EPISODE 12: The Value of a Miracle Is... /
She Said, Don't Make Others Suffer For Your Personal Hatred!
If anyone tries to tell you Asuka isn’t capable of kindness, smack them upside the head.
This is one of my favorite Asuka scenes, because it demonstrates a subtle, oft-neglected part of Asuka’s character that is otherwise highly contested or outright ignored by the fandom. Asuka can be kind. Asuka can be thoughtful – and not just to Shinji, but to Rei and Misato, two individuals whom which Asuka seemingly harbors the most intense and visible resentment towards.
Asuka would rather give up an extravagant steak dinner if it meant that she could enjoy it with Rei, who can’t eat meat by virtue of being a vegetarian. And as it turns out, Misato – and her wallet – is more than grateful for the consideration. Asuka’s knocking out two birds with one stone.
And that is so important.
remember when kaji casually broke into misato’s apartment so he could fedex a penguin to the hotsprings
Ritsuko/Maya is canon in the Rebuilds.
No, seriously. Maya’s unrequited crush on Ritsuko in Neon Genesis Evangelion isn’t up for debate, but what many people miss is that Anno’s secretly upgraded their relationship in Rebuild. (This isn’t the first time a canon gay NGE relationship has seen an upgrade in the movies. See: Kawoshin.) The clues are buried throughout, and Anno’s left us to unearth them.
There’s this super interesting article that provides very compelling explanations for some of the visual/thematic clues present (shortchanging Ritsuko’s black and white cat trinkets for two black ones, by way of example) that clarify a secret canon relationship between the two.
If you can’t get Google Translate to work its magic on the article, a sufficient English translation is available under the cut:
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new previews for the latest set of eva LINE stickers, which is all well and good, but —
asuka and mari
thought-provoking dynamics that i wish were more thoroughly explored in evangelion:
1. awkward, bumbling extensions of friendship between misato and rei, with subtle overtures of appreciation on the elevator
2. “disgruntled mom vs bratty teen” vaccination checkups with ritsuko and asuka, complete with extremely irritable glares (asuka), tired one-liners (ritsuko), and maybe asuka lunchtray-smacking ritsuko’s clipboard out of her hands
3. quasi-uncle & wayward nephew-type acquaintanceship between professor fuyutsuki and kaji, including philosophical debates and shogi dates over lunch (making the abduction scene a forced betrayal)
God's Gift by Shiro Sagisu
Played during the last few minutes of Q, this explosive, darkly apocalyptic track is arguably the leading highlight of You Can (Not) Redo’s original score. But many people don’t realize that the seemingly pseudo-Latin chants are actually English verses reminiscent of the Biblical Genesis.
From the black of space I will create, earth and in my image incarnate
Heaven is to be a place of rest, earth is where the people I will test
Six days have passed, on the seventh I will render myself
To a day of rest and to contemplate, what is to be
Mankind begins its fateful journey faced by trials and tribulations
War and peace, of my presence, to this end my work is done
This world I give, for you to live
Blessed are the ones that can live in peace
Forever, and ever
fiendswithbenefits inspired
like, the level of impartiality you have to take in assessing the cast of evangelion’s morals is really precarious and pretty much impossible for an audience to ‘neatly’ rationalize without feeling at least a little uncomfortable. the range of utter grossness includes child neglect/manipulation (gendo), destructive utilitarianism (yui), collaborating with plans of global genocide for entirely selfish reasons (ritsuko and fuyutsuki), utilizing chauvinistic shields to navigate the workplace (kaji), repeated sexual intrusions of a minor’s personal space (misato), emotional belittling (asuka), casual justifications for sexism (toji and kensuke), and sexual violence (shinji). the real stinger is a lot of this comes from characters the narrative wants us to sympathize with, to root for, and to encourage in some capacity. that’s why it’s so important to understand the whys and hows of each characters faults, because in a decontextualized setting with no consideration to intent, motivation, and circumstance, everything and anything lends itself to myopia and overgeneralizing.
