ever since I saw Evangelion I wanted to be a floating octahedron when I grew up

[recursivelyenumerable]

as a consequence, I never grew up.

RT if you feel the same

[Great Rumbler]

I wanted to be an ocean of biogoo, but Mom said no.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Well I already did become that one for a while, but I couldn't maintain the consistency of my fluid physique.

[toku]

[Kara]

Why b an angel when u can b a devil.

[Kara]

Also, same, but Kaworu. (Spoilers.)

[archie4208]

You're so fucked up....

[Great Rumbler]

recursive, how does this video make you feel

[Vizzys]

Misato is still best girl

[recursivelyenumerable]

Yeah, I recently realized that the show's framework pretty explicitly positions "gayness" as a mode of being that in some sense sits along the same axis or relevant configuration space as being an octahedron or a cloud of nanites, etc.

I've never actually seen any analysis point this out (which now that I see it, seems pretty obvious and fundamental?). Is it problematic? I mean, I like it ...

[toku]

Yeah, I recently realized that the show's framework pretty explicitly positions "gayness" as a mode of being that in some sense sits along the same axis or relevant configuration space as being an octahedron or a cloud of nanites, etc.

I've never actually seen any analysis point this out (which now that I see it, seems pretty obvious and fundamental?). Is it problematic? I mean, I like it ...

[Vizzys]

blood type blue = HIV clearly

[Joe Molotov]

tfw when your mom betrays you for her boyfriend

who was also your boyfriend

and your mom is an AI

 

[Trent Dole]

Back when I was long distance dating the lady I ended up marrying she messaged me one day 'I just watched End of Evangelion. So that's what happens when too many of us tell you no.' Pretty much sums it up.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Too many of whom? Clones of your wife?

Anyway, I don't really like this legacy interpretation.

[helios]

[Tasty]

Can't wait for Disney to buy Eva's rights like with Ghibli.

[Kara]

(Image removed from quote.)

I am so copying this idea.

[Tasty]

[Mr. Nobody]

I've never watched this.

Do I really want to? 

[Kara]

I've never watched this.

Do I really want to? 

It's an amazing spectacle (especially with End of Evangelion), but to get to it you have to pick at a monster of the week anime.

[Rufus]

With decent action, to be fair.

[Phoenix Dark]

I've never watched this.

Do I really want to? 

I'm starting an official African Evangelican thread this weekend to mark my official first viewing of it. Might as well join the club.

[Kara]

With decent action, to be fair.

Sure, but in unexpected ways. No one expects mecha to have to use sniper rifles (outside Gundam inventing uses for GM models) or fights to occur off camera with a pilot is in a fugue state.

[Rufus]

Hm, you're right actually.There were a lot of unconventional fights. Among the unspectacular ones, I think Shinji screaming his head off with his schoolmates behind him was my personal highlight.

I was mostly thinking of EVA-01 rampaging. And Asuka going berserk, of course. That's like, what, 5 episodes? It's been a long time.

[Joe Molotov]

Asuka going berserk against the Mass Production EVAs was dope.

[Oblivion]

Since we're on the subject, why is Evangelion so popular?

Got one look at Shinji and immediately shut off the T.V.

[Rufus]

A lot of Shinjis in the audience.

[Great Rumbler]

There really wasn't anything else like it when it first came out, certainly not on TV.

A lot of Shinjis in the audience.

This, too.

[curly]

Since we're on the subject, why is Evangelion so popular?

Got one look at Shinji and immediately shut off the T.V.

Just putting aside plot and characters, it's really amazing on a basic level. Framing, editing, sound design. Some great fight scenes. An atmosphere that's so much more interesting than your typical TV anime. Even if you hate it, it's a landmark production.

But to answer your question, probably waifus

[Kara]

Real talk: the only women I've truly loved were fans of Eva.

tfw u grow up to be Gendo 

[OnlyRegret]

Real talk: the only women I've truly loved were fans of Eva.

tfw u grow up to be Gendo 

please be a parent

[toku]

[Tasty]

I feel like taking a shit-ton of molly and putting this on loop for four hours.

[chronovore]

I've never watched this.

Do I really want to? 

Not really.

It was a product of its time, and doesn't really hold up. The animation style is awesome, the angst is palpable, and there is plenty of doujinshi pr0n out there to deal with the urges that the entirety of the female cast was designed to stimulate. The final two episodes of the series are laughably bad, until one realizes that the previous 12 hours of viewing have led to this sad climax.

There are a bunch of movies where Anno re-does the ending, adding fake complexity to an already shaky foundation. I'm talking out my ass here, because I've never watched any of them, as I try not to fall victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

[toku]

[Tasty]

There's no way they'd keep the Japanese-sounding names though.

"Holo...graphic map"

[VomKriege]

I've never watched this.

Do I really want to? 

Not really.

It was a product of its time, and doesn't really hold up. The animation style is awesome, the angst is palpable, and there is plenty of doujinshi pr0n out there to deal with the urges that the entirety of the female cast was designed to stimulate. The final two episodes of the series are laughably bad, until one realizes that the previous 12 hours of viewing have led to this sad climax.

There are a bunch of movies where Anno re-does the ending, adding fake complexity to an already shaky foundation. I'm talking out my ass here, because I've never watched any of them, as I try not to fall victim to the sunk cost fallacy.

The End of Evangelion is actually a much simpler and spectacular conclusion to the series that the cheap-o-mindfuck they tried to pull at the end of the series. It drags on quite a bit, unfortunately, with a lot of "meta" stuff that might be lost without knowledge of the context, but I think it's the highest note they struck with this overall.

BTW, Khara has been on an hiring spree for animators lately, fourth "Final" movie of the Rebuild at last in production ?

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fuck you Anno.

[close]

[Great Rumbler]

End of Evangelion is worth watching at least once because of just how absolutely insane it is.

[recursivelyenumerable]

yeah there weren't really "a bunch of movies" - EoE was the only real movie (pre-Rebuild), the other one was more like a weird remix of bits of the TV series that served as a teaser/marketing gimmick for EoE. and looking at it in terms of whether it "fixes" the TV series ending kind of feels beside the point to me - to me it's an extraordinary film in its own right - but I maybe have a kind of skewed perspective on this having seen EoE (and watched it over and over) before ever watching any of the TV series (I've still only seen a few episodes)

[chronovore]

yeah there weren't really "a bunch of movies" - EoE was the only real movie (pre-Rebuild), the other one was more like a weird remix of bits of the TV series that served as a teaser/marketing gimmick for EoE. and looking at it in terms of whether it "fixes" the TV series ending kind of feels beside the point to me - to me it's an extraordinary film in its own right - but I maybe have a kind of skewed perspective on this having seen EoE (and watched it over and over) before ever watching any of the TV series (I've still only seen a few episodes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelion_movie

The phrase Evangelion movie could refer to any one of 7 films:

Death and Rebirth, the first of two animated feature films that serve as the conclusion to the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series
The End of Evangelion, the second of two animated films that serve as the conclusion to the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series
Untitled Evangelion Project, a live action film based on the anime series, announced in 2003
Rebuild of Evangelion, any of four animated feature films retelling the Neon Genesis Evangelion series and the DaR/EoE movie duology
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

Fast and Furious has 7 movies, too. Are you saying that's not "a bunch of movies"?

[Kara]

It's hard to really talk about End of Evangelion without talking about the public reaction to the end of the show. There's even a montage about it wedged in there.

Also, I can't be a parent, parents needing to be useful as support mechanisms in a variety of circumstances and my skillset consisting of crisis situation alone.

[VomKriege]

The phrase Evangelion movie could refer to any one of 7 films:

Death and Rebirth, the first of two animated feature films that serve as the conclusion to the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series
The End of Evangelion, the second of two animated films that serve as the conclusion to the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series
Untitled Evangelion Project, a live action film based on the anime series, announced in 2003
Rebuild of Evangelion, any of four animated feature films retelling the Neon Genesis Evangelion series and the DaR/EoE movie duology
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

Fast and Furious has 7 movies, too. Are you saying that's not "a bunch of movies"?

The live action thing was never made, to my knowledge, Death & Rebirth is 90% just a montage of series material. Honestly they were somewhat frugal with all this, probably due to the maddeningly low pacing of the reboot / new films (the 4th one will release at best 10 years after "You are (not) alone"...). They're milking it, tho, won't deny that.

[Trent Dole]

Hmm, I kind of wonder how a first viewing of Eva in 2016 would go. Watch it and do a play by play thread like that Blossom one.

[TVC15]

I've never watched this.

Do I really want to? 

No. It's a WOAT contender.

How could it be a WOAT contender when there is an entire anime subgenre called "harem?"

[chronovore]

Hmm, I kind of wonder how a first viewing of Eva in 2016 would go. Watch it and do a play by play thread like that Blossom one.

Please make this happen.

[TVC15]

Hmm, I kind of wonder how a first viewing of Eva in 2016 would go. Watch it and do a play by play thread like that Blossom one.

Please make this happen.

How did the Blossom thread go?  You cunts weren't trashing Blossom, were you? I'll leave.

[Tasty]

I've only seen the first two Rebuild movies, been meaning to go through the series + EoE for a while now.

[Joe Molotov]

Hmm, I kind of wonder how a first viewing of Eva in 2016 would go. Watch it and do a play by play thread like that Blossom one.

[Great Rumbler]

yeah there weren't really "a bunch of movies" - EoE was the only real movie (pre-Rebuild), the other one was more like a weird remix of bits of the TV series that served as a teaser/marketing gimmick for EoE. and looking at it in terms of whether it "fixes" the TV series ending kind of feels beside the point to me - to me it's an extraordinary film in its own right - but I maybe have a kind of skewed perspective on this having seen EoE (and watched it over and over) before ever watching any of the TV series (I've still only seen a few episodes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelion_movie

The phrase Evangelion movie could refer to any one of 7 films:

Death and Rebirth, the first of two animated feature films that serve as the conclusion to the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series
The End of Evangelion, the second of two animated films that serve as the conclusion to the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series
Untitled Evangelion Project, a live action film based on the anime series, announced in 2003
Rebuild of Evangelion, any of four animated feature films retelling the Neon Genesis Evangelion series and the DaR/EoE movie duology
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

Fast and Furious has 7 movies, too. Are you saying that's not "a bunch of movies"?

Death and Rebirth is just a series recap plus some scenes from EoE. The live-action movie is completely dead, so just forget about that. And the more recent four-movie series is its own separate thing and doesn't require having seen the series.

End of Evangelion is remake of the final two episodes of the series and a direct sequel to it.

[chronovore]

Death and Rebirth is just a series recap plus some scenes from EoE. The live-action movie is completely dead, so just forget about that. And the more recent four-movie series is its own separate thing and doesn't require having seen the series.

End of Evangelion is remake of the final two episodes of the series and a direct sequel to it.

My response was a thirty-second wikipedia copy-paste to counter recursivelynumerable's quote-mocking me that there weren't "a bunch of movies." So instead of seven movies, there were either five or six, depending on if you count the re-hash of EoE. I think it showed in theaters in Japan, so I'll count it.

If you end up making me care enough about this that I end up investing time in watching EoE, you will have achieved something special: a former anime fan living in anime land who doesn't give a flying fuck about anime any longer.

However, I do sadly care whether or not my correct statements are perceived as correct. I need to get over that.

Hmm, I kind of wonder how a first viewing of Eva in 2016 would go. Watch it and do a play by play thread like that Blossom one.

Please make this happen.

How did the Blossom thread go?  You cunts weren't trashing Blossom, were you? I'll leave.

Kara was as sincere as he has ever shown himself to be:
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42381.0

[recursivelyenumerable]

ahhhhhhhh I'm sorry I released such strife into the world ☹

[VomKriege]

a former anime fan living in anime land who doesn't give a flying fuck about anime any longer.

Heeeeh some of EoE tangents in the last act might be right up this alley. It's also a pretty brutal, dark movie (much more so than the series, if only because the graphical depiction is up a notch), so it's a good bucket if you're feeling edmo/edgy. Still, probably of little interest if you never at any point felt invested in the show.

Actually the best film if you have a passing familiarity with the show is probably the latest Rebuild "3.00 Q You can (not) redo". It's visually very appealling (Co directed by Tsurumaki, who did FLCL and Diebuster), over the top with some production value (a bombastic score), the plot is bonkers and go in fresh & weird directions so you're bound to be surprised. It's much less bloated than EoE (and fairly action packed) while remashing some of its visual flair and it's not necessary to see the first two "Rebuild" films if you have some familiarity with the TV show : don't worry, nobody understood the finer details yet, no matter how much of an Eva geek they are.

[seagrams hotsauce]

It's been the better part of two decades since I've watched it, kinda tempted to give it another go after seeing this thread

[T-Short]

It's been the better part of two decades since I've watched it, kinda tempted to give it another go after seeing this thread

same

[Phoenix Dark]

What's the easiest way to watch this for free 

[Joe Molotov]

What's the easiest way to watch this for free 

Steal it like the filthy pirate scum that you are.

[CatsCatsCats]

Watch G Gundam instead

[chronovore]

a former anime fan living in anime land who doesn't give a flying fuck about anime any longer.

Heeeeh some of EoE tangents in the last act might be right up this alley. It's also a pretty brutal, dark movie (much more so than the series, if only because the graphical depiction is up a notch), so it's a good bucket if you're feeling edmo/edgy. Still, probably of little interest if you never at any point felt invested in the show.

Actually the best film if you have a passing familiarity with the show is probably the latest Rebuild "3.00 Q You can (not) redo". It's visually very appealling (Co directed by Tsurumaki, who did FLCL and Diebuster), over the top with some production value (a bombastic score), the plot is bonkers and go in fresh & weird directions so you're bound to be surprised. It's much less bloated than EoE (and fairly action packed) while remashing some of its visual flair and it's not necessary to see the first two "Rebuild" films if you have some familiarity with the TV show : don't worry, nobody understood the finer details yet, no matter how much of an Eva geek they are.

:'(
I will end up cursing Vomkriege's name as well, if this thread rekindles my interest in anime. I've already managed to pour water on the fire by trying to watch Girls und Panzer at the behest of a friend who is even more into World of Tanks than I am.

Eva is available for free streaming on Amazon Prime.jp streaming, and my son has been watching it halfheartedly. But I noisily pissed all over the ending so much that he may have abandoned it.

I will probably eventually take you up on those movie recommendations though. Thanks? (CURSES)

ahhhhhhhh I'm sorry I released such strife into the world ☹

Don't worry; to me, you're still a precious, shining octagon.

[mormapope]

Evangelion is a solid contender for the most stylish turd laid out by man.