Holy shit what is the point of this character

What's the point of a transparency that only looks good on light backgrounds?

>>149595390

Porn.

Waifubait. Just like Asuka. Rei is the only relevant character in NGE.

>>149595390
Create possible Yuri since Shinji is full fag, sad it took me years to realise it.

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>>149595390
she fulfills the role of lesbian rapist

>>149595390
porn

>>149595467
Stop using tomorrow.

>>149595692
It's easier on the eyes.

>>149595390

I don't know, finally a heroine that ain't utter shit in the franchise?

>>149595390
she just gets really high all the time

hence why she's so skinny and her going berserk is so odd.

An insert made to see whether or not idiots would continue to watch Evangelion long past the clear transmission of its original message

>>149596240
there was no real message

it's called 'rebuild of evangelion' for a reason

>>149596240
>the message of Evangelion
Holy shit it's a show about giant robots and space monsters, filling it with depression and religious imagery does not make it any deeper
I liked it too but it's as shallow as they come

>>149596312
very true

that'd be why you understand it so well

>>149596312
2deep4u

>>149595390
ass and titties

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>>149595390
She is sexy

>>149595390
MERCHANDISING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQEVgbMqq7o

When I first saw her art (this was before the movies were out), I thought that they'd just rule 63ed Shinji. You couldn't make him wimpier, and it makes the product more marketable. It changes the relationship dynamics, because everyone is nicer to girls, but the romance options just shift (to arguably less creepy choices).

Instead, they just added an unnecessary character. Or more likely, one whose significance didn't come to play in the first movie. Or, as it turns out, in the second, or the third.

>>149595390
Holy shit what is the point of this anime

So Asuka has someone to banter with when Rei and Shinji run off

>>149597213
not far off, more a character was just needed to fill a gap. with only three characters it was hard to have a lot of relationship dynamics

with misato lacking as a main character due to her actually have a job to do rather than just 'protect these motherfuckers', another character was needed to fill in a hole that was lacking

merchandising, yes, how else would money be made, but even then people still idolise the other characters over mari is because they struggle to connect with her persona

also the rebuilds aren't finished so people are discussing possibiities of characters etc

but her significance is irrelevant, all of the characters are just as significant as one another - they all have different things to do within the universe.

easy way to describe it is shinji & rei are first line defense whereas kaworu and asuka are first line attack. mari fitting somewhere inbetween.

>>149595390
sex and porn

>>149595390
>She actually was lesbo for Yui
>That scene where she sniffs Shinji for the scent of LCL gets a whole new meaning
That alone was amusing enough for me.

>>149597254
hardly, but kinda. they're pretty much always in contact, asuka just wants to fuck off from shinji constantly cos he annoys the crap out of her

>>149597302
she gets high off of shinji and shinji's lcl is different. plus for some reason he doesn't fucking shower. just because he stares over the red seas doesn't mean he hasn't become someone he isn't

i said this earlier.

>>149597218
to try and describe the inhumanity that is humanity. but even that's subtextually laden in the opening being "a cruel angels thesis' and the ending being 'fly me to the moon'

fly me to the moon being different every time being partially different

wait until the next rebuild

>>149597300
idk people just make that shit

we just need a teary red eyes for like nadia or something

>>149595390
Convienent plot device, I guess? Maybe not even that.

>>149595390
Fanservice

>>149597537
convenience - not so much. moreso rei is pretty much alone in being the only girl who can pilot an eva badly

>>149597541
already adressed but isn't the 3dcg good enough

>>149597295
Yes, but what does she bring to the story that no other character can do?

As far as I can tell, she just knows more about Unit 02 and the EVA project than the other pilots do (until Kaoru comes on scene). That's an excuse to add some content, like the prototype EVA she pilots the one time and Unit 02's beast mode. But that content isn't vital to the story. It looks cool, it gives them more figures to sell, but it doesn't add anything important.

Which is why I'm suspecting she's important, but how will only come into play in the 4th movie. It's something that was thought of after the original series, something really new. Otherwise it's nothing at all, and she's only there to increase headcount, and I've been trolled.

>>149597612
The manga already made it clear which side of the speculation table is clear.

>>149597612
unit 2's 'beast mode' isn't so much beast mode more just the true form of her

and she doesn't know more, she's just more willing to express that she knows more than say asuka, genji kaworu or shinji. she pilots the prototype eva cos she realised 'oh shit i can design these' and she just does and it gets fucking destroyed

because she realised 'i am not the be all that ends all' and seele are just sitting on the backfoot confused as to why her sideproject didn't work

seele feel a lot more in control than they are

but yeah she's gonna be in the next one, she's important but she's a creative pawn

>>149597729
not really. the manga is its own thing

do not conflate the two. they are different series. as are the rebuilds and soforth

>>149597218
EVA is a drama about flawed people struggling (and often failing) to create self-esteem and a sense of belonging through work and interpersonal relationships. The giant robot stuff drives the plot, but the story as a whole is really about acceptance and rejection. Or longing and regret, the future-progression and past-progression of those drives.

>>149597363
>>149597808
>thats what evafags actually believe

>>149597808
no

flawed people? yes. everyone is flawed and to 'create self-esteem' is a misnomer to the second degree.

it's a story about people, and not really. everything's a story about people in a situation, if you want to know what it's about follow the people not the insignificant nonsense that is introspection about entities outside the conscious sphere

acceptance and dismissal, not rejection. entirely a different plot device and not something that would be used effectively. rejection hurts, dismissal is the antithesis of acceptance to a degree.

longing/regret, nonsensical but the regret they feel over 'i could've done more' is ridiculous

>>149597871
Want to know how I can tell that's weak bait? Because you didn't offer a counter. You imply that's not how it is, but you didn't offer your version. Because you don't have one.

How about a less polite version:
EVA is an anime about defective people who fuck up everything in their lives and then whine about it. Fuck philosophical meaning and character development, watch it for the awesome biomech-versus-alien battles.

>>149598004
that's good if you don't like to think, just follow this guy into battle im sure he can counter you with his lovely swordsmanship he learned from the cool asf cj in berserk

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>>149597967
>everyone is flawed
These people more than most. They have serious trouble forming and maintaining relationships based on something other than shared goals.

>create self-esteem is a misnomer
Shinji is desperately trying to find reasons to like himself, to feel he has worth as a person, to feel that he's valued by others.

>acceptance and dismissal, not rejection
I meant rejection, as in pushing people away. Gendo keeping Shinji at arm's length, the humans fighting against the Angels, Asuka's tsundere personality and Rei's cold one, Misato viewing Shinji as a little brother to tease rather than a love interest.

>>149595390

BOING BOING

>>149598144
yes, it's called having a job where they have to protect their city yet still atten school

correct on shinji, but less abut value - more about his lack of direction and lack of his parent/s believing in him. misato playing as his mother is a lead into this

gendo keeps shinji at arms length because he's a tool to be used rather than a child.

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>>149595390
She had a better role in earlier drafts

>>149598232
They're probably going to reuse that for the next Rebuild movie.

>>149595390
Selling merch to pathetic nerds.

I haven't watched the rebuilds but why do they need another pilot? If they really need another pilot couldn't they just give toji an expanded role?

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>>149595390
originally unit 2 just went straight berserk. no beast mode.

Anno knows his fanbase. That's why he created a new character people could fap to. Because surely fapping to Rei or Askua must have become a bore by now.

>>149598232
>>149598262
ty

>>149598307
unit 2 is weird though, i don't know where this beast mode shit came from though

>>149598305
cos toji's a manipulative dick

watch nadia

>>149595390
Asuka's love interest.

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>>149598343
must have been someone on the team, not Anno,(he drew that pic)

Unit1 ran normally, the naruto running was added later

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>>149595467
You can put it on a variety of light backgrounds?

Retards

>>149598384
yeah it was someone else.

and the naruto running is just cos shinji's shinji

he's like half autist or something i don't know. shinji is shinji, his character is like up for debate by design. i can't work out shinji cos he's meant to be anyone who would be shoved into that situation

with a father who just wants him to be a tool, a girl who doesnt know him and just keeps fucking dying, a girl called asuka who shows up and just one ups him constantly and some guy who shows up and he's suddenly gay for cos unlike asuka he'll actually talk to him until he realises that all shinji fucking does is function

>>149598401
#cult

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>>149598495
/me thumbs up

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>>149598372

Go to the 19 Minute mark.

https://youtu.be/7he_vPuVBK0

WC (Wet Children) by pinvise is OBJECTIVLY the best Mari doujin.

Prove me wrong.

>>149598600
>Prove me wrong.
try this,
(CT14) [Digital Lover (Nakajima Yuka)] D.L.Action 49 (Neon Genesis Evangelion) [English]

http://g.e-hentai.org/g/542472/975c8b9e45/

>>149595390
she has one of the best smugs in anime history

>>149595467
ask moot why thumbnails are converted to .jpgs with no transparency

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>>149595390
>I've said this before, might as well sat it again.

Mari originally was more involved in the plot for 2.0. According to (Eva-2.0 Complete records collection)
A 200+page book containing; behind the scenes information, original drafts, scene panels detailing alternative/deleted segments, ect....


(POTENTIAL SPOILERS)


Originally Mari was going to be introduced by piloting Eva-2 at sea fighting an angel on battleships, Mari/Kaji are both introduced to the cast while Asuka arrives later by plane, both Mari and Asuka pilot Unit-2 with Asuka being its designated pilot , referring to Mari as her "support fire"(later used in 3.0)
Eventually Mari with a higher sync ratio with Unit-2 than Asuka becomes its main pilot during the 9th angel attack, leaving Asuka devastated not piloting Eva (NGE style) Asuka then jumps at the chance to pilot unit-3.(o_o)
Mari talks with all the pilots, goes to the school, Convinces Shinji (face to face) to pilot Unit-1 during the 10th angel attack at the watermelon field; kissing him...

The script was later remade (again) to what we have now.

It is also worth mentioning that Asuka was originally in unit-2 during the 10th angel attack. (In the first or second draft for 2.0.)
It explains why during the Zeruel battle (when it hits unit-2 a second time) the camera zoom's towards Mari's left eye (implying it getting hit), yet later we see that it's the right side of her face that's injured.---Originally Asuka was in Mari's place and the scene showed how she lost her eye. The aforementioned scene was a recycled element from the earlier draft-and the animators just forgot (or were lazy) to edit the scene.


It wouldn't be Evangelion if the production wasn't chaotic.

>>149598940
How are there in any way similar?
One is big plane, the other has birl looking wings, two more "limbs" that go forward, tail and 3 satellite dishes

>>149600299
See>>149598558

Go to the 19 Minute mark.

https://youtu.be/7he_vPuVBK0 [Embed]

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>>149598372
>nadia
and yes both are descending below a dead city..

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So we're giving up on the 4th movie, right?

>>149600909
Never give up, Anon. Just don't have high hopes unless you're willing to suffer disappointment.

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>>149595390
Turns out Anno was a hack all along and he doesn't have more to steal, you can call it "chaotic production", "2deep4u" or whatever you want.


>>149600909
I'm giving up anime as a whole, more than 19 years watching anime and still I can't find something to "really like".

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>>149595390

I would imagine she will play a major role in 3.0 + 1.0, given that:

>she's one of the original EVA pilots along with Yui (as seen in the picture where Shinji is a baby)
>she has a vast knowledge of EVA's and their abilities (such as the beast mode)
>she clearly has some sort of plan going on, given the opening of 2.22
>she apparently has a deep understanding of SEELE and what they're doing
>she'll likely play a critical role in making Shinji not a vegetable (as in, talk to him about his mom, and come up with some crack theory on how to get her/Rei back out of 01)

>>149597612
>As far as I can tell, she just knows more about Unit 02 and the EVA project than the other pilots do (until Kaoru comes on scene).
Euro gave her authorization to pilot it. That's why she has the access codes. Asuka probably does too but there's no point where Beast Mode ever would have been useful before then.

>>149598305
Even Gainax hated Toji. He had even less merch than Shinji.

>>149599093
I'm glad they cut that first part out of the script. It sounds really stupid.

>>149603365
I'm glad they cut that first part out of the script. It sounds really stupid.

what part exactly?

All shippers should just die.

>>149595390
The entire idea is that she's this character who clearly doesn't fit into Eva. Everything about her is wrong.

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>>149608481
>she's this character who clearly doesn't fit into Eva
Wrong

>>149608822
how many people here actually watched Space Runaway Ideon?

https://youtu.be/TIcYvE231q8

>>149596312
>the message of Citizen Kane
Holy shit it's a film about a spoiled rich old fuck, direction and composition don't make it any more kino

>>149596312

edgy