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)
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)
birthday gift to @qmisato; both for the character and the lovely person! :) figured we all needed more slice-of-life feels on WILLE (hot chocolate with blankets and ‘apparently-shinji-isn’t-dead’ reports and all).
DECEMBER 8TH 2015 - KATSURAGI MISATO’S BIRTHDAY
“Playing her was difficult. She hides her heart. I’d get overemotional during scenes where Misato’s feelings would explode, scenes where she’d pour her heart out. My hands would shake, and it took all my might to keep the script I was holding from rustling or making noise. She’s strong, brave; a woman. I’ve focused exclusively on Misato for so long – I wanted to know her, to understand her – I concentrated my all on her.” – Kotono Mitsuishi
Anonymous
Can you explain why you like Q Misato? She got a lot of flak since the last movie and I was wondering if I could hear some of your thoughts on her character progression?
oh god, i hope you’re ready for what is definitely going to be a long and passionate rhapsody on this topic – and you’re absolutely right, there are a lot of people out there who think q!misato “completely destroyed misato”, etc. obviously as someone who loves both nge!misato and q!misato – and someone who sees the very natural nexus between the two – i couldn’t disagree more. to keep it short and succinct, the reason why i find q!misato so fascinating is that she’s all but given up on her original goal to be a mother, and became a father instead.
misato is the only character in evangelion that we’ve seen go through most of lifes’ stages – we’ve seen her as a little kid no older than 5, we’ve seen her as a 14 year old, we’ve seen her as a college student, we’ve seen her as an adult on the cusp of her 30s, and now we’re seeing her as a 43 year old woman. that’s her father’s age – she’s no longer so much the ‘victim’ of her father’s trauma but an actor implicit in her father’s trauma. misato’s at the age where she is reenacting what are now solidified internalizations about how the world should work upon the younger generation, namely shinji.
like i said, this got long. more under the cut.
EVA CINEMATOGRAPHY - MISATO UNDER PRESSURE
Although she doesn’t easily speak her true feelings, I loved the manner by which Misato hid the loneliness and darkness deep within her heart. After the TV series ended, I listened to Cruel Angel’s Thesis again and was struck by the lyric “Although I cannot become a goddess, I will live on.” Surely this must be the voice of Misato’s heart. - Kotono Mitsuishi (x)
All the more reason to change the situation and quash all anxieties of the future.
