Maybe I'll queue up the Youtube ending compilation in another window and flip to it at the end of each episode, like a normal person.
― jmm, Friday, 21 June 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
i do think it kinda sucks that “fly me to the moon” isn’t there. i hope the netflix deal portends a domestic blu-ray release
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
Why isn’t FMTTM the credits song
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 June 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
there's no official explanation from netflix but as i said upthread: probably too expensive
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
streaming companies tend to not pony up cash for song rights; for instance, shudder pretty much never pays for any song joe bob wants to sing during his horror marathons and he spends a lot of the show complaining about it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
song rights are notoriously expensive and hard to acquire just for physical releases (cf. daria or any mtv show that incorporated contemporary popular music), i imagine licensing for streaming is even worse and probably resembles font rights in ebooks, i.e. it is something you must pay for continuously. however i am not an expert
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
(and am possibly full of shit)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
I actually thought fly me to the moon was written for the show 🥴 gd
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 June 2019 15:12 (four years ago) link
lmao ok i honestly love that you thought that
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
haha right
― flappy bird, Friday, 21 June 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
same :D
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
I'm now honestly wondering if Netflix standards and practices deliberately toned down the adultness of that specific dialogue when they noticed how young the characters were supposed to be
― Simon H., Friday, June 21, 2019 7:03 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i have a refutation for this but it’s a huge spoiler and now that people are newly watching this i... don’t want to do that
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
first domestic translation to retain “third children” instead of converting it to “third child”
other than that, it’s not horribly written, just gonna try to enjoy the ride instead of thinking about how *i* would’ve done it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
yeah I know what this means. disregard my speculation.
― Simon H., Friday, 21 June 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
I've never seen this show and I'm pretty stoked to watch it
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 21 June 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Netflix has released KARE KANO and fans are screaming!!!— no purity (@nopurityone) June 21, 2019
happy #watchkarekano day— aurora (@request_healing) June 21, 2019
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 21 June 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
somehow, shamefully, i’ve never seen this and just watched the first four episodesit fucking rules
― turn me on and press my teabag (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 21 June 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
YES IT DOES
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
and it only gets better from there
very excited for end of evangelion to ruin the lives of people who've never seen it before
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
hell yeah!!
It maybe could have generated some goodwill if they'd made some sort of documentary or companion to help guide new/perplexed viewers or help explain why it's seen as such A Big Deal
I will say the actual dub performances seem fine, a couple dodgy pronunciations aside. I'd forgotten about all the great moments of stillness (eg the end of ep 4)
― Simon H., Friday, 21 June 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
i read a ranking of the series recently that put episode 4 toward the bottom and episode 26 dead last. gonna draw a line in the sand here and say that person doesn't deserve eva
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
Are the English subtitles not perfectly synched up for anyone else? I'm on episode 2 and the subs seem to be about 1-2 seconds delayed.
― jmm, Friday, 21 June 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
syncing is fine for me
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
I'm even looking forward to the discourse cycle a little
o rly
pic.twitter.com/uH5C97g6OR— gray-um (@GrahamSig) June 21, 2019
― Simon H., Friday, 21 June 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
i think i'll watch this again - brad i thought i posted a lot about this when i first watcvhed it but maybe i only discussed it w/ you. anyway what i was left with years later as the most impressive bit was how well it captured the kind of syntax of longing + emptiness/void + the sacred mystery (the desire to see beyond the veil) that characterizes my lived experience almost all the time.
― Mordy, Friday, 21 June 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
that is a great description of it mordy
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
bringing this back in honor of evangelion netflix pic.twitter.com/0K6RIB6U0b— 🐰Jennifer Raye💚 (@jenn_raye) June 21, 2019
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
Rebuild 4 has been delayed specifically so Anno can screencap all our tweets— bjork’s oh so quiet (@ifgirlscollide) June 21, 2019
― Simon H., Saturday, 22 June 2019 00:41 (four years ago) link
up to ep 7, anxious to see more tbhalso anxious to see how all the qabalah imagery pays off
― turn me on and press my teabag (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 22 June 2019 08:29 (four years ago) link
pretty soon you'll just be anxious
― maffew12, Saturday, 22 June 2019 09:46 (four years ago) link
hallelujah
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 June 2019 13:19 (four years ago) link
this piece is AWESOME but also lousy with spoilers, reader beware https://www.polygon.com/2019/6/19/18683634/neon-genesis-evangelion-hideaki-anno-depression-shinji-anime-characters-movies
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 June 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
(not to keep derailing but the anno-leaving-kare kano thing seems false, e.g. the cut-out section stewart-ahn mentions starts ep19 which is after all the rumored leaving-points)
― lowercase (eric), Saturday, 22 June 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
yeah i had never heard of that before, and i always thought that kare kano, for how much it completely falls apart in the last six or so episodes, is way more anno-esque at the end than at the beginning
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 June 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
(i've read the entire manga and the first half of the show is a very loyal translation)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
(if it's true that masami tsuda complained about the show being too different in tone from the manga... she was wrong lol)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:03 (four years ago) link
(but then again maybe anno had different plans that we never got to see, bc part of the issue with the ending of kare kano is that they had obviously caught up with the still-in-progress manga)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
isn't the manga considered secondary/alternate? I don't think Anno was looking to translate it to the screen.
But this is my first Eva talk in around 20 years
― maffew12, Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
all of those posts are about kare kano
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
the eva manga is indeed secondary to the anime, and it also diverts dramatically from it. not sure it’s a necessary read
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
oh i hadn't heard of "Kare Kano" ^^
― maffew12, Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
all versions of Eva divert dramatically in the second half, 4.0 is gonna be a hootthe manga is a fun read imo
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
i agree that it's fun
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
there's also a rich tradition of great manga being turned into great anime that had a totally different tone/emphasis than the manga, annoying the original creator. or even urusei yatsura, a great anime series based on a great manga, that then took a huge tonal/thematic digression in the second film (directed by mamoru oshii) that is itself a masterpiece, and which is in some sense a deconstruction of the very bones of an anime sitcom.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 22 June 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
how had I never seen/heard this and why is it incomplete?!
https://youtu.be/YrKMiE9WII0
― Simon H., Saturday, 22 June 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
I've been totally ambivalent about anime series that I've seen (FMA, Bebop), but this is weirdly engrossing. About 5 episodes in and the narrative of trauma combined with high school melodrama with the abrupt slapstick breaks is riveting and imparts a surprising amount of momentum.
The leering fanservice is creepy and cringey, obviously.
― Shoegazi (Leee), Saturday, 22 June 2019 19:37 (four years ago) link
Like the scene where Misato thinks that Shinji got on the train but is actually just behind her head in the mise en scene is some radically subjective Gonzo filmmaking.
― Shoegazi (Leee), Saturday, 22 June 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
when i saw this as a kid it took me forever to even work out what “fanservice” meant (the two shots framed from misato’s butt in the first episode did not clue me in)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 23 June 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
in the new dub they keep pronouncing “nerv” the german way. cute choice
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 23 June 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link