What's up, /a/? I've been rewatching Evangelion. Got to Episode 12 the other day, and I thought the Evas running and jumping to go get Sahaquiel was some of the coolest shit I'd seen in my rewatch so far.I took a bunch of screengrabs of the sequence. I figured I'd post them, in case you guys want to save any of them to your own computers.
>>292189066so you don't know how to make webms?
>>292189121Not really, no. More than that, it was really still images I was after. Split-second frames.
I'm only just now realizing that Shinji taking the straighest possible path, by jumping over the mountain, is probably why he gets to the landing zone first.
Last one.
>>292189066fun fact, a lot of the action sequences in Eva were animated by the same people over at Tatsunoko that worked on Neo Human Casshern, so a lot of how Evas move including the tendency towards big leaps comes from them
>>292189066Yeah, its easy to take it for granted as a feature of the anime landscape, but there are very good reasons why NGE has endured as a cultural staple for as long as it has. It really is just a really good watch, with fantastic designs and animation, and a story thats bonkers but characters that are very richly written. Its a mess at times, but always a fascinating mess. It hangs on still images to save budget, but the composition of those still images is legitimately great. Etc.
This episode has some of the most technically impressive animation in the series. The way they're heavy but agile, humanoid but inhuman, perfectly characterizes what the Eva are and shows off just how much talent was gathered together at Gainax.
>>292189066also note how they cut between each eva, continuing the motion of the previous one
>>292189263>Its a mess at timesI strongly disagree
>>292189311they even make the three kids run slightly differently
>>292189066I also had a rewatch recently. The show really was lightning in a bottle; every episode features multiple iconic shots that have been parodied ad nauseam.This show has everything: charismatic characters, drama, an excellent soundtrack, memorable visuals, and so on.
>>292189192Yeah it was a cool sequence with a great sense of motion and weight. While the rebuild version is flashier there's just something very satisfying about how it was done in the tv episode.
>>292189357...really? Even when the show clearly runs out of budget near the end?Don't get me wrong, I fucking love NGE. i was obsessed with it for years. But that doesn't mean it doesn't have flaws. Indeed, I'd argue that its flaws are just as much a part of why it became a runaway success as its strengths are. Every person who watches NGE + EoE seeks out other people to talk about it with, almost without fail, because its a show and ending that demands discussion and a lot of people have questions about what they just watched. I genuinely think thats a big part of why it never fell out of the popular culture, its constantly having the wound reopened by new viewers.
>>292189442>clearly runs out of budgetI wish this meme would die.
>>292189442people that are obsessed with eva are typically the least insightful about it
>>292189386I also wanted to mention that the reason I rewatched it was mainly because I’d had this Blu-ray sitting around unwatched for two years; everything is fine, except for the fact that they removed the ending song. I have no idea why they did that—I thought licensing issues were exclusive to Netflix.
>>292189535The issue is always money
>>292189398Aren't they CG in the Rebuilds? The Rebuilds' use of CG is one of their shittiest aspects. Everything in the original being hand-drawn makes things more seamless.At least I know all the Angels are CG in the Rebuilds, which makes the fights between them and the Evas look jarring.
>>292189584I don't want to start anything with this image but it's the one side-by-side that I have of them. The CG Evas don't look terrible in stills but in motion it's uncanny.
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In non-Eva content, it was interesting watching this episode drop another "Shinji and Misato are a lot alike" moment. Their little chat by themselves at Misato's promotion party is really interesting, as is learning that Misato's dad was a lot like Gendo.The show goes out of its way to link them together. Not necessarily romantically (though I'd argue it does that too), but just heavily encouraging the viewer to see the two of them as a unit, two people whose destinies are intertwined.I wonder why the later years of Eva get away from this so much. It kind of gets abandoned in End of Evangelion and it gets totally thrown out the window in the Rebuilds.
>>292189066you can't even define "up"go ahead and tryi'll wait
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>>292190479>It kind of gets abandoned in End of Evangelionin what way?
>>292190579I guess, honestly, to me the logical thing to do to continue that dynamic is not to kill Misato. If their destinies are truly intertwined, one way or another, than having her die and Shinji keep going feels like a misfire.I've thought for years that the better thing to do is have her survive, and then climb into Unit-01 with Shinji. Give them BOTH a front-row seat to Third Impact, and they've got to deal with it.I guess technically Shinji's the solitary main character, but nonetheless, that's what I'd do.
>>292190495The opposite direction to the gravitational pull of a physical object from the frame of reference of a given location on or inside that object
>>292190636>>292190479They're linked because Misato is basically a Shinji of the last generation. Torn apart family, years of isolation, struggling to deal with others. Most of that stuff is important in the first 15 episodes (especially the one's where Misato directly talks about Shinji and the hedgehog's dilemma) and the introspective finale, by the time EoE rolls around there isn't much left to do with the paralells which is why they barely interact except for the fanservice scene. Then with the Rebuilds they just have no clue what to do with Misato outside of copying the series.
