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Unpopular opinion: I hated Evangelion, and always think that people give too much meaning behind the imaginery and symbolism.
Sure, trauma, failure, loss are bad, but lots of stuff made no sense even with extensive explanations by fans.
I love Madoka, and think it communicates similiar concept much better.
Not unpopular and not wrong. It was one of "The Firsts" that really influenced people.
I don't love Evangelion, but I don't hate it. I lump it with other media of that era like Matrix, Lain, Friends & Seinfeld, etc. They walked so others can run.
The first Matrix stands the test of time.
Lain... never got into it. Friends aged badly.
I have yet to watch Seinfeld.
I mostly like the last paragraph about trauma just making you fucked up in the head.
Yeah, I remember when I was younger my older brother thought that show was the shit, so like 25 years later, I decide to pick it up on a whim. Watch a couple episodes, and couldn't get into it. The older women of the series were extremely inappropriate towards the child protagonist, and I just couldn't get past it. I was like "Damn Japan, you just gonna go full Japan on this show, huh"
because we don't really want to see Shinji anymore
I was feeling that by episode 2
So what was the other scene 😰?
a girl, asuka, is in the hospital. shinji is visiting and shakes her while crying 'wake up wake up' this shaking makes her vest unzip...
shinji, who is incredibly mentally ill, traumatised, and depressed responds to this by whipping his dick out and jerking off
fun fact: the maker of the manga said he was uncomfortable with drawing a scene where shinji and another guy, kaworu kissed, but never said anything about this scene
Never seen the show, but from the post the comment is from, the contrast went from unconscious girl and blood on hands to unconscious girl and jizz on hands.
It's a story about a bunch of mentally ill people abusing each other. It's very crude and meant to show the worst parts of humanity and what trauma does to them.
Everyone keeps saying mentally ill.
I didn't get that. I saw Shinji, Asuka & Rei as all being different parts of the same psyche. Different parts of the ego, Id & superego.
This was reinforced by the concept of syncing the pilot to the robot, or in human consciousness the psyche to the meat suit.
When the psyche and robot are synchronised they are unstoppable, but do many doubts and imposter syndrome feelings get in the way of that control that we seldom synchronise properly
The first paragraph of your comment doesn't really connect with the next two. How does the pilot/psyche having to link with the robot/body implies Shinji, Asuka and Rei are part of the same psyche?
Anyway, you're ignoring all of the other mentally ill characters.
Also mirrors his father having Adam embryo in his hand.
