Why didn't he hold her?
CAUSE HE'S A PUSSY
Why would he want to hold her when all she does is lash out at him for stuff that isn't even his fault?
He sort of does.
>>120439790
Because shonj is nearly unable to interact normally with other people, also Asuka seems to be the type of person who expects you to already know what she wants, even if she doesn't tell you.
>>120439790
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog%27s_dilemma
>>120439790
Because she'd kill him. She's fucking psychotic.
>>120440187
That's wrong though.
>>120439790
>mfw Shinji never brought down the impenetrable walls of Jericho
>>120440365
Some walls should stay up, solitary, as a monument of things to avoid.
>>120439790
>Has a date with a medical student
>Blows it off so she cannotreceive affection from some anti-social kid.
Asuka's existence is pure pandering. Pretty, popular girls with issues fuck Chads as much as possible
Because he's a social retard who has not idea how to comfort people, plus Asuka would hit him if he tried to hold her anyway
They just continually hurt each other with there social unawareness
>>120440592
Why is Yoko embarrassed to be wearing more clothing?
>>120440592
>missing the entire point of Asuka's character
>>120440749
You mean fap-bait? I addressed that when I mentioned "pandering"
>>120440725
Probably because of how tightly it all fits. If you'd ever worn latex, you'd understand.
>>120440957
Yeah, go be buthurt somewhere else.
>>120440725
I think it's more like "This doesn't suit me at all."
>>120440957
>>120439790
But he did hold her
Becauseshinyi is a cuck god______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
>>120440186
>>120441458
Anno just has a choking fetish, these scenes had absolutely no meaning whatsoever.
>>120440957
>>120441005
>>120441098
Rei empirically fucking sucks.
~moot, 2004-2015.
>>120441646
Clearly.
>>120441656
As expected of The King of Cucks.
>>120441656
>2004
You fucked up.
>>120441005
By all means, explain to me what she contributes other than a tsundere-with-a-loser-fetish demeanor for wish-fulfillment, a tight little body in revealing clothing for fapping, and psychological torture porn, for further fapping.
As for your image, Rei is no better
>>120439790
>willfully touching Asuka
Probably because he wasn't wearing gloves.
>>120439790
Because he has such a negative self-image that he can't even consider the fact that she has any interest in him at all, so he assumes she's fucking with him.
>>120441850
>By all means, explain to me what she contributes
She is "the other", the only character that isn't a part of Shinji's psyche.
Rei is the anima, Misato is the surrogate-mother, Kaworu is the ego-ideal. Things like this tend to go over the heads of idiots like yourself
>>120440592
I always got the impression asuka only liked shinji because of the "we're in the same boat" effect. Like she's going to be able to open up to some random uninvolved fuck who doesn't understand the pressure of fighting to save the japan on a regular basis
>>120440131
So she is like an average woman?
"I want asuka to crush my balls"
-moot, 1889-2015
>>120442213
He looked good for a guy that's over 100
>>120442008
>rei isn't the mother
>misato isn't the lover
>kaworu isn't the anima
>asuka isn't the ego
I guess it was to deep for a retard like you.
>>120442278
>not knowing that moot is actually hitler and used nazi tech to gain immortality and change his dna to look like a different person
>>120442286
>kaworu isn't the anima
>male
>anima
>Rei the mother of all mankind isn't the anima
Nope anon, the retard is you
>>120442355
It's not as if a work of art can be interpreted in a number of different ways.
>>120442411
Digging that hole even further. Some things are just plain wrong like Shinji being a little brown African girl from Atlantis.
>>120442327
>change his DNA
Seems like it would be easier to just get surgery to change his face.
>>120442517
I'm not even that guy Anon.
>>120442008
Please, stop taking the George Lucas of anime so seriously. We're talking about a guy who randomly threw a bunch of Christianity symbolism into his show solely because it "looks cool." Just because he took Psychology 101 doesn't mean he knows how to properly apply these concepts to his characters.
NGE is popular for two reasons: impressive choreography and fappable girls. The writing was pure garbage, but pseudo-intellectuals like to pretend it had a deeper meaning to justify their obsession with masturbating to 14-year-old girls
Because Shinji is a fucking whiny-ass faggot with a limp dick.
>This psyche theory shit.
Shinji and Asuka are meant to be two people who have enough in common to want to understand each other, but don't, which leads to frustration and pain.
They both obviously like each other, but since neither of them can pick up on that and interact properly, shit goes south.
That's really fucking it.
>>120442670
>I know nothing about Gnosticism, the Mystery Schools or Psychology so I will pretend NGE had no deeper meaning
>>120442766
Couple it with ad hominem attacks and projection.
>>120441646
I thought Shinji was just scared and not really thinking and that was kind of a reflex because he was scared of Asuka after everything that happened.
It still seems like an odd place to end everything. 'Congratulations!' felt like proper closure, while EoE just sort of stops with dozens of things left hanging.
>>120442032
That's a valid point, as encountering crises with another person has been shown to increase attraction, but /r9k/ is full of guys who moan about "that childhood friend who cried in my arms when her parents got a divorce soon after my own did doesn't want to date me"
>>120442871
Congratulations takes place during the EoE Instrumentality, Shinji choking Asuka was his destructive impulses going out of control.
The thing is even if you come to the realization that you should love yourself, that doesn't mean that the real world changes. And that's why you have One More Final