Do you like Evangelion?
It's so funny that these fucking undetalied anime nips would get me diamonds at 12
BEST GIRL
LOVE it. First anime I watched (if you don't count pokemon). This show has some of the most poignant and striking visuals I have ever seen. And we're all secretly in love with Asuka.
It's okay. Don't like it as much as Bebop or GITS, or for that matter a bunch of other bullshit, but I like it.
>>943539511this anon knows. based asuka enjoyer
>>943539648>And we're all secretly in love with Asuka.NO! There are others. Picrel is what they want.
if you dont love it you just dont understand it
>>943538872Not really. I'd probably like it more if it weren't so far up its own ass.
>>943539761To each their own anon but I'll take my tsundere ;) not much into apocalyptic mama-clone goddesses lol
>>943539803tbf its more the creator who is up his own ass but I can see your point
>>943539909>tsundereRespect mommy!
>>943539782Are you sixteen
>>943540078>tumbling down>tumbling down>tumbling doooooooooown
>>943540702you dont understand it do you?
Based show and magical how many memes it has given us lol, its not meant to be taken too seriously but it still does a crazy job at pulling you in to its crazy lore. Iconic and nostalgic asf. I first watched it on adult swim circa 2005, feel sorry for those who missed out on that. It's not the same watching it on Netflix, worst version of it.
>>943538872It's the anime you show to people who think anime is stupid and, unless they live in the shallow end of the intellectual pool, after watching it they go, "Oh, I get it now." Evangelion is a gateway drug.Grave of the Fireflies, too. I don't know anyone who has ever said a bad thing about that movie after watching it.
>>943541514i dont know anyone who's had anything good to say about it, unless you count "it made me cry like a bitch" good
>>943541235I understand Evangelion. It's just not that serious, unless you're actually a NEET who refuses to form human connections or participate in the society that feeds and clothes you. Then, yes, it's deathly significant.
>>943541702>form human connections>participate in the society that feeds and clothes youtbf desu isn't that the entire message of the show? maybe it should be required watching for NEETS?>no nvm I changed my mind the weeb situation is bad enough. if I see one more rei body pillow that can stand up on it's own I think I'm gonna be sick...
>>943541702 "i understand eva" proceeds to say the most basic interpretation of it ever #okaybruh
>>943541815i dont think that word means what you think it means
>>943542531The other interpretations are just not that interesting and/or are subordinate to the "basic interpretation." It just ain't that deep (and Anno would agree that it just ain't that deep), but I apologize if this is the first time you've watched something that didn't air on Nickelodeon and I'm harshing your vibe.
>>943541815Can you read
>>943542689Please, Mr. Montoya, pray tell me which word? I simply must know.
>>943542531Here's a useful lesson for you on your journey into new realms of consumption: symbolism does not imply profundity.
>>943542815Nah. Can't write or spell either.
>>943542846pretty clearly "desu" right
>>943542885I don't even know how to respond to this...
>>943541514>Grave of the Firefliesdude would rather watch his sister starve to death than swallow his pride. after that, he deserved what he got.
>>943542795rofl, you're so cute. must be 22 feeling high and mighty in college. you're very obviously missing it and dont understand it. so back to my OG point. you dont get it, it's okay. maybe another watch and you'll do more than dip your toe in the depth that is eva
>>943542846neet, weeb and neet arn't butt buddy's
>>943543156Dunning-Kruger effect personified
>>943538872Yes. Is pretty good.
>>943543263talking to yourself huh?
>>943543263coming from the guy who's taking the basic bitch understanding of eva, this is hilarious.ok mr "eva is simple" what do you enjoy that's "deep" then
>>943542870missing symbolism does not imply simplicityi'd tell you to reevaluate your rejection of what you dont know, but this is /b/
>>943538872I'm ambivalent.
>>943539511
>>943547448is that why you collected this picture?
>>943548099I'd rather called a ferret than an Asuka lover.
>>943548263awwww, someones butthurt, show us on the doll where it hurt you
>>943551151>show us on the life-sized Rei doll
>>943538872Sure.
>>943543606you're talking to two different people dude
>>943543682anyway, would you care to enlighten us on what this earth-shatteringly profound meaning to literal fucking Neon Genesis Evangelion is? or are you gonna just allude to cosmic knowledge and conveniently demure from ever explaining what that cosmic knowledge might be?
>>943538872Misato sex
>>943551839Bumping this thread so you can answer my question.
>>943552503Bases answer
Yes it's one of my favorite anime shows. I hate to admit this, but I used to be a lot like Shinji as teen. Parents worked most of the time and only cared about grades. No friends growing up. Spent most of my time alone with basically no social or emotional support. So I can understand how he struggles with himself and others. In a way, that show helped me through my depressive moods.I thought the storyline was confusing af, but the philosophical aspects were interesting. Animation, music, and battle scenes were awesome. I like both the original and the Rebuilds.As for Asuka vs Rei...I like Asuka's character design more, but I like Rei's personality more. Personally I think Kaworu is best partner for Shinji.
I spent my whole life avoiding it thinking “surely it can’t be THAT good”Finally sat down to watch it + EoE about a month or two ago and still haven’t recovered, still haven’t stopped thinking about it, and probably never will.It really is THAT good. The annoying people who never shut up about it were, much to my chagrin, absolutely right. I concede.It’s not my favorite anime by any means, but I’m confident in saying it is absolutely the BEST anime. It’s up there with Lain, Bebop and Space Dandy for me.It belongs in a place of cherished honor among humanity’s greatest literary achievements like the Iliad, Odyssey, etc.Also, mommy Misato armpits
I liked the original and End of Evangelion well enough. Anything else was garbage.
>>943538872After three tries and three decades, it's a franchise that has great parts in each, but each iteration has glaringly bad parts. Hideaki Anno is a master at creating new mistakes each time.In 10 years or so, someone THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT FUCKING HIDEAKI ANNO should take all the good parts of all three iterations and create one cohesive work, finally.>>943551839He can't. It's not that deep. It's the ultimate midwit filter for those that barely passed high school.
>>943538872I think it's less than the sum of its parts. Some terrific parts though.
>>943560021>Hideaki Anno is a master
>>943538872was really impressed with the first two movies, thought the next one wasn't quite as good (although it *did* have Kaworu) and the last one was an absolute fucking heap of wank. don't even get Mari unless she's meant for merchandising purposes
I remember thinking it was the greatest shit ever when I was a kid. I even blew my mind at Eva 3.0 when it first came out and watched the entire movie through a Japanese camrip. Only after that fucker Anno made everyone wait 12 fucking years for 4.0 and I finally saw it did I finally realize how lame and cringey the entire franchise really was. Despite all that, 3.0 still holds a special place in my heart strangely enough. I thought the premise of Shinji waking up in the future to a more fucked up world where everyone hates him and there are more new crazy Evas/alien technology/flying battleships etc. was darn cool. The soundtrack for that movie was also really good. The character redesigns were also badass, like Gendo going blind and having to use that visor and Misato turning into some crazy battleship commander with a cool red coat and cap and forcing Shinji to wear a bomb on his neck. Yeah.... good times. I was looking for a Eva related image to attach to my post but I have nothing now. Funny how I used to have a shitton of pictures/screencaps/fan-art from the entire series and movies when I was a kid but now, nothing at all.
the author force feeds his philosophy to the watchers, and the moment I'm told that no matter what others do to me I should always retain hope in humanity, and have it sold to me like an absolute law, the author and everything he ever participated on can go fuck off.After the end of evangelion I'll never watch anything from Anno again.I don't trust humans, and I don't want a self-absorbed prick to tell me that I'm wrong through animation. he can shove his morals up his ass, not down my throat.
>>943560289>not down my throathow about up ur ass? japan smarr penis, very smarr
>>943560213I wish I was on the battle ship, bumming other dudes all day long. Probably impossible even to enter a room without seeing some dude emptying his balls in another dude's ass, that's why the ship's called WILLY.
>>943543606Also, sorry, but is your retort to this "uuuuhh what do you enjoy that's complex"? I don't know, fucking Anna Karenina? In Search of Lost Time? Moby-Dick? But I don't go around talking about it because I don't feel the need to prove my "depth." "Depth" is an (ironically) superficial and insignificant thing, typically obsessed over, in the same way people obsess over any perceived deficiency, by people lacking it. Anyway, please answer my question: what oh-so-profound import does Eva carry? What is it that COMPELS you to love Eva once you've grasped it? Bumping the thread again, because I want an answer.
>>943560289That wasn't my takeaway. My takeaway was that you should stop lazing around and pretending you're better than society while it puts food in your mouth. I don't think forgiveness was a big part of it, unless the thing that's keeping you from integrating is resentments about perceived mistreatment that pales somewhat in contrast to, again, being fed. Certainly nothing about "faith in humanity."
>>943543606>>943560977Also, for the record, the "basic bitch" understanding of "you should participate in society" is actually extremely profound and significant. I'd hazard that it's far more so than whatever cloud of masturbatory interpretations is buzzing around inside your head.
>>943561031It's the ending. Shinji could've done anything, and he didn't change anything. just trapped humans in a limbo until everyone realizes others suffer too.after people put him through he still thinks humanity as it is can be better and it's bullshit.that's literally just Anno telling us how he went out of depression as if it was some natural law.no thanks, he should've kept it to himself.
>>943539511>seattle>seattle>seattle>seattle
>>943562663Well, it sort of sounds like you want to be resentful and depressed, so I'm not surprised you were irked by your reading here.
>>943543156Hey, faggot! I'm bumping this thread, yet again, so you can tell us more about this "depth"! Let's hear it!
Kek, all this debating. All I know is this anime is awesome, trippy, goes against the norm and does its own thing which I respect. As for what I got out of it is you should just accept people how they are and forgive thier faults as nobody is perfect but we can still get along and enjoy good moments together in life. Also, it is the only anime that I could say helped me get laid after sharing it with a girl who was going through a bad time, her mother was dying of cancer and she was living far away in another city. Didn't even do this on purpose, she heard about the show and I told her I had the boxset and eoe on DVD. Still talk to her today and we are good frens. She's is cutie, petite with a bobcut like rei, but her hair is a little longer now(just like 4.0 rei lol). For all its faults I feel the show has really given me much. It's not meant to be some action flick, it's a show about accepting people and moving on from past traumas and relationships. To open your heart to others, forgive thier faults and accept them for who they are. Hope something good happens to you today anon(s). As much as the world sucks I hope everyone finds someone who can be thier little oasis in a troubled desert land.
>>943542795>AnnoPeople who reference the creator like they have beers with him are always cringe af
Old fuck here, couple of anecdotes. I was 17-18 when Evangelion was first getting released in the US. I was working at a movie theater saving my hard earned dollars to get all 12 VHS copies of the show. My local Suncoast video was taking reservations for volume 11. I give them my cash, then go over the day it’s supposed to be in. Of course they only got like five copies and they didn’t have it when I got, I was so emotionally invested in the show that I had a loud meltdown over it when I’m usually very chill. They weren’t getting any copies for like two weeks so I got a refund and ended up ordering it off a sketchy site called Amazon. Years later I’m working as a grunt at Amazon, I start trying to get friendly with a 20 year old coworker, menhera, wears dark, baggy ass clothes and you can smell her pits standing downwind of her, this is right around the start of covid. We start talking about the first time we ever used Amazon, I tell her about my Evangelion preorder, she’s a fan and understands my melty, and I tell her I ordered it through Amazon, she laughs and tell me she was barely born that same year. I felt awkward after that.
>>943557425So your geh?Got it
>>943569967Big fan, keep up the good work :)
>>943561073shinji did the masturbating for us
>>943538872Thought it was good but the version I watched they didn't have the translation at the end so the "big reveal' was an incomprehensible one-side of the conversation so I lost the explanation to the sudden end of a number of characters
>>943541514Grave was OK but it was kind of ruined by the continual high pitched whining of the little sister. Got to the point where I was thinking, "just die already" which I don't think was the intended emotion the creators wanted to invoke.
>>943539663What is GITS. You fags are always throwing around acronyms like everyone should automatically know every anime ever created. I liked Bebop although it took a few episodes to get into it. They did a better job than most dealing with the "you're not getting another season like you expected" revelation. Follow up movie was meh.
>>943538872>haven't seen itcoook the dooog an eeegg (she'll eat it)coook the dooog an eeegg (she loves you)COOOOK THE DOOOOG AN EEEEGG (she desrves it)cooook the doooog an eeeegg (she loves you)
>>943538872>Do you like Evangelion?After Ghost In The Shell premiered, I'd never watch this crap again. Absolute trash.
>>943561073you're right, the anime that touches on souls and soulless beings and clones and giant "robots" and "angels" coming to destroymankind, looking at an afterlife, or computers made from brains. totally spaced it's just about the boy and how he doesn't fit in anywhere. your take is honestly the most neet explanation "it reacts with me so that's what it means" ever in the face of anime. out of curiosity which version did you watch? og? directors cuts? ending? death rebirth? true^2? the 4 rebuild movies? but yeah, it's all about needing to participate in society that "feeds and clothes" you lol
>>943579091You could say the moral of the story is to just escape into another reality kek, like the ending to rebuilds felt like such an easy copout. Shinji just leaves and makes a new world or something, I didn't really understand it. My cousin said it's like they just got lazy at the end. I still love the original series. And yeah, to me the "message" is to try and make connections with people and accept that everyone has their own issues or faults. But that if you don't try you will be worse off alone because you need those people to make life easier and create positive memories. As corny as it sounds, it really is sad when someone has nobody and is all alone in the world.
>>943579091Answer the fucking question. Is your mindblowing takeaway just a list of touched-upon topics? Is that it? What does it say about them? What new vision does it impart? Are you just shocked and astounded by some unusual thematics? Do you think that "meaning" is just a fuzzy sense of awe? Please stop evading the fucking question and just answer it. You can, right?
>>943583978>>943583074>>943579091Evangelion exists so BEST GIRL can be on screen. Simple as.
>>943583978Bumping this fucking thread, again. so that my question can be answered.>>943584134I do really like Asuka. I wish I preferred Rei, but this is how things are.
>>943583978why the fuck would anyone be a cuck and do what some weirdo on /b/ says to do keep wasting you life on /b/ waiting for an answer bruh. happy friday night lolol
>>943586431So you can't answer. You have no interpretation to divulge. Just juvenile stoned ape-seeing-a-magic-trick astonishment and a need to launder liking Eva as a sign of intellectual horsepower. Idiot.
>>943586431Unless you're someone else who's asshurt by the idea of being forced to explain his posturing as an intellect, in which case I just don't know what to say to such a sad creature.
