Why was he so beta? >boohoo muh dad muh depression Depression

>>150220252
He's gay.

His dad didn't give a shit about him and that hurt him, he made him get in the fucking robot, but he only hurt others when piloting and blah blah blah
Daddy issues, same story with Misato and Asuka

>>150220252
>Depression isn't real, faggot shinji.
Probably, but PTSD is

>"Shinji get in this robot that you only found out existed 5 minutes ago and fight to the death, otherwise I'm going to guilt trip the fuck out of you by having this essentially walking corpse do it instead and die"
>Shinji does that and proceeds to feel as though his arms have been torn from the socket because he feels everything the eva does
>"Shinji seriously though I need you to do this again"
>Shinji does that and proceeds to feel as though his entire body has been covered in flames for several minutes

Get your arm pulled off in an industrial accident and then give yourself third degree burns, then you get to call shinji a pussy faggot beta.

>>150220676
Agree. Piloting the eva is a bad experience and people tend to forget that.

Shinji is like Charlie Brown if Charlie Brown had the weight of the world on his shoulders. He might be a bitch but its perfectly justifiable.

>>150220252
Hideaki Anno, the director was depressed( real or not) at the time of writing the story and projected himself in the character. Making Neon Genesis Evangelion was his way of working through his emotional problems.

>>150220676
Yeah, why do people keep forgetting piloting EVA usually ends up being literal physical torture?

EVA pilots go through Guts-levels of pain and keep fighting, that ain't nothing.

>>150220252
because despite your rationalized attempt to preserve your sociological currency as a desirable mate with blatant ego self-preservation, anime fans are by implication passive and fearful of rejection and emotional intimacy. so when Anno hoped to craft Shinji in part to embody an amalgamation of the most common autistic otaku behavior, he nailed it so well that those viewers who hadn't yet developed the critical introspective eye to recognize the negative behavioral traits they themselves possessed, they flipped out at the implications

IMO

>>150220252
>le depression isn't real meme
I blame tumblr for this nonsense.

>>150220252
michael bay's adaption of shinji will fix it.