Why has Evangelion become so popular among normalfags within the past 2-3 years?
It wasn't always this way.
It was. It always has been. Just because you've only been watching anime for a couple of years doesn't make you a fucking expert on fucking fandoms mate.
>giving a fuck about what other people doI'm a faggot myself by replying
>>121932127
Are you high? Yes it was. Eva is and always was one of the most normalfag anime there is.
>>121932127
>in the past 2-3 years
The fuck are you talking about, It has been babbys first deep anime for the past 20 years
>>121932127
>talking like /a/ on social media
What.
Come on man, yes it was.
Any further popularity is from Tengen Toppa Gurren Evangelion 2.0
>>121932272
no youre a faggot for posting drive trash kill yourself faggot
>>121932127
Yes it was. It's the Japanese equivalent of Star Wars.
>>121932127
it's a 15 year old anime. why is it so bad that it becomes popular anyway? don't you want people to see good stuff?
inb4 hurr evangelion is shit guise
>>121932127
Two things:
Why should you care what other people like? Do you like it less because 'muh popularity' and stupid shit like that?
And yes, it has always been super popular among normalfags.
I am an Evafag and I am a normalfag too.
AMA. Yes, I have a gf.
>>121932422
>15 years
1995 was 35 years ago though
>>121932261
>>121932272
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>>121932394
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>>121932458
So are you guys okay with normalfags making up a huge part of Eva's fanbase? How many of you like Eva to be honest?
>>121932683
>35 years ago
Wat
>>121932606
reading a post like this is a breath of fresh air from all the angry virgins
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>>121932422
>/a/ in charge of simple arithmetic
>>121932744
>can't into basic math
Fuckign retard.
>>121932744
>>121932820
IT'S A MEME YOU DIP
>>121932703
Evangelion is as big as it is because of normalfags. The anime community is not large enough to make anything hugely successful.
>>121932703
>implying Eva deserves to have any fans at all, let alone fans with good taste
Fucking normies ruin everything
>>121932703
Yes I'm okay with it. The fanbase shouldn't fucking matter to you, the actual show should. You shouldn't give a damn if there are people who are 'normal' who like the anime. You're just being a cunt if it honestly alters your liking of the anime.
If you just realized that Eva is popular among normalfags, you should kill yourself. Just wait until Michael Bay fucks it up even more.
>>121932703
I don't give a shit about fanbases. Go back to tumblr if you do.
>>121932683
Is this some kind of in joke because I've seen this before a few times. Or are you John Titor?
>>121932703
>giving a shit about fanbases
Fuck off you piece of shit.
Fanbases are all cancer, especially outside of /a/ and especially for anime. Stop giving a shit.
>>121932951
Funnily enough, you keep seeing people here who dislike a show based on the fanbase. And quite a lot of them.
But yeah, Eva has always been normalfaggotry. /a/nons just keep saying "2deep4u" and "lurk moar" shit to make the anime seem like it's intellectual and only to be understood by PhD guys, but it was never, it is not, and will never be so.
The simple fact that it is the anime that saved the anime is pretty saying about the number of people it reached. If it had been obscure, nips wouldn't have given a shit.
That is, the whole "intellectual anime" is nothing but a shitty invention of /a/ to make themselves feel like they are watching clever stuff and create a gap with "pleb" shows (or shows they just don't like, if you prefer).
You know, the Bourgeois Gentilhomme type of old nostalgiafags, thinking they are more clever by trying to create dissensions within the community.
Why should we give a shit about the fanbase?
The people that work on Eva already do allot of weird crap to it.
>>121932127
>past 2-3 years
It was on Toonami for fuck's sake. It was always popular with normalfags.
>>121932127
She's right you know.
>most Eva threads consist of actual dialogue about the show; oldfags and newfags discussing their ideas and thoughts on the anime
>post shows someone outside of the speci/a/l club praising Eva
>suddenly everyone engages in hipster mode and starts shitposting and hating on Eva
Never ever change, /a/
>>121933633
she could remove five words and be even righter
>>121933203
>Go back to tumblr if you do.
Not him, but this comment is incredibly ironic. We do that all the fucking time, man. When someone complains about something on /a/ 50% of the time it's fanbases.
>>121933773
This became even more amusing when wouldn't you know it the very first thread I see when I went back to the catalog is >>121933168
Here's a the question
What would you do if Kaworu was a shota?This is from a real eva fanbook
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>>121933680
Hilarious
>>121934032
I would let the world die for him.
>>121933977
>>121934032
>>121934123
You fucker. You're in every eva thread spamming your homoerotafag pictures of Shinji and Kaworu.Never change.
>>121932127
It's always been really really popular
popular things tend to get watched by normalfag
It's not hard to figure out
>>121934370
Ok,but answer me this,what would you do with shota Kaworu kun?
Well at least it isn't Rebuild
>>121934601
>sele
>>121932127
>within the past 2-3 years
It's always been popular, but the rebuilds have also helped it (especially 3.0 with Kaworu)
>>121933369
I always find it ironic when people say Eva is 2deep5u.
It is. The anime is still being discussed, analyzed, and debated to this very day. Almost 20 years later. Name another anime like that. You probably can't.
/a/ has multiple, probably a dozen, threads a day on this anime alone. It generates discussion. Each thread ends up being different (except for the inevitable waifu war and shitposting battles), with people asking questions, making up theories, or just trying to recover from the emotional impact Eva has had on so many people.
Again, no other anime is like this. It's not just our secret club too.
It is deep. Obnoxiously so at many pointsbut I love that shit so it's a plus in my book.
>>121934685
It's a screen cap from one of the oddest Eva games,but it's still tame compared to anima.
Even though it has naked boy fighting.
http://youtu.be/byYoYuGn-bY
>>121934841
>The anime is still being discussed, analyzed, and debated to this very day
By the constant flow of new people and about new material. Go back to evageeks.com
>>121934841
The only thing that could be considered "deep" is the last 2 episodes, but it was irritating. Don't forget it's nothing but a way to do a make-up ending with a non-existent budget.
And it's only discussed because people keep creating threads instead of searching. There's also the big "What the fuck did I just watch?" meme that is being used by Evafags in order to use some space.
Latest topic I saw of the show was a waifu thread also. So intellectual and full of theories.
Don't pretend otherwise: Eva is still spoken about only because it has marked the oldfags and helped anime to recover.
There's nothing to discuss about it.
>>121932703
What the fuck do we do, revoke their official Eva fanbase membership card?
People will like things we do, whether we like it or not, they may not be drawn to it for the same reasons, but they still are.
>>121936239
>we
>namefag
Friendly reminder that you are part of those normalfags and that you don't belong here.
>>121936239
No one is taking my membership card away!
>>121932804
[+1]
>>121932703
you forgot you're picture bro
>>121933085
A future where Micheal Bay and Evangelion collide is not a future I want to be alive for.
>caring what normals like
>not just watching whatever
OP, you must be pretty otakool huh? What kind of other obscure shows do you watch?
>>121936703
Misato is now the MC and the Eva's can now talk
>>121936826
Lucky Star, Trigun, and Attack on Titan :^)
>>121936859
Shit that's tame.
I mean this is a guy who somehow managed to make a show originally meant to sell plastic toys seem even more empty and shallow.
>>121932703
I actually am okay with it because the normalfag Eva fans always flag themselves by buying into the 3deep5you shit seriously, making it easier to avoid them. They're fucking annoying but it doesn't stop my love of Eva. It's a very fun mecha show.
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>>121937045
>It's a very fun mecha show.
There are a lot of words I would use to describe NGE. Fun is not one of them.
>>121937023
I didn't think of anymore to say at the time.
>set in America now
>Shinji is played by Channing tatum
>All of a sudden Kaworu is now Shinji's childhood friend played by Jonah Hill
>Stanley tucci is Gendo
>Asuka is a tough 20 something army woman who hits on Shinji
>Pizza hut
>>121937045
>eva
>fun
What the hell?
>>121937045
>fun
wat
>>121932127
>You need to kill yourself
Sounds like a typical anon.
>>121937235
>>121937345
>>121937375
Not the same anon, but the second arc is fun (episodes 8-15).
Overall, not really.
>>121937089
>kill la kike reaction image
Not surprised you think that that constitutes bait. I've actually met evageeks-type people in real life and they're the most pretentious annoying motherfuckers you will ever meet.
They're also the first motherfuckers to overlook the actual themes of the show in favor of the religious symbolism bullshit and making other shit up like dumb liberal arts students.
>>121937235
>>121937345
>>121937375
I had a lot of fun seeing the series develop into a campy episodic monster of the week show with some sinister shit going on in the background only to have it go into maximum suffering after Ambivalence. Why are you even watching a show if you're not having fun?
Women.
The recent movies were marketed to women (AKA normalfags) by making them as gay as possible with Shinji and Kaworu flirting for an hour straight. So then the girls reblog eva pics on tumblr and twitter and get their boyfriends (non-virgins men, meaning they're normies too) to watch the movies with them, and like maybe 30% of their boyfriends will enjoy it too.
>>121937556
This is the 3rd Impact of bait.
Evangelion is one of most popular anime of all time, top 10 at the very least, how is this remotely surprising?
>>121937556
Fair enough, the monster of the week stuff is fun for awhile. After that second arc though, I would use "engaging" rather than fun.
>>121932127
>It wasn't always this way
Yes it was.
>>121937556
Holy shit.
>join a debate club
>the president posts GJ-bu gifs on the group's Facebook page
>>121932127
Yes it has been. The real question is why does it even matter.
>>121932703
>>121932127
Shut the fuck up. You faggots don't give a flying fuck about anime as an art form. You just want something to flaunt, like a fucking Rolex or some shit. Get the fuck out of here.
>>121937317
>Misato is now a sassy black woman who don't need no man
>pen-pen is now a talking chihuahua
>Seele and NERV are now the US government and a US army division respectively
>>121933369
>Funnily enough, you keep seeing people here who dislike a show based on the fanbase.
These people are communists.
>>121932127
Is amber_nikolee some random bitch from your fcebook?
There is nothing wrong with that. I'm glad that people take time away from Facebook and The Walking Dead to actually expand their horizons occasionally.
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>>121938065
>>>/evageeks/
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>>121932127
Eva's always been popular, even with those not interested in the anime community, hell when it first aired HOUSEWIFES of all things were watching and discussing it.
>muh normalfags
>WE
>unwarranted sense of self-importance
Who let /r9k/ out of their ghetto?
TIME TO SETTLE THE DEBATE
HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE EVANGELION
>>121938842
Evangerionu
>>121938842
ee-van-jell-ee-un
>>121938842
evanyeelyon
>>121938798
Has anyone made some dank Pepe/Wojak OC about Evangelion
with Pepe as Kaworu and Wojak as Shinji
>>121938942
Pepe/Wojak are old and busted anon.
>>121938974
Thinking about it EVA would make for some goodpoopoopeepee
>>121938842
>>121937609
If he enjoys Shinji and Kaworu flirting he's not really her boyfriend, or won't be soon enough.
>>121937556
I generally watch shows to have fun, but with Evangelion, I slowly stopped having fun throughout the series and it turned into actual suffering by the end. I still think it was great show tho.
>>121938842
Have a gay lion.
>>121938673
10/10
>>121940053
>If he enjoys Shinji and Kaworu flirting
>>121937609
>he hasn't read Ikari Raising Project
Nigga, you ain't seen anything.
>>121938842
エヴァンゲリオン
>>121940264
>he hasn't PLAYED Ikari Raising Project
>>121937609
I showed my gf all of Eva, and she hated the gay undertones in 3.0 when we got to the Rebuilds.
>>121938358
>anime
>art form
I am not sure if you are bait or genuine, but you are asking for this.
>>121932385
> he can't handle le memes
>>121940374
>Animation
>Not art
Art is art, regardless of its quality.
>People advocating suicide on Facebook.
Why do this? Your employer and family members are reading that shit.
>>121940423
>being this insecure
in the west the same depression hits now that hit japan back when NGE came out.
>>121932703
Eva has always been popular among normalfags. It's like you complaining people like Dragonball Z. It's retarded and you reek of new.
>>121940416
Brb.
I will go draw a dick on paper and sell it for 2 million eurodollars.
>>121940465
It's called tact, /a/non, and while it's not applicable to /a/ for the most part in real life it's kind of important to not make yourself look like a autistic asshole.
I have never seen it
>>121936521
My membership card is better than yours.