Why does no one talk about pic-related? She looks like perfect

>>158386606
I never watched nge before and I don't intend to but I too think that she's the hottest girl in the show.

>>158386606
People have their old waifus and she's better than all of them, so they avoid talking about her to not make the others look bad by comparison

Because it's Eva? If you're watching Eva you aren't doing it for the hot chicks.

She only really exists in a single movie, in which we learn nothing much about her. What we do learn is interesting, but it was pretty much bait by Ano so he could crush the souls of the anime fans he detests so much with the third movie.

>>158386788
>watching japanese cartoons
>not for the hot girls

whats the point?

>>158386788
Is that why waifu wars keep raging over 20 years later?

>>158386606
>Why does no one talk about pic-related?
Because we got confirmation that she was added to the films on a whim and is basically written out of the plot due to lack of time. Anno didn't have any plans for her to begin with and now that they are struggling to have an ending in one film, she is no longer relevant.

>>158386788
>If you're watching Eva you aren't doing it for the hot chicks
Doesn't seem like it judging by how almost every Eva thread ends up in a Rei/Asuka debate sooner or later.

>>158387268
https://wavemotioncannon.com/2017/02/21/the-current-status-of-gainax-interview-hiroyuki-yamaga-yoshiyuki-sadamoto-september-2016/

Sadamoto: It wasn’t and… since she appeared in Jo, Ha and Q, I wondered what her role in the story would be, and when I asked the staff, they told me that it won’t be possible to really go further in one film, so they had to tie the main story up, and that Mari may have almost no screen time.

tl;dr
Mari is nobody, and she will barely appear in 4.0 if at all.

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>>158387349
Waifu wars happen because people care about the characters. It's not merely that the girl looks hot.

>>158387509
Mari is a superior character as well considering she's a neither a menstruating whore nor an emotionless doll

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>>158386606
She was hype when she was wearing that. She was doing plot related to the changes from NGE, like why Nerv was private and an unSeele UN had their own Eva agency. She became an accessory when she joined the central plot, just kinda shoved in there taking over parts from other characters without changing anything, and then nothing she was doing before matters or can ever go anywhere. She's like the protagonist of the kind of spinoffs they should have been making.

>>158386606
I like how she dons and molests Asuka.

>>158387509
>Waifu wars happen because people care about the characters.
It happens because people have a lot of free time and lack the will to invest energy into anything fruitful.

>>158387509
Given how they mischaracterize the characters to make them enough 'waifu material' I don't think 'care' is the exact word.

>>158388730
This, they rewrite the characters to suit their desires, then have the audacity to shit on Rebuild for the changes it made to those characters. Anno may well be a hypocritical otaku, but he's still right about the fans.

>>158386788
But literally the reason people still go for Asuka/Rei in the Rebuilds is due to them projecting their old characters in the new movies. They're nothing alike.

>>158386606
Asukafags and Reifags get triggered whenever you mention that she's unironically better than both.

Remember when she was going to be in a wheelchair?

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Now I would start posting Mari in this thread.

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>>158386606
Can we all just admit this is the final waifu?

>>158386606
Only two kind of people love this piece of shit: 1) who have shit taste, 2) who have comically low standards.

Which one are you, OP?

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>>158391292
I'm not an OP, but in my case, it's both.

>>158391366
You are honest at least.

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>>158391401
It's an anonymous image board. Why should I lie?

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>>158390983
I remember when she was Dren with a dialysis robot.

>>158386606
Anon not even japan cares about her anymore. 3.33 managed to revive her a bit but that was only by association with Asuka and then she faded away again.

>>158386606
Boring non-character

>>158386606
I'm waiting until it's all out to watch the movies, I guess there are a bunch of people like me out there.

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>>158391292
I dunno I kinda prefer mysterious laid back glasses genki bitch to kuudere oedipus complex clone slut or eyepatch edgelord tsundere cunt. Especially when those other two are better as Shipping fodder for "Slightly not as terrible as original despite even deeper flaws" Shinji to me because I'm that kind of people.

And Misato's basically been taken out of the waifu equation for me because the apocalypse rewrote her fucking personality from Big Sisteru to WARMILF so you know shit happens.In that same vein its a shame that her story will never have any follow up due to 3.0 but ... doesn't bother me as much as others.

>>158387268
>>158387397
she was literally just an advertisement for sakamotos music career, like all of her appearances in anime.

>>158391675
this. was she even in eva rebuild 2 and 3? i only remember her intro sequence

>>158387834
Because she doesn't have any character at all lol

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>>158386606
At least post the high res version

What is the point of the rebuild movies?

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>>158395052
I don't know. I just have enjoyed the new fresh look.

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She does have a character. She's clownish out loud and notes things to herself in a more serious tone, sorta animalistic, has a lot of empathy for the rage monsters evangelions are underneath. She doesn't have a story or any relevance.

>>158395052
shekels

also hilarious how the single marifag in the universe continues to show up in any thread that mentions her and dumps these same pics

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>>158396472
There are at least two of us. The last I've done it was almost a year ago.
I'm glad that you're entertained, though.

>character that gets shoehorned into 2.0 in some bitchy statement about audience pandering

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>>158392370
This
Also her ability to switch between center of combat and support assist and her thinly veiled masochistic streak means that she is more engaging and helpful even with her nonexistant screentime.

She's like the Tsuruya character that the author tosses out as a joke or a strawman and doesn't realize that he's hit gold.

>>158386606
She was kind of shoved into the movie and her role is never explained HOWEVER

HOWEVER

She gave us the best Evangelion unit ever, so everyhting is forgiven.

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>>158398939
>best Evangelion unit ever
05's neat for how cobbled together and specialized it is but I wouldn't go that far.

>>158399107
I meant unit 08, I should have been more specific.
But yeah 05 is neat too.

Mari would be more popular if she had been in the original series.

I'm not sure if she was going to be important in the movies but had her role reduced because fans disliked her or if her time to shine hasn't come yet.

>>158386606
Her characterization is pretty weak, both because she is a movie-only character and because she is a fan service fucktoy insert. She doesn't really have any inner conflict either, she just pilots EVAs for fun basically. Her past is rather blank as well and offers no characterization either. She barely interacts with any other character outside of battle. She is rather boring compared to all of the mental fuck-ups in the cast.

She has potential as a character, but it is not realized in any shape or form. And it is questionable whether she will become more interesting in the last movie.

>>158395052
fanservice

>>158395052
People hoped for a more concise, less abstruse and better animated reimagination of the anime.

But then came 3.0 and now nobody fucking knows what the point is anymore.

Stop posting this piece of shit. If you like Mari you should unironically quit anime and kill yourself.

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Did we really get the best one though?