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this is the wildest gundam opinion ITT to me
like don't get me wrong it's one of the best gundams but it is Specifically about traumatizing a child with the horrifying reality of war
yeah this was the first gainax thing, they were dumb students who thought they were invincible auteurs
unfortunately, they were right
Let me tell you, Shinji's stuff hits different when you're literally his age. Very much not recommend for Fun Family Night Viewing material.
But really, it's not that hard to follow. To be honest, I feel that there's a lot of largely empty mystery but at twelve before my brain was completely twisted by Lore(tm) and Star Wars EU and similar other stuff I was probably better at sort of filtering what actually mattered to the goings on than I am as a grown ass adult sometimes, so it was okay.
early doujin circle gainax didn't give a FUCK
They probably didn't have the rights to use that either lol
It's basically just a bunch of people looking for love and acceptance, but terrified that they won't get it if people know who they REALLY are - THE SHOW.
But with a bunch of monsters and giant robots and religious iconography thrown in because it looks cool.
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If you're feeling uncharitable towards the series, this might annoy you. But if you're feeling good towards the series, this is incredibly fertile ground to straight up Rorschach Test yourself some *prime* quality epileptic trees.
I was great fun to have in old English literature classes.
And then we're like, err well, for being so heroic why is the eva kinda scary and creepy? Why does the leadership seem so decidedly non-heroic?
For the aliens we start to see weird variations and experimentation in their designs - rather than some sort of animalistic invaders they seem almost intelligently designed, testing out different strategies of attack, using lateral thinking to challenge the defenders. For the humans we start to find out that there's conflicts within leadership - Kaiji shows up as a spy, trying to find out wtf they're really up to, seducing or coercing folks into giving him info.
That feeling of unease and "something more is going on here" is why Eva throws in all that religious imagery, even though they didn't care about the meaning of it. Eva not caring about the meaning of its religious symbolism isn't them being lazy, it was just the creators knowing that they needed the wtf impact of recognizable symbolism to make you question the surface level reading of the story, to make you uneasy.
And like normally the pilots are the most important part of a giant mech story, but in Eva the kid pilots are really just pieces on the board, mostly unaware of the big shit going on behind the scenes. They're still the emotional core of the story, but they're pretty clueless about anything beyond their own personal struggles.
It's just a very cool, well executed twist on the typical simple boy and his giant robot story, but most of the time the only way anyone talks about that stuff is as part of the "eva as genre deconstruction" story, which I don't actually think Eva was trying to be.
I think it might have been a Lindsay Ellis video where she said one of her teachers said the most difficult part with new students is convincing them that media analysis is not just "making shit up".
Also some fucking fantastic animation that really let them push things like the weridness of the angels and the finale just absolutely firing on every cylinder.
Also it got us Shin Gojira, which is a: awesome, and b: nearly killed my flatmate and i with stiffling laughter in the theatre when Dramatic Bureaucracy To Evangelion Music happened.
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Eiji Tsuburaya was sooooooo Catholic, is the thing
Ultraman died for our sins
that's just it, I do see patterns like that but it's never in the metaphorical it's the mechanical. I'm almost hyper-aware of narrative beats and expectations to the point I can often do things like identify whodunnit in mysteries because a lot of them make the criminal the person who is introduced and then kept at arms length until the reveal. What evidence do I have? None! It's entirely meta knowledge of how that kind of story usually functions and I can derive things based on what point the plot is at in comparison to the Hero's Journey wheel, the personality of characters to glean their archetypes and thus "roles" within the narrative or group, or any other number of the many cogs and gears that a story uses to function. Sometimes even really dumb trivia like knowing that a particular company doesn't allow "villains" to use their products in media. So when a group of people all have the same type of product EXCEPT one person, well looks like I know who the jackass is gonna be.
But when it comes to things like "What was the author trying to say?" I come up blank. "Why did the protagonist wield a sword?" Because she wanted to wield a sword. "What does the labyrinth represent?" It's just a labyrinth. "What can we infer from James Joyce's Ulysses?" That he was a sick sick man and why the goddamn fuck did you make us read about some dude jacking off to completion?!
It's fine though. I let other people figure that stuff out because it's not something I can learn, otherwise I'd have something for as many stories as I've consumed. My brain is literally not wired to understand it, if you catch my meaning.
It's always really fun to explain about Ultraman being very Christian inspired to people, because it always catches them by surprise.
I'm also super looking foward to Shin Ultraman, it's getting a western release! I'm very happy about this.
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It wasnt very good so I stopped watching.
This was well over a decade ago.
Except for poor Marnia, who just kinda gets crapped on by the story and it sucks, even if it's "realistic"
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Not animated as far as I know, but a manga (edit - it was also a game, I guess). I never read/played it.
In other words