commiespammer

Welcome back comrade! I wondered where you went!

Sadly, I don’t have any recommendations. I just came here to say welcome back.

Communism is when no… shit.

I don’t know a lot about crunchyroll, what did they do？

TNO REFERENCE!!!1!!!11!!!

I agree with what you said, but I think more of their problems stem from their childhoods rather than their present. Asuka herself is already alienated from her peers since I think she mentioned once that she was some kind of genius and had already graduated, and she only did poorly in school because she couldn’t read Japanese. Thus even if she weren’t an eva pilot she wouldn’t have been able to really view her classmates as peers. Plus, she watched her mom hang herself, and even when we first meet her it’s clear she has a hard time integrating herself into society. Even though fighting the angels kind of destroys her psyche later on, it still stems from herself, as iirc she’s increasingly angry that despite looking down on Shinji for being a weak and passive idiot she still can’t defeat an angel alone, a problem which arguably stems from her own insecurity.

I’d also say Shinji being an eva pilot doesn’t really interfere with him connecting to his classmates----Toji and Kensuke are definitely his friends, and they truly support him. It’s more that he can’t find it in himself to connect to them, in part because of his relationship to his father, which has basically broke him emotionally. And them going away later when Tokyo-3 is evacuated only fucks him up even more, because the people who are pretty much the only ones who ever care about him are gone. Then Rei, Asuka, Kowaru etc dying are only more nails in the coffin. I guess it could be argued that this was the result of him having to pilot the evas, but even if her was not a soldier, losing people like this would still be similarly devastating to him, since it’s very clear he’s never really had friends like this before. If anything, becoming a pilot was actually a good thing for him, at least for a little while, since he got to have friends for a short period of time.

As a counterexample Mari or whatever her name is in the rebuilds is also a pilot, but in contrast to the rest of them she’s pretty mentally stable, because she lacks the mental baggage that Shinji and Asuka are carrying even before they learn about the evas.

On a more meta level I’m pretty sure the creator struggled with depression around the time he created this, and he was trying to sort out his feelings with creating this work. The theme of using children as pilots is probably a throwback to his earlier work, gunbuster, which is also about kids flying giant robots (not sure if they have depression though)

(sorry for these super long comments I’m really into evangelion)

I’ve read a lot about eva online and watched about half of it, and I can confidently say it’s about… shit, I can’t really remember.

Ok, I think I have it now. I think the theme is about societal isolation. Shinji wants to be close to other people obviously, but he’s grown up alone, and also his dad hates him, so he has trouble connecting. He feels attracted to Asuka, but nobody’s ever told him how to express his affection, so he just

instead. Asuka has a similar problem, where she wants to have connections, but she hides too deep in her shell of bravado to allow herself to do so. Near the end of the show as well as EoE, from what I’ve heard this thing kind of breaks down, and she just sort of loses it, revealing that she was really just a scared kid this whole time. As for Rei, she doesn’t have any emotions really for spoiler reasons, and when she finally does start to open up she ends up dying, which just gives Shinji more super depression.

As for Misato, I read somewhere that she ended her relationship with Kaji before not for any reason on his part but because he reminded her too much of her dead dad (of course), and this could be a symbol that she’s unwilling to deal with her past, and instead chooses to escape it, which obviously doesn’t work.

I’d say that the overall ‘plot’ of the movie, being child soldiers in giant robots fighting angels, is actually secondary to the theme, despite people on hexbear focusing a lot on it in the last thread relating to evangelion I found. The most important part of evangelion in my opinion is the meta stuff, about how emotions are worth having, and that connections with other people are really important.

Sorry if I’m kind of rambling here, I’m really bad at articulating my thoughts. Also Shinji is literally me.

I only know lain as the funni tno akira anime, what are the themes of it？

As China’s internet I can confirm that I am indeed disappearing.

Haven’t played a lot of stuff other than World Of Warplanes to get the special pilot, and animating. vic3 1.6 is super laggy, waiting for a cracked version of 1.6.2 with the fix to come out.

Realistically, what do they even think China is going to do with their information?

Playing lemmycraft, might do a little eu4 later.

I like Hayao Miyazaki’s work. Practically everyone in China has seen some of it.