squee
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 1 July 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
Blu Ray "ultimate edition" preorders up next week, place you bets on price and contentsUS https://store.gkids.com/pages/neon-genesis-evangelionUK https://evangelion.alltheanime.com/Madman are doing AU & NZ release too
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 12 August 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
i will buy this and i will not be happy about it
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 August 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
About time! I am afraid of the price tag already. This is gonna be another one of those dumb collectible, sits-on-my-shelf-unwatched-forever purchases.
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 August 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
so, this is probably gonna have the same stiff translations as the netflix release, right? :/
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 13 August 2021 03:14 (two years ago) link
damn right but also who knows
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 13 August 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
3.0 had two different translations that delayed the release for years so i feel like anything could be happening
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 13 August 2021 03:22 (two years ago) link
(but it’s also almost certainly the netflix translation)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 13 August 2021 03:29 (two years ago) link
oh btw. isn’t 3.0+1.0 out on amazon prime in like 30 mins
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 13 August 2021 03:34 (two years ago) link
i mean i’ll prob buy it irregardless but that translation seemed real lousy man, woof
xpost whaaaaaaat!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 13 August 2021 03:35 (two years ago) link
i dont think i used xpost right bc that is so exciting
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 13 August 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
holy moly
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 13 August 2021 07:12 (two years ago) link
wild film, gonna take some time to process this one
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 13 August 2021 07:20 (two years ago) link
wow
a nearly ideal conclusion to evangelion as a whole
i have a few issues with it still but it really delivered after all this time
― ufo, Friday, 13 August 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
it's not as distinct and singular as end of evangelion but nothing could be. as a follow-up though it does everything it needed to
― ufo, Friday, 13 August 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
the whole first hour is one of the best parts of the entire series
― ufo, Friday, 13 August 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
Oh man I'm stunned and stoked at the prospect of finally watching these films. Unbookmarking thread until we actually get around to it...
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Friday, 13 August 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
that's probably a good idea. avoiding spoilers...
I strongly prefer end of evangelion but I never thought this one was even gonna get close, so that's fine. and it didn't, not really, but I'd agree that it did its job as the conclusion to the rebuilds (which I thought only started getting interesting with 3.33 tbh) about as well as you could hope for.
man, I was SO sucked in by the time that bonkers last act rolled around even tho it was nearly 3am on a work weeknight at that point. it had that human emotional punch that was, well again, not really on par with end of evangelion but still pretty heavy. that's what I want from this series.
I still don't love the CG-heavy art style all the rebuilds share but this thing is bursting with tons of wild imagery. and the CG is used in some interesting non-standard ways for that last act (and in ways I found stiff during several of the action set pieces). end of evangelion is easily the better-looking film tho imo. (tho again, hard to top for me.)
also, it's kinda funny how impenetrable this thing is. I think you could reasonably watch end of evangelion in isolation and miss out on a lot, sure, but still get something out of it. I don't think that's even remotely possible here. it's dense and never really stops being dense. and it's been many years since I last watched the rebuilds and it was late and I was sleepy. definitely missed a few things. I need to re-watch all of the rebuilds now, I think. I'm already tempted to watch this one again tho.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, 13 August 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
― ufo, Friday, 13 August 2021 15:01 (yesterday) link
the whole village section i thought, wow, anno has finally figured it out, he's going to make the version of this that breaks through into being about something other than itself and about the curse of evangelion
boy did i feel sucker-punched by the second half after that
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 14 August 2021 06:15 (two years ago) link
my biggest issue with this one & the rebuilds as a whole is probably just mari's character. she never really adds anything or serves much of a purpose, even in this one where she has more to do. i don't think it'd be too hard to completely excise her from the series without anything really having been lost
― ufo, Saturday, 14 August 2021 08:54 (two years ago) link
my favourite weird background detail is asuka's wonderswan
― ufo, Saturday, 14 August 2021 08:58 (two years ago) link
someone in the tv series (the class rep?) has something that looks a lot like a sega saturn
the mari 'reveal' is so weirdly half-baked. she seems to make more sense on the meta-fictive and psychoanalytic levels than in anything that happens on the basic diagetic level of the plot. the last reel seems to suggest that accepting the possibility of making new emotional connections outside the oedipal nightmare of previous versions is what's allowed shinji / anno to escape ~the curse of evangelion~. but none of that has been set up in his interactions with her previously
more and more i think the ideal version of this for me would have been quickly dispatching with gendo and fuyutsuki in ten minutes in the middle and then we just get back to more of people living in the remnants. rei farms. asuka plays the wonderswan some more. shinji becomes the village fisherman and finds a way to live with his trauma.
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Saturday, 14 August 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
i guess if we’re doing spoilers…
*****spoiler*****
shinji/anno finds peace as… a salaryman was not the ending i was hoping for either.
agreed that mari is kind of a nothing character. never been a big fan of the mari character design either. but i was ok with the relationship in the reveal tho. i mean, they did go thru some crazy things together. maybe they bonded in the 10 years or whatever that they didn’t show? kaworu would have been like 9000x better but i was still happy that our poor shmuck shinji finally gets to have a real adult relationship like misato and ruoji did. congratulations!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 14 August 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
rei asking about every little thing in the village reminded me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faXDCp0BDU4
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 14 August 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
*ryoji kaji
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 14 August 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
maybe they bonded in the 10 years or whatever that they didn’t show?
shinji spent that entire time in unit 01. the only time he'd interacted with mari before this was the brief meeting in 2.0 which just makes everything about the pairing strange
this would have been much more interesting & daring yeah but the only real issue i have with the actual ending is mari
― ufo, Sunday, 15 August 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link
heh, well, I did say that I was pretty sleepy by the time it was winding down. time to watch it again.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 16 August 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
if anyone is a 'patreon supporter' of the videogames but also anime podcast 'abnormal mapping' their episode on this was actually full of good takes
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
tho actually it was mostly bgm's read tbh
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
can't believe i still haven't seen this, don't worry i am really selectively reading the thread lol
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
welp it's up, £199/$279
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
Well shit. lolClassic dub, though?
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
yep classic dub and sub, no Fly Me To The Moon tho
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
$279 is the promotional preorder price. Can't wait to see what the full retail price will be!
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
UK price is £199 until Dec 6th when it becomes £299there are only 1,500 sets though so maybe it'll sell out by then
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
people on messageboards tracking order numbers saying half of those are sold already lol
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
uh yeah woof come on the perfect collection was like only $125
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
yep classic dub and sub
oh god you have to let me know what classic sub means
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
sorry i just read the press release and i know you have no further information
how dare they do this to me
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link
and i really can't afford it lol :(
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
i bought it i'm a dumbass
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
fwiw the marketing guy from the UK release is saying that other editions are being revealed at the end of the month
Additional editions being announced on the 30th!— miles thomas (@Real_Kilometers) August 19, 2021
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
i'm a dumbass!!! lol
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
i'm gonna be so happy when i have dat box tho
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
it must cost a small fortune to license "fly me to the moon"
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
well, I'm not exactly proud, but I grabbed one too.
no "fly me to the moon" gave me serious pause tho. but I still my busted bootleg dvd set from 2000 or so for that, I suppose.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 19 August 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
for $275, no fly me to the moon = no sale. maybe the inevitable cheaper version later.
― Nhex, Friday, 20 August 2021 07:00 (two years ago) link
finally watching 3.0+1.0 tomorrow, rewatching the first three movies today
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 20 August 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
anyone wanna know how worried i am that the “classic dub and sub” are just the sd platinum edition ported to blu rays
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 20 August 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link