Misato’s slap geared back, and an exit sign flashing in interval. I mustn’t run away. What an awesome cut - blink and you’ll miss it.

there’s a game where misato katsuragi does nothing except sit around, drink, and narrate the morning news to you in real time and i don’t have it

qmisato:

in case you missed it: asuka and ritsuko are the same character. i could talk about this for ages, but in the interest of brevity:

• both asuka’s mother and ritsuko’s mother were emotionally distant in life, and compartmentalized upon death - asuka’s mother resides in unit-02, ritsuko’s mother resides in the magi
• both watched their mothers commit suicide 
• both have a distant mother-figure - for ritsuko it’s her grandmother, for asuka it’s her stepmother
• both fixated on an older man at a young age - for asuka it was kaji, for ritsuko it was gendo
• both express a desire for never having children
• both stand in opposition to rei/grow to detest rei over time
• their entrance and exit scenes are laterally mirrored - both emerge from water, then die at their mother’s betrayal
• in that same vein, both share in visual imagery: there’s a scene where ritsuko stops to wash her face in the bathroom that asuka goes on to mirror
• this one’s a little more elusive, but all the more fascinating: i need you. gendo’s silent words to ritsuko, shinji’s words to asuka during instrumentality. guess what asuka and ritsuko both respond with? liar.
• take it as you will, but in one of the supplementary games it’s said that asuka wanted to be a scientist after piloting. yeah.

i forgot the best one:

• you know how many of the evangelion characters were named after japanese wwii battleships? battleship akagi and battleship soryu, ritsuko and asuka’s namesakes, were together deployed at the 1942 battle of midway, where they were both subsequently destroyed
  

recurring visual imagery: misato + commanding
evangelion: 2.22 you can (not) advance, dir. hideaki anno (2009)
evangelion: 3.33 you can (not) redo, dir. hideaki anno (2012)

More rare scenes from Neon Genesis Evangelion: Second Impression, a 1997 Sega Saturn videogame distributed in Japan.

qmisato:

Splitting of The Breast is remarkable for its striking, supersaturated visuals. It’s no accident that the episode is marked by such high contrast, light and dark, when the subject matter involves Shinji embarking on a psychoanalytical voyage within the surrealist confines of a shadow. The “angel of the week”, Leliel, is a massive floating behemoth in black and white – diametric opposites – and likewise the entire episode is built upon complementary inter-textual contrasts: the rational vs emotional, parent vs child, boy vs girl, physicality vs the soul. After 15 episodes of relative tame and exposition, Episode 16′s harsh colors, formalist diagonal structure, and oppressive shadows allow the more arcane Freudian undertones to finally take their command.

rei’s face says it all

One of the cooler epiphanies from Japanese fandom. The areas where Unit-02 sustained damage in End of Evangelion correspond nicely with the duct-taped injury sites on Asuka’s plugsuit in Q.

Notice too the cat sticker on Maya’s laptop (better seen here) and Asuka’s corresponding cat helmet.

recurring visual imagery: rooftop encounter
evangelion: 1.11 you are (not) alone, dir. hideaki anno (2007)
evangelion: 2.22 you can (not) advance, dir. hideaki anno (2009)

EVANGELION MANGA - KAJI’S BACKSTORY

My brother and I… had to scrounge for food, steal, loot, anything to survive. But everywhere we scavenged was being picked over by other orphans. Then one day, we scouted a military warehouse, just like this one. Taking a little at a time and going one by one, to avoid detection. And that day… it was my turn.