Turns out Shinji was just as confused by the last two episodes of Evangelion as the rest of us.
I actually asked Spike Spencer about this rant at AMA this year.
He said he just was so annoyed with the ending as he was dubbing it that he just told them to turn the mics back on just to let him record this.
God bless.
anno wanted to kill toji off - he was supposed to die in episode 18 when unit 01 crushed his entry plug. but anno was forced to uphold two conditions on the part of eva’s production company, king records, to ensure his show would get airtime:
Takekuma: Toji lost his leg. Why didn’t he die?
Anno: I couldn’t kill him.
Takekuma: Of course.
Anno: No, um, I made a certain promise, though I think I might have broken it by now. From the start, when we drew up the plot, I met with the producer, from King Records, who told me, “I will approve the plan you submit, whatever it is, because I have faith in you. However, there will be two conditions. The first one is that you will remain with me for five years. You cannot, for example, do a film version with another producer. The additional condition is that you will not kill any children. The adults can die, but I don’t want children dying.” Because of that condition I couldn’t kill Toji. (interview excerpt from schizo/parano by mitsunari oizumi)
as anno alludes, sometime between episode 18 and episode 24 anno went fuck what da teacher said proper and killed off kaworu on a 6:30 primetime weekday timeslot. king records reportedly lost it and demanded to clear all storyboards before subsequent episodes would be aired.
Fly Me To The Moon
And let me play among the Stars
Let me see what spring is like on:
In Other Words:
Hold My Hand
In Other Words:
Darling Kiss Me.
~Fly Me to the Moon~
You are all I:
All I:
In Other Words……..
Please Be True
In Other words………
I Love Youuuuu
also nge fans that act like the 14 year olds arent sexualized in the merch….please
shinji literally rips asukas top off of her comatose body so he can masturbate over her
“rei or asuka?” really baffles me because they’re presented as inverse contrasts in the show, and you can’t really derive any concrete analysis or understanding of their characters by taking them in separately. you have to examine them together through a comparative lens – their backstories, how they view themselves, their respective methods of coping/internalizing neglect and validation (or lack thereof). this goes for literally every single character in evangelion, but rei and asuka are most prolific for the grossest and most nauseating reasons.
when people say they like asuka more than rei for “x” reasons or visa versa, to me that’s just another gauge of how badly they missed the point.
more thoughts on this. i don’t believe in the idea “if you like asuka more you like rei less”. it’s interesting how both rei and asuka suffer disproportional amounts of bodily harm in the show but the emotional focus/concern rests solely on shinji (both in-show and fandom).
asuka and rei’s dynamism plays out in how they interpret and react to their their “maternalness” and “materialness”: rei, contemplating on never becoming a mother (which is complicated by her connection with yui and lilith) - and then asuka, who hates menstruation, hates the idea of having children (complicated by her forcible rejection from her mother; rei is removed from motherhood in the bodily sense but closer “spiritually”, while asuka is the inverse)
then there’s rei and materialness (corporeality) vs the soul, how rei can’t retain memories after each resurrection (memories being connected bodily, stored in the brain), but she possesses base latent comprehension of emotions and relationships (as these are stored in the soul) – how rei morphs through bodily trauma and repeated physical resurrection, and then transcends corporeality completely, because rei is rei without a body. this is in contrast to asuka, who marrys her entire identity to her body, tries to find validation in the body, presentations of the body. when asuka’s body and her ability to use her body crumbles, asuka crumbles. rei grows/transcends with each instance of bodily trauma while asuka regresses/ebbs with each instance of bodily trauma.
asuka and rei compliment each other so beautifully in their characters and i love them both so much.
