Dirac's Dirac's Docks
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 1 April 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
omg I love this hahaha
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 1 April 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
I literally started laughing uncontrollably in public listening to this
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 2 April 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link
i'm introducing a friend to the show, we're about to watch episode 19
y'all this show is so fucking good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 4 April 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
(we're watching a fansub, that's how much i don't want to rewatch the netflix tranlsation)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 4 April 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
My 2nd and 3rd Eva watches were showing it to friends, it's soooooooo much fun watching someone watch Eva for the first time
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 5 April 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
... i've almost certainly done this before itt but here's something no one asked for: a ranking of the officially-released english translations of evangelion
supreme being: the translation for the manga entertainment release of end of evangelion, afaict that shit is perfect. a true shame the dvd sucks so much1. original adv translation: which... is full of inaccuracies... very annoying ones too (cf. translating kaji's "hana" (flower) as "watermelons"). but it's the most elegant translation in english, really well-written and consistent and you're never distracted by the syntax2. platinum edition: actually very accurate but the syntax is super tortured. the sentences don't work together right3. netflix: technically accurate (i think?) but godawful
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 9 April 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
Report back on your preferred fansub
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 10 April 2021 00:22 (three years ago) link
prob the one i'm watching, which isn't perfect but does the job, probably lands somewhere between 1 and 2
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 April 2021 00:28 (three years ago) link
(it's the one most widely available on kissanime and other such websites afaict)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 April 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
any news on 3.0+1.0's release plans outside Japan?
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 10 April 2021 00:30 (three years ago) link
none that i've heard
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 April 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
one of my favorite things about the adv translation is the relentless use of the word "sortie." more sortie pls
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 April 2021 00:39 (three years ago) link
it has come to my attention that the "fansub" i'm watching may in fact just be the platinum edition translation, so i have much less beef with it than i thought i did
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:15 (three years ago) link
oh my god 3.0+1.0 on Prime Video August 13?????
https://www.khara.co.jp/2021/07/02/ev04overseas/
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 1 July 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
there'd been rumours it was coming to prime video for its western release swirling around for months, but i absolutely wasn't expecting it so soon, fantastic news
― ufo, Thursday, 1 July 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
MY HEART
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 July 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
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