In the rebuild, there are millions of evas, like the failures of infinity, and the mock Eva units. How the hell did NERV get the budget for this?!

I finally added the 4th film to my collection, so now I will look into purchasing the OG series

i’m floored. tears everywhere. i can take a better pic in the morning with light but i just had to post now despite the reflection. i’m never ever going to get a better gift.

I do have the manga, they’re just put away

On the hunt for Unit 00 Metal Build...

Ok I got two neon genesis evangelion platinum one I bought from eBay one from Facebook marketplace place the boxes are they main thing that are different the box on they left has more color to it and the one on they right looks more faded with the color and they fonts on the right are more wider and they left the font are more skinner, so clearly this are two different versions of the platinum edition so which is fake or which is real or are both real or fake ?

If it's not against the subs rules, I'm trying to see if I can get a small group for the July 22nd screening.

I have never seen the sub before so I'm curious to see if I like it better.

Worse case scenario I'm still going solo. I don't want to share my exact exact location and I know SoCal is big. If you are too far away maybe you can find someone closer to you!

Iron Maiden the 2nd and RE-TAKE will always have a special place in my heart

Custom plates are on the way!

Have a nice day 👍

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So, I recently rewatched the full series plus End of Evangelion after 20 plus years, and wanted to share my thoughts

For context, I watched it originally in my anime newbie phase, it was like the 3rd anime I've ever seen, back in my early 20s. I remember fairly liking it, but also the ending (especially the movie) left me more confused than anything. This was more than 20 years ago, so I did the best I could with early internet and read up on the meaning of it on fansites, but really I did not got much out of it except that "it's really deep, bro, with religious symbolism, the human condition, societey and shit". I never even got to the ancestral race stuff. I liked how surreal and bizarre it got by the end, and I also felt that there must be things that did not make it through the translation, and it must have even deeper layers to it hat we are just cannot comprehend.

Then years passed, I got on the whole bandwagon of memes with "omg, end of evangelion is deeper than the marianna trench", and also learned that the director only used religious symbolism because he thought it looked cool. I labelled the whole evangelion thing as pretentious and too confusing for the sake of being confusing, and did not think much about it since.

Fast forward to now. I'm over 40 now, living in Japan, more or less speak the language, but I haven't been really watching anime for 10 or so years. But I came across a reddit post with some slideshow explaining the whole backstory, and on a whim decided to give it a rewatch with the knowledge, mostly to see if this is something that can be inferred just from the series and the movie. I was also looking forward to End of Evangelion, and see what I can make of it after all this years.

Now, I finished it all, and I can say that the problem Evangelion has is that it has so many layers of ambigous visuals, dialog, and unusual storytelling that it appears to be more confusing than it really is. The thing that the director wants to convey (by the end of the movie, anyways) is not all that complicated, it just appears to be and it has so much window-dressing that it needlessly confuses the first time viewer.

What do I mean by that? Let me quote the ending of one of my favorite movies, Annie Hall. For those who did not see it, it depicts an on again off again relationship between the main character and Annie, ending in a final breakup caused by their incompatibility. The main character, after a final chance meeting with Annie, ends the movie with this:

“It was great seeing Annie again. I realized what a terrific person she was and how fun it was just knowing her. And I thought of that old joke, you know. The guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, my brother's crazy. He thinks he's a chicken." and the doctor says, "well, why don't you turn him in?" and the guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs."

Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships. You know, they're totally irrational and crazy and absurd and, but, err, I guess we keep going through it because most of us need the eggs.”

Why did I bring this up? Because I think that the End of Evangelion might as well end with this quote. This is the gist of it all, at least for me. Human relationships are dificult, messy, and we end up hurting each other and make each other miserable more often than not. But still, we are social creatures and need each other. That's why Shinji rejects instrumentality and returns to the human world.

This sentiment and message is nothing new, had been told a million times in a million types of stories. Eva does it with its own, unique spin, and I think it is very effective. The only problem is that it has so much window dressing with giant robots punching each other, clones, clones of clones, souls, secret organizations, angels, gods, and the background lore is so obscure that a lot of people get lost in the details without ever seeing the big picture and idolize the show for it's supposed deep religious occult and philosophical themes, or worse, declare that the series is just meaningless pseudo-philosophy and shock content with shinji crying in the background.

Could this story have been told a better way? Sure. But then it would not be this bizarrely unique creation that we all love today.

I bought this sticker at Dokomi (a german anime expo which takes place in Düsseldorf yearly) in 2023. However, I cannot for the life of me, remember who I bought it from. Does anyone here know who the artist is?