Real talk, why did Khara originally create Shikinami as a separate version of Asuka to Soryu when every other character was still considered to be the same as their NGE counterparts?

>>280858149 (OP)
Probably so fans wouldn't shit themselves and scream while crying over how they handled her. Calling it an AU or clone or something is an easy way to avoid rabid fan backlash.

>>280858355
no screaming fans

>>280858149 (OP)
It's so that all three girls' names are based on Japanese naval ships. Or something. I can't remember the specifics, it's so boring that I learned and forgot it multiple times. It was clearly done for soulless branding and merch reasons, but at least it lets me separate best girl Soryu from the the modern dumpster fire.

>>280858893
Soryu was already an aircraft carrier though

>>280858355
Well it didn't work

>>280859452
The lesson to be learned is you cannot please fans, so don't try.

>>280858893
they're all named after ijn destroyers now, they were always all named after ships. two ships, in her case

>>280858149 (OP)
Mystery Box. It was so people would spend endless hours debating what the truth was when Khara didn't know until they decided "I dunno a clone maybe? Lol". It was all a scam and you all fell for it.

Why did Anno chastise fans for sexualizing her in the original, then create 4 more movies after EoE full of gratuitous shots of her body?

>>280860479
>Why did Anno chastise fans for sexualizing her in the original
He did?

>>280859835
>Mystery Box.
This, just like Kaoru waking up on the bloody moon, red ocean and Mari. It turned out to be a fucking nothing burger

>>280860540
That's the most popular reading of the "I'm so fucked up" scene.

>>280860646
name one 'most popular reading' in eva that isn't buttfuck retarded meta headcanon

It's kinda weird how in the original show her hair colour shifts around from dark red to bright carrot orange from episode to episode or sometimes shot to shot.

>>280859505
I mean, shitting on her character and trying to replace her with a cheap knockoff was never going to work in the first place.

>>280860898
They had several different people doing every episode, it's why they often look pretty different from each other