neon genesis evangelion

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

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.

― 1staethyr, Friday, July 11, 2014 1:14 PM (6 months ago)

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.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, July 11, 2014 1:16 PM (6 months ago)

i love these posts

I saw Rebirth fansubbed at an anime con in I wanna say 1998, a decent amount of time before it was out domestically, at a late night screening filled with rowdy black anime fans. I was shaken by the shattering emotional journey Anno took me on and resented the rambunctious crowd for puncturing my melancholy. But in retrospect it was cool.

okay finally watching 3.0 and holy shit

i love that everyone has corny space/future beards

this is like leiji matsumoto's evangelion

last one comes out this year, right? i've still only seen the first one b/c i wanted to watch them back to back + still not sure how i feel about the whole thing anyway

the second one is legitimately great, and the third one veers so far away from the original plot that uh you could consider this a sequel

almost every scene in 3.0 is baffling, i am being elaborately trolled rn

weren't you the first time around too though, tbh?

yeah that's why i'm sorta into it

beautiful 3d animation on this kaworu/shinji piano duet

one day I hope to marathon the 4 new movies in a theater in one sitting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va5_rn3vG3A

crowdfunding campaign to send a replica of the Spear of Longinus to the moon, after one day they are about a third of the way to the total.
Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (in blue) showed up to the campaign launch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_GpMGhZ6h0

omg awesome

http://i.imgur.com/5i6hunw.gif

Evangelion remake looks sick

woooooow =)

I'm watching the original series for the first time. Loving it! Amazing the range of stories you can tell with "Giant robots defending Earth" as your main plot.

Also Misato rocking the high-functioning alcoholism and the timeless comedy of a crazy penguin doing crazy things.

Just finished the ep where they reveal Adam.....woah. Really liked episode 14, starting with the recap and featuring Rei's mystical/psychological freak-out in the middle there. Looking forward to see where all this goes!

The design of all the angels is pretty fantastic. Each one is a new abomination and has a really bizarre appearance and shape. The weird pyramid....the floating wedjat eye...the shadeless zebra-striped sphere.... So so good.

I'm highly enjoying the mystical shit but I like that stuff more than most people, and Shinji's angst isn't just one-dimensional sulking.

there's upwards of two dimensions to it!

Just finished the ep where they reveal Adam.....woah.

This was one of the first really badass, mindblowing, stuck-in-my-brain moments when I watched the first time. Just a couple of cryptic, baffling lines, enough to keep a lot of speculation going.

Agreed about the Angel designs - I think there's a few duds or too-similar ones, early on, but yeah, I like them as they get fucking weird as hell.

lol adam I would love to reexperience this show for the first time, enjoy

shinji's "angst" is straight up deeply woven trauma so i kinda can't hear ppl be shitty about it anymore

Yeah it's devastating, he literally has the world on his shoulders. I read the writer/director was suffering from depression-I do from time to time so I can really see that in this. But it's not depressing, it's pretty inspirational. Shinji rules!

http://38.media.tumblr.com/8a7bff2413a3a6a975049bffc8044091/tumblr_ncki3wPgKB1s7m1zqo1_r1_250.gif

shinji's "angst" is straight up deeply woven trauma so i kinda can't hear ppl be shitty about it anymore

Yeah I am just in a mood tonight, ignore me.

That was pretty funny.

I like how Misato promised her team they would all get steak if they were successful. But she had no money and so they had to get ramen instead. This meant Rei the vegetarian had an option, so it ended up working out ever better.

Yeah I am just in a mood tonight, ignore me.

oh don't worry about it, your comment was funny, it just reminded me of recent conversations i've had about this show

I think I'll finally be able to rewatch the show when I'm close to dying and after having led a very fulfilling and happy life with no pain and sadness

how disgusting

http://i.imgur.com/yw86LBz.png

hahah

Literally started having flashbacks while reading that. I need to go lie down

Damn I can't believe Ikari made his son almost kill Toji. So cold.

And then Shinji coming back and going insane to the point of the Eva eating the Angel like an animal.....woah

i thought what happened was shinji refused to kill the angel-infected eva so gendou replaced shinji w/ the autopilot which is what caused the gorefest

Yes but Shiji quits piloting the Eva in next the ep and when he does come back to save the day it's super brutal (Shinji achieving 400% sync and the Eva turning into God status). He starts crawling on his hands like an ape and consumes the Angel in 19/20. CRAZY

Please keep it coming AB, you are taking me back to tenth grade here, seeing this for the first time - stunned silence in the room, two absolute ''holy shit'' episodes back to back. It's amazing how seamlessly the show ramps from its initial melange of fun robot show, weird arty angsty guy show, and wacky penguin/boob antics show, to get to *that* point so quickly, and yet have you 100% invested in the characters, their shock, their horror.