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@shinji-brown
I post about Evangelion sometimes. My pronouns are she/her. I'm a member of a system that collectively uses they/them. I'm a naval history nerd, that's why my banner is a photo of USS Langley, and my avatar is the Japanese destroyer Ayanami. I am of age. I write to organize my thoughts. You're free to agree with me or disagree with me, as you see fit.
List of my writing:
An Analysis of Imperial Japanese Navy names, as used in Neon Genesis Evangelion
Fight, Flight, Freeze
Shinji: [is meek, avoidant, self-loathing, and generally soft-spined enough that he will do literally anything to get even an ounce of praise]
Definitely Good Faith Viewer: GOD he's so annoying! Why can't you just man up and get in the robot!?
Shinji: [continues being meek, avoidant, self-loathing, and generally soft-spined enough that he will do literally anything to get even an ounce of praise after episode 8]
Asuka: GOD you're so annoying! Why can't you just man up and get in the robot!?
Definitely Good Faith Viewer: What is this fucking bitch's problem???
Trying to rewatch Neon Genesis Etc and see how far I make it but it's fucking brutal because every time Misato opens her mouth my brain crumples up the plot and throws it away because she's the only person I respect.
She's just like "Guys I think putting 14 year old children into a warmachine as child soldiers might be kinda wrong or something," and everyone is like Misato be serious.
Teenage boys in anime have a unique hormone that automatically links their hands to the nearest available female presenting tit in the event they lose their balance. It is cruel to mention how often this happens, and it is not funny at all.
I think it may all be just downhill from Rei asking Shinji if he trusts his dad's work, and Shinji basically goes, "That guy, are you fucking joking?"
Ritsuko "everything has to go right the first time" vs functional alcoholic Misato "assumed this was going to be shitshow from the start and has eight backup plans."
Misato with her job that is a total shitshow but everyone's lives depend on it so she slobs around every minute of free time vs CipherAmnesia with her job that is a total shitshow but everyone in the household depends on her income so she slobs around every minute of free time.
Shinji is a lot like Herbert West because everyone's always mad at him for the wrong reasons and also gives him positive feedback on his worst traits.
Herbert Wet.
This is also a good example of how being anti-war, anti state violence etc runs into the problem of making war too cool, because I think the team on Neon Getc could name every bolt that holds together an Eva unit's anal sphincter, but none of them could convincingly write a personality for Rei.
Spot on decision to make the colossal dickheaded ship captain with no idea that anything in the world could be more important than his dick size sound British.
"Why do the monsters keep homing in on our giant robot monster suits?"
One million trans women cracked their eggs when Shinji got on Asuka's pilot suit.
Brilliant analysis, this is what every youtube video essayist wishes they could do.
Oh this isn't analysis, mostly this is description. Analysis would be like, you can see the show as critical of hierarchical social structure in Japan by the way everyone ar NERV ultimate always accedes to the decisions of higher authority, even when it comes to torturing literal children, because the higher authority generally is acceptable. Mitsato is an appealing character both because as someone raised in the USA her flagrant spurning of authority and dismissal of expected gender roles feels comfortable, but also in the text of the show she is often ignored as the greek chorus lamenting how fucked up things are and the inevitable tragedies. This also ties in with a generally common and culturally specific expectations from Japan about women's roles. Misato knows all the tricks to navigating around bureaucratic roadblocks, is incredibly smart, and has absurdly sharp analytical insights, but these are regarded as foolish because she's loud and crude and doesn't wear enough makeup. This would get explore a lot more in Shin Godzilla, but a lot of the groundwork of how social conservatism, proper channels, saving face et al would exacerbate emergencies into disasters.
The analysis is more in how the only thing that anyone can seem to come up with for a massive global conflict is to feed children into a war machine, which is kind of familiar. But also, considering that the expressionless war machine animation is so detailed you can count the bolts, but our traumatized characters with PTSD can't even get their eyebrows animated to show a microexpression, the material production of the show really seems to favor convincing the audience that war is cool as fuck and humans are blank paper dolls.
Well, there's Asuka now.
Asuka really emphasizes how much this is pretty much He-Man with more violence.
We've got to put Asuka in the inflation suit to fight a googly eyed muppet.
You've got to pilot the marketable toy, Shinji
You've got to pilot the PTA meeting, Misato
This show is a fucking comedy.
"Damn, I sure hope the back up power doesn't go out."
"That's okay, the emergency power won't go out."
"All power is out, huh? An angel attack would suck right now-"
"WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP??"
Commander Gendo "I will go to any lengths humanly possible to make sure my son has to be a child soldier piloting the torture robot" Ikari everyone. He will stop at nothing to try and get Shinji killed in action, like some sort of twisted insurance fraud scam.
Shinji's pilot suit is the only one with giant mechanical tits on it. What the fuck.
Functionally, Asuka should be an illustration of how much more fucked up it would be if Shinji wanted to pilot the Eva, because like she's so desperate for attention and approval that she will do anything. Shinji is just there to punch the clock at the Disappointing His Dad factory but Asuka's become mentally unhinged over needing to be number one child prodigy and if she's not getting praised 100% of the time for being perfect immediately then she will die.
But NeoGeno forgets itself 80% of the time and it's just like OK Asuka is the annoying one, I hope the Voltron team can get out of this pickle, and then it introduces a new Angel with a fucking Wile E Coyote Acme products contraption mechanic where the only way it can be defeated is by tricking it into marrying a fake woman made out of sticks of dynamite, so everyone forgets how fucked up it is. Also Rei is there.
The Evas all have those giant shoulder wings because deep down they're actual Bugs Bunny, and the entire series is mostly about how Shinji is trans and needs to admit it.
Imagine being a gifted kid so much that you graduated college as like a teen and got hand selected as pilot for the most complicated fighting machine in the world and trained til you mastered it, then got dropped off a thousand miles from home to babysit two worm children, and the first thing you learn is "hey this dumpster macaroni boy is Genetically Always Right, and if you can't accept that then every human is going to die." And after that no matter what you did, everyone called you annoying and dumb. That's Asuka's whole life.
will never forget the time my brother asked me to play some of my music in the car so i put my playlist on shuffle and komm susser tod started playing and we drove in silence for a couple of minutes before he turned to me and said "why do you listen to sad spongebob music"
Rei by me
neon genesis evangelion (yoshiyuki sadamoto, 1995)
transition definitely wouldn't have fixed shinji but it would've made the last 6 episodes way more interesting. how do you deal with doing your estrogen injection when you're existing as an abstract concept within LCL
have a great thursday everyone!
evangelion shouldve included a scene of shinji getting a forced haircut while crying
evangelion shouldve included a scene of shinji getting a forced haircut while crying
I feel like people don’t talk enough about the Neon Genesis Evangelion game that was on the N64. The soundtrack uses the exact same sound font as Super Mario 64 which resulted in the funniest official rendition of Komm, süsser Tod:
jesus christ its real
My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called "the Human Instrumentality Project" 😳 you'll be zonked out of your gourd 💯
Me: yeah whatever. I don't feel shit.
5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw a sea of LCL
My buddy Misato bleeding out: SEELE is lying to us
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I know it's really Saturday, but it wouldn't be Asuka if she didn't say that.
can't report them to HR, it's pride month 🌈
