neon genesis evangelion

Stevie you might want to read up on the behind-the-scenes drama of how the last episodes happened

but not until you see End of Eva.

episodes 25 and 26 are classic

25 and 26 actually feel much more satisfying than EoE once enough of the pieces are in place, but I'm glad both conclusions exist.

I rewatched some (half?) of this during college and watched End of Eva on its own a few times but otherwise I basically haven’t revisited the whole thing since high school. I enjoy the dim specificity of my memories of it.

It’s funny how Anno keeps remaking the ending, like a scab he can’t help picking at.

end of eva is a masterpiece and one of my favorite movies ever but 25 and 26 work just fine on their own, stranding you in stray thoughts and unfinished universes and individual consciousnesses bleeding into each other. it’s instrumentality! the viewer feels as recombined into the universal brain as shinji, asuka, and rei actually are

though technically rei is both within and without the universal brain

if you're into the space age christianity of evangelion, i recommend the VALIS trilogy by philip k. dick (valis, the divine invasion, the transmigration of timothy archer), which was a big influence on anno when he was making eva.

guys did you know abt this https://wiki.evageeks.org/Girlfriend_of_Steel_2

“The story is set in the alternate-universe that Shinji Ikari sees during Episode 26 of the original series, with Tokyo-3 at peace and Shinji (who acts the same as his Episode 26 AU counterpart) going about his daily life.”

It’s an ASUKA/REI/KAWORU DATING SIM

wowwwww i forgot all about being really intrigued by the original Girlfriend of Steel even though all we had were like two lo-res creenshots and almost no plot summary. a whole new pilot character!!! wow. if the Rebuild movies had come out a few years earlier I would have devoured those for the same reasons obviously.

only ever heard that guardian of steel is super boring

lol girlfriend of steel*

(Iron Maiden)

i'm on the 25/26 are awesome train, btw - loved it the first go-around, but it's even better after you see the movie imo

i’m so fucked up

Yesssss

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

i found copies of the blu-ray rips of the series and i guess i'm rewatching it again

i'm also really particular about the translations of this show (original adv subs >>> the retranslation they did for the platinum edition, the syntax is all wonky) but whichever i'm watching now is really working for me

I still think Asuka is annoying as fuck

https://www.the-fanboy-perspective.com/uploads/1/7/3/8/17382151/i-ll-kill-you-i-ll-kill-you_orig.gif

that whole sequence is so fuckin intense and metal, justifies the movie imo

i cry every time

fyi the anime that tonally most feels like the latter half of NGE is masaaki yuasa's ping pong. this is just a fact

I want a shirt that says

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I have a NERV logo shirt that I treasure

I want a NERV mug!!!

y'all just made me remember i had a NERV logo shirt in high school! wow i forgot that completely. i was a pretty cool nerd. B^)

stevie i think u will also appreciate the VERY 90s lilith fair vibe of the theme song to lain

do you think he'll seem to understand?

a shame, he seemed an honest man

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i want to finish Paranoia Agent but I am still like in shock from EoE

Oh, just wait till you get to the second Rebuild movie.

where do i find all the behind the scenes drama that happened during the making of the last episodes??

Nothing too salacious, I just recall some difficulties involving censors, budget cuts, and a mounting scheduling nightmare, all of which (along with Anno's, er, idiosyncrasies) resulted in the final episodes being done in that style.

I cannot fucking believe all of this shit I just watched has existed for the last 20 years of my life. How did I not know about this???? Like of course I've *heard of* NGE but how did I go this long w/o realizing it was THIS????

i'm sorry i didn't tell you earlier

tbh i first watched the series when i was 14 (and first encountered episodes 1-2 when i was 12) and i don't think i realized it was "THIS????" until about halfway through

it was the first anime series i saw (i know, i know, medium not a genre) that followed up on the inner strangeness and mystery i found in akira

episodes 1 and 2 still really lay out what the series is all about, what with delaying the big action setpiece until the end of episode 2 where it is experienced by the main character as resurfaced trauma

^^^ niiice reading, dig this

Didn't know the 2002 region 1 dvd (only American release) is so shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63UIBoIF3mY

yeah it’s v bad

sad yet informative

the last month or so i watched the whole series for the first time since 2002

it is beautiful

i remembered a few shots vividly: shinji collapsing on rei when they meet, asuka running thru the doors and finding her mother, eva-1 holding kaworu in its hand in that super long static shot & then his head falling into the water, big red NERV logo with ritsuko on the left in a chair and gendo on the right standing up, ritusko's mother's blood all over the equipment, "i mustn't run away," shinji's salmon colored polo & the scene where him and asuka kiss...

did NOT remember the end of episode 26 with the brief view into an alternate reality, really enjoyed that lol. rei sounded like jerry lewis. seeing gendo and yui together in the kitchen at breakfast was really sweet. and yes i ended up watching the dubs again because they were familiar and actually really good imo

gonna watch the movies soon

although i did watch the directors cuts of 21-23. the gendo there is worse, everyone else is voiced by the same actors afaik

pen pen <3

where is pen pen's spinoff

and yes i ended up watching the dubs again because they were familiar and actually really good imo

as much as i can identify with this, they really aren't. i forgot how many pointless dialogue changes they made in the first eight or so episodes