neon genesis evangelion

Reminds me of one time my dad tried to watch some anime with me, to keep current with my interests. I had just bought a new Eva tape, and it turned out to be the one where they're all naked for no reason. It was a bit awkward but I think he was more confused and bored than disapproving.

it was p easy to get anime and manga stuff in austin (although i didn't become seriously interested in it until around 1997). for a long time there was a dedicated anime and manga store called animagix where you could buy models, posters, OSTs, videos, etc and they also rented out fansubs (i didn't realize at the time that this was shitty). i also used to go to the university of texas anime club screenings, which were open to the public. my japanese teacher would also show us fansubs in class and sometimes just straight-up tapes of japanese tv that his family had sent him.

reading manga back then was weirder and more difficult, though—i would buy stuff in japanese off the internet (where? i can't even remember) then read along with a fan translation that was just a plain text file

Sorry for the super nerdy posts btw, this is just bringing back lots of memories.

no keep it up, i find this sort of stuff really interesting! i wasn't watching any anime at the time so like reading about the early days of western fandom.

yeah, loving it too

Anime Instrumentality Project.doc

haven't changed my DN in years but I am v tempted right now...

hahaha

Thing was, I was already conscious of being a very late wave of fandom! It felt like the golden age had arrived in terms of stuff being available, when you compared to old-timers who went back to the 70s or early 80s, the people who were now running the cons (and in some cases the official release companies). Also, since the clandestine difficulties of tape trading were part of the appeal, they weren't really obstacles as such.

yeah, it reminds me of when metal guys talk about tape trading in the 80s/early 90s. but even nerdier.

and love that story, 1staethyr. I was soooooo excited for end of eva man. for a lot of reasons, really, but the main one was prob bc the poster for it was so badass that I could barely stand it

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Eoeposter.JPG

sadly, it all came down to nothing
it just kept letting me down, letting me down, letting me down

hahaha

and that reminds me, I really tried to make myself like the eva osts, but man, the music is p much the one thing about this series I still can't get with

except "cruel angel's thesis" of course

lol. i still know all the lyrics to cruel angel's thesis and have had the occasional singalong when hanging out with my best friend from the 7th grade

i also used to go to the university of texas anime club screenings, which were open to the public

One of my biggest sources of anime in college (~2000) was the private FTP server of someone who either ran the University of Texas Anime Club or provided the anime (I didn't go to the school). God bless her

in the long gap between end of evangelion's japanese release and its american release i got my dad to take me to see it at a japanese cafe/gift shop where i had discovered it was going to be playing. turned out it wasn't even fansubbed—just the unsubbed version playing on a small tv mounted near the ceiling. i made my dad sit through the whole thing with me.

this is incredible

ha, that End of Eva poster, so fucking metal!!! still love the vibe of the show's promos, fonts, title cards, etc.

Anime Instrumentality Project.doc

the music is p much the one thing about this series I still can't get with

i actually get really excited whenever the one battle theme with the tympanis starts up, like something badass is about to happen!

http://i.imgur.com/UQL9jIb.png

Is this canon

Lollll Gendou

hahaha so wrong!!!

i can't accept as canon a stubble-free kaji. everything else abt this is fine tho

just watched "end of evangelion" — has there ever been such a despairing end to a series?

also wish i could get "komm susser töd" out of my head.

i know i've let you down
i've been a fool to myself

crossover

http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.13794286.2799/fig,white,mens,ffffff.u2.jpg

i mustn't run away 94
fig leaves have no place on a pizza 76

i bought a shirt

http://www.redbubble.com/people/ayarti/works/11820802-ramiel?p=t-shirt&ref=shop_grid

nicely obscure

that's the idea

also ramiel is the coolest angel fuiud

That's a pretty cool pokeball

i played that for the first time last winter, fun game

"how disgusting."

http://i.imgur.com/xRwi14C.jpg

rad

http://i.imgur.com/GmUXGKO.jpg

me irl

Bluray box set of TV show & original films coming to Japan in summer 2015. gonna be expensive!
http://www.evangelion.co.jp/ng.html

snap i just tried to start watching this show again today. 1-3 eps in and i might be ready to take the plunge. (it takes me forever with anime series to get into a groove but i have heard lots of recs for this recently.) might help to have access to bluray quality.

It starts off as a somewhat melancholy mecha series, then develops into a vortex of crushing sadness and alienation, if that helps at all....

and then the budget runs out and it's a slideshow with incomprehensible narration!

Even then it's a vortex of crushing sadness and alienation

with penguin gags!

should rewatch at some point but I'm watching Utena w/ my partner now (a few eps in) and it's a whole other angle on eschatological(?) weirdness

http://i.imgur.com/bC2Gnly.jpg

lol

Brilliant.

should rewatch at some point but watching Utena w/ my partner now (a few eps in) and it's a whole other angle on eschatological(?) weirdness

Just about to give a rewatch to Adolescence of Utena, which is a) one of my favorite animes and b) available in its full length on Youtube. Merry Christmas to me!

uh oh

http://i.imgur.com/6UIZMso.jpg

Today is the exact day Shinji Ikari time travels to while absorbed inside the Twelfth Angel.

totally rewatching this rn, happy 2015 everyone

so i'm rewatching it with someone who's never seen it before, which is fun bc i've seen it all the way through like 15 times

it's the first time i've watched it in five-six years though and it's like even more emotionally harrowing? cool, great series

talking about the show with someone just now i only now realized how deeply, deeply gross and horrible the gendo/rei relationship is

I don't know if I could stand a series rewatch, so much angst!

I'd watch that new film series, though.

i still haven't seen 3.0 but enjoy the idea of anno trolling his audience with piano solos

Every time I think about rewatching this I get filled with unutterable dread