recurring visual imagery: crossed arms + sidelong glance evangelion: 2.22 you can (not) advance, dir. hideaki anno (2009) evangelion: 3.33 you can (not) redo, dir. hideaki anno (2012)
i swear this angel encapsulates everything so loathsome about the rebuilds. all the original angels can be reduced to a two or three-word diminutive, ie ‘screaming blue octahedron’, ‘penis monster’, ‘glowing rope’, ‘computer virus’ etc, which is really something remarkable at least from a conceptual design perspective. meanwhile this asshole is so frantically gratuitous IN FORM AND FUNCTION that it escapes adequate description. i couldn’t even begin to explain this angel if i tried. ‘stilt walking clockwork spider with pinpoint ice powers’ (feat. tiny sachiel head?) what’s worse, it took not even 35 seconds to defeat this thing, with a single roundhouse kick no less. sad!
Sadly, we can’t coexist…even though we are fundamentally the same creatures.
According to one of the video games (the one that, according to Anno, they used to cover backstory and other stuff that didn’t fit into even the infodump ending movies), this part of what Kaji dug up isn’t true.
Just more SEELE lies (what they fed to the rank and file involved in setting off Second Impact?) so they could get away with their instrumentality plan, and Kaworu and Rei would have known that & remembered their agreement that the planet would be handed over to Lilith and her children if it weren’t for the fact S2 engines damage memory (deliberately).
Meaning that after Yui flew away from the devastated Earth in an Eva, as a god, playing with her new power is going to mindwipe her. Poetic justice FTW.
Still, some lingering sense that he’d agreed that the Lilim had the right to Earth, even though this was supposed to be his planet, might have been another reason Kaworu refused to wipe us out and take it for himself (besides the fact that it’s obvious to any decent person that the genocide of billions to make way for another race, superior or not, is NOT OKAY).
Say that someone tells you that you’re Case Zero of a zombie virus. You might not want to eat brains now, but before it’s going to destroy your brains and personality and what’s left will go out and bite people and it’s going to be even worse than World War Z: Third Impact = all humans die instantly.
Either way, you’re dead. The only question is whether or not you want to die as yourself, and save the world in the process, or be replaced by a shambling killer, a mockery of what you used to be.
this christmas, have a badly rendered video of misato katsuragi belting the chorus to “jingle bells” in her awful, yet strangely endearing singing voice
The shot of Misato’s cross necklace after Shinji nails it to a grave marker during End of Evangelion accords with the brief closeup of Misato’s chest from the Cruel Angel’s Thesis OP. In this way Misato’s body becomes the very uniform of death.
from the latest official eva spinoff: ritsuko surreptitiously sliding gendo and fuyutsuki the tab as the rest of NERV staff quietly leave the bar scans fantastically like a jerry gag from an episode of parks and rec
Remember this jarring cut? This is such a bizarre, unnatural perspective to emphasize what looks on its face so painfully benign: Ritsuko leaving a bar. I always wondered if the ice was supposed to resemble floating icebergs; it was only until someone else confessed to having the same thought that I realized that this frame may hope to emphasize more than Ritsuko’s absence. Ritsuko is leaving Misato alone with Kaji, a man who reminds Misato of her father. Their resemblance invokes the terrifying source of trauma Misato must constantly revisit throughout the series. The source of which traces its roots to Antarctica.
I always dismissed this cut as accidental, and unfortunate. Now, I’m not so sure.
some things to keep in mind about nge’s very own the man, the myth, the legend, spending time on volume 7, stage 43 of the manga ‘verse. super rough, but i’m enjoying thinking about him more, even if just in sketches. i mean, come on, just look at him, that sweet baby k:
Part 1: “Let Me Appeal To Your Intellect”
this post is meant to suggest that manga vol. 7, no. 43 tells us all we need to know about what ryoji thinks about himself and his relationships, and therefore his own motivations; he explains this quite literally to shinji in the chapter, and it’s an incredibly useful backstory (courtesy of sadamoto) for this reason, but let’s backtrack to figure out why all the things he doesn’t say matter even more
