally becomes an Angel and the same kind of being as Kowaru. Also, Rei II had been alive for years upon years upon years. Rei III was alive for like 2 days. You can't compare them. It's implied when Rei's come out of the vat they're pretty soulless and clueless since we saw how socially inept and harsh Rei I was.
Level with me. Is evangelion worth watching? I got to the episode after the big dick swinging robot and dropped it ages ago. I remember not getting too invested in any of the characters, and the antics of the ginger on particular getting really boring. I really enjoyed Gunbuster for reference.
>>289707288Yes, it's actually something people kinda ignore about the time period. Injured girls were considered moe and Rei was one of the main beneficiaries of thatIt's a real shame Anno didn't care about her, because her entire existence could have been the core of a completely different show (someone gave it a shot in Ergo Proxy, I guess)
Slightly chuffed Rei
Never has an anime bitch deserved a backhand like she has.
>>289729342>She dies like three times, but she gets better. Death isn't really a factor for her.Rei 1 and Rei 2 and Rei 3 are dead dead dead dead dead and never coming back.
>>289729931That does result in a "sad" ending where everyone can come back potentially BUT Rei. Rei is just scrweed.
>>289729518Poor rei ;_;
>>289729931she transcendes
>>289714422>with an Ao3 fanfic characterBut that's not Mana
>>289707288I remember /a/'s reaction when the episode with Asuka aired
>>289731325/a/ wasn't around back then.
>>289729062>Anno literally gets divine inspiration from Christ during his darkest hour and strikes gold>turns his life around and gets married>never replicated the success of EVA again>denies God's grace and milks EVA for 30 yearsWhat a fucking Jew.
>>289731394>>Anno literally gets divine inspiration from Christ during his darkest hour and strikes goldAnno can't make anything as good as Eva for the same reason that the Wachowskis can't make anything as good as The Matrix. the Matrix was just one scene followed by another scene lifted from other sci-fi films. Some of them were live action, some animated. Once the well has run dry of scenes to borrow, they run out.
>>289707902Is this a tiktok meme going around or something, this is the second time I have seen the stuff on the right
Before the Red Devil took over the show, it was the Shinji-Rei-Mistato show. It should have stayed like that. Kowaru is also a huge faggot.
>>289731364newfag
>>289732096/a/ was not created in 1995.
>>289731325Me too>>289732520newfriend, I...
>>289732520>>289732096It was shown on american tv like a decade after its first release in japan.
>>289729223That egg is a serious luxury after Second Impact.
>>289729223>Stale ass bread>Carton of expired milk>Literally just a raw fucking egg>Unidentifiable white slopG-gee, thanks Blue...
>>289727193these people need to have their skulls crushed in.
>>289727193Read a book you faggot, he's right (although Dejiko would be the proper First Lady of moe)
>>289732596Like anon said, egg is a luxury.
>>289707288She was supposed to be Shinji's wife, but Anno stopped being a NEET.
>>289726968And?
>>289726098He thinks that means their eye and gets them backwards.
>>289734129lenny and carl?
