I recently realized that pic related is my favorite movie. I

I've never found a film that so deeply delves into a cast of characters psyche like this, masterfully done

It had the benefit of one of the best telivison shows of all time to kickstart it though, not sure much could compare

>>51561265
Top pleb

You need to understand that the more intelligent a film is the harder it is to explain. You can discuss many western films with ease because they're so much simpler and 2 dimensional than much of what Japan makes.

End of Evangelion is Hideaki Anno's multifaceted social commentary and deconstruction of the mecha genre. Only the highly educated can realize the multiple layers of complexity, and actually be able to understand and appreciate such a highly intelligent masterpiece. Much unlike western media:

Vertigo is simpler than most slice of life anime. If this is you sceptic's idea of an intelligent film I laugh at you with pity.

Rosebud XDD is nothing compared to any of anno's stuff.

Kubric made ending of 2001 a space odyssey incoherent and it just didn't make sense without reading the book. Everything other was style over substance. Like anything from Kubrick.

I will give the west some credit though: Bresson, Tarkovsky, Godard, and Bergman have come close. But still, none of their works have managed to achieve the level of profoundness, intelligence, and depth found in End of Evangelion.

Things on the scale of evangelion require a class to be explained, not some random bloke on the internet with limited time. If you fail to see this I don't know how to make it any simpler anymore. The japanese are truly amazing,man. I mean look at their amazing history and culture.They have the best literature in the history of the world. So why are people surprised that they made the best movie ever?

I don't watch non-patrician weeaboo autistic anime, but this picture always gets to me. I have no idea what's happening, but it makes me pretty sad.

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>tasteless meme anime lover actually believes he can directly post at you with pasta or even at all

>>51561482
Honestly the film is great, why make a joke out of it?

>>51561250
Would this film have the same impact if I haven't seen the show?
I've been looking for more in the vein of 2001: A Space Odyssey

>>51561513
Then it's doing what it's supposed to. That's a really sad moment in the film. Well, actually, doesn't really happen in the movie. I suppose it happens after the ending. Anyway

>>51561536
Well, it would be tougher to understand because of events that happened in the show set up for the movie.
Don't be afraid to watch the show. It's GOAT even though they ran out of money towards the end.

I loved the show but I thought that EoE went a little over the top with the psychoanalysis. There is a point when it stops being interesting and just becomes obnoxious.

>>51561250
Synecdoche, New York

Stalker

>>51561536
No, dear god no

You MIGHT be able to appreciate the direction, but that's it.

Just watch the show, it's only 26 episodes (japanese ONLY no exceptions, the voice acting is legendary)

>>51561513
It's a powerful film and certainly the best animated film of all time

Maybe if you give it a chance you will understand, i've never had a film effect me emotionally as much as this did, and I work through the backlog every day

Judging by your taste/post

Donnie Darko should be right up your impressionable tween alley

>>51561595
I dunno, the psychoanalysis is pretty straightforward in the movie. The introspective scenes are also about 11 minutes out of 90 minutes.

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>>51561482
TL:DR

>>51561654

>It's a powerful film and certainly the best animated film of all time

Lol no. I'd take any of the Rebuild movies over this one, and I'd take any Miyazaki over those. There is a difference between exploring a character's mind and just running around screaming "look how deep I am" like EoE and the last few episodes of the show did.

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>>51561526
Is it pasta if took the photo myself?

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>>51561738
z0mg

>>51561691

Did you watch the show? Because if you watch the movie immediately after the show then it really seems redundant. It's not that I dislike the way they explored the characters minds, it's that they seemed like they kept doing it even after they had gone over everything they needed to.

>>51561676
Donnie Darko was fun but not much more to me and it had a nice atmosphere. It was a 7/10 for me.
>>51561482
Persona, 7th seal and Solaris (though the book is a looot better) are some of my favorites.

>>51561718
If you ACTUALLY prefer the lucased rebuilds over the masterful original then you are a lost cause.

I would have accepted Fantasia, Angels egg, or Plague dogs but Miyazaki films?

My brother has been watching a lot of film lately and I'd like for him to experience EoE. The problem is that he didn't grow up with anime so it's more difficult for him to watch it. Is it possible to summarize the show leading up to EoE so he can just watch EoE on its own? I know this is blasphemous but I'd really like for him to see EoE. He thought The Holy Mountain was weird; I'd like for him to experience Japanese weird.

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>>51561482
>You need to understand that the more intelligent a film is the harder it is to explain. You can discuss many western films with ease because they're so much simpler and 2 dimensional than much of what Japan makes.
Oh God please why did you do this...This pasta gets me every time

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>>51561766
You ever try collecting animation cels/production art? It's pretty fun

>>51561811
It's impossible for him to enjoy EoE without the show

If you want him to experience japanese weird watch House with him

>>51561808

The rebuilds (at least the first two) still manage to explore the characters effectively without detracting from the story. By the end of Eva and into EoE all I could think was "enough already I fucking get it".

And and yes, I like Miyazaki better than Eva, although I should specify that I really just mean Princess Mononoke.

>>51561783
Thing is the series ending ignored the plot/lore which is in the end also part of the story and I don't think ignoring it completely is fair. Also, the movie made it clear that Shinji accepts his individuality and this world in the end. Which was important for a series with the main theme being confronting reality.

>>51561718

I don't think it was trying to be deep, that's just what was in the director's head. Like a lot of Japanese art, Eva is about depression and social problems. Anno just chose to frame it all within an insane universe full of freaky imagery.

The movie even kind of points this out at the end. When Shinji is having that dream sequence and you see all those flashes of fucked up child doodles, apparently those were real drawings made by young kids with mental problems. That's what the whole series is supposed to be.

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do the right thing
by
spike lee

>>51561894
This might be interesting for someone who is interested in the differences between the rebuilds and the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfM3WjyCt8s

>>51561894
>The rebuilds (at least the first two) still manage to explore the characters effectively without detracting from the story. By the end of Eva and into EoE all I could think was "enough already I fucking get it".

The rebuilds were shit from the start, worse pacing, direction, coloration, characters, voice acting, plot, product placement out the ass, CGI shit etc

You obviously didn't get it if you think you knew everything before EoE

>And and yes, I like Miyazaki better than Eva, although I should specify that I really just mean Princess Mononoke

Now you've solidified youself as a TOTAL pleb, nausicaa does mononoke so much better, and it isn't even close to his best films (porco rosso, whisper of the heart)

>>51561718
you're gross

>>51561895
The series end and the film end is the same, from different perspectives

Did you not understand this?

>>51561903

I see where you're coming from, but I always prefer films that explore issues like that within the context of a story. The earlier episodes did that pretty well, but towards the end it became a lot more abstract from what was actually happening. That's why I like the Rebuild better, they still manage to explore the psyche of the characters while keeping it in the context of what's actually happening.

>>51561883
Shit. I don't know how to convince him that it's good. The first few episodes are super immature so he'll end up getting the wrong impression pretty quickly.

>>51561858
That's pretty rad, do you know what scene it's from?

>>51561250
Do you have to watch the show to understand the movie?

>>51561811
Ease him into animation with something like ghost in the shell or Akira first. Or maybe Angel's Egg, if he was down with Holy Mountain

>>51561992
Just tell him to trust you, it's a genre piece for the first half, and a deconstruction for the second half

>>51561976
I did, and?

>>51561955

>Now you've solidified youself as a TOTAL pleb, nausicaa does mononoke so much better, and it isn't even close to his best films (porco rosso, whisper of the heart)

I've only seen Mononoke and Spirited Away.

Also the plot of the Rebuild is the same up until 3.0 is it not?

Tokyo Tribe

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>>51561250
Is this a kind of stupid new 2patrician4u meme??

What the fuck evangelion is about?? I have watched some random chapters many years ago, and they were just robots fighting monsters...

>>51562016
Yes, dear god yes

>>51562016
yeah, but the show is really good too

>>51562044
>plot as primary element
ur-pleb

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>>51562000
The episode where shinji runs away, this is misato as she sees he didn't leave on the train

I always thought she was best girl so I shelled out big bucks for her, I have a lot of cels from other series but this is my only eva cel so far

Pic related is my true prize, if i could get a gunbuster cel i'd die happy

>>51562016
Yes, the show is great though. It'll get you hooked though. Just know that despite starting out somewhat light and action-focused in the beginning it will gradually change. But honestly the first parts were fun as well.

>>51562066
hes just like you, /b/ro!

>>51562016
Yeah. The show is definitely worth watching. I frequently thought about how I didn't want it to end while watching it. Both endings are extremely unique and avant-garde.

It's the type of series/movie that you wish you could watch for the first time all over again.

>>51562048
Maybe take two days and watch it for yourself?

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>>51562066

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>>51561250
that show is overrated.
Its about the "hard" life of Anno and some other religious stuff.
Also "give me a hug daddy, i need you!"
Fuck off and die.

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>>51562145

>>51562044
No it isn't, now it's obvious you have no opinion because you can't even remember what eva is about

>>51562105
I think it's actually from the Death version of that shot

Man, good luck though, I'd imagine gunbuster production memorabilia is pretty picked over by now.

>>51562158
Never had clinical depression detected

>>51562090

Well to be honest I didn't think the pacing was worse at all, although it had been a while since I've seen the original show. As for characters I'd also disagree. They're the same characters, only they don't lay down the psychoanalysis as thick, but they still do enough to make you understand how they think and why they are the way they are. The original show had a habit of going so far with its exploration of the characters that it got a little ridiculous.

I know this is gonna get a lot of flak for being a meme, but I always liked Wes Anderson's words on NGE when asked to recommend his favorite DVDs.
"This is a Japanese cartoon that is very difficult to describe and might not sound that great if I tried anyway. It is 24 episodes, and we watched them all in less than a week because you start to want to believe it's real. This could spawn something like Scientology."

>>51562176
Yeah it is, you can tell because it looks more on-model

>>51562145
>>51562167
Yeah yeah nadia was annos first soapbox before he had something interesting to say

Give him credit, his work on daicon and gunbuster is great

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>>51561858
I bought a Roger Smith and a Dio with sketch and a Kite cel with background of the bathroom fight scene. They were under $50. Hmm. Maybe Dio was $60. Or maybe still $40 due to shadow.

There was an EoE cel of Rei in full Whore of Babylon mode holding the red moon of souls at the same retailer. It was $900. I keep saying I want to save up for it.. but never do.

also..
IT WAS I DIO!

>>51562158
Believe it or not, a lot of people can relate to being sad and alone, but too scared to ask for help.

>>51562172

>No it isn't

Yes it is. Most of the scenes are fucking copy-pasted from the original show minus a few angel battles. The biggest change was the romance sub-plot between Shingi and Rei.

>>51562225
All of the characters besides shinji are puppets of their former selves, shadows. Rewatch eva and if you have any taste at all you'll see how much of an ass you sound like. Remember, you're defending the anime equivelent of the prequels right now

>>51562285
>SHINGI

FUCKING SHINGI

this conversation is over, i'd really help if you talked about things you actually know about

>this is the rebuild Audiance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlW8lFTMRWk

So many plebs ITT

There was such an intense feeling for me while watching this of fear that I've never really felt from a movie before. It's silly but the way they built it up for everything to work out then just immediately shred it all up and you watch every action of the end right in front of your eyes was horrifying. Nothing went right and I can't think of other movies that do that. Like hell when he's pinned up and screaming I thought there was never a more appropriate reaction to an event than that.

>>51561250
This is literally one of the worst fucking animes out there. Call me a pleb but I just don't see the appeal.

>>51563053
Thought provoking introspection? Guess you prefer explosions and tits huh?

>>51563053
It's okay for you to not like things, but for me the appeal isn't exactly the religous tones but how it's a force beyond anything of imagination. There was one angel that was a giant floating sphere containing an alternate universe that's just pure blackness. It's the same fear within me of watching the sun blow up in front of our eyes. knowing that it's all over and everythings coming to a close.

>>51561250
>Some of my other favorite films that come close to the level of how I like EoE would be Space Odyssey and Brazil.
IMDb top 250 kid tries to talk about movies.

>>51563613
Name a more patrician movie to satisfy his needs

Or have you not seen something as entry level as eva?

>>51563748
Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors, but he won't understand it anyway, as his knowledge about cinema seems to be very limited.

>I've never found a film that so deeply delves into a cast of characters psyche like this
Nearly every Bergman movie.

That scene where Misato goes looking for Shinji. She guns down several armed men with a pistol. She than finds Shinji about to be killed by a group of them and than she kills all, but one of them. She than puts the pistol up to him and echoes his words, "No hard feelings. and pulls the trigger.
That scene among others always stuck with me.

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Zooey as Misato. That's the role that will finally get her an Oscar... from her acting in the final movie of the trilogy, of course. It's gonna be LOTR style, will sweep the Oscars that year. And you get her cinematographer dad as a bonus. So we killed two birds with one plump-thighed stone :^)

>>51563748

Not that guy and it's not really helpful, but OP's post is kind of like a /lit/ or /mu/ film discussion (you know those ones they claim are so much better than /tv/), where they watch some entry level film or a less than ten year old anime film and say they've never "never found a film that so deeply delves into a cast of characters psyche like this". Last time I was on /lit/ there was a thread where some guy was saying he'd never seen a more artistic film than Leigh's Naked. It's a great film and all, but what the fuck kind of statement is that?

>>51564059
can jaden smith be shingi

>>51563613
Don't worry, maybe some day you'll be at the same level.

>>51563970
Look at the topic, he does know Bergman.

>>51564223
jason smith can be shangi

>>51563970
>Shadows of the Forgotten Ancestors
Try harder, I'm actually from Eastern Europe.

>>51564059
Angelina Jolie as Misato.

>>51564432
Why should I try harder?
>I'm from Eastern Europe
And? How does this change a thing?I doubt you know that much about Hutsul culture, considering they are rather a small ethnic group.
>>51564404
There is nothing about Bergman in his post.

>>51562021
I'll definitely check out Angel's Egg. I enjoyed The Holy Mountain as well so maybe I'll like it. He's watched Antichrist twice so I think he'll be able to handle just about anything I throw at him.

>>51564569
>so I think he'll be able to handle just about anything I throw at him
I doubt it. Try Brakhage.

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>>51564569
It's not that it's shocking or anything, but it's a very slow moving film with very little of what makes up a traditional narrative, it's more like a meditation.

Absolutely beautiful though.

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Asuka best evafu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQw05e26I-k

know I am gonna get stoned for this, but
What genre would you label EoE? drama? or avant garde or experimental or something?
what about the show?

>>51561250
Avatar, the best movie of all time that changed cinema forever.

>>51564840
Giant robot.

>>51564840
anime

>>51564223
but then how come Angels real when our mechas not real?

>>51564840
Psychological mecha

>>51564840
Kiddy shit or weeaboo trash.

But seriously, it's sci-fi, subgenre - mecha.

>>51561718
Even reddit can't handle your level of pleb.

>>51565000
>even reddit
True Film is better than this shithole.

>>51565020
>pretentious assholes
>ever better better than contrarian hipsters

>>51564543
>Hutsul culture
My ancestors on my mothers side are Hutsul and my father wrote a dissertation on Hutsul folklore art. Though I wasn't actually born in Ukraine. So basically to me that film is more entry-level than star wars and much more than brazil or eva (which hardly anyone I know has seen, unless I recommended it to them). Though I liked a lot, definitely sentimental for me. Sorry, for the "try harder" thing, I just reacted offensively to your post.
>Bergman
Not in the post but later on I mentioned Persona and as one of my favorite movies, I liked 7th seal quite a bit too.

>>51565053
>/tv/
>contrarian hipsters
Nope. /tv/ is a meme board. 90% of this board is about memes or the most mainstream movies.

>>51565068
And yet you enjoyed a childish mecha anime with archetypical characters acting like cretins.
Maybe it's just shit taste. Maybe more subtle depiction of human psyche is beyond your comprehension.

>>51565176
How is it childish? Because the characters are children? Because the show was originally aired at a time accessible to kids? That's rather silly. I'm interested in more personal themes like escapism and I'm definitely more interested in the future than in the past. If anything based on my post you could've suggested something like Solaris. Though I can say now that I didn't like it that much, though I loved the book.

>>51565239
Because the characters are archetypical and their emotions are depicted in a very unsubtle way. They are all children with very sad past, they explain all their feelings to the audience and the plot is about dumb robots fighting against aliens.

>>51565341
>robots
Congrats, you're retarded

I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die

>>51565424
Bio-mecha. There is no difference.

>>51565487
Well, there is, objectively

>>51562048

>What the fuck evangelion is about??

It's about a bunch of messed up people living together in a messed up world messing each other up.

The robot vs. giant monster parts are pretty much just helping move the plot along (but in a way that, in itself, is part of the plot; if you watch it, you'll get it).

Daily reminder that a faithful live action adaptation is near impossible

>japanese cast speaking japanese
>financing of an american sized budget
>kids that can pull oscar worthy performances, scream the kind of scream that chills your soul and exibit minute facial actions to be scrutinized by nerds for decades to come
>god tier CGI able to convey weight and scale, and to be able to make the fights as interesting as the hand drawn originals
>naked children, dead children
>6 or so movies so as not to cut content
>perfect blend of the TV end and EoE to get the full experience
>anno's blessing

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Gotta say, it's my favorite as well.

It strikes alot of cords. And on a more surface level, it was a pretty fucking fantastic finale on a scale that few stories I know of have equaled (in fact it's pretty much ruined me when it comes to finales to "big-stakes" stories).

>>51565937

Eh, what would be the point? We already have EoE animated. And they can't even do simple book adaptions right these days (looking at you, Hobbit); how are they going to do something like Evangelion? They'd cut and dumb everything down so the mainstream fucks will flock to it and put another dollar in their pockets.

>>51566055

For all the flaws (which I haven't actually analyzed...) 3.33 really put the pedal to the fucking medal when it came to this Armageddon shit.

>>51566109
I don't get why 3.0 was when everybody turned on rebuild, it was shit from the start

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>>51565937
It can be done

>>51566145
>can't speak fluent japanese
>will age considerably by the 6th movie
>can't come close to the performance needed

>>51566173
What does speaking Japanese have to do with anything? Japanese perform translated Shakespeare all the fuckin time with Japanese actors.

I thought /tv/ sperged the fuck out whenever EoE was mentioned.

These boards can really ebb and flow...

>>51566196
this

>>51566196
The story is heavily wrapped in japanese culture and set in japan

Would you have american actors playing japanese people? How would that go over?

The trouble is anime characters look white, so that would be most accurate visually...

>waste about 10 hours of my life watching that piece of shit cartoon series
>"oh my god, autists on the Internet tricked me into watching weebshit. What am I doing with my life"
>"wait a second, there's a movie?"
>watch it
>it's so brilliant it actually almost makes up for everything before it

Still ridiculous and adolescent, though. But it's the perfect culmination of the shows anxiety. It's a glorious, beautiful, sad mess.

>>51566272
Shitty opinion, the series is as good if not better

>>51566286
It's really really bad. It's an absolute shambles, staggering from pubescent weeb pandering to psychoanalysis so on the nose I think it literally made me laugh at one point

In fact EoE outright shits on the weeb pandering stuff right at the start with the whole masturbation scene. It's like the creators were feeling massive guilt and wanted to confess

The series has moments of genius, though. They're just far and few between

>>51566243
Asuka can't speak German convincingly.

I'd say set in future New York.

>>51566420
>liked EoE better
The ultimate pleb detector

>>51566468
>future new york
Aaaaand there goes the integrity of the adaptation

>>51566476
It just clearly is on every level

NGE is just miserable generic Mecha animu with some cool designs which suddenly shits the bed at the end and literally becomes a fucking step-by-step psychoanlysis of each character, complete with re-used animation

EoE is far more inventive and well-made m8

>>51566546

You know they ran out of budget for the last two episodes? Had to cobble that together; Anno hand-drew several parts as well, if I recall.

>>51566561
Yeah I know. doesn't make it any less shit

>>51566546
NGE starts off as a spectacular genre piece and morphs into an existential arthouse deconstruction

The direction, character design, voicework, plot, world design, action, music EVERYTHING is 10/10

You are coming from it as a non anime fan, so of course you reject over half of what made NGE spectacular, EoE was a proper sendoff, but without NGE its nothing

>>51561250
Pacific Rim

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I really liked NGE and EOE but didn't take anything away from the series and didn't fully understand everything that was happening. Should I watch it all again? it's been a few years

>>51566676
Yes, it's my favorite series and I didn't get much out of it until subsequent viewings

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>>51566676

It might take one or two views.

I certainly never got tired of rewatching EoE

>>51566676
Can't hurt to try

>>51566676
I watched it for the first time earlier this year and took quite a bit out of it. I've dealt with a lot of what Shinji dealt with and have been coping with horrible anxiety and depression for a couple years now. I also had a distant father who was more interested in his hobbies than me (bikes, cars, exercising). His explanation for his tireless exercise was because he wanted to be around for our family. Ironically, we wanted him around at that instant, not in 50 years. Obviously he did stuff like that because he enjoyed it; the health benefits were just a convenient excuse.

Anyway, my advice is to draw on your past experiences with depression, anxiety, or whatever else and use those memories to relate to the 2D drawings on the screen. After finishing it, I felt... less lonely knowing that someone else (Anno) has experienced similar depression, anxiety, and self-hatred.

>fuck anime!
>6gb of hentai

Shiggydiggy

>>51561482
Shut up you fucking weeb.
We don't allow big word posts here, only cunny and baneposting.

>>51566272
I wouldn't call it glorious and beautiful. It's a good film if you want to watch something made by a nerd with anxiety issues.
OP, if EoE is your favorite film then you are as childish as its author.

>>51567521

Why's that?

>>51567594
Because there are many simple, personal films like that made by people who aren't nerds raised on anime and sci-fi.
EoE is a defining film for the generation of Japanese nerds, but why would someone who isn't into anime be so enthralled by it is a mystery to me.
I can understand adults who identify with Benjamin from The Graduate, but Shinji is just a kid, I had similar thoughts like him when I was 13 or 14.

>>51561250
>so I'm not such a weeb
Thats what every weeaboo is saying

>I don't watch much anime
Sure nigger

>>51562048

I've only watched it once, but I took away it's about self-hate, how secure you with others and how that's affected by your past, and taking themes of social isolation and making them all spiritual. I didn't get the Christian symbolism though.

>>51564642
Seriously, there's a spoiler underneath here
why did asian jesus break the egg?

>>51568134
>Christian
It's mostly Jewish. Kabbalah is cool I guess. Evangelion is a mix of what the author finds cool (giant robots, kabbalah, ancient aliens) a statement about his self-diagnosed depression and social anxiety.

>>51562260
Voicing the Wind Rises I presume. Miyazaki is on the right at the end.
What's this from?

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>EoE thread on /tv/
>minimal anti-weebs shitting on it
What the actual fuck. Is Evangelion just recognized all over 4chan as good? I swear to fuck I've seen Eva threads on every board I've been to.

>>51561783
I kinda agree, the series ending was way better and it worked way better for a series like this, not to mention there was lot more ambiguity with what happened after the instrumentality and all, Shinji and Asuka on the beach scene just seemed so pointless, aside from the fap/strangling parallel.

>>51568411
4chan is full of weebs. It's not really surprising, isn't it?

>>51561952
it kinda feels like he's overanalysing the original NGE a bit

>>51561952
>>51568454
Nah m8, Demo-senpai just loves his Eva. Eva's one of those series that's really hard to overanalyze, because there's honestly a lot of levels you can enjoy it at. He's generally a pretty good critic of other animus, too.

>>51568411
well yeah that and berserk

>>51568481
>Berserk
No one talks about Berserk here. /tv/ loves Miyazaki.

>>51568472

>"animus"
>historical significance to 'Soul'
>Also a psychological term

3 meanings in 1.
3 in one -> Trascnendence -> Harmony -> Unity -> Divinity
Marriage of Metaphysics, Psychology, and Anime in 1 word.

Anon anagram for Anno.

NGE 2 confirmed.

>>51568411
>Star Wars
>celebrity gossip
>capeshit
>porn
>Hobbit
>memes
Evangelion fits right in.

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>>51568521
You caught me.

>>51568411
Ever since moot triggered Honk Impact people from every board have started to watch Evangelion, and the majority seemed to have liked it. Hence all the Eva threads everywhere.

>>51568411
EVA isn't weeaboo garbage

>>51568693
It's THE otaku anime.

>>51568708
And?

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>>51562285
>Shingi
>SH-ING-IEEE

>>51568864
It's the very definition of weeaboo garbage.

>>51566055
the world in rebuild is fucking weird.

>>51568955
I don't think you know what that word means.

>>51566468
can gendo be from brooklyn?

>>51568955
People don't like Evangelion because it's OMG SO JAPANESE KAWAII DESU, they like it because it's a great show.

Why some people pretend that parents love is something that every kid needs?

>>51562321
GET ON THE AVON SHINGI

>>51569037
Go to bed, Gendo.

>>51568521
>3 meanings in 1.
3.0+1.0?

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>>51569043

>>51569015
But it is SO JAPANESE KAWAII DESU. Evangelion has everything what makes Japanese popculture insufferable.

Aight I watches the series. What now? I knwo there are many movies. Do they tell different stories? Where should I start?


Please respond

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>>51569057
CAN'T SLEEP, EVA 01 WILL EAT ME

>>51569084

Gotta watch End of Evangelion. It's a good addition to the series. Some people say only watch End of Evangelion, and skip the last 2 episodes, but I like them both.

Then you can watch the Rebuilds if you want.

>>51569077
What?

Other than the stuff in Misato's apartment in the early episodes I have no idea what you're talking about

Any similar cartoons to evangelion?

>>51569015
This is not even bait. This is like taking a chair and calling it bait

>>51569151
I'm sorry, I meant to quote>>51569077

>>51569115
>>51569115
I'm talking about cliches and narrative conventions.
>big robots
>pointless religious symbolism
>convoluted retarded plot
>main characters are kids
>they all have sad past
All of this is common in Japanese animation, comics and video games.

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>>51561718
>I'd take any of the Rebuild movies over this one
holy fucking pleb

Evangelion fucking sucks

>>51569175
I bet you haven't even read the gnostic texts you ducking plebiscite.

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>>51569144
Space Runaway Ideon (1980). Evangelion did the same concept of having a living entity disguised as a giant robot. Also has similar ending of everyone dieing and becoming ghosts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5i3H-mgoTE

>>51564059
She could play slobby-roommate sex addict Misato extremely well.

She wouldn't be able to play 'shit is getting real' operations director Misato at all.

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I like the series but it's a little too monster of the week for me. I'll never understand how the gay angel was supposed to have any impact on the viewer if he's only around for one episode? Or somehow Toji survives EVA-01's chompers?

EoE is fantastic, yes, but the series leaves so much to be desired.

>>51569263
What's so patrician about gnosticism?

>>51568134
The JudeoChristian Symbolism is all flavor, there's no deeper meaning to it.

>>51569289
>fantastic
Not even top 500 material.

>>51569289

geyAngel mattered to me because I think he came in right when Shinji was at a major low point. He has just almost killed his friend and was about as alone, self-hating, and lost as his character had been at that point. The one thing that gave him a sense of purpose, happiness, satisfaction from his peers that he had felt neglacted by until piloting the Eva had just been perverted into something terrible.

Then, out of nowhere, came "gay angel" who genuinely made him feel happy again. Gave him one last desperate opportunity to connect with another human being and feel loved after being forsaken by everyone else, including himself.

Until the end, when he himself had to murder his last salvation, in a very similar fashion to the last time he hurt Toji.

>>51569341
for you

>>51561482
>Kubrick
>style over substance

descarted

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>>51569334
Yes.. and no.
It is devoid of its original JudeoChristian meaning. It does have meaning within the story of Shinji and his psychosexual development. It represents authority and higher power. The whole fighting angels or aliens sent from above / the moon / whatever is a part of it and all the crosses play a part of that.

I lucked out and took a Psych 101 course in high school reading Freud and Jung the semester before I saw Eva in an after school sci fi club.

>>51569384
>Freud and Jung
Outdated hacks. I'm sure Anno read them too. And only them.

>>51561482
I have never seen pretend patricianness of this level, disgraceful.

>>51569419
You've never seen this copypasta?

>>51569396

Regardless of his knowledge of Jung + Freud, his characters' behaviour is consistent with practical psychology, like Asuka setting up very high standards for herself, and then becoming devastated when she fails to meet them. She's a narcissistic perfectionist due to her need for approval and attention.

>>51569348
The only thing that I like about the entire episode is the end, not because it's the end of something I don't like but because it is actually complicated. He was inches away from completing his objective and could have done so very easily, but he gives up because he wants to. That's the plot point I find most interesting.

I still wish they'd have cut out the Toji arc, had Shinji/EVA-01 flip out and nearly kill or kill someone else and give us more gay angel. I might like gay angel if I got to know gay angel better, you know?

And how dumb is Gendo and the rest of NERV if they didn't know what the fuck they were dealing with when they got him? OH LOOK, A GIFT FROM SEALE, WHAT COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE? AND HE SYNCS UP WITH ALL THE EVAS WHEREAS THE REST OF THEM SUCK OUTSIDE THEIR OWN CUSTOM MOMRODS? Fuck, those people deserved to die way sooner than they did.

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>>51569396
Sorry I didn't get all Kübler-Ross and B.F. Skinner and Viktor Frankl on you.

Also, not everything Freud and Jung is outdated junk. Not everything of theirs should go in the trash.

I had a professor in college who was trained in the field of Psychoanalysis and he half joked they were the last of the neigh extinct Jedi Order.

>>51569437
>She's a narcissistic perfectionist due to her need for approval and attention
And her behavior is explained in the most over the top silly way possible.

>>51569445
>He was inches away from completing his objective
his objective was to return to adam, was it not?
it was lilith underground.

though embryotic Adam was in the building if I remember correctly

>>51561250
I don't get it. So the whiny brat decides to wish everyone into some soup of nothingness because of his feelings, only sparing the girl he wants to bang because of his penis?

>>51569478

>soup of nothingness
>not soup of happy-acceptance and love

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>>51561250
Do i have to watch the entire series before watching this?

>>51569504

You probably should since a good chunk of it is the conclusion to a series-worth of setups. Also, it helps to know what the characters are like and what they want, since a lot of the more symbolic stuff is very relevant to that.

>>51565341
The archetypes serve a purpose you know. Each character presents a different method people use to escape from the hardships of reality and from themselves.
> Robots and aliens
So what? What matters is the purpose and execution of those tropes.

I feel line you might be the kind of person that can provide an interesting recommendation but sucks at movie analysis in general.

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>>51569478
Soup of Nothingness
or
Soup of Everythingness

The LCL soup is just our bodies.
Giant naked Rei was collecting all our souls into an overmind. (Sup, Childhood's End.)

Shinji was going to determine to either destroy that by rejecting humanity for a destructive third impact or accept those around him for a constructive third impact.

Of course you can see how this plays into social commentary of Aspie otaku and them learning to step out of their little world and accept those around them.

>>51569478
no

everyone becomes soup because hand-fossil and fat jesus touch each other and become giant naked best girl and so this makes the thing that stops us being soup go on holiday so then he's in the soup like "shit so this soup makes me feel good but it's not real life where human interaction works properly and people can be cunts but also chose to be nice" so he makes giant naked best girl explode and then people get to pick whether or not to be soup or to come back to the real world
not so good girl decided after white nadia to come to life and so he strangles her to see shes real and that he isn't secretly still soup

brb, soup.

>>51569545
>Each character presents a different method people use to escape from the hardships of reality and from themselves
You can still do it in a more subtle way.
>>51569546
If all life comes from Lilith then why animals and plants didn't turn into LCL soup?

>>51569588
>If all life comes from Lilith then why animals and plants didn't turn into LCL soup?
they did.

did you not see how desolate the world was when he was with asuka at the end?

>>51569582
>whether or not to be soup or to come back to the real world
You mean a post-apocalyptic world.

>>51561482
>people still replying to this pasta unironically

>>51568134
The gnostic, kabbalic symbolism present searching for salvation and a perfect world as the ultimate form of escaping reality. People who are suffering often use religion as a pretext for their escapism.

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>>51568205
>>51564642
> Angel's Egg
Dunno if he was quite a Jesus figure even with the gun cross to bear. He was a soldier, right?

Also.. popping her egg? And she becomes a woman? Pretty sure the whole thing is about war and sex and death and loss of innocence.

>>51561250
This is the best evangelion AMV you'll ever see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZCx-XXtv0

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>>51569582
>brb soup
Now there's a meme I have not heard in a long time... a long time.

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>>51569693
That's not
http://youtube.com/watch?v=J5lvFCSbnbs

>>51564059
>not sexy
>not smart
>not tough
>shit tits
fuck zooey

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>>51564642
Thank you for this webm

take this in thanks

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>>51568881

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>>51569087
mfw I woke up to take a leak and now am in bed reading this thread on my mobile

>>51569341
There isn't even 500 good anime to begin with

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>>51569905
mfw you made me get out of bed to take this photo

>>51569504
EoE is the ending to the series.

>>51569928

But what are dreams?

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>>51569756
>Matching video to the lyrics instead of matching the video to the MOOD of the song.
I tire of this. It's why AMVs have stagnated for so long. You don't see REAL music videos doing that.

That AMV is okay but the other one posted outclasses it immeasurably. Why'd you post that, did you make it yourself? If so, good effort.

>>51570136

Cause humor. The whole point of comedy is that the bright nature of the song doesn't reflect the serious tone of Eva.

>>51564059
>>51564453
>>51569280
>White people as Misato.

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>>51570042
aha awesome, have any more?

>>51570216
It was alright but it's not the comedy sensation you make it out to be. You disappointed me, anon.

>>51569588
IT creates a contrast between the children and the adults. The Kids are very expressive but the adults less so. Just like how adults often never really deal with their trauma but just create a tougher more emotion-less shell around them.

Blurays coming in a few months, get hype!

>>51569604
Poor angels were just trying to take back their rightful home. Lillith and everything that spawned from it belonged on the moon. But Lillith,being a woman ,was shit at parking. So she landed on earth

>>51570648
I really wonder what an angel planet looks like

>>51570696
We'd have found out if lilith landed on the moon, given our proximity

can you imagine how scary that would have been for Neil Armstrong?

>"That's one small step for man, one giant--FUCKING FLYING OCTAHEDRON!?"

>>51569693
Wy won't this work for me?

>>51570810
u have the gay

>>51570810
MC Ride is too hardcore for your computer.

>>51569279
Seriously, the show aged like shit, it's boring because it's so repetitive, like Transformers G1. the story and characters are nothing like Evangelion aside hurr durr every one die in the end.

>>51566606
No NGE starts off as a boring power rangers-tier super robot bullshit-team hyper force fuck but with "these kids are really sad guys :(" bits now and again and kids being made to look really sexy for repressed nips to wank off to

Then it gets kind of interesting around the episode where Shinji gets locked in his robot. Like, some genuinely powerful emotional character stuff happens (Asuka being depressed and playing SEGA silently is literally the peak moment of genius in the entire series)

Then they cram a fucking retarded sub plot with Rysuke (?) that's embarassingly, excessively depressing and pointless

And then they run out of money and they drop all subtlety in the Freudian ideas. In fact it's really laughable how desperately they try to turn anime-genre concepts into metaphors for Oedipal shit. It just doesn't work.

EoE is more than just a decent send-off. It's actually the best parts of NGE (portrayal of anxiety and depression) fully realised. It's the ultimate film for confronting earth-shattering angst. For adolescents, mostly - but by some quirk that I can't decide is accident or genius it kind of appeals to the adult existential angst as well.

The show is an excessive shambles of anxiety and EoE is a ingeniously sculpted mass of that anxiety

"Without NGE it would be nothing" just isn't true. Sure you NEED to suffer through the shite that is NGE in order to watch it, but EoE is clearly superior and of its own. Just watch the opening scene. It's the ultimate spit in the face of NGE and its fans

>>51571526
Not only did you not understand NGE, you don't understand EoE either

Congratulations

>>51571644
Please explain all these things I'm too dumb to understand.

>>51571526
>Asuka being depressed and playing SEGA silently is literally the peak moment of genius in the entire series

This sounds so horrible.

>>51571692
>No NGE starts off as a boring power rangers-tier super robot bullshit-team hyper force fuck but with "these kids are really sad guys :(" bits now and again and kids being made to look really sexy for repressed nips to wank off to

The fact that you think this is what eva is about

I can understand if you're insecure normalfags will judge you or whatever because it's different, but blatently making up bullshit just to sound more "patrician" doesn't work.

The idea that EoE is a fuck you to the fans is stupid, sure anno makes a statement with comotose asuka, but the film itself has a happy ending mirroring the original ending (because both happened) and it's obvious he put in effort because he cared.

The film is the same quality as the show, you just are so stuck to your preconcieved notions of what anime is that anything playing with the tropes is KIDDY WEEABOO SHIT XD, fuck off, 2deep4u

>>51570776
I think you mean Adam. The moon was a product of Lilith crashing into earth. How or why Lilith was able to subdue Adam (who got here first) and/or his progeny is anyone's guess. At some point she seeded all cellular life on earth then crawled under Japan for an extended nap.

Adam's progeny is another story. You're right, they could chill on the moon if they wanted to. Chances are it would be after Second Impact though, so no dice on the Armstrong thing. Not to mention they pretty well were on task and SEELE was pretty aware of their numbered order. I would guess Adam's Dead Sea Scrolls contained an itemized list of his guftroop. Not sure tho.

>>51571845
The lance of longenous activates if more than one seed of life hits a planet

DUDE EMPTY JUDEOCHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM LMAO

>>51571940
Nobody but evageeks and american fans from the 90's will argue that point

Eva was never supposed to be a religious commentary

>>51571897
Yeah, that's right. Sort of sucks for Adam that the FARs programmed the spears to target either the closest seed or the paired seed if/when another landed.

>Super powerful being that shits out other super powerful beings lands
>Stretches out wings, opens the doors to Guf to let out some of his buddy's souls
>Sees a black moon falling in the distance
>This doesn't bode well
>His own spear wakes up and runs him through
>MILLIONS OF YEARS OF SLEEP
>Wake up to a bunch of filthy Lilin nips doing some kind of funky shit with your shit to make a funky super angel baby

I'd be pretty fucking pissed off too.

>>51571990
It doesn't have to criticize it, it just has to have meaningful symbolism, which it doesn't. It's like allusions to Judeochristian images exist but don't serve a purpose at all. Magnolia for instance, isn't great or anything but the raining frogs actually tied up and cemented the central theme really well.

>>51572147
It is there because it looks cool

It knows this, it never tries to act differently

Remember this is made by shinto buddhists for shinto buddists

>>51572147
This:
>>51569681

>>51572333
That's almost handwaving it and ultimately simplistic but I'll take it.

Because they use the prophecy trick to move the story. They have to add lots of religious bullshit to make viewer believe. Same as Matrix, they just want Neo as the chosen one, and it's just so empty with lots of religious nouns. Hurr durr my name is Trinity.

>>51571727
It's just the saddest thing. And it's brilliant

>>51571814
>the film is the same quality as the show

It just isn't

The show is inconsistent and flabby while the movie is actually well-constructed

Also I didn't say anything about "kiddy weeaboo shit". Why are you so insecure m8? Are you actually trying to argue that Evangelion isn't largely juvenile?

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>>51569690
I always saw the egg as faith, and breaking it was like trying to figure out faith and find real hard evidence to believe. I dunno, maybe I'm just going off the allusions to Noah, I'm not theologist.

>>51567004

Well maybe you should've started lifting with your dad, at least you wouldn't be a whiny ass flabby DYEL animefaggot

>>51572147
I dunno, Anon. Some of the things that are there are definetely thrown in there for shits and giggles, like the Tree of Life in Gendo's office or the Lance of Longinus, or the robots being called Evangelions, etc..
But crosses seem to be carrying some distinct symbolism in NGE: salvation, and the sacrifices made to acquire it(which, y'know, is the Christian meaning of the thing as well).
Whenever an Angel is destroyed, the explode into a laser cross: humanity has been saved from an angel attack. But all this saving ends up destroying all of Tokyo-3 and pretty much everyone's sanity and happiness. When Misato's father is dying in Second Impact and in his last moments puts her into that pod that preserves her life, he gives her that cross necklace. When Misato saves Shinji's life in EoE and dies for it, the last thing she does is give him that same cross necklace. When Third Impact takes place, EVA-01 becomes a cross, and all of humanity becomes LCL: it loses its individuality and becomes one.

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>>51568370
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, short documentary on Ghibli and Miyazaki

>>51573396
>the Tree of Life in Gendo's office
His desk is placed at Keter.

>>51572372
Well, I perceive escapism as the principal theme of eva and ultimately it's the reason behind the characters behavior and actions in most cases. I also thought it relates to the fact that all the seemingly mystical beings: angels/adam/lilith turn out be just extraterrestrials but most importantly beings of flesh and bone. Seele which is responsible for most of the religious sounding names is just deluded by their own esoteric and mystical beliefs. In a sense yes, the angels are meaningless but not to the the in-world characters.
Also, concerning the crosses:
>>51573396
The whole kabbalistic terminology ties into the fact that the angels are related to the origins of life on earth. We have adam and lilith in the beginning, Evas come from Adam (Eve came from the rib of Adam). Humans come from lilith because just like lilith they disobeyed God while Adam, yet got the tree of knowledge instead. Angels on the other hand are servants of god and thus poses the tree of life etc..
This again is only because Seele connected the dots this way. In the evaverse the might be some illuminati like group with mystical origins, possible related to the essenes (hence the dead sea scrolls). But as I've said their faith in salvation turns out to be just another form of escapism.

Of course, I might be looking to much into this. But I am a bit of a lore-fag and Eva despite being rather a compact "setting" gives me lots of material.