Misato has ice, snacks and 50 GALLONS OF BEER in her fridge lmao. Mood. Her car is wrecked and there’s a monster that might kill her and all she can think about is car payment loans lol. She’s just like me fr. Well, except for the groomer vibes she’s giving off.
I’m sure it’s gonna get depressing very soon, I hear all the characters suck and half of them are sexpests. Seems like you get a pretty decent understanding of why they suck though. I already dislike Shinji though, dude get in the fucking robot the world is ending. I guess sucking is hereditary, because his dad sucks too, fucking dumbass. Dude if your son is “the chosen one” when it comes to piloting these things and you’re all “I must sacrifice everything for the mission” then sacrifice some free time to be with your son so your top pilot is less psychologically messed up.
NERV is in dire need of a psych team though, insane that there isn’t a dedicated therapist to help the pilots deal with trauma.
Also it’s so beautiful! I miss old anime like this and Akira, everything just gets to breathe. It’s so pretty every frame is a painting. The women have noses and they look like women, which is also impressive. Sadly there’s still only one body type women can have, but at least they can look humanoid.
Anyway, bit idea: Guy who only watches Evangelion for the fights.
Edit: Okay so Shinji managed to make two friends and they get sent away. The dude needs a support network, how incompetent can his dad be? “Huh my best pilot is getting some friends? Can’t have that, we need him to be as mentally unstable as possible!”
Dude needs to be fired.
Double edit: Now on an episode where an EVA goes berserk and tries to attack the dad and he just stands there looking at it and then when it breaks thru to him he’s shocked. The guy is absolutely not beating “himbo, but not actually hot, just dumb” allegations
shinji is a child soldier though, the popular opinion of him sucking seems to forget that
I hope you enjoy it and eventually watch the remakes, it’s all good stuff
I just don’t understand why the child soldier won’t just get in the giant murder blood robot he doesn’t know how to control, the robot that has a traumatizing neural interface which makes the pilot feel the pain of the robot’s injuries. The one that also makes the robot go berserk and kill everyone nearby if he’s not focused (happens multiple times). His abusive absentee dad said he needs to! Didn’t he read the script??
Yeah dude, the world is ending, get in the robot.
Tbh it seems like the world partially ended already - plus I don’t think shinji really gets the scope of the potential disaster right away. It’s not like NERV & Gendo are transparent about the stakes and their goals…
I was just being hyperbolic about the world ending, neat to hear that it’s already kinda gone. I just meant more in the sense of “there is a massive monster that we couldn’t even destroy with a mini -nuke and it is blowing up building left and right and you are the only one who can stop it so please do that before it breaks into our hiding place which is supposed to be The last hope of humanity, whoops there goes a skyscraper it really is almost here, oh you’re still not sure wether or not you feel like going in the robot? Oh okay, let’s wheel out the cripple then I guess.”
Don’t know how far into the series you are but from where you’ve mentioned watching to, without spoilers, I’ll say that as it goes on there are a good few silly bits, a constant undercurrent of creepy perv stuff, and many many more examples of why Gendo is a fuckhead lol. I don’t blame Shinji for finding him sus at all
Yeah I’m on episode 5 now and it starts with him looking at Rei’s EVA attacking the room he’s in, and when it breaks thru he’s surprised and doesn’t have time to run away. (Un)Luckily Rei manages to almost kill herself instead of grabbing him and yeeting him. He’s such a clown
Yeah I get that he’s just a kid and it seems like everything is fucked in his past and present, but dude, get in the robot please the world is ending.
He has pretty obvious PTSD and attachment issues though. Probably depression too.
Just another point for his dad sucking: Children should be easy to radicalise, but he can’t even get his own son to be a fanatic. Dude is straight out of a IASIP episode, he’s what would happen if Dennis were to try to become a warlord
Seems like it was a show with a lot of mocking discourse though, like a lot of people saying it was bad, but it seems like it’s very good. There’s so much going on
His dad is just some asshole basically, you gotta put some effort in and have some charisma to indoctrinate a kid, Shinjis is basically a big walking billboard that he’d do anything for some verbal approval and a pat on the back and his dads too stubborn and dumb to even pick up on that being the clear play.
Yeah the dad is honestly a fucking idiot. Oh you don’t like your son? Fuck you dude, throw the baseball so we all don’t have to say “fuck you shinji, get in the robot”.
Shinji loves following orders it seems, he just hungers for validation, he screams “RADICALISE ME PLEASE I YEARN FOR BELONGING TO A COMMUNITY” and his dad is too busy finding his hands and seeking the angle where his glasses does that, to do the most basic psychological conditioning of his prime pilot.
Honestly incredible that the meme became “get in the fucking robot” and not “jesus christ talk to your son”
Look at real indoctrination of child soldiers. They will force children to murder, then nurture and “heal” them, and often times it’s their loved ones.
Evangelion, the TV show, was on TV so it had more restrictions. But I feel like their idea of indoctrination was getting Misato to sexually groom Shinji, which does happen IRL and is successful (see religion and cults), but usually not in the war context.
There’s a show called Jormungand which is about a child soldier being part of a PMC and dealing with his trauma and hatred of weapons. I’ve only seen a couple episodes, but I’m curious if the themes are similar to Evangelion. I just can’t take all the sci-fi/fantasy elements seriously in Eva.*
*A literal soul being captured by the living and used in technology is an interesting element though. The game Beyond Two Souls was terrible, but this was part of the climax, and somehow it made me cry while Eva did nothing but frustrate me