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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9RUOEOoNQ
August 13th on Amazon Prime, Shinji will get in the goddamn robot one last time. :lawd
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:confused
infowars is coming to amazon?
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We need an Asuka emoji :hmph
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:asuka
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On Friday, August 13... bye bye, all of Evangelion. (https://www.amazon.com/EVANGELION-1-01-THRICE-UPON-TIME/dp/B098VW137N)
(https://i.imgur.com/1VU0U6P.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uhh62MUEic
I love you more than you'll ever know.
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I should have known Joe would take up the Eva charge while I was gone. Feel free to merge threads. :doge
Really excited for this. Would have never thought I'd see this legally the same year it was released in Japan.
First (and last) piece of new Eva media released while I'm actually a fan... (Been a while since 3.0/2012.) I think I'm ready.😤
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I'm not ready :tocry
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmKRgqWGrWc
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I've never watch a single ep, is it good ???
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I've never watch a single ep, is it good ???
If you like 90s anime and/or mecha stuff it's pretty great. Goes from standard tropes (done well) to a more introspective/head-fucky place towards the end, but it's overall a fun anime. Hard not to feel something for the characters too, which is rare in any medium (from my perspective.)
It's like, some people enjoy and seek out eurojank games. It's not anything objective, but how you react to it.
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It's worth it just to get to The End of Evangelion which is absolutely fantastic.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcxx8W-vgU
:tocry
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Well at least the internet didn't make their meme president this time :trumps
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I rewatched 2.22 last night. It's my first time rewatching the Rebuild movies since 3.33 came out on Blu-Ray (2014) because it felt bad to watch them knowing that Part 4 was years away at best, and at worse Hideaki Anno had just gotten bored of the whole thing and abandoned the project all together. But now that the final part is coming out, I feel like I can finally really sit down and enjoy them for the first time.
:rejoice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWfgVDcq2uU
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It's worth it just to get to The End of Evangelion which is absolutely fantastic.
End of Eva stands alongside Satoshi Kon projects as my personal pinnacle for 2D animated film.
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I rewatched 2.22 last night. It's my first time rewatching the Rebuild movies since 3.33 came out on Blu-Ray (2014) because it felt bad to watch them knowing that Part 4 was years away at best, and at worse Hideaki Anno had just gotten bored of the whole thing and abandoned the project all together. But now that the final part is coming out, I feel like I can finally really sit down and enjoy them for the first time.
:rejoice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWfgVDcq2uU
I went through them all last year in prep for 3.0+1.0, loved seeing the progression from "what you know" to "what you know, with some twists" to "you don't fucking know anything."
I ponder and meditate over 3.33 (and End of Eva) a lot.
Was always worried how the 3D integrated visuals would age but they really haven't. Love Rebuild.
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Yeah, the movies still look great. I loved the scene of early morning in Tokyo-III, with all the mirrors turning to face the sun and rail lines switching tracks. Gonna watch 3.33 tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGzJOeyJgFM
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Yeah, the movies still look great. I loved the scene of early morning in Tokyo-III, with all the mirrors turning to face the sun and rail lines switching tracks. Gonna watch 3.33 tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGzJOeyJgFM
Yeah I mean, 1.0 was fucking 2007. They cleaned stuff up for 1.01 and 1.11 but it's still incredible almost 15 years later (JESUS CHRIST). Were there even contemporary anime in 2007 integrating 3D to compare to? Most of the stuff I've seen even years later is Reboot-level lmao.
2.22 and 3.33 look even better.
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Fyi Tiffany Grant is apparently super bitter over the Netflix dub. :lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paZuAQSXZ-Y
I think she got announced for the new Rebuild dubs apparently coming down the pipe, so she should be happy with that at least. Hopefully she gets to finish off the role with 3.0+1.0 next year or something, she's been Asuka for almost 25 years now. I hope she gets closure.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-08-07/amazon-prime-video-lists-new-english-dub-cast-for-1st-3-rebuild-of-evangelion-films/.175998
I'm only speculating here but I think Anno/Khara were so upset with the original 3.0 dub that they severed ties with Funimation after its release. The Netflix dub was in-house IIRC, and the new Rebuild dubs are apparently by some outfit called "Dubbing Brothers USA". ???
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do I gotta watch the movies to keep up with the story ??? I p much never bother with movies and just stick to the show with everything.
sometimes I do wonder if I should check out some of the one piece movies, but it seems like retread of what I already watched :thinking
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do I gotta watch the movies to keep up with the story ??? I p much never bother with movies and just stick to the show with everything.
sometimes I do wonder if I should check out some of the one piece movies, but it seems like retread of what I already watched :thinking
The movies are basically an alternate timeline from the show. They start out covering the same ground as the show, but then turn into a different thing.
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I'll just watch the movies and not bother with the show :success
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I'll just watch the movies and not bother with the show :success
It won't ruin the experience. My advice would be start with the show, though.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmKRgqWGrWc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVsDtG1y_Qs
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Good, or don't be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJi5HaJyz2I
She said, “Don’t make others suffer for your personal hatred.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Coh0W903k
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https://twitter.com/KFC_ES/status/1425742406432006147
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https://twitter.com/Ravuloz/status/1425689461048979456
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https://getindianews.com/anime-evangelion-3-01-0-thrice-upon-a-time-streaming-release-date-and-time-on-amazon-prime-video/
10am Eastern tomorrow. Anyone know if real?
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I haven’t heard for sure
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Coh0W903k
Rewatched Episodes 25 & 26 today mostly because you posted this. :lol Also rewatched EoE just to be refreshed on all previous endings.
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https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1426033109363879938
:drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge
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All Rebuilds are live on Prime Video.
REBUILD MARATHON GO TIME!!!
2007
2009
2012
2021
The legacy of Eva.
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(https://i.imgur.com/ZLrR6SSl.jpg)
Very high quality shirt material, I get the impression it's gonna last. Which is good since I intend to wear it when I stream the 3.0+1.0 dub in 2025.
Wearing this all day today. :rejoice
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All Rebuilds are live on Prime Video.
REBUILD MARATHON GO TIME!!!
2007
2009
2012
2021
The legacy of Eva.
what's this rebuild stuff?
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All Rebuilds are live on Prime Video.
REBUILD MARATHON GO TIME!!!
2007
2009
2012
2021
The legacy of Eva.
what's this rebuild stuff?
Officially, Evangelion is divided into two continuities.
The 26-episode anime + End of Evangelion, all released in the 90s.
And the four movies collectively called "Rebuild of Evangelion", released as 1.11, 2.22, 3.33, and 3.0+1.0. These correspond to the release dates in my original post.
1.11 and 2.22 recap the series up to about episode 24 with minor-but-actually-kinda-major differences. 3.33 and 3.0+1.0 are completely new material.
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Finished 1.11 and halfway through 2.22 now. First new observation on this rewatch having seen the series last year is they've actually softened Gendo quite a bit. Super interested to see where this leads.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion debuted on October 4, 1995.
<12 years>
The first Rebuild film was released on September 1, 2007.
<14 years>
The final Rebuild film was released on March 8, 2021.
:mindblown
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:rejoice The birth of a new world….Neon Genesis. :rejoice
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just got through the opening of the first ep :whew dat was a bop :rimshot
feel like I heard it before, it's familiar :thinking
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shinji the mary sue ::)
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shinji the mary sue ::)
;) :shh
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:'(
Bye bye all of Evangelion
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Man, 3.0+1.0 was so good.
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I am done.
I am spent.
To say this delivered is the understatement of a lifetime.
I have so much to say but it'll have to come in a future post.
Everything I wanted deep down in my heart but feared to hope for was delivered upon in the absolutely most-perfect package.
∞ / 10
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:rejoice
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Man, 3.0+1.0 was so good.
:hesright × ∞
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3.0+1.0 spoilers
Kaworu...
KAWORU!!!!!!! :heartbeat :heartbeat :heartbeat :heartbeat :rejoice :heartbeat :heartbeat :heartbeat :heartbeat
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serious spoilers
(https://i.imgur.com/p4ZRMaF.png)
My boy!!! My beautiful gray haired beauty is all grown up!!!!
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I hate these movies,so I'm happy to finally end this whole thing.
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General vibe spoilers
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Wasn't what I was expecting but also, when has this series ever been? I really liked the "set" imagery. Had more of a 25+26 vibe than an EoE vibe overall.
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Oh god this was so bad.
Somehow it's even worse than 3.0. Re-watching the back half of 3.0 before watching this, 3.0 has issues but at least it's pretty well directed still and stylish and the end stuff is interesting.
4.0 is just so.fucking.dull. It's poorly directed, especially if you try to compare it to EoE, and the story is mind-bogglingly uninteresting. What should have been the EoE major exciting shit ended up being the least exciting movie of the 4.
Considering Anno did a good job with Shin Godzilla, it doesn't seem like Anno's lost his touch, but rather that he just buckled under the pressure to finally end Eva and crapped out a shitter of a bland movie.
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The Shinji vs Eva final boss was the worsttttttt
BLEH, the one bright spot is this doesn't retcon the original series & EoE particularly so we still have those masterpieces and we'll always have 2.0, an extremely good and well directed modern Eva film that setup plenty of potential for Rebuild to go interesting places...and then that never happened. SIGH.
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I don't understand how anyone could like this. Did you people also like 3.0?
Why is this movie even 2.5 hours? Why is it a repeat of 3.0 and
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Waste 40 mins of it with Shinji moping again?
4.0 starts off terrible and dull and it's all downhill from there!
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Apparently this movie is being well received.
I don't get it. This movie makes me want to give up on anime it's so bland. It feels like if you took some random anime directed who directs NARUTO MOVIE #6 and asked him to write & direct a mainstream summer blockbuster conclusion to the Eva franchise.
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I will keep harping on the final battle because if you asked me things I would never want to see in Evangelion before this movie I would have said
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A Shinji in Eva 01 vs Evil Final Boss Gendo in Eva Ultimate battle
sigh, I'm just going to image Rebuild doesn't exist and stick to watching EoE every few years.
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ep 4 with shinj at the movies watching the couple make out :heart he's just like me :rash
misato please look over me and tell me what to do :uguu
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So after a night's sleep, I feel like I am ok with the concept itself and just disappointed with the execution.
For me Evangelion was never about the story. I love Eva, but couldn't give two shits about Seele or Gendo's plan or anything. It was about the characters and themes executed in a beautiful & at times bombastic style with great music.
My favorite scene in the franchise is the 5 minute theater live action bit in End of Eva. Where does a dream end & reality begin. The music, the direction, the writing. It's just an incredibly beautiful poem about themes of human interaction. And that the major decisions of the main character happen during the poem is even more stylistically perfect.
I don't want to say Eva was always style over substance for me, because the themes it dealt with of loneliness, depression, social anxiety, etc.. have very much substance and it had a lot to say about those themes. But the execution style was a huge part of what made it work.
The robots, the action, the yada yada sci-fi nonsense bullshit... I could toss that all
Eva 3.0+1.0 was really disappointing to me because it was lacking two things: 1) poetic style and 2) characters & themes. It felt like it was more focused on plotting and action set pieces. Mari fucking sucks, Ayanami starts to get character development but then doesn't, Gendo/Asuka are nothing but yada yada infodumps, Misato is horribly underdeveloped in Rebuild, Ritsuko even worse. Basically anything that wasn't Shinji was just paper thin and just plot plot plot or nonsense action.
Without the characters, and since I didn't care about the plot, when the final battle stuff started in the last 30-40 mins, by that point I was ready to just turn the film off because I couldn't bring myself to care about anything going on anymore.
And for my personal tastes, stylistically 3.0+1.0 felt completely off in style from every other entry in the Evangelion franchise. There's like one or two scenes that have some style like the beach, or the opening recap, but it's just so plain it feels very un-Anno and un-Eva.
It also doesn't help that for the first time in an Eva entry they changed the music style. Outside the opening recap there's almost no classic musical, gone are the happy/kiddy songs to violent shit, and instead we get....soft engrish jrock songs that wouldn't feel out of place in a Guilty Gear arcade mode credits roll.
The lack of interesting directorial style, the change in music (classical music was always a large part of Evangelion's identity), the paper thin characters...to me it was just a boring bland movie that was way too long. As much as I didn't like 3.0, I feel like stylistically at least 3.0 is closer to Eva's identity and it's also shorter.
I don't hate 3.0+1.0, it's just feels like a nothing movie and seems a bit sad that after all these years this is how Eva ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.
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3.0 is the best of the first three Rebuilds, fight me.
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:doge
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And no, not because of the gay piano scene. Although that significantly enhances my personal enjoyment.
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I pretty much lost interest halfway. These movies just don't feel like Evangelion. They feel like anime nonsense.
Mari pretty much sums up my feelings towards these movies. She's complete garbage. An anime waifu thrown in with no real character, who talks nonsense and says anime girl garbage like "look at my boobs". Feels nothing like a real character.
Evangelion felt real. The characters felt real. Despite the craziness, the plot goes into, they attempted to create some logic to it. Which further makes the characters feel real. Characters felt raw and broken. They didn't seem to be doing things beyond their station, they had relatable reactions and connections to things. They inhabited a world that had an internal logic. Which of course made the situation despite being a giant robot show more dynamic and relatable.
Evangelion doesn't come off as lame mass market anime. In the tv show a character like Rei is presented as strange, cold, and off. The world reacts like she is. It doesn't have cute dumb slice of life anime garbage. It doesn't have anime grandmoms acting like the cute anime girl is cute when she says she has no name. No in the tv show people find her weird, and Ritsuko treats her with disdain knowing whats going on.
The movie has a white base stand-in, an extreme number of robots made despite being a post-apocalypse, and tons of technology made by supposedly limitless resource anime factions. In the tv show they talk about Nerv's budget and how limited the Evangelions are, how much of an undertaking they are. Here millions are thrown at an Evangelion battle ship.
In the show Kaji isn't some Tony Stark dude, he's a fucking intelligence officer with a realistic relationship with a woman he met in college. A woman struggling with being an alcoholic, a job, and being a good person. Not some captain of the last mankind battleship and a super dramatic relationship with her son.
And then it all becomes nonsense that pulls whatever it wants out of its ass.
Garbage. Thats what these movies are.
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Also honestly this movie is trash. Gendo is a trash character. A bad person. Yes with a reason he turned out that way, but I don't need some nice and tidy sympathy story. A sad backstory and redemption actions feel so cheap and lame. Removing all the bite and honesty
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I pretty much lost interest halfway. These movies just don't feel like Evangelion. They feel like anime nonsense.
Mari pretty much sums up my feelings towards these movies. She's complete garbage. An anime waifu thrown in with no real character, who talks nonsense and says anime girl garbage like "look at my boobs". Feels nothing like a real character.
Evangelion felt real. The characters felt real. Despite the craziness, the plot goes into, they attempted to create some logic to it. Which further makes the characters feel real. Characters felt raw and broken. They didn't seem to be doing things beyond their station, they had relatable reactions and connections to things. They inhabited a world that had an internal logic. Which of course made the situation despite being a giant robot show more dynamic and relatable.
Evangelion doesn't come off as lame mass market anime. In the tv show a character like Rei is presented as strange, cold, and off. The world reacts like she is. It doesn't have cute dumb slice of life anime garbage. It doesn't have anime grandmoms acting like the cute anime girl is cute when she says she has no name. No in the tv show people find her weird, and Ritsuko treats her with disdain knowing whats going on.
The movie has a white base stand-in, an extreme number of robots made despite being a post-apocalypse, and tons of technology made by supposedly limitless resource anime factions. In the tv show they talk about Nerv's budget and how limited the Evangelions are, how much of an undertaking they are. Here millions are thrown at an Evangelion battle ship.
In the show Kaji isn't some Tony Stark dude, he's a fucking intelligence officer with a realistic relationship with a woman he met in college. A woman struggling with being an alcoholic, a job, and being a good person. Not some captain of the last mankind battleship and a super dramatic relationship with her son.
And then it all becomes nonsense that pulls whatever it wants out of its ass.
Garbage. Thats what these movies are.
Very good writeup.
The characters were bad in this while the characters are what made the original.
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I'm gonna need another few watches to fully process this, but I liked it overall. The plot stuff was... alot, but I found it satisfying. Plot in eva was always a red herring anyway. The rebuilds are clearly different and don't follow the same rules as the original, but I also think that with this conclusion that the films do not at all stand alone. They work better when you are already intimately familiar with the tv series and EoE, because they don't exposit as much on the non-shinji cast, and it plays on your expectations by telling a different story with look-alikes and hitting similar bullet points in completely different contexts.
I really liked that the majority of the conflicts between characters were resolved by talking things out. The discussion between asuka and shinji about why she was so mad in 3.0, and the nature of their relationship in 2.0 and now, was fantastic stuff. The gendo conflict being unresolvable with violence, etc. It's a real response to the OG "hedgehog's dillema" version of events, and the takeaway seems to be that it's worth putting yourself out there even if it hurts sometimes, rather than the more cynical worldview that the original runs with until the end (and the worldview that they ascribe to gendo in this iteration). Empathy seems to be a big part of this finale and I also really took to that.
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https://youtu.be/pWq9eejB8FI
The only take I've been waiting for.
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You can tell who's mad in this thread that Mari won. Get rekt Asuka and Rei stans, make way for a true queen. :jeb
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I probably need to rewatch these movies and see them as something distinct from the tv show. I am probably too close to the series.
But I don't think Id like them even removed from the tv series. They just seem filled with things I don't like. Characters like Mari and just so many ass pulls that feel like nonsense.
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There's an anno doc on amazon too. It's fascinating.
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https://twitter.com/selipse4/status/1427027423124725760
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https://twitter.com/selipse4/status/1427027423124725760
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyFQVZ2h0V8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXoofxk_1ew
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up to ep 9. asuka immediately showing the goods with her first appearance, what a little slut :rejoice
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Each character is a little more fucked up than you realize.
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so fucked up
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sadly filler will never get this reference because Netflix changed the subtitles for this line in EoE :'(
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just got through the opening of the first ep :whew dat was a bop :rimshot
feel like I heard it before, it's familiar :thinking
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so fucked up
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sadly filler will never get this reference because Netflix changed the subtitles for this line in EoE :'(
won't be watching netflix version of eoe :)
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so fucked up
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sadly filler will never get this reference because Netflix changed the subtitles for this line in EoE :'(
I never liked that version of the line. It was very manga ent.-esque to edge it up like that.
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https://twitter.com/ShingetsuPT/status/1427609730990608388
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so fucked up
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sadly filler will never get this reference because Netflix changed the subtitles for this line in EoE :'(
I never liked that version of the line. It was very manga ent.-esque to edge it up like that.
The 90’s were an xxxtreme time.
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become a legend, young boy :lawd
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tohji :mjcry
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VICE: Evangelion Fans Are Finally Happy (https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7enqa/evangelion-fans-are-finally-happy)
Gizmodo: The Radical Sincerity of Evangelion's Final End (https://gizmodo.com/the-radical-sincerity-of-evangelions-final-end-1847498562)
The New York Times: ‘Evangelion’ Director Explains How He Finally Found His Ending (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/movies/evangelion-hideaki-anno.html)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxN6xRlxic
You don't want to know how many times I've listened to this. This is on the line between omega-cringe and actually-good. Goddamn.
Come, sweet death.
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I try to act like I don’t miss you
But I know deep down, you are lonely, too
We both never meant to hurt the other
But we did some things we can never undo
(https://i.imgur.com/r8H21pY.gif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5_p6ZnEfLE c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5_p6ZnEfLE)
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It’s only love.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5UaJ0L3HUE
Absolutely loved going through the film again with the Mega64 boys on commentary.
Context: In 2009, Shawn watched the series on Rocco's recommendation, and got pissed when Rocco and Garrett made fun of him missing Kaji's death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdY80YvH9C8
Trigger warning: f-slur :o
Then Shawn was almost forced to be Shinji in this year's live-action Eva videos (shot in 2020.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H48GPv4BZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZnsWjJ6Qw
Now it's full circle with Shawn watching 3.0+1.0. I also picked up a lot of new info on this rewatch, as Rocco and Garrett are Eva superfans.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjdHHGBJQNg
Damn this should've been in the movie. :o Somewhere in the credits at least.
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Bye bye, all of Evangelion.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/NickDesideri/status/1431688035863867398
:science
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spoilers :stahp
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spoilers :stahp
Sorry! They don't affect the plot and you'll probably forget all about those three pics by the time you even get to that movie. :P
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QtorATw7YM
This was in my youtube recommendations for some reason.
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asuka :stahp why is end credits halfway through movie ???
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that was it? :foxx
what do I watch next ???
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asuka :stahp why is end credits halfway through movie ???
It was produced as two "episodes" corresponding to Episode 25 and 26 of the show.
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does the story continue?
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does the story continue?
The four Rebuild movies are kind of a reboot. End of Eva is the finale for the original continuity.
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hoping the reboots are better, this show was a mess :snob
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I like them. :)
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hoping the reboots are better, this show was a mess :snob
Eh.
:lol
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Rebuilds are more streamlined and less "messy", IMO.
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Evangelion 3.0+1.0 Wouldn't Work Without Its Quiet, Contemplative Opening (https://gizmodo.com/evangelion-3-0-1-0-wouldnt-work-without-its-quiet-cont-1847646302)