This episode came out the exact day I was born.

Is there anyone left on /a/ who actually watched Evangelion when it was airing? Could you even do that back then?

It must have been tough times without Horriblesubs helping the anime community thrive so much like it does today.

>>144374504
I remember seeing bits of it on adult swim in like 2004 I think.

>>144374351
does it also count as a metaphor for your existance?

>>144374351
In other words a mistake came out to the world that day, and it wasn't the episode.

>>144374351
Does anyone else think this design is far more aesthetically appealing than those creepy iguananoids Shinji and other use?

>>144374351
Good for you.

>>144374884
No. Eva have top tier designs and this thing is intended to look goofy as hell.

>>144374884
>far more aesthetically appealing
That's kind of the point. This is a slick shiny mecha (or robot, whatever), Evas are barely-restrained retarded monsters.

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>>144374976
You look goofy as hell.

>>144374884
>iguanaoids

topkek desu

Neat. 'Rei I' came out the exact day I was born.

>>144374351
Congratulations

>>144374884
No. It looks like a retarded porcupine.

>>144374351
Omedetou you shitstain, thanks for leaving your mark on the world!

>>144375459
Don't forget the Jet.

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This was possibly the highest-rated animoo when I was born.

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>>144374504
It was in the VHS era. It was a very different scene back then.

Some of us still exist.

>>144374504
I puked at your post but then again I'm not sure if it's softly trolling or not.
There's tons of us, maybe many have left the site already but evangelion wasn't that long ago, it's not like a random 60 yo who watched Heidi when it aired, that would be a true unicorn around here.

>>144374504
When it actually aired animu was incredibly niche and you basically got imported low-quality VHS rips with shitty subtitles months after it aired, if you got any subs at all

The first exposure to Evangelion in the US was the english subtitled VHS' released in 1998 by ADV. First TV broadcast was on Adult Swim in 2004, though episode 1 premiered during Toonami's famous giant robot week of 2003.

>>144374504
I am not quite sure if I saw it or not.
I think I remember seeing it on VOX (german TV), but my memory might be playing me.

>>144377649
>I puked at your post

Thank you, although I admit my bait has been getting stale and too transparent recently

Seriously though, it's always interesting hearing oldfags like this guy >>144378403
talk about back then. I'm ambivalent on whether I want to be here long enough to be able to talk about stuff like this in the future though.

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>>144375036
Jet Alone was conceived as a fucking dork. It's goofy cool but Yamashita's direct about intending it as something Evas and Angels would push over and steal lunch money from. The point was humans intending to save themselves with their own power and ingenuity and being badly out of their depth.

>>144381540
Fuck off. A completed battle ready hammer weilding JetAlone model could have held himself against at least typical angels and unit02. Even unit 01 struggled to stop it. Fuck nerve for tampering what could have been the savior of humanity.(if nerv only wanted to destroy angels to activate 3rd impact then why sis they hacked jetalone? Because they knew it would fuck them up good if they found out their plans.)

>>144381540
>being badly out of their depth.

It was sabotaged precisely because it might have succeeded. It had nothing to do with any sort of "depth."

RIP
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KnbLUNGSffw

>>144382266
A successful demonstration wouldn't have threatened Nerv, Seele were directing the UN money and they had more in mind for Project E than killing aliens. That was all Gendo.

>>144382997
The whole thing was probably a public relations stunt. The public might be bothered if there were a viable alternative to Eva that wasn't being used in any capacity.